SIGURD ÓLASON
GRANDAD´S DNA
27.09.2025 – 18.01.2026
GALLERY 03
Sigurd Ólason is born in Copenhagen 2003 and has been immersed in creativity since childhood. Growing up in a family where design and art played a central role, he discovered painting through early classes at the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, continuous experimentation, and self-discovery. Over time, this has evolved into a practice centered around abstraction — shaped by personal experience and the lasting presence of his grandfather, artist Óli G. Jóhannsson.
More than a role model, Jóhannsson shaped how Sigurd views creativity itself: instinctive, alive, and inseparable from daily life. Alongside this personal foundation, Sigurd draws from his surroundings and from movements such as Abstract Expressionism and the Bauhaus. Yet his work is not about imitation. It is about transforming these references into a language that feels immediate, personal, and contemporary. Together, these threads have gradually formed the foundation of his artistic language. Spontaneity drives this language. Each painting begins as a direct response to inner emotion and lived experience.
Brushstrokes register impulse and intuition, then deepen through reflection and layering. The works do not describe or represent. They express. His works, deeply personal yet open-ended, emerge from lived experience while resisting fixed narratives, inviting viewers to encounter abstraction not as something distant or conceptual, but as an intimate and human language of emotion.
