The Essence of a Pea pod plant by Catrin Lundqvist, 2023

DOMESTIC ART

is founded in 2004 and run

by Catrin Lundqvist, Stockholm Sweden

"Art is a Guarantee for Sanity" - Louise Bourgeois

Welcome to Domestic Art!

My name is Catrin Lundqvist and I am the founder of Domestic Art. I am an artist, curator, writer, producer, and the company's CEO. Domestic Art was founded in 2004 when I was still working as a program curator at Moderna Museet.

Since 2022, I have been working full-time as a freelancer and am affiliated with the artist-run gallery Studio 44 on Tjärhovsgatan in Stockholm, where I am also the chairperson.

Studio 44 has about 30 members and presents contemporary art in many different media. We conduct exchange activities with artist-run galleries in other countries and arrange exhibitions, performances, viewings, and artist talks. See studio44-stockholm.com

I am also chair of the Inuti Foundation since March 2025. This is an exciting and important LSS (Act Concerning Support and Service for Persons with Certain Functional Impairments) initiative with studios for artists on the autism spectrum. See Inuti.se

PERFORMANIA STOCKHOLM 5-7 June 2026 and its website will be built during spring 2026. The project and the domain performania.se are jointly owned by Studio 44, Candyland, ID:I, Katarina AP - Stiftelsen Falkenbergs konstskola, and Domestic Art. Together, we are building a nomadic, international performance festival that will begin in Stockholm and move eastward toward Finland and then on to the Baltic states.

Photo: Åsa Lundén.

Pea pd Plant, 2023. Framed and the artist Catrin Lundqvist at a member's exhibition at Studio 44 in Stockholm, 2023.

About my artistry

My art is about the interaction between humans and their surrounding space and nature. Carefully and lovingly observing and painting a plant as it grows is contemplative. Investigating emissions from industrial environments is unsettling and stressful. Seeing colors and shapes and then painting a ceiling or sky observed in Savasana (corpse pose) is an energizing state. These different aspects of awakening are reflected in my art.

Since 2020, I have been working with the artist Monica Larsson on the project Röken skulle blåsa mot ryssen (The Smoke Would Blow Towards the Russians). It is about a smelting plant in Skelleftehamn, where I was born and raised and where both Monica's and my ancestors worked during the 20th century. The community is located on the coast outside Skellefteå in Västerbotten. The project has spanned various media, including film, painting, photography, and text works.

To date, we have created four exhibitions about Röken skulle blåsa mot ryssen, the most recent of which took place at Studio 44 in Stockholm, together with Thomas Watkiss and Leif Elggren. The exhibition was shown under the name Our House is on Fire!, curated by Cecilia Andersson.

In recent years, my painting has moved between large schematic depictions of Pea shoots to small, lyrical color and form depictions of the same type of plant, as in the picture above, to large paintings about the smelting works in the north, which are shown further down the page. I often work with tempera-based paint on different types of canvas or paper. During the fall of 2025 and beyond, I will be working on a painting project called Synchronizing Body and Soul.

In the group exhibition at Studio 44, in which I last participated, I showed 15 small watercolors. The Billionaires' Beach at Cap d'Antibes and Sculptures at the Fondation Maeght in Saint Paul de Vence, France, were included in the presentation. See part of the project below.

Photo: Paula von Seth

The smoke would blow towards the Russians

Tempera based paint and black lead on canvas, 2022

Video, installed at Skellefteå museum/Anna Nordlander Museum, 2024. Curator Cecilia Andersson

Tempera based paint and colchrite on canvas, 2024

Tempera based and acrylic paint, and black lead on canvas, 2024

The Billionaires' Beach

is the name given to the path that runs along the entire length of Cap d'Antibes.

When you walk around the large headland, you have the Mediterranean Sea on your left and high walls on your right, built many years ago when labor was cheaper on the French Riviera than it is today.

Behind the walls are large estates with parks, owned by very wealthy people. But neither the houses nor the billionaires are visible to us as we walk along the sea. Instead, we see tall treetops and occasionally a rooftop. The walls sometimes have openings with locked gates or barbed wire attached to the top of the wall so that no one gets the idea of trying to climb over it, and there are also surveillance cameras.

It is both repulsive, attractive, and thought-provoking to move around in this magnificent luxury environment.