Ingolf Kaiser

Vagn för flyende, 1982 (Wagon for escape, 1982)

Februar 16 – September 15, 2019

Ingolf Kaiser was born in 1936 in Greifswald in northern Germany. Together with his mother and his siblings he fled to Sweden in 1945 and then came to live in Uppsala. These early experiences gave Kaiser strong memories that remained with him as inner images and dreams. His background has since then been processed through a lifelong artistic work that is still ongoing.

Kaiser, with his sculptures and pictures, touches upon fundamental existential issues. With heaviness and recognition, Kaiser's images and stories break through the present and the past. Being in history and remembering the forgiving and then forgetting or reconciling with the past is a recurring theme.

Kaiser often uses wood when creating his pieces of art. The pieces usually have a clean expression. The rough wood and raw imagery are in themselves carriers of stories. Kaiser summarizes his own aesthetics as "Etwas fehit" - "Aesthetics of failure".