22/05/2026
presents
Jim Thorell:
The Bicentennial Man
28/05/2026-03/07/2026
ISSUES presents a solo show with Jim Thorell. Known for his paintings created instinctively and employing the full lengths of his limbs we will now see new works made in an entirely different format. A series of eight water colors sharing the measurements of the National Geographic magazine show night and day in a visual macro- or megacosm. The pencil and ink drawings show bursts of matter and energy as well as a man on fire and a bewinged hero. The drawings and watercolors are accompanied by a tiny prince, an accordion player, an angel and a couple of cats, all carved in wood. The artworks for this show were created both in- and outside Jim’s studio, in the intimacy of his fathom.
Jim Thorell (b.1981) lives and works in Stockholm. He graduated with a Master of Fine Arts at Valand Academy in Gothenburg 2010. He also studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna, Kanazawa University in Japan, and the Vietnam University of Fine Arts in Hanoi. Selected solo exhibitions include Angel shots (2025), Setareh gallery, Berlin; Tidepools (2024), LOYAL, Stockholm; Subway Doves (2023), Loyal, Stockholm; Tropics of beach naps (2021), SETAREH, Düsseldorf; Illicit Electricity (2018), Gillmeier Rech, Berlin; 7 Paintings (2015), Sotheby’s S|2, New York City, NY; Lucid Memes (2015), Carl Kostyál, London and Pathétique (2015), Union Pacific, London. Group shows include all three iterations of Downtown Issues at ISSUES; As dreamers do (2024), Bohusläns museum, Uddevalla; Within Realities (2019), Alma Löv Museum, Östra Ämtervik; The Private Collection of Water McBeer (2018), Deitch Projects, New York City, NY; New Elam by Christopher Kulendran Thomas (2017), Tensta Konsthall, Stockholm and Painting Failures (2016), Moderna Museet, Stockholm.
