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Marianne Tan

Galleri LUNDBERG-SANDHAGEN presents Förbindelser (Connections), a solo exhibition by Marianne Tan. Marianne Tan (b. 1957) is a Swedish artist whose abstract visual language is marked by a quiet intensity, moving in the territory between structure, materiality, and dissolution. Her works are shaped by a careful investigation of the relationships between line, surface, and material — the image emerging through layers where it is built up, reworked, and held back. In Tan's practice, the image does not appear as a stable whole, but as something that takes form slowly. Lines move through surfaces where what has been added and what has been removed remain present at the same time. It is in this process that the works find their particular intensity — not through individual elements, but through the way they relate to each other. In Connections, the image becomes a relational field rather than a fixed form. The connections do not arise in the lines themselves, but in the spaces between them — it is there that relationships are established, shift, and sometimes dissolve, and where meaning takes shape. In several of the works, lines gather into densities that suggest clear structures. In others, the surface opens up and what holds things together becomes more exposed, more provisional. What emerges is not a unified image, but variations on how something is bound together while simultaneously at risk of coming apart. This oscillation gives the works a particular sense of time. Relationships form, change, and weaken — but leave their mark, like a low resonance in the surface. What no longer holds together remains as suggestion, as direction. Here, what is not fully stated carries as much weight as what actually takes form. In this way, Connections is not just a title but a way of working: where meaning lies not in the individual element, but in what arises between lines, layers, and surfaces.

Marianne Tan (b. 1957) is a Swedish artist whose abstract visual language is marked by a quiet intensity, moving in the borderland between structure, materiality, and dissolution.

Her works are shaped by a careful investigation of the relationships between line, surface, and material — the image emerging through layers where it is built up, reworked, and held back.

In Tan's practice, the image does not appear as a stable whole, but as something that takes form slowly. Lines move through surfaces where what has been added and what has been removed remain present at the same time. It is in this process that the works find their particular intensity — not through individual elements, but through the way they relate to each other.

Marianne Tan was born in Stockholm, where she continues to live and work, spending time also on the island of Gotland. She has presented solo exhibitions in Stockholm, Uppsala, Gothenburg, Västerås, Eksjö, Bollnäs, and elsewhere. Her work is held in public collections including the Swedish Arts Council, Region Stockholm, Region Västra Götaland, Region Uppsala, Region Dalarna, Region Södermanland, Region Värmland, and the municipalities of Arvika, Solna, and Eksjö, among others.

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