Overview
Ekta

Daniel Götesson (1978), known as EKTA, is a Swedish artist, currently based in Gothenburg.

"EKTA works across numerous mediums, encompassing drawing, collage, painting, sculpture, textile, large wall works, animation, performance, installation, and music. His practice is characterized by a willingness to take bold risks, both in its literal sense as well as artistically. In the context of where he makes his work and in his ongoing investigation into new materials and visual language.

 

When discussing his work, EKTA emphasizes the importance of failure as a way of moving forward, and challenging established structures. This subversive nature of his work, comes through both in his process and use of materials as well as in his imagery, ranging from pure abstraction to combining formal elements with figurative elements, often appropriating patterns, symbols, iconography and figures in outlines or as colored silhouettes."

 

Bea Marklund

Works
Biography
Ekta
SOLO EXHIBITIONS I EXPOSICIONES INDIVIDUALES

2023. Ekta - Svenskt Tenn. Svenskt Tenn Standvägen 5. Stockholm

2023. Elfterkonstruktioner. Galleri Redan. Malmö

2023. How to save time. Alice Gallery. Brussels

2022. Jag har metoder för allt. Berg Gallery. Stockholm

2022. Godnatt. Galleri Kronan. Norrköping

2022. Solo Presentation. Art Rotterdam. Mini Galerie

2022. Paper Positions Berlin. Galleri Thomassen

2022. Nothing and HorizonSlika Gallery, Lyon

2021. Untitled, Maket / Liljevalchs, Stockholm
2020. Tack Vare På Grund Av, Hamnmagasinet, Varberg
2020. When Is, Alice Gallery, Brussels
2019. Everything You Don't Have To Do, Galleri Thomassen, Gothenburg
2019. What It Do, Katrineholms Konsthall, Katrineholm
2018. Interrupting Myself, Mini Galerie, Amsterdam
2018. WASHWASH, Industrigatan 12, Stockholm
2018. A Feeling Itself, Konstepidemin, Gothenburg
2018. I Can't Help You, Tegn Artspace, Jyderup
2017. Non + Figuration, Ronneby Konsthall, Ronneby
2017. No Chorus, Nevven, Gothenburg
2015. Failures & Unknowns, Galleri Thomassen, Gothenburg
2012. Self-Contained, Galleri Thomassen, Gothenburg
2012. Community, Krets, Malmö
2011. Structures & Figures, Nexus Gallery, Reims
2011. Untitled, Trollhättans Konsthall, Trollhättan
2010. Untitled, Galleri Lars Bolin, Östersund
2010. Heaps, Nordhems konst, Gothenburg
2009. Untitled, Värmlandskonstfrämjande, Karlstad
2009. Foggy Notion, Rojo Maquina, Madrid

 

DUO EXHIBITIONS I EXPOSICIONES EN DUO

2016. Soon Forward - Ekta & Jeroen Erosie / Le Fix Gallery / Copenhagen

2015. 50X70 - Ekta & Eric Magassa / Mini Galerie / Amsterdam

2014. Late for meeting - Ekta & Eric Magassa / Sjöfartsverket / Norrköping

2009. Cannibal minds - M.O.H.S gallery / Copenhagen

GROUP EXHIBITIONS I EXPOSICIONES COLECTIVAS

2023. Jag Föreställer mig ett hem - Göteborgs konsthall / Gothenburg
2023. Le Latitudini dell’ arte - Galleri Thomassen / Gothenburg
2023. Clic - KEVN Gallery / Eindhoven
2023. Framsynt bakåtblickande - Konsthallen Lokstallet / Strömstad

2022. Mima Reload - MIMA Museum / Brussels
2022. Untitled - Group show - Tredje Våningen / Gothenburg
2022. Reload - MIMA Museum / Brussels
2022. Spring Break - Galleri Thomassen / Gothenburg
2022. Konst Hos Alla - Årstads Konsthall / Falkenberg

2021. Flysch #2, SC Gallery, Bilbao
2020. Herd Group Show, Galleri Thomassen, Gothenburg
2020. Exposé 2020, Linköping, Linköping
2020. Out Of The Blue, Slika Galerie, Lyon
2019. Mini Galerie, Enter Art Fair, Copenhagen
2019. Graffuturism, Mirus Gallery, Denver USA
2019. RARO, Delimbo Gallery, Madrid Spain
2019. Flat Earth Trap, Slika Gallery, Lyon
2019. Easter groupshow, Galleri Thomassen, Gothenburg
2019. Wall Between, SC Gallery, Bilbao
2018. 18-XCI, Alice Gallery, Brussels
2018. Eddys Room, Galleri Thomassen, Gothenburg
2018. Avanzamento Progressivo, Fuorisalone, Milan
2018. Joy Of Destruction, Galerie 42B, Paris
2018. Realms II, Gordon Snelgrove Gallery, Saskatoon
2014-2017
Lilla Göteborg, Raum Vollreinigung, Berlin
A LOT A LOT, Galleri Thomassen, Gothenburg
Unexpected Territory, Nevven, Gothenburg
Collage II, Mini Galerie, Amsterdam
Strange Cities, Onassis Cultural Centre, Athens
Suffering, Sundsvalls Konstförening, Sundsvall
Mapping The City, Sommerset House, London
Artmosphere Biennale, Moscow
Dear Bedfellows, Dear Painting, Fullersta Gård, Stockholm
2005-2013
Collage, Mini Galerie, Amsterdam
Mynningsladdare, Röda Sten Konsthall, Gothenburg
Bang On The Beet, Watdafac Gallery, Madrid
Vacation, Penthouse Gallery, Baltimore
Out of Sth vol.3, BWA Gallery, Wroclaw
Family Show, Good Press Gallery, Glasgow
Live Action Festival, Världskultur Museet, Gothenburg
Live Painting, Färgfabriken Norr, Östersund
Tandragee Man, Market Place, Armagh
Salon Schwarzenberg, Neurotitan gallery, Berlin
Battlefield 6.0, Röda sten Konsthall, Gothenburg
Från Hällristning Till Graffiti, Mimershus, Kungälv
Friends Of The Endless Journey, Grasshut Gallery, Portland
Cocido Madrileno, Rojo Maquina Gallery, Madrid
Art Trek, Mekanik, Antwerpen
Homemade Jam, Festival, Northern Ireland
Brand New Second Hand, Galleri Oro, Gothenburg

PUBLIC COMISSIONS I ENCARGOS PÚBLICOS

2012. Krongårdsbiblioteket / Trollhättan
2012. Out of Sth / Wroclaw Poland

2011. Sollidens förskola / Östersund
2011. Gdansk monumental art festival / Poland
2011. Växjöhem / Araby Växjö

Exhibitions