Upcoming exhibition 2024
Galleri Sander, Norrköping
JAN 13 – FEB 10, 2024
New exciting art exhibition with the
colorful artist Bengt Lindström
In collaboration with Galleri Sander in Norrköping, Bengt Lindström Art Tour starts the new year with a captivating Lindström exhibition. Bengt Lindström (1925–2008) became during his lifetime one of Sweden's most internationally known artists. It is with pride that we now present our upcoming exhibition:
"Bengt Lindström, Rödluvan och Vargen"
BENGT LINDSTRÖM

RÖDLUVAN OCH VARGEN
The exhibition runs from
Jan 13 – Feb10, 2024 at Galleri Sander,
Norra Promenaden 33, Norrköping.

Welcome to the opening
Saturday January 13th 2024
at 11:30 a.m. – 3:00 p.m.
Bengts New Year's greetings

Every year for 50 years, Bengt Lindström always made a new series of New Year's lithographs with a personal New Year's greeting that he sent to his friends and business contacts. However, one year it was forgotten – that year he sent a midsummer greeting instead.
We wish you a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!
Exhibition in 2023
Bilbolaget
Fagerbacken 53, Östersund, Sweden
November 15 --- December 9, 2023
Exhibition in 2023
Bengt Lindström. Me before Me.
Art from the period 1955–1963.
March 18 – May 20, 2023

New upcoming book
Curt Aspelin's new exciting book
"When Demons Are Free to Rule"
(in Swedish) will be published in 2024
"When demons are free to rule" is a real-life drama about the world-famous Swedish painter Bengt Lindström, who suffered a stroke in 2003, became totally paralyzed, lost his ability to communicate, was put under trusteeship and then unexpectedly had his art treasure worth hundreds of millions of Swedish crowns robbed by his trustee, his wife and later the administrator of his estate, while the Swedish authorities watched without either reacting or acting.
Exhibition in 2021–2022
Canceled due to illness!
Bengt Lindström 2022
Storsjö Prästgård
Storsjö kapell, Sweden

Exhibition Sweden 2020
Zornmuseet in Mora
February 8 – April 19, 2020

Exhibition Sweden 2019
"The graphic artist Bengt Lindström"
Storsjö Prästgård
Storsjö kapell, Sweden
August 24 – 25, 2019 at 12 – 16
Bengt Lindström Art Tour
"Bengt Lindström, The Master of Ancient Nordic Mythology"
This international memorial art exhibition will display hundreds of unique paintings by the Swedish artist Bengt Lindström, 1925–2008, who lived and worked in Paris. The premiere will be in the United States. The planned itinerary is the USA, Italy, Spain, Portugal, United Kingdom, Germany, Netherlands, Belgium, Switzerland, France, Denmark, Finland, and Sweden. In 2017 and 2018, the Art Tour started up with previews in several places in Sweden that meant a lot to the artist, displaying selected artworks from the collection.
Welcome to enjoy Bengt Lindström's unique art!

Bengt Lindström Art Tour

Nordic Landscape oil painting 2 x 2 meters photo © Pekka Ronkainen

Biegga Galles oil painting 2 x 2 meters photo © Pekka Ronkainen

The Creation oil painting 2,5 x 2 meters

Hand woven Tapestry 3 x 3 meters
The tour plan
Planned itinerary

United States, United Kingdom, Italy, Spain, Portugal, Switzerland, Germany, Belgium, The Netherlands, France, Denmark, Finland, and Sweden.



The previews
Each preview of "Bengt Lindström, the Master of Ancient Nordic Mythology" is unique in itself, none like the other. Selected artworks from the collection are shown around Sweden before the exhibition continues to the world's art metropolises.
The previews 2017
The first preview was in Storsjö kapell and the second in Mora.
September 2 - 3, 2017
I'm very pleased with the first preview in Storsjö kapell, the artist's birthplace. What an experience it has been! Great to meet so many Bengt Lindström art lovers.
December 1 - 3, 2017
It has been a great experience to show Bengt Lindström for the Mora audience. In Mora we were able to display 47 large art pieces by Bengt Lindström. All the paintings made a fantastic impact when displayed side by side.
Bengt Lindström

The artist
Bengt Lindström
Like all other great artists, Bengt Lindström was very productive and arranged annual exhibitions in many places around the world. His use of strong colors and rapid, powerful brushstrokes prompted the Italians to call him The North Wind, “Vento del Nord”.
Bengt Lindström used dramatic colors in his paintings. Colors and shapes work together to reproduce powerful expressions. Bengt used to say, "The colors in my paintings are those that are found at home in Norrland when the snow is gone. Blue is the mountains, red is the autumn landscape, green and yellow are the spring and summer.
Bengt Lindström was born on September 3, 1925 in the small mountain village of Storsjö kapell, in Härjedalen, Norrland, Sweden. He grew up in this mythical wilderness with mountains, lakes, forests and animals. The local lumberjacks and the Sámi people told him many stories revealing the legends and mysteries of the Great North. His father's close friend, Kråik, chieftain of the nearby Sámi village, was also Bengt's godfather. Just after Bengt was born, Kråik performed the ceremony, "Baptism of the earth," during which Bengt was moved trough the roots of a dead tree to ensure that the spirits would protect him from the perils of life.
Bengt Lindströms birth place
STORSJÖ KAPELL
The artist Bengt Lindström was born on September 3, 1925 in the small village of Storsjö kapell in Härjedalen, Norrland, Sweden. He grew up in this mythical wilderness with mountains, lakes, forests and animals. The lumberjacks and the Sámi people told him many stories revealing the legends and mysteries of the Great North.

Storsjö kapell is a genuine mountain village in Ljungdalsfjällen, Norrland, Sweden. About 100 inhabitants live here today. The village has a beautiful church with a large and unique oil painting by Bengt Lindström in the sacristy, a gift to the village people from the artist in 1968. Storsjö kapell is a wonderful spot for fishing, mountain hiking, bird watching, holidays in the wilderness, Bengt Lindström excursions, relaxation, art, and culture. You are most welcome to visit Bengt Lindström's birthplace. Contact the Bengt Lindström Society for further information and bookings.
THE ART TOUR TEAM
The team, from the left: Curt Aspelin, Virve Arama, Gunvi Hellström Åslund, Mats Lundberg, Marie Jonsson with her daughter Cecilia, Karin Åslund, Ingrid Ronkainen, Emma Fjellström and Anita Moén. Team Storsjö kapell also includes Eva Moén, Pekka Ronkainen, Elin Åslund, Johanna Engström and Christian Åslund.
Team "Storsjö kapell"
Team "Mora"

CONTACT
Inquiries
For any inquiries, questions, visiting arrangements or newsletters, please send a message giving the following information:
Bengt Lindström Art Tour
The Bengt Lindström Society
Storsjö 311
845 98 Storsjö kapell
Sweden
info@bengt-lindstrom-art-tour.se
Bengt Lindström Art Shop
Give us a call:
Ingrid Ronkainen +46 70 756 85 65
Pekka Ronkainen +46 70 954 57 17
Curt Aspelin +46 70 463 77 73