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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

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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 20212022

Canceled due to illness!

Bengt Lindström 2022

Storsjö Prästgård

Storsjö kapell, Sweden

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Exhibition Sweden 2020

Zornmuseet in Mora

February 8 April 19, 2020

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Exhibition Sweden 2019

"The graphic artist Bengt Lindström"

Storsjö Prästgård

Storsjö kapell, Sweden
August 24 25, 2019 at 12 16

Exhibition Chicago 2019

THE ART TOUR

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, 19252008, 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!

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Countries

The tour plan

Planned itinerary

Bengt Lindström, oil painting Biegga Galles, 2 x 2 meter | the preview in Storsjö kapell 2017 | photo © Pekka Ronkainen

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

PREVIEWs

The previews 2018

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Storsjö kapell

25th to 26th of Augusti 2018

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"The Girls on the Champs-Elysées"

Timrå  23rd to 25th of March 2018

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"World class Art by Lindström"

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.

Bengt Lindström, french hand-woven tapestery, 3 x 3 meter, Paris A3
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.

Bengt Lindström, oil, 2 x 2 meter, Curt Aspelin, Mora preview 2017 | © Lindstrom Art & Design AB
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.

THE ARTIST

Bengt Lindström

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Bengt Lindström, artist, Storsjö kapell, 1925-2008, foto © Hans Erixon

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. 

STORSJÖ

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, Härjedalen, Norrland, Sweden | the artist Bengt Lindströms birthplace, foto © Niklas Hedström
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 TEAM

THE ART TOUR TEAM

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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 Storsjö kapell - the first preview in Storsjö kapell of Bengt Lindström, the Master of the Ancient Nordic Mythology | photo © Pekka Ronkainen

The team, from the left: Marie Jonsson, Ingrid Ronkainen, Virve Arama and Curt Aspelin. Team Mora also includes Pekka Ronkainen, Jeff Burke and Camilla Sundell.

 

Team "Mora"
Team Mora - the second preview in Mora of Bengt Lindström, the Master of the Ancient Nordic Mythology | photo © Pekka Ronkainen
The Art Tour Team 

Curt Aspelin, chairman of the Bengt Lindström Society, and his network of Bengt Lindström art collectors are organizing The Bengt Lindström Art Tour and the memorial exhibition "Bengt Lindström, The Master of Ancient Nordic Mythology".

Team Bengt Lindström Art Tour 2018 - 2021 | Curt Aspelin, chairman | photo © Ali Arhan

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CONTACT

Inquiries

 

For any inquiries, questions, visiting arrangements or newsletters, please send a message giving the following information:

Klart! Meddelandet mottaget.

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

 

Storsjö Prästgård

Storsjö 311

845 98 Storsjö kapell

Sweden

info@bengt-lindstrom-art-tour.se

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

Representative in the United States

 

Anette Rihovsky

arihovsky@hotmail.com

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