Exhibition: Madeleine Pyk – The dream of flying

The debut exhibition of Madeleine Pyk took place at the legendary Petra at the Lilla Paviljongen in Stockholm in 1956 - the same year that she completed her studies at the Art College. Later studies followed at Konstfack, the Academy of Arts (1963-1967). The exhibition was later on followed by continued studies and exhibitions all over Sweden. She also had solo exhibitions internationally in Amsterdam, Botswana, Hamburg, Nice, Paris and Rome and is represented at the Moderna Museet in Stockholm, Stockholm City collections, Norrköpings Museum, Västerås Museum, Västerås City collections, Umeå Museum and Östersunds Museum.

Madeleine Pyk moves across a wide register, in addition to painting and working with graphics, she writes and photographs. She has published several books and made films.

In her art everything is possible. In the recurring motifs of the family, various animals, cities and self-portraits, the sadness is mixed with the joyfulness, reality with imagination, order with chaos, the easy with wide depth. Anja Notini writes in her book “Madeleine Pyk - I play that I live”, (Wiken, 1990, page 13): “In the pictures from work environments there are also family, friends, beauty experiences, journeys in space and time; dreams that are realities and realities that she describes as dreams."