Market Art Fair | Bella Rune & Alejandro Sintura: Liljevalchs, Stockholm
At Market Art Fair 2025 we are delighted to present a two person show with artists Bella Rune
(Sweden, b. 1971) and Alejandro Sintura (Colombia, b. 2000). Although we see it as two solo
presentations, we are interested in the meeting and collision of these very different artistic practices.
Bella Rune’s three-dimensional sculptures occupying the space and Alejandro Sintura’s paintings installed on the surrounding walls. Both artists will show new works made for the fair.
In the installation, they approach each other in a curious dialogue. It is exciting to let two artists from different generations and cultures meet to explore differences and similarities in language and content. There is a point of contact in the use of colour, materiality and the relationship with tactility and abstraction. In their work you can also find common ideas about how the everyday and humble can be transformed into something important and monumental.
Alejandro Sintura
Alejandro Sintura (Colombia, b. 2000) lives and works in Bogotá, Colombia. He is educated at Beaux- Arts de Lyon, France and Javeriana University, Bogotá, Colombia. Alejandro Sintura has had four solo exhibitions since 2022 at galleries in Bogotá, Colombia and has participated in a number of group shows in London, Stockholm and New York.
Sintura’s paintings depict the richness of simplicity. Based on his own memories and observations, Sintura works to understand and relate to his surroundings. The motifs are unpretentious and prosaic – everyday still lives, views from the studio window or details of landscapes – and depict the fragility of the moment. By carefully studying how light falls at a certain time on an object or place, Sintura makes visible the transience of existence.
Observation is the most essential aspect of my work. My subjects are excuses and painting is the mean to reflect upon perception and light. Painting has become for me the way I can enjoy and be engaged in my everyday life. More than making images I enjoy the act of painting itself, and the process of looking, of really looking what’s surrounding me.
–Alejandro Sintura
Bella Rune
Bella Rune (Sweden, b. 1971) lives and works in Stockholm, Sweden. She is educated at Chelsea College of Arts in London, UK (1995–1998) and Beckmans School of Design, Stockholm, Sweden (1992–1994).
Bella Rune works with sculpture, often with a performative element. She experiments effectively with different materials, crafts and techniques. Sprung from an expanded concept of textile, with an interest in how patterns and repetition create surfaces, volumes and function, Bella Rune finds new context and meaning in how the analog and handmade can describe a new digital materiality.
My work explores spatial and material relationships’ sensual and conceptual aspects. I am deeply fascinated by how textile techniques—such as weaving, braiding, and embroidery—can be translated into other materials and media. Expanding the language of textile logic beyond its traditional boundaries, I create sculptures and installations that challenge our perceptions of materiality, the body, and presence.
In my art, the handmade meets the digital, the intimate intersects with the public. I often work with three-dimensional objects that change depending on the viewer’s movement and perspective. The dynamic dialogue between the artwork, the space, and the individual is central—my pieces are not merely objects to observe but physical experiences that invite active interaction.
I draw inspiration from the tactile poetry of everyday life and the invisible threads that bind us together—socially, culturally, and emotionally. My work plays with boundaries: between material and immaterial, between the body and its surroundings, and between craft and technology. It is within these borderlands that I find space for the unexpected, the intuitive, and the subversive.
For me, art is an opportunity to weave new narratives about our time, our place, and our humanity.
–Bella Rune
In the ongoing project Konsekvensanalys (Impact analysis) she explores the interface between physical reality and a virtual world with augmented reality. The project has been presented in several exhibitions in Sweden and internationally, including Stadsskogen, Uppsala Sweden (2015), Konstmuseet i Norr, Kiruna, Sweden (2016), Tensta Konsthall, Sweden (2018), Garage Museum of Contemporary Art, Moscow, Russia (2018) and Munchmuseet in Oslo Norway (2022) as well as a site specific permanent public commission at Stockholm School of Economics, Sweden (2018). Bella Rune curated the exhibition Textila undertexter (Textile Subtexts) together with Helena Selder, which was first shown at Marabouparken (2016) and then at Malmö Art Museum (2017). In the exhibition she made a larger installation also serving as exhibition design. Her solo presentation Vertical Network Performance at the art fair Market in Stockholm, Sweden (2018), the solo exhibitions XYZ and Digging at Galleri Magnus Karlsson, Stockholm (2019, 2022) and Skendöd at Carl Eldh’s studio museum (2020) received great recognition and consolidated her position as one of the most influential artists in Sweden. She is represented in the collections such as Moderna Museet and Magasin III Museum for Contemporary Art, Stockholm and EMMA, Espoo Museum of Modern Art, Finland.
Petra Lindholm
We will also present a site-specific textile assemblage by Petra Lindholm at Market Extended. The work is on display in the staircase of the Liljevalchs+ building.
Petra Lindholm’s assemblages can initially be perceived as paintings, but are in fact made of textiles. She uses thin fabrics in different colours, that are applied in several layers with glue on panels. Lindholm strives for an existence where she embraces the random and spontaneity that arises in the process. The images grow organically as she adds new layers and physically processes the surfaces with her hand and knife. In the new work for Market Extended she has worked with a landscape motif, but she also has given the abstract and physical qualities more free rein.
Petra Lindholm (b. 1973 in Karis, Finland) lives and works outside Älmhult in Småland, Sweden. She studied at The Royal Institute of Art in Stockholm, Sweden (1996–2001) and has exhibited at galleries and museums in Sweden, Finland, Germany, Italy and USA. She is represented in the collections of Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden, Malmö Konstmuseum, Sweden, Borås Konstmuseum, Sweden, Västerås Konstmuseum, Sweden, EMMA, Esbo, Finland, ProArtibus, Finland and Kiasma, Helsinki, Finland. In 2001 she received the Maria Bonnier Dahlins scholarship, in 2006 she was awarded third prize at Carnegie Art Award and in 2018 she received Axel Theodor Sandsberg’s prize from the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Stockholm. During the last years she has finished a number of public commissions where she works with site specific installations and sculpture.
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