Olle Bonniér
Exhibitions
Publications
Education and Travels:
1941-42 University of technology, Stockholm
1941-42 Grünewalds art school, Stockholm
1946-48 Travels to study in Denmark, Switzerland, Italy and France
1949-50 Travels to Spain, Canary Islands and Morocco
1954 Paris and Collioure
1957-59 Cadaqués, Mallorca, Rhodes, Paris, and Marrakesh
1960-74 Shorter and longer travels in, Bulgaria, Greece, Spain,
France and Morocco
1974-75 Guatemala
1975-85 Moves to Mexico, gets the ”Loftet” in New York 1980 and travels after this between the two places, Mexico
1980-2003 New York. Many and long work travels to Denmark among others to make glass.
2004 Again living in Stockholm
Solo Exhibitions:
1957 Svensk-Franska Konstgalleriet, Stockholm
1958 Sundsvalls konstmuseum
1959 Hälsingslands museum, Hudiksvall
1959 Svensk-Franska Konstgalleriet, Stockholm
1963 Svensk-Franska Konstgalleriet, Stockholm
1966 Svensk-Franska Konstgalleriet, Stockholm
1966 Esrange inauguration in Kiruna, Minos palats
audiovisual art work. Musical interpretation of Karl-Erik Welin, light experimentation with space-physics, Lars Block, movie Brain - and nerve signals with Sigge Ottosson.
1967 Moderna Museet, Stockholm Minos palats
1968 Mariagalleriet, Stockholm
1969 Sveagalleriet, Stockholm
1972 Svensk Franska Konstalleriet, Stockholm, Sevillia
1975 Konstsalongen Samlaren, Stockholm, Altamirasvit
1976 Galerie Aronowitsch, Stockholm
1978 Museo de Arte Moderno, Mexico City
1981 Galerie Bleue, Stockholm
1982 Thielska galleriet
1882 Galerie Bleue, first performance of Plingeling (1949) performed by Karl Erik Welin piano and Eva Nordvall cembalo.
1983 Prognosticate and Arkivmuseet (Skissernas museum), Lund
1983 Broby Granit, Björn Nordenhake, Stenmembran
1984 Galerie Bleue, Stockholm
1985 Moderna Museet, Stockholm Vildhunden, First Performance of
Musikstycke för fantasin (1945)
1985 Galerie Bleue, Stockholm
1986 Galerie Astley, Uttersberg
1987 Galleri 33 Göteborg
1988 Galerie Bleue Stockholm at the same time
as WAH, Stockholm Art Fair
1989 Galleri Bengt Adlers, Malmö
1990 Galerie Lilla Bleue, Spel för 8, Stockholm
1990 Camage Gallery, Västerås
1991 Station Skeldershus, Munka Ljungby and Össjö
1991 Nordens Ljus, Stockholm
1993 Lunds University, University of Technology, Healing the earth in
conjunction with the opening of the sculpture erection
1993 Galerie Lilla Bleue, Stockholm
1993 Gallerie Öhman, Ravlunda
1995 Konstakademien, Stockholm, SAK retrospective exhibition
1995 Nationalmuseum, Stockholm, drawing-exhibition
1996 Skissernas Museum, Lund,
Utopi som verklighet, curator: Jan Torsten Ahlstrand
1999 Ystads konstmuseum
2001 Galleri Helle Knutsson, paintings/sculptures
2002 Rackstadmuseet, Arvika
2003 Grafikens hus, Gripsholm
2003 Magasin 3, Stockholm
2003 Norrköpings museum Plingeling concert
2004 Norrköpings museum, graphic and drawing
2006 Nacka konsthall
2005 Åmells konsthandel, Stockholm retrospective exhibition together with the Musical Academy Plingeling
2007 Nordens Ljus, Stockholm
2007 Gösta Werner museet, Simrishamn
2008 Norrköpings Konstmuseum, in connection
with the concert Plingeling
2009 Galleri 17, Lidingö konsthall together
with a concert by Olle Bonniér
2014 Edsviks konsthall Självljus
2016 Galerie Bel’Art, Stockholm
Group shows:
1946 Nationalmuseum,Stockholm, Unga tecknare
1947 Färg och Form, Stockholm, Ung konst
1947 Nationalmuseum, Stockholm, Unga tecknare
1948 Skånska konstmuseum, Lund, 40-tal
1948 Paris, Réalités Nouvelles
1949 Galerie Blanche”, Stockholm Konkret, together with Pierre Olofsson, Karl-Axel Pehrson and Arne Jones
1949 Gävle Museum, Ny realitet
1949 Västerbottens läns museum, Ny realitet
1949 Göteborgs konsthall
1949 Galerie Blanche, Stockholm, Konkret
1949 Paris, Réalités nouvelles
1949 Riksförbundet för bildande konst, traveling - exhibition
1950 Örnsköldsviks konstförening, Konkret konst
1950 Riksförbundet för bildande konst organises now an extensive
traveling exhibition: NY REALITET, (nr 89/1950). Hans Eklund writes the
preface in the catalogue with the title Mot en ny verklighet.
Participating artists: Olle Bonniér, Per-Erik Böklin, Randi Fisher, Olle Gill,
Arne Jones, Palle Pernevi, Lennart Rodhe and Armand Rossander
1950 Luleå konstgille, Konkretisterna
1951 Konstsalongen Samlaren, Stockholm
1951 Paris, Réalités Nouvelles
1952 Riksförbundet för bildande konst, Traveling exhibition
1952 Eskilstuna konstförening together with Åke W Andersson
1952-1959 Participates in a traveling exhibition Young Swedish arts,
arranged by Smithsonian Institution, USA
1953 Galerie Denise René, Paris, L’art suédois 1913–1953
1953 Uppsala studenters konststudio, med Karl-Axel Pehrson, Pierre Olofsson and Lennart Rodhe
1954 NK, Stockholm, interior design exhibition Signerad textil
1954 Hallands museum, Halmstad Stockholms-konkretister
with works by Einar Lynge-Ahlberg, Torsten Andersson, John-Ivar Berg,
Olle Bonniér, Harry Booström, Olle Baertling, Per-Erik Böklin,
Ted Dyrssen, Olle Gill, Arne Jones, Nils Nixon, Pierre Olofsson,
Eric H. Olson, K-A Pehrson oh Lars Rolf
1955 Participates in a traveling exhibition Swedish Abstract in USA,
arranged by Nationalmusum and Smithsonian Institution i Washington
1956 Galerie Colibri, Malmö, Internationella utställningen
1956 Malmö museum, 6, together with Karl Axel Pehrson,
Lage Lindell, Pierre Olofsson, Arne Jones and Lennart Rodhe
1979 Norrköpings konstmuseum, Svenskt Avantgarde
1984 Borgholms Slottsruiner, Det femte elementet
1988 Konkret i Norden, Museums in Helsinki, Norrköping,
Oslo, Reykjavik and Odense
1990 Borgholms Slottsruiner Anden smiter ur fällan
1991 Liljevalchs konsthall, Vildhundens hjärta, Handarbetets vänner
2002 Galerie Bel’Art, Stockholm, Swedish Masters
2001 Borgholms Slottsruiner, Öland, Sweden
2002 Galerie Bel'Art, Stockholm, Swedish Masters
2005 Galerie Bel’Art, Stockholm, 30 year anniversary:
30 artists– 30 works
2012 Stockholm, Moderna Museet, Explosion
2015 Shanghai, China, Swedish artists
Public Decorations:
1949 Västertorp Skidbindslet, , decorates residential house
1949 Stockholm World Sport Exhibition, decorates barracks
1949 Hökarängen, colours 30 residential houses
1949 Makes together with Lage Lindell, Pierre Olofsson and
Lennart Rodhe suggestions for decoration of the subway
1951 Skansen Stockholm, Restaurang Solliden, tile mosaic (destroyed)
1952-54 Västerås, mural Blåsboskolan Sagan om ljuset
1954 Lycksele, småskoleseminariet, ridå
1954-55 Vällingby, Svenska Bostäders kontorshus, mural
1955-56 Södertälje Astras dining hall, stucco lustro
1962 The Opera, Stockholm décor and light play for the ballet
Spel för åtta, Birgit Åkesson and Karl-Birger Blomdahl
1970 Enköpings läroverk Krocken murial (destroyed)
1972-73 Södertälje, Fornbackaskolan Lek i regn och solsken,
1978-79 Stockholm GIH, Pelota, relief
1990 Helsingborg, Sofiero Canek, sculpture
1983-1993 Lund, Tekniska högskolan,, Healing the earth, sculpture
2001 Helsingborg Rydebäcks train station, Solvindar, sculpture
2002 Helsingborg Dunkers Kulturhus, Vildhundens Hjärta,
Handarbetets vänner, woven sculpture
Concerts:
1982 Galerie Bleue, Stockholm, first performance of Plingeling,
piano Karl Erik Welin och cembalo Eva Nordvall
1983 World Music Hall, Connecticut, USA
1985 Moderna Museet in connection with the exhibition
Vildhunden, first performance of Musik för fantasi
1986 Café Stravinskij, Stockholm, first performance of
Ljudande och roterande ljudmembran tolkat av
Per-Åke Holmlander och Folke Rabe
1995 Konstakademin, Stockholm - retrospective exhibition
2003 Norrköpings konstmuseum och Magasin 3 Stockholm
2005 Musikaliska akademin, Stockholm:
Per-Åke Holmlander, Mats Gustafsson, Mats Persson,
Johannes Bauer.
2007 Radio, program 2, Mats Person in piano-duo together
with Kristine Scholz.
2009 Galerie 17, Gliding Southall
2012 Moderna Museet, Plingeling, at exhibition Explosion
2014 Edsviks Konsthall med Per-Åke Holmlander, tuba and
Örjan Högberg, violin
2015 Sångbolaget, Stockholm, Per Åke Holmlander
together with Olle Bonniér
Represented:
Nationalmuseum, Stockholm
Moderna Museet, Stockholm
Göteborgs Konstmuseum
Malmö Konstmuseum
Skissernas Museum, Lund
Norrköpings Konstmuseum
Museum of Modern Art, New York
Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, USA
Centre Pompidou, Paris
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
Museo de Arte Moderno, Mexico City
National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo
Documentations:
Correspondence with Gustaf Fjaestad 1941–42, Kungliga Biblioteket Naturavbildning, abstraktion, konkretion Prisma, Stockholm, 1948
Ord och Bild, 1957
TV intervju: Olle Bonniér and Sven Erixon 1964
Rum utan filial – 1947 års män by Thomas Millroth, 1977
Det var så det började! Lasse Westman, tidningen VI
Vildhundens Hjärta, movie by Marika Bonniér Hansen and Per Forsgren 1993, SVT K-special SVT, 1998
Olle Bonniér – Och varför inte dansa?, by Thomas Millroth, (SAK), 1995
Självljus by Olle Bonniér, Nordstedt förlag 1995
En liten biografi om Olle Bonniér, 2014, by Marika Bonniér Hansen,
Olle Bonniér – skisser och måleri 1946–1962, text av
Thomas Millroth, Galerie Bel’Art, Stockholm 2016
1988 Member of the The Art Academy , Stockholm
1993 Obtained The Prins Eugen-medal