Image: CFHILL Art Space, Stockholm
CFHILL has brought together sculptures by 17 artists for ‘Sculpture – The Art of Intelligence’, an exhibition at the gallery’s Riddargatan 13 space in Stockholm. The presentation opened on August 21 and continues through September 11, 2026, examining sculpture as a physical form of thought and knowledge.
The group exhibition includes Anton Alvarez, AKassen, Christian Berg, George Condo, Tony Cragg, Charlotte Gyllenhammar, Carsten Höller, Meta Isæus-Berlin, Klara Kristalova, Austin Lee, Fiamma Montagu, Joakim Ojanen, Przemek Pyszczek, Bella Rune, Jesper Waldersten and Christine Ödlund. The works bring together artists working across different approaches to form, material and perception, while the exhibition’s central premise places emphasis on sculpture’s direct physical encounter with the viewer.
CFHILL frames the exhibition through Pablo Picasso’s statement, ‘Sculpture is the art of intelligence.’ Its accompanying text develops that idea in opposition to an increasingly immaterial visual culture shaped by computation, prediction, algorithms and digitally generated images. Sculpture, in this account, retains a specific relationship to weight, volume, shadow and touch: it occupies space and must be encountered from more than one viewpoint.
The gallery’s presentation also stresses the resistance of materials, naming stone, bronze, wood, clay and glass as substances that carry their own histories and limitations. Rather than treating sculpture as an idea imposed on passive matter, the exhibition describes thought as emerging through the artist’s engagement with material, including the pressure, resistance and decisions involved in giving an object form.
Several artists in the exhibition have practices that extend beyond sculpture. Charlotte Gyllenhammar works across sculpture, photography, video and installation, while Meta Isæus-Berlin’s practice spans installation, sculpture and painting. At the recent CHART fair in Copenhagen, also presented by CFHILL, Isæus-Berlin showed the series ‘Silence’, which included paintings and bronze works. That presentation connected the two mediums through recurring figures and a shared attention to light, surface and presence.
Gyllenhammar was also presented at CHART with ‘Sitting Giant’, a monumental bronze sculpture of a seated child installed by the entrance to the fair at Kongens Nytorv. The work’s shifts in scale and perspective were described as part of the artist’s wider exploration of power, vulnerability and identity. Those parallel presentations are separate from the Stockholm exhibition, which brings Gyllenhammar and Isæus-Berlin into a broader sculptural group show.
‘Sculpture – The Art of Intelligence’ is on view at CFHILL, Riddargatan 13, Stockholm, Tuesday through Friday from noon to 5 p.m. and Saturdays from noon to 4 p.m. The exhibition runs until September 11, 2026.
