6 December 2025 – 29 March 2026
Innovative art photography and vivid watercolours. The Gothenburg Museum of Art presents new works by the Stena Foundation Culture Scholarship receivers Trinidad Carillo and Olle Norås, who both in different ways revitalize forms of expression in contemporary art.
Trinidad Carillo (b. 1975) is a photographer born in Peru and active in Gothenburg. Here, she shows a series of new photographs linked with her long-standing exploration of everyday life, memory, dreams, and healing processes.
In the new series of colour photographs included in the exhibition, Trinidad Carillo works with among other things lenticular printing, a technique that gives images a three-dimensional expression, in which the motifs change depending on the viewer’s movements. The resulting scenes are highly atmospheric, shifting between the visible and the hinted-at, the real and the dream-like.
Olle Norås (b. 1982, Dalarna) trained at the HDK-Valand Academy of Art and Design in Gothenburg and works with abstract watercolours focusing on organic processes in nature and ecological cycles. In the exhibition, he presents around ten metaphorical nature images with a meditative and existential tone.
Olle Norås’ exhibition also contains many new works. In his latest paintings, the abstract idiom is inspired by flower-like shapes reminiscent of themes such as time, change and humanity’s relationship to nature.
The exhibition runs until 6 December 2025 – 29 March 2026. The opening, including an inauguration speech, takes places on Saturday 6 December, at 2 pm.
Motivation:
Trinidad Carrillo
Since the 1990s, artist Trinidad Carrillo has developed a highly distinctive visual language where the dreamlike and the everyday converge in poetic and layered worlds. Through photography and installations, she creates scenes, at once familiar and mysterious, guided by the logic of dreams and intuitive associations.
Humans, animals, plants, and mythological figures appear in tranquil encounters infused with tenderness, wonder, and melancholy. With a singular command of colour, light, and subtle detail, she draws the viewer into suggestive narratives that linger long after.
For an artistry that, through delicate craftsmanship and poetic visual sensibility, allows us to glimpse what lies beyond the visible, Trinidad Carrillo is awarded the 2025 Scholarship from the Sten A Olsson Foundation for Research and Culture.
Olle Norås
The artist Olle Norås approaches organic materials and forms through an exploratory artistic process. Through painting, sculpture, and experiments with texture and surface, he creates works that reflect on humanity’s relationship with nature and the slow processes that shape our surrounding world.
Themes of time, memory, and transformation recur in his map-like images, where scale and meaning continuously shift, from slowly growing lichens to fragments of geological patterns or distant shimmering galaxy clusters. In this oscillation between the microscopic and the cosmic, between closeness and distance, new perceptions arise.
For an artistic practice that, through methodical precision and visionary care, transforms the overlooked into visually charged experiences, Olle Norås is awarded the 2025 Scholarship from the Sten A Olsson Foundation for Research and Culture.
The Sten A Olsson Foundation for Research
The Stena Foundation is an important institution in the cultural life of Western Sweden, providing a unique opportunity for artists to produce new works and increase their visibility. This year, six cultural practitioners each receive 300 000 SEK to stimulate further development. Since 1996, the Foundation has awarded 179 scholarships for the continued training of talented individuals in fields such as art, music, theatre, dance, literature, scenography and circus art. Furthermore, the Foundation has awarded grants to many research and culture projects.
Stena Foundation’s yearbook
The Stena Foundation’s yearbook contains a wealth of visual material and longer interviews with all the year’s receivers of the culture scholarship. The book is available for purchase in the museum shop. The exhibition also includes films featuring the scholarship winners, providing further opportunities for deeper knowledge.
All recipients of the 2025 Stena Foundation Culture Scholarships:
Trinidad Carrillo (photography)
Olle Norås (painting)
Phax Ahamada (dance and mime)
Julia Sporsén (music)
Yukimi Nagano (singing)
Malte Persson (literature)
The Gothenburg Museum of Art – the exhibition is financed with a generous support from the Stena Foundation.
Top Image: Olle Norås, “Vilda djur kom från jordens alla hörn (Wild Animals came from all corners of the earth)” (2022). Photo: Olle Norås