Carl Adam Cronstedt

Carl Adam Cronstedt was short listed for the Royal Academy of Arts Summer Exhibition in 2016 and exhibited at Art Basel in 2017. His art, characterized by black humor and ironic attacks on our culture is well known in Stockholm.

Carl Adam was commissioned to paint 30 paintings (each Human Rights Article) for The Edelstam Foundation in 2013. Its a travelling exhibition aimed to raise awareness about human rights violations on controversial sites around the world. The most recent exhibition was held at The Museum of Memory and Human Rights which is a Chilean museum dedicated to commemorate the victims of human rights violations during the civic-military regime led by Pinochet.

I want to create an interface which throws the viewer into a world filled with intense characters. I want to portray ambivalent personalities and expose subtle emotions and underlying doubt. Those nano-seconds when a person reveals his or hers cultivated denial and often veiled despair. This game appears most clearly in the male world - in the artificial confidence of men in a group. Or put differently - the study of social phenomena from a closed and male world. After a short time of working in accounting for Robert McAlpine and the management trainee pr...

2010- ArtistLab
2008 MSc Philosophy and History of Science (London School of Economics)
2003-2005 MSc Accounting (Bond University)
2000-2003 BSc Economics with Computing (University of Surrey)

2018 - "An egocentric Pursuit", The Bangsta Flat.
2018 - “Human Rights, Civil Courage and Heroes”, Museum of Memory and Human Rights, Santiago.
2014 - "I am one of the most unpleasant men I know", NineRooms, Stockholm.
2013 - "Human Rights, Civic Courage, and Heroes", Färgfabriken, Stockholm.
2013 - "A Fool's choice" Strandgalleriet, Stockholm.
2013 - "Human Rights, Civic Courage, and Heroes", Villa Grimaldi, Santiago.
2013 - Fashionmarket, Stockholm.
2013 - China Teatern, Stockholm.
2013 - ”Like characters in a play or a novel acting out some artificial plot ”, Hotel Diplomat, Stockholm.
2012 - Konstnärsbaren KB, Stockholm.
2012 - Källhagen, Stockholm.
2011 - Imperiet, Stockholm.
2011 - Censur, Sturebiblioteket, Stockholm.
2010 - Young Art, For a good Cause II, Bukowskis, Stockholm.
2010 - Rosendalsträdgård, Stockholm.
2009 - Young Art, For a good Cause, Bukowskis, Stockholm.