Kollekfive is a collective of five contemporary artists working across painting, sculpture, and ceramics. Each artist develops a distinct practice, creating works that translate naturally into the screen printing process. Presented together as fine art editions, these pieces celebrate individual vision while revealing a shared exploration of abstraction, color, and form. Underlying Kollekfive’s work is the conviction that paintings are not merely visual representations but physical objects, deliberately staged to invite contemplation and engagement. Through a considered balance of material presence and visual language, the artists construct immersive experiences that invite viewers to contemplate how intention, materiality, and space converge within the act of viewing.
Troels Aagaard (DK)
I work in the intersection between art and design across a variety of media, including painting, sculpting, drawing, and paper cutting. As an artist, I am always evolving. I am not interested in remaining static. I guess I am too curious. By simplifying forms, subtracting detail, and amplifying specific elements, I have moved from a very figurative artistic practice towards a much more abstracted response, creating streamlined yet vibrant artworks that, although minimalistic, still achieve a sense of expression and dynamism.
No matter the media, I always seek a purified form of beauty dominated by order, simplicity, and harmony. I am not limited by a certain narrative when I work. There is no story I need to tell. This allows me to focus exclusively on a formal and reductive aesthetic where the exploration of color, light, space, and form are recurring themes. My process is characterized by repetition, progression, and permutation. It’s a systematic process based on arranging and rearranging elements. I often work in series because only in a run of pieces am I able to fully explore an idea
John Atherton (UK)
My paintings and print works operate within the visual language of modern abstraction, precise compositions of color, geometry, and surface that invite sustained looking. Yet, counter to expectation, my practice does not emerge directly from the traditions of abstract art, but rather from the portraiture and commemorative imagery found in anonymous 1980s school yearbooks. Stripped of covers or contextual framing, these yearbooks revealed only rows of faces with names, devoid of stories, histories, or futures, compelling me to imagine new lives for these individuals.
The yearbook, as an object of remembrance and transition, became a foundation for my exploration of memory, ritual, and identity. As a collective record of passage, it embodies both nostalgia and distance, symbolizing a moment poised between past and future. Through print-based methods and a design-led sensibility, I translate these associations into abstract compositions that convey the emotional weight of memory without directly depicting it.
Jennifer Idrizi (UK)
She is based in Lund, Sweden, where she splits her time between making art and designing homeware products and patterns for international clients. She studied at Central St Martins School of Art and The Royal College of Art in London and has exhibited her art in the US, UK, Sweden, Denmark, Vietnam and Albania.
Jennifer works with a variety of media, depending on the idea or project. Her work often explores the balance between order/chaos, nature/culture and control/freedom
Ida Persson (SWE)
Ida lives in Ystad and works in Löderup, Sweden. Ida graduated from Umeå Academy of fine arts with both a bachelor and master’s degree. In 2015, she won the prestigious Fredrik Roos Award “for developing a personal imagery that reveals the power of relationships in society.” Solo shows include Caretaker at ISSUES, Stockholm (2023); Numbness and Serenity at both Ystads Konstmuseum, Ystad, Sweden (2023) and Varbergs Konsthall, Varberg, Sweden (2022) and Docile Bodies at Erik Nordenhake, Stockholm (2017).