Artist Statement/ Biography

Niklas considers the traditional, time consuming painting techniques he uses as a form of ritual. It’s a conversation with history but also a tool for carefully digging into the subcontious. Painting as a kind of excavation. His focus during the last few years has been to examine the border between the figurative and the abstract and how the two can merge to create new visual expressions and emotional states.

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Niklas Asker was born 1979 in Nordingrå, Sweden. He has studied art at Konstskolan Kuben and Örebro Konstskola where he graduated in 2001. He then chose to study visual storytelling at Malmö Comics Art School and worked in the international comics scene for 8 years. In that time his graphic novel Second Thoughts has been published in 6 different languages and he has done work for a number of different publishers, including Random House Books in New York. In 2009 he started painting again and after being accepted into the Liljevalchs Spring Salon in Stockholm in 2011 and 2012 he has been exhibiting regularly in Sweden and Abroad.