Hanna Hasse Bergström

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All skulls are found and collected in the swedish woods. Cruelty free, ethically sourced.

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So, I saw this beauty the other night. Here in Sweden we have about 300 000 - 400 000 moose roaming freely in the woods. 100 000 of them are shot every autumn. The argument for this is that we need to keep the population down, that there would be too many moose if no one killed a fourth of them annually. Of course, the hunters make sure to kill their natural enemies too. They kill the wolves beacause the wolves kill their sheep (easy solution to this problem - stop breeding animals for food, have a carrot) and they kill the bears beacause.. well, for no reason at all. They blame the moose for hurting the forest, by simply eating from the trees that human somehow descided to call their own and make money from. As a result of the deforestations, the moose population thrive on the well stocked pantries that clear-felled areas create. Sweden makes sure the moose population stays huge - beacause the hunters want to hunt and everyone else wants to stuff their freezers full with pieces of the beautiful long legged wise-eyed mystical creature every year. My heart is irreparably broken over and over each autumn.

Exhibition at Sinnenas Konstpark, Ånge. 16 June - 12 July #art #skullart #exhibition

Never turn your back on a ram, they say.

- sheep - Work in progress. The cracks on this skull steals all my focus. Can not concentrate. Madly in love.

Throwback to the great fairytale of when I was a child. Never could I have imagined, and yet of course I could have. ♡

I have been invited to be one of 20 artists represented by PAKS Gallery in Austria throughout 2019. I am sure this would be a huge chance for me to reach out, but I can not and will not do it, and this is why; With the invitation I got information about how many millionaires live in Austria and for how many BILLION dollars the Austrian art market has sold. I got to know about presidents/actors/athletes/singers/gouverneurs/whatevers that has visited Paks exhibitions and I got a never ending shitstorm of fancy words about what this would do to my career as an artist. I don't know why artists have to pay to be able to exhibit their art (in excess of the percentage that the galleries take from the sales - which I am totally fine with), but I really wish it was the other way around. Take a look at all the events I was invited to participate in with Paks, and what they would cost me: Paks gallery representation (three pieces) 1200euro International fine art cannes biennal (one artwork) 850euro Exhibition in MAMAG Modern Art Museum (two artworks) 800euro Publication in the Art Book (one page) 300euro Interview in the About Art Magazine 225-750euro International Contemporary Art Biennial Basel (one artwork) 850euro Contemporary Art Fair in Carrousel du Louvre Paris (one artwork) 750euro I don't have this amount of money. In order for me to exhibit my art with these guys I would have to raise the price for my skulls by the double, only to afford sending them. And if I do so, I will loose a big part of the purpose behind why I paint skulls in the first place. I want you to be able to afford them. I want every single one of my pieces to end up where they belong, with someone who has fallen madly in love with it. Not with whoever has the most money. My skulls have no need for champagne and a red carpet. And neither have I. So. I was troubled at first to turn the offer down and let this chance go, but after thinking about it for a while I'm really not. This is not what art is about.

Repost from @sliceoflivess . Doris just reached her new home in France! She somehow got on a detour on her way there and me and beautiful Amandine have been holding our breaths together for a whole month waiting for her to arrive. It should never take this long, and we got no explanation to why it did. Anyway, the skull is home safe now and reunited with two of my foxes that she adopted a few years back. My heart can beat again. I like to imagine a line, like on a map, from me to every home that has one of my skulls. They are all pieces of me and I feel this beautiful connection to each one of my buyers. We usually get to talk a little (or a lot) before, during and after an adoption, and -this is true- the people that buy my art are the kindest and warmest people in the world! 💚 #skullart

Keeping busy. Best wishes from me and my boys, in a very very snowy Sweden. ☆

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