Exhibition System of Nature

6 November – 13 December 2025

Since graduating from Konstfack in 1994, Mia E Göransson has established herself as one of the Nordic region’s most influential ceramic artists. She is known to many for her installations, still lifes, and deconstructed landscapes, assembled from formal elements sourced from diverse contexts. In her practice, she moves between extremes, continually exploring opposites such as natural–synthetic, organic–artificial, and real–surreal.

For more than 25 years, Göransson has explored the theme of ”a new nature”. In her work, nature appears both untamed and controlled, beautiful and menacing. It is often rendered in a color palette that feels more artificial than natural, at times even toxic. More recent works incorporate purely geometric forms that evoke thoughts of architecture. At the same time, traces of human activity have gradually entered her visual world. Foreign and urban elements—oil platforms in particular—have come to play an increasingly prominent role.

Through various casting techniques, Göransson seeks specific expressions in both surface and form. Porcelain has long been her primary material, allowing her to navigate between the organic and the geometrically precise. The material is both technically demanding and conceptually challenging—qualities that have continued to fascinate Göransson ever since her first encounter with ceramics in the mid-1980s. Today, her studio is located next to the industrial production at Gustavsberg’s porcelain factory.

Mia E Göransson in her studio, Gustavsberg. Photo: Hans Malm.

Mia E Göransson (b. 1961) lives and works in Gustavsberg. She is educated at Konstfack University of Arts, Crafts and Design, and was an Adjunct Professor at HDK in Gothenburg between 2011 and 2017. Previous solo exhibition venues include Ebelingmuseet, Eskilstuna (2024), Höganäs Museum & Keramiskt Center, Höganäs (2022), Fondazione Officine Saffi, Milano (2017), and Sven-Harrys Konstmuseum, Stockholm (2016). In recent years, Göransson’s work has been part of group exhibitions at Liljevalchs Konsthall, Stockholm (2022, 2014, 2005), Clay Museum, Middelfart, Denmark (2019), MIC Faenza – International Museum of Ceramics, Faenza, Italy (2018), and The Nordic Craft Pavilion at Revelations, Grand Palais, Paris (2015). Other previous group exhibition venues include Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester; Crafts Council, London; Gustavsbergs Porslinsmuseum; Röhsska Museet, Gothenburg; and Waldemarsudde, Stockholm.

Göransson is represented in major collections such as Nationalmuseum, Stockholm; Röhsska Museet, Gothenburg; ASU Art Museum, Arizona; Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe, Hamburg; Malmö Konstmuseum, and Public Art Agency Sweden.

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Toppphoto: Mia E Göransson, Plattform – en som två, 2025. Photo: Hans Malm.