Memento Vivere – A story of rebirth
Exhibition period April 12 – May 24, 2025
Opening April 12th 12-16pm
The tulip carries an ancient symbolism – it sprouts from the earth after a long winter, reaches towards the light and blooms in full splendor before making way for the new. In Lena Koller’s exhibition Memento Vivere, this cyclical movement is at the center. Through dynamic compositions, she captures the essence of the flower: its fragile beauty and its inherent power to return, year after year.
Koller's art reflects the eternal cycle of nature and man's own journey through change, loss and renewal. Each image testifies to an inner energy – a movement forward, a striving towards the new. Here there is dreaminess and tranquility, but also a light that reminds us of life's indomitable will to continue.
Lena Koller herself says: “The tulip pictures came about when I was at a workshop with photographer Anders Petersen in Marrakech in 2007. During my stay, my father died and I decided to stay there – in great pain. When I left Stockholm in March, I had a fresh bouquet of tulips on my kitchen table. When I got home, it was withered and almost dead. I saw this as a metaphor for my dead father and started taking photographs. With that experience in my bag, I would say that I gained the strength to make the pictures heartfelt and filled with respect.”