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Erika Höglund
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Growing up in Algutsboda in the Kalmar region, surrounded by two of Sweden's most significant glass artists - her father Erik Höglund and her mother Monica Backström - Erika Höglund absorbed the rhythms of glassmaking from childhood. She watched the interplay between the designer and the glassblower as something almost choreographic: the back-and-forth coordination over glowing molten material that produces something neither could make alone. That early fascination would eventually become her own profession.
Höglund left Småland for New York, studying at Parsons School of Design. The distance gave her perspective not just on design but on the glass kingdom she had grown up in. After Parsons she travelled extensively, spending extended periods in Mexico and Guatemala, living as a local rather than a visitor. The exposure to different material cultures and visual traditions fed back into her sculptural thinking, adding layers of reference to a practice already rich with inherited knowledge.
From 1997 to 2009 she worked at Målerås glassworks in Småland, one of Sweden's quality crystal manufacturers. There she designed a sustained body of work - torso sculptures with etched surfaces, mythological creatures in dense coloured crystal, figurative forms that carry the hand-worked quality distinctive of studio glass. The Artemiss series exemplifies her approach: the human figure rendered in deep blue glass with etched pattern, combining physical weight with surface delicacy. She also collaborated with fellow glass artists, as evidenced by joint Auctionet listings pairing her work alongside Kjell Engman pieces from Kosta Boda.
In 2010 she opened her own showroom and gallery in Grönhögen on southern Öland, combining an independent creative practice with direct presentation of her work to collectors. She continues to work across glass, ceramics, light installations, and photography, dividing her time between Stockholm and the forests of Småland. The tension between city and countryside, between the urban art world and the centuries-old glass tradition of the region, remains productive for her.
On the auction market, Höglund's glass sculptures appear regularly at Swedish houses. Her work circulates through Stockholms Auktionsverk Hamburg, Kalmar Auktionsverk, and Auctionet, with 11 items recorded in the Auctionist database and 2 currently active. Top results have reached 1,284 SEK for a unique 1990s glass sculpture, with signed pieces from 2010 typically selling in the 500-650 SEK range. Her work is positioned in the accessible segment of the Swedish glass art market, where her pieces attract collectors who follow both contemporary studio glass and the continuing legacy of the Höglund family.