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Göran Hausenkamp
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Göran Hausenkamp was born in 1962 in Stockholm and has spent much of his working life in Skåne, where his artistic training and public commissions are concentrated. He studied art history at Lund University from 1986 to 1987 and took painting courses at Medborgarskolan in Lund, at Kursverksamheten in Lund, and for a year at Östra Grevie folkhögskola's cultural programme. This regionally grounded formation, built through evening classes and folk high school study rather than art academy admission, shaped the accessible, communicative character of his practice.
Hausenkamp works across painting and sculpture, often returning to the human figure as his central subject. His paintings in acrylic on canvas favour energetic, gestural treatment of bodies in motion: cancan dancers, models, figures in loose groupings rendered with flat, saturated colour and a graphic directness that owes something to poster art and popular image-making. The mood is festive and slightly theatrical, prioritising movement and rhythm over psychological interiority.
His sculptural work has a distinct material sensibility. He has produced wire sculptures, including figures built from painted chicken wire set within wooden box frames, a method that plays the industrial material against handmade form and gives his three-dimensional pieces a raw, sketch-like quality that complements the looseness of his painted surfaces.
Public commissions have brought his work into everyday environments around Helsingborg and Malmö. He has made wall paintings at several sites in Helsingborg, created works for the Pyramiden housing association in Malmö, and produced wooden compositions for sports halls, schools, and businesses in the Helsingborg area. This strand of his practice connects him to the Swedish tradition of integrating art into publicly funded architecture and social infrastructure.
His auction presence is concentrated at Sikö Kristianstad, which accounts for 46 of the 61 lots tracked on Auctionist, with Göteborgs Auktionsverk adding eight more. The top result is 4,400 SEK for "Tre dansande kvinnor", while a figurative composition with figures has reached 1,200 EUR. The price range places him among working Swedish artists whose auction results reflect a regional collector base rather than national or international market positioning.