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Angelica Wiik
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Angelica Wiik was born in Stockholm in 1960 and grew up in a household shaped by making. Her mother, Margot Öjemark, worked as a ceramicist and draughtsman, and that early immersion in visual craft set the direction early. Wiik completed a three-year fine arts program at Gävle folkskola in 1985 and has exhibited continuously since her debut that same year, showing at galleries and fairs across Sweden.
Her subjects are the social surfaces of urban life: bridges over Stockholm waterways, café terraces, musicians playing on rooftops, dogs in apartment windows, the particular quality of light over Djurgården on a still evening. The mood tends toward warmth and movement - not documentary, but not sentimental either. There is a theatricality to the compositions, as if each painting catches a moment just before the scene disperses. Music runs through the work as both subject and method. Wiik typically listens to jazz while painting, and instruments - harps, saxophones, accordions, cellos - appear as recurring figures rather than incidental props.
Wiik works in oil on canvas as her primary medium for originals, but her lithographs have reached the widest audience and account for most of her auction presence. She collaborates with master printer Björn Lumphé, who has printed editions for some of Sweden's leading artists. The process is labor-intensive: each color is laid down separately, building the image across up to 14 printed layers before a final hardened silkscreen pass adds metallic glitter. The result has a luminosity that separates the prints from the paintings while keeping the same fundamental palette.
Since the mid-2010s Wiik has been based in Hälsingland, where her family runs the artist farm Ingalunda gård in Hedvigsfors, between Delsbo and Hassela. The rural setting has not redirected the subject matter - Stockholm remains the primary motif - but it provides the conditions she has described as necessary for extended concentrated work.
At auction, the 44 recorded lots span five houses, with Stockholms Auktionsverk Sickla (6 lots), Stockholms Auktionsverk Magasin 5 (5), Crafoord Stockholm (5), and Göteborgs Auktionsverk (4) accounting for the bulk of activity. The category breakdown - 34 art works, 5 prints, 4 paintings - reflects the mixed format of her output. Top prices include the Djurgårdsbron lithograph at SEK 3,620, a portfolio of four lithographs at SEK 3,600, and the work "Ängel" at SEK 3,000. The price points are consistent across the record, indicating stable secondary demand from a dedicated collector base rather than speculative trading.