Mamma Andersson: Sleepless

About Karl Ove KnausgaardMamma Andersson

Born 1962 in Luleå Sweden Mamma Andersson studied at the Royal University College of Fine Arts Stockholm from 1986 to 1993. She had her first museum solo exhibition in the United States at the Aspen Art Museum Colorado in 2010 and her first solo exhibition in Ireland at the Douglas Hyde Gallery Dublin in 2009. In 2006 the artist won the Carnegie Art Award a prestigious prize for Nordic contemporary painting which received a corresponding exhibition that traveled extensively throughout Europe. In 2007 she was the subject of a critically acclaimed mid-career survey at the Moderna Museet Stockholm which traveled to the Kunsthalle Helsinki and the Camden Arts Centre London. Her work was represented in the Nordic Pavilion at the 50th Venice Biennale (2003). Karl Ove Knausgaard is a Norwegian author. He became known worldwide for six autobiographical novels titled My Struggle. He has been described as one of the 21st century's greatest literary sensations by the Wall Street Journal. Since the completion of the My Struggle series in 2011 he has also published an autobiographical series entitled The Seasons Quartet as well as critical work on the art of Edvard Munch.