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On the wall now · Rooms I - III

Surface Tension

Mirei Osada · Tomas Vilde · Edda Kron

14 Jun - 27 Sep 2026

Seven paintings, hung at their true size.

The exhibition

Three painters who work the front of the picture until it stops behaving like a surface. Osada builds grounds that are almost nothing - gesso, graphite, a wash of raw umber allowed to settle toward the bottom edge because it was allowed to. Vilde works black until it holds light. Kron paints fields the colour of weather.

The show is hung on one line. Every work in these three rooms centres 150cm above the floor, which is roughly the height at which people look, and nothing has been raised or dropped to make a composition of the wall. What varies is only what the paintings are - a 40 x 50cm study on the same wall as a canvas 320cm across.

Room I opens with the smallest work in the exhibition and gives it 130cm of empty wall before the black. Room II is built around Umber Wash, which needs the wall opposite to stay empty and gets it. Room III holds Horizon Line alone.

A grid of small works on a white wall with a wooden stool below it.
Room III, the small wall

Checklist (7)

  1. 01 · Room I

    Mirei Osada, Grid Study II: a faint hand-drawn graphite grid on a pale warm-gray gesso ground

    Mirei Osada
    Grid Study II, 2025
    Graphite and gesso on linen
    40 x 50 cm

  2. 02 · Room I

    Tomas Vilde, Untitled (Black): a dense field of layered dry-brush strokes in deep matte black

    Tomas Vilde
    Untitled (Black), 2024
    Oil on canvas
    90 x 90 cm

  3. 03 · Room I

    Edda Kron, Green Field: a muted gray-green color field of soft brushed layers

    Edda Kron
    Green Field, 2025
    Oil on canvas
    120 x 90 cm

  4. 04 · Room II

    Mirei Osada, Umber Wash: diluted raw umber washes settling toward the bottom edge of a pale field

    Mirei Osada
    Umber Wash, 2026
    Distemper on linen
    160 x 200 cm

  5. 05 · Room II

    Edda Kron, Understory: dense vertical strokes of gray-green and dull blue

    Edda Kron
    Understory, 2024
    Oil on canvas
    45 x 60 cm

  6. 06 · Room II

    Tomas Vilde, Sweep: sweeping horizontal charcoal strokes, dense at the center and thinning toward the edges

    Tomas Vilde
    Sweep, 2025
    Charcoal and oil on canvas
    240 x 160 cm

  7. 07 · Room III

    Mirei Osada, Horizon Line: a single horizon of thinned gray-green wash across a vast white gesso field

    Mirei Osada
    Horizon Line, 2026
    Pigment and gesso on linen
    320 x 180 cm

Events (3)

Events are free and unticketed. If a room fills, the talk is repeated at the end.

Artists in this exhibition

Mirei OsadaTomas VildeEdda Kron

Open Wednesday to Sunday, 11:00 to 18:00. Admission is free and there is no booking. Plan a visit