Jesper Sundberg Örtegren

Jesper Sundberg Örtegren is a Swedish sculptor and designer working from Stockholm, whose artistic and design practices run in deliberate counterpoint to one another. His sculptures move across marble, glass, silver, wood and industrial materials to investigate how human beings construct meaning within a reality that is, at its core, fluid.

Material choice is central: marble quarried from the same mountains used by Michelangelo, hand-blown glass blown in Sweden, walnut, industrial pallets, disappearing Antarctic water. Each carries histories and associations that become part of the work itself; holding the tension between permanence and transience, monumentality and fragility, the sacred and the ordinary.

"I see the creative process as a form of inner and physical exploration without a fixed direction. The works emerge through questioning rather than answering. I am drawn to processes that involve listening, letting go and allowing materials, environments and chance to shape the outcome. In that sense, the work is less about control and more about participation in something larger and constantly changing."

Underlying the practice is a sustained fascination with the meeting point between contemporary physics, psychology and ancient spiritual traditions, the idea that consciousness does not simply exist within reality, but participates in constructing it. Many works examine the tendency to treat abstract concepts, including the self, as fixed and concrete objects. Others reflect on interdependence, transformation and the traces left behind by time, memory and use.

Works presented in Collection 03 2026 include a sculptural table in travertine, a Britannia solid silver bowl, pieces in walnut, alongside carbon and mineral wall works and a series of hand-blown glass vases and sculptures made in Sweden.

"For me, creativity resembles moving through mountains without a clear path forward: searching, failing, adjusting direction and continuing despite uncertainty. There is no final summit. The work exists within the movement itself."