Rita Lundqvist

Tanya Bonakdar Gallery is pleased to present an exhibition of new work by Rita Lundqvist, on view from November 5 - December 18, 2026. This is the artist’s fourth exhibition with the gallery, and first in nearly ten years.An exquisitely rendered group of new oil paintings on panel pulls the viewer into Lundqvist’s enigmatic world of stillness and silence. With relentless consistency, the intimately scaled compositions feature a familiar vocabulary of figures and objects that appear engaged in mysterious activities. Discrete yet seemingly interconnected scenes depict a singular figure or pair in spiritual or ritual contexts, inviting varied narrative interpretations. In Lundqvist’s work, the focus is always composition and color, with flattened forms and a subdued palette of muted greys, indigos, pale yellows, and ochres, imbuing them with a sense of sublimity.