Runo Lagomarsino lives and works in Malmö, Sweden. With a practice that ranges from installation and sculpture to drawing, performance and action, Lagomarsino’s work points toward the gaps and cracks in our models of explanation and our claims of truth, highlighting language’s precarious foundation. With his work he goes in search of fractures and blind paths from which to tell other stories and, in particular, to read the past and name the future.

Through precise and poetic displacements he constructs frictions between language, iconography and prevailing narratives. Runo Lagomarsino has developed a practice that is both close to and distant from conventional sculpture, exploring art’s traditional forms and how they can be expanded.

Runo Lagomarsino has an MA in Fine Arts (2003) from the Malmö Art Academy.

Recent solo exhibitions include The Faculty of Seeing, Moderna Museet, Stockholm (2019), We are each other’s air, Francesca Minini, Milan (2019), EntreMundos, Dallas Museum of Art (2018) and La Neblina, Galeria Avenida da India, Lisbon (2018).

Selected group exhibitions: Deep Sounding – History as Multiple Narratives, daadgalerie, Berlin (2019), BRAZIL: Knife in the Flesh, PAC, Milan (2018), A Universal History of Infamy, LACMA, Los Angeles, (2017), La Terra Inquieta, Fondazione Trussardi, Milan (2017), Really Useful Knowledge, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid (2014) and Under the Same Sun, Guggenheim Museum, New York (2014).

Lagomarsino has also participated in Prospect 4, New Orleans (2017), the 56th Venice Biennale (2015), the 30th São Paulo Biennial (2012), the Liverpool Biennial (2012) and the 12th Istanbul Biennial (2011).

In 2019, Runo Lagomarsino was a DAAD Artists-in-Berlin resident.