Born in Stockholm 1956 lives in Tomelilla. Educated at Konstfackskolan, industriel design school Stockholm, small scale arcitecture 1979-84. Professor at HDK, industrial design school Gothenburg, 1995.

During the 20th century, furniture and architecture have been characteristically functional. This functionalism involves a clear perception of society and human kind -a belief that, with technological development, we have advanced so far that we can stand alone, with no need of images and symbols. But this cultural "evolution"has encountered resistance in the past few decades; development is continuing, but we do not feel that we are developing. In this standstill, people are tempted and, perhaps, forced to seek new images. Mats Theselius furniture projects various images and potential associations that are remote from clinical functionalism. Thus, the bear more resemblance to furniture predating the modern period. Various stylistic features and materials are juxtaposed. in a functional and logical world, they bear o pictorial language that gives them in situ, the aspect of objects from a world we recognise, yet one that is unfamiliar. Perhaps, quite simply, it is a world we have not yet seen.

SEPERATED EXHIBITIONS
Galleri Cupido Stockholm 1988
Arcitecture gallery Gothenburg 1989
Ekelund / Tandan gallery Stockholm 1991
Gallery Rotor Gothenburg 1992
” Millionprogram exhibition ” for the housing company ” Poseidon ” Gothenburg 1993
Arcitecture gallery, center for modern art, Moscow, Russia 1994
Linne street ”Live” project Gothenburg 1994
Kraschnyj Ugol , Färgfabriken arthall Stockholm 1996

GROUP EXHIBITIONS
Young designers”furniture fair, Stockholm 1984 & 1986
Alla Prima group, Konstfrämjandet Stockholm 1987
”Things own space” Liljiewalchs art hall stockholm 1987
”Konstant -90” Stockholm 1988 and in Leningrad 1989
Furniture fairs in Stockholm, Cologne, Copenhagen & Milano since 1990 -
Stockohlm art fair since 1990 -
Design Sweden, Swedish Inst, Montevideo, Chile Bombay, Bangaladore, Ahmedabad & New Dehli, India 1990-91
Configura 1, Erfurt, Germany 1991
Swedish Embassy & Axis building, Tokyo Japan 1991
Expo 92, world fair Sevilla 1992
Nordic Light, Design museum London 1993
Exhibitions with Källemo AB company in Europe Japan, USA, the latest one at Wetterling gallery Singapore 1995.
”Nordic Profiles” Röhsska Museum Gothenburg and in the arts& crafts museums in Stockholm, Kopenhagen, Oslo, Helsinki, 1994 - 1995
”Father & Son”, Gallery Grå, Stockholm 1994 & Hishult arthall, Hishult 1995
”Stellwerk ” Designzentrum Nordhein Westfalen, Essen, German Design Council ,Frankfurt & Axis building Tokyo 1995
”Swedish folk Art ”, Museum of folk art , Santa Fe1995-96,Craft & Folk art Museum, Los Angeles 1996-97
”Structures” Malmö Museum, Malmö 1995
”Good Design 1995” Exhibition Chicago Atheneum, museum of arcitecture, USA 1995
Swedish form society ,150 years jubilee exhibition Liiliewalchs art hall Stockholm & Röhsska Museum 1995
World Stuff exhibition with Matthias Dietz at Kunsthal Rotterdam 1995
Live Shop exhibition with Matthias Dietz at Röhsska Museum Gothenburg, 1995
Low Budget exhibition Museum fur Kunsthandwerk, Frankfurt 1996
Low Budget exhibition Gallerie im museum Burgerhaus, Neunkirchen 1996
Smart China group exhibition Gallerie Arosa 2000, Frankfurt 1996
Low Budget exhibition Cultural Centre de Belem, Lissabon 1997

LITETATURE/TEXTES
Mats Theselius; The Puddles Eye, Hype magazine nr 3/4 1989
Mats Theselius ;Hundrov & Raketbränsle, Daily News newspaper 1989 11 12
Mats Theselius Furniture , text Andreas Gedin editor Källemo AB 1990
”Eremitens Koja” ( Hermits Hut )- book, Mats Theselius, editor Hype Magazine / Källemo 1991
A nomad on the run, text John Petter Nilsson edition Ekelund / Tandan 1991
From the inner outskirts , Form magazine text by editor Ulf Beckman 1991
”European masters ” edition Atrium Barcelona 1992
”The Millionprogram” - book, Mats Theselius editor MAMA, arcitecture magazine 1993
Tracing the source of imagination ” Interior design nr114 JID- Japan 1994
”Komrade Mats ” Texts by Jan Åman & Marina Timofejewa Russian cultureministery & Swedish embassy, Moscow 1994
”Excalibur” text by Andreas Gedin Danish arcitecture magazine ARK nr 10 Århus Denmark 1994
A chair is born , Form magazine text by editor Ulf Beckman 1995
Low Budget -Der diskrete charme des Alltäglichen text by Gerrit Krol INTERNI magazine dec 19 95
Kraschnyj Ugol cathaloge textes by Catti Lindahl Jan Åman Per Enerud Ulf Beckman Sara Ilstedt &
Görel Byström -Janarv
”Identita” , Abitare magazine march 1996 text by Marco Romanelli

GRANTS; AWARDS
IKEA scholarship 1984, Swedish state art fondation.1986 & 1988, Swedish Form soceity travel scholarship 1989
Swedish Form soceity, design award 1991 & 1995, Comfort Prize, Du Pont, Cologne 1991
Dagens Nyheter (Daily News) designprize 1991

REPRESENTED
Nationalmuseum, Stockholm, RöhsskaMuseum, Gothenburg, Malmö museum,
Art & crafts museum, Copenhagen Denmark, Sky City, Arlanda Stockholm Airport
Swedish state art fondation Art & crafts museum New York USA
Russian state art collection

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