Stille Post
Karl Patric Näsman & Christoph Punzmann
Parallel Collective Gallery, Stockholm, Sweden
30 April – 6 May 2026
Opening Thursday 30 April, 17:00–20:00. Sound performance by Christoph Punzmann at 18:30
Stille Post is the second and concluding part of an exchange project between the Stockholm-based artist Karl Patric Näsman and the Vienna-based composer and sound artist Christoph Punzmann. The first part was presented in May 2025 at the artist-run gallery New Jörg in Vienna. The project was subsequently presented in its entirety in Stockholm at Parallel Collective Gallery.
The exhibition loosely revolved around the idea of the “Whispering Game”, exploring how information becomes distorted and transformed as it moves between image, sound, and different materials. Through sculpture, painting, and sound, the project investigated how expressions gradually shift through processes of copying, translation, and repetition.
In the exhibition, Näsman presented sculptural relief works from the series Metamorphosis, including new works based on a 3D-scanned ancient sculpture from the Ephesos Museum in Vienna. The reliefs were 3D-printed and subsequently cast in new editions, bringing digital technologies into dialogue with traditional sculptural methods.
The exhibition also included a painting series spanning more than a decade, in which an eighteenth-century Dutch painting was reproduced through a chain of repeated commissions from reproduction companies in China. Through this process, the image gradually changed its appearance, echoing the logic of the exhibition’s theme.
In dialogue with Näsman’s works, Punzmann presented a sound composition during the opening night, combining acoustic instruments with digital processing and live electronics. His performance moved between contemporary composition, experimental music, and electroacoustic practice, with sound gradually shifting through repetition and feedback loops to form an atmospheric soundscape within the exhibition space.
Stille Post explored copying as an artistic method and how notions of original, reproduction, and transformation are continually renegotiated as information moves between different media.
With support from the Swedish Arts Grants Committee
Stille Post list of works (PDF)
