Public Service was founded in 2022 by Peter Gerdman, Aleksandar Stojanovski and Axel Söderberg. Sprung from a shared passion for the mechanisms of the art world and collecting patterns, they want to accompany a new generation of Scandinavian collectors in engaging with highly talented artists, from around the world, and at a pivotal moment in their careers. 
Public Service is dedicated to shape an innovative program with a global outlook and central to the gallery's programme is to showcase the most exciting young- to mid career international artists to a Scandinavian audience.

‘Landscape of Lost Histories’ - Kevin Claiborne

The exhibition showcases works across several mediums, including screenprint paintings, collages, and new works from Kevin Claiborne's Unconformity series. The Unconformity works are black abstract paintings made with materials from the earth, referencing that which has been lost or erased within the artist's own family history due to historical erasure and dislocation, inspired by the geological phenomenon known as The Great Unconformity - a gap in the Earth's sediment hundreds of millions of years long.

Our understanding of the world and our identities is shaped by the stories we tell. Our ability to share our stories is shaped by having access to our history and the privilege of preserving it. In this presentation of works, Claiborne offers the idea of Blackness as an evolving landscape of lost histories. Blackness is a vast and boundless landscape, shaped by the forces of time, with mountains of progress and valleys of despair, a place where the past and present intersect, and the future is still being written.

The gallery is part of the Östermalm gallery breakfast.