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Exhibition Program - Hans Eriksson - Leif Elggren - Sub Conference - Reform

Exhibitions produced by Stefan Karlsson - Group Exhibition - Alfred Helberger

for paving new artistic ways in prosaic corroded environments, persistent exposure of constant electronic influences, need of finding navigation areas in personal artistic creativity and gallery activities. Sub Bau is run by five young artists: Stefan Karlsson, Stefan Linderoth, Lena Danielsson, Lars Wulcan och Maria Lindberg, operating in the grey zone between money and energy, spawning the idea that money is something that really doesn't exist. Sub Bau has featured a number of exhibitions and happenings, among other things. One day I found a dented postcard in my mailbox. It was sent by Göteborg's Konstmuseum. Sub Bau invited its members and present museum staff to an exhibition called "Göteborg's Konstmuseum visits Sub Bau". Down at Sub Bau, under constant video surveillance, hung a golden framed photo of Göteborg's Konstmuseum. That afternoon, Göteborg saw a postmodern shortcut. After the constant basement level gallery surveillance during recent years, one tends now - spring 1988 - to approach environments with, so to speak, automatic surveillance.
Carina Hedén 1987
The Sub Bau Work Group 1985-87, from left to right: Stefan Linderoth, Lena Danielsson, Lars Vulcan, Stefan Karlsson, and Maria Lindberg.

As Göteborg let itself be embraced by a new easygoing mood with cream white wiener cafés, parade streets, brazen naked juggling number on the Avenue, Sub Bau considers a new Social Strategy, looking för new links to reality. For several years, Sub Bau has raised curiosity: as a studio, and to an alternating extent, as a gallery. A particular sense