Jonatan Leandoer Håstad Collected Works Exhibition Press Release + Pictures
After more than a decade of developing a visual art practice largely outside public view, Jonatan Leandoer Håstad presents the first major exhibition devoted entirely to his artistic work. Opening 25 September at Torsgatan 22, Stockholm's former Gasworks, one of the city's most significant industrial heritage sites in central Stockholm, Collected Works 2016–2026 brings together paintings, collages, works on paper, sculpture, dioramas, a new narrative short film and site-specific installation created over the past ten years. The vast majority of the works have never previously been exhibited.
Internationally recognized for his work as Yung Lean, Håstad has quietly developed a parallel visual practice alongside his music. Rather than functioning as an extension of it, the exhibition presents an independent body of work with its own visual language, recurring imagery and internal logic.
Entirely self-taught, Håstad works through an instinctive and physical process in which paintings, objects and images emerge through making rather than planning. Figures, landscapes and symbolic motifs recur across different media, creating unexpected connections between works made years apart.
The exhibition also premieres a new short film, executive produced by and starring Håstad. Set along the back roads of rural Sweden, it follows two lovers through a dreamlike landscape where tenderness and unease coexist.
Rather than presenting the works within a conventional gallery setting, Collected Works 2016–2026 transforms the space into a sequence of interconnected environments. Visitors move through a salon, television room, screening room and a series of site-specific installations where painting, sculpture, film and architecture form a single experience.
Filtered daylight, haze, sculptural seating, temporary architectural interventions and large-scale installations become part of the exhibition itself, inviting visitors into Håstad's visual world rather than simply presenting individual works.
Without an external curator or gallery framework, Haståd had his hands on every aspect of the exhibition—from the selection of works to the exhibition design and installation.
On the lifelong impulse behind his visual practice, Håstad says:
"Ever since I can remember I dreamed of colors. I've made wooden sculptures and drawings and paintings since I was a kid. Just like my songs, the work is made through stream of consciousness. I go where the hand takes me. My paintings mean nothing and also everything.
Here they are."
Presented in the city where Håstad was born, raised, and continues to live, Collected Works 2016–2026 offers the first opportunity to experience the full breadth of an artistic practice that has evolved privately for more than a decade.
The exhibition will be open to the public from 25 September through 11 October 2026, with free admission.
Following the exhibition, a curated selection of works—primarily sculptures—will be presented in an international online auction in collaboration with Bukowskis. The auction offers collectors worldwide the opportunity to acquire works from Håstad's first major exhibition of visual art, extending the project to an international audience.
EXHIBITION INFORMATION
Jonatan Leandoer Håstad
Collected Works 2016–2026
September 25–October 11, 2026
Tuesday–Sunday, 12:00–19:00
Closed Mondays
Free admission
Norra Bangården, Torsgatan 22
113 21 Stockholm
Sweden