petra börner

The Swedish-born, London-based artist Petra Börner has embarked on a collaboration with Marimekko, allowing the artist's works to extend beyond paper and onto textiles. The collaboration with Marimekko is a natural extension of the artist's practice, which already spans from works on paper to ceramics, stoneware, and site-specific art.

Petra Börner's images are filled with blends of human beings and plants, where branches transform into arms, and flower buds take on faces. Humans become plants, and plants turn into mythological creatures with eyes staring back at us. Petra Börner's lines themselves resemble cuttings or roots, seeming to grow in both length and thickness.

Just as there are no clear boundaries between humans and plants in her works, it makes sense that the pieces also shift materials — from paper to stoneware to textiles.

Petra Börner's work is driven by the same interest in colour compositions as seen in the works of the French-born artist Sonia Delaunay and the German-born artist Anni Albers, as well as by the same fascination with the wild, yet ornamented beauty of nature found in the English artist William Morris and the Arts and Crafts movement. Marimekko has drawn motifs from Petra Börner's sketchbooks, where the artist has experimented with new compositions and colour combinations. These compositions are now on view at Skitsehandlen.