Drott (b. 1979) is a Malmö-based artist, with a background in graffiti, textile and fine arts. Her artistic practice operates on the border between painting, sculpture, durational performance and body art. Drott’s works approach an abstract tradition in which policies of power, day jobs and resistance are expressed through open letters, hidden messages and physical interactions with various, often refused, materials and practices.
Drott’s work has been shown at Elastic Gallery (SE), Galleri Thomassen, Gothenburg (SE), Galleri Ping-Pong, Malmö (SE), Galleri Thomas Wallner (SE), KRAFT Bergen (NO), Femidomen (NO) and Loop Independent Space, Seoul (SK), among other places. She has been involved in several public art projects, including at Karolinska University Hospital in Huddinge, and has been a resident artist at the Seoul Museum of Art and at ZK/U in Berlin. She was the 2022 recipient of the Ellen Trotzig Grant and her work is represented at the Malmö Art Museum collection.
Drott’s sculptural paintings bear resemblance of undulating landscapes, topographical maps and ghostly satellite images, whilst simultaneously bearing witness to the fierce interactions between the artist and her material. Specific for Drott’s process is how the image is approached as a horizontal plane; a surface placed on the ground that the artist moves across as she inscribes it with sculptural gestures, layers of paint, drawings and inscriptions. Granting herself access to public space, by using the city as work space, Drott also lets the surrounding context influence and imprint her work.