Kajsa Palmquist

Kajsa Palmquist (1944) is a Swedish industrial designer and visual artist based in Viken, on the Kullahalvön coast of northwest Skåne. She trained at Konstfack in Stockholm in furniture and interior design, and at Högre konstindustriella skolan in metal and industrial design. Design runs in the family, her father was an architect and her mother a ceramicist.

She has worked as an independent designer with commissions in Germany, Ireland, Switzerland and Sweden, and since 1990 has run her own company, Design Kajsa Palmquist AB. Her career has centered on interior and furniture design for public environments — among many projects spanning decades, she designed the interiors of Börshuset in Malmö.

In later years Palmquist has turned fully to her own artistic practice, developing a distinctive visual language of woven pictorial works. Her technique uses dyed transparent plastic strips, cut and braided into a weave over three layers of spray-painted imagery, each layer colored separately.

The meticulously worked color scale creates three-dimensional effects — the motif shifts with distance, angle and light, matte and gloss playing against each other. Inspired by space research and radiation frequencies, she describes her approach simply: “I give the viewer part of a whole. The brain fills in the rest.”

Palmquist is a member of KRO (the Swedish Artists’ National Organization) and SIR (Swedish interior architects), serves on the board of Helsingborgs Konstförening, and is active in Kullakonstnärer in Höganäs.

Her work has been shown in juried exhibitions including Kullasalongen, Romele Konsthall and Galleri Hultman, and in group shows at Höganäs Museum, Krapperups Konsthall and Open Art Höganäs, with a solo presentation of her tapestry works at Galleri Hattlösa in Förslöv.