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Since Christina Knall graduated from Konstfack in 1971, newspapers, magazines and reference works have written about her art and about the gallery on Hornsgatan. Here we have gathered what can still be read and checked today, with a link to the source wherever it is available online.
In the press
A selection of articles in which Christina Knall or Galleri Knall play a leading part. All articles are in Swedish; headlines and quotes are given in the original.
Lifestyle Magazine Sweden
Feature · No. 86/87, anniversary issue In Swedish
”Christina Knalls måleri vibrerar av livsglädje. Det är färgerna och personerna på bilderna.”
A longer feature on Christina Knall and her Stockholm: the parties, the colours and the people who keep returning in her paintings – good friends, good food and dancing after dinner.
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Svensk Damtidning
No. 5, 2025 In Swedish
”Om det är något vi behöver den här årstiden är det färg vilket var precis det konstnären Christina Knall bjöd på!”
The magazine reports from a well-attended opening at the gallery, highlighting the Stockholm scenes, the party motifs and Christina’s glass art.
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Expressen · Leva & Bo
3 March 2008 In Swedish
”Det är väldigt individuellt hur man vill hänga sina tavlor och det finns inga givna regler”
Eva Mobach shares her best advice on hanging pictures at home.
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Dagens Nyheter · STHLM
7 March 1997 In Swedish
”Mellan doppen kan man titta på takmålningarna med sjömotiv av Ingrid Nilsson-Olsson och Christina Knall.”
DN visits the Vår gård conference centre, where art is part of the building. Among the works it mentions the ceiling paintings with sea motifs by Nilsson & Knall.
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Dagens Nyheter · STHLM
19 March 2004 In Swedish
”Gallerirunda 1. Konstkommissionen provar konststråken i stan. Först ut är en klassiker.”
DN’s gallery walk along Hornsgatspuckeln, Stockholm’s classic art street, with Knall among the galleries named.
Read in the DN archive login requiredThe images show Christina’s own work and the gallery, not the publications’ pages.
Books and reference works
Christina Knall: Happy Days
2014 · Göran Hellström
The art book on Christina Knall’s painting, with text by Göran Hellström and translations into English (Jan Landgren) and French (Helene Costantini). It was launched at the gallery in February 2015.
Wikipedia
Article on Swedish-language Wikipedia with a biography, the history of the gallery and selected exhibitions since 1968.
Visit the pageKonstnärslexikonett Amanda
Encyclopedia entry on her training, textile works, public commissions and the collaboration with Ingrid Nilsson.
Visit the pageKonstnärslexikonett Amanda
The entry on Ingrid Nilsson, Christina’s partner in Nilsson & Knall for almost 30 years.
Visit the pageWikipedia
Christina Knall is listed among the artists in the article on Textilgruppen.
Visit the pageA selection since 1975
From museums in Gothenburg and Malmö to Brussels, Florida and the Riviera. The details come from Wikipedia and the gallery’s own exhibition records; where an independent source is available online, we link to it.
Exhibition at the design museum in Gothenburg.
In Brussels with Ingrid Nilsson and the silversmiths Kristian Nilsson and Horst Hild, and the same year at Malmö Museum.
Ten summers with her own summer gallery in the heart of Visby.
Group exhibition in the United States.
Exhibition at the Swedish consulate on the French Riviera.
One of the gallery’s first exhibitions, with Christina present. The gallery describes her as one of the most popular Swedish artists (”hör till de mest omtyckta svenska artisterna”).
Visit the pageAnniversary exhibition: 40 years as an artist.
One of 21 Swedish artists in the exhibition at Nice airport, featured by the Swedish consulate in Nice.
Read the articleOpening and launch of the art book Happy Days.
Autumn exhibition on the Riviera, 26 September to 20 October.
Public art
In the 1970s and 80s Christina Knall, often together with Ingrid Nilsson, created large tapestries and decorations for public spaces. A selection from the gallery’s own list of references (several of the names also appear on Wikipedia and in Lexikonett Amanda):
Online
Websites where Christina Knall or Galleri Knall are mentioned: directories, associations, fellow galleries and private individuals. We distinguish between pages that actually link to knall.com and pages that only mention the gallery.
Checked on 9 November 2026. A link or a mention does not mean that a website endorses the gallery; the list simply shows where Christina Knall appears online.
Many articles from the 1970s, 80s and 90s only exist on paper. Do you have a cutting, a feature or a link we have missed? Let us know and we will add it.
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