The Artist & The Work
About the Artist
ERM — Emanuel Ringborg Mankert is a Stockholm-based artist working with visual storytelling across painting, objects and spatial works. With a background in advertising, graffiti and pop culture, his practice combines graphic clarity with emotional exaggeration.
His work is immediate and playful, yet carries a subtle sense of dissonance. Moments are frozen mid-action — leaps, crashes, pauses and resets — inviting recognition while resisting clear explanation.
About the Work
The work exists between memory and imagination.
Rather than illustrating narratives, the pieces function as snapshots — expressive moments that feel remembered without having a clear source.
Familiar visual cues from cartoons, comics, games and commercial culture trigger recognition, while never confirming what is real or invented. The result is a visual language that feels intuitive, emotional and slightly unreliable.
Lost Nostalgia — A Parallel Pop World
Lost Nostalgia is the name of the larger world where the work of ERM belongs.
It describes an imagined pop culture that feels almost remembered — a parallel history made up of characters, visual fragments and emotional signals that seem to have existed just outside our collective memory.
Within this world, individual works act as central artifacts. Around them, other traces may appear: installations, moving images, objects or graphic remnants that suggest a broader culture without fully revealing it.
Lost Nostalgia is not a story to be explained, but a world to be discovered.