Elin Östberg

Elin Östberg is a Swedish self-taught artist based in Gothenburg, working in oil, gouache, and digital media. Active since 2015, she has built a devoted following – over 47,000 on Instagram – through a body of work that is immediately recognisable: the blue trams of Gothenburg, rendered with a dreamy, poetic sensibility that turns the everyday into something quietly extraordinary.

To Östberg, the tram is more than a motif. It is a shared space – a moving room where people from every corner of the city briefly inhabit the same world. Her paintings capture the intervals between destinations: the moment before arrival, the window light, the quiet of a platform. In her words, the tram represents safety, a space always somewhere in the city, ready to bring you home.

In recent years her practice has expanded to include large-format oil paintings that place horses alongside Gothenburg's trams, merging two of her strongest visual languages into something new. Her work is held in private collections across Scandinavia and beyond, and she is represented by Galleri Scandinavia in Gothenburg.