Events for November 15, 2019

The Italian artist and designer Piero Fornasetti was known for the many arrows in his quiver – his career took him everywhere from paintings to furniture design. After spending the Second World War in exile in Switzerland, he returned to Milan and started his collaboration with Giò Pontis, where Pontis’ designed furniture which Fornasetti decorated. […]

Capitalism is brutal and blood-soaked everywhere, but in Brazil it’s always barely bothered to hide that fact, as anyone keeping an eye on Jair Bolsonaro’s government and its rancher allies burning the rainforest and displacing native peoples for a quick buck can see. Those events make Sebastião Salgado’s exhibition at Fotografiska especially timely. Here’s another […]

Pre-Raphaelite is a curiously counter-intuitive term for those outside the art world – it actually describes a movement which occurred after the celebrated Raphael’s era, which rejected his legacy and attempted to return to the more complex style that existed before him. English artist Edward Burne-Jones was a vivid member of that movement, and now […]

Moderna Museet’s new exhibition Mud Muses is a deep dive into art, technology and the environment, focusing on its development over the last 50 years. Part of the exhibition looks into the museum’s own history and its early exhibitions on man and machine, and looks back on them from a modern perspective. Featuring the work […]

It’s contemporary art season at Sven-Harrys this October, as they open up the Nordic Contemporary exhibition, in association with Ars Fennica. The Finnish Ars Fennica award is presented to an artist that achieves art of high merit and distinction every year, and this year’s nominees (Petri Ala-Maunus, Miriam Bäckström, Ragnar Kjartansson, Egill Sæbjörnsson and Aurora […]

The future of the countryside and the suburbs are in the sights of this collection of artists at Tensta Konstall in the exhibition "Den futuristiska orten"

The period following the Second World War up until the 60s and 70s was marked by infrastructural thinking that aimed for innovation, optimism and universality (something that feels very distant today, as another 30 luxury apartments demand every public resource within range of them be shut, like a spray of pesticide on the surrounding area). […]