Events for January 18, 2020

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. […]

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 […]

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). […]

This exhibition, Distant Lands, posits that Western materialism suffers from a lack of space for mystique, the things in life that seem to exist outside of the hard concrete of that we understand. So as a remedy it provides the work of Finnish photographer, poet and artist Pentti Sammallahti. Sammallahti has a talent for capture […]