Events for February 26, 2020

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 […]

Nationalmuseum examines how the work of classical filters down and influences the work of contemporary artists in this new exhibition "Inspiration"

You probably didn’t know, or at least I didn’t know, that a guy from Gothenburg was Walt Disney’s art director. But that’s exactly the journey Gustaf Tenggren took. Growing up as one of six in the little village of Magra by Alingsås, he later studied in Gothenburg where one of his clients was Stora Teatern. […]