Arthur Jafa is a filmmaker who has had a long and successful career in independent cinema, as well as creating music videos for Beyoncé, but this exhibition sees him set his scope wider than just one medium. Here, he collaborates with photographer Ming Smith, artist Frida Orupabo, and YouTube channel Missylanyus to explore African-American visual […]
When you play a video game, you have a little world inside your TV, computer or phone that you get to enter. But what goes into the making of those worlds? This exhibition offers a glimpse into the work of five Swedish studios who work in the visual and narrative creation of video games, building […]
The strange power of isolated natural landscapes provides part of the power of Scarlett Hooft Graafland’s photographs, and the surrealist forms she inserts into them take the images to a whole other level. Graafland travels the world armed with a rucksack and camera, and uses these wild wide spaces as her canvas, upon which she […]
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). […]
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 […]
Set up in memory of a tragic loss, the winners of the Maria Bonnier Dahlins Foundation are now exhibiting at Bonniers Konsthall
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. […]
There are a lot of things that symbolise the gap between generations, and right now ASMR is one of the biggest. Autonomous Sensory Meridian Response is something you probably won’t have heard of if you’re over 30, but the genre, primarily consisting of YouTube videos of tapping, whispering, scratching and other strange, soft noises designed […]
The material for this exhibition at Bonners Konsthall originates from Éva Mag’s father’s collection of old items abandoned by their owners, which he keeps on his lot outside of Stockholm. Mag has brought old machines, motors and other bits and pieces from that collection into the art hall, where she and others take turns to […]
Photo: Einar Jolin, Interior, 1913. Oil on Canvas, 45,5 x 38 cm. Photo: Prallan Allsten/ Moderna museet This exhibition is about cultural exchange, specifically that between Sweden and Scandinavia and Japan. As information about Japanese culture started to filter into the West in a major way with the rise of mass media in the […]
Photo: Carl Bengtsson/Skarp Agent Last year, Sweden tragically lost the writer and professor Sara Danius to cancer. A big part of Danius’ visual presence in the public mind was the dresses she wore to Nobel Gala ceremonies, and that’s what this exhibition at Nationalmuseum takes in. It focuses on the interaction between designer Pär […]
Photo: Johan Eldrot Sven-Harrys re-opened in June, which means Stockholmers get another chance to catch up with their current exhibition. Now extended to September after its initial February-May run time was disrupted by corona, Art In Fashion is the baby of fashion expert and trend analyst Cay Bond, who has brought together the works […]
Photo: Gregor Kallina One of the downsides of mining is that it can make a big hole. And things can then fall into that hole. To stop that being the fate of Kiruna, Sweden’s northernmost city, they’re moving the town by three kilometres, which means that about a third of the people and buildings have […]
Photo: Mamma Andersson, About a girl, 2005 Originally due to open to coincide with International Women’s Day back in March, this exhibition may have been delayed by corona but that doesn’t diminish its value. With Artipelag finally back open, Signature Women can now fulfil the job it was supposed to – showcasing 100 years […]
