The designer Alexander Lervik graduated from Beckmans School Of Design in 1998, and the twentieth anniversary of that event has convinced Kulturhuset that it’s time for a retrospective. The designer has had a career that has seen him create products that blend striking form with usability, or as the exhibition text puts it, that “can […]
Perhaps the most popular name in music right now, 22-year-old Post Malone followed up his 2016 debut album Stoney, with the critically acclaimed and top-selling Beerbongs and Bentley’s (2018), released in April. The album broke Spotify’s first-day streaming record and debuted at number one on the Billboard 200. The “Rockstar” singer provides hip-hop beats and […]
This exhibition takes a look at one of the most renowned painters in the Swedish art world. Born in Norway before moving to Sweden as a child, Peter Dahl worked across eight decades, from the chaos of the post-war years to his (probable) last painting, a triple self-portrait in 2016. Dahl’s work covers a wide […]
Hey Elbow made their name with their debut album Every Other, which was packed with sweeping, epic art-pop that made its way into a lot of people’s end-of-year lists in 2015. It also sent the band on tour around Europe and the US, which meant that it has taken Julia Ringdahl, Ellen Petersson and Liam […]
Look, again, Sleeping Beauty is a story we really don’t have to explain to you. But if you’ve only ever seen it as a Disney story, it might be time to catch it in a more art-rich form. Pyotr Tchaikovsky transformed the fairy tale into a ballet in 1890, and it’s this incarnation that comes […]
This summer, it’s time to take the lush jazz of Fasching out from their concert hall and into the open at Vitabergsparken. They’re organising a special, two-act show in the park at the end of August, a feast for nature and jazz lovers alike. Opening on the day is Ann-Sofi Söderqvist and her Ann-Sofi Söderqvist […]
Popaganda returns in August, and after booking from the second tier of British indie bands last year with The Vaccines, they’ve upgraded this year with the genuine class of Franz Ferdinand. The Scottish art-rock gang aren’t, debatably, even the main draw here – Veronica Maggio, Tove Styrke, Little Dragon, First Aid Kit and Jenny Wilson […]
Photography is a tool, albeit a subjective one, with which we can document our everyday lives and the interesting moments that happen throughout it. Two people who have documented their lives are the late Linda McCartney and her daughter Mary. Linda became the first person to both be photographed for and to have taken a […]
Kevin Hart is primarily famous for two things. One is being an ubiquitous presence in what seems like nearly every Hollywood comedy. The other is for being short (this is a joke that Hart is in on – he started comedy under the name Lil Kev and one of his early shows was called ‘I'm […]
Music Tech Fest is a festival with its eyes firmly focused on the future. It's an event that aims to gather together all the innovators and future-watchers in the music and tech industries, and bring them together for workshops, lectures and more. After hosting events in London, Berlin, Paris, Boston, Ljubljana, Wellington and more, they're now […]
As someone who identifies both as queer and Christian, and hailing from the musical heartland of Memphis Tennessee, Julien Baker is often pitched as the voice of a new generation of musicians from the American South. But she wouldn’t have gotten to that position if she didn’t have songs, and those she has in abundance […]
This exhibition at Moderna Museet centres on Art et Liberté, a group of Egyptian thinkers and surrealist artists who launched their collective with a manifesto entitled “Long Live Degenerate Art” in 1938. As a group of left-wing and anti-fascist theorists and artist, the group was a petri-dish for new ideas and resistance to colonialism, as […]
Jonatan Leandoer Håstad, aka Yung Lean, is spreading his creative wings even further this September. He’s bringing NEAR, a collaboration with choreographer Eleanor Bauer and the Cullbergbaletten dance group to Drameten. So what is NEAR? The idea is that it’s a concert that bleeds into dance, art and film. Yung Lean is onstage with 12 […]
An exhibition about an exhibition, such a very Warholian thing to do. Andy Warhol’s first solo exhibition at a museum was actually at Moderna Museet in 1968, and this exhibition fifty years later looks back upon it, both at the exhibition itself and at the reaction of the Swedish art world to the antics of […]
Usually, when an artist disappears from the solo scene for eight years, it means their career is over. Although few artists are Sweden's own José González. The native of Gothenburg released In Our Nature in September 2007, which reached number two on Sverigetopplistan, this was his last solo album before he released Vestiges and Claws in 2015. During […]
Soccer Mommy is another of the artists to emerge from the depths of Bandcamp with a guitar and an album’s worth of jangling indie pop. But what makes Sophie Allison stand out from her contemporaries, who can sometimes lean too hard into messy-hair twee, is a sense of real rawness. Take the opening line from […]
1968 is still burnt bright into our collective memory, as the year when workers and students united in France against capitalism and outdated institutions and through strikes and occupations brought the spirit of revolution back to life. Färgfabriken’s new exhibition has the events of that year on its mind, fifty years later, as it brings […]
Iceage have lived many lives since they emerged in 2011 as cold, industrial brutalists on their debut album New Brigade. They expanded their stylistic range on the follow-up You’re Nothing, and reinvented themselves as Nick Cave heirs and scribbled poetry dark romantics on their sweeping third album Plowing Into The Field Of Love. On their […]
Artist and musician Per Svensson has close connections to Färgfabriken, having worked with other artists in the rusty silos of the nearby Kolsyrefabriken for a number of years. Now he’s bringing his energies to Färgfabriken, and his new exhibition aims to create an alchemic laboratory right in the gallery. With light and sound installations, architectural […]
The Bloomsbury Group was a loose collective of artists, writers and thinkers in early 20th century Britain who had gone to the same universities and socialised together in the same groups. What made them different to most upper class social circles of the time was that many of them went on to be the famous […]
