| Klas Eriksson, Curva Viola, 2012, image: Sebastian Nitulescu |
Stockholm, Dec. 2012: Stockholm-based Swedish artist Klas Eriksson (b. 1976) has been incredibly active in Scandinavia, with exhibitions and performances ranging from participating in the Royal Institute of Art’s “Performing Recalcitrance” to the Copenhagen Arts Festival to a solo exhibition at Nordin Gallery in Stockholm. More »
| Ragnar Kjartansson, Scandinavian Pain, 2006, image: i8 Gallery |
This year at the Armory (and Volta), take a trip to the icy North. The Nordic focus features Scandinavia’s promising art scene, curated by Malmö Konsthall’s director Jacob Fabricius, with a selection of galleries from Denmark, Iceland, Sweden, Norway and Finland. More »
| Christian Saldert, The Politics of the Unpolitical, 2011, image: Christian Saldert |
Only a little by way of explanation is provided about the artist Christian Saldert on his site or on Galleri Kleerup’s site representing him or his recent digital-poetic solo exhibition “Bodies of the Unreal” inspired by found, appropriated web images of American nudists from the mid-twentieth century. More »
| Annika Larsson, Animal (in 14 Movements), 2012, image: Andréhn-Schiptjenko |
Annika Larsson’s fourth exhibition at a gallery located in what Stockholm refers to as their “art palace” in Vasastan, ”Animal,” is a curious display focusing on the rapport between the human and animal from multiple angles: anthropological, psychological, theoretical, political—to name a few. More »
| Liisa Lounila, The Everlasting, 2005, image: Liisa Lounila |
Finnish artist Liisa Lounila (b. 1976) produces art ranging from oil paintings to moving images to textual explorations to sculpture. Further, she uses glitter to create large-scale images (solo, triptychs, series of multiples) which are primarily black and white with shades of grey—with one exception being Vandal, 2003 which incorporates red. More »
| Helen Broms Sandberg, Unlocking Passages, 2011, image: Kulturhuset |
A dual video projection displaying the fantastical world of Queen Christina Alexandra (1626-1689) as imagined by a confined writer who suffers from amnesia is coupled with an unhindered view into this same writer’s personal, imprisoned space. More »
| Nicola Bergström Hansen, Alla till Salem! / Everyone to Salem!, 2011, image: Nicola Bergström Hansen |
Stockholm, Dec. 2011: Through appropriation, remixes and collages, Nicola Bergström Hansen examines stories about exclusion and violence. Her work often explores male subcultures and the more hidden parts of the Internet. More »
| Jesper Ulvelius, Red, image: Jesper Ulvelius |
Swedish artist and photographer Jesper Ulvelius, born 1984, presents a series of photographs titled Red where the viewer sees a balding, bespectacled middle-aged man, presumably Swedish, situated in rooms which appear to be either living rooms or patios or fenced off backyards in connection to the man’s presumed apartment. More »
| Laura Lima, Marra, 1996-2011, image: Olle Kirchmeier |
“The Spiral and the Square” is one exhibition, curated by Daniela Castro and Jochen Volz, which is part of a larger project initiated so as to approach the issues of translation and translatability of other places from a primarily Swedish perspective—beginning with a close-up on Brazilian culture. More »