27 Apr 2025
Art
Art Culture What's on: Stockholm

June’s Art Exhibition Picks

The burst of summer sunshine heralds a matching eclectic selection of art exhibitions for June. Spanning continents and the passage of time, this month’s picks dwell within the historical, the psychological, the social, the cultural, the religious and the political; giving insights into why artists create the art they do, and why patrons support specific […]

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Art Creative Arts Culture What's on: Stockholm

Art Exhibitions Picked For May

May’s selection of art exhibitions focuses on European and American artists, from covering significant western art movements that have taken place over the recent couple of centuries to what art makers on both sides of the Atlantic Ocean are creating and setting trends today.   Finnish-born Juri Markkula’s art, while immediately fascinating, soon turn enigmatic […]

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Art Creative Arts Culture What's on: Stockholm

YLC’s Picks: Stockholm Art Exhibitions

Spring heralds in a selection of art exhibitions that promises something for everyone. With artists hailing from within Sweden, Europe and beyond, they are serving up drawings, collages, sculptures, video art, silkscreen prints, paintings, photographs and textile appliqué works spanning the extensive continuum of poetic to political.   Exhibition: Mother of Pearl and the others […]

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Art Community Culture

RainWall: an interactive art project at World Water Week

If a picture says a thousand words, Ninna Thorarinsdottir has already produced a small encyclopaedia on Water for Development, the topic of this year’s World Water Week. Ninna is a Göteborg-based designer and illustrator from Iceland and one of the artists at the conference, which is currently celebrating its 25th anniversary. Her project, RainWall, is […]

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Art Culture Music Theatre What's on: Stockholm

YLC’s Top Picks – Culture Festival and We Are STHLM

This year’s Stockholm Culture Festival puts the spotlight on the UK and offers all forms of culture from music to contemporary circus to dance – all for free. We’ve put together some of our top picks from the programme day-by-day. Tuesday 11th August The opening day’s must-see act is the Tensta Gospel Choir, who are […]

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Art Creative Arts Culture Music Theatre What's on: Stockholm

YLC’s Picks for Kulturnatt 2015

Kulturnatt 2015 is set to take over Stockholm on April 25th and a wide array of cultural events will be on offer for everyone in the Venice of the North to enjoy. But with over 400 things to do in one night, figuring where to start can be a daunting task for even the most […]

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Art Culture What's on: Stockholm

YLC Review: From Tsars to Commissars

1863 was an eventful year in the history of art.

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Art Culture

YLC Review: Exhibition of Ebba Strid Udikas

After ten years of portraits and two awards Ebba has recently started a project totally based on the study of plant forms, geometrical combination and, above all, nature.

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Art Culture

YLC’s Local Artist Spotlight: Mona Bensafiddine

Mona Bensafiddine, a native of Stockholm who uses her camera to go to a mindful space and capture the many nuances of simplicity found in the world around her.

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Art Swedish Culture Tourist Information What's on: Stockholm

No Man’s an Island: Artipelag

The Artipelag exhibition “No Man Is An Island” explores the complex relationship between human beings and the Stockholm archipelago. YLC’s Carmen Price decided to check it out. Summer forays into the velvety blue waters of the Stockholm archipelago are not as common as you might think. Despite widespread belief in the popular 1960s cliché of the […]

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