6 Dec 2025
What’s on: Stockholm
Culture What's on: Stockholm

Artful Shades of Living

Life – abundantly experienced, insightfully perceived and questioned, or creatively imagined – becomes the myriad bases for soulful artistic contemplation and thus, solemn elucidation; albeit sometimes with hints of witty re-interpretation. These whiffs of fresh air are as necessary as art inspirationally birthed by the pure, the novel, the wondrous – like the brilliant rainbows […]

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Josef Frank’s Against Design – Inspirational To This Day

After a resoundingly successful run at Vienna’s Austrian Museum of Applied Arts/Contemporary Art early last year, ArkDes – the Architecture and Design Center – has brought “Josef Frank: Against Design” to exhibit back in Stockholm. The most comprehensive exhibition ever on the world-famous architect and designer, it shows the breadth of Frank’s diverse production – […]

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The Artful Promise of Spring

  I don’t know about you, but the burst of first buds always refreshes hope anew for not just novel ways of seeing and doing. It wholeheartedly pledges an originality that betters those that have come before; catalyzing and spreading the ignited complexities of positive synergies and emotions – even tears shed are those of […]

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Mosebacke Design District: Another Design & Culture Mecca

As Stockholm Design Week returns on 6 to 12 February with its promise to remain as each year’s most important week for Scandinavian design by filling the Swedish capital’s days and nights with creative meetings, world premieres and hundreds of fantastic events – as thoroughly listed online, make it a point to make a beeline […]

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Art: Beyond The Seeming

The ingenuity of man’s creativity is no better embodied than by artistic creation that seduces all his sensibilities, drawing artists into infinite possibilities and plausibility in techniques, mediums, themes and inspirations; and thus us into seamlessly uncharted wanderings through the art makers’ sublimely convoluted imaginings. Your Living City poses this question: have the artworks being […]

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¨Diesel, Finally It All Makes Sense¨ – Fashion and Photography that shaped our era at Fotografiska

The Diesel campaigns with their slogan “For successful living” became world famous in the mid and late 90’s, with controversial photographs by some of the most prominent fashion photographers of the time like Ellen von Unwerth and David LaChapelle.  The Diesel adverts were so outrageous, so rebellious, loaded with a critical and a strong yet disguised political and […]

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Last chance to catch Anton Corbijn’s exhibition at Fotografiska

Anton Corbijn‘s days at Fotografiska have brought the longed-for old school rock memories to Stockholm and it has also reminded us of the vast possibilities of different elements in the photographic vocabulary, like visual metaphors, analogies, symbolism and realism.   The Dutch photographer brought to Fotografiska a couple of hundred music photographs, if we should call them that. You will […]

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A Yuletide of Arty Epitomes

As we reminisce on how the course of history has brought into existence and further evolved well loved Christmas traditions this December, let us too reflect on how times gone by have influenced the revolutionary development of artistic traditions, and consequently, the values, norms and customs we hold so dear today. With this very reflection, […]

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Double treat: Stockholm Food & Wine and Fotomässan

Last weekend we had the chance to experience a half a week of fun at Stockholmsmässan, when two of the most awaited fairs of the year took place. I’m talking about Fotomässan and Stockholm Food & Wine. Being a photographer myself, what more could one ask for, than some days of shuffling through camera gadgets, photographs and photo-masterclasses, […]

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Film director Ken Loach
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Stockholm International Film Festival 2016’s opening night

Last night at the Skandia movie theatre, Ken Loach, one of Europe’s biggest film directors, was in charge of cutting the inaugural celluloid ribbon and thus initiating the countless activities of Stockholm Film Festival this year. Loach was accompanied by Stockholm Film Festival’s director Git Scheynius  during his inaugural speech. The director of films like Kes, The Wind That Shakes The Barely, presented his […]

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