7 Dec 2025
Culture
Art Creative Arts Uncategorized

Scandic Malmen gets re-decorated by miniature worlds

On Wednesday we were invited to the inauguration of an art exhibition that aims to create a scape for the mind into miniature worlds inside the world of Scandic Malmen. Martin Lima de Faria is the artist in charge of re-decorating the walls of the hotel’s bistro restaurant and for this commission he has created “Small People Big […]

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Culture What's on: Stockholm

Art’s Associated Values

As art makers individualistically strive to create new possibilities, new forms, new twists, new perspectives, new futures; uncommon not thought of and even mysterious associations are either repetitively or uniquely explored, repositioned and recombined; shifting from a return to the familiar to an adventurous life rendered ever so foreign – all achieved without the slightest […]

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Community Finding a Job Networking Volunteering What's on: Stockholm Work & Money

Join the Your Living City Stockholm Team

Are you a budding writer? Got it and want to flaunt it? Your Living City is looking for Stockholm’s most FABULOUS contributors – and we mean YOU!

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Art Culture What's on: Stockholm

KVADRART – Scandinavia’s Largest Street Art Exhibition

We had the opportunity to be at the opening of a fantastic collection of street art, where about 100 artist from Sweden, Italy, France Russia and the Netherlands contributed with paintings and sculptures. Some of the pieces hanging at KvadrArt come as an explosion of colour to remind us how this free manifestation of art can be an influx […]

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Music Videos

Meet Stockholm DJ and producer Jani Avalon

We recently met up with Stockholm DJ and producer Jani Avalon to talk about his work. Jani Kinnunen, or Jani Avalon as he calls himself professionally, was born and raised in Stockholm with Finnish roots. He got started with music early on in his life, back in 1998 at an after-school programme at a youth […]

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Friday Playlist Music New Music Friday

New Music Friday: Zara Larsson finally drops her album!

So today is the day Zara Larsson is releasing her long-awaited album, the one the international audiences really see as her first. And the one that should consolidate her breakthrough as an international star to be reckoned with. The album is packed to the rim with 15 tunes, some of which have already been superhit singles, […]

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Bars, Pubs & Clubs Music

Prok & Fitch at Solidaritet – My house is your house

Last Saturday Brighton boys Prok & Fitch treated club-goers and music-lovers at Solidaritet to an entire night of the purest and trendiest house there is. With bouncy and energy-fuelled sounds, the duo imprinted their footprint on the Stockholm dancefloor for the first time. If you’re not so familiar with them, Ben Prok and James Fitch form¨one of the most […]

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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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Music Swedish Culture

Melodifestivalen 2017 – Your Guide to the Grand Final

The Swedes take their Melodifestivalen seriously, the six week music entertainment bonanza is so much more than just the national Eurovision qualifications. Around three and a half million Swedes are expected to be watching the finals on Saturday, and breaking records in the number of votes given.  This year the playing field looks very even […]

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Culture Lifestyle Swedish Culture What's on: Stockholm

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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