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Renowned Italian architect Giorgio Palù is right now working on the design of a new concert hall for the Stockholm music school Lilla Akademien. At the same time, a large exhibition of his sculptural works has opened at the Italian Cultural Institute at Gärdet in Stockholm. It is the first time he is exhibiting his sculptures outside of Italy, and […]
An era is coming to an end… The four year adventure of the Satans Demokrati (Satan’s Democracy) trilogy of unprecedented multidisciplinary art happenings are soon to cease to exist together with site that has hosted it all, the scrapped office complex in Sickla, which is soon to be demolished. Perhaps those who expected the theatrical elements to have a bigger […]
In their “Shared” exhibition at the Finnish Institute in Stockholm, Finnish artists Nelli Palomäki and Juhana Moisander explore siblinghood through video installation and photographs. We went to the opening night of the exhibit on the 16th of November. Nelli Palomäki is known for her timeless portraits of children and young people. Her work focuses […]
Affordable Art Fair is an event that exists all around the world where art is available for buying right on the spot. It stands for it’s quality and value and has a price range between 500kr-50,000kr. It is a very fun event where the visitors can see art, buy art, learn more about art and listen to art. […]
If you’ve ever been to magic show, you’ll be accustomed to seeing the magician perform fantastic tricks, but never sharing the secrets behind them to the audience, let alone to other magicians. Well the world of photography is not so different. Some of the best photographers may create a stunning image by combining camera techniques, light effects and […]
Awareness is the buzzword for art lovers during Stockholm’s warmest weeks this year… …of how others see us… of how what is within us affects the external… of the impact that makes on a place and its condition… of how art brings to mind all we hold so dear to our very essence… …of how […]
In this edition of Profiles, we bring you a visual artist who has created a microcosmos to decorate the walls of the famous Scandic Malmen hotel. We’ll be behind the scenes as he takes one of these iconic photographs. The artist will talk us through his film-making in Little Love, a film that made it […]
As art history’s methods and mediums unsurprisingly continue to crucially influence the art crafted today, so too does the cultural – be it popular culture with its movie stars and footballers, or of its differences from that treasured by remote people living in equally exotic places or in divergent social pockets in each society. What […]
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 […]
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 […]
