22 Dec 2024
What’s on: Stockholm
Art Culture What's on: Stockholm

An Easter Treat of Art

At Easter, we are drawn to dwell on the impact Christianity has had on the world since Jesus was crucified and seen risen from the dead by his very first disciples. And on the reality that diverse influences have shaped and continue to define the course of global history… Take Japonism’s tenacious footprint on Swedish art […]

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Getting To Know Your Valentine With Art

As Stockholm gears up for Valentine’s Day, Your Living City recommends a string of art exhibitions to attend with the new love of your life post the first flush of euphoria experienced during 14th February… …especially when the selected art shows let you naturally discover the potential love of your life’s childhood memories, cherished dreams, […]

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In pictures: Formex 2018 – Design champions

¨A World Of Shapes¨ was the theme of this year’s Formex interior fair, which took place between 17-20 January 2018. Inspired by British artist David Hockney, the theme brought together various interior design forms to create new playful constellations. At Formex you find everything from sweets and chocolates to interior design, fashion and gifts. It’s here all these different expressions […]

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Art Energizing 2018

There is no better way to begin 2018 than by drawing inspiration from creative artists and designers who make out-of-the-box experimentation their motto; innovatively extending beyond their existing artistic boundaries to crest new horizons and shoot for the furthest stars; engaging in constructive dialogues on the possibilities of breaching impossibilities…  …the very essence of humanity’s […]

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Satan’s Dead marking the end of an unprecedented series of performances

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 […]

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Exhibit: Siblinghood explored in photo and video

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 […]

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Art To Ring In Impalpable Wintry Cheer

The selection of art to see us through Stockholm’s change of fall into winter reminds me of Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama’s “The Spirits of the Pumpkins Descended into the Heavens” – a continuous wall to ceiling manifold mirroring of her distinctive yellow-and-black whimsical bulbous gigantic pumpkin sculptures encapsulating us in a hilarious expansive 3D room […]

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Art Transcending Boundaries

We hope that social, gender and national boundaries imbue those within a sense of cohesion, but then there is always the bird in its golden cage. And we assume those kept out often struggle for acceptance, but community norms would never continually evolve to yet higher planes on Maslow’s hierarchy of needs if the givens […]

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How To Become Swedish In 60 Minutes

Your Living City was invited to an extraordinary show, which ironically was about the most ordinary thing we have in our lives… the Swedes. Yes the Swedes and Swedishness, something we who live in Sweden deal with every day of our lives, but sometimes something so difficult to understand. If you, like me, have left your homeland and […]

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The Art of Positive Emotions

  When artists seek to take us beyond the norm, we encounter art that engages well beyond the visible and the audible. We become immersed in the works’ scent, thoughts, emotions, memories and esoteric through playful surrealism, creative energy, music’s spirit, the expectant ticking of serene silences… … and through it all the problems of […]

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