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Meeting Swedish Girls (Summer 2021) Swedish Girls is an artist quartet which banded together while still at @beckmanscollegeofdesign in Stockholm. While @josefinzachrisson, @msellow, @jjondell and @mirabergh (missing on the image) all have their individual practices running parallel to Swedish Girls, they embarked on a collective practice per way of experiences in the practical working life and from epiphanies about the importance of working creatively together and ensuring your own support system. For the summer outdoors exhibition program of @stockholmkonst, Swedish Girls have been invited to do not one but two public artistic commissions based on this year’s theme of Democracy. A stroke of genius! The first work sees the install of a scenic stage per sculptural theatre wings. In essence this stage will be the site of performances over the summer which includes @fmoallim ❤️ The second work is a park bench where the characteristic of attributing their name on their own work is seen juxtaposed with the tag ”Boys” in blue and yellow (the Swedish colours) by all female graffiti group BOYS who in turn were invited to take part by the quartet. Very clever and humorous. Meanwhile ”freedom of expression” in so far the gender attribution of woman has been all the rage in media Swedish discourse in recent time, letting this work tap into the zeitgeist. Do not miss!

Lost in the floor (Miguel) pt IV On view: Work from Portguese-born Miguel Flor’s ’Boys Appetite’ series. #miguelflor

Lost in the floor (Miguel) pt III On view: Work from Portguese-born Miguel Flor’s ’Boys Appetite’ series. #miguelflor

Lost in the heat of it all (Patrizio) pt II On view: ’Close at hand’ by Italian-born London-based painter Patrizio di Massimo whose work is exhibited with @rodolphejanssen in Bxl and @t293_gallery in Rome. #patriziodimassimo

Lost in the heat of it all (Hilde) pt I On view: Work by Norwegian photographer Hilde Honerud whose ’GYM’ inagurated the new space of @melkoslo. She’s notably worked with the initiative Yoga and Sports with Refugees on Lesbos from which some of the works in the exibition stem. #hildehonerud

Between Us (Rasmus) The final year exhibition of @gamleby_gf is this year held at @gallerikontrast in Stockholm. Hurry, it’s on just a few days! Seen here is @rasmus__holm’s presentation ’Emellan oss’ (Between Us), which spotlights an intimate male-on-male-gaze. Rasmus is set for @hdk_valand in Gothenburg this fall. Congrats to him and all involved, including our friends @lottatornroth and @simonmlangeniberg who teach at the school and have tutored the class. Galleri Kontrast is a major trade-up in terms of exhibiting venue from the non-descript Galleri Axel. There are many proficient presentations well-attuned with what you could see as a canon of Nordic documentary-angled photography. A very neat and well-contextualized exhibition 💫 #rasmusholm

Last cycle (Konstfack ’21) Pt I-II The BFA Degree Exhibition of @konstfack opens tomorrow at @skf_konstnarshuset and marks the last and fourth cycle of the school’s spring exhibition. Indivually in their own right many of the artists have embarked on exciting and distinctive practices from before which earns the class an extra watching eye. As a whole the exhibition shows verve and ”schwung” in the art and installing choices. 1) One of the artists who has appeared like a seminal artist of the future is Hannes Ferm whose BFA solo ’Bloom’ was no less than mindblowing. In the exhibition at hand there is an ode to his background in music and sound as the visitor is invited to participatory action. 2) William Reed’s painting seated between refined and pleasantly ”unruly” has a fantastical edge that renders him identity as a painter. 3) Henrik Söderström’s choice to overlap the physical environment with a virtual realm that echoes and emulates that physical site it’s housed inside, becoming an extension of the same is👌🏽. Two of the video works while visually different, both being lent their aesthetical appearance from gaming art is a turn that is 👌🏽in light of the demure Konstnärshuset (as far as modernity goes). 4) Sebastian Eklund appears with consummate elegance (@seeklund), both the work and the presentation which excudes an air of its own.

Last cycle (Konstfack ’21) Pt I-II The BFA Degree Exhibition of @konstfack opens tomorrow at @skf_konstnarshuset and marks the last and fourth cycle of the school’s spring exhibition. Indivually in their own right many of the artists have embarked on exciting and distinctive practices from before which earns the class an extra watching eye. As a whole the exhibition shows verve and ”schwung” in the art and installing choices. Seen here is a spatial installation by Isabella Kallén, followed by a detail view of a video-sculptural presentation by @carolinenoord. A head-on, physically imposing encounter with art in the exhibition courtesy of Leonie Dahlström (@leo9d) sets a tone in the exhibition per ”restive” charm and vigour.

Begärets dunkla mål (Lena) Today marks the opening of Swedish painter Lena Johansson’s new solo exhibition ’Dreamland Welcomes You’ at @andrehnschiptjenko. At the core of Lena’s practice rests an interest in the machinations and commodification of desire; notably per way of departing from found ”seductive” imagery that is designed to prompt consequent action. Interestingly her exhibition unlike before is underpinned by violence and menace; closing a circle of sorts in how desire threads off across the board; from first being produced to its linked aftermaths. There’s a wry dark humour in the midst in how desire is ultimately reproduced through the command of authorities and news outlets. Even as the exhibition holds a firm train of thought, in and across some parts, it also in others is allowed disconnected tracks which casts almost a riddle-like quality over it as a whole. #lenajohansson

[In limited stock] Thanks everyone for last night’s amazing release. The Future Watch Issue is now in stock exclusively at Index (@indexstockholm). You are most welcome to swing by there to get your copies and to see Hanni Kamaly’s beautiful ongoing exhibition. The magazine is in a fairly limited edition so get it while it last. We might run out. ❤️❣️Scroll for some glimpses inside the magazine.

[The Future Watch Issue] Right now: Prep mode for today’s magazine release at @indexstockholm. Our first magazine Issue in print! The Future Watch Issue! Our baby with the BA2 GRI Class at @konstfack and brill class mentors @sarakaaman & @emma_lofstrom. Team Index our terrific collaborators for the release and distribution. Everyone involved 🧡🧡🧡! So happy! The Future Watch Issue seen here getting to interact with Hanni Kamaly’s sculptures in their ongoing exhibition as a body of its own for the occasion of the release. A privilege this! Thank you all! Performance today over the course of the release, for the occasion by @birtberglund.

[Release tomorrow] C-print’s ’The Future Watch Issue’ has landed at @indexstockholm ahead of tomorrow’s release event! ❤️💎 This has been a dream to do, with @sarakaaman & @emma_lofstrom and the BA2 GRI Class at @konstfack .Team Index you have been amazing with the release. Pros! Can’t wait for this to reach you and hope you will enjoy it! 130 pages and thick! (no ads). Spotlight on emerging artists and talents and a future art scene. On the cover: two of the artists: @shaon_shanaron and @victoriaverseau shot by @martin.brusewitz 🧡🧡🧡