Posts tagged Sweden
A Slow Motion Explosion ft. Jonas Liveröd (#117)

Today we are terribly excited to bring you an actually well timed conversation, with the wonderful Jonas Liveröd. It’s been a while coming, but it fits perfectly, because already on this Friday, April 20th, he has a solo show opening at the great Steinsland Berliner Gallery in Stockholm. So as awesome as the conversation we are about to play for you is, it’s always better to...

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The Level of Truth ft. Johan Furåker (#115)

When you talk process with an artist, many similarities between practices begin to pop up over time, but there are also those occasions where you hear about more independent ways of working and thinking. Todays conversation with Johan Furåker is of that ilk, one of the ones which are quite inspiring. He’s a thoughtful artist, and methodical, and if you look at his work, you can...

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BTW #8 - Pussy, Drugs, and Jeff Koons

Today Eric and Ando blaze through 4 topics. Pussy Riot seeks asylum in Sweden, and the Guggenheim offers Donald Trump a golden toilet by Maurizio Cattelan. Topics become a little more serious when they bring up Nan Goldin and the opioid crisis in the US. Goldin calls on her fellow artists and art institutions to resist the Sackler Family and Purdue Pharma. And what would be an episode BTW without...

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BTW #7 - So Baroque That You Have No Monet

Is the Contemporary art world growing or shrinking? Are there more or less opportunities for artists today than in past decades? What is the future gallery model? In this episode Eric and Ando talk about the mega-art dealer David Zwirner expanding global empire. And how over recent years the mid-level galleries have been closing their doors. The closure of these...

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Unpainted Paintings ft. Malin Gabriella Nordin (#107)

We are joined today by artist extraordinaire Malin Gabriella Norden, who was here in town for the CHART Art Fair, because the homies over at Steinsland Berliner gallery were showing some of her works. She was awesome to talk to, and she keeps the game of being an artist to it’s bare basics, and we mean that positively. There isn’t a lot of extraneous material around her work and practices, and it’s a...

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Supermarket Art Fair 2017 (#98)

Today we have a big one folks, we visited Supermarket Art Fair in Stockholm last month, and this is a compilation of our conversations with some of the many nice folks we met. It was a lot, there were lots of exhibitors, and as usual it’s really hard to figure out when is best to try to talk to people, and of course you try...

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Bonus: Danielsson & Carlson + Johan Norling from Market Art Fair

Greetings friends, we’re here with a quick bonus episode before the Easter holiday. We were up in Stockholm recently to check out both the Market and Supermarket art fairs, and ended up meeting all sorts of cool people while we were there. For example, we met with two of our colleagues while we were there, Jenny Danielsson and Oscar Carlson, who have a...

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Everything Rises ft. Eva Stenram (#97)

Hello everybody, how are we looking out there? You guys feeling the beginning of Brexit, or just the warm breeze of spring knocking on the door? We have the talented Eva Stenram on the show today, who is a very interesting artist working mostly within photographic mediums. She is a swede living in London, and you’ve almost certainly seen her work before. It utilizes found imagery, but in a much...

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Displacement ft. Runo Lagomarsino (#60)

Displacement is the title of the show today, and the Swedish artist Runo Lagomarsino is our distinguished guest. The name comes of course from our talk, and it relates to something dear to the heart, to home, and to something important in art. His story and family history are very interesting, and they are very much reflected in his...

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What It Could Be ft. Bo Christian Larsson (#59)

Today’s guest is perhaps the kindest man in the art world, Bo Christian Larsson. He’s a magician of art, he works with his hands and his heart, and he’s a pleasure to talk to. He has lived an adventurous and curious life, and you can see that reflected in his way of making art and living life. Some (like us) could be jealous of the adventures he...

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