Theresa Traore Dahlberg – Artist/Filmmaker

Theresa Traore Dahlberg - Photo: Margareta Bloom Sandebäck. V Söderqvist Scandinavian Art & Design Talks

Theresa Traore Dahlberg is an artist and filmmaker who narrates stories on class, race, identity, gender, post-colonialism and social structures through her work. Working seamlessly between two cultures, she navigates these complex issues with a sensitivity that comes from someone who is a product of two completely different worlds. Her education encompasses both film and […]

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Marcia Harvey Isaksson – Fiberspace Gallery

Marcia Harvey Isaksson. Photo: Karin Björkquist. V Söderqvist Scandinavian Art & Design Talks.

Marcia Harvey Isaksson is an interior architect and owner of Fiberspace Gallery in Stockholm. The gallery has in just five years become an important showcase of fiber art in Sweden. Textile art has a history of being undervalued and traditionally seen as the domain of women. The exceptional Bauhaus artist Anni Albers was never given […]

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Artist Interview – Eva Hild

Eva Hild interview V Söderqvist Scandinavian Art & Design Talks.

Eva Hild is one of Sweden’s most respected contemporary artists. Her organic, ethereal clay sculptures are hand-built, all in the same thickness, then sand papered, fired and painted. Her large metal forms grace public spaces both in Sweden and abroad. As delicate as these thin, meandering, continuously flowing sculptures look, there is also a tension […]

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Artist INTERVIEW – FARVASH RAZAVI

Farvash Razavi. Scandinavian Art & Design Talks interview.

Farvash Razavi is a research-based cross disciplinary artist based in Stockholm. Her background in chemistry allows her to bridge the world of material science with art and design. Coming to Sweden at the age of six as an immigrant from Iran, her work is deeply rooted in Persian mythologies and history. Creativity runs in her […]

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Let it Bee – Elspeth Cornish

Elspeth Cornish. Interview Scandinavian Art & Design Talks, V Söderqvist.

Elspeth Cornish is a Stockholm based British watercolour artist who will have her first solo exhibition this month. With a background in interior design, Elspeth has gone back to her first love, painting. This self taught artist is very passionate about pollinators and she celebrates the plants that nourish them, which is how the Let […]

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ARTIST INTERVIEW – BELLA RUNE

Bella Rune. Interview Scandinavian Art & Design Talks.

Bella Rune’s exhibition this summer at the Carl Eldh studio museum, was a marriage made in heaven. Her suspended silk mohair sculptures provided a delicate, ethereal feel amidst the solid classical sculptures of one of Sweden’s most celebrated sculptors of the early 20th century. Educated at both Chelsea College of Arts in London and Beckmans […]

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Interview – Helene Schmitz

Helene Schmitz Photo by Joakim Rolandsson. V Söderqvist Blog

Interview – Helene Schmitz My interview with Helene Schmitz comes just after her return from New York. Her work was part of the opening exhibitions at the newly opened branch of Fotografiska museum. One of Sweden’s top internationally known photographers, Schmitz’s early interest in photography stemmed from her fascination for the impermanence of life. Over […]

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Ceramic Artist – Eva Zethraeus

Eva Zethraeus - Interview V Söderqvist Blog

Eva Zethraeus is a ceramic artist living and working in Gothenburg, Sweden.  Zethraeus creates organic, complex, biomorphic sculptures. She sees them as landscapes, both on land and underwater, the sculptures seem to be frozen in motion yet at the same time display a quality of life and movement. Her art is influenced from both her painterly background […]

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Artist Interview – Martin Wickström

Martin Wickström. Photo: Ewa Rudling. V Söderqvist Blog.

Martin Wickström’s paintings take you into a sphere where different worlds collide side by side on a canvas, where photorealistic images of light and shadows play on building facades, where the face of a Khmer Rouge prisoner stares down at you, numbered before she is tortured and killed, and one where Jackie Kennedy is juxtaposed with […]

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Artist Interview – Karin Wiberg

Fascinated by the primeval forests and the mysteries they hold within them, Lund based artist Karin Wiberg creates a magical world in which hares, foxes and deer regard us with curiosity amongst the tall grass, gentle looking people gaze at us as they rise from the ground to greet us as we walk by, delving […]

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