haka

Russian TV reportage about Swedish Family!

BECTИ

Väsbykonsthall

The idiom «Swedish family» makes people in Russia smile ambiguously. When Swedes get to know the connotation that the idiom has in the eastern neighbor’s language, they are very surprised and try to find explanation.

At first, the idea of the exhibition has appeared as a joke during the joint exhibitions of the artists of both countries. Only later it has become clear that the theme of the family, no matter Russian or Swedish, is characteristic of many artists’ oeuvres. The theme can unite as well as separate. The initiators and curators of the exhibition are the Uppsala haka group that unites five artists Helena Laukkanen, Natasha Dahnberg, Anna-Karin Brus, Katarina Sundkvist Zohari, Agneta Forslund.

We have tried to invite the authors who touch upon different aspects of the theme in their art, to take part in the exhibition. The most important thing is to explore what is the contemporary family. Is it a single mother, waiting for spousal support, or a homosexual couple with kids from previous marriages, or a refugee family, waiting for residence permit… or a young couple, who has given birth to two kids and bought a new house, or happy older husband and wife surrounded with children and relatives, or a childless couple, who has adopted twins?

Relationships in the family are the very part of the research that has the largest space. Many artists open their private lives to the audience, narrate the story of their families.
The research of the family is done using various methods.

The exhibition presents documentations of performances, installations, primers, pencil drawings, sculptures and embroidery artworks… We have selected the authors who use very different forms of the contemporary artistic language.

We have to speak about different things in different ways. Here there is a little bit of everything, like in any family.

Natasha Dahnberg

Katarina Sundkvist Zohari
Anna-Karin Brus
Helena Laukkanen
Agneta Forslund
Natasha Dahnberg
Nina Svensson
Per Enoksson
Roland Persson
Anders Krisár
Catti Brandelius
Johan Thurfjell
Knutte Wester
Taisia Korotkova
Nika Kukhtina
Marina Fomenko
Maria Pogorzhelskaia
Tatiana Antoshina
Vladimir Mishukov
Natalia Zintsova
Maria Krasnova-Shabaeva
Anastasia Kuznetsova-Ruf
Alexander Pogorgelsky
Swedish family

With support of:
Embassy of Sweden in Moscow
Uppsala mayor’s office

Viktiga saker
databaserade målningar, foto, teckningar

förhandsvisning
torsdag 22 januari 16.30-19.30

vernissage
lördag 24 januari 12.00-16.00

Utställningen pågår 22 januari - 14 februari
Öppet: tisd - fred 13.00-17.30, lörd 12.00-16.00

GALLERI AGARDH & TORNVALL
Sibyllegatan 65, 114 43 STOCKHOLM
tel: 08 - 660 15 79 fax: 08 - 660 79 79
mail: , http://www.agardh-tornvall.se

Open Studio with christmast sale of fine art to nice prices!
Open 3 days 14:00-20.00
Sun 7/12
Sat 13/12
Sun 14/12
Welcome!

Utställning på Walmstedska gården
VERNISSAGE: 25/9. Deltagare:

Johan Frid
Åse Frid
Backa Carin Ivarsdotter
Mikael Karlsson
Sofie Proos
Anna-Karin Brus
Natasha Dahnberg
Agneta Forslund
Helena Laukkanen
Katarina Sundkvist Zohari

Arrangör; Haka. 2008
Utställningen pågår: 25 september - 5 oktober.
Öppet: varje dag kl. 12-18 med visning varje dag kl. 17.
Adress: Sysslomansgatan 1, Uppsala. Lokalen finns bakom Galleri 1, inne på gården.

Anna-Karin and Natasha participates in Edsviks Konsthall´s summer exhibition “Svenskt samtidsmåleri” 18/6 - 7/9 2008.

Open: Tuesday - Sunday 11.00-17.00.

Participators: Ernst Billgren, Bodil Hedlund, Max Book, Björn Krestesen, Hans Wigert, Stefan Berger, Peter Sköld, Cecilia Sikström, Anne-Lie Larsson Ljung, Emma Hartman, Eva Zetterwall, Björn Wessman, Erland Cullberg, Anna-Karin Brus, Yrjö Edelmann, Moa Krestesen, Joakim Hansén, Mats Åkerman, Natasha Dahnberg, Bengt Böckman, Pia Crafoord, Sylvia Naimark, Lena Cronqvist, Emanuel Bernstone, Tom Krestesen och Per Enoksson.

SvD
Edsvik Konsthall

Exhibition at Bror Hjorths Hus 14 juni- 7 september.

Opening 14 juni at 14.00.

Open 14/6-17/8: tuesday - sunday at 12-16
21/8-7/9: thursday - sunday at 12-16.

An exhibition were artist childrens drawings are combined with present work. Participators: Ivar Arosenius, Anna-Karin Brus, Otto G Carlsund, Peter Dahl, Natasha Dahnberg, Liv Derkert, Ulla Fries, Agneta Forslund, Gustav III, Åke Göransson, Enno Hallek, Bror Hjorth, Jan Håfström, Carl Larsson, Helerna Laukkanen, Bruna Liljefors, Egon Lundgren, Inge Schiöler, Katarina Sundkvist Zohari och Dan Wolgers.

Bror Hjorths hus