The exception, perhaps, being the Indigenous Peoples in the far north. It is unlikely that any country or region of the Global North will ever again experience the waves of interest and investment from the art worldвЂ™s power brokers that poured in over Britain, the Nordic countries, and Eastern Europe some twenty or thirty years ago. Have we, the Nordics, lost ground to our poorer cousins, who just thirty years ago were the westernmost outpost of the Soviet Union? It is almost impossible to say in todayвЂ™s ever more decentralised and вЂ“ luckily, although it is a slow process вЂ“ decolonised art world. A new image of the Nordic region, tainted by colonial history Courtesy the artist and University of TromsГё вЂ“ The Arctic University of Norway. Years this has also influenced their Nordic neighbours.Д«ritta Marakatt-Labba, GarjjГЎt (The Crows), 1981. Significantly strengthened their positions in the art world during the last ten Nordic art in the 2010s, do my memories of Lithuanian (and Latvian andД®stonian) artists I have either worked with or followed belong or not? In anyД¬ase, it may be good to remind ourselves that the Baltic nations have very Than with Sweden or the rest of the Nordic region. On, have kept more in touch with Lithuania (my second, elected home country) This task is also complicated by the fact that I, off and Nevertheless, I did spend 2010 in Lund and 2019 in Helsinki, For eight years I lived abroad, inД«elgium, and my attempts at following events at home were never very ambitious Were, for myself, not a very Nordic period. NinetiesвЂќ which lasted from summer 1989 until early autumn 2001), the 2010s Understanding any decade as it may still be unfolding (remember вЂњthe long Phrase and at the same time allow it to quietly recede. I remember spending far too much timeД¬oming up with sufficiently intelligent вЂњart-specificвЂќ ways to retain the Most from the increased outside interest. Outdated, politicised, bureaucratic вЂ“ often by the very people who were gaining The Nordic countries may have been at its all-time high, Nordic art always InДЎ995вЂ“96, I directed the Nordic Arts Centre at Suomenlinna outside Helsinki, andДЇrom 1997вЂ“99 the Nordic Institute for Contemporary Art (better known under itsДЄcronym NIFCA) in the same island fortress.ДЄlready then, when global demand for artists and art from Its two constituent parts may be infinitely scrutinised and rejected andД«rought back into circulation, but perhaps particularly for me, who wasД®mployed to use these very words and promote whatever they might signify. This case, the task itself вЂ“ to sketch my version of Nordic art during theДecade that expired on 31 December 2019 вЂ“В makes me a little doubtful.ДЇirst, Nordic art is a contested notion for many because (a sound component of any analysis) and self-referentiality (always ratherД®mbarrassing and at times downright distasteful) is such a thin one anyway. BonBon,В Bon Magazine, Galago, Tidningen VI, Stockholms StadteaterВ SkГ¤rholmen, Sveriges Radio,В Troma Productions, Studio Barnhus, Gallery Pantocrator, Barneys NYC, BARN 003, Publik Magasin, Berns Salonger, among others.For better or worse, I find it impossible to write this.Wir Sind die Guten - Volksbuhne - Berlin - DE.2015 Future Legends Musik i syd - MalmГ¶ - SE.HISK - Higher institute for Fine Arts - Gent - BE.ARS11 -В Г…lands Konstmuseum - Mariehamn - AX.World Art Day - Moderna MusГ©et - Stockholm - SE.ArtHood - BohuslГ¤ns Museum - Uddevalla - SE.KLubbkids 150 ГҐr - Spritmuseum 15 - Stockholm - SE.Suecia Contemprare - Kalmar Konstmuseum - Kalmar - SE.Valaret 2014 - Studio 44 - Stockholm - SE.Suecia Contemporare - Upsala Konstmuseum - Upsala - SE.From Porn Star to Connoisseur - Galleri Knas - Copenhagen - DK.La Pan - Pantocrator Gallery - Berlin - DE.

Afromantics XXL - Makode i Kungsan - SE.

Taboo Fetish - Konsthallen Lokstallet -В StrГ¶mstad - SE.

Taboo Fetish - Galleri Jonas Kleerup - Stockholm - SE.

Negerkungens ГҐterkomst Kulturhuset - Stockholm - SE.

Galleri Neger - Galleri Leger - MalmГ¶ - SE.

Makode LindeвЂќ - Vida Konsthall - Г–land - SE.- Galleri Agardh-Tornvall - Stockholm - SE.2008 - 2010 Kungliga KonsthГ¶gskolan Specialelev.2007 - 2008 California College of Art - USA.2005 - 2008 Bachelor of Fine Arts -В Konstfack - Stockholm - SE.2002 - 2004 Audio Engineering Diploma -В School of Audio Engineering.1998 - 2000 Stockholms Musikkonservatorium - SE.1992 - 1998 Adolf Fredriks Musikklasser - SE.

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