Tuesday, June 9, 2026

What would your life look like if all the plastic in your home disappeared overnight?



This is the question asked of a Swedish family as they rid their home of all plastic based products. The images are disturbing and profound. 




The Hesse family lived completely without plastic and moved to products made of wood, metal, glass, wool and ceramics. The exhibition  shows what happened and the what is hidden in our homes!



‘The Print Power Award’ - Malmo Form Design Center



‘The PrintPower Award’ at the Malmo Form Design Centre is an annual exhibition of a poster competition in which students from Sweden’s leading design and art schools explore the poster as a medium of expression and communication. 


The 2026 theme was ‘For Sweden in Our Time’ and it is a powerful reflection on the personal and societal issues of concern to those participating students and no doubt their peers. 


The posters that on display are challenging and energetic in their colours and simplicity and are strikingly powerful in their messaging. The poster is back…so watch this and other spaces. 



 



Malmo Kunsthall……’How to Call a Ghost’.

 ‘How to Call a Ghost’ is the apt title of an exhibition at the Malmo Kunsthall by Moroccan-French artist Bouchra Khalili. 



Since the early 2000s, Bouchra Khalili, has created works that focus on the power of story telling through film and video. She addresses issues related to belonging, community, and democracy so the exhibition is a powerful critique on past injustices through authenticate voices. 





Her work ‘reflects the current situation in the EU (socially, politically, and historically), where the right to belong has been based on exclusion’. The Malmö Konsthall is not new to presenting  how art can speak to politics and recognises how the issues Khalili lays bare are relevant to this region and for the City of Malmö, home to more than 180 different nationalities. 







‘The exhibition is based on the idea of the circle – the absence of a beginning and an end – but also on the circle as a gathering point for traditional oral storytelling. In Morocco, “al halaqa”, gathering in a circle around the storyteller, is a tradition that is several hundred years old. Halaqa literally means “circle”, “ring” or “assembly” in Arabic’.

Friday, June 5, 2026

Leaving Stockholm





 

Stockholm snaps!











 

Moderna Mussett


Moderna Mussett is ‘angry’! And there’s a good reason. 

‘The Subterranean Sky’ exhibition is an extensive surrealist collection and reflective of a time many artists rebelled against conventional art and against the fascism and authoritarianism that bedevilled the world, in ‘the wake of the horrors of the First and Second World Wars’.

‘The House of Nisaba’ is an exhibition of international artists who respond to the world we are living, ‘a time that knowledge is changing and information circulates at an unprecedented pace and narratives about ourselves, our communities, and the world at large are becoming increasingly unstable




 

Thursday, June 4, 2026

Brassai in Paris

The secret signs of Paris’ is an exceptional exhibition of over 160 black and white photographs taken by Brandao in the early 1930s of Paris after dark. 

They are full of pathos and passion for the Paris bathed in shadows and light. A truly evocative portfolio of one of the most famous world photographers. 








Venice of the North!





 


Oslo to Stockholm