Ulrika Stahre

ULRIKA STAHRE (b. 1964) received her Ph.D. in art history with her dissertation Admired Barbarian: the Amazon in Western European Visual Culture 1789 - 1918 (2004) and has written art criticism in daily newpapers since 1996. Since 2001, she has been working as a cultural editor and art critic at Aftonbladet.

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Report from Sweden

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In late March a strange letter was sent to a couple of culture editorial offices in Stockholm. It claimed to be written by the street artist Banksy, and announced his presence near the gallery cluster on Hudiksvallsgatan [known as Stockholm’s Chelsea] in the northern part of the inner city.
The Göteborg International Biennial for Contemporary Art, one of the main art events in Sweden took place in the autumn of 2013, the theme being "radical imagination." It was a carnivalesque exhibition which sometimes cooperated very well with the city's structure. A part of Marion von Osten's work draws attention to a town on the move, from dependent on the harbor to a "city of events." Photo: Ulrika Stahre.

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Annica Karlsson Rixon interviews Ulrika Stahre

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Sometimes I feel that I am terribly close to imitating that kind of “art walk” common several decades ago. Then I tell myself to quit. And sometimes the slightly introspective criticism of the ’90s dwells somewhere in the back of my head, demanding attention.
One of the new private art galleries in Sweden is Artipelag, located a half hour drive from Stockholm. A view from the current exhibition, where the ideas of being close to nature is being fully revealed. A recent work by Annica Karlsson Rixon--who is the interviewing artist--is visible on the walls. Photo: Jean-Baptiste Beranger (license Creative Commons).

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