Deputy Director and Chief Curator Richard Julin discusses painting with artists Kristina Jansson and Fredrik Söderberg in relation to the exhibition Anton Henning Too Much Skin, Taste and Turpentine.

Kristina Jansson (b. 1967) often uses a photograph, an image or the memory of a scene from a film, as a point of departure in her work. The medium of paint is of primary importance, and the painterly process combined with the conceptual message leads to variations in the style of each respective work according to the problems they adress. The spectator is spellbound by the dense, evocative and psychologically charged atmosphere conveyed by her images.

A graduate of the Royal University College of Fine Arts in Stockholm, she has also studied at the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Beaux Arts in Paris (1998) and at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna (1994-5). She is represented in the Moderna Museet collection in Stockholm and in several prestigious national as well as international private collections, Kristina Jansson was awarded second prize by the Carnegie Art Award in 2010 and was also nominated for the award in 2008.

Fredrik Söderberg (b. 1972) is recognised for his complex and technically advanced paintings, where he uses meticulous detail and symmetry to convey intangible yet related subjects such as spiritualism, mysticism, esotericism and the occult. His images are engendered in situations where painting becomes a meditative process and, ultimately, an exploration of the unknown and ethereal.

Fredrik Söderberg lives and works in Stockholm. He studied at the University College of Arts, Crafts and Design – Konstfack in 1995-2000, and at the Royal Institute of Art in Stockholm in 2002. His most recent solo exhibition was at the National Historical Museum in Stockholm in 2011. In 2010, he participated in the group exhibition Nordic Delight at the Swedish Institute in Paris, and also at Magasin 3 Stockholm Konsthall. In conjunction with our exhibition, his first book, Paintings 2008-2012, will be published, in association with Edda Förlag and Galleri Riis.

MoonSpoon Saloon’s new collection California will be shown at an extraordinary performance in conjunction with Magasin 3:s exhibition Old confused by Tal R.

After the performance Magasin 3 hosts a party at Allmänna Galleriet, upstairs.
DJs: Rollerboys

Exhibition opening of Old confused by Tal R on the same day, 5-8pm at Magasin 3. Read more at magasin3.com

The evening is presented by Magasin 3 Stockholm Konsthall and MoonSpoon Saloon with support by the Danish embassy in Stockholm.

Curator Tessa Praun gives a special guided tour of the Smadar Dreyfus exhibition.

Chief curator Richard Julin gives a special guided tour of the Tal R exhibition Old Confused.

Curator Elisabeth Millqvist shows the exhibition Seven Wall Drawings and tells the history behind Sol LeWitt’s famous wall drawings.

Bellowed Endearments and Echoes of Resistance: How the Voice Bonds and Unbinds in Smadar Dreyfus’ “Mother’s Day”

In Dreyfus’s compelling installation the voice refuses to be pinned down. At once intensely personal and resolutely collective, a marker of intimacy and a site of resistance, the shouted exchanges of mothers and children separated by the Israeli-Syrian ceasefire line on the Golan Heights speak of both a specific context – Druze families divided by the occupation of the Heights; Middle Eastern women’s use of the voice to declaim and lament – and more universal ones: the voice as connective tissue between mothers and children; the multiple registers that co-exist in vocal interchange. Disembodied voices, unsynchronised interchanges: Dreyfus forms them into an eloquent work about dislocation, silence and liminal communication.

Anne Karpf is a writer and sociologist. Her books include the family memoir The War After: Living with the Holocaust (Faber Finds) and The Human Voice: The Story of a Remarkable Talent (Bloomsbury). She writes on social and cultural affairs for The Guardian, broadcasts regularly for the BBC, and is co-editor of A Time to Speak Out: Israel, Zionism and Jewish identity (Verso). She teaches at London Metropolitan University.

Chief curator Richard Julin in conversation with Tal R about his artistry and the work with his exhibition Old Confused at Magasin 3.

The Syrian Bride  is a 2004 film directed by Eran Riklis. The story deals with a Druze wedding and the troubles the politically unresolved situation creates for the personal lives of the people in and from the village. The movie’s plot looks at the  Arab-Israeli-conflict through the story of a family divided by political borders, and explores how their lives are fractured by the region’s harsh political realities.

The film has garnered critical acclaim and has won or been nominated internationally for several notable awards.

Like the voices in Smadar Dreyfus’ work Mother’s Day the carachters in the film shout to each other across the border in an attempt to hold together the shattered families.

An in depth conversation about Santiago Sierra’s artistry between Lisa Rosendahl, curator and director of the Baltic Art Center in Visby and exhibition curator Elisabeth Millqvist. Lisa Rosendahl has worked with Sierra numerous times.Santiago Sierra is an artist who leaves no one unmoved, and he is seen both as provocative and controversial. The conversation deals with the issues that comes up when working with Sierra. Lisa Rosendahl is the director of the Baltic Art Center in Visby. As a curator she has worked with Santiago Sierra in the production of GROUP OF PERSONS FACING THE WALL AND PERSON FACING INTO A CORNER (2002) and POLYURETHANE SPRAYED ON THE BACKS OF 10 WORKERS (2004). Together with Daniel McClean she is co-curator for the project Exchange: Sites of Negotiation in Contemporary Art including Sierra’s site specific work DEATH COUNTER (2009) for Hiscox Insurance Group in London.

Creativity as resistance; on the research about resistance and the resistance’s practical creativity

Ph D Stellan Vinthagen, senior lecturer in sociology and resistance activist in several resistance movements. Stellan teaches and does research on resistance techniques, tectics and strategies within social movements, action groups and among individuals in Sweden and the so called Third world. He is co-editor for the publication Motstånd (released in April 2009 on Liber), and one of the founders to the global research network Resistance Studies (www.resistancestudies.org) and action project Ship to Gaza.