Heavy rain and thunder didn't stop me and the New York art crowd from visiting galleries and art parties on thursday evening. And it was definitely worth fighting the bad weather, what a fun and inspiring night! Seeing great art like the Swedish artist Cecilia Edefalk's first solo exhibition at the Gladstone Galleryand Ricci Albenda's show at the Andrew Kreps Gallery put me in such a great mood, ready to dance the night away at the Pace Gallery'sfantastic party under the High Line!
At the Ricci Albenda opening
Cecilia Edefalks show "Weeping Birch"
At the Cecilia Edefalk opening, the artist is to the left in the background
Bortolami Gallery, one of my favorite galleries in New York, celebrated their new space at 522 West 20th street last week with the fantastic group show Re-dressing and a cool party. Included in the exhibition are works by 50 artists like Aaron Young, Cecily Brown, Agathe Snow, Gary webb, Rashid Johnson, Daniel Buren, Jack Pierson and Roe Ethridge. The show is up until the 6th of November so if you're in town pop by, you won't be disappointed! Unfortunately I forgot my camera that evening so all the pictures are from the gallery's website.
The art season in New York has started! As soon as I got off the plane from Sweden I went from gallery opening to gallery opening. Interesting shows like Dan Colen'sPoetry at Gagosian, Rob Pruitt'sPattern and Degradation at Gavin Brown , Jamie Diamond's Portrait Historiesat Ramis Barquet, Alex Hubbard'sDeath Never Sleeps at The Kitchen and Pipilotti Rist's Heroes Of Birth at Luhring Augustine are not to be missed if you're in New York in the near future!
Click on the galleries names for more info!
While in Sweden, my husband and I decided to go to Prague to meet up with my father in law who also happened to be in Europe. We had a great weekend together in this extremely beautiful and mysterious city visiting the breathtaking St George Basilika, St Nicholaus Church, The Jewish Quarter and of course drank too many Czech beers and indulged in scrumptious duck at the famous restaurant The Blue Duckling!
Frightening sculptures at the entrance of Prague Castle
St George Basilika
St George Basilika
St Nicholaus Church
The beautiful and chaotic cemetery at the Jewish quarter
I thought I'd have a lot of time to write when I was back in Stockholm this time but as usual I got caught up with work, family, friends and other stuff. Even though I did manage to see some great art. Gallery Andréhn-Schiptjenkos opened its fall season with the group show Foreign Studies which focuses on the presentation and perception of Swedish art life, as opposed to Swedish art, abroad. Amazing artists like Marilyn Minter, Xavier Veilhan, Nina Saunders, Annika von Hausswolff, Annika Larsson and Matts Leiderstam are all included in the show. The exhibition is up until the 3rd of october. Another show I liked was the internationally acclaimed Swedish artist Gunilla Klingbergs exhibition at Galerie Nordenhake. Beeing interested in spirituality, Klingberg has for this exhibition worked with patterns of energy lines, suggesting a sort of parallel reality. I also managed to go out to the suburbs of Stockholm to see the newly reopened Marabouparken (the Marabou Park) in Sundbyberg. I wish I had chosen a better day though, when I was there it was freezing cold! Considering this, the exhibition Parkliv in the gallery was great with artists like Martin Boyce, Kohei Yoshiyuki, Matts Leiderstam, Elisabeth Westerlund and the sculptures in the park were beautiful!
Gunilla Klingberg at Galerie Nordenhake
Nina Saunders and Xavier Veilhan at Andréhn-Schiptjenko.
If you're planning to visit New York before the 26th of September you should pop by the Whitney Museum and see the artist/composer Christian Marclays (b. 1955) great exhibition. Marclay has made a name for himself by transforming sound and music into visual and physical forms through performance, collage, sculpture, large-scale installations, photography, and video. In this exhibition, Marclay is exploring his approach to the world around him with focus on “graphic scores” for performance by musicians and vocalists. As a visitor you're encouraged to mark up a wall-sized chalkboard and thereby creating a collective musical score which will be performed throughout the run of the exhibition. A lot of fun and very interesting in my opinion!
The other day, when it was rainy and humid in New York, I decided to spend my day at the MOMA. I love great museums like the MOMA, you can just walk around there for hours taking in all the amazing art and get inspired. As always, they had some wonderful shows going on and I started my tour with Matisse Radical Invention 1913-1917. This exhibition focuses on Matisse works from the years 1913-1917, a time when he produced some of his most experimental, enigmatic and demanding works. With a total of around 120 paintings, sculptures, drawings and prints, this is the first sustained examination devoted to the work of this important period. An exhibition not to be missed!
After the Matisse exhibition I continued down the stairs to Lee Bontecou: All Freedom in Every Sense. This installation covers over four decades of the American artist Lee Bontecou's(b.1931) career, from 1958 to 1998. The highlight of this show is the beautiful mobile from the years 1980-1998. This centerpiece has never before been on display at the MOMA and is really something worth seeing. I also really enjoyed the exhibition Contemporary art from the collection, which highlight the debates around economics, politics, gender, and ethnicity that have permeated artistic practices since the late 1960s. Over 130 works, all from the museums curatorial departments, include artists like Daniel Buren, Gilbert and George, Huma Bhabha and David Hammons. The exhibition is chronological and features a variety of interesting ways to approach art-making. I ended my tour watching the video The Farmers and The Helicopters (2006) by the vietnamese american artist Dinh Q. Lê. In this video Lê interlaces-both literally and figuratively—personal recollections with larger histories and mythologies often related to the Vietnam War focusing on the helicopters meaning to the vietnamese people during the war and today.
Unfortunately no pictures were allowed at the Matisse exhibition!
Lee Bontecou's beautiful mobile
Dinh Q. Lê's video The Farmers and The Helicopters
As part of Dinh Q. Lê's Project 93(which include the video above) is a helicopter hand-built from scrap parts by the Vietnamese Le Van Danh, a farmer, and Tran Quoc Hai, a self-taught mechanic.
Paul Chan's Waiting for Godot (2007) is part of the Contemporary art from the Collection exhibition
Escaping the heat in New York in August is not the easiest but Central Park often feels less boiling than the rest of the city. I love spending my days there at this time of the year, listening to the fantastic street musicians, looking at the talented roller skate dancers and just take in the creative energy that makes this amazing city!
After Rome we caught the ferry over to the stunning island Capri for the magical and very special wedding of our dear friends Maria Novella and Antony!
People tried to get a glimpse of the beautiful couple!
My husband and I started off our vacation with two days in Rome. I think Rome is one of the most beautiful cities in the world but visiting it in the middle of July was not the best idea, way too hot and loads of tourists. Even though, we had a great time and managed to see the new MAXXI Museumdesigned by Zaha Hadid, the beautiful Bernini sculptures at the Galleria Borghese, the Ara Pacis Museum designed by Richard Meier, Colosseum, Ancient Rome and of course the Vaticanwith the mind blowingly beautifulSistine Chapel painted by the great Michelangelo!
For more information and pictures from the sites, click on the names above!
Early morning at the market
Too many tourists!
At the Ara Pacis Museum designed by Richard Meier
William Kentridge at the MAXXI Museum
The MAXXI Museum which is designed by the famous architect Zaha Hadid
A great Anish Kapoor sculpture at the MAXXI Museum
As the true Swede I am I took a July summer vacation. A wonderful time spent around Italy with no internet, TV, Blackberry or other things that could distract me from enjoying great friends, the beautiful sceneries, amazing food and perfect weather. But like everything else even a vacation must come to an end. On friday I jumped on a plane back to New York excited to share with you, during the next couple of days, the highlights from my trip. I hope you'll enjoy it!
SWEDISH: För första gången på över sex år firade jag i år en svensk midsommar. Traditionellt blev det med sill, nubbe och jordgubbstårta ute hos familjen i soliga skärgården. Härligt!
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ENGLISH: This year I celebrated midsummer in Sweden for the first time in over six years. As one should over this festive time we ate herring and strawberry cake and drank lots of snaps out at my mums house in the sunny archipelago. Wonderful!
SWEDISH: Det finns bara en restaurang och bar som gäller under Art Basel-veckan och det är Kunsthalle. Efter att mässan stängt för dagen samlas gallerister,samlare, konstnärer och andra entusiaster på denna restaurang som ligger belägen centralt i hjärtat av Basel. Maten är väl inte den bästa i stan men stämningen är ständigt på topp och festen pågår varje kväll långt inpå småtimmarna!
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ENGLISH: Everyone meets at the restaurant Kunsthalle during the Art Basel week. After the fair has closed for the day gallerists, collectors, artists and other enthusiasts get together at the restaurant which is located in the heart of Basel. The food is not the best in town but the energy is and the party goes on all night long!
An installation by the Swiss artist Jean Tingley is situated in the fountain outside the Kunsthalle
At Kunsthalle with my friends, the collector Gerd and the gallerist Nadine Knotzer who runs the gallery Carbon 12 in Dubai.
The party in the garden continues all night long...
SWEDISH: Art Basel var i år en fantastisk upplevelse med massa människor och underbar energi. Närmare 300 ledande gallerier från Nordamerika, Sydamerika, Europa, Asien och Afrika ställde tillsammans ut mer än 2500 etablerade och nya konstnärer inom områden som målning, skulptur, teckning, installation, fotografi och video. Jag längtar redan till nästa år då det är dags igen!
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ENGLISH: This years Art Basel was a fantastic experience with tons of people and great energy. More than 300 leading galleries from North America, South America, Europe, Asia and Africa exhibited more than 2500 established and emerging artists in the areas of painting, sculpture, drawings, installations, photographs and video. I'm already looking forward to next years fair!
People eager to get the first look on opening day
Nick Cave
Sol Le Witt sculpture in the foreground
An Alexander Calder sculpture in foreground and Tom Wesselmann in the background
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At the Ricci Albenda opening 
Cecilia Edefalks show "Weeping Birch"
At the Cecilia Edefalk opening, the artist is to the left in the background
People had fun at the Pace Gallery's party!
Dan Colen at Gagosian
Pipilotti Rist at Luring Augustine
Rob Pruitt at Gavin Brown
Alex Hubbard at The Kitchen
Frightening sculptures at the entrance of Prague Castle
St George Basilika
St George Basilika
St Nicholaus Church
The beautiful and chaotic cemetery at the Jewish quarter
Gunilla Klingberg at Galerie Nordenhake
Nina Saunders and Xavier Veilhan at Andréhn-Schiptjenko.
At Marabouparken above and below
Lee Bontecou's beautiful mobile
Dinh Q. Lê's video The Farmers and The Helicopters
As part of Dinh Q. Lê's Project 93(which include the video above) is a helicopter hand-built from scrap parts by the Vietnamese Le Van Danh, a farmer, and Tran Quoc Hai, a self-taught mechanic.
Paul Chan's Waiting for Godot (2007) is part of the Contemporary art from the Collection exhibition
People tried to get a glimpse of the beautiful couple! 
Early morning at the market
At the Ara Pacis Museum designed by Richard Meier 
William Kentridge at the MAXXI Museum 
The MAXXI Museum which is designed by the famous architect Zaha Hadid
A great 
An installation by the Swiss artist Jean Tingley is situated in the fountain outside the Kunsthalle
At Kunsthalle with my friends, the collector Gerd and the gallerist Nadine Knotzer who runs the gallery Carbon 12 in Dubai. 
The party in the garden continues all night long...
People eager to get the first look on opening day
Nick Cave
Sol Le Witt sculpture in the foreground 
An Alexander Calder sculpture in foreground and Tom Wesselmann in the background
