Two works by Beckmans alumni Swedish Girls in Stockholm's summer art program
May 28, 2021
Swedish Girls – four alumni from Beckmans
Josefin Zachrisson, Julia Jondell, Matilda Ström Ellow and Mira Bergh Edenborg, all graduated from the form program in 2019. Soon after, they started the collective Swedish Girls where they work with concept-based objects and installations for spatial design. Now they have been invited within the framework of Beckman's alumni activities by the City of Stockholm to be part of the city's summer exhibition.
MAP OF STOCKHOLM WITH ALL THE WORKS IN THIS SUMMER'S EXHIBITION
Two new meeting places in Stockholm this summer
The theme of this year's exhibition is democracy and Swedish Girls stage sculpture will be a place for performance, including by the acclaimed artist Fatima Moallim, while the bench is a collaboration with the graffiti group BOYS who have been invited to use the bench as a projection surface in a visual discussion about what is allowed to be art.
The works will be two new meeting places in Stockholm this summer that will be connected through a common material and idiom. The stage sculpture takes its inspiration from the theatre's backdrop and forms a stage room in the middle of the square right on the water at Norr Mälarstrand, where everyone is welcome to take their place. The different scenes have cut-out patterns and become an interactive sculpture for children and adults to use. A few blocks away, on Bergsgatan, the metal seating bench stands where the graffiti collective BOYS has been a co-creator.
About the City of Stockholm's summer exhibition
The exhibition takes place for the fourth year and as in previous years in collaboration with the Swedish Transport Administration's project Levande Stockholm. Since Sweden is celebrating 100 years of democracy this year, it has been allowed to form the the thematic framework of the summer exhibition.
