STUDIO 54 or for me, The Palladium, where the excessive creativity once began. My last room in Avalon Hotel, as owned by my friend Torbjörn, ROOM 54 ❤️ Big Thanks from the beginning to now! David #avalonhotel @avalonhotel @agallery.se ©HASSE PERSSON

Avalon Hotel Art Collection over the years 2005 - 2022…some of the artists represented in this glimpse over the years; Patrik Andiné, Peter Apelgren, Alexander Klingspor, Ernst Billgren, Ylva Ceder, Jörg Döring, Nathalia Edenmont, Jacob Felländer, Hasse Persson, Eva Hild, Johnny Boy Eriksson, Jan Jörnmark, Lars Lerin, Håkan Ludwigson, Dan Wolgers, Jan Håfström, Jens Fänge, Annika von Hausswolff, Yrjö Edelmann, Kristina Abelli-Elander, Sam Shaw, Rebecca Lundh, Hans Hammarskjöld and Avalon Hotel / Röhsska museet / Semrén Månsson.

The Gallery of Light and Shadow

The rain drummed heavily against the glass windows on Sofierogatan, a relentless rhythm echoing through A Gallery. Inside, the dim light cast shifting shadows across the artworks, as if they were coming to life in their own secret world. David stood alone, his gaze drifting over the paintings and sculptures he had once helped hang, move, analyze, and sell. He could still smell the lingering scent of oil paint and varnish in the air—a scent that had once promised a future filled with art, transformation, and possibility.

But times had changed.

When A Gallery first opened its doors, it was a place where art breathed. The weight of established artists met the hunger of the emerging ones, and every vernissage felt like an electric storm—artists, collectors, and strangers colliding, creating something that felt even larger than the artworks themselves.

David remembered one particular evening on Tredje Långgatan—the gallery’s first major exhibition. A woman with deep red lipstick had stood frozen in front of a painting, her breath uneven. “It’s like it sees right through me,” she had murmured, reaching out as if to touch it but stopping just short. Later that night, the piece sold for a record-breaking sum. He had watched the artist in the corner, a crease forming between his brows, as if he were already mourning the loss of his own creation.

It was always a balance—a tightrope walk between the commercial and the raw, the intellectual and the instinctive. A Gallery had danced on that line for fourteen years, until it was no longer a dance.

Now David stood here again, in a new era for A Gallery. The walls were no longer the focus. Art was no longer confined to a space—it was a force, a voice, a mirror. It didn’t have to stand in a room; it could live in a collector, in an idea, in a strategy.

He thought back to a conversation he’d had just weeks ago, with a new client—a man who had everything but still felt something was missing. The man had flipped impatiently through catalogs, but David saw it in his eyes—what he was searching for wasn’t on those pages, not in the price tags.

“What are you really looking for?” David had asked.

The man had let out a short laugh. “I don’t know. Something that means something, I guess.”

David had leaned back, letting the silence settle before answering:

“Art isn’t something you buy. It’s something you discover within yourself.”

That was where A Gallery stood now—on the threshold between tradition and transformation, between the wall and the soul. It was a new time, a new energy. Outside, the rain kept falling, but inside the gallery, there was something else. A kind of stillness.

Or maybe just a pause, before the next storm.

[water color painting by Carl Hammoud, Sweden]

COLLECT ART

How to decide where to focus and what direction to go in? How do you relate one purchase to the next? How do you organize or group your art together in ways that make sense? How do you present it? And most importantly, how do you do all these things well? This is what collecting is all about; it’s the ultimate case of controlled purposeful buying.

ART MANGEMENT

Includes many different skills; art evaluation, what and how to replace, cataloging, conservation, contact with artists, auction houses, art dealers, decoration, shipment, mounting, insurance.

References : Avalon Hotel. HSB. Fastighetsagarna. Varbergs sparbank. Exceed. Riverton Hotel. Stena Line. Scandic Hotels. Next Step Group. Nya Hovås. Private collectors.

The collaboration with Sotheby´s has finally been launched, after several years of pandemic restrictions. Sotheby´s is a welcome addition to be able to offer a complete range to refine your collection. Not only art, but also watches, jewelry, cars etc.

Sotheby´s is an international auction house with about a hundred experts for valuation and cataloging. In Europe, Sotheby's four houses are in London, Paris, Geneva and Cologne in order to provide the best possible options for sale or purchase.

The Stockholm office includes Peder Isacson, CEO of Sotheby's in Scandinavia, Sofia Ekeroth de Almeida, Deputy CEO and Mikael Wallhagen, European head of Sotheby's watch department. Here is the heart of the business, a reasonably large team to make everything as efficient as possible!

Looking forward to visiting Sotheby's international auctions, book valuations in our office or houses, as well as in your home.

David Franzen

The art world is a living system—fluid, interconnected, and constantly evolving. In this dynamic space, a catalyst plays a vital role, not by controlling the process but by creating conditions for transformation, insight, and meaningful connections.

As a Catalyst in Contemporary Art Management, I navigate the fine balance between artistic integrity, market dynamics, and the personal vision of collectors and institutions. Rather than imposing rigid structures, I cultivate an environment where art collections grow organically, reflecting both deep artistic value and strategic foresight.

This means:

Facilitating connections – Bridging artists, collectors, and institutions to create synergies that elevate both artistic and financial value.

Shaping perspectives – Helping collectors refine their eye, develop their vision, and build collections that resonate beyond the immediate moment.

Navigating complexity – Understanding the fluid nature of the art market and aligning acquisitions with long-term potential and cultural significance.

Through this approach, contemporary art management becomes more than curation—it becomes an evolving dialogue between art, ideas, and those who engage with them.

Let’s explore what’s possible.

Picture: Graphics by Jan Håfström

A Gallery of Time

Beneath the rain on Sofierogatan’s glass,

shadows dance where echoes pass.

Walls once whispered art’s embrace,

now time has shifted, changed its face.

Brushstrokes linger in the air,

stories woven, bold and rare.

Collectors pause with searching eyes,

seeking truth where canvas lies.

Not just walls, nor frames of gold,

but something deeper, raw, untold.

Not just price, nor grand acclaim,

but the fire that fuels a name.

A touch of light, a stroke of soul,

a gallery’s pulse, a shifting role.

Art is not to own or keep,

but something found in depths so deep.

So let the rain still carve its tune,

let silence hum its quiet rune.

For in the stillness, storms arise,

and art, like time, will never die.

[Street art from Barcelona, photography by David Franzen ©]

EVA HILD : Avalon Art Evining 2019

Wednesday before Midsummer every year since 2008, Avalon Hotel and AGallery is hosting an Art Evening. A secret artwork is uncovered, and the artist is interviewed by a known art person. Trade and industry are invited together with the culture industry for cocktails and light food.

Eva Hild, Swedish sculptor. Lives and works in the south-west of Sweden.

With her organic sculptures, she has established a position on the international art scene and is represented in important private and institutional collections world-wide. Her art has met with a profound fascination at the way in which she expresses body and space, strength and fragility, presence and absence.

”My sculptures are bodies, exposed to pressure and movements.

Influence, pressure, strain. These words have been the foundation for my current projects that comprise communicating the theme in large, thin-built sculptures. Delicate continuously flowing entities. They reflect varying degrees of external and internal pressures, and how, as a consequence, perception of inner and outer space is changed or challenged.

On one hand, it is the mass in thin layers, running in a meander-like closed movement. On the other hand it is the empty space, air and light forming volumes, described by the contours of the mass.

My fascination is about the relationship between internal and external realities; the dualism between inside and outside, content and form, feeling and shape, impression and expression. It is a reflection of my inner landscapes of form. Bodies where presence and absence meet.

The man who shot the seventies - Mick Rock

In conjunction with, Auktionsverket cultural arena in Gothenburg, the arena opened with an exhibition by Mr Mick Rock ”The Man Who Shot the seventies.” The exhibition included 50 photographs from 1970 to the present day. The first evening celebrated more than 500 guests! November 16, 2014.

Photographer interior and opening: © Dino Soldin. © Mikael Almse.

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© http://www.mickrock.com

It is with the heaviest of hearts that we share our beloved psychedelic renegade Mick Rock has made the Jungian journey to the other side. Those who had the pleasure of existing in his orbit, know that Mick was always so much more than ’The Man Who Shot The 70s.’ He was a photographic poet — a true force of nature who spent his days doing exactly what he loved, always in his own delightfully outrageous way.

The stars seemed to effortlessly align for Mick when he was behind the camera; feeding off of the unique charisma of his subjects electrified and energized him. His intent always intense. His focus always total. A man fascinated with image, he absorbed visual beings through his lens and immersed himself in their art, thus creating some of the most magnificent photographs rock music has ever seen. To know Mick was to love him. He was a mythical creature; the likes of which we shall never experience again.

Let us not mourn the loss, but instead, celebrate the fabulous life and extraordinary career of Michael David Rock. While you do so in your own way, we must ask that the privacy of his nearest and dearest be respected at this time. Therefore, there will be no further comments.

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Legendary rock photographer Mick Rock is often referred to as ‘The Man Who Shot the Seventies’, for his iconic images of Syd Barrett, David Bowie, Lou Reed, Iggy Pop, Queen, the Sex Pistols, The Ramones, Blondie, Rocky Horror Picture Show, etc. London born, he has resided in New York for the past 35 years. He has shot over 100 album covers.

But he in reality never shopped shooting. His recent subjects include Snoop Dogg, Father John Misty, Lenny Kravitz , Janelle Monaie, Jimmy Fallon, The Black Keys, Karen O, Ellie Goulding, Alicia Keys, Michael Buble, Daft Punk, Perry Farrell, Motley Crue, TV On The Radio, Pharrell, Josh Groban, Flaming Lips, Nas, Rufus Wainwright, Kings of Leon, RKelly, The Black Lips , Queens of The Stone Age etc.



Rock was instrumental in creating many key rock ‘n’ roll images, such as album covers for Syd Barrett’s Madcap Laughs, Lou Reed’s Transformer and Coney Island Baby, Iggy and The Stooges’ Raw Power, Queen’s Queen II (recreated for their classic music video ‘Bohemian Rhapsody’) and Sheer Heart Attack, The Ramones End of the Century and Joan Jett’s I Love Rock ‘n’ Roll, among many others. He was the chief photographer on the films The Rocky Horror Picture Show, Hedwig and the Angry Inch and Shortbus. He recently shot special stills for the new TV version of Rocky Horror, featuring the transgender actress Laverne Cox as Frank n Furter. He also produced and directed the seminal music videos for Bowie:
 ‘John, I’m Only Dancing’, ‘Jean Genie’, ‘Space Oddity’, and ‘Life On Mars’.

He recently did a new edit of his classic ‘Life On Mars’ Bowie for Parlophone Records, which was released in November 2016 as part of the promotion for ‘Bowie-Legacy’, a collection of Bowie’s most beloved singles. It has been universally acclaimed. One writer for ‘Liner Notes’ called it “An incredible new video and it’s visually stunning.” Mick says “I had a little jewel and I wanted to polish it into a state where it was an absolutely perfect gem. Modern technology, which obviously we didn’t have when I made the original in 1973, helped. I believe I achieved my goal.”

His latest publication ‘The Rise of David Bowie 1972-1973’ (with David Bowie), (Taschen Books, published September 2015): a spectacular limited edition co-signed with Bowie, sold out just before David’s death. It was Taschen’s fastest-ever selling limited edition publication. He is currently promoting the trade edition.

He is featured in an episode of the Red Bull Films series ‘Visions of Greatness’, to be initially broadcast Spring 2017

He had an acclaimed Ovation Cable TV series this year, ‘On The Record With Mick Rock’. The second series will begin in June2017

A documentary about his career, produced by Vice Films and Straight Up Films, called ‘SHOT!’, was launched at the Tribeca Film Festival in April 2016. It will also be screened in the London, Sao Paolo, Stockholm, IDFA Amsterdam, Montreal Festivals etc

The doc is being distributed by Magnolia Pictures. They intend to release it theatrically in Spring 2017. Magnolia President Eamonn Bowles said: “The number of iconic photos that Mick Rock has taken and the access to the most compelling figures of our time is staggering. This film beautifully realizes his journey”

A classic quote from Mick in the London Times, who dubbed him ‘the music world’s top snapper’: “I’ve never felt like a voyeur, although I’ve certainly done plenty of looking!

I work from the inside out. Like a cook I gather all the ingredients and keep mixing and stirring and tasting until the kind of effluvia starts to rise, then I’m off to the races. It’s an addictive kind of a feeling that I need a regular shot of otherwise I don’t feel right…”

He has had major exhibitions in Tokyo, Toronto, London, Liverpool, Berlin, Manchester, New York, Oslo, Gothenburg, Stockholm, Amsterdam, Rotterdam, Sao Paolo, San Francisco, Las Vegas, Los Angeles, Toulouse.

DANNY CLINCH & FRANK STEFANKO

Stefanko and Clinch were behind the lens of some of the most intimate and iconic portraits of Springsteen from his seminal 1978 album Darkness on the Edge of Town to his 16th studio album released in 2009 Working on a Dream.

Sharing common roots and an appreciation for the grit and beauty of ordinary, working class life, Stefanko and Clinch worked with Springsteen to create the visual narrative that illuminates the mood and poetry of his music and albums over the past 30 years.

“Frank always shot your internal life. He let your external imperfections show. His photos had a purity and poetry....

"Bruce lives through every part of what he produces, whether it's his own lyrics and music or the graphics and text designed for his album or CD."

– Frank Stefanko

Clinch has photographed Bruce Springsteen resulting in album covers for "The Rising," "The Seeger Sessions" and "Working on a Dream."

As a director, Clinch has received 2 Grammy Award nominations: in 2005 for Bruce Springsteen’s Devils and Dust and in 2009 for John Mayer’s Where The Light Is. He has also directed music videos for Willie Nelson, Tom Waits, Pearl Jam, John Legend, Mellissa Etheridge, Chris Daughtry and Dave Matthews, among others.

Pelle Unger Gallery : Stockholm den 10 maj 2012

A Gallery : Göteborg den 27 juli 2012

PHILIP AHLQWIST & FREDRIK NIELSEN

SOHO HOUSE BARCELONA

Plaça Del Duc De Medinaceli, 2, 08002 Barcelona, Spain

THE ARTISTS

Philip Ahlqwist was born 1977. Works in Gothenburg, Sweden. In his practice, he combines art and digital technology. With a penchant for visual symbolic language and a unique ability to reduce the central spiritual meaning in various art historical genres and artistry, he creates contemporary forms to express his own personal reflections.

Fredrik Nielsen is a Swedish artist with a unique flair for experimentation, combining aspects of pop culture such as graffiti, music, videos, and performance into his glass art. His strong desire to push the boundaries of glass as a material have shaped his identity as an artist.

PORT VELL STUDIO

Port Vell Studio is the new creative space. Here, Soho House and Soho Friends members can attend art exhibitions, events, screenings, workshops and pop-ups.

Read more : Port Vell Studio Soho House Barcelona

SOHO HOUSE about

Soho House is a place for members to connect, grow, have fun, and make an impact. From the beginning, and throughout its 27-year history, the members have always been at the heart of everything.

Soho House continue to open Houses in creative cities across the UK, North America, Europe and Asia with nine openings planned for the year, ie new European cities including Copenhagen and Stockholm. Since opening 40 Greek Street in 1995, Soho House now includes 33 Houses in 14 countries.

JM RIZZI

Born: 1975, Brooklyn, NY

Graduated: School of Visual Arts, NYC, 1997 (BFA)

JM Rizzi’s art is a dynamic fusion of graffiti ethos and abstract expressionism, reflecting spontaneity and rhythm. Influenced by Franz Kline, Helen Frankenthaler, and Cy Twombly, he explores gesture, color, and collage to create bold, immersive works. His vibrant palette interacts directly with viewers, echoing pop art’s immediacy.

Rooted in New York’s 1990s street culture, Rizzi’s artistic journey evolved beyond subcultures, embracing spontaneity as a guiding force. Now based in Dallas, nature subtly influences his work, alongside urban inspirations. His latest series, Cause and Effect, merges abstraction with figuration, continuing his exploration of visual storytelling.

Exhibitions & Murals

Rizzi has exhibited globally, including solo and group shows in New York, Dallas, China, and Hong Kong. His large-scale murals and commissions span Rockefeller Center, Bushwick Collective, Nike, and luxury brands like Jimmy Choo.

Photography © Kurt Griesbach, 2022.

Philip Ahlqwist was born 1977. Works in Gothenburg, Sweden. In his practice, he combines art and digital technology. With a penchant for visual symbolic language and a unique ability to reduce the central spiritual meaning in various art historical genres and artistry, he creates contemporary forms to express his own personal reflections. Through his professional background with vector and pixel based tools Philip explores its endless possibilities, but also limitations in the form of the conventions created on social and digital media, where art offers an additional layer to explore interactions between an audience and the artist. In Ahlqwist´s art, his digital media expertise is transferred to the physical space and the audience is encouraged to interact in the same way as in the virtual space. By publishing new works on his social platforms, he ahs allowed the art to develop in a trusting openness with his followers and at a record speed established his name with collectors both within and outside Sweden.

Education :

2003-2005

Art Direction and Visual Media Communication

Berghs School of Communication, Stockholm, Sweden

Solo Shows :

2021

“Retro: Active”

Hallands konstförening,

Galleri Hjertstedska Villan

2020

“Wild Life “

Curator Ebba de Faire

Rolls Royce Show Room, Stockholm

2019

“In Real Life”

Göteborgs Auktionsverk, Gothenburg

2018

“New Generations”

Curator Ebba de Faire

“Re:Inventions”

A Gallery, Gothenburg

Group Shows :

2020

“Stäying Sane”

Berntson Bhattacharjee Gallery, Falsterbo

Charity Auctions :

2018

“The Polar Bear Ball”

The Perfect World Foundation, Gothenburg

Represented by :

A Gallery, Gothenburg

Curator Ebba de Faire, Stockholm

Moderna Samlare, Stockholm

BB Gallery, London

A GALLERY - OUR STORY 1996 -

AGallery is a home for contemporary & new media art. 

The idea for AGallery was born in 1995, creating the Official Art Portfolio for the World Championship in Athletics in Gothenburg 1995, Sweden. We brought together five Swedish artist; Helene Billgren, Ernst Billgren, Roland Borén, Håkan Carlsson and Graham Stacy. Preface, Peter Dahl. 

The success of that event led us to establish a more permanent home in Goteborg, Sweden as an art advisor curating collections and creating art relationships.

1996 - 2010 AGallery’s 15 years at Tredje Langgatan 6, Goteborg curated 74 exhibitions by mainly Swedish modern artists

2010 - 2014 AGallery moved to a new bigger urban gallery in Sofierogatan 3, Goteborg. Created and curated 19 exhibitions with mainly international contemporary artists.

2014 - Present AGallery is focusing on art advisory for collecting art, art relations activities and art projects.

Office/studios/spaces in Goteborg, Sweden and in Barcelona, Spain.

2021 - 25 years anniversary 16 December 1996 - 2021, Hurra!™

Liu Bolin (simplified Chinese: 刘勃麟; traditional Chinese: 劉勃麟; pinyin: Liú Bólín; born 7 January 1973) is an artist born in China's Shandong province. He earned his Bachelor of Fine Arts from the Shandong College of Arts in 1995 and his Master of Fine Arts from the Central Academy of Fine Arts in Beijing in 2001. His work has been exhibited in museums around the world. Liu Bolin's most popular works are from his "Hiding in the City" series; a photographic series that began as performance art in 2005.

Liu belongs to the generation that came of age in the early 1990s, when China emerged from the rubble of the Cultural Revolution and was beginning to enjoy rapid economic growth and relative political stability.

Since his first solo shows in Beijing in 1998, Liu Bolin's work has received international recognition. Among other international venues, his distinctive photographs and sculptures have been shown at the major contemporary photography festival Les Rencontres d'Arles and he had solo shows at Dashanzi Art Zone in Beijing (2007), Galerie Bertin-Toublanc in Paris (2007), Klein Sun Gallery in New York (2008), Galerie Paris-Beijing in Paris and Brussels (2013), Boxart Gallery in Verona (2008), Forma Foundation for Photography in Milan (2010), H. C. Andersen Museum in Rome (2012).

To celebrate US President Obama's visit to China, he made an effigy of Obama in his honor.

He now lives and works in Beijing, China.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mxEstgh6cAM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5sX_5YjLpbI

https://www.svd.se/konstnar-blir-del-av-sergels-torg

Probing and provocative, the work of Natalia Edenmont explores popular culture through the medium of photography. Through the juxtaposition of opposing subjects and aesthetics, Edenmont’s work is rife with a characteristic tension as she explores themes including the deceptive nature of cultural norms, conformity, the repression of the individual, and double standards in western society.

With a strong embrace of symbolism, and clear references to historical genres of art, Edenmont’s artful, and frequently beautiful, arrangements can be viewed as a modern expression of traditional iconography.

Born in Yalta, Crimea, 1970, Nathalia Edenmont received her art education at Yalta Art School for Children, Yalta, Crimea, State Art School of Kiev, Kiev, Soviet Union, Simferopol State Art School, Simferopol, Crimea, and Forsberg’s International School of Design, Stockholm, Sweden.

Her work has been exhibited throughout Europe and the United States, and has been featured in publications including Bon Magazine, Sweden, Plaza Magzine, Sweden, Konstvärlden, Sweden and Photo International, Germany. In February 2014, Swedish public television released a one hour documentary about Edenmont and her work. Edenmont has resided in Sweden since 1991.

1996 - Present

AGallery is a home for contemporary & new media art.

The idea for AGallery was born in 1995, creating the Official Art Portfolio for the World Championship in Athletics in Gothenburg 1995, Sweden. We brought together five Swedish artist; Helene Billgren, Ernst Billgren, Roland Borén, Håkan Carlsson and Graham Stacy. Preface, Peter Dahl.

The success of that event led us to establish a more permanent home in Goteborg, Sweden as an art advisor curating collections and creating art relationships.

1996 - 2010 AGallery’s 15 years at Tredje Langgatan 6, Goteborg curated 74 exhibitions by mainly Swedish modern artists

2010 - 2014 AGallery moved to a new bigger urban gallery in Sofierogatan 3, Goteborg. Created and curated 19 exhibitions with mainly international contemporary artists.

2014 - Present AGallery is focusing on art advisory for collecting art, art relations activities and art projects. Office/studios/spaces in Goteborg, Sweden and in Barcelona, Spain.

2018 - Opening new studios/spaces in Barcelona, Goteborg and Stockholm.

2022 - Sotheby´s in co-operation with David Franzén.

2023 - Launches the think lab, Art Thinking Works.

Art Thinking Works®: A Catalyst for Innovation and Collaboration

Art Thinking is a creative mindset that merges artistic principles with analytical thinking to inspire unconventional solutions and fresh perspectives. It thrives on curiosity, open-mindedness, and the freedom to explore without rigid constraints, enabling innovative problem-solving in complex and evolving contexts.

At its core, art thinking fosters an empathy-driven and exploratory approach, encouraging individuals to challenge assumptions and reimagine possibilities. It integrates seamlessly with teamwork and leadership, creating a powerful framework for tackling global challenges. Through collaboration, diverse perspectives and talents converge, unlocking collective intelligence to develop solutions that are both holistic and transformative.

By embracing art thinking, teamwork, and leadership, individuals and teams become catalysts for change, shaping a future that is more sustainable, equitable, and innovative. This approach empowers people to move beyond conventional strategies, fostering resilience and adaptability in an ever-changing world.

ART THINKING WORKS®

PATRIK ANDINÉ

"Will it disappear when you turn around?"

Ever since we opened the Avalon Hotel & Restaurant on July 7, 2007, we have once a year arranged an event that we call the Avalon Art Evening. During the event, this year's newly purchased artwork will be presented and the artist behind the work has been on hand to tell about the work behind the work. In previous years, Lars Lerin, Alexander Klingspor and Ernst Billgren, among others, have visited us.

Just like last year, Avalon Art Evening is canceled this year due to the pandemic. This year's artist Patrik Andiné was at our place yesterday to present his new painting; "Will it disappear when you turn around?"

The painting hangs in our lobby and we warmly welcome everyone to come by and view our new art.

Patrik Andiné was born (1968), lives and works in Gothenburg. He is a Swedish painter and graphic artist educated at Hovedskous painting school 1988-90 and at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts 1990-95.

Patrik already has a painting with us at Avalon. "Blindbock" as the painting is called.

In the autumn, Avalon Hotel will start a completely unique collaboration with Patrik, more information about it will come after the summer ...

PROVENANCE: Avalon Art Collection 2021

CAROLINA FALKHOLT

Since the hip-hop crews of Philadelphia and New York turned graffiti into an elaborate language, encrypted in a range of unique styles, Street Art has become an established art form. While its very public presence may scream manifesto, perhaps with subversive intent, Street Art nonetheless promotes a sense of the uncompromising, a radical ethos that consistently attracts clusters of fervent supporters throughout the world. However, not until recently has there been such interest in the genre.

© Carolina Falkholt

ART RELATIONS

Avalon Art Evening is a good example. Every Wednesday before Midsummer every year since 2009, Avalon Hotel and AGallery is hosting an Art Evening. A secret artwork is uncovered, and the artist is interviewed by a known art person. Trade and industry are invited together with the culture industry for cocktails and light food.

What can art do? Art has changed the world. More exactly, art continues to change the world. Its impact on our subject and our selves is more profound than we know.

Rethinking ourselves and our responsibilities to one another: that is the hard part. Art can help us with both. We go beyond ourselves by penetrating deeper into the work. The primary function of all the arts, is to make us more aware of ourselves and the world around us. It makes us more human.

2022 ?

2021 Patrik Andiné

2020 Mr & Mrs Corona

2019 Eva Hild

2018 Ylva Ceder

2017 William Sweetlove, Jan Håfström and Mats Alfredsson - 10 years anniversary.

2016 Jacob Felländer

2015 Nathalia Edenmont

2014 Lars Lerin

2013 William Sweetlove

2012 Annika von Hausswolff

2011 Ernst Billgren

2010 Jens Fänge

2009 Helene Billgren

Art changes the world.

Art impacts how we see ourselves and how we relate to others.

Art has the power to shine a light on our conceptions of the world, ideas and thinking patterns. It destabilises, refashions, enlarges and shifts perception.

Art challenges us to re-examine and re-assess our lives.

We might underestimate the generative power of art - its iconic, fathomless qualities, or its uncanny futurity, ethical freight or connective reach.

We might miss the regenerative power of art - its capacity to nourish thought, sustain hope or inspire us to explore new potential.

Art can help us to see ourselves more clearly and identify our responsibilities to one another.

By penetrating deeper into the work we travel beyond the habits and biases of the mind.

The arts deepen our self awareness and change our relationships with the world around us. They make us more human.

Art Relations includes exhibitions, happenings, weekends, exploring and travelling, workshops, branding, marketing and public relations.

JESPER WALDERSTEN

From being one of Sweden's most popular and award-winning illustrators, Jesper Waldersten (1969) has recently established himself as a freelance artist. With his down-to-earth line, through his fly-mix of words, photos, music and brushstrokes, he creates works where nothing is static, everything is set in motion, nothing is obvious. The result is constantly surprising, often genuinely brilliant and not infrequently worrying; you laugh at the word jokes, the dot-proof contemporary satire, but beyond that, it breaks the deep seriousness.

This has been fixed by many. Waldersten has collaborated with Kent, Madonna, Ane Brun, Lennart Hellsing to name a few. This spring he will perform on the Stadsteatern stage together with three dancers and choreographed by Kenneth Kvarnström in 15 performances.

Waldersten's work has been published in a number of critically acclaimed and best-selling books.

He has exhibited his art to great acclaim, both in Sweden and internationally.

In his latest exhibition "The way out is in here" at the Vida Museum in Öland this summer, Waldersten showed all his breadth of his art in the form of photography, poetry, drawing, sculpture but above all painting.

What will appear on Lipp is a unique selection from Waldersten himself. We will see original pictures from this summer's exhibition at the Vida Museum as well as some brand new works, not previously shown in public.

Art and Decorations onboard ships : How to decide where to focus and what direction to go in? How do you relate one purchase to the next? How do you organize or group your art together in ways that make sense? How do you present it? And most importantly, how do you do all these things well? This is what collecting is all about; it’s the ultimate case of controlled purposeful buying. This experience over time has given us the right tools for setting the art concept onboard Stena Line´s newbuilds.

Stena Estrid is the first of five new Stena Line next generation RoPax vessels that are being constructed at the AVIC Weihai Shipyard in China, three of which will be introduced on the company’s Irish Sea routes from Dublin to Holyhead and Belfast to Liverpool. Sister ship Stena Edda is due to commence operations from Belfast to Liverpool in spring 2020, with the third vessel Stena Embla was introduced on the same route in early 2021. In the following year Stena Estelle and Stena Ebba was delivered and decorated.

INTERIOR DESIGN BY - FIGURA

ART CONCEPT BY - A GALLERY

/NEW BUILT/

MS Estrid, Edda, Embla, Estelle and Ebba.

/UPGRADE/

MS Adventurer, Baltica, Nordica, Scandica, Superfast 7, Superfast 8.

Nya Hovås is growing and it is precisely when society is undergoing rapid changes that culture becomes extra important. The culture generates pleasure and context in everyday life, but also jobs, innovations and new companies.

Nya Hovås Art & Design Weekend 2019 is a weekend where art is lifted up and made available, for residents in the area as well as for art lovers from all over the region.

WETTERLING GALLERY exhibited in the larger room at Hovås allé 15 together with the Swedish office for SOTHEBY´S. Artists : Robert Rauschenberg, Nathalia Edenmont, Love Lundell, Bernar Venet, Jason Martin.

HAMMARÉN GALLERY was in the room at Hovås avenue 17, showing Patrik Andiné.

FREDRIK NIELSEN exhibits sculptures / glass at in the room next door to Hammarén Gallery.

Other existing businesses, especially a number of design shops, do their own activities in each store.

Interaction between Röhsska Museum and Avalon Hotel, Gothenburg, Swden

Then, Now, The Future was a collaboration between the Röhsska Museum and Hotel Avalon.

In addition to the museum's own premises, as in part of the exhibition, you were also able to show fashion clothing at the hotel. Enjoy dresses and period hats, coifs, shoes and bags from a variety of eras. The hotel's furniture was provided with "tags" with information on what you are sitting on. The same furniture was also marked in Röhsska's collections.

GOTEHNBURG CULTURE FESTIVAL 2012

The Big M is an eye-catching inflatable exhibition venue that incorporates state of the art media facilities.

A purpose built environment for delivering diverse, interactive cutting edge film and new media work, The Big M has toured Europe showing screening programmes featuring specially selected international artists.

The Big M features a specially designed touch screen interface allowing viewers to interact with the screening programme and features three projectors showing work on three screens. Full HD widescreen can be provided on linked screens with 6:1 surround sound.

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A Gallery opened the show with “the Official Art Portfolio for the 5th World Championship in Athletics in Gothenburg 1995”, Sweden.

The Official Art portfolio featured five Swedish artist; Helene Billgren, Ernst Billgren, Roland Borén, Håkan Carlsson and Graham Stacy. Preface by the wellknown artist Peter Dahl.

This edition of the 5th World Championship in Athletics featured 1804 athletes from 191 nations. This competition saw the women run the 5000 m event at the World Championships for the first time. The race replaced the 3000 m event which had been run at all previous World Championships.