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.

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

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.

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

21 JULY - OPENING ART EXHIBITION

PHILIP AHLQWIST & FREDRIK NIELSEN

PORT VELL STUDIO / SOHO HOUSE BARCELONA

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

Until 20 August. Weekdays 10 am - 6 pm, closed on weekends.

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.

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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.

Born:

1975 Brooklyn, NY

Graduated:

School Of Visual Arts, NYC 1997 BFA

JM Rizzi’s ceaselessly self-elaborating body of work skips, slides, and glides across surfaces, leaving polished paintings in its wake. The artist’s creations illustrate his own stream of consciousness while striking a profound resonance with viewers. Rizzi came of age in New York City during the transformative 1990s. His creative journey sprouted from the Lower East Side’s grittier days with a looping trail of spray paint that caught a life of its own and never looked back. The artist’s practice transcends the subcultures that nourished his creatively formative years. His paintings ask questions only to answer them moments later—an animated conversation between positive and negative space facilitated by rhythm.

Spontaneity serves as his greatest tool for exploration. Through trial and error, he chips away at the mun- dane, mining for light bulb moments. Rizzi began to experiment when he started studying at SVA, com- bining graffiti’s ethos with an ever-expanding oeuvre of artistic inspirations culled out of curiosity rather than clout. His greatest inspirations arise from abstract expressionists like Franz Kline, Helen Frankenthal- er, and Cy Twombly, all artists who held spontaneity in high esteem. Their sensibilities bolster Rizzi’s deep belief in the profound value of a moment.

Upon beginning, Rizzi swiftly selects the most dynamic portions of gestural marks. He rearranges pieces, zooming in on certain areas and making impulsive alterations elsewhere. Rizzi adds depth to these forms with collage and all manner of paint, providing each work of art with an entire statement condensed into one instant. Bold, playful, and incredibly colorful, Rizzi likens his work’s hues to musical notes—bright colors are horn pops, muted tones form bass lines.

Bright colors also create easier communication with his audiences. Rizzi repeatedly returns to pop art motifs like saturated palettes, strong outlines, and repetition to interact directly with the viewer’s subcon- scious mind. This effect is emphasized by the large scale he often works in, a statement of grandiosity and playfulness which fully immerses viewers with every appraisal. Absent narrative, absent agenda, the colors in Rizzi’s art allow it to consult directly with the mind in a straightforward fashion, empowered by the same animal attraction that draws shoppers to the reddest, shiniest apple at the supermarket’s stand.

Beyond skateboarding and graffiti, Rizzi also considers nature a powerful inspiration, ironic given his urban origins. Today he lives in Dallas, Texas amongst a landscape that always proves surprising. Birds unexpectedly court in his backyard, where he watches the sunset tinge the shifting clouds to create new gradients and shades. He emulates this spontaneity, driving at a standard beyond human dominion.

Above all, Rizzi’s greatest focus lies in contributing his own voice to the contemporary artistic dialogue art by synthesizing all that he observes and all that inspires him. His hands passively conduct ideas, histories, subcultures and emotions. This mindful evolution has even led him into brash territories—his most recent series, Cause and Effect, dabbles in the figurative after a long infatuation with abstraction. This trend has so far allowed the artist to transmute moments into entire landscapes. Regardless of scale, Rizzi’s work possesses an undeniable ability for placemaking. All the while, it races the winding road of its own contin- uous script in search of a shifting visual language able to convey Rizzi’s own unique story, an inner story which transcends words.

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EXHIBITION HISTORY

2020

- Psychedilic Robot - Bivins Gallery - Dallas, TX - Solo Exhibition - Raffles City - Shenzen, China

2019

- Beyond the Sunset - Woodward Gallery - New York City - Shiny and New - Carneal Simmons Gallery - Dallas, TX

2018

- Nien’s Adventure in Lanes - Chengdu, China

2017

- Chromatose - Chesterfield Gallery - New York City - Steady Hustle - Wall Works Gallery - New York City

2016

- Hairy Crab Festival - Souzhou Village, China

- Art Swagger - Gensler - Los Angeles, California

- Motion Forward: Street Style - Albany Museum of Art - Albany, Georgia

- The Sanest Days are Mad - Erin Cluley Gallery - Dallas, Texas

- Fall Salon Group Exhibition - Woodward Gallery - New York City

2015

- Bottle Rock Music Festival - Napa Valley, California

- Piece Out - WAAS Gallery - Dallas, Texas

- Untitled Solo Show - Neighborhood Gallery - Dallas, Texas

- Untitled Group Show - Sugar lift Gallery - Brooklyn, New York

- Visual Language - Zener Schon Contemporary Art - Mill Valley, California

2014

- Sheer Power - Woodward Gallery - New York City

- Project Space Retrospective: 2008-2014 - Woodward Gallery - New York City

- Linescapes - Circuit 12 Gallery - Dallas, Texas

- Untitled Solo Show - Muzeion Gallery - Dallas, Texas

- The Great Escape - JOYCE - Hong Kong, China

2013

- Ways and Means - Mighty Tanaka Gallery - Brooklyn, New York

2012

- F*ck Art - Museum of Sex - New York City

2011

- Color & Motion - Mighty Tanaka Gallery - Brooklyn, New York - Fountain Art Fair Solo Booth - The Frying Pan - New York City

2010

- Of Clouds and Something Else - Mighty Tanaka Gallery - Brooklyn, New York - Contemporary Abstractions - Powerhouse Arena - Brooklyn, New York

- UnderBelly Project - New York City

2009

- Mighty Tanaka Presents - Dapper Dan’s Pop Up Gallery - New York City

2008

- As Is - Mighty Tanaka Pop Up Gallery - Brooklyn, New York - Urban Mantra - Chashama Gallery - New York City

2007

- Behind The Seen - Ad Hoc Art - Brooklyn, New York

MURALS & COMMISSIONS

2019

- Mural - The Hill - Dallas, TX

- Mural - Trintiy Groves - Dallas, TX

2018

- Commission - Pod Hotel - New York City

2017

- Mural - Rockefeller Center - New York City - Commission - Pod Hotel - New York City

2016

- Mural - 360 Bond St - New York City

- Mural - Collaboration with John “Crash” Matos - Jersey City, New Jersey

- Mural - Bushwick Collective collaboration with Tats Cru - Brooklyn, New York

2015

- Mural - Grand Central Tech - New York City

- Commission - Four Seasons Hotel - New York City

- Commission - Wesleyan - Houston, Texas

- Mural - Josey Records - Dallas, Texas

2014

- Commission - Beverly Hills Hotel - Beverly Hills, California

- Mural - HDTV @ SxSW - Dallas, Texas

- Mural - Vevo collaboration with Shepard Fairey @ SxSW - Dallas, Texas

- Mural - Bushwick Collective collaboration with COL - Brooklyn, New York City - Mural - Dallas Contemporary - Dallas, Texas

2013

- Mural - Bushwick Collective - Brooklyn, New York City

- Mural - Trinity Groves Restaurant - Dallas, Texas

- Collaboration - Jimmy Choo, Emil Pucci, Preonza Schouler @ JOYCE - Hong Kong, China

2012

- Mural - DUMBO Arts Council - Brooklyn, New York City - Commission - Hi Line - Dallas, Texas

2011

- Commission - Nike House of Hoops - Chicago, Illinois

- Mural - The Aqueduct Murals @ The Aqueduct Racetrack - New York City

2009

- Mural - Mark Batty Publisher Urban Art Festival - Brooklyn, New York

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.

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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” is a creative mindset that fosters innovative problem-solving, combining artistic principles with analytical thinking to generate fresh ideas and unconventional solutions.

It is characterized by its creative problem-solving and empathy-driven approach, encourages individuals to think outside the box when tackling complex issues. It emphasizes innovation and open-mindedness, fostering the ability to develop fresh solutions that address global challenges without strict constraints or predefined goals.

Teamwork and leadership, integrated with art thinking, offer a dynamic strategy for addressing global challenges. Teamwork plays a pivotal role in executing these solutions. Effective collaboration among diverse teams enables the fusion of various talents and viewpoints, resulting in more comprehensive and innovative problem-solving. It harnesses the power of collective intelligence, ensuring a more robust response.

This holistic approach empowers individuals and teams to become global change agents. By combining art thinking, teamwork, and leadership, we can address the world's most critical challenges with fresh perspectives and a united effort, striving for a more sustainable, equitable, and prosperous global future.

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 ...

NAME: Patrik Andiné

COUNTRY: Sweden

BORN: 1968, Gothenburg

TECHNIQUE: Oil on canvas

YEAR: 2021

PROVENANCE: Avalon Art Collection 2021

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.

A presentation by Jesper

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.

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

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.

The Big M can host a variety of events and specialises in hosting bespoke audio-visual content, it could operate as a ‘pop up cinema’, it could house a media centre broadcasting live events to screen or as a festival bar with a VJ arena. The Big M fits in a large transit van and is able to tour anywhere, allowing it to reach remote locations that may not have access to specialist technology. It is also the perfect event space to create a strong presence in key locations such as city centres.

The Big M is the only inflatable, mobile touring venue of it’s kind, and can be assembled on concrete or grass in cities or rural locations, often attracting in excess of 2000 people per day, making it a fantastic arena for showcasing your event. The Big M is a fun and captivating structure and will continue to draw new and inquisitive audiences.

1995 A Gallery started 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.