BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Liljevalchs - ECPv6.16.3//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-WR-CALNAME:Liljevalchs X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://liljevalchs.se X-WR-CALDESC:Events for Liljevalchs REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H X-Robots-Tag:noindex X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Europe/Stockholm BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0200 TZNAME:CEST DTSTART:20240331T010000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0200 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:CET DTSTART:20241027T010000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0200 TZNAME:CEST DTSTART:20250330T010000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0200 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:CET DTSTART:20251026T010000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0200 TZNAME:CEST DTSTART:20260329T010000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0200 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:CET DTSTART:20261025T010000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0200 TZNAME:CEST DTSTART:20270328T010000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0200 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:CET DTSTART:20271031T010000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Stockholm:20250613T000000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Stockholm:20251012T235959 DTSTAMP:20260922T184858 CREATED:20250819T132402Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250915T092201Z UID:10000233-1749772800-1760313599@liljevalchs.se SUMMARY:Lars Jonsson\, invisibilis DESCRIPTION:placeholder-4-3Lars Jonsson\, invisibilis\n13 juni–12 oktober \n \n \n \n \n\n\n\n\n\n\nLars Jonsson is the most prominent painter of birds and nature in Sweden. In the exhibition invisibilis\, his lifelong artistry alongside many new works are presented. \n\n\n\nLars Jonsson is considered one of the world’s finest in depicting birds and nature\, a genre with a long-standing tradition in art history. The influence from Bruno Liljefors is particularly evident\, who exhibited in the very same halls of Liljevalchs\, in the art gallery’s first exhibition in 1916. In the 1970s\, Lars Jonsson became known internationally as an ornithologist for his handbook about the birds of Sweden. \n\n\n\nWith his deep knowledge\, unique perception and technical skills\, Lars Jonsson has revolutionized bird painting. In his paintings\, the birds’ appearance and the close connection to their habitats are captured\, but the images also reach deeper\, into their characters and inner lives. In the exhibition\, we are invited to follow the artists’ creative process\, from sketch to completed painting. In the poetic depictions\, we perceive something that on the surface seems hidden\, but that is made visible by Lars’ ability to identify with the personality and soul of the birds. \n\n\n\nWhen I\, for the first time this year\, point the monocular to the couple of eiders in the graygreen water\, calmly swimming in from the shores\, it’s that same feeling and perception of something that needs to be captured\, read and eternalized. In the exact moment that I see the scene\, my head paints what my retina perceives – the combination of graygreen\, pink\, the white that shifts to shades of peach\, mango\, lemon peel\, vanilla and the edges as black as dry liquorice\, and slowly\, the waves wander in toward the beach. The wonder takes place here and now\, says Lars Jonsson\, artist. \n\n\n\nThe curator of the exhibition is Emil Ivedal. \n\n\n\nImage: Septemberskymning (Common snipe)\, watercolour\, 2024. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n Opens June 13th \n\n\n\n Visitors info \n\n\n\n Book a guided tour \n\n\n\n Main building URL:https://liljevalchs.se/kalender/lars-jonsson-invisibilis/ LOCATION:Liljevalchs Bergstenshuset\, Djurgårdsvägen 60\, Stockholm\, 11521\, Sverige CATEGORIES:Children & Youth,Guided tours,Konstsamling,Skola ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://liljevalchs.se/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/septemberskymning-scaled.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Stockholm:20250905T000000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Stockholm:20251012T235959 DTSTAMP:20260922T184858 CREATED:20250825T135346Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250915T092133Z UID:10000234-1757030400-1760313599@liljevalchs.se SUMMARY:Liselotte Watkins\, Edicola Due DESCRIPTION:Liselotte Watkins is one of Sweden’s most distinctive visual storytellers and artists. At the centre of the exhibition Edicola Due – for Liljevalchs is a hexagonal chapel made up of 36 assembled paintings\, forming a space rich with symbolism. \n\n\n\nLiselotte Watkins weaves together art history\, philosophy\, activism\, and popular culture with a personal imprint. Utilising an explicitly analogue and tactile method\, she creates works in which every detail carries meaning – drawn from real-life encounters\, books\, printed materials\, and physical environments rather than digital sources. In Edicola Due – for Liljevalchs\, references can be found to artists and figures such as David Hockney\, Carla Lonzi\, and Carla Accardi\, Donatello’s David\, Dante and Marie Laure de Decker\, as well as contemporary symbols like the Nike logo. \n\n\n\nIn connection with the exhibition\, a special publication has been produced for Liljevalchs\, in collaboration between Liselotte Watkins and Helene Fuchs. The paper contains newly written texts on topics ranging from one of Cleopatra Pia Tolomei’s last relatives\, to camel libraries\, Don Quixote\, and a story about how young girls were rescued from Kabul. \n\n\n\nThe title Edicola Due refers both to the small kiosks that once characterised cities like Rome and to the miniature chapels still found throughout Italian villages. Watkins\, who now lives in Tuscany\, draws inspiration from the Italian cultural environment and her overflowing studio cosmos – where books\, images\, and fragments become visual narratives. \n\n\n\n\n–Edicola Due is a kind of requiem for my love of the newsstand\, that place that was always part of the streetscape but is now disappearing. I still remember the feeling of seeing my illustration in The New York Times for the first time. It was magical. That feeling\, that presence\, is what I want to preserve in Edicola Due\, says Liselotte Watkins. \n\n\n\n\nWatkins broke through internationally as a fashion illustrator in the late 1990s with commissioners such as Prada\, Vogue\, Elle\, and The New Yorker. Over the past decade\, she has fully devoted herself to her independent art practice\, creating a unique visual language where the female body\, symbolism\, and everyday objects gain new meanings. \n\n\n\nCurator for the exhibition is Joanna Sandell Wright. \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n Opens September 5th \n\n\n\n Visit us \n\n\n\n Main building URL:https://liljevalchs.se/kalender/liselotte-watkins-edicola-due/ LOCATION:Liljevalchs Bergstenshuset\, Djurgårdsvägen 60\, Stockholm\, 11521\, Sverige CATEGORIES:Children & Youth,Guided tours,Skola ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://liljevalchs.se/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/Watkins-0238-scaled.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Stockholm:20251010T000000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Stockholm:20260830T235959 DTSTAMP:20260922T184858 CREATED:20250825T084129Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260312T140754Z UID:10000235-1760054400-1788134399@liljevalchs.se SUMMARY:When We See Us DESCRIPTION:When We See Us: A Century of Black Figuration in Painting has been highlighted and acclaimed internationally as one of the most significant exhibitions in contemporary art. \n\n\n\nThe exhibition features over 148 works from institutional and private lenders located across 16 countries\, bringing together artworks from the past 100 years\, created by Black artists worldwide. The exhibition places these works in dialogue with Black thinkers\, writers\, and poets active today. When We See Us is the largest exhibition of Black figuration that is underpinned by joy. \n\n\n\nWhen We See Us is conceived and organized by Zeitz Museum of Contemporary Art Africa (Zeitz MOCAA)\, where it deeply resonated with its audience and subsequently travelled to Kunstmuseum Basel in Basel and Bozar in Brussels. With a primary focus on painting\, the exhibition celebrates how artists from Africa and its diaspora (people of African descent living outside the continent) have envisioned\, positioned\, memorialized and asserted experiences from Africa and of African descent. The exhibition is co-curated by the late Koyo Kouoh\, appointed Curator of the 61st International Art Exhibition of the 2026 Venice Biennale\, and Tandazani Dhlakama\, former Zeitz MOCAA Curator and current Curator of Global Africa at Royal Ontario Museum (ROM). \n\n\n\n\n“The exhibition refuses to place Eurocentric narratives of oppression at the centre.” \n\n\n\n\n”When We See Us invites reflection on how Black artists over the past century have used figuration to depict various aspects of everyday life\, including intimacy\, belonging\, joy and resilience. The exhibition refuses to place Eurocentric narratives of oppression at the centre. It highlights Koyo Kouoh’s curatorial vision of placing African and diasporic practices at the centre of global art history”\, says Dhlakama. \n\n\n\nThe exhibition is organized around six themes: The Everyday\, Joy and Revelry\, Repose\, Sensuality\, Spirituality\, and Triumph and Emancipation. Based on these themes\, the exhibition offers a rich and nuanced picture of Black life and thought\, emphasising the resilience\, essence and political charge of Black Joy. The exhibition is grounded in a curatorial premise that shifts away from centering violence and trauma – subjects that have traditionally been associated with art from Africa and its diaspora. \n\n\n\n“When We See Us presents an alternative modernity\, highlighting artistic practices that have been historically excluded in Western Art History. The exhibition offers visitors a unique opportunity to experience art that has never been shown in Sweden\,” says Joanna Sandell Wright\, collaborating curator of the exhibition\, director and artistic leader of Liljevalchs. \n\n\n\nThe title of the exhibition is inspired by Ava DuVernay’s 2019 miniseries When They See Us\, it depicts various forms of violence against Black people as still witnessed globally today. Replacing “they” with “we” in the title indicates the crucial perspectival shift: The works on show bring into focus the artists’ lived realities. When We See Us highlights the relationships between artists and artworks across geographical\, generational\, and conceptual boundaries\, showcasing what Koyo Kouoh describes as a “parallel aesthetic.” It is a concept that Kouoh has used to describe how artists across the world develop similar artistic expressions sharing the same context. \n\n\n\nThe exhibition features works by artists never before shown in Sweden\, including Zandile Tshabalala\, Jacob Lawrence\, Chéri Samba\, Danielle McKinney\, Ben Enwonwu\, Kingsley Sambo\, Sungi Mlengeya\, Lynette Yiadom-Boakye\, Cyprien Tokoudagba\, Amy Sherald\, and Joy Labinjo\, among others. The exhibition is accompanied by a sonic translation created by South African composer and sound artist Neo Muyanga. \n\n\n\nIn connection with the exhibition in Stockholm\, Liljevalchs has invited Southnord to curate a series of events over the course of the show. Southnord is a groundbreaking platform dedicated to uplifting Black and Afrodiasporic artists in the Nordic region. They have brought together a group of inspiring Afro-Swedes to activate the exhibition through guided tours\, themed walkthroughs\, sonic performances\, readings for children\, portrait workshops for youth and more. \n\n\n\nA hardcover poetic catalog\, published in conjunction with the exhibition by Thames & Hudson in collaboration with Zeitz MOCAA and edited by Koyo Kouoh\, will be available for sale in Liljevalchs’ shop. The catalog is comprehensive and richly illustrated with all the works selected for the exhibition and includes a contextual essay by the exhibition’s co-curator Tandazani Dhlakama as well as four specially commissioned texts by acclaimed women writers: Ken Bugul (Senegal)\, Maaza Mengiste (Ethiopia)\, Robin Coste Lewis (USA) and Bill Kouelany (Congo-Brazzaville). \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFoto: Jean-Baptiste Béranger \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nÖppet idag 11–17\n\n\n\n Visitor info \n\n\n\n Book a guided tour \n\n\n\n Liljevalchs+\, Falkenbergsgatan 3 URL:https://liljevalchs.se/kalender/when-we-see-us/ LOCATION:Liljevalchs+\, Falkenbergsgatan 3\, Stockholm\, 11521\, Sverige CATEGORIES:Children & Youth,Guided tours,Konstsamling,Skola ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://liljevalchs.se/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/Zandile-Tshabalala_Two-reclining-women_2020_Acrylic-on-canvas_122-x-91.5cm-1.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Stockholm:20251121T000000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Stockholm:20260111T235959 DTSTAMP:20260922T184858 CREATED:20251105T143950Z LAST-MODIFIED:20251110T134422Z UID:10000255-1763683200-1768175999@liljevalchs.se SUMMARY:Stockholm Cosmologies DESCRIPTION:Stockholms kosmologierStockholm Cosmologies\n21 November 2025–11 January 2026 \nStockholms kosmologierStockholm Cosmologies\n21 November 2025–11 January 2026 \n \n\n \n \n \n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nStockholm Cosmologies is a group exhibition that focuses on the international and cosmopolitan nature of the city’s contemporary art scene. The exhibition brings together fifteen artists working across various media such as video\, performance\, installation\, sculpture\, painting\, and textiles. \n\n\n\nIn the second part of the curatorial project that began with Stockholm Cosmology (2024)\, Liljevalchs continues its survey of the Swedish art scene by considering various contact zones—in this iteration\, turning its gaze further afield. \n\n\n\nStockholm Cosmologies represents a constellation of relations across geographies and temporalities. These contact zones are historic as well as temporary—in some cases fleeting\, in others sustained through memory\, and often overlapping. One contact zone stems from the diplomatic relations between Sweden and the South African government in exile during the 1970s and 1980s\, a relationship rooted in solidarity and kinship. \n\n\n\nHowever\, the exhibition resists the framing of an historic set of relations. Other considerations are the lived lives of artists and the liminal aspects of being situated in-between two geographies. The practice of South African-born artist Lefifi Tladi\, and his life of exile\, existing between Sweden and South Africa\, is a departure point for the curatorial journey. Queerness is a zone of contact\, as are the legacies of Dutch colonial violence\, linking artists from the southern tip of Africa to the Carribbean\, and returning to Sweden. \n\n\n\nStockholm Cosmologies leans into the notion of ‘parallel aesthetics’—an articulation by the late Koyo Kouoh\, in the framing of the exhibition When We See Us (currently on view at Liljevalchs+). These two exhibitions also form a contact zone\, in the physical connection between the  two buildings of Liljavalchs—one more than a century old\, at this moment holding contemporary artists; the other\, a contemporary building holding a century of painting. \n\n\n\nStockholm Cosmologies is the result of dialogues between two curators and their networks and relations\, their respective worlds brought into a zone of contact\, contained for the duration of the exhibition within the walls of Liljevalchs. \n\n\n\nAll of the fifteen participating artists are active in multiple geographies—spanning Scandinavia\, Africa\, and its diaspora. Together\, they form a spectrum of experiences that spans generations\, materials\, and geographies. The exhibition includes emerging artists as well as those who have been active for a longer time. Several of the works were made in 2025 and many of them are site-specific\, produced especially for Liljevalchs. \n\n\n\nStockholm Cosmologies takes as its starting point the concept of cosmology\, not in its scientific sense\, but rather as a poetic and political model for how artists relate to the world\, time\, place\, material\, and to one another. A cosmology can be seen as a worldview\, an inner map or an artistic orientation. In speaking of cosmologies in the plural\, the exhibition seeks to illuminate the myriad expressions that take place in artists’ studios\, as well as the unexpected parallels\, ruptures\, and reflections that can arise between artists who have neither met nor heard of each other\, and who work on different continents. \n\n\n\nStockholm Cosmologies is not an attempt to define the Swedish art scene but rather to offer a multifaceted and relational picture of what is going on within it right now. It is a proposal to see it as something open\, contradictory\, and in constant change—yet globally intertwined. A place where artistic cosmologies and aesthetics co-exist\, collide\, mirror each other and\, sometimes\, unfold in parallel. \n\n\n\nThe exhibition features the artists Filippa Arrias\, Igshaan Adams\, Karim Boumjimar\, Loulou Cherinet\, Theresa Traore Dahlberg\, Garth Erasmus\, Sara-Vide Ericson\, Salad Hilowle\, Bronwyn Katz\, Kitso Lynn Lelliott\, Kayo Mpoyi\, Pia Sandström\, Inga Somdyala\, Ylva Snöfrid and Lefifi Tladi. \n\n\n\n\n\n Opens 21 November \n\n Visitor info \n\n Book a guided tour \n\n Liljevalchs\, Djurgårdsvägen 60 URL:https://liljevalchs.se/kalender/stockholm-cosmologies/ CATEGORIES:Children & Youth,Guided tours,Konstsamling ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://liljevalchs.se/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/SC_HERO-IMAGE_purple_3200x2400-scaled.png END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR