BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Liljevalchs - ECPv6.15.20//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH 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 BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0200 TZNAME:CEST DTSTART:20280326T010000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0200 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:CET DTSTART:20281029T010000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Stockholm:20251010T000000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Stockholm:20260830T235959 DTSTAMP:20260530T152733 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:20260621T000000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Stockholm:20270110T235959 DTSTAMP:20260530T152733 CREATED:20260427T084952Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260526T121009Z UID:10000304-1782000000-1799625599@liljevalchs.se SUMMARY:Ylva Snöfrid\, The House of the Muses DESCRIPTION:Ylva Snöfrid Musernas husYlva Snöfrid\, The House of the Muses\nJune 21st 2026–January 10th 2027 \nYlva Snöfrid Musernas husYlva Snöfrid\, The House of the Muses\nJune 21st 2026–January 10th 2027 \n \n\n \n \n \n \n\n\n\n\n\n\nOn the day of the Summer Solstice\, June 21st\, Ylva Snöfrid fills Liljevalchs with The House of the Muses – a vibrant Gesamtkunstverk and cosmic play\, transforming the century-old building into a pictorial and performative universe. During eight months\, Liljevalchs turns into a house for the nine muses and the four elements – earth\, water\, air and fire. \n\n\n\n“Once upon a time there was infinity\, a revolution around the sun\, a planetary time axis\, a spiral. The world and time curved\, String theory. Quantum physics. The back is a front\, a black hole. An event horizon. Once upon a time there were nine muses and four elements.”– Excerpt from Ylva Snöfrid’s manuscript. \n\n\n\nThe House of the Muses is based on a manuscript written by Snöfrid in the Swiss alps. The most extensive presentation of her practice up to date\, the exhibition spans 400 paintings\, thousands of sketches\, prints\, objects\, as well as specially crafted furniture coated in oil paint. Everything is transferred from the artist’s home over to Liljevalchs and many of the works bear traces of the artist’s life and earlier works. \n\n\n\nSnöfrid’s pictorial cycles spans over decades. A recurring one is the ritual painting\, where each act is an artistic one\, interweaving life and art in a flow where existentiality opens up towards a cosmological perspective and the imaginary is merged with the stardust and the dark matter of the universe. \n\n\n\nThe House of the Muses unfolds in thirteen galleries where each room corresponds to a muse or an element asking the questions: Whose perspective is this? Whose childhood? Mine? Yours? Ours? Who is the protagonist? Who is the monster? As a visitor\, you’re invited to engage with the work and to move through the exhibition in your own individual manner. There are around 30 rituals to take part of\, and you can participate in festivities\, plays and happenings where the paintings and installations are made usable. The exhibition also follows life events such as birth\, childhood\, adolescence\, wisdom and dream. \n\n\n\nThe work embraces a number of partnerships with other artists and parties. Prior to the opening of the exhibition\, and during its duration\, the artist is working together with the director and actor Rebecka Hemse and The Royal Dramatic Theatre. Actors from the ensemble of The Royal Dramatic Theatre will on a number of occasions enact scenes inside the work\, stemming from both the world drama repertoire and from scenes based on the manuscript Snöfrid has written and edited alongside Rebecka Hemse. The scenes become elements of the work and new works within the work simultaneously – a dialogue between artist and playwright\, between art and drama\, between Kunsthalle and theatre. \n\n\n\nThe last gallery\, number 13\, is dedicated to the dream world\, and here\, the new painting suite The Dream Rite expands across the floor. Here\, the visitors can step on the paintings and engage with the work through their own dancing rituals. On a number of occasions\, the work will be activated through music created by the music producer Kornél Kovács and the musician Isak Hedtjärn\, as well as dance based on the choreography of the Dream Rite. \n\n\n\nAn exhibition catalogue is produced by the culture publication NUDA. The experimental three-parted publication follows the progression of the exhibition\, containing multiples\, the artist’s own deck of tarot cards with instructions for rituals\, texts by Nicolas Bourriaud\, Cathryn Drake\, Sinziana Ravini\, Joanna Sandell Wright\, Cara Schacter and Marina Tsvetajeva\, as well as parts of Snöfrid’s manuscript.Ylva Snöfrid is known for her performative works\, pushing the boundaries of painting; within Snöfrid’s ritualized world\, everything revolves around painting that moves between figuration and matter. Her artistic process often takes place in communal rooms and in collective rituals\, where she takes on the role as a mediator between work and reality. In 2017\, she performed a “transmutation ritual” in which she became one with her twin soul Snöfrid. \n\n\n\nYlva Snöfrid has been based in New York\, Berlin\, Athens and Stockholm. She has exhibited extensively around the world in numerous large exhibitions and site-specific works\, including Istanbul Biennal\, Performa in New York\, Palais de Tokyo\, Swiss Institute in New York\, Institut Suédois in Paris\, Bonniers konsthall and Kunsthal Charlottenborg in Copenhagen. \n\n\n\n“—-It is ridiculous\, everything is a joke\, the artist is a clown in society…but everyone is born an artist!!! I am an artist\, a fool\, an idiot!”– Excerpt from Ylva Snöfrid’s manuscript for the muse Urania \n\n\n\nThe exhibition is curated by Joanna Sandell Wright\, Director of Liljevalchs. \n\n\n\nPhoto: Märta Thisner \n\n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n Opens June 21st \n\n\n\n Visit us \n\n\n\n Book a guided tour \n\n\n\n Liljevalchs\, Djurgårdsvägen 60 URL:https://liljevalchs.se/kalender/ylva-snofrid/ CATEGORIES:Children & Youth,Guided tours,Konstsamling,Skola ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://liljevalchs.se/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/ylvasnofrid_6W7A2365_x_1-scaled.jpg END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR