The Culture Administration City of Stockholm

Stockholm – a city full of culture Welcome to The Culture Administration!

Room for imagination. Stockholm Stockholm School will grow with of the Arts page 18 culture. Cultural vision Art enriching page 6 the city. Stockholm konst (Stockholm Art) page 24 More than 40 public libraries Attracting throughout both young the city. and old. The Stockholm City Library page 20 The Events Department page 16

Welcome ...... 5

Vision of Culture2030 ...... 6

The Culture Administration ... 8

The Cultural strategy staff .... 9

The Events Department ...... 16 A city full of Stockholm School of the Arts 18 stories. El Sistema ...... 19 The Stockholm City Museum, The Stockholm City Library ... 20 with the Medieval Museum and Stockholmia Publishing House The Stockholm City Museum page 22 with The Medieval Museum and Stockholmia Publishing House ...... 22

Generous, high quality Stockholm Art ...... 24 and accessible. Liljevalchs Art Gallery ...... 26 Liljevalchs konsthall (art gallery) page 26 Let us know what you think! 30 Stockholm is a city full of culture. With more than 40 public libraries, the largest culture school in Europe and a culture festival that attracts close to a million visitors, the city is filled with art and stories where culture continues to both enrich and unify. Here you also find The Stockholm City Museum, The Medieval Museum and the Stockholmers’ own art gallery, Liljevalchs. Culture shapes society just as much as it reflects it. Stockholm strives to offer everyone a cultural scene that is important and of good quality, a forum where people can discover new places, meet new people, create and partake in many different cultural expressions. By supporting the independent cultural scene, artists and craftspeople, The Culture Administration has the important task of promoting and deve­lo­ping the cultural life of the whole city, a city that is constantly changing.

Roger Mogert Vice Mayor of City Planning and Culture SUPER STRUCTURE, NORRBRO, STOCKHOLM CULTURE FESTIVAL 2015 @RMogert PHOTO BEATA HOLMGREN / STUDIO EMMA SVENSSON 4 5 PHOTO MAGNUS SELANDER Vision of Culture Stockholm 2030 will grow with

culture.Stockholm attracts people from all over ding those who do not seek it out on their own Sweden and the rest of the world, people accord. Other aspects of our vision are digital who are drawn to the pulse of the city. development from a user perspective and a city It is a place for international interaction with a visible past and a challenging future. and creative opportunities but there is also room for alternative lifestyles and forms 100 years of development In the summer of of culture. 1930, Stockholm received a new international position when Swedish architecture, design and The mission of The Culture Administration is to crafts were shown at the Stockholm Exhibition. create a dynamic city with many exciting events, After the exhibition ended and the buildings were a city that is attractive, accessible and welcoming, taken down, the ideas lived on, refined and with a challenging and innovative. Our vision of culture major influence on the design discourse, housing is part of the vision of the City of Stockholm. construction, and cultural and political develop­ This is where our future Stockholm is expressed ments in Sweden. in words. Our vision for Stockholm is a city that By having a special vision of culture, our inten­ is an arena for interaction, events and creativity, a tion is to intensify efforts to create a Stockholm city that is equipped for a global cultural society with world-class culture. Then Stockholm will be where local initiatives and enthusiasts are encoura­ – just as it was a hundred years ago – a centre for ged and supported. Our vision is that Stockholm’s local, national and international culture, strongly cultural life will be accessible to everyone, inclu­ characterised by development and growth. WE ARE STHLM PHOTO EMMA SVENSSON 6 7 The Culture Cultural strategy The Culture Committee staff

Administration To ensure a diverse cultural scene in Stockholm with a wide choice of events, Head of expressions and possibilities, the Cultural the Culture strategy staff of the Cultural Administration Administration is an important allocates financial aid to independent cultural and voluntary organisations. Aid is also given to educational organisations and community centres in the city. The basic prin- part of The City ciple is that art and culture should be charac- terised by high quality and good conditions.

Children and young people who are able to develop all The Strategic staff develop and coordinate strategic of Stockholm. their languages, who are listened to and who are able intelligence and business environment monitoring. to experience art and culture with all their senses will The cultural strategy staff also order research, develop and grow. Kultur i ögonhöjd (Eye-level Culture) is a cultural programme for children and youth in city investigate, cultural policy matters, leads major of Stockholm. The programme provides substantial processes and ensures that culture is included in the The The The support in everyday work in pre-schools, compulsory city development. Administrative Communications Cultural strategy schools, upper secondary schools and in the spare time. An annual culture report describes the Culture staff staff staff Administration’s activities, strategic challenges for the future, and Stockholm’s cultural scene in an Everyone in international perspective.

Liljevalchs The Stockholm is able Did you know that… konsthall Stockholm City Stockholm The Events (art gallery) Museum with The The Stockholm to take part of a g Kultur i ögonhöjd (Eye-level Culture) is a strategic cultural School of Department Stockholm Medieval Museum City Library plan for children and youth that the whole city has adopted? the Arts konst (Stockholm and Stockholmia cultural scene that Art) Publishing g The cultural strategy staff contributes to the collaboration house is important and of between the cultural scene, pre-schools and schools through good quality. the meeting place called Mötesplatsen Kulan? g 580 artists and craftspeople were given aid for studios in The Culture Administration’s mission 2014? All in all, the studio aid amounted to SEK 7.1 million. The Culture Administration is striving to the main part of cultural activities in the city that g Aid to the independent cultural scene have increased by offer a diverse cultural scene in Stockholm are organised by the municipality. more than 16 million SEK since 2014? with a wide choice of events, expressions Another important task is to follow and pro­ The total amount to Stockholm’s independent cultural and possibilities that embrace both diversi- mote the development of culture and support the Do you have an awesome g and educational organisations was approximately 184.5 idea, are you between 10 ty and excellence. independent cultural scene. The Culture Admini­ million SEK in 2015? stration is also responsible for a number of events and 25 years old and a resident of Stockholm? g Open House-events are open several times a year to give A rich cultural scene with many opportunities for for example, Stockholm Culture Night, Stockholm You could then receive cultural participants the opportunity to get information about stimulating experiences and metropolitan pulse is Culture Festival, the youth festival We Are Sthlm a cultural grant of up aid and grants, ask questions about how to apply or get essential for the city’s attractiveness and draws both and the citizenship ceremony on Sweden’s Natio­ to SEK 10 000 for your response on a grants ruling? new residents and visitors. The instruments that the nal Day. dream project.

Culture Administration has at its disposal are partly In addition, the Culture Administration runs The Moreover, you can get advice and guidance

its own institutions, partly the support to the inde­ Stockholm City Library, Stockholm School of the from one of the 60 Contact us! Telephone: +46 8 508 31 900 pendent cultural scene. The Administration’s activi­ Arts, Liljevalchs Art Gallery, Stockholm Art and coaches that work with Cultural Aid for Young ties have about 11 million visits every year. The Stockholm City Museum with The Medieval stockholm.se/kultur stockholm.se/kulturstod People. The Culture Administration is responsible for Museum and Stockholmia publishing house. pedagogstockholm.se/kulan facebook.com/kulturstod

8 9 Did you know

81% Stockholm School of the Arts gives all children and adole- Eight out of ten Stockholmers scents in the city unique (81 percent) think Stockholm opportunities to develop their has a rich cultural scene. that… artistic creativity through music, theatre, dance, art and media. Every year about 17 000 children take part in such activities.

The Administration’s activities attract The Culture Administration has five about 11 million visits annually. departments and three staff sections. The management group consists of the department managers and staff 1 000 000 managers and head of Culture In 2020 it is estimated that The city of Stockholm will have a million residents Administration. and Stockholm County a population of 2.5 million.

Stockholmers borrow more than 4 million books a year. About 200 000 of these 600 are e-books. The lending of Visual and design artists have sub­ e-books increased by 13 % in sidised studios. 2014. 950 The Culture Administration has approximately 950 employees.

Every year, Stockholm’s new Swedes are invited to a citizenship ceremony in the City Hall on June 6.

The Culture Administration is working with climate-smart culture. That means all our activities must be firmly based on sustainable environment. To achieve this, the Some examples of arts that can be Administration has its own strategist given grants are: dance, film, art, Stockholm is one of the five in sustainability and there are repre- literature, music, musical theatre, 5fastest growing regions in million – the Culture Administration’s budget in 2014 was 811 million SEK (inclu- sentatives in sustainable environment theatre and circus. Europe. ding financial aid and grants) which is about 2.37 % of the city’s total budget. in all sections and departments.

10 11 FRUÄNGENS YOUTH/RECREATION CENTRE FLORA AND FAUNA, STOCKHOLM ART PHOTO SARA MC KEY SOLURSGARAGET, ÅNGERMANNAGATAN 132, VÄLLINGBY ARTISTIC DESIGN TILDA LOVELL PHOTO MATS LILIEQUIST 12 13 Discover

Stockholm! 2 Rinkeby-Kista Library El Sistema Stockholm School Spånga-Tensta of the Arts Stockholm School of the Arts in school facilities

Stockholm konst Hässelby-Vällingby (Stockholm art)

1 Liljevalchs konsthall (art gallery) Bromma Norrmalm Östermalm 2 The Culture Administration 3 Kungsträdgården 3 Kungsholmen 4 (a centrally located park) 1 The Events Department 5 4 The Medieval Museum Södermalm 5 The Stockholm City

Museum Hägersten-Liljeholmen

Skärholmen Enskede-Årsta och Vantör

Älvsjö

Skarpnäck Find the best places in the city in your mobile. By using the app Upptäck Stockholm (Discover Stockholm), you can choose from 1 500 outdoor Farsta places. Discover the city’s green nature reserves, find running tracks and walking paths, take your children to one of the city’s 300 playgrounds and play parks, or discover your new favourite spot in the city.

14 15 The Events Department The Events Department

The Events Department runs events where Stockholm City is either the organiser or a collaboration partner. 6.6 The department offers strategic plan- Since 1991, Stockholm City has ning, establishment, safety coordination, Attracts both organised a welcoming ceremony for and operational implementation in the new Swedish citizens. event sector. Every year the following On June 6, Sweden’s National Day, the four events take place: Stockholm City invites new Swedes to a ceremony Culture Night, the Citizenship Ceremony, in the City Hall. Stockholm Culture Festival and the youth young and old. festival We Are Sthlm.

Did you know that … Stockholm Culture Night g the longest book table in the world With historical Stockholm’s cultural scene opens is set up along Drottninggatan in roots from the 15th century, up, free of charge! Stockholmers are Stockholm during the Culture Festival? Kungsträdgården is an attractive, invited to a unique and unforgettable With 600 tables in double rows, the centrally located spot for different evening with hundreds of oppor- book table has attracted visitors to this types of events. The planning of tunities to spend an evening doing recurring book festival for over 25 years. Kungsträdgården’s new look was something different, everything from every year, the Culture Festival inspired by Bryant Park in New York. g film, opera and tango to torch-light has an international theme, inspired As of the autumn of 2015, walks, hanging out in bars, art exhibi- by other cultures and forms of art? is Kungsträdgården included tion openings, and night-time visits to Every year, the theme creates new, in the Events department. museums between 6 pm and mid- boundary-crossing relations and night on a Saturday evening. In 2015, cooperation. 140 000 visitors came to enjoy the rich variety of culture on Stockholm g as a Helper, you are We Are Sthlm’s Culture Night. most valuable asset? As a Helper, you are a youth volunteer and you will gain masses of experience and make many contacts that can be valuable for Every year, there are many events and working life. concerts attracting both young and old in Stockholm. Several are organized by the Stockholm Culture Night is held on a Saturday Culture Administration. evening in April. This is a very special evening 850 000 Contact us! and night when Stockholm’s museums, theatres, Stockholm Culture Festival and the youth festival We Are Sthlm are annual Telephone: +46 8 508 31 900 events. In 2015, these two events attracted nearly 850 000 visitors. Every year, the Culture Administration’s Events art galleries and many other cultural establish­ stockholm.se/evenemang Department organise Stockholm Culture Night, the ments are open for anyone interested. In addition stockholm.se/kungstradgarden youth festival We Are Sthlm, Stockholm to the annual events, the Events Department also PHOTO Stockholm Night of Culture Culture Festival and the citizenship ceremony. takes on assignments as cooperation partner, coor­ kulturnattstockholm.se These events attract visitors from all over Sweden, dinator and organiser of other large, temporary AEROCAM facebook.com/kulturnattsthlm and from other countries, bringing even more events. For example, the Events Department was @KulturnattSthlm people together for extensive cultural interaction. in charge of safety arrangements at the Volvo @KulturnattSthlm In mid-August Stockholm Culture festival and Ocean Race in 2009 and it has also run special Stockholm Festival of Culture We are Sthlm bring culture to the streets and mar­ events like LOVE Stockholm 2010, the festivities kulturfestivalen.stockholm.se ket squares of Stockholm. There is a wide range of in conjunction with the wedding between The facebook.com/StockholmsKulturfestival exhibitions, outdoor stages,­ restaurants and fairs Crown Princess Victoria and Prince Daniel. @kulturfestival – free of charge. From the autumn of 2015, is Kungsträdgården @kulturfestivalsthlm

On Sweden’s national day, June 6, everyone (a centrally located park) included in the Events We Are Sthlm is one of Europe’s largest youth festivals with concerts and activities. We Are Sthlm who became a Swedish citizen the year before department. The festival started in 2000 and its centre is in Kungsträdgården. The festival wearesthlm.stockholm.se and who lives in Stockholm is invited to a­ takes place one week before the start of the autumn term and young people are facebook.com/WeAreSthlm STOCKHOLM CULTURE FESTIVAL actively involved in the planning and organising. celebration. PHOTO ALMA VESTLUND / STUDIO EMMA SVENSSON @wearesthlm

16 17 Stockholm School of the Arts Stockholm School of the Arts

Stockholm School of the Arts gives everyone in Stockholm City aged between 6 and 22 the chance to discover, develop and express themselves in their spare time. With about 17 000 spots and 300 Room for teachers, Stockholm School of the Arts is the largest in Europe. Stockholm School of Stockholm City the Arts offers more than 70 subjects and introduced El Sistema as invites the general public to more than a way of giving more children 1 000 events a year. Lessons are given in imagination. from socio-economic disadvantaged all parts of Stockholm. areas the possibility of developing through music. The children are seen as co-creators. Working Did you know that … with El Sistema involves close g Stockholm School of the Arts has a contact with the children’s selection of instruments and dances from parents. PHOTO DENNIS WERNERSSON other continents?

g Stockholm School of the Arts has about 160 orchestras, bands, ensembles 17 000 and choirs? g Stockholm School of the Arts has Young people from all parts of access to 14 fully equipped stages? Stockholm can apply for one of the 17 000 spots at the Stockholm g Unga berättar (Young people tell their School of the Arts. stories) is one of Stockholm School of the Arts activities where children and young people tell their own stories through film Stockholm School of the Arts offers and animation? opportunities to take part in various international projects, for example, g everyone attending a music course workshops and exchanges with young at Stockholm School of the Arts has the VISITING KUL-HUSET, KUL1415 people from other European countries possibility of renting an instrument? PHOTO MATTIAS P. DAHLQVIST or work experience abroad. In our world, culture is important. Vitally im- secondary schools and other cultural performers portant. We need places for culture. Places which generates more culture and creativity in PHOTO with room for play, creativity, dreams. ordinary school classes – in all parts of the city “The best thing about Stockholm School Places where people can discover, develop The teachers at Stockholm School of the Arts of the Arts is that you get the chance BJÖRN ROSENBERG and express themselves. Room for imagina- are well-­educated and very committed to their to express yourself and get noticed, tion! work. They have university degrees in teaching the chance to dare to do something. and performing arts. At Stockholm School of the Arts, children and Every year, nearly a thousand events are orga­ The teachers and the other staff are young people between ages 6 and 22 can find that nized, both big and small. These are performances so supportive. That’s the best thing.” sort of space. Here, personal creativity is possible where everyone has the opportunity to take part, in PUPIL RESPONSE TO: WHAT IS THE BEST THING ABOUT STOCKHOLM SCHOOL OF THE ARTS? through one of our numerous activities in music, Stockholm School of the Arts own premises or on FROM STOCKHOLM SCHOOL OF THE ARTS CUSTOMER SURVEY 2014 song, dance, circus, theatre, musicals, art and one of Stockholm’s large stages, like the Concert media. Many youngsters who start at Stockholm Hall or the Town Hall. Stockholm School of the Contact us! School of the Arts continue for several years. Arts technicians, costume makers and scenograph­ #kulturskolansthlm Telephone: +46 8 508 31 870 All tuition takes place in groups. Music tuition ers all contribute to the productions of professional [email protected] takes place in classes of two or more pupils. performances and events. Children and young people who have one or several functional disabilities are Theatre, ­dance and art groups are larger. The Stockholm School of the Arts welcomes kulturskolan.stockholm.se pupils play an active role in shaping their lessons. everyone who is a registered resident in able to explore their creative abilities on their own terms at Stockholm School of the Arts resource centre. We either adapt our activities as best we can to facebook.com/KulturskolanStockholm Stockholm School of the Arts runs many Stockholm and aged 6–22. Here, there is space suit special needs, either in our ordinary premises or in the resource centre’s @KulturskolanSth projects in collaboration with primary and lower for imagination. own premises by Globen. @kulturskolansthlm

18 19 Children’s dreams, wishes and needs. The Stockholm City Library Children between 9 and 12 are of the The Stockholm City Barnens Bokbuss best book-reading ages! At the library, “Reading can Library – a miniature children’s library there are many opportunities to meet be dangerous inside a bus following a route with others, take part in creative activities The Stockholm City Library has about 100 bus stops. and talk about books together. – it may give 400 employees and is the largest Do you have children aged 0–2? Then department of the Culture Administration. facebook.com/BarnensBokbuss there are plenty of things for you to you new ideas.” The Stockholm City library plays a central @barnensbokbuss do both at the library and at home to KATTI HOFLIN, MANAGER FOR role in the vision of Stockholm for a diver- stimulate language development! STOCKHOLM CITY LIBRARY, se, exciting, innovative and expanding More than August 2015 city. The libraries are open meeting places for everyone. Together, the libraries and the website have about 9.5 million visits 40 public libraries every year. Did you know that … g The Stockholm City Library has 100 about 2 million books? throughout the Arabic, Thai, Hindi, Japanese, The Stockholm City Library has a Latvian, Vietnamese and g total of about 4 million loans a year? Swahili are some of the over one hundred different languages g The Stockholm City Library organise city. found at the International Library more than 8 000 activities a year? in Stockholm. The library also serves as a loan centre for the g The Stockholm City Library has about whole of Sweden. 9.5 million physical and virtual visits a PHOTO MATTIAS P. DAHLQVIST year?

g All in all, Stockholm City Libraries are open for more than 70 000 hours a year?

g Stockholm is leading Library Sweden’s e-book league? We have 1 000 000 passed 1 000 000 e-book loans (2015). One million e-book loans at Stockholm City Library since they started in 2001. E-book loans have increased dramatically since the start and now comprise eight Statistics from 2014 percent of the total loans at the City Library.

Stockholm has over 40 libraries, mostly pre-schools. The bus is also often seen in other Contact us! located close to the metro. Three of them contexts where Stockholmers of all ages gather, Telephone: +46 8 508 31 100 are even located at the station*. for instance, at festivals, town district events, Fax: +46 8 508 31 210 and, in the summer, at public beaches. In addition The library buildings are of very different archi­ to visiting the book bus, Stockholmers may also Customer service tecture, ranging from Gunnar Asplund’s gem from come across pop-up libraries where they are least Telephone: +46 8 508 30 900 1928 on Sveavägen to the “Best Public Library expected, on streets and in market squares. The [email protected] in the world”, in 2015, in Kista Galleria** and the digital library is open a’round the clock, with more International Library that has books in more than than 4 million visits a year. KISTA LIBRARY biblioteket.stockholm.se PHOTO MATTIAS P. DAHLQVIST 100 languages. biblioteket.stockholm.se/facebook @ssbnu In addition to the actual buildings, the child­ * Bredäng, Högdalen and Östermalmstorg metro stations. Kista Library is the best library in the world. The library was given the “Public @ssbnu ren of Stockholm also have their own book bus ** Public Library of the Year Award 2015 is awarded to a Library of the Year Award 2015”. This international prize was presented in Cape that tours around the city, visiting, for instance, newly-built library. Town.

20 21 The Stockholm City Museum with The Medieval Museum The Stockholm City Museum The Stockholm City Museum with The and Stockholmia Publishing House Medieval Museum and the Stockholmia Publishing House is a department of the Culture Administration. The Stock- holm City Museum does research and documentation and ensures that the collections of the city and the museum are preserved. Research on Stockholm’s history can be done in the documentary room. As of the autumn of 2017, a com- A city full of pletely new exhibition will be on show in newly-renovated­ premises.

Södermalmstorg/Slussen STREETLIFE AT VÄLLINGBYPLAN IN VÄLLINGBY CENTRUM (Planned opening: autumn 2017) stories. PHOTO LENNART AF PETERSENS Telephone: +46 8 508 316 00 The Digital City Museum. Here you find photographs, art, manuscripts and Information and booking: +46 8 508 316 20 The Stockholm City Museum with The middle of the storytelling. A place for Stockholm documentation from The City Museum. The diversity of our collections and acti- stadsmuseet.stockholm.se Medieval Museum and Stockholmia Publish- stories and a place for Stockholmers and visitors to vities are apparent here. Old and new photographs, oil paintings, reports on the history of buildings and archaeology are some examples of what you can find here. digitalastadsmuseet.stockholm.se ing House are your experts on the history the city. The Stockholm City Museum building by facebook.com/stadsmuseum of Stockholm – how the city and life in the Slussen is closed until the autumn of 2017 when it @stadsmuseet city have changed and continues to change. will re-open with a completely new Stockholm @stadsmuseet Current. Personal. Important. Urgent. exhibition, in renovated premises. In the mean­ youtube.com/stadsmuseet Historic. Funny. Dark. Beautiful. Big. Small. time, The Stockholm City Museum is out in the A city full of stories. city, on city walks, at lectures and exhibitions. The Stockholm City The Medieval Museum is an underground Museum out and about The Medieval Museum The City Museum wants to be At The Medieval Museum, Stockholm’s Our commitment is to make these stories acces­ museum where you get to meet the medieval man, close to the people of Stockholm, medieval times are brought to life again. sible by collecting, researching, caring, preserving, woman and child and experience their everyday all over the city. As of 2015, you will Around King Gustav Vasa’s 500-year-old describing, documenting, involving, provoking, life, festivities and grief. The townscape is made encounter the museum in Farsta, town wall, there is a square, gallows hill, enchanting, debating, inspiring, learning, and up of a square, a church and a miniature town hall, Östberga and in other places church and a ship from the Middle Ages. where we collect stories, The Medieval Museum was opened in entertaining. Thus we provide perspectives on our a monastery aisle with a garden, and part of the photographs and memories 1986 and is built around permanent city in our own modern times. At the same time town wall from around 1530. of life in the area. ancient relics. The exhibition area is as we look back, through our lives in the city, we The Stockholmia Publishing House publishes 1 750 square metres and currently create future stories about Stockholm. and distributes new, exciting research about has about 850 objects on display. The museums and The Stockholmia Publishing Stockholm and life in the city in the past, the These objects come from all over Stockholm. House want to be right in the middle. Right in the present and the future. Strömparterren 3, Norrbro The painting Vädersolstavlan in Stieg Larsson’s Millennium. the Storkyrkan church was thought to Follow in the footsteps of Lisbeth Telephone: +46 8 508 316 20 be the oldest preserved image of the Salander and Mikael Blomkvist around medeltidsmuseet.stockholm.se city. The painting was considered to Slussen, Mariatorget and Mosebacke. be from 1535 but was later discovered This walk was nominated Best literary facebook.com/medeltidsmuseet to be a 17th century copy. It is uncer- walk in the world by The Lonely Planet tain who the artist was. travel guide in 2014. Stockholmia Stockholmia Publishing House is Stockholm City’s own publisher and Cultural heritage values research institute. Stockholmia publishes The purpose of cultural heritage work and distributes new, exciting research is to ensure that people in the future about Stockholm and life in the city in will have access to our common the past, the present and the future. cultural heritage. These activities are part of the city’s development Telephone: +46 8 508 31 743 and it’s role to preserve unique buildings, places and contexts that stockholmia.stockholm.se have shaped Stockholm. facebook.com/stockholmiaforlag NEON SIGN AT THE ENTRANCE TO THE AREA SLAKTHUSOMRÅDET @sthlmsforskning PHOTO GÖRAN H FREDRIKSSON ILLUSTRATION DENNIS ERIKSSON 22 23 Stockholm Art Stockholm Art

Stockholm Art is responsible for new public works of art for streets, parks, housing areas and squares, and buys works of art that are placed in work­ places, pre-schools, schools and senior housing. That way, the city’s collection of art is continually growing. The purpose is Art enriching not the collecting in itself; the aim is that the new pieces of work add some­thing to the environment in question. The one-percent rule. This rule states A senior housing facility or a pre-school that one percent of the budget of that needs help with a new work of art is the city. all new building, reconstruction and given the same professional support as a extension work done in The City of major client gets. In brief, Stockholm Art Stockholm must be set aside for artistic handles the entire process that results in expression. JÄRNVÄGSPARKEN TITLE WHO IS a new work of art finding its new home in MR WALKER? ARTIST JAN HÅFSTRÖM Stockholm. PHOTO MATS LILIEQUIST

Did you know that …

g it was the people of Stockholm who decided where Laura Ford’s work of art Homeless fox should be placed? A voting was organised on the website of the newspaper Situation Sthlm. Now it stands on Drottninggatan outside Rosenbad and STRÖMGATAN/DROTTNINGGATAN OMSTART SLUSSEN (RESTART SLUSSEN) the parlament building. TITLE HOMELESS FOX ARTIST LAURA FORD TITLE OBJECTIVITY PHOTO MATS LILIEQUIST PHOTO HENRIK JENSEN g all public art installed around the city during the previous year is presented in an annual publication?

“Cooperating with Stockholm Art is g with your investment in art, you take part in the “One-percenter of the Year” HENRIKSDALSALLÉN fun and adds new dimensions to the competition with the possibility of TITLE NYMPHAEA LUMINIS [GIGANTEA]; MUSHROOMS ILLUMINATED winning this prestigious award? ARTIST NIKOLINA STÄLLBORN PHOTO MATS LILIEQUIST project. Art is included in the overall picture right from the start.” ELISABET ELFSTRÖM, LANDSCAPE ARCHITECT, DEVELOPMENT OFFICE, What if the art you see on the streets would periencing art in their immediate surroundings. THE CITY OF STOCKHOLM. suddenly disappear? How would it be if it One aspect of the mission of Stockholm Art is had never been there? to inform municipal companies, administrations and developers about the one-percent rule. This Stockholm Art was established in 2008. It renews rule states that one percent of the budget of all a one-hundred-year-old tradition of ensuring that new building, reconstruction and extension work art is made visible on streets and market squares. done in the City of Stockholm must be set aside Stockholm Art is the department of the Culture for artistic expressions. Investing in art is a way Administration that is responsible for new public of creating identity. Art can also be seen as an Contact us! works of art for streets, parks, housing areas and enriching gift to everyone coming in contact with Djurgårdsvägen 60 Squares. Stockholm Art also buys works of art for it. The one-percent rule means that a small part Telephone: +46 8 508 31 330 pre-schools, schools, senior housing facilities, and of every building project budget is turned into the [email protected] workplaces in the city. Public art – that everyone best art possible for Stockholmers. has access to – is a component of a democratic Stockholm Art is responsible for each public stockholmkonst.se society. work of art up until the inauguration; after that, facebook.com/stockholmkonst All Stockholmers, no matter who they are or The Stockholm City Museum takes over responsi­ @stockholmkonst how they live, shall have the possibility of ex­ bility for administration, maintenance and renova­ HÖGALIDSSKOLAN TITLE SEED/TIME ARTIST LISA JONASSON PHOTO SOFIA EKSTRÖM @stockholmkonst tion of public art. 24 25 Ever since 1921, Vårsalongen has Liljevalchs Art Gallery been a reliable sign of spring for Liljevalchs the Stockholmers. The art gallery Art Gallery welcomes both accustomed and unaccustomed gallery visitors. Liljevalchs Art Gallery was inaugurated People over 18 can submit their in 1916. It is the Stockholmers own art own work of art to the jury-assessed gallery. With a beautiful location on exhibition. Djurgården, the gallery organises several large art and design exhibitions every Generous, high year. Visitors come from all over Sweden and from abroad. Vårsalongen is a recur- rent and well-known event – a reliable sign of spring ever since 1921. Anyone can submit one or more contributions quality and for assessment by a renowned jury and possibly have the chance of having the work displayed at Vårsalongen.

accessible POSTER VÅRSALONGEN 2011 LILJEVALCHS ART GALLERY Did you know that … GRAPHIC DESIGN CLARA TERNE PHOTO DAVID MAGNUSSON g the video for the song Tick Tick Boom released by the rock band The Hives in

PICTURE 2007 was filmed at Liljevalchs? This song – the Stockholmers was the first single from The Black and White Album. WINGÅRDHS about 2 000 artists apply to In 2016, an renovation and g Vårsalongen every year? extension, of Liljevalchs Art Gallery will be started. own art gallery g Vårsalongen attracts about According to the plan, the new 90 000 every year? building, designed by Gert Wingårdh, will be linked to Carl Bergsten’s g Vårsalongen is Sweden’s oldest famous pink building in the traditional exhibition format? late autumn of 2017. The actual exhibition runs for three months: January, February and March.

Urban Escape Liljevalchs Vårsalong will have a new home in 2016. This popular On a grey and cloudy day in March 1916, exhibition will be moved to the city centre, outdoor art will be introduced and it will Sweden’s first independent and permanent be part of the largest urban development project in the city of Stockholm for over exhibition hall for contemporary art was 30 years. All this will be done in collaboration with AMF Fastigheter. inaugurated – Liljevalchs Art Gallery on Djurgården in Stockholm. “I want everyone to feel that Liljevalchs is the With a beautiful location, Liljevalchs Art Gallery Stockholmers own art organises at least four major art and design exhibitions a year, with both well-known and gallery where every visitor Contact us! new names. URBAN ESCAPE PICTURE AMF FASTIGHETER is equally important. Djurgårdsvägen 60 Liljevalchs’ exhibition programme is aimed at The well-being of the Telephone: +46 8-508 31 330 both a very wide audience and at people who are Liljevalchs was inaugurated in 1916 as the first public is top priority [email protected] especially interested in a certain artist or specific independent and public art gallery for contem­ types of art and design. Every new art year starts porary art in Sweden. The building was designed but without being crowd-pleasing.” liljevalchs.se with the widely known Vårsalongen, assessed by by architect Carl Bergsten and named after the facebook.com/liljevalchs a jury. It runs from January to March and attracts successful businessman Carl Fredrik Liljevalch Jr. MÅRTEN CASTENFORS, @konstkalendern MANAGER OF LILJEVALCHS ART GALLERY about 90 000 visitors a year. (1837–1909). August 2015 @liljevalchs

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