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ART INITIATIVE AT THE STOCKHOLM SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS Leap of Faith (Getting Over) Maria Miesenberger 2 TABLE OF CONTENTS An educational mission for the digital age ..................4 The evolution of SSE Art Initiative...............................6 Why art at SSE? ......................................................8 Video screenings ...................................................10 Exhibitions ............................................................ 11 Art Talks and research colloquia ..............................12 Guided tours .........................................................13 Artworks (permanent collection) ..............................14 Musical performances ............................................17 Natur & Kultur Literary Agenda ...............................18 Research publications and art books ........................20 Curating education in leadership and business ..........21 Advisory boards ....................................................22 Thank you ............................................................23 Front cover: A Place in Europe | Cecilia Parsberg, Erik Pauser, David Martinez Escobar and Haval Murad Back cover: Leap of Faith (Getting The Cabinet Room Over) | Maria Miesenberger Left, from top: The First Tipii | Study for Manta Ray | Sara-Vide Ericson Right: Fossil 3 | Fossil 9 | Linda Bäckström 3 AN EDUCATIONAL MISSION FOR THE DIGITAL AGE SINCE 1909 THE Stockholm School Yet, as the pace of change of Economics has collaborated with increases globally – social, politi- the business community and society cal, technological and environmen- at large to carry out a mission: To tal change – the tools that business make Sweden more competitive school graduates need also through advanced education in change. In our efforts to provide the economic disciplines, with these tools, SSE has expanded its education programs designed conception of education. Inspired around up-to-date research in those by the philosopher Ingemar fields. That research and teaching Hedenius, tomorrow’s successful continue today. decision makers will be “free and alive in relation to that which is uncertain”. We want to offer Education and knowledge students a well-rounded education development are processes that prepares them to take on the involving not only the world and its lack of order with humility and curiosity. We call mind, but also the body and this educational mission FREE. By soul. Art has the potential defining attributes of the graduates that our community will need, this to stimulate, provoke and acronym helps guide the School’s resonate with us on multiple educational work, communicate the nature of that work, and clarify levels – intellectual, sensory, student expectations. experiential, emotional.« Lars Strannegård, Professor and President of the Stockholm School of Economics 4 The Heckscher-Ohlin Room WE WANT TO graduate decision makers who exhibit: – a fact and science-based mindset. SSE is fundamentally an aca- demic institution where facts provide the basis for all critical and F analytical thinking. An ability to appraise information and evaluate various kinds of knowledge claims has always been important, but perhaps never more so than in our current era where demagoguery hides behind “alternative facts” and “fake news”, all while many citizens live within filter bubbles. – reflection and self-awareness. While these qualities take many Rforms, SSE’s graduates should understand their roles in the world, the impact they have on others and on finite resources, all with an awareness of their own values, their personal preferences and, ideally, with insight into the sources of those values and preferences. – empathy and cultural literacy. These characteristics distinctly Edistinguish human decision makers from the computers, robots and AI systems that will change the work content of the future. These characteristics rest upon an ability to cross boundaries and understand others on their own terms, as SSE graduates will meet and collaborate with others across many national, cultural, professional and conceptual boundaries. – entrepreneurship and responsibility. These attributes combine Ebecause true entrepreneurs take risks and accept responsibility for their actions and decisions. Graduates who merge creative change and personal accountability will challenge the status quo in order to improve enterprises, communities and society as a whole. SSE’s traditional expertise in economics, finance and business admin- istration represents the core, but other elements of FREE are needed to prepare decision makers for the future as it seems to unfold. 5 THE EVOLUTION OF SSE ART INITIATIVE SSE ART INITIATIVE has developed into a artworks by contemporary Swedish artists Magasin 3, Moderna Museet, Statens multi-faceted program and a critical com- is currently on loan from the Maria Bonnier Konstråd, Liljevalchs Konsthall, Bonniers ponent of the SSE educational experience, Dahlin Foundation. Konsthall, LUMA Arles, Thyssen-Bornemisza helping students become more reflective, Art Contemporary and Haeusler Contempo- Art Initiative’s activities incorporate a strong more self-aware and more culturally literate. rary in Munich. focus on video art. Every month, a new The art initiatives at SSE started with a work of video art is curated on the large As with most activities at SSE, the aesthetic video art exhibition curated by Magasin 3 screen in the SSE Atrium. These artworks initiatives include a high level of student in Stockholm. Thereafter, thanks to the gen- have been made available to SSE through participation. Art Division, a student asso- erous support of alumni, corporate partners, our partnerships with selected galleries, ciation unit, joins Art Initiative in arranging and friends of SSE, the School five Art Talks per semester. has established a permanent Our Art Talks are exploratory art collection, which includes conversations on art, society, works by highly regarded the social sciences and many Swedish and international of their predictable and artists. These artworks are unpredictable contact points. integrated throughout the They draw their audiences School environment, allowing from SSE students, faculty, students to see art often, to staff and the greater Stock- consider its meaning and to holm community. discuss it with each other. Our continuing aim is to expand In the very popular Natur the permanent collection & Kultur Literary Agenda, through donations. The students read seven contem- School also hosts temporary porary works of fiction (and exhibitions, curated in some non-fiction) per year Art Division students in The Board Room with Art Initiative’s close collaboration with art and discuss them in small Tinni Rappe (standing), from left: Caroline Heuwing, Erik Luo, galleries and foundations. groups led by faculty and Ingrid Törnkvist, David Magnusson and Stina Stjernqvist In the Bonnier Staircases, staff. The books are selected a magnificent selection of by an advisory board of 6 literary critics and editors. We arrange author talks and writing workshops together with the SSE Library and external partners. Art Initiative also hosts lunch concerts and other musical performances in the SSE Atrium for students, faculty, staff and mem- bers of the community. The concerts create a stimulating and dynamic atmosphere while bringing the art of music to bear on the SSE aesthetic experience. In 2020, SSE offered bachelor students the first-ever Art Initiative elective course, “Art and Luxur y”. In collaboration with the SSE Center for Arts, Business and Culture (ABC), an aca- Art Division cooperates with CBS Art and Pro Arte, student art demic research center, Art Initiative actively groups from Denmark and Switzerland. Here at Andersson/ explores the role of arts and aesthetics in Sandström with SSE students Paula Vega and Sofia Hänninger our economy. Among other things, that to the left, Claire Holm Chow third from right work serves as a basis for new initiatives and discussions about how to integrate the art and humanities into a rich and relevant is an incubator of methodology-focused community. This in turn, allows the School business- school education. One outcome of discourse and experiments in new methods to attract a more diverse set of students, such discussions was that SSE faculty were that range from the sciences and humanities faculty and staff and to engage in new asked to support New York University’s to art-based approaches at SSE. ways with our local community. By having Stern Business School in their efforts to Art Talks, exhibitions and symposia, SSE make art accessible and relevant within their Finally, Art Initiative has become an opens the oak doors at Sveavägen 65 and business and society programs. ABC’s Meth- important element in attracting interest and welcomes all of Stockholm into the School ods Lab, started by a group of PhD students, support from outside of the traditional SSE of Economics. 7 WHY ART AT SSE? The Cabinet Room – SSE students Yosua, Cecilia and Haiyan in the compartments, surrounded by art WHILE OUR MISSION entails that Leadership can be enhanced our graduates understand economies and sound economic decisions, it also through art. Ambiguity and requires something more. That something multiple interpretations are a is a broader and, especially, a deeper understanding of society. To provide some normal part of organizational of that depth, SSE turns to the arts and the life, and art highlights that. humanities. I believe organizations and When confronting

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