Nordic Art Agency Podcast

Season 6 Episode 3 of the Nordic Art Agency Podcast is our first podcast episode that is also available on our Nordic Art Agency Youtube Channel.  (For that reason the audio in places is a little patchy, but this will be improved)This episode features a deeply personal and important conversation with Swedish creative director, artist, activist, and storyteller Henrik Wahlström in conversation with by Juliet Rees, Founder of the Nordic Art Agency.Henrik shares his journey through art, mental health advocacy, and his powerful involvement in stigmatising mental illness. We also explore his collaboration with ‘Upp och Ner' and his recent projects that challenge social narratives and open up new dialogue around vulnerability, truth, and coping mechanisms.Henrik Wahlström is currently a Guest Artist at the Nordic Art Agency gallery in Malmö with an exhibition of his artworks, paintings & prints. The exhibition will be open all week in the gallery culminating with an Art Talk being given by Henrik Wahlström at Hansa on Saturday 3rd of May & Finissage being held at the gallery after the talk between 15:00 - 17:00. Find Henrik Wahlström on Instagram.

Belgium sculptor Sabine Allaeys has created a series of minimalist limited edition wildlife sculptures cast in bronze entitled Awakening of Art .  The series has evolved over the past decade and these 'mini-monumental' works are beautifully smooth and enticingly tactile in their natural green, brown and black patinas.On this podcast episode host Juliet Rees is in-conversation with Allaeys discussing the inspiration behind the Awakening of Art series and her origins in art history, digital design and her reset embracing nature and the spiritual principals found in primitive art and objects.The Nordic Art Agency has recently signed Allaeys to the gallery and she will be in Sweden for her forthcoming solo exhibition SOULSONG which launches on April 4th 2025. The exhibition will be a presentation of a selection of her recent sculptures and will be available to view until May 24th 2025.You can find Allaeys on Instagram or visit her artists page at the Nordic Art Agency.Visit the Nordic Art Agency gallery in Malmö

Podcast host and Nordic Art Agency gallery Founder Juliet Rees is back with Season 6 a new season of art conversations.Laura Jane Scott is a British artist working in minimalist, geometric abstraction and colour-field painting.  Her desire for simplicity through geometric form and her striking use of colour enables her to produce work where painting explores a model of architectural form and where colour embodies a physical structure. The resulting work is a refined visual vocabulary of form and colour.The Nordic Art Agency opened a new gallery space in December of 2024 and Laura Jane Scott was one of two new international artists to feature in the current International Group exhibition. Six of her works are currently exhibited and all of them can be viewed on Laura Jane Scott's artist page.Visit the new Nordic Art Agency gallery in our beautiful new location and meet Juliet and all her artists.  Follow the Nordic Art Agency on Instagram.

A slight variation to the podcast as on this episode we discuss The Art Club, a collaboration between the Nordic Art Agency and The Torso, which launches this November. This unique partnership combines fine arts and fine dining in a symbiotic experience, displaying curated artworks on the walls of The Torso Restaurant, located by the iconic Turning Torso skyscraper in Malmö, Sweden.Born out of a desire to share art and artistic experiences in unique location, The Art Club is an opportunity to discover contemporary international artists in a fine dinning setting.On this episode Swedish creative concept entrepreneur and designer Max Paulsson Hall joins host Juliet to discuss the exclusive Art Club evening events at The Torso restaurant.  Each curated art exhibition and event at The Torso is perfect for those passionate about high culture; offering an extraordinary blend of visual and culinary delights.Art Club members receive a welcome drink, light bites, and a 10% discount on food and art during the entire exhibition.  Places are limited to 40 guests at The Art Club for each event and reservations can be made through info@thetorso.se or by following the event on Facebook.The first Art Club event takes place on 26th of November between 17:00 - 19:00 and will feature Swedish Wildlife Painter Per Ekros. It will be held at The Torso in Västra Hamnen, Malmö, Sweden. Learn more about The Torso restaurant and follow them on Instagram.Discover more about Max Paulsson Hall's new creative project Kulturverk and on Instagram.

The 12th edition of the Affordable Art Fair Stockholm will be opening its doors on October 2nd - Sunday 6th October.  Over 60 handpicked local and international galleries will be exhibiting 1000s of contemporary art works.The Spotlight section is back again at the art fair with a focus on how to decorate your home with art.  With the theme of ‘Homes is where the Art is' 1 interior designer and 2 galleries have been selected to create spotlight stands for the fair.On this podcast episode, podcast host Juliet is in conversation with Interior Designer and colour expert Sara Garanty and TAKEAWAY@ Galleri Duerr founder Deborah Duerr who are both creating their own Spotlight gallery spaces.The Affordable Art Fair Stockholm will be held from the 2 - 6th October in Nacka Strand and here you can find full details of the fair event and tickets.Find out more about Galleri Duerr and follow them on instagram.  Discover more Sara Garanty and follow her on instagram. Connect with the Nordic Art Agency by visiting nordicartagency.com.

On this episode Juliet is in conversation with Swedish wildlife artist Per Ekros.  Always fascinated by faces, expressions and bodies, animals are an intrinsic part of Per Ekros's life, and they form naturally and intuitively as the subject matter of his artworks. His heart lies within the animal kingdom and our consumption of their environments, which impacts him deeply and the psychology of this is a reflection of this. The podcast discusses his series of polar bear portraits from the 2021 series The King without a Kingdom and how Per captures emotional response through his selection of material and media.  His approach to a reductive painting style enables the characterisation of his chosen animal to be simplified within the composition which  provides an emotional intensity in his painting. Current works from the To The Ark series are exhibited at the Nordic Art Agency gallery during the Summer Exhibition and a solo exhibition of Per Ekros's painting will be held in the gallery from September 21st - November 16th 2024.

Anglo-Danish artist Kristian Bluff is based in Copenhagen and is self-taught abstract expressionist with a focus on land and seascapes.  With a BA in graphics and a career in design, Kristian Bluff is an exciting emerging artist who has established himself in Scandinavia and the UK. He has exhibited his work internationally and his paintings can be found in many private collections across Europe. On this podcast Juliet is in conversation with Kristian Bluff who is currently working on his Escapism series. In this body of work Kristian plays around with depth, light, perspective, movement and emotions in order to explore his surroundings in forms of different scapes. Kristian Bluff was recently signed as a Guest Artist to the Nordic Art Agency and artworks by Kristian can currently be viewed in the gallery and online.Discover more about Kristian Bluff through his artist page on the Nordic Art Agency website.  Follow the Nordic Art Agency on instagram for the latest artist and gallery news.

The Nordic Art Agency is a participating host in the fourth edition of Southern Sweden Design Days which takes place between the 23–26 May 2024.  This is an international design festival in Malmö which invites visitors from all over the world to experience the best the creative southern Swedish design region has to offer. In this podcast designer Helle Robertson and Sarah Nakiito are in conversation with co-curator from the Nordic Art Agency Sarah Blanking.  Our gallery exhibition, featuring 11 international designers is entitled, Thoughtful Intentions : absorbing the past & informing the futureThe intention or purpose of our actions is a direct creative response to our emotional reactive state of mind. Southern Sweden Design Days 2021 was the start of a new annual event that highlights and builds knowledge about design – focusing on sustainability, collaboration, development and innovation. For four days, a platform is created showcasing a full range of design disciplines through seminars, workshops, exhibitions and networking events. Southern Sweden Design Days is organised by Form/Design Center – the main venue for architecture, design and crafts in southern Sweden.You can view all events held at the Nordic Art Agency from the 23 - 26th May on our Exhibition pages or on the Southern Sweden Design Days website.

This year marks the 25th anniversary of the Affordable Art Fair (AAF).  Each year the fair welcomes over 185,000 art enthusiasts to art fairs around the world.  On this episode the Affordable Art Fair Stockholm Director Carl Wilhelm Hirsch joins host Juliet on the podcast to discuss the fair and the forthcoming Pop Up Art Fair in Malmö.This will be the first of it's kind in Sweden and will feature artists from both Galleri Final and the Nordic Art Agency.  It is a unique opportunity  to experience the Affordable Art Fair in Malmö and will have many of the attribute of the culture of the AAF with live painting, artist talks and an Art Afterwork.Cissi Carlson Starck from Galleri Final is also in conversation with Juliet discussing their forthcoming curation and collaboration at the Nordic Art Agency Pop Up Art Fair. The Pop Up Art Fair opens on April 19th and will run until April 28th and all details of the events can be found on the Nordic Art Agency website.Follow Galleri Final and the Affordable Art Fair on instagram and view some of the artworks to be featured by the Nordic Art Agency on our gallery instagram account.A very warm welcome to the Pop Up Fair!

On this episode gallery Founder and podcast host Juliet is joined by Swedish photorealist painter Mathias Frykholm.Mathias Frykholm is a self-taught painter who phenomenal talent has led to his career thriving since he became a full time artists five years ago. His large scale canvases are truly captivating and engage the viewer on many levels with the accuracy, detail and emotional and sensual qualities.View works by Mathias Frykholm on his Artist Page or on his Instagram and at the Nordic Art Agency.The Nordic Art Agency gallery are delighted to represent Mathias Frykholm as a guest artist and original works, commissions and limited edition prints will be available in May 2024.

Sara Berman describes her paintings as ‘a dialogue between painting and textiles'  and joins Juliet on the podcast to breakdown her works and the 'uncomfortable nooks of the female bodily experience' found in her self portraits.Originally from London, Sara Berman studied at St. Martins School of Art & Design and later took a Masters of Fine Art at Slade School of Art. Her work can be found in notable international collections, and she has exhibited extensively in solo and group exhibition, currently represented by Vielmetter in Los Angeles.Sara describes her paintings as ‘a dialogue between painting and textiles.'With a background both in fashion and art, Sara brilliantly creates a game of  materiality in her large scale compositions in oil on canvas.The conversation is very much based around the female experience and touches on every aspect of how Sara personally operates in the world and how this is represented in her work.  Her experiences are reflected through the character of the Trickster Whore and the use of the Harlequin as a starting point for all her paintings.You can follow Sara Berman on Instagram and on her website

Delighted share news of our ongoing gallery Art Auction.There are a few days left to bid on artworks in Nordic Art Agency Art Auction.  Many of  our international  artists we have featured on the podcast have artworks in the auction and this is a great way to acquire their work.All 75 of the artworks can be viewed in the gallery or online at,  www.nordicartagency.com/art-auctionThis is a silent auction and bids can be placed by email and until February 8th at 10:00 am.Do please contact the gallery if you have any questions or would like any assistance with placing your bid, hello@nordicartagency.comA short tour of the Art Auction has been pinned to our Instagram so you can also take a look at how the gallery looks with all these artwork on the walls.Good luck with your art bidding!

Welcome to this first episode of Season 5 of the Nordic Art Agency Podcast. Art historian, gallerist and host Juliet returns with a new conversation with Swedish landscape watercolour artist Erik Hårdstedt.OUTLOOK is the recent exhibition of Erik Hårdstedt's paintings which opened at the Nordic Art Agency in January 2024 and features 14 watercolour works. Recording from his current studio on the outskirts of Gokarna, a small town on the Indian West Coast, Erik discusses his painting practice and how travel, changes in scenery and different cultural input fuels his approach to his creative process which is an essential part of the identity and compositions of his painting.The exhibition is now open at the Nordic Art Agency gallery until March 3rd. You can view the OUTLOOK digital exhibition catalogue online and can email the gallery of your wish to receive any more information about available paintings by Erik Hårdstedt.View Eric Hårdstedt's Instagram and listen to his music, which interprets his artwork, on Spotify.

Join podcast host Juliet Rees Nilsson and exhibition curator and artist Sarah Blanking on this the final episode of Season 4.  This is the second year that the Nordic Art Agency has hosted a Winter Exhibition featuring 12 multidisciplinary artists from Southern Sweden and Copenhagen.Sara Blanking invites three of the exhibiting artists; Christian Bluff, Lotta Blanking and Lucas Nagel to discuss their practices, materials and their personal reflections on the local art scene.  The Winter Exhibition is open everyday until January 28th 2024 and includes artworks by: Anders Allard, Lotta Blanking, Kristian Bluff, Mirjam Ekespong, Zarah Flesser, Stina Henriksson, Dinusha Hoenjet (da), Agnes Vera Kaufmann, Sujatha Kristensen, Lucas Nagel, Malin Sjöstedt and Gitte Valentiner-Branth.View the Winter Exhibition on the Gallery Store or the full digital exhibition catalogue .

A  new gallery concept is emerging in London's Soho with a focus purely on music art. This reflects the emergence of an increasing demand for art either created by musicians or which reflects music as a direct inspiration. Film maker, award winning cinema owner, composer and musician Tom Lawes has a passion for instruments, primarily guitars and pianos, and a unique vision to exhibit bespoke and limited edition instruments alongside original artworks, limited edition and photography. His gallery Muphoria was born out of his passion for music, beautifully crafted instruments and a personal entrepreneurial approach to business. Together with his team of other music enthusiasts and art experts he launched Muphoria, the first music art gallery on December 1st with a curated exhibition by many artists in many different mediums and fine art instruments.  Tom joins Juliet on this episode to discuss the gallery concept and his approach to custom made editions.You can follow Muphoria on instagram as this very unique music art gallery evolves.

Swedish fibre artist Mia Hultgren studied at the The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, Schools of Architecture, Design and Conservation (BA) in Copenhagen and later at the Royal College of Art (MA) in London.  Mia Hultgren was invited to be the first Artist in Residence at the Nordic Art Agency gallery in the autumn of 2023.  On this episode host Juliet discusses how Mia's initial visual intention towards the project evolved, how her creative practice has been informed during the residency and how the interaction with gallery visitors has impacted her approach to the new body of works.The current solo exhibition ASPECTS by Mia Hultgren includes all of the fiber art pieces created  during this intense two month residency period of the Artist Residency.  This includes ten small abstract framed portraits Secret Meetings  and 18 individual Lacuna pieces.  In addition. Mia created three larger more geometric works called Connections and some small circular suspended works.ASPECTS is open at the Nordic Art Agency gallery until December 2nd and the digital exhibition catalogue can be view online. You can follow Mia Hultgren on Instagram 

On this podcast episode Juliet is joined by British paper and written text artist Caroline Attan.   Her works are instantly intriguing and striking using organic visual representations in order to merge folded paper with poetry, paradox and metaphors. The concepts and compositions in her artworks collide as coloured, patterned and folded structures, together create a woven and textual narrative. Her picture mainly consists of dense circular composition of folded shapes rotating along side, and above hand written poetry. Caroline frequently selects extracts from  Latin American poetry, which is where the cultural significance comes into play.  This is reflected in context and language the elements of the poetry are interpreted through colour, form and rhythm. Her works also utilizes literary extracts by authors such as James Joyce to inspire her compositions.A series of works by Caroline Attan are currently included in the exhibition CLAY, INK, PAPER at the Nordic Art Agency gallery.  You can view all works online in the digital exhibition catalogue.Caroline Attan is represented exclusively in Scandinavia by the Nordic Art Agency and you can follow her on account instagram.

On this episode of the Nordic Art Agency Podcast host Juliet is joined by Rosie O'Connor the Co-Curator at Frameless, London's first permanent digital immersive arts experience. Frameless opened in September 2022 in the heart of London's West End cultural district. As the biggest digital immersive arts experience of its kind in the UK, Frameless is a new art landmark destination, bringing art to life like never before.  So after almost a year of opening it's doors with a 4K multi-genre and multi-artist experience, featuring iconic masterpieces from the likes of Cezanne, Kandinsky, Monet, Canaletto, Rembrandt and Klimt how has this new immersive art experienced been received and what place does it take in the museum and gallery world?Rosie O'Connor who studied Art History and Visual Culture and has a special interest in British Modernism, museology and accessibility in the arts gives us her take on the evolution and future of the immersive art experience.

TOGETHER / APART  is a solo exhibition of collaborative photography by Natalie Christensen and Jim Eyre who join Juliet on this podcast episode from their studios in England and New Mexico.   The composite images which feature in the exhibition are of surreal cityscapes embodying the disquieting experience of how our lives were transformed by the ravages of COVID-19. Expanding on their earlier collaborative  work ALTEREDSTATES/ALTEREDSCAPES, Christensen and Eyre are again combining photographs from their respective communities and responding to the experience of leaving behind our former lives and participating in a global effort to stop the spread of the Covid-19 virus. Architectural fragments and elements of the landscape are mingled to present diverse psychological experiences of this new world experience of  shock, loneliness, yearning and fear. This podcast explores their unique creative collaboration and how their practice evolved during the global pandemic.  TOGETHER / APARTwill be exhibited at the Nordic Art Agency until August 31st 2023 and the complete digital exhibition catalogue can be now online.  You can find Natalie Christensen and Jim Eyre on instagram where you can see more examples of their work.

British visual artist Rupert Hartley trained originally in printed textile design at the Glasgow School of Art and later went on to take his MA in Art in Architecture at University of East London.  A constant in his work has been an exploration of architecture and city space and the  ‘the simulated environments and psychogeographies'.The grid or square blocks and stripes are the formulaic language which dominates much of his work along side his commitment to colour, layering of paint and mixed media. Rupert works on a varied selection of ground materials including cardboard, repurposed fabrics and stretch and unstretched canvas.Rupert Hartley's solo exhibition Inter - Scenic launches at the Nordic Art Agency on May 11, 2023.  This will be his first solo exhibition in Scandinavian. The complete digital exhibition catalogue will be published online and will be available to view from May 10th.You can follow Rupert Hartley on Instagram or view his work on his artist page.

Saint has spent much of his career as a successful New York based photographers of iconic actors, musicians, athletes and fashion. The iconic images shot by Saint are a testament to his skill and understanding of the human form and this career has led to a constant revaluation and development of his photographic practices reimagining the role of lighting in photography by adapting techniques from scientific applications of flash and stroboscopics.During his extensive career Saint has photographed actors and musicians such as Cate Blanchett, Helen Mirren, Daniel Craig, Alesia Keys and Lady Gaga and athletes who are top of their game including Lebron James, Christiana Ronaldo and Serena Williams. In 2018 there was a further shift in experimental techniques in photography which merged into an artistic practice using his photographic images as the basis of figurative, mixed media composite portraits and it is this which now dominates his creative focus. This podcast gives an insight into Saint's development as an artist and painter and he discusses his the process and intention behind his most current body of work A Legacy of Light.Saint will be exhibiting his new series at a gallery exhibition in New York this October and you can follow him on Instagram for all the latest news.

John Atherton is a Scottish screen print artist who studied at Glasgow School of Art and the Royal College of Art in London.  He joins Juliet on this podcast conversation discussing his abstract portraiture process and the body of work he will exhibited in his first solo gallery exhibition in Sweden, Nostalgia of Distance, at the Nordic Art Agency.The Vernissage of Nostalgia of Distance  will be held on March 23rd and a digital exhibition catalogue will be available to view online.  You can follow John Atherton on Instagram and view his own website.John Atherton is a Guest Artist represented in the Scandinavia exclusively  by the Nordic Art Agency.

Our new season of art conversations begin with a discussion focused purely on abstract painting. Michael Gittings, one of the original founders of Playpaint, joins  Art Historian and Art Advisor Ebba Davidsson on this episode as they explores the philosophy and intention behind the initial project and the concept that playpaint make paintings to make paintings. There are set rules which inform the Playpaint painting practice and determine the potential outcome and potential success.   The conscious  experimental approach, working with set components and attributes, transitioning between these components makes this painting process quite unique.You can follow Playpaint on Instagram and on Twitter.Playpaint will be exhibiting in two forthcoming group shows this Spring:The New Accelerator9 March - 3 April 2023Ruskin GalleryAnglia Ruskin University, CambridgeThis Year's Model part II2 - 6 March 2023Studio1.1 57a Redchurch Street, London E7 7DJ

The Winter Exhibition is our second exhibition of local artists opened which opened in November. The initial Open Call invited multi-disciplinary artists from Skåne and Greater Copenhagen to apply and the exhibition was juried by the Nordic Art Agency and  curated by Gry Hammarlund & Lars Herman Hegg.Artists Exhibiting Include:  Stella Lindhagen, Magbule Lutolli, Anne Louise Blicher, Cesilia Per, Eva Myrdal Linstow, Gitte Valentiner - Branth, Jingbei Zheng, Jennifer Idrizi, Johanna Landin , Jonna Wakeham Ölund, Frida Rådlund, Lea Norrman Firus, Matteo Rosa and Mia HultgrenOn this podcast episode Art Advisor Ebba Davidson and Gallery Founder Juliet Rees Nilsson are in conversation with three of the participating artist, Lea Firus, Jennifer Idrizi and Mia Hultgren discussing their exhibited works and unique artist prcatices.The Winter Exhibition is open 7 days a week at the Nordic Art Agency at Hansa from 10:00 - 19:00 until January 20th.View & purchase all works in the exhibition by visiting, nordicartagency.com/NAA

Canadian floral abstract artists Bobbie Burgers joins host Juliet from her studio in Vancouver for an in depth conversation into her current practice, her compulsion to create and paint and how the passing of time continues to inform her artwork and compositions.We have long admired Bobbie's large scale flora works and most recently her smaller scale collage and sculptural pieces and this podcast is an opportunity to deconstruct how she views her own work and the challenges and joy which she experiences in the studio.  Careers are often guided by opportunity, discipline and determination and Bobbie's childhood experiences and early success offered her the potential to experience her live as an artist infused with nature, water and her environment.  We very much look forward to welcoming Bobbie Burgers to the Nordic Art Agency in the future.http://bobbieburgers.com/

On this podcast Juliet Rees-Nilsson introduces  two international artists and their current bodies of work, their artistic practices and solo exhibitions.Victoria Curling Eriksson is a British painter  who works with minimal abstract land and seascapes. We have represented Victoria at the Nordic Art Agency since 2021 and this is her first solo exhibition to be held in our new gallery location.  'Visual Atmosphere' features 19 oil on canvas paintings which centres around the emotion response and connection made when fully present and immersed in skies, landscape and the ocean.Our current guest artist is Jingbei Zheng, a ceramicist from Bejing, China.  'Your Fragility' is a series of 6 unglazed minimal clay vessels articulated with a crack like crevices, which consciously highlight the value of imperfection.  Jingbei Zheng is an industrial designer who approaches her practice and material with scientific and theoretical study.Both exhibitions will be exhibited at the Nordic Art Agency until the end of December.  You can view both the 'Visual Atmosphere' and 'Your Fragility digital catalogues online.You can follow Victoria Curling Eriksson on Instagram and Jingbei Zheng.

The art world is an ever evolving industry spurred on by technology & our desire to access artworks freely from the comfort of our own homes. Innovation continues to refine the industry & at the forefront of this are many artists driven platforms which increasingly eliminate the gallerist and connect the artists directly to the client online. Altamira is one of the latest artist driven platforms that is changing the rules. On this podcast  Juliet Rees - Nilsson is in conservation with the Altamira's Founder and CEO Michael Facchinello.  Altamira takes a slightly different approach to how artists can influence & impact the sites content. It offers independent curatorial insight to collectors bringing together artists, fans, and critics together in a space without gatekeepers and pretension.You can follow Altamira on Instagram & learn more about the Pink Bison Art Prize 2023.  The two part blog Death of the Gallerist, written by Juliet and originally published in 2018, can be found online by visiting the Nordic Art Agency.

The NAA X Summer Exhibition is the first time that the Nordic Art Agency has collaborated with local artists from Malmö and the Greater Copenhagen region.  Inspired by the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition held each year in London since 1796, an artist open call was held for a group exhibition in the Spring. In a new separate gallery location, dedicated to emerging and established local artists, we curated a multi - disciplinary exhibition which opened on June 3rd and is free to explore 7-day a week.  The exhibition in is a busy commercial environment, with no real gallery presence or interaction required, just an opportunity to explore, absorb and reflect upon the art, sculpture, photography, weaving and fiber art. The exhibition features 11 artists including, Lucas Nagel, Julia Hallström Hjört, Lotta Blanking, Josefin Åberg, Lars Herman Hegg and Annie Weibull.Together with co-host Lars Herman Hegg, Gallery Consultant and Technician, this podcast explore the motivation behind the exhibition curation, an insight into five of the featured artist's practices and their personal response.  Lars is in conversation with five participating artists; Swedish fiber artist  Mia Hultgren, Scottish collage artist John Atherton, Swedish painter Emil Carlsjö, Danish Mixed media artist Anne Gammelgaard and Troels Aagaard.You will hear a mixture of accents, Norwegian, Danish, Sweden and shared experiences, very much in the sprit of the international mindset of the Nordic Art Agency and is an audible insight into the diversity of the exhibition and artists selected.You can get in touch directly with Lars ideas for future local artist driven exhibition and collaborations.  All artworks can be view and purchased online .Details of forthcoming exhibition mentioned by artist Troels Aagaard can be found here.  

We are thrilled that another guest joins us in-real-life  in the gallery for this latest podcast conversation.  British sculptor Hugh Chapman currently has a collection of six bronze and polished stainless steel sculptures in the gallery as part of the his Into the Light exhibition.Hugh Chapman's visit to Sweden coincides with a gallery event dedicated to the exhibition, so podcast host Juliet Rees Nilsson and Co Host Ebba Davidsson sat down with Hugh for an impromptu recording in the gallery surrounded by the sculptures.In this podcast we cover Hugh's recent exploration into VR (virtual reality ) sculpting, 3D printing and the importance of reducing his creative waste footprint and refining his practice to be more environmentally sustainable.  We explore scale and Concrete - Bob , a 3D printed figure which is mechanisms that Hugh has created in order to illustrate how his maquette sculptures can be 'transformed' in the gallery to achieve a sense of the monumental intention behind some of Hugh's work.You can currently view the Into the Light digital presentation and digital exhibition catalogue online. The Into the Light exhibition will exhibited at the Nordic Art Gallery in Malmö until June 23rd.Follow Hugh Chapman on Instagram and view images that accompany this podcast on the Nordic Art Agency Instagram account.

This episode was recorded in the gallery a few hours before the launch of   'A True Story' a solo exhibition by British collage artist Jo Hummel. Gallery Founder Juliet and Co - Host Ebba Davidsson decided to seize the opportunity to document these visiting artist.This very impromptu discussion between  Jo and British abstract painter Sara Dare captures a moment, when after the pandemic, there is a sense of euphoria as artists are able to once again travel and be present in the gallery.  At times the recording quality isn't brilliant, but hopefully the atmosphere and joy is captured!The conversation covers all aspects of Jo Hummel and Sara Dare's practice, material and exploration with in their painting and collage and how connection play an important role in the lives as artists. We also discuss the exhibition  'A True Story' and the body of work Sara Dare created for our current International Art Pop Up.The solo exhibition 'A True Story' will be at the Nordic Art Agency Gallery until May 26th and the International Art Pop Up until June 23rd.  View the artists profiles of Jo Hummel and Sara Dare and all available artworks.Mentioned in this podcast are artists and curators who collaborate with Jo Hummel and Sara Dare:Karolina AlbrichtDominic BeattieTom Wilmott

On this episode Juliet is in conversation with Guest Artist Olivia Babel.Olivia is a French fiber artist who is based in Lyon and works exclusively with contemporary tapestries. We were initially drawn to her work and unique compositions which reflect origin, cartology and the environment and invited Olivia to exhibit in our current International Art Pop Up.In this conversation we explore the emotional connections found in Olivia work and her use of material and hand-weaving practice.  All her works are created on the loom using natural fibres, twine, ribbon and velvet exploring texture and rhythms through weaving.You can view five of Olivia's fiber art pieces at our International Art Pop Up until June 23rd or online by visiting her artist page.  You can also discover more works by Olivia on her own instagram account.Visit the Nordic Art Agency gallery on Artsy where we have also added the works featured in the current exhibition.

Our sixth International Art Pop Up has opened in our fabulous new gallery location in the heart of Malmö.  In this podcast, the first of Season 3, join Juliet in conversation with Ebba Davidsson, Art Consultant and  Visual Assistant as they discuss the curation of the latest exhibition of international art, sculpture and tapestry, the creation of artist's studio videos and the solo exhibitions planned for the coming months.As well as being the creative lead on the video installations rooms at the gallery, Ebba is also producing a podcast based on visitors and collectors voices and experiences at the exhibition.  You can send voice message for the podcast  to our gallery instagram account @nordicartagency sharing your perspectives, impressions and highlights of our new gallery space.All information relating to the International Spring Art Pop Up, Catherine Ludeau's solo exhibition Icône, Hugh Chapman's exhibition Into the Light and the forthcoming exhibitions by Jo Hummel and Bea Sarrias solo exhibition can be found on our website. 

For our final episode of season 2 we are looking to the future of the art world and are joined by the Co-Founder of Nfinitymark Kirsten Hinder.Kirsten Hinder's art-tech company is bridging the gap between analogue art and the digital crypto art space with an exciting technology that creates a digital signature for physical artwork, enabling it to exist on the blockchain.NFTs (non-fungible tokens) have been around since 2017 but following the recent Christie's auction in Asia, where NFT sales reached over 100 Million dollars, the digital art space has become more present and more relevant to artists, art collectors and gallerists.On the podcast Kirsten helps to decode this new art space and explores how a digital record of provenance and artists records can add value to art work and become a valuable digital asset alongside the physical artwork. You can view some of the artists, galleries and collectors already working with this art tagging technology over on Nfinitymark's instagram. The Nordic Art Agency is delighted to be collaborating with Nfinitymark as the first gallery in Sweden to tag all artwork sold in our International Spring Art Pop Up in 2022.  Interested? Get in touch with Kirsten for more information.

This is the second episode in our two-part special Sculpture Series.  On this podcast Juliet is in conversation with British bronze expert, restorer and conservator Lucy Branch.  Lucy comes from a family of restorers and art historians and is incredibly passionate about bronze public statues, sculpture and historical architectural features.  Her education, knowledge and experience is vast and she shares her understanding of metals, chemistry, research and practical elements which all are part of her work as a accredited member of the Institute of Conservations. Her work as a Director at Antique Bronze has led her to run high profile conservation projects such as Nelson's Column, Buckingham Palace and the Queen Victoria Memorial.As well as her invaluable work with public statues and sculpture she is also a successful published author of a series of art history based fiction novels, which are credited as Adventures for Art Lovers, and nonfiction bronze related publications.Lucy is also the host of the Sculpture Vulture podcast and has worked on sculptures by both Simon Gudgeon and Hugh Chapman who are represented by the Nordic Art Agency.

This is the first in a two part series on sculpture and sculpture conservation and restoration.We are introducing British emerging sculptor Hugh Chapman.  This is a raw and honest introduction into the artist's journey of Hugh.  His conceptual work is engaging and incredibly emotive.  His sculptural forms are complex with elegant waxing modern patinas which feel luxurious and organic.Our conversation is an investigation into the challenges faced by a sculptor and how partnerships with foundries and experts in restoration and conversation are incredibly important to the completion of projects and maintenance of works.You can view Hugh Chapman's work on his artist's page on our website and all the sculptures discussed by Hugh and Henry Moore, Tony Cragg, Anish Kapoor and Antony Gormley will be featured on our Nordic Art Agency Instagram.Hugh's work will be unveiled at our Winter Art Pop Up at Hansa which launches in November and you can follow Hugh Chapman on Instagram to view more works.

On this podcast episode, Juliet introduces emerging British abstract artist Victoria Curling Eriksson. Landscapes dominate Victoria's paintings and her compositions are minimal with multiple fine layers of oil which develop the depth of colour and emotive modus of her work.Her paintings relate to simple motifs with polychromatic tones, gently graduating from one colour band to another. Fields and seascapes dominate the painting and the horizontal orientation of the canvas lends itself to the vertical undulating layers of colour and texture. Follow Victoria Curling Eriksson on Instagram and view her next series of landscape paintings at our Winter Art Pop Up as part of our Hansa Loves Art concept, opening in November.Both the Nordic Art Agency and Victoria will be exhibiting at the Affordable Art Fair 2021  in Stockholm, from 13th - 17th  October, so access your complimentary Private View and Art After Work tickets now online.Images of work referred to in the podcast by Victoria can be viewed on the Nordic Art Agency instagram.

This Bonus Episode features news of some exciting gallery exhibitions happening in August-September in Malmö and London, featuring four international artists who have been guests on the podcast.Interior Souls is a new exhibition at the Nordic Art Agency gallery in Malmö and features nine new paintings of iconic interiors by architectural painter Bea Sarrias.  Join Juliet for the Vernissage on Friday 27th August at the gallery for art, drinks and conversation. Due to Covid 19 guidance, registration is essential if you wish to attend the event.  The digital exhibition catalogue can also be viewed onlineFive paintings by Frédéric Blaimont will also be shown in the small gallery during the Interior Souls exhibition.Studio Response: [#1] a new exhibition at the prestigious Saatchi Gallery in London, which opened this week, featuring our exclusive artists Jo Hummel and Sara Dare.  The exhibition is free and will be open until September  9th,  well worth a visit!

This episode features Eric Grech as the voice of French figurative artist Frédéric Blainmont. It is the first time we have experimented with our podcast guest being represented as an actor and the whole experience was quite interesting!Frédéric Blainmont is an observer of the everyday characters who are found in the banalest of situations. Anonymous figures emerged through his painting as he remains curious about his contemporaries.His paintings will allow you to leisurely criticise the supposed delinquencies, flaws, and inconsistencies found in society.  In contrast, the paintings feel smooth, almost delicately and restfully executed. The subdued pastel palettes, plain backgrounds, and monochromatic play make the figures almost feel poetic.Frédéric paintings are profiles of accuracy, with a subtle dusting of condemnation. He captures men and women; exploring our relationships with bodies, with food, and the unavoidable issue of excess and overconsumption. Find Frédéric Blainmont on Instagram and on the @nordicartagencypodcast where we have featured several of the works discussed in the podcast.We are delighted to represent Frédéric Blainmont exclusively at the Nordic Art Agency and look forward to exhibiting a series of images at the Nordic Art Agency in our exhibition Interior Souls launching at the end of August 2021.

Our guest on this episode of the podcast is the Director of the Copenhagen Photo Festival 2021. We are currently facing a cultural battle as the global pandemic has left the consumption of art in galleries, museums and exhibitions in very uncharted waters.  The Copenhagen Photo Festival,  which was hosted between June 3th - June 13th, launched at a time when Copenhagen city had only very recently reopened after an extended lockdown.  The Director of the Copenhagen Photo Festival, Maja Dyrehauge Gregersen joins Juliet in conversation to explore the philosophy behind the festival, the uncertainty which faced the launch of the exhibition this year due to the pandemic, and the institutional challenges which are impacting the art world in general.The successes of the festival very much lie within its ethos of inclusivity, connectivity and the offering of a shared global immersive experience.  How we currently consume culture is discussed as well as the six participants in this year's solo exhibition, and the galleries, art institutions and museums partnering with the festival. Offical Partner events and exhibitions are continuing until 29th August and you can discover more of what is available to visit. The Nordic Art Agency is currently exhibiting and a photographic exhibition by Natalie Christensen, Semblances of Boundaries & Thresholds at our Malmö gallery until the end of July. You can view this exhibition's digital catalogue and recent virtual gallery event online.View images from the Copenhagen Photo Festival by visiting our Instagram @nordicartagencypodcast and or follow the @nordicartagency gallery on Instagram.

A slight departure from the normal guests we invite on this episode of the podcast.  Rather than an artist or an art influencer, we are in conversation with visual influencer Niki Brantmark, founder of the phenomenally successful award-winning blog MyScandinavianHome.com and best-selling author of three interior and lifestyle publications.MyScandinavianHome.com is a daily blog with over half a million page views per month and 360K followers on Instagram.  Over the past decade, the blog has featured homes and interiors from all over the Nordics providing a visual feast of the Scandinavian aesthetic.Art and interiors function in parallel to enhance the environment and experience within a home.  Niki shares her understanding and experience surrounding lighting, materials, colour pallets which define the Nordic interiors and very much the Scandinavian approach to life.Placing art in a home is as important as understanding the light sources, flow and function of a space and we hope this conversation provides some inspiration from Scandinavia, via two British ex-pats!Visit our Podcast Instagram to view images from Niki's Blog and @nordicartagency to view the gallery.

Tom Lohner's paintings are very much like the artist himself, bold, dynamic, entertaining and fearless. During a whirlwind art career over the last twenty years, Austrian pop surrealist artist Tom Lohner has achieved huge success as a painter, a creative brand, as a gallery owner, and most recently as a creator of the first NFTs to placed in a museum collection.In this podcast we discuss Tom's artist journey, his collaboration with Hard Rock Cafe, The Baker House Gallery and Jaguar cars.  He also walks us through his creative practice and how his multidimensional approach to his artistry has enabled an evolution in his painting style and artist's brand.You can follow  Tom Lohner on Instagram and also view his website. Discover more about the Baker House Gallery and discover more about their exhibitions and location in Graz.Tom Lohner's zest for life, music and art is infectious and this conversation hopefully is inspiring for young emerging artists.

Spanish artist Bea Sarrias is obsessed with the architecture that surrounds her in her home city of Barcelona and the iconic international modernist and rationalist architects. Bea paints portraits of spaces and not buildings and the elements of composition, light and shade and perspective are essential to her painting practice in order to create the soul and narrative of the architecture found in her work.As a recent addition to the Nordic Art Agency's stable of artists, Bea is our first non-figurative or abstract artist.  This podcast seeks to understand why,  following her studies in Fine Art at the University of Barcelona, architecture has been her preferred and only subject matter.With commission projects for Nato Headquarters in Brussels and numerous international solo exhibitions, Bea is an established artist who works hard to continuously evolve her approach to colour, composition and understanding of industrial design and architecture.Follow Bea Sarrias on her Instagram and view her artist's profile on the Nordic Art Agency website.Images of iconic buildings and paintings by Bea discussed on the podcast can be viewed on our @nordicartagencypodcast Instagram account.

Exciting British abstract painter and installation artist Sara Dare is the guest on this episode of the podcast.Sara Dare typically works on a large-scale using paper, linen and canvas combined with a range of mediums, selected for their viscosity and finish, such as ink, oil, emulsion and acrylic. Her paintings seek an evocative experience or visceral negotiation with the viewer, initially playful or peaceful followed by a sense of unease or tension.  Connecting to her painting on a physical or emotional level can also lead to a sense of unsettlement. Sara confesses in our conversation to almost sabotaging elements of beauty or perfection in favour of an authentic, human and historical practice developed through her use of colour, brushwork and material.The Nordic Art Agency is delighted to represent Sara Dare exclusively in Scandinavia and you can view more of her work over on her Instagram. We shall be exhibiting Sara Dare's painting at our Spring Art Pop Up at Hansa from April 30th - May 30th where we shall feature a new series of nine artworks alongside other international painters. Follow the Nordic Art Agency gallery on Instagram to discover more about our artists and exhibitions. We would also love for you to rate our podcast so that more people can find us and learn more about the international contemporary artists that we represent.

In this episode, we were delighted to be joined by Alexandra Fried and Alexandra Herlitz who, together, host the podcast Konsthistoriepodden a Swedish Art History podcast.  Both are currently senior lecturers at Gothenburg University in the department of Cultural Science specialising in specific periods of Art History.The Konsthistorienpodden discusses the process, ownership and reception of well-known artworks and covers a diverse roster of artists from a broad spectrum of time periods. Most of all, it reveals the unknown twists and tales that lay behind many of the lives of the artists and their acclaimed artworks.In our conversation, we discuss the value of understanding or being able to deconstruct artworks of historical importance and how that impacts how we view contemporary art. We also explore the importance of the narrative behind contemporary and historical artists and the value of historical art in modern culture and society.You can listen to the Konsthistorienpodden on most podcast platforms. Also, you can follow Alexandra Fried and Alexandra Herlitz and their insightful podcast and discover more art history adventures on Instagram and on Facebook. Please follow the Nordic Art Agency Podcast and the Nordic Art Agency on Instagram and be sure to subscribe to the podcast and never miss an episode of Season 2.

Marta Lafuente is a figurative painter based in  Barcelona.  She has developed a unique mixed media style and creates memorable and emotional paintings which touch on the everyday encounter and forgotten moments.In the podcast, she discusses her painting practice and dedication to her instinctive process, her work as a Professor of Drawing at the Universitat de Belles Arts de Barcelona and her award-winning animation films.Marta has a true artist's soul and expresses her artwork and creative practice in a moving manner, as a complex and emotional process of evolution, mistakes and revisiting the past.We have represented Marta's work exclusively in Scandinavia since 2017 and are delighted to share new works this Spring on her artist's page on the Nordic Art Agency website.You can also view the short animation films discussed in the podcast, Deep and La Boite on  Vimeo.Marta Lafuente can be followed on her Instagram and a recent collection of her paintings can be found at the Nordic Art Gallery or on Artsy.

In this episode of the podcast, we join photographer Natalie Christensen in her Santa Fe studio.  With over 51,000 Instagram followers Natalie Christensen's career has been one very much born online and driven by a thriving organic digital audience.Architecture is the main subject matter of her images as she is intrigued by line, form, structure and what lies beyond the edges of an image.  Her photographs deliver vibrant narratives that are both uplifting and reflective.Natalie Christensen exhibits in Europe and the US  and was one of five invited photographers at The National: Best of Contemporary Photography, Fort Wayne Museum of Art and was recently named one of “Ten Photographers to Watch” at the Los Angeles Center for Digital Art. You can find Natalie Christensen on Instagram and her collaborative partner Jim Eyre.We are delighted to represent Natalie exclusively in the Nordics and currently have two of her works exhibited at our Winter Art Pop Up until December 31st 2020.Please send your suggestion of artists or art influencers who you would like to hear on the podcast for 2021.

Our podcast guest is the delightful Modupeola Fadugba, a young multi-disciplinarian artist who draws from her vast global travels and academic background.Modupeola holds a Bachelors in Chemical Engineering from the University of Delaware, a Masters in Economics from the University of Delaware and a Masters in Education from Harvard University but her heart and passion is deeply rooted in visual learning and responses.In her short six-year career as an artist, she has created powerful and beautiful bodies of work which touches on societal and political diversity, community, female empowerment and the artwork through the swim stories and the synchronised swimming.  Her paintings are featured in impressive museums and private collection around the globe.In our conversation, Modupeola joins us from Philidelphia where she is currently completing her residency at the Smithsonian. We explore her painting practice, use of materials and the impact of her life growing up in Togo, Uganda, Nigeria and UK.  She is a brilliant observer and combines her intellect and warmth to establish human value and narrative effortlessly in her impactful artwork.With exhibitions in Paris, London and Accra, we hope to welcome her to Scandinavia in the future.  You can view all her work on her website and on the Nordic Art Agency Instagram.

Welcome to the wonderful (and slightly alternative) world of Danish photographer Lars Daniel.Lars Daniel is always joyfully reasserting and contradicting initial responses to his photography, and this conversation is no different.As a conceptual photographer, Lars Daniel sees the human form and the environment in which they exist in his images as otherworldly, dreamlike and somewhat removed from reality.  All literal meaning is therefore lost and any alternative view is open to be experienced. The BIG SLEEP series, Cultural Baggage II and Freedom & Happiness are all images which intrigue and require contemplation.You can view Lars Daniel's and current installation at HANSA Malmö on the second floor as part of are HANSA LOVES ART concept until the end of November 2020.All prints are available in a limited edition of  10 + 1 AP printed on matte Hahnemühle paper, mounted & framed in handcrafted, dark solid smoked oak frames and available to view and purchase online.  Contact the gallery for complimentary international shipping.

British artist Christabel Blackburn won Sky Art's Portrait Artist of the Year earlier in 2020 with her minimal and stripped back contemporary portraiture style. Christabel's compositions typically include flat planes of colour, architectural aspects, simplistic interiors with limited details balancing of context, reduction and intimacy.In the podcast, she discusses her journey as an artist and her recent experience painting music legend Nile Rodgers, founder of the 70s band Chic, which now hangs in the Royal Albert Hall in London. A must watch is the brilliant final of Sky Art's Portrait of the Year, which was an incredible event, filmed in the National Portrait Gallery in London.We are delighted that Christabel Blackburn has recently joined the Nordic Art Agency and we will exhibit three of her works in our exhibition FACES//PLACES which opens on Friday, October 9th in our Malmö gallery.Follow Christabel Blackburn over on Instagram and watch her portrait painting tutorial in collaboration with Partnership Editions.

Catherine Ludeau is a French abstract artist who works within a minimalist style in resin on canvas. Her career as a designer and artist has spanned over many decades and has evolved in recent years to a pure reduction of natural elements informed by the practice of Zen, repetition and instinctive emotional responses.Currently in her studio in Paris, Catherine shares her painting process and how resin has informed her recent bodies of work.You can follow Catherine on Instagram to view her recent works.  The Nordic Art Agency has a selection of resin on canvas artworks by Catherine which are available to view in our gallery and we shall be hosting a solo exhibition Infinite Spaces in 2021 in the gallery.

In this episode of the Nordic Art Agency Podcast we are in conversation with Munich based abstract artist Frederic Paul.  We signed Frederic Paul to the Nordic Art Agency Gallery in 2018 having connected with his whimsical, emotive paintings with tonal graduation and elements of layered three-dimensionality.Heavily influenced by his roots in Asia, Frederic Paul represents a fresh, entrepreneurial approach to his career as an artist and painter showing considerable maturity, despite being in his 20s, and has complete conviction in his creative practice and use of materials. Having exhibited in numerous solo and groups exhibition in the UK, the US and extensively in Europe, we are delighted to be welcoming Frederic Paul to exhibit at the Nordic Art Agency in Malmö this August-September, in his first solo exhibition in Scandinavia.  BLOOM will be a continuation of his positive, vibrate and uplifting mixed media paintings incorporating oil, acrylic and hand-torn Chinese Rice Paper. The exhibition will also feature an abstract installation of fragmented elements.Follow Frederic Paul on Instagram and you can also view one of his recent studio time-lapses here.We are delighted to represent Frederic Paul exclusively in the Nordics.