Sweden

Avant-garde

Artists

• Karl Isakson. [1]
• Viking Eggeling. [2]
• Siri Derkert. [3]
• Arthur Carlson Percy. [4]
• Ivan Aguéli. [5] [6]
• John Sten
• Nils von Dardel. [7]
• Jean Börlin, choreographer and dancer. [8] [9]
• Gösta Adrian-Nilsson (GAN). [10] [11]
• Otto Carlsund
• Erik Olson
• Waldemar Lorentzon
• Bengt Österblom
• Vera Meyerson. [12]
• Rudolf Gowenius. [13]
• Viking Dahl. [14]
• Knut Lundström. [15]

Magazines

• Thalia, 1910-13, a magazine for scenic art and music.
• flamman [The Flame], 1917-21. Edited by Georg Pauli.
• kontakt, 1931.
• Spektrum, 1931-33.
• Karavan, 1934-35.

Events

• Exposition Internationale L'Art d'Aujourd'hui exhibition, Paris, December 1925. Exhibiting artists included Otto Carlsund, Waldemar Lorentzon, Vera Meyerson, Bengt Österblom, as well as other Scandinavian artists (Franciska Clausen, Ragnhild Keyser, Charlotte Wankel). [16]
• Exhibition at the Galerie d'Art Contemporain, Paris, June 1926, with paintings by Carlsund, Clausen, Kaarbø and Keyser. [17]
• Exhibition at the Galerie Aubier, Paris, March 1927, with works by Carlsund, Clausen and Kaarbø. [18]
• Exhibition at the Galerie Mots et Images, May 1928, with works by Carlsund, Erik Olson and Christian Berg. [19]
• The Avant-Gardes in the Nordic Countries 1925-1950: History, Culture and Aesthetics, University of Copenhagen, 3-5 October 2013.

Initiatives

• Nordic Network of Avant-Garde Studies, research project started in 2004 with the aim to produce a series of four international conferences on Nordic avant-garde art, each to be followed by a book. The first was dedicated to analysis of the period 1900-25 and was held in Copenhagen in 2009 (with a volume published in 2012, see below); the second one (1925-50) is to be held again in Copenhagen, in October 2013.

Literature

• Claes-Göran Holmberg, Upprorets tradition. Den unglitterära tidskriften i Sverige, Stockholm: Symposion, 1987, 307 pp. (Swedish) [20]
• Tania Ørum, Ping Huang, et al. (eds.), A Cultural History of the Avant-Garde in the Nordic Countries 1900-1925, Amsterdam/New York: Rodopi, 2012, 680 pp. ISBN 978-90-420-3620-8. [21], Preview, Review.
• Ellef Prestsæter, "The Avant-Garde as Network. Interview with Tania Ørum", Kunstkritikk, 23 April 2012.
• Mats Jansson, "Crossing Borders: Modernism in Sweden and the Swedish-Speaking Part of Finland: Thalia (1909-13); Ny konst (1915); flamman (1917-21); Ultra (1922); Quosego (1928-9); kontakt (1931); Spektrum (1931-3); and Karavan (1934-5)", in The Oxford Critical and Cultural History of Modernist Magazines, Vol. 3 (Europe, 1880-1940), New York: Oxford University Press, 2013, pp 666-690. [22]
• Helena Mattsson, Sven-Olov Wallenstein, 1930/1931: Swedish Modernism at the Crossroads, Stockholm: Axl Books, 2014, 86 pp. (Swedish)/(English)/(German)
• Benedikt Hjartarson, Andrea Kollnitz, Per Stounbjerg, Tania Ørum (eds.), A Cultural History of the Avant-Garde in the Nordic Countries 1925-1950, Leiden: Brill, and Boston: Rodopi, 2019, 968 pp. [23]

Experimental film

Viking Eggeling, Gunvor Nelson

Literature

• Astrid Söderbergh Widding (ed.), Konst som rörlig bild: från Diagonalsymfonin till Whiteout, SAK, Bokförlaget Langenskiöld and Stiftelsen Filmform, 2006, 260 pp. (Swedish)

• Erik Hedling, Mats Jönsson (eds.), Välfärdsbilder - svensk film utanför biografen, del 2, Stockholm: Mediehistoriskt arkiv, 2009. [24] (Swedish)

• Lars Gustaf Andersson, John Sundholm, Astrid Söderbergh Widding, A History of Swedish Experimental Film Culture: From Early Animation to Video Art, Stockholm: Mediehistoriskt arkiv, 2010. [25]

• John Sundholm, "Chance and Play, or Marvellous Machines: A Forgotten Swedish Film Avant-Garde", in A Cultural History of the Avant-Garde in the Nordic Countries 1950-1975, eds. Tania Ørum and Jesper Olsson, Leiden: Brill, 2016, pp 349-358. DOI.

• Lars Gustaf Andersson, John Sundholm, "Immigrant Film Co-Operatives in Sweden: The Most Typical Avant-Garde", in A Cultural History of the Avant-Garde in the Nordic Countries since 1975, eds. Benedikt Hjartarson, et al., Leiden: Brill, 2022, pp 703-714. DOI.

Concrete poetry

• Amelie Björck, "Swedish Concrete Poetry in Focus", in Experimental-Visual-Concrete. Avant-Garde Poetry Since the 1960s, eds. K. David Jackson, Eric Vos, and Johanna Drucker, Amsterdam: Rodopi, 1996, pp 317-334. (English)

• Jesper Olsson, "Kneaded Language: Concrete Poetry and New Media in the Swedish 1960s", Modernism/modernity 18:2, Apr 2011, pp 273-288. (English)

• Per Bäckström, "Words as Things: Concrete Poetry in Scandinavia", in Transferts, appropriations et fonctions de l'avant-garde dans l'Europe intermédiaire et du nord, ed. Harri Veivo, Paris: L'Harmattan, 2012. (English)

Electroacoustic and experimental music

Literature

• Sanne Krogh Groth, To musikkulturer - én institution: Forskningsstrategier og text-ljudkompositioner ved det svenske elektronmusikstudie EMS i 1960'erne og 1970'erne, Copenhagen University, 2010, 224 pp. Ph.D. thesis. (Swedish) [26] [27]
• Sanne Krogh Groth, Politics and Aesthetics in Electronic Music. A Study of EMS - Elektronmusikstudion Stockholm, 1964-79, foreword Peter Weibel, Heidelberg: Kehrer, 2014, 272 pp. A book on the history of the Swedish electronic music studio EMS. [28]

Computer and computer-aided art

Artists

Teresa Wennberg

Events

• Visions of the Present, festival, Tekniska Museet, Stockholm, 1966.

Literature

• Gary Svensson, Digitala Pionjärer. Datakonstens introduktion i Sverige, Stockholm: Carlssons, 2000, 211 pp. (Swedish)
• Anna Orrghen, "Collaborations between Engineers and Artists in the Making of Computer Art in Sweden, 1967–1986", History of Nordic Computing 3, Springer, 2011, pp 127-136.

Video art

• Video/Art/Video: Utställning - Installationer, Experiment, Stockholm: Konstavdelningen, Stockholms kulturförvaltning, 1985, 87 pp. Exh. cat. Exh. held at the Galleriet, Kulturhuset, Stockholm, 2 Nov 1985–6 Jan 1986. [29] (Swedish)

• Gunnel Pettersson, "KU-rapport Konstfack 2006 - Pionjärer inom svensk videokonst", 2006, 11 pp. (Swedish)

• Astrid Söderbergh Widding (ed.), Konst som rörlig bild: från Diagonalsymfonin till Whiteout, SAK, Bokförlaget Langenskiöld and Stiftelsen Filmform, 2006, 260 pp. (Swedish)
  • Gary Svensson, "Den tidiga monitorkonsten: TV-experiment i Sverige".
  • Gunnel Pettersson, Måns Wrange, "Videokonst i Sverige: från alternativ till institution".

• Anna Orrghen, "Art criticism and the newness of video art: the reception of video art in the Swedish daily press, 1985–1991", Journal of Aesthetics & Culture 12:1, 2020.

Art and technology

• Anders Ekström, Solveig Jülich, Pelle Snickars (eds.), 1897 – Mediehistorier kring Stockholmsutställningen, Stockholm: Mediehistoriskt arkiv, 2009. (Swedish) [30]

• Mats Jönsson, Pelle Snickars (eds.), Medier & politik – om arbetarrörelsens mediestrategier under 1900-talet, Stockholm: Mediehistoriskt arkiv, 2009. (Swedish) [31]

• Solveig Jülich, Patrik Lundell, Pelle Snickars (eds.), Mediernas kulturhistoria, Stockholm: Mediehistoriskt arkiv, 2009. (Swedish) [32]

• Björn Norberg, Jonatan Habib Engqvist, "The Nordic pioneers of New Media Art", Ars Hypermedia, 2009.

• Jonas Harvard, Patrik Lundell (eds.), 1800-talets mediesystem, Stockholm: Mediehistoriskt arkiv, 2010. (Swedish) [33]

• Lars Björk, Jānis Krēsliņš, Matts Lindström (eds.), The Story of Storage I. Kompendium, Stockholm: Mediehistoriskt arkiv, 2010. (Swedish) [34]

• Johan Jarlbrink, Patrik Lundell (eds.), Från pressarkivet 1800-1899. En källsamling, Stockholm: Mediehistoriskt arkiv, 2012. (Swedish) [35]

• Anders Ekström, Solveig Jülich, Frans Lundgren, Per Wisselgren (eds.), History of Participatory Media: Politics and Publics, 1750-2000, Routledge, 2012. Contents

• Anna Orrghen, "ICT in Art in Sweden 1993–2011: Tool, Medium and Theme", in History of Nordic Computing 4, eds. Christian Gram, et al., Springer , 2015, pp 78-89.

• Anna Orrghen, "The Avant-Garde and the Computer Industry: Art and Technology Collaborations at Datasaab and IBM Sweden from the late 1960s to the 1990s", in A Cultural History of the Avant-Garde in the Nordic Countries since 1975, eds. Benedikt Hjartarson, et al., Leiden: Brill, 2022, pp 150-167. DOI.

• Anna Orrghen, "Historicizing digital art in Sweden", in Swedish Art Historiography: Institutionalization, Identity, and Practice, eds. Britt-Inger Johansson and Ludwig Qvarnström, Lund: Nordic Academic Press, 2022, pp 195-202.

Resources

• New Media art in Sweden blog, [36]
• Initiatives and groups, [37]

Cities

Stockholm, Malmo, Gothenburg, Lund, Karlstad, Linköping, Växjö.

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