Scandinavia House
Cultural Center / organization
Scandinavia House: The Nordic Center in America is the leading center for Nordic culture in the United States, offers a wide range of programs that illuminate the culture and vitality of Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, and Sweden. Scandinavia House offerings include diverse exhibitions and film series, as well as concerts and other performances, readings, lectures, symposia, language courses, and children’s activities.
Designed by the internationally renowned Polshek Partnership Architects (now Ennead Architects) and inaugurated in October 2000, Scandinavia House is the headquarters of The American-Scandinavian Foundation (ASF) and the site of ASF’s cultural and educational programming and is located in New York City.
Ole Brodersen / String cloth and kite
Scandinavia House
Libia Castro and Olafur Olafsson / Untitled
Helene Schjerfbeck
Sebastian Lelio / Disobedience
Scandinavia House
Danish Dance Theatre / Photo Soren Meisner
Aki Kaurismaki / The Other Side of Hope
Authored Articles
Scandinavia House
Cultural Center / organization
Scandinavia House: The Nordic Center in America is the leading center for Nordic culture in the United States, offers a wide range of programs that illuminate the culture and vitality of Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, and Sweden. Scandinavia House offerings include diverse exhibitions and film series, as well as concerts and other performances, readings, lectures, symposia, language courses, and children’s activities.
Designed by the internationally renowned Polshek Partnership Architects (now Ennead Architects) and inaugurated in October 2000, Scandinavia House is the headquarters of The American-Scandinavian Foundation (ASF) and the site of ASF’s cultural and educational programming and is located in New York City.
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Ole Brodersen / String cloth and kite
Scandinavia House
Libia Castro and Olafur Olafsson / Untitled
Helene Schjerfbeck
Sebastian Lelio / Disobedience
Scandinavia House
Danish Dance Theatre / Photo Soren Meisner
Aki Kaurismaki / The Other Side of Hope
Authored Articles
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Walde Huth: Material and FashionSep 23, 2023 – Mar 3, 2024German photographer Walde Huth (1923-2011) spent her entire career exploring textiles and fabrics. Starting with commissions in the early 1950s, including those from the velvet factory Gottlieb Ott Sohn, she was able to enter the international world of fashion as a photographer, working with designers of the “New Look” such as Christian Dior and Jacques Fath. (more…)
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World Press Photo 2023Winners & Exhibitions AnnouncedRepresenting major news events and important moments overlooked by the mainstream media in 2022, the 2023 World Press Photo Contest winning works call attention to some of the most pressing issues facing the world today (more…)
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Nirmala Dutt: StatementsJul 18 – Dec 24, 2023“I am an artist first and foremost – not necessarily just a woman artist or feminist artist or political artist.” Nirmala Dutt (1941–2016) cuts a sharp and unusual figure in Malaysian art history. She was one of very few women artists in her generation to forge and sustain a practice and presence in the local art scene, and gain recognition beyond. (more…)
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Laure Prouvost: Oma-jeJun 30, 2023 – Jan 28, 2024Oma-je will be acclaimed French artist Laure Prouvost’s largest exhibition to date in North America. It celebrates her relationship to artistic predecessors including John Latham, Louise Bourgeois, Agnes Varda, and Niki de Saint Phalle, amongst others. The exhibition also transitions into more recent works that look to embodied ways of knowing for inspiration (more…)
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QM + Jerome Foundation FellowshipDeadline October 29, 2023The Queens Museum (QM) is pleased to launch its sixth QM–Jerome Foundation Fellowship for Emerging Artists in New York City. Two visual artists will receive $20,000 each, individual studio space at the Queens Museum, professional development consultations, close mentorship from QM staff members, and a solo exhibition (more…)
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Roman Ondak: InfinitumMay 12 – Nov 22, 2023Roman Ondak’s practice brings together various methodologies, from simply formulated situations in which he binds relationships between members of his family, various groups of people or spectators entering his exhibitions, to modified found objects or constructed spatial installations. Space and time are often systematically thematised in his works and intertwined with his personal history, (more…)
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METAmorphosis / OGR AwardMay 17, 2023Launched during the 2022 edition of Artissima, the METAmorphosis project is the second episode of Beyond Production – a conceptual platform born from the collaboration between Fondazione per l’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea CRT and Artissima, in dialogue with the OGR Award, with the aim of stimulating and promoting reflections on the most innovative trends in contemporary art. (more…)
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The Last HumansAlienation in the AnthropoceneWe have fundamentally altered the earth’s ecosystem by disrupting the natural rhythm of our planet and in doing so have created a new chapter in the evolution of Earth and a new stage of uncertainty. (more…)
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Matthias Brunner: Magnificent Obsessions Saved My LifePublicationBiographies can be as various as human lives. And yet Magnificent Obsessions Saved My Life really is an outlier, a (auto)biography of a different kind that retraces milestones and turning points in the life of a post-war artist from a dysfunctional family, set against the backdrop of his ’68 generation’s experiences (more…)
