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Wednesday, November 23, 18:00–20:00 hrs.

The Auditorium of Konstakademien (The Royal Swedish Academy of Fine Arts), Fredsgatan 12 in Stockholm.

Since 1977, artistic education is part of the university system. How did practical and strongly individualized art schooling fit into an academically oriented organization? How has the distinctive character been maintained and what are the implications of the introduction of academic master’s and PhD degrees? Art life has changed and the traditional ways of teaching have been renewed. For a long time, the schools were also dominated by men, both as students and as teachers; what did the power structures look like and how have they changed?

The seminar will illustrate Swedish artistic education from the 1960s up until today. The evening will open with Marta Edling, senior fellow in art history at Uppsala University, presenting her book Fri konst? Bildkonstnärlig utbildning vid Konsthögskolan Valand, Konstfackskolan och Kungl. Konsthögskolan 1960-1995 (Free Art? Artistic education at Valand School of Fine Arts, the University College of Arts, Craft and Design and the Royal Institute of Art 1960–1995). Then Annika Öhrner, scholar at Uppsala University and head of Valand School of Fine Arts 1996–2000 and Johan Widén, professor at KKH 2000–2010 will talk with Marta Edling about some of the themes in the book, and the evening will end with an open debate with the audience. Moderator: Niclas Östlind, curator and arts faculty doctoral student at the University of Gothenburg.

Free admission

The Swedish Art Critics Association in collaboration with the Royal Swedish Academy of Fine Arts

The talk will be held in Swedish.

Tuesday, 1 November, 19:00 hrs. Free admission. This invitation is for you and one guest.

Feminism, in different shapes, has had great importance in the last 40 years for rewriting art history and for exhibiting art in new ways. Malin Hedlin Hayden and Jessica Sjöholm Skrubbe have gathered texts by a number of internationally prominent curators, art historians and artists, to discuss feminisms, in plural, in the art world. The book “Feminism is still our name. Seven essays on historiography and curatorial practices” (2010) is the starting point for an evening on feminist strategies for a more pluralistic art scene.

Malin Hedlin Hayden and Jessica Sjöholm Skrubbe, both active scholars at the Department of Art History at the Stockholm University, will be talking to Patrik Steorn from the Swedish Art Critics Association.

A bar serving light food will be open all evening, from 18:30 to 23:00. Address: Konstnärsklubben, 2nd floor, Smålandsgatan 7, Stockholm. Ring door bell marked “Konstnärsklubben”.

The Critics’ Salon is arranged by the Swedish Art Critics Association in collaboration with the Tuesday Club – the meeting place for artists in Konstnärshuset (the Artists’ House) on the first Tuesday of every month.

The Critics’ Salon will be held in Swedish.