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DECEMBER 4, 2025
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EXHIBITION NATIONAL NORDIC MUSEUM SEATTLE
New Nordic. Cuisine, Aesthetics and Place
National Nordic Museum in Seattle, USA
November 15, 2025 - March 8, 2025.
Mikael Olsson
Oaxen
1997-98
Pigment prints on acid free cotton paper
Courtesy Galerie Nordenhake
A serie of 12 photographs from the book Oaxen Skärgårdskrog, Raster Förlag 1999.
New Nordic Cuisine is a movement that started in the Nordic countries in the early 2000s and has since grown into an international phenomenon.
With its interpretations of wild nature, the Nordic climate, local foodstuffs and culinary traditions, the movement spawned a distinctive aesthetic that was expressed in meals, tableware and restaurant interiors. Locally-sourced natural materials, animal skins and untreated wood, handmade ceramics and the use of wild vegetation as raw ingredients and for decoration all featured prominently.
In the exhibition New Nordic. Cuisine, Aesthetics and Place, the National Museum shows how this food movement merged with other contemporary cultural trends. Through architecture, contemporary art, design and crafts from the museum’s collection, and objects loaned from various restaurants, the exhibition examines the “new Nordic” concept as a broad aesthetic development defined by the interaction between materials, people and landscape.
Includes works by Kvae & Bark, Jens L. Thomsen, Fäviken, Mikael Olsson, Edvard Munch, Olafur Eliasson, Carl-Viggo Hølmebakk arkitektkontor, Snøhetta, Jensen & Skodvin arkitekter, Kristine Fornes, Pentti Kaskipuro, Benjamin Alexander Huseby, Poul Andrias Ziska/Koks, Piet Oudolf, Knud Leem, Anders Smebye, Magnus Ek/Oaxen, Roderick Sloan, Hans J. Wegner, Toril Redalen, Dyvik Kahlen and others.
Curator Exhibition: Martin Braathen and Inger Helene Stemshaug.
Travel support Swedish Arts Grants Committee.
NOVEMBER 15, 2025
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ARTIST TALK AND SCREENING OF KOSTA 3:30 AT FONDAZIONE MAST BOLOGNA ITALY
Photography, Voyeurisme and Space
SATURDAY 08 NOVEMBER 2025
8 PM
SALABORSA – PIAZZA DEL NETTUNO, 3
BOLOGNA, ITALY
ARTIST TALK
Francesco Zanot, Artistic Director of Foto/Industria, introduces Swedish artist Mikael Olsson, who will present his photographic work with a particular focus on its relationship with architecture and cinema.
The event includes a screening of the short film Kosta 3:30 (Sweden, 2006, 19', distributed by Filmform), created in collaboration with filmmaker Andreas Roth and featuring an original soundtrack by Alva Noto, one of the most renowned sound artists on the international scene. The film is dedicated to the houses designed by celebrated architect Bruno Mathsson — the subject of Olsson’s exhibition for Foto/Industria — and will be discussed by the two filmmakers and Francesco Zanot in a conversation following the screening.
A main theme in Mikeal Olsson’s (born in Lerum, Sweden in 1969) works is the reenactment of history and the presence of the past in current times. This was first outlined in Södrakull Frösakull (Steidl, 2011), and then further developed in on | auf (Steidl, 2020). In his “semi-autobiographical work” Olsson Mikael (Art and Theory, 2022), he examined the relationship between perception and representation through the selfie genre. Olsson is now working with a project on Swedish architect Sigurd Lewerentz, which so far has been presented at the Venice Biennale of Architecture in 2018 and the book LWRNTZ [work in progress] (Andersson Örn, 2022).
Andreas Roth is a Swedish artist and curator who has held key positions at the Public Art Agency Sweden and the City of Gothenburg, where he developed and implemented participatory approaches to art in urban contexts. He is currently the Art Curator for the City of Mölndal, where he is responsible for the public art program, cultural policy, and the municipal art collection. In addition to his institutional work, Roth has founded and directed several gallery initiatives and art platforms dedicated to contemporary art. He has taught at art academies and contributed editorially to art publications. He has also collaborated with designer Mats Theselius on projects ranging from bespoke retail interiors to furniture design.
NOVEMBER 8, 2025
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EXHIBITION FONDAZIONE MAST
Exhibition Södrakull Frösakull - Mikael Olsson
Fondazione Collegio Venturoli
Bologna, Italy
NOVEMBER 7 – DECEMBER 14, 2025
TUESDAY–SUNDAY, 10 AM –7 PM
The new edition of the Biennial of Photography on Industry and Work is dedicated to the theme of the home and will take place from November 7 under the artistic direction of Francesco Zanot.
Ten exhibitions will be set up in seven venues across Bologna’s historic city center until December 14, while the eleventh exhibition, Living, Working, Surviving by Canadian artist Jeff Wall, curated by Urs Stahel, will be hosted in the MAST.Galleries (until March 8, 2026).
NOVEMBER 7, 2025
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NEW NORDIC. CUISINE, AESTHETICS AND PLACE. A COMPENDIUM
Food is more than just nutrition – it is culture, identity and history. The new Nordic cuisine movement has challenged our ideas about Nordic food culture and forged a new understanding of what it means to eat in harmony with nature. With its ideals of sustainability, seasonal ingredients and modern culinary innovation, the movement has had a deep impact on both the restaurant sector and the world of everyday food. This book has been compiled on the occasion of the exhibition New Nordic. Cuisine, Aesthetics and Place at The National Museum of Art, Architecture and Design, which explores the interaction between the evolution of new Nordic cuisine and trends in other forms of contemporary culture. Architecture, contemporary art, design and studio crafts are woven together to provide a broader understanding of the movement’s aesthetic characteristics. How did materials, people and landscape interact to produce a distinctly Nordic culinary identity?
Includes works by Kvae & Bark, Jens L. Thomsen, Fäviken, Edvard Munch, Olafur Eliasson, Mikael Olsson, Carl-Viggo Hølmebakk arkitektkontor, Snøhetta, Jensen & Skodvin arkitekter, Kristine Fornes, Pentti Kaskipuro, Benjamin Alexander Huseby, Poul Andrias Ziska/Koks, Piet Oudolf, Knud Leem, Anders Smebye, Magnus Ek/Oaxen, Roderick Sloan, Hans J. Wegner, Toril Redalen, Dyvik Kahlen and others
Martin Braathen and Kristian Wikborg Wiese, editors
Text in English and Norwegian.
JUNE 20, 2025
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EXHIBITION NASJONALMUSEET OSLO
New Nordic. Cuisine, Aesthetics and Place
Nasjonalmuseet Oslo, Norway,
23 May - 14 September 2025.
Mikael Olsson
Oaxen
1997-98
Pigment prints on acid free cotton paper
Courtesy Galerie Nordenhake
A serie of 12 photographs from the book Oaxen Skärgårdskrog, Raster Förlag 1999.
New Nordic Cuisine is a movement that started in the Nordic countries in the early 2000s and has since grown into an international phenomenon.
With its interpretations of wild nature, the Nordic climate, local foodstuffs and culinary traditions, the movement spawned a distinctive aesthetic that was expressed in meals, tableware and restaurant interiors. Locally-sourced natural materials, animal skins and untreated wood, handmade ceramics and the use of wild vegetation as raw ingredients and for decoration all featured prominently.
In the exhibition New Nordic. Cuisine, Aesthetics and Place, the National Museum shows how this food movement merged with other contemporary cultural trends. Through architecture, contemporary art, design and crafts from the museum’s collection, and objects loaned from various restaurants, the exhibition examines the “new Nordic” concept as a broad aesthetic development defined by the interaction between materials, people and landscape.
Includes works by Kvae & Bark, Jens L. Thomsen, Fäviken, Edvard Munch, Mikael Olsson, Olafur Eliasson, Carl-Viggo Hølmebakk arkitektkontor, Snøhetta, Jensen & Skodvin arkitekter, Kristine Fornes, Pentti Kaskipuro, Benjamin Alexander Huseby, Poul Andrias Ziska/Koks, Piet Oudolf, Knud Leem, Anders Smebye, Magnus Ek/Oaxen, Roderick Sloan, Hans J. Wegner, Toril Redalen, Dyvik Kahlen and others.
A specially commissioned pavilion will be constructed for the exhibition on the square outside of the museum. There will be an extensive programme of events throughout the exhibition period, including design workshops, foraging trips and meals prepared by celebrated chefs.
A version of the exhibition will be on display at the National Nordic Museum in Seattle, USA from 7 November 2025.
Curator Exhibition: Martin Braathen and Inger Helene Stemshaug.
Travel support Swedish Arts Grants Committee.
MAY 23, 2025
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T NEW YORK TIMES STYLE MAGAZINE
Proud to collaborate with New York Times on this cover story• @tmagazine T’s new Design issue visits families with different relationships to home. Outside of São Paulo, a Brazilian furniture designer and her grown children constructed a compound that accommodates three generations — while allowing everyone some privacy. Over in Italy, an English art dealer decides to recommit to Venice — a city about which he’s had mixed feelings — only to realize that his new apartment in a 17th-century palazzo isn’t so new to him after all … but someplace he knew as a teenager. And our cover story is about the residences designed by the Swedish painter Carl Larsson and his wife, Karin, north of Stockholm. Since the 1940s, their first house, called Lilla Hyttnäs, has been maintained by a group of their descendants.
Photo by @mikaelolsson_
MARCH 20, 2025
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TALK MENDRISIO USI
Welcome
DECEMBER 6, 2024
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EXHIBITION USI MENDRISIO WITH ARRHOV FRICK
ARRHOV FRICK
URSPRUNG
Origine/Origin
With Mikael Olsson
Exhibition promoted by the Academy of Architecture of the Università della Svizzera italiana
Curated by Arrhov Frick
15 November 2024 – 2 March 2025
The exhibition path on the ground floor and first gallery of the Teatro dell’architettura Mendrisio is marked by thematic sections, all of which refer to the design research and method of the Swedish architecture firm Arrhov Frick. They are accompanied by numerous drawings by the architects and large photographs by Swedish artist and photographer Mikael Olsson, who has developed a personal approach in his way of interpreting architecture, namely a radical re-vision and re-presentation through the photographic medium.
NOVEMBER 14, 2024
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DECEMBER 4, 2025
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EXHIBITION NATIONAL NORDIC MUSEUM SEATTLE
New Nordic. Cuisine, Aesthetics and Place
National Nordic Museum in Seattle, USA
November 15, 2025 - March 8, 2025.
Mikael Olsson
Oaxen
1997-98
Pigment prints on acid free cotton paper
Courtesy Galerie Nordenhake
A serie of 12 photographs from the book Oaxen Skärgårdskrog, Raster Förlag 1999.
New Nordic Cuisine is a movement that started in the Nordic countries in the early 2000s and has since grown into an international phenomenon.
With its interpretations of wild nature, the Nordic climate, local foodstuffs and culinary traditions, the movement spawned a distinctive aesthetic that was expressed in meals, tableware and restaurant interiors. Locally-sourced natural materials, animal skins and untreated wood, handmade ceramics and the use of wild vegetation as raw ingredients and for decoration all featured prominently.
In the exhibition New Nordic. Cuisine, Aesthetics and Place, the National Museum shows how this food movement merged with other contemporary cultural trends. Through architecture, contemporary art, design and crafts from the museum’s collection, and objects loaned from various restaurants, the exhibition examines the “new Nordic” concept as a broad aesthetic development defined by the interaction between materials, people and landscape.
Includes works by Kvae & Bark, Jens L. Thomsen, Fäviken, Mikael Olsson, Edvard Munch, Olafur Eliasson, Carl-Viggo Hølmebakk arkitektkontor, Snøhetta, Jensen & Skodvin arkitekter, Kristine Fornes, Pentti Kaskipuro, Benjamin Alexander Huseby, Poul Andrias Ziska/Koks, Piet Oudolf, Knud Leem, Anders Smebye, Magnus Ek/Oaxen, Roderick Sloan, Hans J. Wegner, Toril Redalen, Dyvik Kahlen and others.
Curator Exhibition: Martin Braathen and Inger Helene Stemshaug.
Travel support Swedish Arts Grants Committee.
NOVEMBER 15, 2025
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ARTIST TALK AND SCREENING OF KOSTA 3:30 AT FONDAZIONE MAST BOLOGNA ITALY
Photography, Voyeurisme and Space
SATURDAY 08 NOVEMBER 2025
8 PM
SALABORSA – PIAZZA DEL NETTUNO, 3
BOLOGNA, ITALY
ARTIST TALK
Francesco Zanot, Artistic Director of Foto/Industria, introduces Swedish artist Mikael Olsson, who will present his photographic work with a particular focus on its relationship with architecture and cinema.
The event includes a screening of the short film Kosta 3:30 (Sweden, 2006, 19', distributed by Filmform), created in collaboration with filmmaker Andreas Roth and featuring an original soundtrack by Alva Noto, one of the most renowned sound artists on the international scene. The film is dedicated to the houses designed by celebrated architect Bruno Mathsson — the subject of Olsson’s exhibition for Foto/Industria — and will be discussed by the two filmmakers and Francesco Zanot in a conversation following the screening.
A main theme in Mikeal Olsson’s (born in Lerum, Sweden in 1969) works is the reenactment of history and the presence of the past in current times. This was first outlined in Södrakull Frösakull (Steidl, 2011), and then further developed in on | auf (Steidl, 2020). In his “semi-autobiographical work” Olsson Mikael (Art and Theory, 2022), he examined the relationship between perception and representation through the selfie genre. Olsson is now working with a project on Swedish architect Sigurd Lewerentz, which so far has been presented at the Venice Biennale of Architecture in 2018 and the book LWRNTZ [work in progress] (Andersson Örn, 2022).
Andreas Roth is a Swedish artist and curator who has held key positions at the Public Art Agency Sweden and the City of Gothenburg, where he developed and implemented participatory approaches to art in urban contexts. He is currently the Art Curator for the City of Mölndal, where he is responsible for the public art program, cultural policy, and the municipal art collection. In addition to his institutional work, Roth has founded and directed several gallery initiatives and art platforms dedicated to contemporary art. He has taught at art academies and contributed editorially to art publications. He has also collaborated with designer Mats Theselius on projects ranging from bespoke retail interiors to furniture design.
NOVEMBER 8, 2025
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EXHIBITION FONDAZIONE MAST
Exhibition Södrakull Frösakull - Mikael Olsson
Fondazione Collegio Venturoli
Bologna, Italy
NOVEMBER 7 – DECEMBER 14, 2025
TUESDAY–SUNDAY, 10 AM –7 PM
The new edition of the Biennial of Photography on Industry and Work is dedicated to the theme of the home and will take place from November 7 under the artistic direction of Francesco Zanot.
Ten exhibitions will be set up in seven venues across Bologna’s historic city center until December 14, while the eleventh exhibition, Living, Working, Surviving by Canadian artist Jeff Wall, curated by Urs Stahel, will be hosted in the MAST.Galleries (until March 8, 2026).
NOVEMBER 7, 2025
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NEW NORDIC. CUISINE, AESTHETICS AND PLACE. A COMPENDIUM
Food is more than just nutrition – it is culture, identity and history. The new Nordic cuisine movement has challenged our ideas about Nordic food culture and forged a new understanding of what it means to eat in harmony with nature. With its ideals of sustainability, seasonal ingredients and modern culinary innovation, the movement has had a deep impact on both the restaurant sector and the world of everyday food. This book has been compiled on the occasion of the exhibition New Nordic. Cuisine, Aesthetics and Place at The National Museum of Art, Architecture and Design, which explores the interaction between the evolution of new Nordic cuisine and trends in other forms of contemporary culture. Architecture, contemporary art, design and studio crafts are woven together to provide a broader understanding of the movement’s aesthetic characteristics. How did materials, people and landscape interact to produce a distinctly Nordic culinary identity?
Includes works by Kvae & Bark, Jens L. Thomsen, Fäviken, Edvard Munch, Olafur Eliasson, Mikael Olsson, Carl-Viggo Hølmebakk arkitektkontor, Snøhetta, Jensen & Skodvin arkitekter, Kristine Fornes, Pentti Kaskipuro, Benjamin Alexander Huseby, Poul Andrias Ziska/Koks, Piet Oudolf, Knud Leem, Anders Smebye, Magnus Ek/Oaxen, Roderick Sloan, Hans J. Wegner, Toril Redalen, Dyvik Kahlen and others
Martin Braathen and Kristian Wikborg Wiese, editors
Text in English and Norwegian.
JUNE 20, 2025
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RUBY CONWAY, ANOTHER MAGAZINE, 2025.
JUNE 4, 2025
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EXHIBITION NASJONALMUSEET OSLO
New Nordic. Cuisine, Aesthetics and Place
Nasjonalmuseet Oslo, Norway,
23 May - 14 September 2025.
Mikael Olsson
Oaxen
1997-98
Pigment prints on acid free cotton paper
Courtesy Galerie Nordenhake
A serie of 12 photographs from the book Oaxen Skärgårdskrog, Raster Förlag 1999.
New Nordic Cuisine is a movement that started in the Nordic countries in the early 2000s and has since grown into an international phenomenon.
With its interpretations of wild nature, the Nordic climate, local foodstuffs and culinary traditions, the movement spawned a distinctive aesthetic that was expressed in meals, tableware and restaurant interiors. Locally-sourced natural materials, animal skins and untreated wood, handmade ceramics and the use of wild vegetation as raw ingredients and for decoration all featured prominently.
In the exhibition New Nordic. Cuisine, Aesthetics and Place, the National Museum shows how this food movement merged with other contemporary cultural trends. Through architecture, contemporary art, design and crafts from the museum’s collection, and objects loaned from various restaurants, the exhibition examines the “new Nordic” concept as a broad aesthetic development defined by the interaction between materials, people and landscape.
Includes works by Kvae & Bark, Jens L. Thomsen, Fäviken, Edvard Munch, Mikael Olsson, Olafur Eliasson, Carl-Viggo Hølmebakk arkitektkontor, Snøhetta, Jensen & Skodvin arkitekter, Kristine Fornes, Pentti Kaskipuro, Benjamin Alexander Huseby, Poul Andrias Ziska/Koks, Piet Oudolf, Knud Leem, Anders Smebye, Magnus Ek/Oaxen, Roderick Sloan, Hans J. Wegner, Toril Redalen, Dyvik Kahlen and others.
A specially commissioned pavilion will be constructed for the exhibition on the square outside of the museum. There will be an extensive programme of events throughout the exhibition period, including design workshops, foraging trips and meals prepared by celebrated chefs.
A version of the exhibition will be on display at the National Nordic Museum in Seattle, USA from 7 November 2025.
Curator Exhibition: Martin Braathen and Inger Helene Stemshaug.
Travel support Swedish Arts Grants Committee.
MAY 23, 2025
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T NEW YORK TIMES STYLE MAGAZINE
Proud to collaborate with New York Times on this cover story• @tmagazine T’s new Design issue visits families with different relationships to home. Outside of São Paulo, a Brazilian furniture designer and her grown children constructed a compound that accommodates three generations — while allowing everyone some privacy. Over in Italy, an English art dealer decides to recommit to Venice — a city about which he’s had mixed feelings — only to realize that his new apartment in a 17th-century palazzo isn’t so new to him after all … but someplace he knew as a teenager. And our cover story is about the residences designed by the Swedish painter Carl Larsson and his wife, Karin, north of Stockholm. Since the 1940s, their first house, called Lilla Hyttnäs, has been maintained by a group of their descendants.
Photo by @mikaelolsson_
MARCH 20, 2025
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TALK MENDRISIO USI
Welcome
DECEMBER 6, 2024
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EXHIBITION USI MENDRISIO WITH ARRHOV FRICK
ARRHOV FRICK
URSPRUNG
Origine/Origin
With Mikael Olsson
Exhibition promoted by the Academy of Architecture of the Università della Svizzera italiana
Curated by Arrhov Frick
15 November 2024 – 2 March 2025
The exhibition path on the ground floor and first gallery of the Teatro dell’architettura Mendrisio is marked by thematic sections, all of which refer to the design research and method of the Swedish architecture firm Arrhov Frick. They are accompanied by numerous drawings by the architects and large photographs by Swedish artist and photographer Mikael Olsson, who has developed a personal approach in his way of interpreting architecture, namely a radical re-vision and re-presentation through the photographic medium.
NOVEMBER 14, 2024
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