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 future
The 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 to 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-auction

This 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, [email protected]

A 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.