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Swedish product designer and mastercraftsman Love Hultén whose designs have gone viral – especially on Instagram – takes game consoles and synthesizers to the next level because of their wacky, playful personalized d...
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Swedish product designer and mastercraftsman Love Hultén whose designs have gone viral – especially on Instagram – takes game consoles and synthesizers to the next level because of their wacky, playful personalized d...
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Swedish artist and entrepreneur Karl Grandin is a good old friend of SHIFT who together with Björn Atldax collaborated with us for our curated monthly cover while working at their former design studio Vår back in 2009...
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American contemporary pop artist and collagist Barbara Kruger (b.1945) has developed her own style of art by combining poetry and politics with an advertising or propaganda vibe – recognizable from its bold declarativ...
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Hudson Yards is one of the newly renovated neighborhoods in Manhattan focused on modern urban life and biodiversity. It's located in the southwest side of Midtown between Chelsea and Hell's Kitchen and is home to a nu...
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After three years on stand-by, Flow Festival in Helsinki kicked off again August 12th - 14th with an international line up – including Gorillaz, Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds, Florence + The Machine, Michael Kiwanuka, Mar...
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Many album covers have become as iconic as the music and artists they portrayed thus contributing to shaping the identity of these stars and the record labels themselves. Emphasizing the central role photography plays...
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This year’s winner of the SHIFT Award at Unknown Asia 2021 is Ball Piyaluk Benjadol. Her work “Loved and Gone Series” – miniatures that combine antiques, old toys, daily necessities, knitted work, and even hair – is t...
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The MACRO - Museum of Contemporary Art of Rome is located below the courtyards of the former Birra Peroni brewery (the area between Via Reggio Emilia, Via Nizza and Via Cagliari was acquired by them in 1911), in the R...
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Founded by long-term friends Carl Ollson and Felix von Bahder, Swedish sustainable fashion mavericks Deadwood™ have raised the bar in the leather clothing game internationally. They started off working with fac...
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The renowned international photography contest World Press Photo 2021 (WPP) kicked off in several cities around Europe this fall. Founded in 1955 in Amsterdam, the institution’s main focus is to address the importance...
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Barely two weeks before Sweden put an end to any type of restrictions for covid-19, between September 17th and 19th the fifteenth edition of Market Art Fair 2021, the independent art fair of Stockholm, took place at t...
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Swedish photographer, sculptor and video artist Lovisa Ringborg (b. 1979) introduces “Mirage”, her first solo exhibition at Fotografiska in Stockholm. The show includes works from the last ten years and a new sculptur...
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Riop is a Jakarta-based artist who has worked in fashion and has experience in commercial both stills and filmmaking. We are very proud to present his work “Glodok” for which he is receiving the SHIFT Award at Unknown...
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The Modern Art Museum in Stockholm, Moderna Museet held Alberto Giacometti's (1901–1966) exhibition “Face To Face” in the midst of the COVID's aftermath, which winded up with the museum closing down for a few weeks an...
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Swedish prime skincare brand OM-SE is a sophisticated and fresh approach to the industry. Inspired by the FODMAP methodology, which is a mode of action in symptom induction. Furthermore, transparency is the main conce...
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What is art? That is what American artist John Baldessari (1931–2020) started to wonder about during the 1960’s at his hometown National City outside San Diego, in California. His mindset of re-examining what art can ...
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Released on June 12 2020, Selected Electroacoustic Works 2002 - 2020, Swedish composer Yourhighness aka Johannes Wikström wanted to compile a large amount of his best music composed over nearly two decades. These rec...