The art world in Sweden and around the world is shaped by political decisions, economic conditions, a transformed market and changing institutions.
In the Royal Institute of Art’s (KKH) conversation series Conversations on the Conditions of Art, a variety of actors – from artists and curators to gallery owners, opinion leaders and institutional leaders – come together to seek to capture voices and insights about the role of art in a time of change.
The talks will be moderated by Sanne Kofod Olsen, Vice-Chancellor at KKH.
Sanne Kofod Olsen and Sara-Vide Ericson, artist, will meet for a conversation on 4 March.
Warmly welcome to attend!
Date: 23/4
Time: 16.00
Place: The Royal Institute of Art, library
Sara-Vide Ericson, artist
With exhibitions in Sweden and internationally Sara-Vide Ericson has been established as one of the most influential artists of her generation in Sweden. Her figurative paintings, inspired by surrounding nature and her own personal experience, transform her stories into universal myths. Her creative process is based on a form of performativity. She creates stagings in which she plays the character, a kind of performance of which she keeps a photographic record and, above all, a physical memory. Ericson’s work is characterised by large oil canvases and in recent years she has been playing on the effects of relief through texture, she has perfected the piping bag method, enabling her to project the paint onto the canvas following precise lines of varying thicknesses, creating three-dimensional ornaments as in pastry making.
Sara-Vide Ericson (f.1983) studied at the Royal Institute of Art in Stockholm (2004–2009). She lives and works in Hälsingland, Sweden. She has had a number of solo exhibitions; Gammelstrand, DK, (2025), Institute suédois, FR (2023), Bonniers Konsthall, SE (2023) and Kulturhuset Stadsteatern SE (2022) among others and has participated in group exhibitions in Scandinavia, the United States, Germany and South Korea.