Dragan Vojvodić // On Thursday, August 8th, Jack White delivered an outstanding performance at the Way Out West festival, bringing the Flamingo Stage to a memorable close. Known for being both a traditionalist and an avant-gardist, Jack White masterfully combines classic blues and rock ‘n’ roll. Famous as the frontman of The White Stripes, White...
Art Box portal // Way Out West Film is the third-largest film festival in Sweden. A total of 31 feature films will be shown during the festival’s three days. Among these, 18 are premieres: six world premieres, nine Nordic premieres, and three Swedish premieres at Hagabion, Capitol, and the new venue Slottskogen Cinema. Another new...
Art Box Portal // In 2019, Will Brooker‘s book Why Bowie Matters was published. Obsessed with David Bowie as a fan and an academic, Will Brooker wrote about Bowie’s personalities, identities, queerness, talents, personality, and art. He started with Bowie’s first steps and finished the book describing the Lazarus project and Blackstar album, ending with...
Ljiljana Maletin Vojvodić // Can collage be literature? So, collages might not fit the traditional definition of literature, but they can certainly be a form of visual storytelling, a form of literary expression in a broader, more contemporary sense because today the boundaries between visual art and literature are blurred. During my artist residency in...
Art Box Portal // The Way Out West festival will take place in Slottsskogen and around central Gothenburg between August 8-10 2024. Since its establishment in 2007, the music and film festival Way Out West has attracted visitors from all over Sweden and large parts of the rest of the world. Programme The programme includes...
Art Box Portal // Kunsthal Rotterdam presents SYLVIE FLEURY: YES TO ALL (March 30, 2024 – Sept 8, 2024) a major retrospective of Swiss artist Sylvie Fleury (1961, Geneva). Her provocative installations, sculptures, readymades and paintings are on display in the Netherlands for the first time. Sylvie Fleury made her name in the early 1990s with her...
Art Box Portal // On August 8th, the center of the Way Out West Festival VIP area will transform into a climate stage featuring scientists, artists, music industry professionals, and thought leaders. They will discuss radical futures, sustainable touring, festival fashion, music and politics, flawed systems, and other pressing issues that will relate to climate...
Predrag Šiđanin // Edmund de Waal (Nottingham, 1964), a British ceramicist and art historian, former professor at the University of Westminster, will exhibit at the renowned Max Hetzler Gallery in Berlin, at Potsdamer Strasse 77-87, from June 14 to August 10, 2024. De Waal is known for his work in porcelain and ceramics, and his...
Art Box portal // Art from the postcolonial era can no longer be regarded as a consistent environment, as differentiation can be observed in all segments. Consequently, contemporary artistic practice and the history of art must incorporate the culture of immigrants, indigenous artists, women artists, LGBTQIA+ artists, and individuals with diverse ethnic and cultural identities,...