AMAZE 11 ! ! !


Curated by Nicole Walker


Stadshuset, Stockholm, Sweden


November 2023


Featuring artists ANNA UDDENBERG & SUUTOO




Anna Uddenberg


SUB-D (INFLATION), 2022

polylactic acid, thermoset polymer resin, electropolished stainless steel, foam boat flooring, leather, chalk paint


205 x 190 x 108 cm

unique

Finger VI, 2018

acrylic, resin on fiberglass, spray filler, acrylic paint, UV nail gel

108 x 18 x 18 cm

Through the feedback loop of consumerist culture, Anna Uddenberg investigates how body culture, spirituality, and self-staging are intertwined with the mediation and production of subjectivity by new technologies and circulation of forms. Her practice integrates approaches to gender while acting as a space for reflecting on taste and class, appropriation and sexuality, pushing these questions into new material territories. Uddenberg’s work continues to confront feminine identity in consumer culture and explores performativity by using sculpture and performance as visual platforms. The use of automobile skeletal structures and other utilitarian structures in her latest abstract and figurative works refers to the concept of comfort zone and proxies for architecture. The “furnituresque” outlook is a result of multiple rearrangements of everyday objects and materials, which are set in a new dialogue with one another.



SUUTOO


GODSPEL / GODSPEED (Call & Respond), 2023


Sound Loop, sound-system, sand, lighter, tape

Variable dimensions

In ‘GODSPEL / GODSPEED (Call & Respond)’ the artist uses field recordings from protests, frequencies of the sun, sub-bass, repetition and silence to assemble a rising sonic landscape, it is an ode to freedom dreams and upsetters.

Suutoo is a multidisciplinary artist, composer and performer with a focus on world-building, deeply invested in strategies of refusal and emancipation. Suutoo uses sonics, visuals, poetry and performance to play with process and poetics, the undoing and becoming of myth. Meditating on symbols for cataclysmic moments of prosaic and colossal proportion, Suutoo continually reflects on how myth informs reality.

All Suutoo wants to be is free.



Photos & video by Erik Pousette



I WOULDN’T TOUCH THAT IF I WERE YOU


20221109 - 20221113


CURATED BY Nicole Walker


One room, 22 artists, one live performance, a lot of alcohol, some cigarettes (outside), some music in the background, annoying conversations and hopefully a good time. Please enjoy the mind-blowing works of these AMAZE-ing artists’ works, and please, I wouldn’t touch that if I were you!

1. SUUTOO

Ritardando (Light Test), 2022, Video and Sound

As a visual and performance artist, composer, and DJ, Suutoo plays with build-ups, break-downs, climatic moments, poetic shifts, tempo, and repetition.

In RITARDANDO (Light Test), the artist stretches one moment, granularizing it, to create a vibrating landscape of noise.

2. Anna Uddenberg

Body mind (Stretch and submission), 2011, Performance Video

Performance at LUCIA ONE, Gallery Niklas Belenius Credits to Sara Litzén and Helin Honung

Photo: Carl Kumlin and Dimen Abdulla

3. Annie Hägg

Flipping bricks into sand (infinite possibilities), 2022, 3D-printed PLA, Sand

Replica of sunflower (designed by Karl Otto Lodén 1940), Images generated from playground stories,

4. Anton Alvarez

No title, 2022, Milano, Video

Anton Alvarez’s tool the Extruder, constructed by the artist himself, is a large-scale press that presses out matter with several tons of pressure through various profiles and nozzles. The formations become seemingly distorted and moulded objects. Clay, which is usually the artist’s main mean of expression, has been replaced with beeswax and bronze.

The artist developed his own method, based on the traditional lost-wax casting process – cire perdue – in which he pressed heated beeswax into cold water. Depending on pressure, force and handling, the wax assumes the shape that becomes the final form of the bronze sculpture.

Beeswax is the starting point. The lost form, the rejected and invisible, becomes the final and chosen, the visible.

5. Anton Alvarez

0202221800, 2022

6. Anton Halla

Vivid anthropochary, 2022

"the dress", wood, glass, (PLA) bur seeds, 132×40

7. Benjamin Reichwald

Tröst, 2022, Sprayfärg, akryl, bläck, krita

8. Ehsan Morshed

Anyone Home!?, 2022, Single Channel Video, 3:32 min

9. Ehsan Morshed

Nobody’s Perfect!, 2022

Mirror, coloured glass, acrylic frame, textile, photographic print, 65 x 52 cm

10. Ehsan Morshed

I kiss better than I cook, 2022, Mdf, digital print, 30 x 40 cm (each)

11. Erik Thörnqvist

Squabbler, 2022, PLA filament, 80 x 80 x 4 cm

Price upon request

12. Fabian Bergmark Näsman

Fig. 43, 2022

Glass fibre, epoxy resin, polyurethane paint, stainless steel, 365 x 60 x 50 cm

13. Georg Nordmark

Untitled (Thicket), 2022

Firehose, aluminium stretcher bars 180 x 120 x 10 cm

Unique. Untitled (Thicket) consists of firehose strips woven and stretched onto an aluminium stretcher frame. Firehose is commonly recycled as a building material in Zoo:s; for swings, hammocks and feeding contraption, woven to create cost efficient, durable and vegetation-like constructions. The firehose constitutes a versatile tool for fulfilling behaviorally enriching welfare standards for captive animals.

As the firehose weave is stretched onto an aluminium stretcher frame and mounted on the gallery wall it is faced as, and thusly transformed, into a picture. With the format of a painting the “canvas” can be said to divulge the representational remnants of the Zoo-material as well as presenting a stripped depiction of an absent habitat.

With a minimalist and formalist approach the work contextualizes itself and sardonically comments reductivist tendencies of contemporary arts.

14. Hanna Antonsson

Auto wing II, 2021, Taxidermy gull wings, car tire, metal wire

With the use of taxidermy and scrap car parts, the wings of birds hit by cars are mounted on the very objects that ended their lives in the first place. Auto wing is a series of sculptures and an ongoing project that brings hybrids alive through collision.

15. Inti Wang

Hanging GMG (Genetical Modified Garment), 2022

Identity is fluid. We shape it according to our time and environment, so despite social, religious and economical parameters the idea of having life plan out seems worthless as there is not a real answer for who we will be in the future, as identity is a process we recreate by time.

Todays genetic engineering techniques and the creation of GMO (Genetically Modified Organism) from animals to plants and microorganisms, opens many possibilities and questions about life and our future as humankind.

GMG (Genetically Modified Garments) by Inti Wang explore fluid identity in today's open field of creation imaginary through unique garments made to feel and recreate form to what feels contented to human body. GMG have the quality to be remade, transform and enhanced to fit our own pleasure.

16. Jaana-Kristiina Alakoski + Ella Fleck

Two Cows, 2021

17. Jojo Ahlkvist

WFHIT (Printing History), 2020, Lath, metal

Suggested quotation of (in)Famous humorist and critic D. Parker. In the biography by John Keats You Might as Well Live: The Life and Times of Dorothy Parker (1970), the quote is ascribed to her: ‘If the doorbell or phone rang in her apartment, she would express: “What fresh hell can this be?”’

(Printing History), 2020- , is an ongoing series of work by jojo ahlkvist. Work from the (Printing History) series has been shown at ACF London in 2020, and was included in the publication DIE NEUE NORMALITÄT published by the Austrian Cultural Forum, 2020, curated by Lucija Šutej

18. Jojo Ahlkvist + Hedda Bauer

Promo, 2021, Video, for Backa Art Center

19. Klara Zetterholm

Fictional pig, 2022, 74 x 35 cm

20. Marie Karlberg

A story of a 13 year old cigarette smoker 3 minutes, 11 seconds

Starring Felix Bernstein

21. Nicole Walker

Internalized capitalism, 2022

Car bow, glass construction, metal pole, moose bone, sound piece, 200 x 100 x 150 cm

Unique

22. Tiny Tony Karlsson Savci

We are reading Interbeing by Thich Nhat Hanh

2022

In the spirit of Tony Karlsson Savci’s earlier works using still life as a site for sense-making through object fetishism and contemporary animism, this work uses the subtitle as an object of interiority and collective reading, and a vehicle for contemplative meditation.

23. Valter Jimi Törsleff + Chiara Frenzel (Kap Company)

Getting back up is living 2022

24. Viktor Berglund Ekman

Spine

2020, Christmas tree feet, steel wire, steel pipe

25. Zak Arogundade + Tobias Lee

Whalin (Kyselina OST) 2015

Audio: Tobias Lee

Visual: Zak Arogundade

26. Zhala Rifat Pehrsson

Cikada 2019

Performance of PMC Pleaser by Hannes Ferm on the opening night.



THINGS THAT USED TO FEEL FUN


AMAZE #9

CURATED BY Nicole Walker

Opening May 28, 2022


PARTICIPATING ARTISTS:

Anton Halla

Voronoi garden-path sentence, 2021 60 x 60 x 18 cm PLA, concrete, galileo thermometer glass bulbs, shopping trolley tokens.

Gabriella Danerlöv

W.A.S.P. & American royalty (Prep style Regalia) ,2020 12 x 5 x 5 cm Tennisbollar, secondhand smycken.

Tommy Sveningsson Krek

Duvsång, 2021 40 x 40 cm Akryl på duk Walnut frame, Morgonstjärna, 2021 40 x 40 cm Akryl på duk Walnut frame.

Liv Melin

Jag har gått i nästan 20 år Men jag är nog framme nu i vår Dör att döda riddaren och draken Det är de som håller mig vaken, 2022 73 x 73 x 73 cm Polyestertyg, pvc, kartong, stoppning, modellera, sprayspackel, sprayfärg,

Nicole Walker

I am being born and I am dying, 2022 110 x 110 x 1 cm Waterjet cut glass, metal φαλλός structure, The divine mother - giver of life and pain, 2021 110 x 110 x 1 cm Waterjet cut glass, metal structure, fur jacket.

Ruben Rens

Vargtatt, 2022 30 x 23 x 4 cm Hjortpäls, jute, rutat papper Utan titel, 2022 45 x 30 x 5 cm Hjortpäls, kalvskinn.

Georg Nordmark

Calf bar, 2021 60 x 30 x 20 cm Steel, plastic, rubber, cowskin Lamb bar, 2021 40 x 30 x 20 cm Steel, plastic, rubber, sheepskin.


STRUGGLING BUT SURVIVING


Annie Hägg

Anton Alvarez

Fabian Bergmark Näsman

Jonatan Leandoer

Love is Shouty but Iconic

Nguzunguzu and Josh Johnson

Nicole Walker

Otis Huss

Tommy Sveningsson Krek



CURATED BY Amaze @home gallery



OPENING 26.3-4.4.2021


Strange reminders of things passed, WE ARE SOOOOOOOOOOOO FAR AWAY FROM BEING CLOSE WHILE THE STORY CONTINUEs TO GROw. IM STAYING HOME, STAYING safe. We live, you die. Wanna go look at art and feel awkward in the right kind of way. So we live, grow older and breath, and keep our eyes open for another rising of the star.

Annie Hägg Abject Jester Paper, marble, wood 2021

Anton Alvarez 3005191045 Coloured stoneware Huddinge City trans crate 2001

Fabian Bergmark Näsman Titel: Fig. 33 Glass fiber reinforced epoxy, polyurethane paint 2021

Jonatan Leandoer Grön stjärna Tre

Love is Shouty but Iconic Ice skate purse Cooked shoe candlestick

Nguzunguzu and Josh Johnson Starring Meiri Maeda & Lucas Rodriguez Valente Directed by: Josh Johnson & Asma Maroof Editor/ FX: Anthony Valdez Produced by: Natascha Simons & Wu Tsang & Joshua Wicke Cinematography: Christina Welter & Josh Johnson Movement Direction: Josh Johnson Clothes by: Ottolinger & Balenciaga Special Thanks to Schauspielhaus Zürich

Nicole Walker Rain on me (Fountain of youth) Glass, chair, funeral roses, water and pump 2021

Otis Huss Högklackad sko Förevigt 21 Hitta Nemo 13 Otis Tänder

Tommy Sveningsson Krek Näckrosor Akryl på bomull


Borders/AMAZE #7


A book by Nicole Walker and HAAL



Borders fashion book demonstrates: Zero tolerance for racism.


Racism and borders define today's media landscape and receive new relevance in our society. What limitations separate, which defined spaces unite? The book BORDERS questions otherness, separation and power hierarchies contextualising fashion and art at core.

The collaborating partners Amaze and HAAL -- visually discuss zero tolerance for racism and explore the space beyond borders. Divided into four chapters, the book consists of works by Alex de Brabant, Chris Maggio, J Ari King, Henrik Alm and Valter Törsleff. Amongst others are Swedish artist Anna Uddenberg presented as well as personalities like Karl Kolbitz, Sasha Melnychuk and Josh Johnson. Poems by poet Nathaniel Marcus runs through the book as a river of verbal emotions and captures the spirit of the photos in words.

CHAPTER 1 ”Proxima B / Temporary Planets”

Shot by Alex de Brabant in Berlin this story present parts of HAAL SS19 as well as the HAAL Duplex Lens depicting Earth versus Proxima B: the planet predicted by Stephen Hawking as our second home to be, our second chance after the ultimate fuck up. This story explores our perception, our connection to nature and the animal human division line. The iris as a planet, as the ultimate open window to the soul.

CHAPTER 2 ”Walls”

Borders are carved in to the idea of the landscape of our planet. We build walls, fences and barb wire to separate the “us” from the “them”. In this chapter we have images by photographer J Ari King, from different places around the globe. With inserted 3D sketches of the domesticated fence, the historical greek columns, the concrete wall, the ever rising iceberg. We also portrayed performer Josh Johnson, styling him in the most stereotypical way of showing power through garments. We shot him by the remains of the Berlin wall.

CHAPTER 3 ”Post a story of the protest, later delete it”

Chris Maggios pictures portray the reality of human everyday life in America. It’s a beautiful way of seeing the humanity in everyone.

CHAPTER 4 ”What We All Do”

What do we all do, most days of our lives. We sleep, fuck, eat, drink water, cry, smell, and take a shit. In Valter Törsleff photo series he documents his close friend Sasha Melnychuk and their trip on the French Riviera. By seeing the common things that touches us in our everyday lives we can see how we as an entire spices are not separated but stands on common ground. There is only we, no them.


AMAZE #6 #6 #6

MAY 2018

LOCATION: ALT_CPH / COPENHAGEN, DENMARK


A Communal Core-gasm.

1 Woman - 6 Outfits

Doing 1 core exercise - To slowed down music + self love.

Curated&Styled by:

Nicole Walker

Performer:

Ninna Skakon

Featuring designs by:

Haal

Nhorm

Nhu Duong

Janet Roerholt

Freya Dalsjø

Kosmas.Systems

Featuring art by:

Oline Andersen

Music mix by:

Dylan Spencer-Davidson

Sponsored by:

Swedish Fashion Council

Video + Photos by:

Chris Calmer

Special thanks to:

Nina Pellegrino




AMAZE STHLM #5


AUGUST 2017


LOCATION: YOUNG ART, STOCKHOLM, SWEDEN


new york

london

stockholm

berlin


VOLUME #5.

For the 2017 presentation we wanted to create a clear message to the world, Amaze believes in the positive changes art and fashion can have on the world. We want to highlight the people who actively work with providing the world with creative substantial content. We want to hear their voices and words and see what s on their’ minds.

Let’s talk about love bby.

Cities included:

Stockholm

London

New York

Berlin

Participants volume #5:

• Aids-3D

• Alexandra Karpilovski

• Alison Brooks

• Amra Novak

• Benjamin Barron

• Bladee

• Bless

• Brian Kokoska

• Brian Mboa-Ngoie

• Bror August

• Converse

• Daniel Iinatti

• Dumitrascu

• Eckhaus Latta

• Einar Thoren

• EklundEklund3000

• El Perro del Mar

• Emir Eralp

• Emma Harling

• Franscisca Kübler

• Gauntlett Cheng

• Haal

• Henrik Alm

• Herman

• Humana

• Isak Berglund Mattsson-Mårn

• J Ari King

• Jaana-Kristiina Alakoski

• Jasmin Halama

• Jon Rafman

• Jonatan Leandoer127

• Jordan Bourke

• Julia Eriksson

• Julia Sofie Andersen

• Katharina Korbjuhn

• Kristian Bengtsson

• Lane Lang

• Lazoschmidl

• LiljaNov

• Luka Bourke-Pyo

• Marie Berger

• Marie Karlberg

• Marie Lea Lund

• Max Ronnersjö

• Maxwell Cosmo Cramer

• Michael Olestad

• Negroma

• Nhorm

• Nhu Duong

• Nicole Walker

• Nik Kosmas

• Niklas Bildstein Zaar

• Ottolinger

• Purpurrpurple

• Queen of Ghosts

• Rejina Pyo

• Robin Rådenman

• Robyn

• Sara Forsberg

• Sara-Vide Eriksson

• Telfar

• Tony Karlson

• Valter Jimi Törsleff

• + Random Strangers


AMAZE STHLM #4


AUGUST 2016


LOCATION: ARKDES / MODERN MUSEUM OF ART, STOCKHOLM, SWEDEN




PHOTOGRAPHY:

ISAK BERGLUND MATTSSON-MÅRN http://isak.gallery/

PARTICIPATING DESIGNERS:

ALVA JOHANSSON - http://alvailtashanti.tumblr.com

PATRIK SÖDERSTAM - https://www.instagram.com/sawwwpop/

YULIA KJELLSSON - https://www.instagram.com/yuwlia/

PARTICIPATING ARTISTS:

BIG BAG BY LUKAS HOFMANN / SALIVA, NICO ARAUNER & BARBARA KLAWITTER

TOUCH MY BLANKET

GRAPHIC ARTWORK BY: MARTIN FALCK - http://www.martinfalck.se

PARTICIPATING ARTISTS:

1. AMANDA GERELL

2. ANN-SOFIE BACK

3. BABA STILTZ

4. BROR AUGUST

5. C.G VON PLATEN

6. DANIEL IINATTI

7. ELSA SUNESON

8. FIA LJUNGSTRÖM

9. FREDRIK ANDERSSON ANDERSSON

10. GEORG NORDMARK

11. J ARI KING

12. JAANA-KRISTIINA ALAKOSKI

13. KRISTIAN BENGTSSON

14. LAP-SEE LAM

15. LINDA PEDERSEN

16. LISA HOLMQVIST

17. MAX RONNERSJÖ

18. MÄRTA THISNER

19. NHU DUONG

20. NICOLE WALKER

21. NINA ANDERSSON

22. NINA KIHLBORG

23. TONY KARLSON

24. SARA-VIDE ERICSON

LIVE ACT BY:

BABA STILTZ - https://soundcloud.com/babastiltz

CURATED BY:

NICOLE WALKER + SARA FORSBERG




TOUCH MY BLANKET


photography Hedvig Jenning / MINK MGMT

styling Nicole Walker / LinkDetails & Sara Forsberg / Artofficial Agency

models Fia / Stockholmsgruppen, Kimie / Tomorrowisanotherday, Jeanine / Nisch Management

in collaboration with Amanda Gerell, Ann-Sofie Back, Baba Stiltz, Bror August, C.G Von Platen, Daniel Iinatti, Elsa Suneson, Fia Ljungström, Fredrik Andersson Andersson, Georg Nordmark, J Ari King, Jaana-Kristina Alakoski, Kristian Bengtsson, Lap-See Lam, Linda Pedersen, Lisa Holmqvist, Martin Falck, Max Ronnersjö, Märta Thisner, Nhu Duong, Nicole Walker, Nina Andersson, Nina Kihlborg


BLANKETS


photography Fredrik Andersson Andersson


AMAZE STHLM #3


APRIL 2016


LOCATION: FORMER SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE (A-HOUSE), STOCKHOLM, SWEDEN.




PHOTOGRAPHY:

ISAK BERGLUND MATTSSON-MÅRN http://isak.gallery/

PARTICIPATING DESIGNERS:

NHORM - http://www.nhorm.se

ANNE KARINE THORBJORNSEN - http://annekarinethorbjornsen.com

CARL GUSTAF VON PLATEN - https://www.carlgustafvonplaten.com

AMANDA GERELL

PARTICIPATING ARTISTS:

JAANA KRISTIINA ALAKOSKI - http://jaanakristiina.se

NINA KIHLBORG - http://cargocollective.com/ninakihlborg

LINDA PEDERSEN

TONY KARLSON

LIVE ACT BY:

EL PERRO DEL MAR - http://www.elperrodelmar.com

CURATED BY:

NICOLE WALKER + SARA FORSBERG


AMAZE STHLM FOR RODEO WAVE


photography Jakob Landvik

styling Nicole Walker / LinkDetails

hair and make Kristina Kullenberg / Adamsky

models Carl Hjelm, Sarah Assbring, CG von Platen, Tony Karlson, Love Bråding, Sylvester Ulv Henriksen and Noa Sköldin


AMAZE STHLM #2


AUGUST 2015


LOCATION: GAMLA RIKSARKIVET, STOCKHOLM, SWEDEN




PHOTOGRAPHY:

ISAK BERGLUND MATTSSON-MÅRN http://isak.gallery/

PARTICIPATING DESIGNERS:

NHORM - http://www.nhorm.se

MINNA PALMQVIST - http://www.minnapalmqvist.com

PER GÖTESSON - http://www.pergotesson.com

JOSEPHINE BERGQVIST - http://josephinebergqvist.se

DAIMORF - http://www.daimorf.com

AMANDA GERELL

LIVE ACT BY:

TAMI T - https://www.facebook.com/TamiTMusic/

MARIE LIVE

DJ: DANIEL IINATTI - https://soundcloud.com/iinatti

CURATED BY:

NICOLE WALKER + CORNELIA BLOM

VIDEO BY:

EMELIE CARLÉN


PRE-SHOW VIDEOS


VIDEOS BY:

EMELIE CARLÉN

MODEL:

JULIA ERIKSSON




AMAZE STHLM #1


JANUARY 2015


LOCATION: DELIGHT STUDIOS, STOCKHOLM, SWEDEN




PHOTOGRAPHY:

ISAK BERGLUND MATTSSON-MÅRN http://isak.gallery/

PARTICIPATING DESIGNERS:

NHORM - http://www.nhorm.se

MINNA PALMQVIST - http://www.minnapalmqvist.com

VELVETESQUE - http://velvetesque.com

MIA LARSSON - http://www.mialarsson.se

CLAES BERGMAN - http://claesbergman.com

JULIA RAGNARSSON

LIVE ACT BY:

ZHALA + TONY KARLSON - http://zhalazhala.com

DJ: DANIEL IINATTI - https://soundcloud.com/iinatti

CURATED BY:

NICOLE WALKER + CORNELIA BLOM


AMAZE BAZAAR


photography Fredrik Andersson Andersson