On April 28, 2022, Mona Hatoum gave a lecture at Magasin III in conjunction with her solo exhibitions Mona Hatoum – Revisit at Magasin III, and So Much I Want to Say at Accelerator.By Magasin III

The painting Natten (The Night) was created by Tal R in 2019 specifically for Magasin III Jaffa, Tel Aviv. The painting was shown at Magasin III in Stockholm in 2021, together with six woodcuts.On Saturday, December 4, 2021, museum director Tessa Praun had a talk with Tal R about his artistry and the topic of falling in relation to the subject matt…

Lyssna på en inspelning av samtalet mellan Gunnel Wåhlstrand och Magnus Bremmer som hölls i relation till Gunnel Wåhlstrand utställning på Magasin III.Inspelat på Magasin III den 8 mars 2017.By Magasin III

Listen to a recording from the talk between artist Tony Oursler and Richard Julin, Deputy Director and Chief Curator at Magasin III, in relation to Tony Oursler's exhibition M*r>0r at Magasin III.Recorded at Magasin III in Stockholm on September 15, 2016.By Magasin III

Vi lever i oroliga tider. Men vad gör oron med oss fysiskt, mentalt och själsligt? Vad händer i hjärnan när vi oroar oss? Hur har människor hanterat oro genom historien? Och hur hanterar den sekuläre svensken sin oro när man avskaffat gud? Inspelning från samtal på Medelhavsmuseet den 8 april 2016.Lisa Clefberg, leg psykolog och forskare i klinisk …

Audioguide for the exhibition The Nature of Particles at Magasin III Museum & Foundation for Contemporary Art in Stockholm. The exhibition features works by Jake & Dinos Chapman alongside works by the 19th century artist Francisco Goya.In the audioguide curator Tessa Praun tells about the background of the exhibition and brothers Jake and Dinos Cha…

I audioguiden berättar curator Tessa Praun om bakgrunden till utställningen och om bröderna Jake & Dinos Chapmans konstnärskap. Vi hör även Jake Chapman om hur han och brodern Dinos började använda Goyas kända serie etsningar Los Desastres de la Guerra som en utgångspunkt i sitt konstnärskap, samt om verken vi ser i utställningen The Nature of Part…

Curator Tessa Praun in a conversation with Jake Chapman about the exhibition The Nature of Particles at Magasin III, about his and his brother Dino’s artistry and relation to the 19th century artist Francisco Goya.The artist talk was recorded at Studio 4 in Radiohuset in Stockholm on February 25th, 2016.Language: English…

How does one build a collection today, that is both in tune with the times and relevant for the future? What are good working models for making the collection an active part of the organization?In March of 2014 Grafikens Hus in Mariefred burned down to the ground. This extreme situation ignited many questions, among them how does one build a new co…

Museum director David Neuman has invited two of Sweden’s experts on Ernst Josephson, Ulf Abel and Peter Cornell, to discuss one of the artist’s drawings, which has recently become part of our collection. It is one in a series of over 100 drawings called “andeprotokoll,” which Josephson created during a time of mental illness. They are a sort of rec…

Join museum director David Neuman and actor Lena Endre as they walk through the exhibition The Drawing Room and discuss their reactions to the artworks.The audioguide is produced by Tomas Rajnai, Jens Nielsen och Sofia Ekman Neves in collaboration with Magasin III, in February 2014.Language: SwedishBy Magasin III

British musician James Leyland Kirby talks about his album An Empty Bliss Beyond This World, released in 2011 under the name of The Caretaker. Made solely from sampled gramophone records of pre-war ballroom music, it reflects the artist’s ongoing interest in what happens when our minds and memories begin to deteriorate.Recent research has shown tha…

How does art affect us? And what function does art serve in a public space? And what can the humanities do for economics?As part of a collaborative project to bring new perspectives into the academic environment, the Stockholm School of Economics and Magasin 3 Stockholm Konsthall launched a program that presents film-based artworks in the school’s …

Recorded November 7, 2013The three professors are back. The three part starts off with reflections on Ai Weiwei¹s participation on the Stockholm Film Festival jury. Is the focus on the artist¹s plight in China or is this a bold marketing move driven by commercial considerations? Next up: Do lists of today¹s most influential artists say more about t…

A Venture into the UnconsciousCanadian artist Tamara Henderson talks with curators Richard Julin and Tessa Praun about the films and sculptures included in the exhibition On the Tip of My Tongue. Henderson allows herself to be led by her unconscious. Her working method transforms dreams, fragments and impulses into real action, as she deliberately …

LA based filmmaker, artist and writer Miranda July talks with Canadian writer Sheila Heti about the making of We Think Alone. Speaking from the perspectives both of creator (July) and participant (Heti), the conversation centres around the challenges involved in publicizing personal information, the role of the audience, and on the question of how …

Extracts from a conversation between the French artist Pierre Huyghe (born 1962) and Curators Richard Julin and Tessa Praun. The experience of seeing Pierre Huyghe’s work Untilled at Documenta 13 in 2012, has been the key source of inspiration in the making of the exhibition On the Tip of My Tongue. In this conversation, amongst many things, Pierre…

Swedish musician and artist Stina Nordenstam talks with curators Richard Julin and Tessa Praun. Having kept a low profile throughout her career, she is an enigmatic figure, often playing with changes of appearance. In this trialogue (conversation in three) Stina Nordenstam talks about her perception of time, her relationship to music, art and the w…

Recorded June 17, 2013This time around, the conversation takes aim at the current Venice Biennial. Are national pavilions still relevant in our time? Does the Venice Biennial reflect a hierarchical power structure between nations? Why does the year’s biggest art event focus on outsider art and painted napkins created by prison inmates? All this and…

Recorded May 3, 2013Our guest in the studio is British star architect David Adjaye, know for his ongoing work on the Smithsonian Institutions’s National Museum of African American History and Culture on the National Wall in Washington D.C. Adjaye speaks about finding inspiration from contemporary artistic practices and gives us some unusual travel …

Curator Tessa Praun talks with film director Gabriela Pichler in conjunction with Mika Rottenburg’s exhibition at Magasin 3 in spring 2013. Through art and film they examine the different ways in which ‘work’ is depicted across contemporary art forms. Why is it such a heated subject? How does the concept of ‘work’ differ in artist Mika Rottenberg’s…

Recorded April 19, 2013The guest in the studio is publisher, writer, editor, and former documentary filmmaker Hossein Amirsadeghi (London). Amirsadeghi is currently working on a book on the Nordic art scene to be published by Thames & Hudson, one of the most influential international publishers in art, design and architecture. Also discussed in the…

LifeArt – Can life itself be art?The stylization of life is currently a common trend—from stem cell research to cosmetic surgery, and from life-coaches to the politics of everyday life. In this lecture, Mr. Brand addresses the construction of life situations and experiences as a new medium for art. He approaches this subject through artists such as…

Recorded April 5, 2013Listen to the fifth episode of our critically acclaimed ArtPod.Magasin 3 ArtPod #5 features legendary artist Chris Burden (1946, USA), who guests our studio. Chis Burden, first received considerable attention in the early 1970s for his controversial performances during which he frequently put his own safety at risk. In autumn …

On April 5th 2013, Magasin 3 invited the Los Angeles-based artist Chris Burden to Stockholm to give an artist talk coinciding with his exhibition. The legendary artist spoke about his artistic practice, addressing both his new works and how he relates to his earlier performances. Burden specifically discussed works that are in the collection at Mag…

Recorded March 16, 2013Is it problematic when art critics change their minds? The discussion builds on the American art critic Peter Schjeldahl’s shifting perspective on Gustav Klimt’s painting Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer I. This episode’s special guest is Niclas Östlind, curator and Ph.D. candidate at Valand Academy, University of Gothenburg.Lan…

Recorded February 8, 2013In the third episode of Magasin 3 ArtPod, the artist Mika Rottenberg is our special guest in the studio. The discussion centers around the term “political art” and Swedish Television’s new program Fråga Kultureliten?Language: EnglishBy Magasin III

In this podcast Mika Rottenberg talks with curator Tessa Praun about art and the process of putting together the exhibition Sneeze to Squeeze which was exhibited at Magasin III in the spring of 2013. Mika Rottenberg explains how various works evolved, including Tropical Breeze, Dough, Squeeze, and Cheese, tracing from conception through execution a…

Recorded January 17, 2013Why are oil portraits of public figures so often problematic? “Konstkuppen,” the latest culture program on SVT (Swedish public service television), aspires to popularize art. Is this a good thing or a bad thing? Lastly, the love affair between the art world and luxury brands is examined. Will it continue?Language: English…

Recorded december 10, 2012Carl Mikael von Hausswolff chose to speak about his controversial exhibition exclusively on Magasin 3 ArtPod.Language: EnglishBy Magasin III

...Richard Julin, Kristina Jansson and Fredrik SöderbergDeputy Director and Chief Curator Richard Julin discusses painting with artists Kristina Jansson and Fredrik Söderberg in relation to the exhibition Anton Henning Too Much Skin, Taste & Turpentine.Recorded November 22, 2012 at Magasin 3, StockholmLanguage: Swedish…

In relation to the exhibition with German painter Anton Henning at Magasin 3 in 2012, Olle Granath, former Director of the Moderna Museet, and the National Museum, gives us a a close portrait of the charismatic artist Francis Picabia (1879-1953). Picabia, close friend to Duchamp, was a restless pioneer in Dada, constantly striving for total artisti…

Janine Antoni, John Chamberlain, Wim Delvoye, Tom Friedman, Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Denise Grünstein, Sol LeWitt, Agnes Martin, James Turrell, Lawrence Weiner, Rémy ZauggThe curator of the exhibition Tessa Praun presents Something Turned Into a Thing and talks about how the works found their way into the Magasin 3 collec…

In relation to the exhibition Too Much Skin, Taste & Turpentine at Magasin 3 2012, Curator Richard Julin discusses painting, exhibition making, taste and conformism with the artist Anton Henning. Henning’s work is often described as a Gesamtkunstwerk – a total work of art – where he mixes painting, sculpture and video and assembles the works to a s…

Listen to museum director David Neuman talk about the exhibition Museum Magasin 3 – Works from the collection. Cosima von Bonin, Per Kirkeby and Tal R that he has curated. He tells about the background for the exhibition as well as presenting the individual artworks and artistry.The audioguide is produced by Tomas Rajnai in collaboration with Magas…

Listen to museum director David Neuman talk about the exhibition Museum Magasin 3 – Works from the collection. Cosima von Bonin, Per Kirkeby and Tal R that he has curated. He tells about the background for the exhibition as well as presenting the individual artworks and artistry.The audioguide is produced by Tomas Rajnai in collaboration with Magas…

Few artists have packed such an extraordinary range of both clear and covert references to art movements and other artists or to particular locations and intermittently specific objects into the sequencing of their works. Focusing on the “marine core” of Cosima von Bonin’s art this lecture examines how metaphorical meanings are found, produced and …

0:00:001:04:12The seminar Curating Stories, is a collaboration between Magasin 3 and students at the International Curating Art Program at Stockholm University.Based on Andrea Zittel exhibition Lay of My Land, a guest panel discuss creativity in curating from the perspective of storytelling.Whether taken literally or otherwise, what kind of implica…

In her lecture Eyecatcher Marijke van Warmerdam talks about her films, photographs and sculptures since the early 1990s. In her work she focuses on the seemingly insignificant and allows these occurrences to widen and deepen into poetic studies. During fall 2011 Magasin 3 presented a selection of van Warmerdam’s films.Marijke van Warmerdam was born…

In conjunction with the American artist Andrea Zittels exhibition Lay of My Land at Magasin 3 fall of 2011, she held a lecture about her work and how she uses her home and studio A–Z West in Joshua Tree, California to explore ideas about what humans need for survival. For over two decades she has created minimal households where everyday activities…

A conversation between Chief Curator and Deputy Director Richard Julin and choreographer Björn Säfsten and dancers Anja Arnquist, Sophie Augot, Allison Ahl, Linda Blomqvist and Madeleine Lindh.From April 14th to 18th 2011, Björn Säfsten’s Corduroy de-constructed, a conceptual performance in which the choreographer presents movements for observation…

In his lecture Investigations of a Dog – Kafka as artist and mystic Hans Blomqvist speaks about Kafka’s life and work and how it has been interpreted over time. Blomqvist also gives insight into Kafka’s original way of crafting his stories and his particular esthetic, in which mystical ideas take center stage.Hans Blomqvist is a translator and auth…

Sir John Soane: Architecture, Collecting and ’…the Museum of Museums’Sir John Soane (1753-1837) was one of the most innovative and forward thinking architects in British history. He was also one of Britain’s most important collectors of art and antiquities creating unprecedented installations of objects within his house. These have provided inspira…

You specify it, we fabricate it: The art of productionOn the occasion of the 2010 fall exhibition Thrice Upon a Time with works from Magasin 3’s collection Wouter Davidts talks about the conceptualist turn in studio production that was initiated by Tony Smith’s Die, a sculpture of which he ordered the production by telling the instructions over the…

Sabeth Buchmann is an art historian and critic. She is professor for modern and postmodern art at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna and Chair of the Institute for Art Theory and Cultural Studies. She writes contributions for books, magazines and catalogues regularly and is a member of the Advisory board of the Berlin based magazine ‘Texte zur Kunst’.…

Chief curator Richard Julin talks to Tom Friedman about his artistry and the exhibition Up in the Air at Magasin 3 in 2010.Recorded on February 5, 2010 at Magasin 3, StockholmLanguage: EnglishBy Magasin III

For six weeks, 14 people drew directly on the wall to realize the exhibition Sol LeWitt: Seven Wall Drawings shown at Magasin 3, 2009-2010. Hear about the work on the construction of the wall drawings and ideas behind the works.The audioguide is produced by Anneli Carnelid and curator Elisabeth Millqvist, 2009.Language: Swedish…

Talk between chief curator Richard Julin and Tal R in conjunction with the exhibition Old Confused which was shown at Magasin 3 autumn 2009.Recorded November 5, 2009 at Magasin 3, StockholmLanguage: EnglishBy Magasin III

Bellowed Endearments and Echoes of Resistance: How the Voice Bonds and Unbinds in Smadar Dreyfus’ Mother’s DayIn connection with Smadar Dreyfus’ exhibition at Magasin 3 Anne Karpf talks about the role of the voice in the work Mother’s Day.Anne Karpf is a writer and sociologist. Her books include family biography The War After Living: Living with th…

The point of departure for Grimonprez’ talk is his work YouTube-o-theque, which was shown at Magasin 3 in connection with the artist’s exhibition in 2009 – a collection of video clips taken from the Internet’s endless flow of information which illustrate his interest in how media influences our perception of reality. From this perspective, Grimonpr…