1. Boro - the art of distress, East Asian Museum in Stockholm

Jacket created with the Japanese craft technique boro.

Photo: Ola Bergengren

Boro is a Japanese craft that involves patching and repairing torn and worn textiles for new jackets, sweaters, blankets and blankets.

Historically, technology has helped the poor people of northern Japan to survive cold winters.

As the first museum in Europe, the East Asian Museum displays a collection of boro objects borrowed from the Amuse Museum in Tokyo.

- The old Japanese craft technique Boro was at its greatest in the 19th century, but now it has become popular again - it's not so strange in times of sustainability, says Dennis Dahlqvist.

The exhibition is shown until January 9, 2022.

2. Joakim Ojanen - The part you throw away, Västerås Art Museum

Joakim Ojanen's sculptures are about the colorful darkness of childhood.

Photo: SVT

The artist Joakim Ojanen was born in Västerås in 1985 and is educated at Konstfack in Stockholm.

His work is about childhood and the exhibition The part you throw away at Västerås Art Museum is Ojanen's first major solo exhibition at a Swedish art museum.

- Joakim Ojanen's old men feel a little childish and naive at first, but when you know that his main source of inspiration is underground series with cartoonists like the 1960s Robert Crumb, then you understand that self-loathing and neurosis lurk beneath the colorful surface, says Dennis Dahlqvist.

The exhibition is shown until 26 September 2021.

3. Mamma Andersson, Louisiana, Denmark

About a girl (2005), by Karin Mamma Andersson.

Photo: Louisiana

The artist Karin Mamma Andersson was born in 1962 in Luleå.

She has created ten new paintings for the exhibition at the Danish Art Museum Louisiana.

- Mamma Andersson is one of our most prominent artists right now, also internationally, as evidenced by this large exhibition in Louisiana.

Her paintings often feel melancholy and threatening, which fits well in a time dominated by threatening images - pandemics, environmental degradation.

The exhibition is shown until October 10, 2021.