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SANTIAGO SIERRA AT MAGASIN 3 STOKHOLM KONSTHALL
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"Sierra's work leaves no one unmoved. He combines the political with the poetical and provocative in works that deal with urgently pressing contemporary issues." curator Elisabeth Millqvist
Since the mid-1990s Santiago Sierra has been creating socially critical, site-specific works. He has worked with drug addicts and prostitutes, and has created an income index related to skin colour. When he represented Spain at the Venice Biennale he bricked up the entrance to the Spanish pavilion. For this show, he works with the location of the museum, in a port, and presents a selection of works from the last 10 years which relate to issues connected with transport, merchandise and shipping.
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'DISARMING MATTER' AT DUNKERS KULTURHUS, SWEDEN
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'Disarming Matter', curated by Chris Sharp, features works of art whose method or form are predicated upon their own self-erasure, negation or withdrawal. The show includes works by Arcangelo Sassolino, Pierre Bismuth and Ulla von Brandenburg among many others.
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SPROUT FROM WHITE NIGHTS AT BONNIERS KONSTHALL, STOCKHOLM
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Bonniers Konsthall's main exhibition of the autumn is 'Sprout from White Nights - A Meeting with Chinese Contemporary Art' which presents the work of 17 young Chinese artists at the interface of thousand-year old traditions and new technology. The show has been curated by Beijing-based Zhang Wei, and includes works by Cao Fei (below), Yang FuDong and Liu Wei. 
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DAVID SHRIGLEY AT MALMO KONSTHALL, SWEDEN
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'Everything must have a name' brings together around 600 works by the British artist David Shrigley, including the drawings he's best known for, sculptures, inkjet prints, monotypes, t-shirts, sound works, films, photographs, paintings, and last, but not least, books. Throughout the exhibition are manifestations of Shrigley's unique take on the world which combines a nihilistic wit, word games, endless lists and rules. As Shrigley puts it, "Rules are made to be kept. Rules are there to guide us. As modern world grows ever more complicated and appears to now be populated mostly by nutters rules have become increasingly important. Those who break the rules will be beaten with a rod of iron and then made to write out the rules one million times. Bending the rules is also forbidden. Bent rules are useless." 
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MAMMA ANDERSSON AT MODERNA MUSEET, STOCKHOLM
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Karin Mamma Andersson has gained international fame since her breakthrough as Sweden's representative at the Venice Biennale in 2003, and after winning the prestigious Carnegie Art Award for painting in 2005. In this exhibition at the Moderna Museet in Stockholm over 50 of her paintings are on view, with particular emphasis on later works. If you can't make it to Stockholm over the summer, you'll be able to catch the show in Helsinki and London later this year. 
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WILLIAM KENTRIDGE AT MALMO KONSTHALL, SWEDEN
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If you happen to be in Malmo this summer don't miss the chance to see William Kentridge's extraordinary poetic drawings and animations in the form of 'Black Box / Chambre Noire', which deals with the German colonisation of what is now Namibia, and '7 Fragments for Georges Méliès & Journey to the Moon', which alludes to the visionary film pioneer Georges Méliès and a film he made in 1902 about a journey to the moon. 
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SUSANNE SIMONSON AT GALLERI MAGNUS KARLSSON, STOCKHOLM
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Susanne Simonson's new paintings, recently unveiled at Galleri Magnus Karlsson in Stockholm, depict figures and faces layered and as if turning to look, carefully shifting, all specificity of features eroded into a calm lingering trail of slow motion.
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PIPILOTTI RIST AT MAGASIN 3, STOCKHOLM
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'As artists it is our task and duty to heed our dreams and the subconscious. It is our job to examine more closely everything that usually gets swept aside for the sake of productivity. To create a distance.' Pipilotti Rist (below) is best known for her dream-like video installations which explore both physical and psychological dimensions, as well as our senses, rituals and taboos. On view in her current show at Magasin 3, Stockholm is a new large-scale audiovisual installation which transports the viewer to a place at the beginning of time or possibly in the future. 
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