Exhibitions

Margit Hagenfeldt- Engdahl

A HUNDRED YEARS IN THE WORLD OF ART AND MUSIC
Tyresö Konstverk - Granängsvägen 7, Tyresö (Sweden)

Margit Hagenfeldt-Engdahl was born in Örebro in 1904. She completed her schooling in Örebro with eight years at the Risbergska School. Studies in piano playing with a view to the Musical Academy were her next step. Margit also applied for teacher training. She was accepted, but dropped out when "art took over", she stated. From 1926 to 1931 she attended HKS, the Higher School of Industrial Arts, a five-year program for, among other things, sculpture. She then continued at Otte Sköld's painting school. She took a drawing course at the Academy of Fine Arts.

Among her public works are a window painting for Vikers church and baptismal fonts for Skatelövs church and Nynäshamns church. Margit was active until 2005.

The exhibition Margit Hagenfeldt-Engdahl- invites you to a journey through a fascinating dream world

in Margit's art. Dream world not because she made a claim to reproduce the imagery and surroundings of dreams in a mechanical way, following in Freud's footsteps. As dreams do, Margit represented the reality that was closest to her, her family, the events of the day, childhood memories, according to an inner logic, with a personally created iconographic lexicon. More than art or design, she considered that it was also design that she did. Rather than inventing something new, Margit's collages, bead embroidery, paintings and sculptures aimed to make concrete what already existed but lacked form.

Margit's design was based on the versatile education she received at the Higher School of Industrial Arts, where she learned to develop a wide range of different techniques with a skill that always aroused admiration. Rather than specialize in a particular direction, she mixed techniques and materials in a way that we take for granted in contemporary art, but which places her outside of any particular art style or art school. Of course, one finds references to art she has seen and pondered - to naive art, to medieval church art, to folk art, to the Baroque, to surrealism - but these references seem more like insightful observations than tentative speculations.

Margit's dexterity and her own leitmotifs are recognizable throughout the more than 80 years of work shown in the exhibition.

ArkDes - Gingerbread House 2025
Exercisplan 4, Skeppsholmen, Stockholm

For over 30 years, ArkDes has invited children, young people, adults, amateurs, and professionals to showcase their gingerbread creations at the museum on Skeppsholmen.

This year, 151 entries are on display, created by both young and old, amateurs and professionals who have let their imaginations take shape in gingerbread dough throughout the holiday season. The theme of this year’s Gingerbread House exhibition is love. Together we celebrate love for architecture, design, and detail.

The Bee House is my favorite and Rapunzel's Tower. This year the Bee House won at the exhibition.

Building with gingerbread dough is a playful way to explore architecture and design. Gingerbread bakers find creative solutions for construction, durability, functionality, and decoration—just like architects and designers do in real life.