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Sara-Vide Ericson: DRIFT
Around sixty new works Sara-Vide Ericson painted aboard the icebreaker Oden in the Arctic Ocean, from monumental canvases to installations with expedition material.
Preview: written before the show opened
Some of the paint in this show came up from 4,000 metres under the Arctic Ocean. Researchers on the icebreaker Oden drilled the seabed for sediment, and Sara-Vide Ericson dried it and ground it into pigment. She spent six weeks of the 2025 expedition painting in a container on deck while the ship broke through two-metre ice.
DRIFT is around sixty works, all new, from monumental canvases to installations using expedition material. Ericson has said the show moves between the flat width of the ice and the depth of the sea below, and that she wants you to feel the hull's vibrations in your feet. The whole show starts on two-metre ice, and the one bit of a Stockholm winter the hall won't let in is your broddar.
It's in Liljevalchs+, at Falkenbergsgatan 3. Entry is 165 kr, free for under-18s and for everyone on Mondays, and open until 20:00 on Tuesdays and Thursdays. The floors are fragile, so ice cleats and walking poles go in a locker.
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Around sixty new works Sara-Vide Ericson painted aboard the icebreaker Oden in the Arctic Ocean, from monumental canvases to installations with expedition material. It makes a draughty Södermalm flat sound like a perfectly good studio.
Look for
Seabed-sediment pigment
Look for the works made with sediment drilled from 4,000 metres below the Arctic Ocean, which Ericson dried and ground into pigment.
Good for
- Evening Visits
- Nerding Out
- Rainy Days
With kids
Under-18s get in free, and entry is free for everyone on Mondays. Liljevalchs+ has a lift with automatic doors between all floors.
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- Sara-Vide Ericson: DRIFTCourtesy of Liljevalchs konsthall
- True CrimeCourtesy of Spritmuseum
- Absolut AbsolutJoar Vestergren / Spritmuseum
- James Cameron – Challenging the DeepLovisa Brämming/The Vasa Museum/SMMTF, CC BY
- Liljevalchs konsthallHolger Ellgaard / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0
- ABBA The MuseumI99pema / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0
- The Viking MuseumSinikka Halme / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0
- SpritmuseumHolger.Ellgaard / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0
- Vasa Museum (Vasamuseet)Holger.Ellgaard / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0