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NORD Magazine
Just in time for the big NORD event “NORD Style“ the latest issue of NORD magazine is released. Just like NORD Style the magazine focuses on design from Scandinavia. We interviewed the Swedish designer Monica Förster, recently awarded with the prize “Designer of the Year”, we present smart design for kids and the fashion project Prime Design from Sweden. In addition you’ll find an extensive Copenhagen City Guide, an article about the experimental exhibition space in the Stockholm suburb Tensta and a photo spread with many of the up-and-coming fashion designers from the North. Worth mentioning is that NORD magazine got a sister with the SÜD magazine which from now on presents interesting cultural players and events from Berlin to a Scandinavian public.The NORD magazine – as well as its sister SÜD – can be found gratis at Berlins cultural institutions, cafés and clubs or here as a download. New! You can order magazine under scandstyle.de.


Ann Edholm at Galerie Nordenhake
Presented in Berlin for the first time, Ann Edholm’s work has perhaps never been as close to her own autobiographical narrative as in these paintings. Working in extended series Edholm stages large, occasionally even monumental paintings verging on both geometric abstraction and subtle expressionism. The latter reveals itself in barely perceptible details such as small thumbprints and smear marks made by the brush or, more often, by the palette knife, thus destabilizing the seemingly solid compositional patterns of basic geometric shapes.

With an elaborate network of cultural, religious and symbolic references, Edholm meticulously merges classical painting with elemental geometric shapes together with sudden painterly gestures. While at the first glance these marks may appear as smudges, they reveal unexpected connotations to other traditions of Western art as well as to highly contemporary discourses concerning the relationship between painting and the self.

Ann Edholm - At the Back of Silence - March 7-April 25, 2009 - Galerie Nordenhake


The Boss of It All
Probably the most ambitious and visually distinctive filmmaker to emerge from Denmark since Carl Theodore Dryder over 60 years earlier is Lars von Trier. Right now his new feature film, “The Boss of It All”, is playing at the theatres. The movie is an office comedy in which an IT company hires a failed actor, played by Jens Albinus, to serve as the company’s president in order to help the selling of the business to a cranky Icelander played by acclaimed actor and director Fredrik Thor Fridriksson.

Lars von Trier studied film at the Danish Film School and attracted international attention with his very first feature, “Forbrydelsens Element“ in 1984. A highly distinctive blend of film noir and German Expressionism with stylistic nods to Dreyer, Andrei Tarkovsky and Orson Welles, its combination of yellow-tinted monochrome cinematography (pierced by shafts of blue light) and doom-haunted atmosphere made it an unforgettable visual experience. His subsequent features “Epidemic“ in 1987 and “Europa“ in 1991 have been equally ambitious both thematically and visually, though von Triers international fame is most likely to be based on "Riget" in 1994, a TV soap opera blending hospital drama, ghost story and 1990-style surrealism that was a huge success in Denmark.

Von Trier`s latest film was released in Germany by Alpha Medienkontor in January but has already been shown at film festivals in London, San Sebastian and Montreal. The New York Times calls it a “surprisingly light-hearted though nonetheless both brilliantly witty and delightfully subversive film!”.

More info on Alpha medienkontor`s homepage...