Milliken Gallery

Milliken Gallery

Coordinates: 59°20′33″N 18°03′32″E / 59.3424°N 18.0588°E / 59.3424; 18.0588 Milliken Gallery is a Swedish art gallery specializing in emerging and mid-career artists with an international perspective. Opened in February 2004 by American dealer, Aldy Milliken.

Milliken Gallery presents exhibitions on the basis of the conceptual integrity and the market-based qualities of an artist or artwork. The gallery produces solo exhibitions with Swedish artists such as Felix Gmelin, Kristina Jansson, Lars NIlsson, Tova Mozard, Matti Kallioinen, and Christine Ödlund and foreign artists including Tris Vonna-Michell, Lisi Raskin, Olav Westphalen, and Karl Haendel.

The gallery juxtaposes these solo shows with group exhibitions as a way to introduce the Swedish public to a variety of artists often seen in Biennales and art fairs internationally. For example Face Your Demons with internationally recognized artists such Zsolt Bodoni, Mircea Cantor, Keren Cytter, Jessica Jackson Hutchins, Josiah McElheny, Goshka Macuga, Aleksandra Mir, Alyson Shotz, Magnus Wallin, and Adrian Williams.

Exhibitions have historic value such as the work by KP Brehmer a contemporary to Joseph Bueys. On the other hand some exhibitions delve into issues surrounding the Visual Arts like the relationship of Art with Craft and Design. Simple curated by writers/artists Dr. Ronald Jones and Laurie Makela included artists such as Andrea Zittel, Rirkrit Tiravanija and early 20th century painter Hilma af Klint. Milliken contracts international writers and curators to make texts for each exhibition as a way to deepen the dialogue with the public and as a response to the diminishing space given to contemporary art in the daily papers.

Director Aldy Milliken is active in other city-wide cultural events. He was invited by Maria Lind, to participate as a filter at the International Artists Studio ProgramIASPIS and has curated shows at the American Embassy in Stockholm. Milliken is a founding member of STHLM STHLM STHLM a group of Stockholm's art institutions that has organized art events in Stockholm for invited international professionals.

The gallery opened in February 2004 in an old theater/vitamin factory in central Stockholm. Milliken has 2 exhibition spaces totaling 150 square meters out of 400 square meters. The gallery works with museums and state collections in the Nordic region, Europe and the United States and is committed to being part of internationally dialogue through its exhibition program and exhibiting in art fairs around the world.

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