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The Yinka Shonibare Thesis Scholarship to Nigeria

14 December 2022
Yinka Shonibare CBE is a world famous British-Nigerian artist who has created the Yinka Shonibare Room in the SSE main building at Sveavägen 65. The artistic fee for this work was generously donated by Yinka Shonibare CBE to the school in order for us to create the Yinka Shonibare Thesis Scholarship. Thanks to this scholarship two SSE students a year will be given the possibility to go to Nigeria for a month to do research for their thesis.

Exhibition at SSE: Peter Stridsberg´s Forecast Diaries

31 October 2022
SSE Art Initiative is proud to present a new exhibition at SSE. During November and December we can experience seven photographs by Peter Stridsberg from his series Forecast Diaries in the corridor on floor 3 on Sveavägen 65. Welcome!

The Yinka Shonibare room fourth art classroom at SSE

02 September 2022
Large-scale patterns on the walls and books wrapped in batik fabrics; the newly finished Yinka Shonibare Room is a pedagogical environment that not only provides state-of-the art light, sound, ergonomics and acoustics, it is a room that seeks to evoke emotion and elicit reflection over topics such as globalization, colonialism, world trade and the construction of cultural identity.

Handels x Mejan 2022

28 April 2022
As last year we are launching Handels x Mejan: an exhibition with four newly graduated master students from The Royal Institute of Art in Stockholm (also known as Mejan) at the SSE Campus. The exhibition is curated by the students in Art Division, SSE (also known as Handels), and will take place on campus (Sveavägen 65) until June 3.

New art exhibition: Anna-Karin Rasmusson/APPROACHING

15 January 2021
SSE Art Initiative proudly presents the exhibition APPROACHING: three videos by Anna-Karin Rasmusson exhibited in the atrium, the entrance hall and in one of the corridors on the entrance floor during January and February 2020.

Bigert & Bergström's CO2 Lock-In exhibited outside the school

01 October 2020
300 kg is the average weight of a Swede's CO2 emissions for three weeks. Outside SSE the kilos can now nail you to the ground. The artwork CO2 Lock-In by the internationally recognized Stockholm-based artist duo Bigert & Bergström is exhibited on Sveavägen 65 until October 22 by SSE Art Initiative in cooperation with Stockholm Konst.

Yale philosopher Martin Hägglund to SSE

23 September 2020
We are happy to welcome Professor Martin Hägglund, author of the bestselling book “This life”, on October 6 for a seminar focused on freedom. He will be introduced by SSE President Lars Strannegård.

Welcome to the school: Commoncause by Maria Friberg on the big screen

18 August 2020
Each year in August, SSE Art Initiative welcome students, faculty and staff back to the school by screening Maria Friberg's video Commoncause in the atrium.

SSE Library Session with Jason Timbuktu Diakité

29 May 2020
Jason Diakité, known as Timbuktu to the public, is a world renowned hip-hop artist and author. In a live-streamed conversation on June 3, 5.15 pm, he will talk about growing up as a black child in an all white society and how generations have been affected by the trauma of the African diaspora, with Lovisa Fhager Havdelin, Secretary General at non-profit human rights organisation Teskedsorden. Open for all!

SSE Library Sessions on Poetry – Economy of Words

19 May 2020
“LEVEL UP TO A POETIC ECONOMY”, wrote the artist Patrik Qvist outside the Stockholm School of Economics in 2017. This spring, SSE Library, Natur & Kultur Literary Agenda and SSE Art Initiative have teamed up to offer you excursions into the worlds of poetry and poetics, with Anna Hallberg, Athena Farrokhzad and Jason Diakité as our guides.