
In Mohammed Samis ateljé.
Studio visits
LIVE-STREAMED TOURS
9.2 – 31.12 2022
Stockholm
This spring, some of the artists represented in the Moderna Museet collection will broadcast live from their studios in Sweden and globally. Together with our curators, we will visit a few of the artists whose works were acquired for the collection in 2021.
Studio visits
9 february 2022 at 17.30
Valeria Montti Colque in her studio in Stockholm.
2 march 2022 at 17.30
Julia Bondesson in her studio in Skåne.
30 march 2022 at 17.30
Mohammed Sami in his studio in London.
Location
Online on Moderna Museet Instagram-account @modernamuseet.
Valeria Montti Colque
Date
9 february 2022
Language
Swedish
Annika Gunnarsson, curator at Moderna Museet, visits Valeria Montti Colque in her studio in Stockholm.
The artist Valeria Montti Colque is a storyteller. She builds imaginary worlds full of symbols, combining everyday life with myths, religion and popular culture. Many of her works are collective, using a diversity of media and techniques: drawing, painting, assemblage, installation and performance.
Valeria Montti Colque was born in 1978 in Stockholm, where she lives and works. She graduated from the Royal Institute of Art in 2004. As part of the “Swedish Acquisitions 2021” project, Moderna Museet has added an extensive installation by Montti Colque to the collection.

Julia Bondesson
Date
2 march 2022
Language
Swedish
Andreas Nilsson, curator at Moderna Museet Malmö, visits Julia Bondesson in her studio in Skåne.
Julia Bondesson’s works often portray bodies and body parts charged with beauty and gloom, combining aesthetics with psychology. The carefully carved and chiselled sculptures with occasional scorch marks convey a sense of being exposed and vulnerable.

Bondesson explores the relationship and ties between body and soul. Her sources of inspiration include Chinese philosophy and learning by doing. The sculptures evolve into ambivalent characters – both objects and living beings. And maybe the permanence of the sculptures also reminds us of our own transience.
Julia Bondesson was born in 1983 and lives in north Skåne. She graduated from the Royal Institute of Art in Stockholm in 2011 and has also studied hand puppetry in Taiwan and art in Japan and Thailand.
Mohammed Sami
Date
30 march 2022
Language
English
Asrin Haidari, curator at Moderna Museet and curator of Swedish Acquisitions: Insights, visits Mohammed Sami in his studio in London.
Mohammed Sami’s autobiographical paintings explore the delayed memories that can be triggered by everyday objects and surroundings. In traditional motifs such as still-lifes, interiors and landscapes, Sami links his own memories of war and trauma in his native Iraq. The suggestive, layered images are detached from the private sphere and tell a bigger story that concerns us all.
Painting is my way of finding the traces of a personal memory. Memories are remarkable, sometimes they are disguised as shadows, objects, smells, or even something banal, without revealing themselves as memories. – Mohammed Sami

Mohammed Sami was born in Bagdad, Iraq, in 1984. He studied drawing and painting at the Institute of Fine Arts, Bagdad, Iraq, in 2005, and emigrated to Sweden in 2007. In 2015, he gained an honorary degree from Ulster University – Belfast School, Northern Ireland. He has an MA in Fine Art from Goldsmiths College, London (2018). Mohammed Sami lives and works in London and Norrköping.
SWEDISH ACQUISITIONS 2021
The major initiative “Swedish acquisitions 2021” was launched after the government allocated SEK 25 million to Moderna Museet to support the Swedish art sector in the wake of the covid-19 pandemic. The project led to the acquisition of 373 new works made in 1962–2021 by a total of 169 artists.
In the spring of 2022, you will meet a selection of these artists in the exhibition “Swedish Acquisitions: Insights” and through the live broadcasts Studio visits we get an insight into some of the artists’ everyday lives and work processes.
Want to see more studio visits?
During the winter of 2020, we visited the artists Katarina Pirak Sikku, Kajsa Dahlberg and Runo Lagomarsino in their studios. We traveled from Jokkmokk in the north to Malmö in the south – and to Oslo!

HOW DO I WATCH THE LIVE STREAMS?
You can access our live-streamed studio vistits on the Moderna Museet Instagram-account @modernamuseet. You can also ask questions during the live stream in the comments field.
How to find the live broadcast on Instagram?
The live broadcast starts a few minutes before the allotted time. You can find it by clicking on the large icon in the top left corner on the Moderna Museet Instagram-account @modernamuseet.
If there is no live studio visit it’s because it hasn’t started yet.
DID YOU MISS A STUDIO VISIT?
After the live stream you can access the studio visit as a video on IGTV on our Instagram-account, and on Moderna Museet YouTube.