Milliken Gallery is a Swedish

Sweden

Sweden , officially the Kingdom of Sweden , is a Nordic country on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. Sweden borders with Norway and Finland and is connected to Denmark by a bridge-tunnel across the Öresund....

 art gallery

Art gallery

An art gallery or art museum is a building or space for the exhibition of art, usually visual art.Museums can be public or private, but what distinguishes a museum is the ownership of a collection...

 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

Felix Gmelin

Felix Gmelin is an artist based in Stockholm.He has shown work internationally in exhibitions including Always Already Passé at Gavin Brown’s Enterprise in New York, Storm From Paradise at Arnolfini in Bristol, Painting Modernism Black at Galleri Olsson in Stockholm, Delays and Revolutions at the...

, Kristina Jansson, Lars NIlsson, Tova Mozard, Matti Kallioinen, and Christine Ödlund and foreign artists including Tris Vonna-Michell, Lisi Raskin

Lisi Raskin

Lisi Raskin is an American artist living and working in Brooklyn, New York. She is known for creating large-scale, architectural environments that refer to the often clandestine fallout shelters and missile silos constructed during the Cold War...

, 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

Mircea Cantor

Mircea Cantor is a Romanian-born artist who follows in the tradition of Marcel Duchamp in that he employs readymade objects to elucidate the ambiguities of everyday life...

, Keren Cytter

Keren Cytter

-Biography:Cytter spent her childhood in Israel, where she went on to study visual art in AvniInstitute for Art, Tel Aviv. After her success in various galleries in her home country, she moved to Amsterdam on a scholarship from De Ateliers....

, Jessica Jackson Hutchins

Jessica Jackson Hutchins

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, Josiah McElheny

Josiah McElheny

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, Goshka Macuga

Goshka Macuga

Goshka Macuga is an artist based in London. She was one of the four nominees for the 2008 Turner Prize.-Life and work:Goshka Macuga was born in Poland. A graduate of Central St...

, Aleksandra Mir

Aleksandra Mir

-Life and work:She studied Communications at Schillerska/Gothenburg University in Gothenburg , Media Arts at the School of Visual Arts in New York , and Cultural Anthropology at The Graduate Faculty, The New School for Social Research in New York...

, Alyson Shotz

Alyson Shotz

Alyson Shotz is an American artist based in Brooklyn, New York.She graduated with a BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design in 1987 and an MFA from the University of Washington in 1991....

, Magnus Wallin

Magnus Wallin

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, and Adrian Williams

Adrian Williams

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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

Ronald Jones

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 and Laurie Makela included artists such as Andrea Zittel

Andrea Zittel

Andrea Zittel is an American practicing sculptor, installation artist, and Relational artist.-Early Life:Born in Escondido, California in 1965, Zittel graduated from San Pasqual High School in 1983...

, Rirkrit Tiravanija

Rirkrit Tiravanija

Rirkrit Tiravanija is a contemporary artist residing in New York. He was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina in 1961. His installations often take the form of stages or rooms for sharing meals, cooking, reading or playing music; architecture or structures for living and socializing are a core element...

 and early 20th century painter Hilma af Klint

Hilma af Klint

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. 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

IASPIS

IASPIS, The International Artists Studio Program in Stockholm, is an exchange program financed by the Swedish Government.IASPIS facilitates a creative dialogue between visual artists in Sweden and other countries...

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.