Villa Dagmar

Villa Dagmar is a tasteful boutique hotel in Stockholm for the cosmopolitan traveler looking for accommodation with both personality and heart. In the hotel's spaces we also create a vibrant hub for art in close collaboration with leading players in the art world, curated by one of our owners, Lovisa Malmström.

During Stockolm Art Week, Villa Dagmar will show 3 works from Helene Schmitz from her series ”Thinking Like A Mountain.”

In ”Thinking Like A Mountain” Swedish photographer Helene Schmitz has explored four forms of extraction of natural resources, the forest, the bedrock, the river and the hot spring. Schmitz has been in the middle and north of Sweden where she photographed forestry and mining. In Iceland, she has explored a dam building and a thermal power plant for the extraction of geothermal energy. The work started in autumn 2014 with the series The Forest. “Thinking Like a Mountain” can be regarded as an in-depth and further development of the theme in a number of Schmitz's previous projects, including The Forest and Linnaeus Project. In these contexts, she has analyzed the human colonization of nature through systematics, natural vision and natural resource extraction, and the consequences of it for landscape, flora, fauna and humans. The topic is urgent and has a particular topicality with the many forest fires of the summer and climate change in mind (Prins Eugens Waldemarsudde, 2018)

Join us at 19.15 in the lobby area, by the front desk, for an after-work and artist talk with Helene Schmitz and Willas Contemporary. 

Curerat by Willas Contemporary.