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DAZED & CONFUSED



Dazed & Confused

You star in the Suspiria remake later this year. What can you say about your part in the film – and were you always a fan of Argento’s hyper-colourised surrealism?

Tilda Swinton:
Suspiria is a film Luca Guadagnino and I have talked about making a ‘cover’ of for years. We are dyed-in-the-wool fans of Dario Argento’s classic and we’re happy to be in the middle of completing our film. We shot in Italy and Berlin over the winter (and are) now cutting. I play Madame Blanc, a highly respected choreographer and director of the Markos Dance Company. The film is a universe of dance and magic and the radical politics of 70s Berlin. We shot with a cast of 38 women – including the great Ingrid Caven, Mia Goth, Renee Slouterdijk, Angela Winkler, Dakota Johnston, Chloë (Grace) Moretz, Sylvie Testud and the wonderful Jessica Harper, who starred in Argento’s original – and three men: filmmaker Fred Kelemen, photographer Mikael Olsson and psychoanalyst Lutz Ebersdorf. It’s going to be wild and very much its own animal.


Photography Jack Davison
Styling Robbie Spencer
Text Dean Mayo Davies

27 June 2017



NOVEMBER 6, 2018

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SUSPIRIA PREMIERE LOS ANGELES





Red carpet premiere of Suspiria in Los Angeles with Mia Goth, Tilda Swinton, Chloë (Grace) Moretz, Luca Guadagnino, Dakota Johnson and Mikael Olsson.

ArcLight Hollywood Cinerama Dome
6360 Sunset Boulevard
Los Angeles, CA 90028



OCTOBER 24, 2018

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NYTIMES SUSPIRIA



How an Abandoned Hotel Became a Witches’ Lair for ‘Suspiria’.
Luca Guadagnino’s latest film takes place in a fictional dance academy in 1970s Berlin, constructed within the dilapidated interiors of a 1912 Italian retreat.
......In a twist typical of “Suspiria,” the photographer Mikael Olsson, who captured the accompanying images of the set, also has a bit role in the film: He appears as Agent Glockner, a German police officer (one of just three male characters).



OCTOBER 23, 2018

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SVERIGES RADIO



In Sveriges Radio P1 with Roger Wilson "Konstnären Mikael Olsson om hur han hamnade i "Suspiria"/The artist Mikael Olsson about how he ended up in "Suspiria".


SEPTEMBER 29, 2018

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BIENNALE CINEMA 2018 75TH VENICE INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL



Suspiria at The 75th Venice International Film Festival Competion organised by La Biennale di Venezia, and will take place at Venice Lido from August 29th to September 8th, 2018.

Mikael Olsson stars as Agent Glockner in the upcoming film Suspiria (2018) from director Luca Guadagnino. Starring Dakota Johnson, Tilda Swinton, Mia Goth, Jessica Harper and Chloe Grace Moretz. Screenplay by David Kajganich.

In Suspiria by Luca Guadagnino – who pays homage to the 1977 cult horror movie by Dario Argento - a darkness swirls at the center of a world-renowned dance company, one that will engulf the artistic director (Tilda Swinton), an ambitious young dancer (Dakota Johnson), and a grieving psychotherapist (Lutz Ebersdorf). Radiohead's Thom Yorke provided the score for the movie, contributing to its creepy atmosphere.



JULY 26, 2018

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REVIEW E-FLUX


PHOTO: LAURIAN GHINITOIU.

Review by Alessandro Bava in e-flux

This is not an exhibition

........Nearby, Petra Gipp and Mikael Olsson's rigorous assembly and direct display of three canopies designed by Sigurd Lewerentz for religious buildings, curated by Kieran Long, Johan Örn, and James Taylor-Foster, stands out as a model for the contemporary exhibition of historical architecture in its careful selection of a wide range of material as well as its subtle deployment of abstraction in its modes of representation........



JUNE 7, 2018

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VENICE ARCHITECTURE BIENNALE 2018



Participants: Petra Gipp and Mikael Olsson
Collaborators: Claudia and Mateo Eiletz with Marica Petkovic
Supporter: ArkDes
Location: Room 12, Central Pavilion – Giardini della Biennale, Venice, Italy



MAY 26, 2018

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FREESTANDING



Mikael Olsson
with Petra Gipp

Freestanding

16th International Architecture Exhibition – Venice Biennale
Freespace
May 26th – November 25th, 2018

In response to the explosion of international interest and research surrounding Sigurd Lewerentz (1885-1975), Sweden’s most renowned 20th Century architect, ArkDes (The Swedish Centre for Architecture and Design), with Petra Gipp and Mikael Olsson, presents Freestanding – an exhibition in the Central Pavilion at FREESPACE, the 16th International Architecture Exhibition - La Biennale di Venezia.

Freestanding explores three freestanding canopies from three of Lewerentz’ most well-known religious buildings through a collection of historical drawings and newly-commissioned interpretative works. Supported by ArkDes in response to an invitation to participate from artistic directors Yvonne Farrell and Shelley McNamara, the exhibition looks at ways in which extra spatial gifts can contribute to the experience of a place, a landscape, and the rituals that surround death and burial. Architect Petra Gipp has designed large-scale models for the exhibition that create an extraordinary spatial experience for the visitor.

Artist Mikael Olsson has created new photographs of the structures as living contemporary scenographies that challenge our perception. In dissecting and rearranging the structures and their surroundings, Mikael Olsson investigates the buildings and gives us new perspectives on their design. The pictures evoke movement and help to reveal how we perceive distance and intimacy through architectural gestures.



MAY 22, 2018

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SPACE MAGAZINE

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MAY 18, 2018

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T CHINA NEW YORK TIMES STYLE MAGAZINE



Cover + 8 page story from Gotland in T China Magazine/The New York Times.


MAY 6, 2018

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DAZED & CONFUSED



Dazed & Confused

You star in the Suspiria remake later this year. What can you say about your part in the film – and were you always a fan of Argento’s hyper-colourised surrealism?

Tilda Swinton:
Suspiria is a film Luca Guadagnino and I have talked about making a ‘cover’ of for years. We are dyed-in-the-wool fans of Dario Argento’s classic and we’re happy to be in the middle of completing our film. We shot in Italy and Berlin over the winter (and are) now cutting. I play Madame Blanc, a highly respected choreographer and director of the Markos Dance Company. The film is a universe of dance and magic and the radical politics of 70s Berlin. We shot with a cast of 38 women – including the great Ingrid Caven, Mia Goth, Renee Slouterdijk, Angela Winkler, Dakota Johnston, Chloë (Grace) Moretz, Sylvie Testud and the wonderful Jessica Harper, who starred in Argento’s original – and three men: filmmaker Fred Kelemen, photographer Mikael Olsson and psychoanalyst Lutz Ebersdorf. It’s going to be wild and very much its own animal.


Photography Jack Davison
Styling Robbie Spencer
Text Dean Mayo Davies

27 June 2017



NOVEMBER 6, 2018

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SUSPIRIA PREMIERE LOS ANGELES





Red carpet premiere of Suspiria in Los Angeles with Mia Goth, Tilda Swinton, Chloë (Grace) Moretz, Luca Guadagnino, Dakota Johnson and Mikael Olsson.

ArcLight Hollywood Cinerama Dome
6360 Sunset Boulevard
Los Angeles, CA 90028



OCTOBER 24, 2018

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NYTIMES SUSPIRIA



How an Abandoned Hotel Became a Witches’ Lair for ‘Suspiria’.
Luca Guadagnino’s latest film takes place in a fictional dance academy in 1970s Berlin, constructed within the dilapidated interiors of a 1912 Italian retreat.
......In a twist typical of “Suspiria,” the photographer Mikael Olsson, who captured the accompanying images of the set, also has a bit role in the film: He appears as Agent Glockner, a German police officer (one of just three male characters).



OCTOBER 23, 2018

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SVERIGES RADIO



In Sveriges Radio P1 with Roger Wilson "Konstnären Mikael Olsson om hur han hamnade i "Suspiria"/The artist Mikael Olsson about how he ended up in "Suspiria".


SEPTEMBER 29, 2018

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BIENNALE CINEMA 2018 75TH VENICE INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL



Suspiria at The 75th Venice International Film Festival Competion organised by La Biennale di Venezia, and will take place at Venice Lido from August 29th to September 8th, 2018.

Mikael Olsson stars as Agent Glockner in the upcoming film Suspiria (2018) from director Luca Guadagnino. Starring Dakota Johnson, Tilda Swinton, Mia Goth, Jessica Harper and Chloe Grace Moretz. Screenplay by David Kajganich.

In Suspiria by Luca Guadagnino – who pays homage to the 1977 cult horror movie by Dario Argento - a darkness swirls at the center of a world-renowned dance company, one that will engulf the artistic director (Tilda Swinton), an ambitious young dancer (Dakota Johnson), and a grieving psychotherapist (Lutz Ebersdorf). Radiohead's Thom Yorke provided the score for the movie, contributing to its creepy atmosphere.



JULY 26, 2018

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REVIEW E-FLUX


PHOTO: LAURIAN GHINITOIU.

Review by Alessandro Bava in e-flux

This is not an exhibition

........Nearby, Petra Gipp and Mikael Olsson's rigorous assembly and direct display of three canopies designed by Sigurd Lewerentz for religious buildings, curated by Kieran Long, Johan Örn, and James Taylor-Foster, stands out as a model for the contemporary exhibition of historical architecture in its careful selection of a wide range of material as well as its subtle deployment of abstraction in its modes of representation........



JUNE 7, 2018

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VENICE ARCHITECTURE BIENNALE 2018



Participants: Petra Gipp and Mikael Olsson
Collaborators: Claudia and Mateo Eiletz with Marica Petkovic
Supporter: ArkDes
Location: Room 12, Central Pavilion – Giardini della Biennale, Venice, Italy



MAY 26, 2018

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FREESTANDING



Mikael Olsson
with Petra Gipp

Freestanding

16th International Architecture Exhibition – Venice Biennale
Freespace
May 26th – November 25th, 2018

In response to the explosion of international interest and research surrounding Sigurd Lewerentz (1885-1975), Sweden’s most renowned 20th Century architect, ArkDes (The Swedish Centre for Architecture and Design), with Petra Gipp and Mikael Olsson, presents Freestanding – an exhibition in the Central Pavilion at FREESPACE, the 16th International Architecture Exhibition - La Biennale di Venezia.

Freestanding explores three freestanding canopies from three of Lewerentz’ most well-known religious buildings through a collection of historical drawings and newly-commissioned interpretative works. Supported by ArkDes in response to an invitation to participate from artistic directors Yvonne Farrell and Shelley McNamara, the exhibition looks at ways in which extra spatial gifts can contribute to the experience of a place, a landscape, and the rituals that surround death and burial. Architect Petra Gipp has designed large-scale models for the exhibition that create an extraordinary spatial experience for the visitor.

Artist Mikael Olsson has created new photographs of the structures as living contemporary scenographies that challenge our perception. In dissecting and rearranging the structures and their surroundings, Mikael Olsson investigates the buildings and gives us new perspectives on their design. The pictures evoke movement and help to reveal how we perceive distance and intimacy through architectural gestures.



MAY 22, 2018

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MAY 18, 2018

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T CHINA NEW YORK TIMES STYLE MAGAZINE



Cover + 8 page story from Gotland in T China Magazine/The New York Times.


MAY 6, 2018

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