Best Svea Vikander Podcasts (2025)

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CRUSHED VELVET: 18 Artists in 20 Weeks 19:58

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What a ride! ART CRUSH INTERNATIONAL's first season is coming to an end. It's been wild, adventurous, lovely and above all, very cozy. Join Svea and Jozefien in this season finale as they reminisce and relive all the crushes they've had so far. Which artist served the best snacks? What backstory surprised them the most? What was the most emotionall…

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Is Your GP Secretly an Artist? Lorraine Bonner on Healing With Clay 32:16

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Onward! To East Oakland where artist-physician-writer Lorraine Bonner sculpts clay in the house that was once her mother’s home. Lorraine shows us the space, now converted completely to a studio-gallery, and talks about growing up in Queens, moving to rural California in 1970, moving to Tanzania with her husband so they could have their baby in an …

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CRUSHED VELVET #1: Do You Have to Be A Jerk to Make Good Work? 21:03

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Jozefien and Svea are fed up with misconceptions about artists and in this series, called CRUSHED VELVET because it sounds good even if it makes no sense, they're setting the record straight. There's more to life than making art. There is, for example, trauma, sexism, capitalism, haikus, and other funny things. THIS EPISODE'S VELVETEEN RABBITS: Whe…

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Linocut Prints and a Tenderhearted Prince: Sofia Shu and her Siberian-San Francisco Love Story 32:52

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We climb and descend the hills of Potrero Hill in San Francisco - in high heels of course! - as we search for Sofia Shu's secluded studio. We're mesmerised by Sofia's meditative, spiritual, detailed abstract paintings and wall hangings. Sofia serves us a delicious vegan latte and talks about growing up walking through snow tunnels in Siberia, learn…

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Queering the Kudzu: Richard Jonathon Nelson on Plants, Roots, and Colonialism 34:02

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Hop into our car to East Oakland where we’ll meet textile artist Richard Jonathan Nelson at his friend and fellow artist Jamee Crusan’s place. Richard talks about being a black, queer man in the US, how his mother and aunts encouraged him to make textile art as a child and how language plays an important role in his life. What’s a hand baby and who…

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It’s Only Creepy If You Are: How BRIK TU-TOK Free Their Minds 34:16

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Join us on a trip to the harbour of Ghent, Belgium, where we meet Linde Carrijn and Maxim Storms, the avant-garde performance-duo known as BRIK TU-TOK. At their light-filled studio in an old red-brick factory we marvel at BRIK TU-TOK's handmade fashionable costumes, colorful accessories and extraordinary DIY music instruments. What's the Giggle Gal…

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If You Escaped Nazi Germany, What Would You Do with Your One Precious Life? At 88, Edith Hillinger Is Still Making Art 32:35

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We rush to visit Edith Hillinger at her garden studio inside the West Berkeley house she built in the 1990s. Hillinger is 88 years old and studied at New York’s Cooper Union College in the 1960s. She draws from her childhood experiences as a refugee in Ankara, Turkey, to create obscenely masterful full-scale collages and paintings. She quotes Rilke…

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How Is a Textile Designer Like a Turtle? Leda Devoldere Is About to Find Out 23:25

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Join us on a trip to Oostakker, Belgium where we meet textile designer Leda Devoldere in the art studio she has in her parents' garden. Leda designs carpets, pillows and plaids in bright, vibrant colors and abstract shapes. She also has a lisp, which makes some English words hard to pronounce and her voice very easy to love. She knits almost all of…

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Why Alison OK Frost Doesn’t Want to Paint Sad Paintings that Make You Cry 36:14

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This episode is dedicated to Bay Area artist Gary Hackett, who died suddenly. He was a good friend of Alison OK Frost, and this episode was postponed out of respect for her. We are grateful for Hackett’s presence in the Bay Area: an artist precariously housed and studiously generous with his time and care. It’s a little less colourful now, with him…

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Your Purse is a Tiny, Wearable Billboard. Michele Pred Told Me So. 26:50

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Join us on conceptual/installation/social practice artist Michele Pred's red couch in her white-walled studio at Faultline Artspace in East Oakland, California. Pred is a Swedish-American artist who started the "Art of Equal Pay" movement to encourage female and non-binary artists to charge more. She's got a billboard in New York City all about it.…

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Why Helena Johansson Lindell Wants Your Garbage 18:50

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What's the difference between jewellery and sculpture? The patriarchy, that's what. Welcome to the cool, stone-walled studio of avant garde Stockholm jewellery designer Helena Johansson Lindell. We fall in love with her capacity to turn plastic toy bits (don't you have a box of plastic toy bits??) into smooth, multilayered wearable art. She's that …

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Can You Scale a Wall? Kat Trataris Wants to Teach You 29:59

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We hop in our time machine and eat all the snacks at Kat Trataris' white-walled gallery and studio space in the Tenderloin District of San Francisco.* We talk drunk barbering, performing linguistic feats as a screaming punkrock diva, growing up in a Los Angeles exurb, tooth gems, and why their dad put a wall of chain link behind their white picket …

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Is Tippet Rise a Religious Experience? 24:20

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Tippet Rise, Montana: where two wealthy artists have invested in making ecstatic experiences for others. Would you like to be surrounded by rugged mountains, transported from one large-scale contemporary artwork to another in a free, solar-powered van while they charge your phone for you? How about being driven around by a sweet Frenchman who waxes…

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Why Angela Hennessy Crochets with Hair 27:59

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We find Angela Hennessy standing at a table of shiny metal objects at her studio in industrial Oakland. Jozefien calls it cozy, but that’s just because she’s a real European. Nothing hygge about this bright warehouse space in which a lot of hair is transformed into a lot of art. Hennessy talks growing up in Humboldt County, riding horses in the sum…

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Why Mariam el-Quessny is Finally Calling Herself an Artist 29:18

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Welcome to ART CRUSH INTERNATIONAL! We take you to visit Mariam El Quessny in the Oakland apartment she shares with her husband and two small children. Quessny, originally from Egypt, has lived in California for five years and, despite being a graduate of the Pratt Institute’s School of Design, only recently begun to call herself an artist. She ser…

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Where Elle Sofe Sara Goes to Refuel 36:27

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Hop in crushers, we’re going to the Arctic. We take a walk through the woods with Sámi reindeer herder, choreographer, and filmmaker Elle Sofe Sara. The wind blows, the snow falls, the noses run, the hearts beat wild. She talks the importance of refuelling, travel, an old Sámi tradition called ‘ribadit’ where you grab your crush’s belt and walk aro…

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Why Simon Tran Paints in his Bedroom 25:59

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We visit Simon Tran in his small, art-covered bedroom, which also functions as his studio. Tran is a Vietnamese-American artist who grew up in Los Angeles and graduated from UC Berkeley’s Fine Arts program as a painter. He gives us a tour of the old North Berkeley house he shares (built on top of a tunnel with a creek running through it), serves us…

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What Tramaine de Senna Thinks About Rhinestones 33:26

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We’re on our way to Belgium! Come eat quesadillas in Tramaine de Senna’s studio with us. She’s a mixed media artist with a background in architecture, proudly from Vallejo, California. Nowadays, she loves the light and space in the Antwerp studio she shares with her husband. It has a band saw and a paint dryer and a sewing machine and a huge jar of…

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When David Wilson’s Garage got Real Bloody 27:43

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Join us as Svea runs into the car in her pyjamas and Jozefien is forced to scrunch under a low wooden table. All in the name of art (and Wilson, also in the name of Wilson). Our art crush David Wilson shows us his pristine “garage”, bougainvillea, and tape recorder. He talks FaceBook artist residency, drawing, bringing people together to sing and e…

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How Samar Hejazi Avoids Getting Stuck in a Janitor’s Closet 26:06

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Get your boots and your coat, for this Canadian mischief. Join us as we desperately seek a quiet space to conduct an interview in Toronto’s Museum of Contemporary Art with Palestinian-Canadian artist Samar Hejazi. Hejazi is game for anything, which is probably why she’s so good at conceptual, installation, and sculptural arts. Hejazi is working on …

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ART CRUSH INTERNATIONAL teaser 1:08

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It's happening! ART CRUSH INTERNATIONAL launches on Monday, March 22nd 2021. Stay tuned!