Tensta Konsthall — Pressrelease
Piazza Taxingeplan outside Tensta Konsthall
28 August 2008
William Easton has been appointed the new head of Tensta Konsthall. His appointment begins the first of October 2008
Tensta Konsthall is one of the leading centres of contemporary art in Sweden and exhibits the avant garde of the contemporary art, design and architecture scenes. The konsthall was opened in 1998 as a part of the Cultural Capital Year for Stockholm. Tensta konsthall works with a wide notion of art, and has drawn attention both from within Sweden and abroad thanks to its boundary-defying and vibrant visions.
William Easton holds a First Class BFA honours degree from Slade School of Fine Art in London, and a Merit Scholar, MFA from the Chicago Art Institute and is a graduate from the Whitney Museum Independent Study Program in New York. He has been teaching in art, design, advertising, and philosophy for more than 20 years at graduate and undergraduate levels in Sweden the USA, the UK, Canada and Poland. For the last three years he has been rektor at Berghs School of Communication.
As a curator he has presented programs of art and design at a number of places including exhibitions at the Museum of Modern Art in Stockholm, Skulpturens Hus, The Baltic Art Centre in Visby and The Centre of Contemporary Art in Szczecin Poland. His own performances, films and art works have been shown widely including exhibitions at the ICA, London, Bornholm Art Museum in Denmark, Museum of Contemporary Art, Warsaw, The Bronx Museum for the Arts in New York, Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art in Kansas city and at The Kitchen Center for the Arts in NY. He has been the recipient of numerous wards and grants including the Anna Louise Raymond Fellowship, William Townsend Memorial Scholarship and the Betty Park Award For Critical Writing.
He is the author of the book ‘Play’ and a contributor to the work ‘The Bio-apparatus’. As well as having written several artist monographs he has published for numerous magazines internationally. He has worked as English editor for magazines such as Material in Stockholm and the international magazine of Baltic arts Mare Articum. Most recently his work “Playing Polo with Pinter” was published in the anthology Common Ground with a reading at Elverket in Stockholm.
For more information contact:
Ida Ömalm, e-mail: ida.omalm@tenstakonsthall.se
Tensta Konsthall
Taxingegränd 10, Box 4001
163 04 Spånga
Stockholm, Sweden
Phone: +46 8 36 07 63
Fax: +46 8 36 25 60
www.tenstakonsthall.se
Tensta Konsthall is supported by Swedish Arts
Council,The City of Stockholm, Stockholm County
Council,The Foundation for the Culture of the Future
and The Swedish Inheritance Fund.