Art Initiative work with art in many different ways to make the school even more knowledge intensive and to enrich the lives of students, faculty and staff. One of the ways is through a unique collaboration between the Stockholm School of Economics, the Maria Bonnier Dahlin Foundation and Bonniers Konsthall, where works from the foundation's collection of artists – who over the years have received the Maria Bonnier Dahlin Foundation Grant – are exhibited in the monumental staircases at Sveavägen 65 in a project called the Bonnier Staircases.

The foundation was established in 1985 by Jeanette Bonnier in memoriam of her daughter Maria, who tragically passed away in a car accident. Since 1986, the foundation has been handing out yearly scholarships to reward and highlight promising young Swedish artists. The collection constitutes an aesthetic expose of more than 30 years of Swedish art; its diverse techniques, influences, and artistic themes.

This January, new works were installed in the northern staircase on Sveavägen, which now includes additional works by artists Moa Israelsson, Klara Kristalova, Fredrik Wretman, Viktor Rosdahl, Pauliina Pietilä, Michael West and last year’s Maria Bonnier Dahlin Foundation Grant recipient, Erik Thörnkvist. Read more about the Bonnier Staircases and find a full list of the works exhibited here.

The selection in the Bonnier Staircases invites us to experience early works by a wide range of Swedish contemporary artists. Some of whom, after having been laureates of the Maria Bonnier Dahlin Foundation, have advanced to become among the most well-established names in Swedish contemporary art today.

Header image: Fredrik Wretman, Due Dei (1989, c-print). Photo: Tinni Ernsjöö Rappe