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Marie-Louise Ester Maude Ekman, née Fuchs, and known during her first marriage under the surname De Geer, and during and after her second as De Geer Bergenstråhle (born 5 November 1944) is a Swedish painter and film director. She is a professor of art and former rector at the Royal University College of Fine Arts, Stockholm.
Marie-Louise Ester Maude Ekman, tidigare De Geer och De Geer Bergenstråhle, född Fuchs den 5 november 1944 i Stockholm, är en svensk konstnär och filmare. Hon var åren 2009–2014 chef på Kungliga Dramatiska teatern .
Marie-Louise Ekman was born on 5 November 1944 in Stockholm, Sweden. She is a director and writer, known for Barnförbjudet (1979), Puder (2001) and Nu är pappa trött igen (1996). She was previously married to Gösta Ekman, Johan Bergenstråhle and Carl Johan De Geer.
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- Director, Writer, Actress
- Stockholm, Sweden
- Marie-Louise Ekman
- Liberation and Comic Books
- At Home with A Lady
- Monuments
- Watch Ekman’s Movies
Marie-Louise Ekman belongs to a generation of Swedish artists who emerged in the politically turbulent 1960s. Many young artists in the 1960s were deeply influenced by popular culture, and comic books in particular. Ekman made series of silkscreen prints, stitched fishcakes out of shiny, pink silk, built enclosed worlds out of miniature objects, an...
Ekman’s works have a strong narrative focus. In cramped pictorial spaces with warped one-point perspectives, dreams, passions and disappointments run amok in a heightened reality. In the series At Home With a Lady from 1973, a lonely woman acts out her desires, captive in an interior, like an animal in the zoo, reliving the same reality day after d...
During the early 1980s, Ekman appropriated the styles of other artists, creating works where Picasso’s women and Daisy Duck vie for space. In these paintings, Olle Baertling’s terse compositions provide the landscape for swaddled infants, wounded fledglings and dissected crocodiles on pedestals. In a large series of recent works, shown for the firs...
After eight feature films and numerous TV productions, Ekman definitely sees herself as an artist who makes films, rather than a film director. The exhibition features The Dramatic Asylum (2013–14), a drama series in 50 episodes, which she filmed using her mobile. With humour and painful precision, Ekman scrutinises the theatre, its power relations...
Bildkonst / Visual art Film & TV Scenografi / Stage design Pjäser / Plays Texter i urval / Selected writings Övrigt / Miscellaneous Publikationer / Publications
No Is Not an Answer is the largest presentation of Marie-Louise Ekman’s art ever featured in the form of a book. As one of the most influential artists in Sweden in the postwar period, Ekman was both part of Swedish pop and the rebellious underground in the ’60s and ’70s.
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Biography Marie-Louise Ekman. 1944. Marie-Louise Fuchs is born on 5 November in Stockholm. Her parents are Maude Lönnqvist and Walter Fuchs. Her mother is a model and works in a fashion department store. Her father is an artist who, at the time of her birth, supports his family by painting movie posters for the big film studios. 1946.
