The MMF's Artistic Advisory Committee
comments on the winner:

The MMF Artist of the Year 2010 – Olafur Eliasson

Bo Nilsson of MMF's artistic advisory committee
comments on the winner:

The MMF Artist of the Year 2009
- HM Queen Margrethe II of Denmark

HM Queen Margrethe
Kustlandskap [Coastal Landscape]

Handwoven by Margareta Westdahl and
Monica Nilsson, Märta Måås-Fjetterström AB.
Dense pile rug, one single copy, 150 x 200 cm.
Wool, linen-warp.

Made in Båstad 2009.

Since 1970, HM Queen Margrethe has been actively
engaged in a number of artistic modes of expression:
painting, church textiles, watercolours, prints,
book illustrations, découpage works, scenography
and embroidery. A great many of these artistic works
have been shown in connection with exhibitions in
Denmark and abroad. The Queen’s artistic works are
represented at the following art museums: Statens
Museum for Kunst [the Danish national gallery],
Aarhus Art Museum, ARoS, and Køge Art Gallery
Sketch Collection [sketches for church textiles].

The MMF Artist of the Year 2008
- Cecilia Edefalk

Cecilia Edefalk
Double White Venus

Handwoven by Berit Håkansson and Eva Forslund,
Märta Måås-Fjetterström AB.
Dense rya rug-technique, one single copy, 170 x 227 cm.
Wool and linen, linen-warp.

Made in Båstad 2008.

Double White Venus is acquired by the
National Public Art Council Sweden.

The MMF's Artistic Advisory Committee
comments on the winner:

"Cecilia Edefalk is one of Swedish
contemporary art's most internationally
active artists. Her consistent and
explorative imagery of specially selected
themes is captivating and her watercolour-
like way of painting is fascinating..."

The MMF Artist of the Year 2007
- Jens Fänge

Jens Fänge
Upstairs

Handwoven by Birgit Svensson and
Elsa Mörk, Märta Måås-Fjetterström AB.
Dense pile rug-technique, one single copy,
200 x 289 cm. Wool, linen-warp.

Made in Båstad 2007.

Upstairs is acquired by the National Public
Art Council Sweden and placed in the
Swedish Cabinet Office.

The MMF's Artistic Advisory Committee
comments on the winner:

"Jens Fänge has in his works often shown
his fascination for stage design-like
spaces in slightly pastel-like colours,
however with some poisoness green tone.
Like in a surrealistic play and into a riddle
we are transferred..."

The MMF Artist of the Year 2006
- Charlotte Gyllenhammar

Charlotte Gyllenhammar
På mattan [On the Rug]

Handwoven by Birgitta Helgesson
and Margareta Krantz, Märta Måås-
Fjetterström AB. Flat-weave, soumak
[weft wrapping] and pile rug-technique.
Wool, linen-warp, one single copy,
238 x 344 cm.

Made in Båstad 2006.

The MMF's Artistic Advisory Committee
comments on the winner:

"Charlotte Gyllenhammar is selected
as the Artist of the Year for a body
of work, which, in a variety of media,
has the ability to depict a personal
and universal living space in which
childhood and the family's shrinking
life space is contrasted with society's
politically charged space which stands
our human condition on end."

The MMF Artist of the Year 2005
- Maria Miesenberger

Maria Miesenberger
Hjärnmatta [Brain Rug]

Handwoven by Iris Ivarsson and Petra
Elström, Märta Måås-Fjetterström AB.
Relief pile rug, one single copy, 200 x 238 cm.
Wool, linen, silk and gold yarn, linen-warp.

Made in Båstad 2005.

The MMF's Artistic Advisory Committee
comments on the winner:

"Maria Miesenberger displays interesting
meetings where a flora of patterns,
closely related to the rich imagery of
the Orient, co-exists with rather more
in-depth exploration of the patterns
of the individual body..."

The MMF Artist of the Year 2004
- Jockum Nordström

Jockum Nordström
Kusken [The Coachman]

Handwoven by Berit Håkansson and
Margareta Westdahl, Märta Måås-Fjetterström AB.
Pile rug-technique, one single copy, 280 x 280 cm.
Wool, linen-warp.

Made in Båstad 2004.

The MMF's Artistic Advisory Committee
comments on the winner:

"...for his uncompromising work in which
he constantly moves in the interface of
drawing, collage and painting. Firmly he
romances an imagery of humans, animals,
nature and architecture, which sometimes
originate in folk art and sometimes in the
disorder of some absurd dream..."

The MMF Artist of the Year 2003
- Elis Ernst Eriksson

Elis Ernst Eriksson (1906-2006)
Fluktaren [The Peeper]

Handwoven by Monica Nilsson and Eva
Forslund, Märta Måås-Fjetterström AB.
Relief rya and pile rug-technique, one
single copy, 256 x 220 cm.
Wool, linen, goathair, linen-warp.

Made in Båstad 2003

"In 2003 the artistic advisory committee
awarded the doyen of the Swedish art scene,
Elis Ernst Eriksson. Like a one-man movement
in Swedish art, Eriksson has eschewed
traditional media in their refined forms and
instead applied a Dadaist "kitchen-midden" of
media, in which Elis Eriksson has made the rules."

The MMF Artist of the Year 2002
- Marie-Louise Ekman

Marie-Louise Ekman
Utan titel [Untitled]

Handwoven by Birgit Svensson, MMF AB.
Flat-weave, pile rug-technique, one
single copy, 160 x 206 cm.
Wool and linen, linen-warp.

Made in Båstad 2002.

"The first year's prize was awarded to
Marie-Louise Ekman who is not only a
wide-ranging visual artist, working with
painting, drawing, objects, sculpture
and graphic work, but also pursues a
career as a filmmaker, playwright and
author..."
"...Marie-Louise Ekman's depiction of the
Madonna does not bring out the corporality
of figure. On the contrary, her body is
enveloped in a veil-like substance that
may be interpreted as fabric or foam. It
is a substance that lends a feeling of
spirituality and immaterial presence to
the Madonna figure.

Since 2002, MMF AB selects an artist to design The MMF Textile of the Year. The members of
MMF's artistic advisory committee are: Bo Nilsson, Chief Curator; Pontus Bonnier;
Mailis Stensman, Arts Writer and Angelica Persson, CEO, MMF AB together with
Ulrik Swedrup, CEO, CV Search AB and Chairman of the Board, MMF AB.