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title: "Press, Exhibitions & Interviews | Tanya Zafirovic (Hökensdotter)"
url: https://tanyazafirovic.com/press/
description: "Newspaper features on Swedish painter Tanya Zafirovic (Hökensdotter) — Måsen 2021 and Mitt Roslagen 2020, full interviews in Swedish and English — and a tribute to her father, the painter Höken."
---

In the press

# Press & Stories

Swedish newspapers on Tanya's exhibitions, her paintings — and the art she shared with her father.

 [![Tanya with the Måsen front page, week 33, 2021](https://tanyazafirovic.com/img/press/masen-2021-1200.webp?v=248b87c77d) · **Måsen · Week 33, August 2021:**  · Tanya vill göra konst som får folk att drömma · Tanya wants to make art that makes people dream](https://tanyazafirovic.com/press/masen-2021/)

Måsen · Week 33, August 2021

## [Tanya vill göra konst som får folk att drömma](https://tanyazafirovic.com/press/masen-2021/)

Tanya wants to make art that makes people dream

Måsen meets Tanya as she hangs her solo exhibition “Bland Sagor & Legender” at Larssons Lada in Taxinge — on the Swedish forests, painting what she loves, a forest exhibition during the pandemic, and making art that makes people dream.

[Read the article](https://tanyazafirovic.com/press/masen-2021/)

 [![Front page of Mitt Roslagen, 25 November 2020](https://tanyazafirovic.com/img/press/mitt-roslagen-2020-1200.webp?v=9e33a74a68) · **Mitt Roslagen · Wednesday 25 November 2020:**  · Samtal på Hökens veranda · A conversation on Höken's veranda](https://tanyazafirovic.com/press/mitt-roslagen-2020/)

Mitt Roslagen · Wednesday 25 November 2020

## [Samtal på Hökens veranda](https://tanyazafirovic.com/press/mitt-roslagen-2020/)

A conversation on Höken's veranda

A two-page interview with Tanya Zafirovic Hökensdotter and her father, the painter Sven-Arne “Höken” Hökenström — on childhood memories, painting together, faith, fairytales and the art of being yourself.

[Read the article](https://tanyazafirovic.com/press/mitt-roslagen-2020/)

![Sven-Arne “Höken” Hökenström on his veranda in Norrtälje, 2020](https://tanyazafirovic.com/img/press/hoken-on-the-veranda-640.webp?v=1c32fad600)

1947 – 2025

## In memory of Höken

Sven-Arne “Höken” Hökenström — Tanya's father: scenic painter at the Royal Theatre, one of Stockholm's first graffiti artists, and represented at Nationalmuseum and Moderna Museet.

[Read his story](https://tanyazafirovic.com/press/hoken/)
