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Current exhibition: Portrait of a Movement
Pauline Boudry / Renate Lorenz


Saturday 25.3 2023 at 1PM
Curator's introduction to Portrait of a Movement


Spring break course
Fashion and Accessories with Beckman School of Design


A Political Classroom
by Apolonija Šušteršič


Open now for lunch or coffee
Yalla Rinkeby


Decolonization–A reading circle for young adults
Starting 14.3 2023


Winter break week 9
The Archeology of Tensta


Fashion course with Beckman School of Design

10 - 14.4 2023 That little extra! Fashion course with Beckman School of Design 
Mon - Fri 10 - 14.
Ages: 16–25 
Register to: george@tenstakonsthall.se
 
Bags, jewlry, hats, belts, hijabs and shoes. Once again Beckman School of Design visits Tensta konsthall with an inspiring course for young adults. Our theme is accessories, meaning those details that can fire away and complete a whole look. 
 
Anna-Karin Friberg and Lisa Jacobsson, former students and currently working professionally as designers, will introduce the prticipants to design processes, material, tricks and technical solutions for a resilient and functional purpose. Everyone will have the opportunity to learn more about material such as leather, fabrics and hoops. We take inspiration from the closest surroundings and the current exhibition Portrait of a Movement. Two of the days are spent at Beckmans to experience what it is like to be a student at a design school. 
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Our new Restaurant: Yalla Rinkeby

Now open: Yalla Rinkeby at Tensta konsthall. Lunch, coffee and sweets every day, with Middle eastern flavours. Tuesday - Sunday. For bigger companies, please contact Yalla in advance. Read more about Yalla. 
Lunch SEK 115 kronor including tea / coffee.more →

A Political Classroom by Apolonija Šušteršič

2022–2023 A Political Classroom by Apolonija Šušteršič
Textiles: The Women's Café with Muna Alyaqoobi and artist Anna Nordström

The artist Apolonija Šušteršič on A Political Classroom: 
The classroom is an obvious continuation of the experiences and research we’ve accumulated over the last half a year through a pedagogical exchange of knowledge and the course Agents of Change: Mediating Minorities. As I would like to think of it, the classroom emphasises learning rather than teaching; more specifically, learning from each other and striving to establish a situation that’s free from hierarchies. We want an exchange of knowledge that flows from all of us, regardless of education or lack of education, and regardless of age or experience. 

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Current exhibition: Portrait of a movement

18.3 – 20.8 2023 Portrait of a Movement by Pauline Boudry / Renate Lorenz, curated by Övül Ö. Durmuşoğlu

Pauline Boudry and Renate Lorenz’ way of viewing the past as something unfinished both inspires and challenges the obsession of progress and norming truths of our times. Rather than in sync with the constant incitement for progress, in moving oneself alternately a few steps backwards and a few forwards, maybe our history could be seen in a different light. On the stage created by Boudry / Lorenz there seems to be an intimate conversation going on which soon graduates into a Kammerspiel in which different characters take turns in using the stage. Slowly but powerfully, the right not to be seen, to be opaque, is being formulated in a time that demands transparency and that increasingly puts its trust in identifying and identity controls as a tool for exclusion and norming. On the stage, opportunities open up to move forward and backward, the right to hide your face, the right to move against the current and to change forms, the courage to grab the microphone and dare to wear the shoes of resistance. 
 
Could dance work as inspiration for an entire movement, an insurrection for a more equal and playful way of living together? In directing your focus towards the fragile moment when you mount the stage and claim the space – a microsecond of visibility and vulnerability – this exhibition enhances thoughts on pleasure, power and radical change.  
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Saturday 25.3 2023 - Curator

Saturday 25.3 at 1PM Tensta konsthall's new exhibition Portrait of a Movement for the first time in Sweden presents a solo show with the artist duo Pauline Boudry and Renate Lorenz. In two larger film installations placed on a shiny, black dance floor, together with dancers, choreographers, stage directors and musicians they imagine a new more open vision of time and visibility - a queer room for people whose right of movement is being increasingly limited around the world. Meet the exhibition curator Övül Ö. Durmuşoğlu for an in depth introduction in English. No rsvp is required.more →

Winter break - The archeology of TenstaPodda om Tensta

27.2–3.3 2023 An Archeology of Tensta (by and for youths)
Place: Tensta konsthall: The Political Classroom + The Caravan
Dates: February 27 - March 3, 2023, sportlov, roughly 10.00 - 15.00 (16.00, 17.00)

Participants:
Young people in the age between 10-15.
The konstkollo invites young people to join an exploration of Tensta through walks and observations,
collecting found objects, materials and images, and interview people on the way. From our walking
experiences we will create a podcast, maps, and a collection of things that shows an archeology of Tensta
which is important to youths. Based on our findings we will speculate on the future of Tensta. We will
create a podcast from our narrations and make our stories visually present by drawing a map of Tensta on the floor of the project room of Tensta konsthall, marking the places that are important to us. The map and the podcast will open for others to tell their stories.

Workshop instructors and organizers: Anette Göthlund, Apolonija Šušteršič, Emilio Brandao, George Chamoun, Meike Schalk, Miro Sazdic and Sarah Guarino Werner. Initiators and funders: The Political Classroom project (Apolonija Šušteršič), at Tensta konsthall (George Chamoun and Sarah Guarino Werner), funder: Familjebostäder, Svenska Bostäder and Stockholmshem; KTH Arkitekturskolan (Meike Schalk and Emilio Brandao) and Konstfack - University of Arts, Crafts and Design (Anette Göthlund, Miro Sazdic), through the projects A Full Loop of Experience (funder: Formas), and CoNECT (Enerimyndigheten and Formas).

This workshop is also part of a seminarkurs on Urban Pedagogy including MA Students from KTH School of Architecture and Konstfack, Stockholm.
 
 
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Decolonization–Reading circle for youth

Starting 14.3 2023 17.30 - 19 Decolonizing  - A reading and conversation circle in Tensta with Shahram Khosravi. Tuesdays 17.30–19 starting 14.3 2023 
 
The heritage after previous centuries of colonial dominance, or as it is sometimes denominated, coloniality, has survived the formal colonial reign and constantly changing shape. It percolates into the present and forms everything from hierarchies, class, racial issues, demarcation between nations to ideas on migration. The logic of coloniality also lies behind today’s exploitation of nature, invasions of other countries as well as structural racism. 
 
During the five occasions and from a selection of key texts, we will resonate around ideas such as 
 
-What is coloniality about?
-Why is this notion still crucial long after the end of the colonial revolutions? 
-Can you even claim that the decolonization process is? 
-What does it mean to decolonize – politically, culturally, intellectually? 
- Is there any pre-colonial past to resume to?  
- How does a decolonized future look? 
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Pauline Boudry and Renate Lorenz at Tensta konsthall

18.3 2023 Pauline Boudry and Renate Lorenz at Tensta konsthall!
 
Tensta konsthall is pleased to announce that our upcoming exhibition will be a presentation of the artist duo Pauline Boudry and Renate Lorenz,  Portrait of a Movement curated by Övül Durmusoglu. The exhibition is produced by Centro de Arte Dos de Mayo, Madrid and was shown this fall. The Berlin based duo have worked together since 2007. Their work circles around queer esthetics, history, culture and friendship. Through their installations they perform the tension between the visible and the opaque and challenge the normative stories about the history of visibility as well as the pathologization of bodies, glamour and resistance. The exhibition opens 18.3 2023. 
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Sonic Insurrections with Nombuso Mathibela

26.3 2022 Sonic Insurrections with Nombuso Mathibela 
 
Sonic Insurrections is a series of public gatherings that present sound and listening as sites of affect, memory, solidarity, pulse, rhythm and spirituality. We delve into sound for its history, situatedness and processes to map out an ‘otherwise’.  
 
From the standpoint of thinking of ‘an otherwise’ we affirm attempts to undo the definition of heritage as “denoting or relating to special architectural, historical or natural values that are preserved for the nation.” With this definition, we come to notions of heritage as material, historical and as part of world-making and nation-building. However, nation-building is fraught with violence, war and anti-Blackness. If heritage is aligned with this context, what makes connection across borders possible? We do not have exact answers but we sense that music and sound perforate these demarcations allowing connectivity within Black communities and beyond.  
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13.6 – 12.12 2020: The Little Gallery - Body to Body New work by Åsa Norberg & Jennie Sundén
 
In their practice, the artist duo Åsa Norberg and Jennie Sundén, unite textile history with pedagogical innovators throughout time. As curious researchers, they dive into different pedagogical worlds of ideas, dealing with the connections between play, democracy and the building of a community as a contrast to authoritarian methods and fixed truths. 
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Women

Tuesdays and Thursdays 13:00–16:00 Three times a week women from the Järva area meet at Tensta konsthall to work with different kinds of crafts. Through joint handiwork, a safe space is made possible where conversation and exchange of experience is at the center. The craftsmanship skills that women in the group already have is picked up and the teacher role alternates between the participants. This way, knowledge about techniques such as embroidery, jewelry making, knitting and crochet.more →

Futures: Katharina Berndt Rasmussen and Moa Bursell

20.11 18:30 Futures: Katharina Berndt Rasmussen and Moa Bursell
 
Katharina Berndt Rasmussen
Imagine Linda, a business woman with strong anti-racist values. Despite her explicit values, she employs only light-skinned people, with Swedish-sounding names. Can we explain the difference between her explicit values and actual behaviour? A similar situation exists on the social level: Sweden is a liberal democracy with strong, anti-discrimination laws that forbid ethnic discrimination. According to very recent investigations, racist attitudes are on the decline amongst Swedes and a clear majority declare positive attitudes towards multiplicity. However, despite this, statistics indicate a widespread ethnic segregation and discrimination. How can this discrepancy be explained on both the individual and social level?
 
During the last 10-15 years, social science researchers have identified correlations between discriminating behaviour and so-called implicit prejudices. They have shown that these prejudices can contradict an individual’s explicit values and that they exist in all of us. Research results can contribute to explaining observed ethnic discrimination on the individual level — as in Linda’s case — and on the societal level.
 
But what should we do, as individuals and in society in general, to counteract our implicit prejudices and their effects? One answer to this question requires a moral philosophical perspective, in addition to the social scientific one. I will talk about moral philosophical questions such as: can Linda really be held responsible for implicit prejudices that she is unaware of? Should we blame or censure her? And how far should we go in our attempts to counteract implicit prejudices? 
 
Self-presentation: I am a researcher in practical philosophy at the Institute for Future Studies. My areas of philosophical interest include political philosophy, moral philosophy and feminist philosophy. I have previously carried out research on democracy, discrimination, sexism, racism, harm and justice. In my present research I examine the moral philosophical implications that accompany empirical research on implicit bias. I received my PhD in 2013 at Stockholm University, with the thesis Democracy and the Common Good: A Study of the Weighted Majority Rule. The thesis was awarded the Stockholm University Association’s prize for the best thesis in the Humanities at Stockholm University. I am a university instructor, teaching courses in critical thinking, feminist philosophy, modern political philosophy and normative ethics. I am also editorial assistant for Tidskrift för Politisk Filosofi (the journal of political philosophy), a member of SWIP-Sweden (the Society for Women in Philosophy Sweden) and engaged in the public debate concerning issues such as equality, justice and democracy.
 
Moa Bursell: Can We Counteract Prejudices That We Don’t Know We Have?
 
Ethnic discrimination creates an unequal access to resources and opportunities. This relates not least to encounters between citizens and authorities, when ethnic background can affect, for instance, a civil servant’s judgement of how social welfare should be distributed or to encounters between employers and job applicants, when the assessment of the applicant’s qualifications or merits can be influenced.
Discriminatory judgements can depend on implicit — that is, unconscious — values that influence individuals without their knowing it. However, there are studies showing that these implicit negative attitudes can be reduced — or alternatively, controlled — at least temporarily through various psychological exercises. But we still don’t know whether these changes are temporary or permanent. Neither do we know if a reduction of implicit negative attitudes or increased control over them has any significant effect on the real assessments and decisions that employers and civil servants make concerning employment or distribution of welfare. I will present existing research in this area and discuss the form in which efforts to counteract unconscious prejudices might take.
 
Self-presentation: I am a researcher in sociology at the Institute for Future Studies. In 2012 I defended my PhD thesis, Ethnic Discrimination, Name Change and Labour Market Inequality — Mixed Approaches to Ethnic Exclusion in Sweden. I have continued to research ethnic discrimination in the labour market, and on discrimination in encounters between citizens and public institutions.
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Futures

2018 A series of seminars at Tensta konsthall in collaboration with the Institute for Future Studies, for presentation throughout 2018
 
Can we be optimistic about the future of the world and mankind? Seldom has this question been so contentious as it is now. On the one hand, infant mortality, poverty and the number of violent crimes and wars in the world have decreased radically, while longevity, literacy, access to education, health care and clean water have increased. On the other hand, we face a serious climate crisis at the same time as several bloody conflicts continue, with consequent untold numbers of people seeking refuge. We are also witnessing a rise in racist and anti-democratic attitudes and movements in many places, and national sovereignty is being challenged by, amongst other things, technological developments that have created new, difficult to decipher infrastructures and new governance structures and processes.
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Art Club

Thursdays 15:30–17:00 
In the Autumn of 2017, a new art club was founded at Tensta konsthall through the initiative of a ten-year-old
 art enthusiast from Tensta. The club is for children ages 9–12, and gathers once a week to try out different artistic techniques and materials, meet artists, make excursions and talk about art, always stemming from the current exhibitions. In collaboration with Kulturskolan Järva, membership registration can be made with nina@tenstakonsthall.se more →

Art Camp

During school breaks Tensta konsthall arranges art camps for children and teenagers, 10–19 years old under the guidance of a professional artist. The art camp may revolve around specific mediums, themes, or the artist’s own practice.

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Nordic art network

New nordic network formed to investigate significance of art centers. What is the significance of a place of art? And can it be measured? In our polarized times the function of the small contemporary art institutions as places for critical reflection and exchange of experience is more relevant than ever. But in spite of their critical purpose, these institutions are often underfinanced and their experience ignored. Why?more →

k.ö.k (Women Desire Collectivity)

Ongoing k.ö.k (Kvinnor önskar kollektivitet – Women Desire Collectivity) experiments with ways to build a feminist institution from within the existing community of The Women’s Centre in Tensta-Hjulsta.more →

Citizen to Citizen

Tuesdays 12:00–14:00 Citizens to Citizen wants to create a venue for newcomers who need support and knowledge of the community in Sweden. It is an advisory activity that can include everything from government contacts and language training to mediation between people with similar backgrounds. The members of the group also meet in a common conversation about art and social issues. Under the leadership of Fahyma Alnablsi. To participate and for further info, contact fahyma@tenstakonsthall.semore →

Klister report: Inga undantag (No Exceptions)

Inga undantag (No Exceptions) is the name of a new report authored by Mikael Löfgren and developed by Klister, a nationwide network of small and medium-sized contemporary art centers in Sweden.more →

Goldin+Senneby in art-agenda

Director Maria Lind in conversation with Goldin+Senneby in art-agenda.more →

The Art Detectives

Ongoing Under the guidance of artist Pia Sandström and architect Stefan Petersson, students and teachers will become “art detectives” and set off in search of art works at their own schools—in the cafeteria, the corridors, the basement, the staff room, or the schoolyard. Have we seen these works of art before? How long have they been here? Who are the artists behind them? What is our relationship to them?more →

Headless

What do a fishy offshore company, secret artists, a ghost writer and French philosophy have in common? No connections are inconceivable in the recently published thriller Headless. The novel is published by Tensta konsthall, Triple Canopy (New York) and Sternberg Press (Berlin) and forms the final phase in a nine year-long performance on state sovereignty, surveillance and strategies for withdrawal, initiated by the artist duo Goldin+Senneby.more →

Tenstakonsthall.se

Ongoing Tensta konsthall's new website and a communication strategy is specific for the art space and its program. Design by Amsterdam-based design studio Metahaven.

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Art and the F Word: Reflections on the Browning of Europe

Focusing on the alarming spread of fascism in Europe, the various contributions in the book Art and the F Word: Reflections on the Browning of Europe indicate the power of art to imagine futures beyond the present situation and what can be perceived as irrevocable. Contributions from the cultural critic Boris Buden, the curators Jelena Vesic and Barnabas Benczik, and the artists Lawrence Abu Hamdan and Petra Bauer create and formulate resilient and constructive possibilities for artistic and social work. The language of politics and philosophy are examined, but also populistic tendencies, social contexts, media, science, and aesthetics.more →

The Silent University: Swedish Language Café

Fridays and Sundays 14:00–17:00 

Every Friday and Sunday afternoon a Language Café led by Fahyma Alnablsi will be arranged. The Language Café welcomes those who wish to learn the basics of the Swedish and Arabic language, meet new friends and share experiences and ideas. Especially welcome are those students who are currently outside the Swedish education system while awaiting asylum. During the meetings we will practice grammar, socialize, read simple books and do conversational exercises. This fall we are looking for Swedish-speaking volunteers. If you are interested in participating, contact fahyma@tenstakonsthall.se.



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Homework assistance Individuell människohjälp


Every Wednesday 16:30–18:30 Since the 1990s Individuell människohjälp (IM) has arranged Homework Assistance at Tensta Library. During the autumn the activities also take place at Tensta konsthall. Volunteers provide additional support for school work, primarily for children and youth in the area. From the start, the purpose of Homework Assistance has been to promote education on an equal basis, regardless of native language. Homework assistance is aimed at young people in the neighborhood aged 11–20 years and takes place in The Classroom in the art space.more →

The Silent University

The Silent University is initiated by artist Ahmet Ögüt and started in Stockholm as part of Tensta Musuem: Reports from new Sweden fall 2013. The Silent University is an autonomous knowledge exchange platform by and for refugees, asylum seekers, and migrants who have had a professional life and academic training in their home countries, but are unable to use their skills or professional training in Sweden due to a variety of reasons related to their status. The Silent University aims to address and reactivate the knowledge of the participants and attempt to make systemic failure apparent. www.thesilentuniversity.orgmore →

Parents group with Rädda Barnen

One Tuesday a month 17:30–19:30 Parents group with Rädda Barnen. One Tuesday evening every month Rädda barnen (Save the Children) organizes Parenting Forum at Tensta Konsthall. The Rädda barnen parents group meets at Tensta konsthall, providing a place for parents to meet, have discussions, and gain new experiences and knowledge. The meetings are free with complimentary refreshments. Each session focuses on different themes, such as the housing situation in Järva, local politics, or parenting and gender equality, and invited guests offer expertise in the different subjects.more →

Cluster

Ongoing Cluster is a network of eight internationally operating contemporary visual art organisations situated in residential areas on the peripheries of major European cities (plus one in Holon, an industrial zone outside of Tel Aviv). Each of these organisations are actively involved in their local contexts, fostering their embeddedness within their surroundings.

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KLISTER

Ongoing from September 2012 The network Klister is a nationwide network for small and medium-sized contemporary art institutions in Sweden. Klister seeks to highlight the role of smaller contemporary art institutions in society.

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The Sibling Art Centers

Ongoing The network of sibling art centers in Stockholm. The Sibling Art Centers form a network of smaller contemporary art centers in Stockholm and include Botkyrka konsthall, Konsthall C, Marabouparken and Tensta konsthall.  The art centers meet regularly to exchange ideas and organize events that are pertinent to cultural policies. In 2012, the Sibling Art Centers arranged a series of hearings to highlight and discuss the prevailing cultural policies as well as art institutions and artists' access to financing. Questions about gentrification and "creative industries" continue to be hot topics when the Siblings Art Centers meet.more →

COHAB

2012–2014 Casco, Office for Art, Design and Theory, Utrecht, Tensta konsthall, Stockholm, and The Showroom, London are pleased to announce the launch of the two-year project COHAB that investigates meaningful ways in which artists and organisations can be deeply invested within their local contexts and at the same time form close dialogues in an international arena.

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The New Model

2011– Lars Bang Larsen, Magnus Bärtås, Ane Hjorth Guttu, Dave Hullfish Bailey, Hito Steyerl. Started in 2011 at Tensta konsthall, over a period of two years, The New Model will investigate the heritage from The Model: A model for a qualitative society in a number of projects, seminars, workshops and exhibitions. Participants will include Lars Bang Larsen, Magnus Bärtås, Ane Hjorth Guttu, Dave Hullfish Bailey and Hito Steyerl.

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The Fashion Project

From March 2012 In this project fashion is placed into a wider context, focused on identity and networking for women.

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Café

Ongoing Our café serves food and sweets with inspiration from all over the world. We have free wifi for guests, toys for the children, and Swedish and international art magazines to read.

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Ongoing In the spring of 2011 Konsthallsklubben (Gallery Club) was initiated by a group of 11 year-old girls from a nearby school. The club is aimed at children, 10-13 years old, who meet once a week to discuss and make art together with invited artists and staff.

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Gunilla Klingberg: Brand New View—Tensta

Ongoing Gunilla Klingberg’s work on the two front windows of Tensta Centrum, Brand New View—Tensta, is a new work in a series of installations with cut-out foil on windows. For Abstract Possible: The Stockholm Synergies 
she has made a new version of Brand
 New View, this time relying on logos found in Tensta Centrum, for example, 
the grocery store Matvärlden and the kebab restaurant Tasty Fried Chicken.

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Tommy Støckel: Workshop with Ross Tensta Gymnasium and KTH Tensta

Ongoing The results from the workshop that the artist Tommy Støckel held in December 2011, together with students from Ross Tensta gymnasium and KTH Tensta in conjunction with Tensta konsthall are exhibited in Ross Tensta Gymnasium’s conservatory. The workshop was carried out during Abstract Possible: The Stockholm Synergies, where Tommy Støckel partook with the piece In My Mind This Goes On Forever (2012).

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Spatial Concept: Nikolaus Hirsch

Ongoing The spatial concept for the new Tensta konsthall has been developed by architect Nikolaus Hirsch. Architect Filippa Stålhane has developed the details.

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book shop

The book shop at Tensta konsthall offers a wide selection of art books and publications. In the web shop, you can find books Tensta konsthall has been involved in publishing.

To order: info@tenstakonsthall.se




Title: Tensta Museum: Reports from New Sweden
Language: English
Price: SEK200 
Editor: Maria Lind
Writers: Beatrice von Bismarck, Boris Buden, Emily Fahlén, Mark Fisher, Emily Pethick and Christina Zetterlund
Publisher: Sternberg Press
Design: Metahaven
Year: 2021
Pages: 224
Price: SEK 200


 
 
Title: The New Model: An Inquiry
Language: English
Price: SEK200
Editors: Maria Lind and Lars Bang Larsen
Writers: Magnus Bärtås, Ane Hjort Guttu, Palle Nielsen, Hito Steyerl, Gunilla Lundahl, Lars Bang Larsen and Maria Lind 
Design: Metahaven
Publisher: Sternberg Press
Year: 2020
Pages: 176
Price: SEK200
 


Title: Migration: Traces in an Art Collection
Language: Swedish and English editions 
Editors: Maria Lind and Cecilia Widenheim
Writers: Ernst Fischer, Lars-Erik Hjertström Lappalainen, Maria Lind, Cecilia Widenheim, Joanna Warsza, among others
Publisher: Sternberg press
Design: Lisa Olausson
In cooperation with Malmö Konstmuseum
Year: 2020
Pages: 320
Price: SEK250 
 

Titel: Red Love: A Reader on Alexandra Kollontai / A Play by Agneta Pleijel
Language: English
Editors: Maria Lind, Joanna Warsza, Michele Masucci
Writers: Bini Adamczak Sara Ahmed, Petra Bauer & Rebecka Thor, Dora García, Michael Hardt, Agneta Pleijel, Nina Power, Paul B. Preciado, Alla Mitrofanova, Aaron Schuster, Oxana Timofeeva together with participants from  CuratorLab
Design: Jiri Adamik-Novak
Year: 2020
Pages: 511
Price: SEK200
 




Title: The Silent University: Towards a Transversal Pedagogy
Language: English
Price: 200 kr
Editors: Florian Malzacher, Ahmet Öğüt, Pelin Tan
Writers: Florian Malzacher, María do Mar Castro Varela, Chantal Mouffe, Ahmet Öğüt, Rubia Salgado, Pelin Tan, and the Silent Universities in Amman, Athens, Hamburg, London, Mülheim/Ruhr, and Stockholm
Publisher: Sternberg Press
Year: 2016
Pages: 140



Title: No Exceptions
Language: Swedish
Price: 180 kr
Writer: Mikael Löfgren
Publisher: Nätverkstan Skriftseerie 008
Year: 2014
Pages: 147



Title: Standard Length of a Miracle
Language: Swedish, English, Arabic
Price: 20 kr
Writer: Jonas Hassen Khemiri
Publisher: Tensta konsthall
Year: 2016
Pages: 9



Title: Headless
Language: English
Price: 200 kr
Author: K.D.
Writer: Alexander Provan
Publishers: Sternberg Press, Tensta konsthall, Triple Canoty
Year: 2015
Pages: 348



Title: Art and the F Word: Reflections on the Browning of Europe
Language: English
Price: 200 kr
Editors: Maria Lind, What How & for whom/WHM
Publisher: Sternberg Press
Writers: Lawrence Abu Hamdan, Petra Bauer, Sofia Wiberg, Barnabás Bencik, Boris Buden,
Maria Lind och Tensta konsthall, Jelena Vesic´, What How & for Whom/WHM
Year: 2014
Pages: 329



Title: Cluster: Dialectionary
Language: English
Price: 150 kr
Editors: Binna Choi, Maria Lind, Emily Pethick, Nataša Petrešin-Bachelez
Writers: Can Altay, Ayreen Anastas, Rene Gabri, Ricardo Basbaum, Céline Condorelli, Mark Fisher, Nina Möntmann, Rebecca Gordon-Nesbitt, Elain W.HO, Annette Krauss, Mattin, Marion Von Osten, Andrea Phillips, Dimitriana Sevova, Simon Sheikh and Steven ten Thije
Publisher: Sternberg Press
Year: 2014
Pages: 30
 


Title: Undoing Property?
Language: English
Price: 120 kr
Editors: Laurel Ptak, Marysia Lewandowska
Writers: Agency, David Berry, Nils Bohlin, Sean Dockray, Rasmus Fleischer, Antonia Hirch,
David Horvitz, Marysia Lewandowska, Mattin, Open Music Archive, Matteo Pasqyinelli, Clair Pentecost, Laurel Ptak, Florian Schneider, Matthew Stadler, Marilyn Strathern, Kuba Szreder, Marina Vishmidt
Publisher: Sternberg Press
Year: 2013
Pages: 249



Title: No is Not an Answer: On the Work of Marie–Louise Ekman
Language: English
Price: 350 kr
Editors: Tone Hansen, Maria Lind
Writers: Silvia Eiblmayr, Maria Lind, Kalliopi Minioudaki, Katarina Wadstein Macleod
Publisher: Sternberg Press
Year: 2013
Pages: 285






Title: Contemporary Art and its Commercial Markets: A Report on Current Conditions and Future Scenarios
Language: English
Price: 200 kr
Editors: Maria Lind, Olav Velthuis
Writers: Stefano Baia Curioni, Karen van den berg/ursula pasero, Isabelle Graw,
Goldin+Senneby, Noah Horowitz, Suhail Malik/Andrea Philips, Alain Quemin, Olav Velthuis
Publisher: Tensta Konsthall, Sternberg Press
Year: 2012
Pages: 270



Title: Performing the Curatorial: Within and Beyond Art
Language: English
Price: 200 kr
Editors: Maria Lind
Writers: Johan Öberg, Doug Ashford, Beatrice von Bismarck, Boris Buden, Clémentine Deliss, Helmut Draxler, Eungie Joo and Marion von Osten
Publisher: Sternberg Press
Year: 2012
Pages: 162







Title: The Day I am Free
Language: English
Price: 200 kr
Editors: Lawen Mohtadi, Maria Lind
Writers: Lawen Mohtadi, Maria Lind, Katarina Taikon
Publisher: Stenberg Press
Year: 2019
Pages: 327





about

Tensta konsthall is an art center in the Stockholm suburb of Tensta. Founded through a grassroots initiative in 1998, it is known to combine a high-profile program of international contemporary art with an ambition to be a palpable presence in the neighborhood. 

Contact
Tensta konsthall
Taxingegränd 10
Box 4001
163 04 SPÅNGA
SWEDEN

T: +46 8 36 07 63
E: info@tenstakonsthall.se
W: www.tenstakonsthall.se

Tensta konsthall is a private foundation organization with number: 802409-6110.




Opening hours

Tuesday - Friday 11 - 17
Saturday and Sunday 12 - 17

Please note! New exhibition opens Saturday 18.3 2023
Free entrance. Voluntary donation.
Tours

We do custom tours for elementary school to high school aged groups. Pre-booked tours during the day for schools are free. The tour takes about 50 minutes.

Tensta konthall offers guided tours of current exhibitions for large groups such as arts organizations, businesses or private groups. Tours are offered in Swedish and English. Cost is 2000 SEK + voluntary entrance donation. Length is about 50 minutes and maximum number of participants is 30.


We serve coffee and tea. At the moment, there are no lunches served. 

For reservations and more information about tours contact us at 08-36 07 63 or info@tenstakonsthall.se.

Directions
Take the blue line metro towards Hjulsta (line 10) and get off at Tensta. The ride takes about twenty minutes from Stockholm's Central Station (T-Centralen). At the metro station in Tensta, take the rear exit called ”Spånga kyrka / Tensta Centrum / Tenstastråket”. Once you have left the station through the ticket barrier, there are two possibilities to get to Tensta konsthall: Use the lift on your right hand side down to Taxingeplan. Tensta konsthall is located about 20 metres on your right. Or leave the metro station on your left hand side, take the first left again. Go down the wooden stairs. Tensta konsthall is located directly on your right.



Accessibility
Wide doors and openings
Wheelchair ramp to the entrance
Large toilet with changing table
 

Staff




Cecilia Widenheim, director
cecilia (at) tenstakonsthall.se

Didem Yildirim, producer (on leave)
didem (at) tenstakonsthall.se

Olle Arbman, producer

olle (at) tenstakonsthall.se

Fahyma Alnablsi, reception & teaching

fahyma (at) tenstakonsthall.se

Sarah Guarino Werner, curator
sarah (at) tenstakonsthall.se

George Chamoun, art mediation
george (at) tenstakonsthall.se

Muna Al Yaqoobi, assistance the Women's Cafe
muna (at) tenstakonsthall.se

Paulina Sokolow, communicator
paulina (at) tenstakonsthall.se

Board:
Karin Lekberg (head of board)

Carolina Frände

Nabil Belkacem

Anna Kettner

Birgitta Rydell

Mats Ohlén

Samira Boubana

Åsa Mårtensson

Bouabana Samira

Funders
Tensta konsthall is supported by Stockholm City, Swedish Arts Council and Region Stockholm.

Privacy policy and processing of personal data

The new data protection regulation GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation) came into force 25.5 2018. With regards to the implementation of the new law we have updated our privacy policy considering the processing of personal data (for example names, addresses, telephone numbers, email addresses, audio and video recording and images).


The handling of certain personal data is necessary for Tensta konsthall in order to reach out with newsletter or press releases to interested parties. The data we collect so that you can receive our newsletter is your email address. We do not use your personal data for anything other than our legitimate interest to inform you about the activities at Tensta konsthall, through our official communication channels such as our website, newsletter and social media. Your personal data will not be transferred to any third party. We will store your personal data in our register until you opt out.


To process bookings of venues and of services, for example guided tours or workshops, some personal data need to be collected and stored until the service has been completed. The collection of your personal data is necessary in order for us to fulfil our engagements according to the service agreement. If the information cannot be provided we could not carry out the service and would then have to deny you the given service.


Apart from the data you yourself provide we may gather other personal data in connection to documentation of our activities and events. The personal data we then may come to gather are photographs and also audio and video recordings. Should this happen we will make this clear and careful to make sure there is consent from the involved parties concerning collection and distribution of material on our website and social media. We will not save our share material unless consent is not given.


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At any point you can request that we change incorrect details or remove your personal data from our register. If you have any queries please contact info@tenstakonsthall.se

 

This privacy policy is a living document in which the content may change. The latest version will always be available on Tensta konsthall’s website. The privacy policy was last updated 9.8 2018


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Body to Body: Åsa Norberg and Jennie Sundén


Body to Body
Åsa Norberg and Jennie Sundén

11.6 - 15.11 2020
 
This summer, Tensta konsthall’s Small gallery is transformed into a temporal classroom or meeting spot. Among the ”guests”, visitor will find figures from the history of pedagogy. Applied on textiles, they inhabit the the room with their individual expressions and together they form an encounter with teachers and theoreticians discovered by the artists through various sources, contexts and periods of time. The works thematize the links between learning, knowledge and creativity and all our senses as well as their importance to our ability to understand the world, ourselves and how everything is connected. 
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Goldin+Senneby - Standard Length of a Miracle

27.1–15.5 2016 Standard Length of a Miracle is a mutating retrospective by Goldin+Senneby. Over the past ten years, the Stockholm-based artist duo has explored virtual worlds, offshore companies, withdrawal strategies, and subversive speculation. In a unique and subtle way, they combine artistic practice, financial theory, and performative methods, which are sometimes borrowed from the world of magic. The retrospective will be presented as installations and performances at Tensta konsthall as well as at other places not primarily associated with contemporary art. Stockholm School of Economics, the Third Swedish National Pension Fund, the Financial Supervisory Authority, the clothing store A Day's March, Cirkus Cirkör, and the historical art museum Prince Eugen’s Waldemarsudde all serve as stages for reactivations of Goldin+Senneby’s oeuvre from the past ten years. Introducing the artistic field to public institutions and commercial centers enables a shift of perspective about where art takes place and who the audience is.more →

Opening program: Portrait of a Movement

18.3 2023 Opening program 12 - 20
Lunch and coffee can be purchased from our new restaurant Yalla from 12. Introductions to the exhibition throughout the day by the Tensta konsthall staff. 
 
17: Artist talk with Pauline Boudry and Renate Lorenz led by curator Övül Ö. Durmuşoğlu. Language: English 
17.45: Opportunity to view the film installations.
18.30: Performance with artist Afrang Nordlöf Malekian
 
DJ Rasuul (in the café)
 
Curator: Övül Ö. Durmuşoğlu. The exhibition was produced by CA2M in Madrid 2022 and is supported by Schweizer Kulturstiftung Pro Helvetia. 
 
We are pleased to welcome Yalla to Tensta konsthall, a women’s cooperative that since 2017 has functioned as a trampoline for women to enter into working life. Yalla’s menu consists of home cooked international food such as salads, soups, delicious veggie dishes and sweets. Eat, enjoy, and support an in every sense good cause. 
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Opening Saturday 18.3 2023

Saturday 18.3 2023 – Portrait of a Movement–Pauline Boudry / Renate Lorenz
Opening 18.3 2023
 
Can dance serve as inspiration for a whole movement, an insurrection for a more equal and playful way of living together? Portrait of a Movement is the first solo exhibition in Sweden with the internationally renowned artist duo Pauline Boudry and Renate Lorenz. Based in Berlin, they have worked together since 2007. In different shapes and actions in time and space, they reveal normative historical narratives and make space for comradeship, glamour and resistance. Often they collaborate with dancers, performance artists and musicians who create new movements and choreographies in order to visualize the obstacles standing in the way for other kinds of bodies and what has been hidden in their stories. Tensta konsthall has been transformed into a stage and a dancefloor - where anything can happen. The exhibition will show the film installations (No) Time (2020) and Moving Backwards (2019) in dialogue with each other. 
 
Opening program 12 - 20
Lunch and coffee can be purchased from our new restaurant Yalla from 12. Introductions to the exhibition throughout the day by the Tensta konsthall staff. 
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New exhibition under construction. Opening day 18.3 2023

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The silent and the quiet violence

Saturday 11.2 2023 14.00 The silent and the quiet violence 
- A conversation inspired by the film Cloud Studies with the Middle East specialists Bitte Hammargren and Johan Schaar

Language: Swedish
In their fact-filled and immersive film Cloud Studies, Forensic Architecture directs their focus at the clouds in the sky. But it’s not about the innocent, puffy weather clouds, but the ones that are man-made. Those that are often quietly sent away from states and industries, toxic clouds that in various magnitude and duration invade the air we breathe. It can be about tear gas to disperse democratic protests, carcinogenic petrochemical emissions hovering over segregated communities, white phosphorus used in wars and herbicides spread with a hostile purpose or unprotected toxic waste stored and embedded in housing areas risking to explode.
Often the damage from this kind of violence comes slowly and the deadly consequences are delayed with a generation, no matter how dangerous they are, which makes it difficult to press charges or even find the guilty.
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Trettondagen: Stängt

We are closed Friday 6.1 2023. Welcome back Saturday 7.1!more →

WEDNESDAY 14.12 - CLOSED

Wednesday 14.12 2022 We are closed due to a staff excursion. Welcome back Thursday 15.12.more →

Christmas-"fika" + introduction + minimarket

17.12 2022, 11 –17 Christmas-"fika" + introduction (at 14) + minimarket

Saturday 17.12 there will be glögg, coffee, tea and cookies and an introduction to the exhibition Cloud Studies at 2PM. Also, don’t miss our Christmas market with knitted products hand made by participants from the Women’s Café. 
 
Cloud Studies is the breathtaking and upsetting film, consisting of private testimonies rendered from the internet, 3D-animations designed by engineers and architects, meteorologists, journalists and human right groups, compiled in order to function as proof in crimes against humanity. Their object of study: toxic clouds. Forensic Architecture was founded in London in 2011 by a group of architects who decided to take a closer look in how their practice could be used in a interdisciplinary way to support activists and human right groups. With their new advanced proof found in the seemingly innocent clouds in the sky, they take part in judicial processes .  
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Reflections from the Women’s Archives in Istanbul

12.11 2022 13.00-15.00 An afternoon with reflections from the Women’s Archives in Istanbul

Language: English
 
Artists: Larissa Araz and Petra Bauer, Şafak Şule Kemancı and Ays Alayat, Özge Açıkkol and Elin Strand Ruin

Reflections from the Women’s Archives brings together works by artists based in Turkey and Sweden, and is the culmination of a period of artistic research, cross-cultural and interdisciplinary collaboration which has the archives of the Women’s Library in Istanbul at its epicenter.
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Film Screening: My Queer Arabic Screen

22.10 2022 Saturday 5 - 7PM Tensta konsthall and Musa Shadeedi invite you to an Arabic queer film screening followed by a conversation 

Films to be screened:
Cinema Al Fouad (1994)
A documentary by Mohamed Soueid on the journey of a young Syrian gender non conforming woman, following her journey in Lebanon from cabaret dancer to a freedom fighter in an effort to raise funds for her gender affirming surgery. (ca 41 min)
Yumma (2018) 
Yumma consists of a compilation of three interviews made by Musa Shadeedi through which he tries to understand a person who is neglected by the society as a family member: his mother, a trans man’s mother and a divorced mother’s son. (25 min)
 
After the screening there will be time for a conversation around queer representation and stereotypes with Musa himself, the audience and specially invited guests Roula Seghaier, feminist writer, Khalid Abdel-Hadi, curator and founder of MyKali Magazine and Dina Aaliyah Jazaee, Swedish-Iranian film director. The conversation is moderated by George Chamoun.
 
English subtitles
Refreshments
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Svenska som andraspråk
Ali Mahmoudi
Bifogat finns tredjepristagaren Ali Mahmoudis text Svenska som andraspråk. Klicka på rubriken för att läsa hela texten (pdf)!

"I vuxen ålder fick jag lära mig att språk befriar barnets tankar genom att göra det mer abstrakt och därför bättre på att förstå kategorier och skillnader. Vi lär oss tidigt vad som är rätt och vad som är fel. Vad som är rent, respektive smutsigt. Vilka man ska leka med och vilka man ska hålla sig borta ifrån. Att lära sig ett språk innebär också att tillägna sig ett tankesätt. I mitt fall fick jag lära mig två tankesätt från början. Ett av dessa gjorde att jag blev som alla andra, att jag passade in. Det andra fick mig att stå ut, bli främmande och farlig. En som du inte fick bjuda på ditt kalas när vi båda var sju år. För att lika barn leka bäst och jag tog med mig ?Ghorme sabzi ?till skolutflykterna istället för pastasallad, riskakor och en falsk nyfikenhet om min “matkultur”. Jag visste vad de egentligen menade. Anpassa dig."
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2020
Adina Edfelt
Adina Edfelts långdikt 2020 bifogad som dokument. Klicka på rubriken för att läsa hela texten (pdf)!
"
- Mars Sprutar
Faller dagg över mig
Regnar faller
Smakar regnvatten
Schwlu schwlu
Vattenspridare
Slang som vattnar
Silkesdroppar slungas sedan istid Shtu shtu
Spola från kranen
Munstycke vrids åt om runt
Utskick till utsidan chic
Insidan sidan om sidan slidan till kniven Schlopp schlopp
Putsigt putsa slussa inte sussa pussa Skvimpa över kanten in i kanten in Inget svinn sinne med sinne
Sppprrr sppprr ut ut
Tömmas
Sen ska det ömmas sömmas
Schling schlang sssl sissel
Det var ett jävla drissel
Fart på sprutan
Spruta på rutan över i ur
Hur?
Sinnligt sinsemellan själv simma Genom mig själv
Är en älv
Sluta snaldrig aldrig
Swup svep swipa snurra smörj smacka Sen snacka vackla inombords tacka Sen redan sprutat
Slutat"
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Perestrojka
Jana Paegle
Jana Paegles bidrag till Tensta konsthalls textpris, långdikten Perestrojka (Renovering pågår). Klicka på rubriken för att läsa hela texten (pdf)!

"hur ska jag rulla ut ur 120-sängen köpt på hästens på kredit
så trojansk och ståtlig
brännmärka namnlappar på alla mina ägodelar inget är vårt
var kan jag hyra en cirkelsåg
och erövra delen av sängen som är min
skärmarbronx i folkmun
vill att jorden ska kläcka en ny ö — ett surtsey reserverat för en
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denna inhägnad kväver mig en labbråtta på astrazeneca notifikationerna
cementerar mina fingeravtryck karlssons pedofilklister
armarna klibbar på QWERTY hej? vladimir
jag ser ditt ansiktslyft
talgproduktionen behöver en guldskål att tömma sina reservoarer i
råkar ta colgate istället för hudkräm och hela världen har tagit en shuttlebus
lämnat mig i badrummet
avdankade elscootrar i fatbursparken
konkurrenterna kluckar berusade på batterisyra vid mälarens botten. "
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Hur blev det såhär? Tensta konsthall textpris 2020
Nora Khalil
Nora Khalils utdrag ur den påbörjade romanen Hur blev det såhär? Klicka på rubriken för att läsa hela texten (pdf)!

"Även om Helena tagit bort en stol känns Amirs stol tom. Han finns kvar på något sätt. Ibland tror jag att jag ser honom i klassrummet, i matsalen, på idrotten och till och med i bildsalen trots att han hatade bild. Han är ju också med på klassfotot som hänger på dörren. Förra veckan, när vi fick en gruppuppgift och Helena sa att vi fick välja grupper själva, skrek Caspian rakt ut: ?Jag, Ryan och Amir. ?Det blev tyst i några sekunder men det kändes längre. Jag tycker om att det är såhär. Det betyder att vi inte kommer glömma Amir. Det blev bara jag och Caspian i en grupp, någon var frånvarande, minns inte vem. Vi hade svårt med uppgiften trots att den var lätt.
Jag hoppade av arabiskan. Det var bara roligt när Amir var med. Han brukade alltid skälla ut mig när jag sa hummus. Han tyckte att jag svenskifierade ordet och skrattade åt att jag inte sa som man säger på arabiska, ?HÅ-MÅS?, artikulerade han högt och tydligt."
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Tensta konsthalls Textpris för unga - 2019 års vinnare
Nasrin Mohamoud
Andrapristagare med dikten Låt mig berätta

Juryns motivering:
Med starkt och konkret tilltal, snygga rim och en politisk indignation. Och en dröm om förändring. Dagspolitik på samtida vers i innovativ språkdräkt.
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Tensta konsthalls Textpris för unga - 2019 års vinnare
Tredjepristagare: Rebecca Stråhle-Wolke
Dikt: Världen idag

Juryns motivering:
Genom tid och rum, med ett stort grepp om världen, beskrivs samtiden som dystopi på ett lekfullt sätt. Personer ur ett nära förflutet får liv och röst och ger dikten en mustig klang.
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Tensta konsthalls Textpris för unga - 2019 års vinnare
Amar Jasarevic
Förstapristagaren Amar Jasarevic har skrivit en kortpjäs för tre roller. Stämningen är spänd, många ouppklarade händelser har ägt rum. Ändå är det något ännu mer fasansfullt som hänt.

Juryns motivering:

Med skärpa och en dos svart humor rullas en tragisk historia upp. Vardagligheten i dialogen förstärker situationens smärtgräns med en imponerande träffsäkerhet. En pjäs att se fram emot att se på scen.
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On Allomorphing: Anna Daucikova
Tensta konsthall
15.5–22.9 2019
On Allomorphing: Anna Daucikova

Handout in English.
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On Allomorphing: Anna Daucikova
Tensta konsthall
15.5–22.9 2019
On Allomorphing: Anna Daucikova

Katalogblad på svenska.
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Migration: Traces in an Art Collection
Tensta konsthall
14.5–22.9 2019
Migration: Traces in an Art Collection

How have artists over the past 150 years related to the concepts of exile and migration? By following their traces in a museum’s collection, in this case that of Malmo? Konstmuseum, we discover compelling answers to this question. This exhibition focuses on various experiences of migration and displacement from the perspective of art, and on the museum as a source of knowledge.

Artists: Meriç Algün, Muhammad Ali, Sahar al-Khateeb, Albin Amelin, Pia Arke, Kärlis Baltgailis, Maja Berezowska, Carlos Capelán, Sonia Delaunay-Terk, Eduards D Dzenis, Ewa Einhorn / Jeuno JE Kim, Sven Xet Erixson, Öyvind Fahlström, Jörgen Fogelquist, Luca Frei, Leon Golub, Jäzeps Grosvalds, Isaac Grünewald, Maxime Hourani, Charlotte Johannesson, Björn Jonson, Käthe Kollwitz, Jakob Kulle, Runo Lagomarsino, Lotte Laserstein, Lars Laumann, Franco Leidi, Per-Oskar Leu, Janis Karlovic Liepins, Lage Lindell, Sven Ljungberg, Sirous Namazi, Endre Nemes, Gerhard Nordström, Minna Rainio / Mark Roberts, Ninnan Santesson, Vassil Simittchiev, Jadwiga Simon Pietkiewicz, Niklavs Strunke, SUPERFLEX, Olle Svanlund, Paola Torres Nuñez del Prado, Birgitta Trotzig, Ulf Trotzig, Tage Törning, Peter Weiss, Jacques Zadig och Anders Österlin.

Curators: Maria Lind och Cecilia Widenheim
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Migration: Spår i en konstsamling
Tensta konsthall
14.5–22.9 2019
Migration: Spår i en konstsamling

Hur har konstnärer under de senaste 150 åren förhållit sig till begreppen exil och migration? Genom att söka spåren i en museisamling, i det här fallet Malmö Konstmuseums, finner vi tankeväckande svar på den frågan. I den här presentationen, den första i större format i Stockholm, riktas ljuset på olika erfarenheter av migration ur konstens perspektiv, och på museet som kunskapskälla.

Medverkande: Meriç Algün, Muhammad Ali, Sahar al-Khateeb, Albin Amelin, Pia Arke, Kärlis Baltgailis, Maja Berezowska, Carlos Capelán, Sonia Delaunay-Terk, Eduards D Dzenis, Ewa Einhorn / Jeuno JE Kim, Sven Xet Erixson, Öyvind Fahlström, Jörgen Fogelquist, Luca Frei, Leon Golub, Jäzeps Grosvalds, Isaac Grünewald, Maxime Hourani, Charlotte Johannesson, Björn Jonson, Käthe Kollwitz, Jakob Kulle, Runo Lagomarsino, Lotte Laserstein, Lars Laumann, Franco Leidi, Per-Oskar Leu, Janis Karlovic Liepins, Lage Lindell, Sven Ljungberg, Sirous Namazi, Endre Nemes, Gerhard Nordström, Minna Rainio / Mark Roberts, Ninnan Santesson, Vassil Simittchiev, Jadwiga Simon Pietkiewicz, Niklavs Strunke, SUPERFLEX, Olle Svanlund, Paola Torres Nuñez del Prado, Birgitta Trotzig, Ulf Trotzig, Tage Törning, Peter Weiss, Jacques Zadig och Anders Österlin.

Curatorer: Maria Lind och Cecilia Widenheim
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Tre systrar: Tanja Muravskaja
Tensta konsthall
5.2-22.4 2019
Tre systrar. Tanja Muravskaja har uppmärksammat hur konflikten i östra Ukraina har kommit att påverka släkt- och familjerelationer med utgångspunkt från sin egen familj – vissa familje-medlemmar bosatta i Ukraina, och andra bosatta i Ryssland och Estland, efter att ha flyttat dit under Sovjettiden. Med sin film visar hon hur Euromajdan har kommit att politisera familjerelationer, genom att synliggöra skilda existerande politiska intressen inom familjen och på så sätt befästa konflikten. I sitt verk ställer Muravskaja djupt mänskliga och eviga frågor, såsom: Vad är orsaken bakom att fientlighet uppstår mellan familjemedlemmar och släktingar?
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Three Sisters: Tanja Muravskaja
Tensta konsthall
5.2–22.4 2019
Three Sisters. Tanja Muravskaja explores how the conflict in Eastern Ukraine has affected relationships between relatives, using her own family as a point of departure, some of whom live in Ukraine, and others in Russia and Estonia, having moved there during the Soviet era. Her film shows how the Euromaidan has managed to politicise family relations by revealing existing political divisions within the family – and in so doing, cementing the dimensions of the conflict. Muravskaja’s piece poses an eternal and deeply human question: For what reason does hostility arise among family members?
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Let the River Flow. The sovereign will and the making of a new worldliness
Tensta konsthall
5.2–22.4 2019
Let the River Flow is the result of three years of discussions with artists, academics, and other cultural sources of knowledge from Sápmi, an area that stretches across four countries: Norway, Sweden, Finland, and Russia. The exhibition features rare historical artworks that otherwise fall outside of the Nordic art historical canon, as well as material from the Altasaken-archive and commissioned contemporary works that deal with the legacy of the Alta conflict. Simultaneously, let the River flow Flow places Sami art in a context among new museal methods that aim to turn the art historical canon into something global and all-encompassing.
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Låt älven leva. Viljan till självbestämmande och en ny världslighet.
Tensta konsthall
5.2–22.4 2019
”Låt älven leva” är resultatet av tre års samtal med konstnärer, akademiker och andra kulturella kunskapskällor från hela Sápmi, som sträcker sig över fyra länder: Norge, Sverige, Finland och Ryssland. Den presenterar sällsynta historiska arbeten vid sidan av den nordiska konsthistoriska kanon och dessutom material från Arkivet för folkaktionen mot utbyggandet av Alta-Kautokeinovassdraget och nya samtidskonsthistoriska beställningsuppdrag samt tar sig an arvet efter Alta-händelserna. Samtidigt sätter ”Låt älven leva” den samiska konsten i en kontext bland nyare globala och moderna museala metoder som går in för att utvidga konsthistoriens kanon till att bli världsomfattande.
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Art and Shops
Tensta konsthall
1.6 2018–4.3 2019
Illustrations of fables behind the meat counter, fantastical sea animal water colours at the tailor’s and wall paintings using ancient aboriginal mouth painting techniques at the barber’s - these are examples of the art that can be seen just now in Tensta centrum. During this year Tensta konsthall will expand into new spaces with thirteen art projects resulting from collaboration between artists, shop owners, Tensta konsthall and Tensta centrum/Fastpartner. In the project, Art and Shops, art moves into the shelves, in the windows, on the counters of shops in and around Tensta centrum’s building. In this way, art is presented in ordinary, everyday situations - for instance, when people buy their lunch, cut their hair - which gives opportunities for other forms of contact and exchange.
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Konst och affärer
Tensta konsthall
1.6 2018–4.3 2019
Sagoteckningar bakom köttdisken, fantasieggande havsdjursakvareller hos skräddaren och väggmålning med uråldrig aboriginsk munmålningsteknik hos barberaren är något av det som just nu kan upplevas i Tensta Centrum. Under året expanderar Tensta konst-halls verksamhet in i nya rum med tretton konstprojekt som presenteras i samarbete mellan konstnärer, butiks-
ägare, Tensta konsthall och Tensta centrum / Fastpartner. I projektet Konst och affärer flyttar konsten in i butikshyllor, skyltfönster och affärsdiskar, i och kring centrumbyggnaden. På så vis presenteras konsten i de mest vardagliga situationer, när en handlar sin lunch eller klipper sitt hår, och ger därmed möjlighet till andra former av kontakt och utbyte.
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Black Mat Oriole & Chi-Cha by Suki Seokyeong Kang
Tensta konsthall
2018 22.9 – 4.11 Rågsved Nya Folkets Hus
The starting point for the project Black Mat Oriole by Seoul-based artist Suki Seokyeong Kang is Chunaengmu, a traditional Korean court dance. Chunaengmu partly creates a new context for her sculptures and paintings, partly opens an investigation into how people relate to the spaces we inhabit – physically speaking. Is it possible for individuals to expand the limits for the areas within which they move? Rågsved Nya Folkets Hus screen her new video work, titled Black Mat Oriole and made especially for the site in question.

2018 21.9-4.11 Hembygdsgården Lerkrogen
Contemporary art from Korea meets the cultural heritage of the Brännkyrka parish when Suki Seokyeong Kang (born 1977 in Seoul) shows sculpture and video at the homestead of Lerkrogen at Älvsjö station. There are skillfully handicraft items made of hand-painted threads and metal and wood in ancient techniques. The theme is, among other things, the meaning of the word cogwheel, chi-cha, about how something can only exist by constantly joining something else.
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Black Mat Oriole & Chi-Cha av Suki Seokyeong Kang
Tensta konsthall
2018 22.9 – 4.11 Rågsveds Nya Folkets Hus
Konstnären Suki Seokyeong Kang, baserad i Seoul, utgår från traditionell koreansk hovdans i projektet Black Mat Oriole, (Black Mat: svart matta, Oriole: gylling, fågelart). Hovdansen utgör dels ett nytt sammanhang för hennes skulpturer och målningar och dels en undersökning av hur vi människor - rent fysiskt - förhåller oss till våra utrymmen. Kan vi som individer utöka gränserna för ytorna vi rör oss på? På Rågsveds Nya Folkets Hus visas hennes nya film med titeln Black Mat Oriole, gjord särskilt för platsen.

2018 21.9-4.11 Hembygdsgården Lerkrogen
Samtida konst från Korea möter kulturarvet i Brännkyrka socken när Suki Seokyeong Kang (född 1977 i Seoul) visar skulptur och video på hembygdsgården Lerkrogen vid Älvsjö station. Det är hantverksskickligt utförda objekt av handfärgade trådar och metall och trä i ålderdomliga tekniker. Temat är bland annat innebörden av ordet kugghjul, chi-cha, om hur något bara kan existera genom att ständigt fogas in i något annat.
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Tensta Museum Branch at ArkDes Winter department
Tensta konsthall
1.6 2018–13.1 2019 Tensta Museum is Tensta konsthall’s multiyear project about history and memory in the Stockholm suburb of Tensta, seen through people living and working there as well as the location itself with its many physical layers. Tensta Museum is the art centre “playing museum”, which has now opened a branch at ArkDes, as part of the exhibition Public Luxury, which will stay open until 13.1 2019. Born out of the exhibition Tensta Museum: Reports from New Sweden (2013/2014), Tensta Museum has since continued at the konsthall and beyond in the form of a programme focusing on local history and memory, while looking forward and proposing future scenarios for the suburb.more →

Tensta museums filial på ArkDes vinteravdelningen
Tensta konsthall
26.9 2018–13.1 2019 Tensta museums filial på ArkDes vinteravdelningen. Som en del av Public Luxury. Tensta museum är Tensta konsthalls fleråriga projekt med fokus på historia och minne i Tensta, sett genom de människor som bor och arbetar där, samt platsen i sig med sina många fysiska lager. Tensta museum är ett projekt där konsthallen ”leker museum”, nu med en filial på ArkDes, som en del av utställningen Public Luxury som pågår till 13.1 2019. Sedan utställningen Tensta museum: Rapporter från Nya Sverige ägde rum på konsthallen 2013/2014 har Tensta museum fortsatt i form av en ständigt pågående serie aktiviteter med inriktning på lokal historia, samtidigt som det är en samtidsrapport med inslag av scenarier för framtiden.more →

My Room is Another Fishbowl by Philippe Parreno
Tensta konsthall
9.12 – 13.1 2019 My Room is Another Fishbowl: Philippe Parreno
December 2018, Tensta konsthall, populated by over four hundred metallic, glossy, free-floating exotic fish. This is Philippe Parreno’s My Room is Another Fishbowl, a free-standing component of the artist’s installation that was displayed in the Turbine Hall at Tate Modern two years ago. Uncontrollability, natural cycles, and im-pressions of wonder are the focus of this year’s final exhibition. The exhibition also includes the work Snow Dancing, in which all the door knobs at Tensta konsthall are replaced by Christmas baubles.
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My Room is Another Fishbowl av Philippe Parreno
Tensta konsthall
9.12–13.1 2019 Philippe Parreno: My Room is Another Fishbowl
December 2018 intas Tensta konsthall av över fyra hundra metallglänsande fritt svävande exotiska fiskar. Det är Philippe Parrenos My Room is Another Fishbowl som även var en fristående tematisering i den uppmärksammade installationen i turbinhallen på Tate Modern i London för två år tidigare. Det okontrollerbara, organiskt cykliska och upplevelsen av förundran står i fokus i årets sista utställningsöppning som även blir Maria Linds sista som chef för konsthallen. Utställningen på Tensta konsthall inkluderar även verket Snow Dancing, i vilken konsthallens samtliga dörrhandtag ersätts med julgranskulor.
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The Final (Crime Weekly): housing piffle with Leif PG Tensta by Bernd Krauss
Tensta konsthall
30.10 2018–20.1 2019 In the reception gallery, we display the result of this autumn’s collaboration between the artist Bernd Krauss and students from an elementary school in Tensta, Elinsborgsskolan. The title of the exhibition, The Final (Crime Weekly): housing piffle with Leif PG Tensta, focuses on the school building’s architectural history beginning in the 1960s, which is tightly intertwined with the history of Tensta. To give the viewer more in-depth access to the process, this retrospective work is presented through the eyes of a crime detective. And who could be a better suited for this role than Sweden’s most famous TV detective?

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Allra Sista Veckans Brott: bostads-trams med Leif PG Tensta av Bernd Krauss
Tensta konsthall
30.10 2018–13.1 2019 I entrégalleriet visas resultatet av ett arbete som pågått under hösten mellan konstnären Bernd Krauss och elever från Elinsborgs-skolan i Tensta. Utställningen heter Allra Sista Veckans Brott: Bostads-Trams med Leif PGTensta och tar ett grepp om skolans arkitektoniska historia från sextiotalet, som är tätt sammantvinnad med bostads-områdets historia. I den här tillbakablicken används kriminologens glasögon och infallsvinklar för att nå djupare in i processen, så vem kan vara ett bättre bollplank än Sveriges mest kände TV-kriminolog?more →

Cosmism by Anton Vidokle, Arseny Zhilyaev
Tensta konsthall
30.10 2018–13.1 2019 A Russian Orthodox nineteenth-century philosopher’s idea of a visionary resurrection of the dead; the flow of energy; capitalist and socialist historical eruptions; our modern-day obsessions with artificial intelligence and colonial dreams of dominating the universe: all of these things, and the bewildering connections between them, combine to form the starting point for our upcoming exhibition featuring artists Anton Vidokle and Arseny Zhilayev. more →

Kosmism av Anton Vidokle, Arseny Zhilyaev
Tensta konsthall
30.10 2018–13.1 2019 De dödas återuppståndelse, energiflöden i rymden och drömmar om att dominera universum är viktiga delar i utställningen Kosmism. Konstnären Anton Vidokle iscensätter den svindlande kopplingen mellan en rysk-ortodox 1800-talsfilosofs visioner om de dödas återuppståndelse, rymdens energiflöden, kapitalistiska och socialistiska eruptioner i historien och samtidens besatthet av artificiell intelligens och koloniala drömmar om att dominera universum.
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Ingen titel
Clara Olausson
Tredjepristagare i Tensta konsthalls textpris 2018.
I juryn: Lena Andersson, Rouzbeh Dialaie, Björn Linnell, Meron Mangasha, Nawroz Zakholy och Makda Embaie.
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Jag
Nicole Charro
Tredjepristagare i Tensta konsthalls textpris 2018.
I juryn: Lena Andersson, Rouzbeh Dialaie, Björn Linnell, Meron Mangasha, Nawroz Zakholy och Makda Embaie.
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Ingen bryr sig om du inte kommer till festen
Fares Hamed
Andrapristagare i Tensta konsthalls textpris 2018.
I juryn: Lena Andersson, Rouzbeh Dialaie, Björn Linnell, Meron Mangasha, Nawroz Zakholy och Makda Embaie.
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Förenade Massor
Viktor Boström
Vinnande (förstapristagare) bidrag i Tensta konsthalls textpris 2018.
I juryn: Lena Andersson, Rouzbeh Dialaie, Björn Linnell, Meron Mangasha, Nawroz Zakholy och Makda Embaie.
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Art and Shops
Tensta konsthall
1.6 2018–6.1 2019
During 2018 Tensta konsthall will expand into new spaces with thirteen art projects resulting from collaboration between artists, shop owners, Tensta konsthall and Tensta centrum/Fastpartner. In the project, Art and Shops, art moves into the shelves, in the windows, on the counters of shops in and around Tensta centrum’s building. In this way, art is presented in ordinary, everyday situations - for instance, when people buy their lunch, cut their hair - which gives opportunities for other forms of contact and exchang
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Konst och affärer
Tensta konsthall
1.6 2018–6.1 2019
Under 2018 expanderar Tensta konsthalls verksamhet in i nya rum med tretton konstprojekt som presenteras i samarbete mellan konstnärer, butiksägare, Tensta konsthall och Tensta centrum / Fastpartner. I projektet Konst och affärer flyttar konsten in i butikshyllor, skyltfönster och affärsdiskar, i och kring centrumbyggnaden. På så vis presenteras konsten i de mest vardagliga situationer, när en handlar sin lunch eller klipper sitt hår, och ger därmed möjlighet till andra former av kontakt och utbyte.
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Sometimes It Was Beautiful by Christian Nyampeta
Tensta konsthall
Premiering Saturday 24.11 2018 16:00 at Folkets Hus in Hallstavik
Screening Wednesday 28.11 2018 17:30 at Stockholm’s Museum of Ethnography
The film relates to a meeting between improbable friends, gathered to review I fetischmannens spår (In the Footsteps of the Witch Doctor), the first of six films by the Swedish cinematographer Sven Nykvist (1922-2006) that he made in Congo between 1948 and 1952. Common to these unlikely friends is their past visit to Stockholm’s Museum of Ethnography, where an archive of Sven Nykvist’s parents is kept, docu-menting their life in Congo as Swedish missionaries, alongside the artefacts they brought back to Sweden.
Nyampeta’s film is part of Sites of the Future.
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Det var vackert ibland av Christian Nyampeta
Tensta konsthall
Premiär: Lördag 24.11 2018, 16.00 på Folkets Hus i Hallstavik
Filmvisning: Onsdag 28.11 2018, 17.30 på Etnografiska Museet i Stockholm
Filmen skildrar ett möte mellan ett osannolikt sällskap som har samlats för att recensera I fetischmannens spår – den första av sex filmer som den svenska filmfotografen Sven Nykvist (1922-2006) producerade i Kongo mellan 1948 och 1952. Gemensamt för de här osannolika vännerna är att de tidigare har besökt Etnografiska Museet i Stockholm, där det finns ett arkiv över Sven Nykvists föräldrar. Arkivet är en sammanställning över deras liv i Kongo som svenska missionärer, tillsammans med de artefakter de förde med sig tillbaka till Sverige.
Nyampetas film är en del av projektet Den futuristiska orten.
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Art Treasures: Grains of Gold from Tensta’s Public Schools
Tensta konsthall
7.2–31.12 2018 An exhibition that shines light on art in the public schools of Tensta. Around thirty works by artists such as Berta Hansson, Sven X:et Erixson, Carl Larsson, and Randi Fisher will be moved from their permanent location and hung salon style at Tensta konsthall. Meanwhile, the emptied spaces will be filled with works by Bernd Krauss (Nürnberg/Rotterdam), Mats Adelman (Stockholm), Nina Svensson (Timrå/Stockholm), Peter Geschwind (Stockholm), Thomas Elovsson (Stockholm), and Ylva Westerlund (Stockholm). As a part of Tensta museum: Continuesmore →

Konstskatten: Guldkorn från Tenstas kommunala skolor
Tensta konsthall
7.2–31.12 2018 En utställning som uppmärksammar den offentliga konsten i Tenstas kommunala skolor. Ett trettiotal verk av Berta Hansson, Sven X:et Erixson, Carl Larsson, Randi Fisher med flera, lånas in och visas på konsthallen i en salongshängning. Tenstas alla skolklasser bjuds under året in till visningar och workshops. Den utlånade konsten ersätts tillfälligt på skolorna med samtidskonst av Bernd Krauss (Nürnberg/Rotterdam), Mats Adelman (Stockholm), Nina Svensson (Timrå/Stockholm), Peter Geschwind (Stockholm), Thomas Elovsson (Stockholm), och Ylva Westerlund (Stockholm). Som en del av Tensta museum: Fortsättningmore →

Tensta Museum Branch at ArkDes, The Summer Department
Tensta konsthall
16.–23.9 2018 With Adam Tensta, Ahmet Ögüt, Emily Fahlén, Erik Stenberg, Lili Reynaud- Dewar, Magnus Bärtås, Marie-Louise Ekman, Meron Mangasha, Senay Berhe, Sergio Montero Bravo, Spånga Local Heritage Association, Stockholm City Museum with works by Carl Larsson and Veronica Nygren from the Tensta gymnasium collection, StreetGäris, Tensta konsthall’s Women’s Café, Ylva Westerlund

Tensta Museum is Tensta konsthall’s multiyear project about history and memory in the Stockholm suburb of Tensta, seen through people living and working there as well as the location itself with its many physical layers. Tensta Museum is the art centre “playing museum”, which here has opened a branch at ArkDes, as part of the exhibition Public Luxury, which will stay open until 13.1 2019.
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Tensta museums filial på ArkDes, sommaravdelningen
Tensta konsthall
1.6–23.9 2018 Med Adam Tensta, Ahmet Ögüt och Emily Fahlén, Erik Stenberg, Lili Reynaud Dewar, Magnus Bärtås, Marie- Louise Ekman, Meron Mangasha och Senay Berhe, Sergio Montero Bravo, Spånga fornminnes- och hembygdsgille, Stockholms stadsmuseum med verk av Carl Larsson och Veronica Nygren från Tensta gymnasium, StreetGäris, Tensta konsthalls Kvinnocafé? och Ylva Westerlund.

Tensta museum är Tensta konsthalls fleråriga projekt med fokus på historia och minne i Tensta, sett genom de människor som bor och arbetar där, samt platsen i sig med sina många fysiska lager. Tensta museum är ett projekt där konsthallen ”leker museum”, här med en filial på ArkDes, som en del av utställningen Public Luxury som pågår till 13.1 2019.
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Agencies of Art
Jonatan Habib Engqvist, Nina Möntmann
23.8 2018 Rapportrelease på Tensta konsthall.
Initiativtagare till rapporten är ett nystartat nordiskt nätverk för små och medelstora konsthallar där de drivande varit Tensta konsthall och Marabouparken i Stockholm, Fotografisk Center och Nikolaj Konsthall i Köpenhamn samt Oslo Kunstforening. Rapporten bygger på enkäter och intervjuer med ett trettiotal institutioner i de tre länderna. Den är skriven av Nina Möntmann, kritiker och professor i konstteori och Jonatan Habib Engqvist, curator och skribent.
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Red Love by Dora García
Tensta konsthall
16.5–7.10 2018 Dora García’s new work Red Love is inspired by the Russian author, feminist, activist, political refugee and diplomat Alexandra Kollontai (1872–1952) who propagated for radically transformed relationships between women and men. Free love and camaraderie were at the core of her thinking, as expressed in her novels and essays. As an influential figure in the Bolshevik party and commissar for social welfare in their first government, she not only set up free childcare centres and maternity houses, but also pushed through the rights for women including divorce, abortion, and full rights for children born out of wedlock. At the time these were unique measures which were soon overhauled by Stalin, who did not appreciate this attempt at ending “the universal servitude of woman” by challenging both economic and psychological conditions. more →

Röd kärlek av Dora García
Tensta konsthall
16.5–7.10 2018 Varför är kärlek så mycket på tapeten just nu? Har det att göra med att samhällsstrukturer vittrar sönder och att kärleken då blir en välbehövd stödmekanism? Eller hänger det ihop med att vi lever i en orolig värld där varma, nära relationer blir allt viktigare? Dora Garcías utställning Röd kärlek tar avstamp i den ryska författaren, aktivisten, feministen, politiska flyktingen och diplomaten Aleksandra Kollontajs (1872-1952) liv och gärning. Hennes roman Röd kärlek från 1923 handlar om kärlek under åren runt den ryska revolutionen. Hon förespråkar både fri kärlek, och kamratskap, något som hon hävdar endast kan ske bortom borgerliga kärleks- och familjerelationer och deras inbyggda föreställningar om ägande. Själv levde hon som hon lärde och hade ett flertal kärleksrelationer och blev under åren som Sovjetunionens ambassadör i Stockholm nära vän med flera av kvinnosakskvinnorna i Fogelstadgruppen.more →

En vägg blir ett bord med ljusstakeben av Anne Low
Tensta konsthall
19.6–7.10 2018 Anne Lows installation är ett möte med sekelgamla textila hantverk och samtidskonstens metoder. Arbetskläder från förra sekelskiftet, handtryckta tapeter och bord som lånat sin form från väggarna i författaren Moa Martinsons torp i Ösmo ingår i installationen. Low kombinerar alla delarna i en fängslande installation, med titeln En vägg blir ett bord med ljusstakeben, som knyter samman dåtid, samtid och framtid.more →

A Wall Becomes A Table With Candlestick Legs by Anne Low
Tensta konsthall
19.6–7.10 2018 Anne Low’s installation is an encounter between craft traditions, which are centuries old, and methods of contemporary art. Her contribution includes hundred year-old worker’s clothes, hand-printed wall paper, and a table that has been modelled on a wall of the author Moa Martinsson’s cottage in Ösmo, creating a captivating installation entitled A Wall Becomes A Table With Candlestick Legs that links together the past, the present and the future.more →

Art Treasures: Grains of Gold from Tensta’s Public Schools
Tensta konsthall
7.2–31.12 2018 An exhibition that shines light on art in the public schools of Tensta. Around thirty works by artists such as Berta Hansson, Sven X:et Erixson, Carl Larsson, and Randi Fisher will be moved from their permanent location and hung salon style at Tensta konsthall. Meanwhile, the emptied spaces will be filled with works by Bernd Krauss (Nürnberg/Rotterdam), Mats Adelman (Stockholm), Nina Svensson (Timrå/Stockholm), Peter Geschwind (Stockholm), Thomas Elovsson (Stockholm), and Ylva Westerlund (Stockholm). As a part of Tensta museum: Continuesmore →

Snart nog: Konst och handling
Tensta konsthall
7.2–29.4 2018 Snart nog: konst och handling handlar om framtider. Den är inspirerad av vår tids mest akuta frågor, och en övertygelse om att konstnärliga praktiker kan kommunicera komplexa problem och samordna handling. Vissa konstverk i utställningen riktar sig direkt till framtiden, andra pekar på fenomen, ämnen, färdigheter eller attityder som kommer att bli viktigare i framtiden. Självorganisering, hantverk och manuell kompetens, spelar alla en roll i utställningen. Likaså gör samarbetsmetoder, forskningsbaserade metoder, landsbygden och rymden. I utställningen ingår måleri, skulptur, video, fotografi, installation, performance, föreläsningar m m.more →

Soon Enough: Art in Action
Tensta konsthall
7.2–29.4 2018 Soon enough: art in action is an exhibition about futures. It is inspired by the urgencies of our time, and a conviction that artistic practice can communicate complex problems and coordinate resistance. Some art works in the exhibition address the future directly, others point to phenomena, topics, skills or attitudes which will be more important in days to come. Self-organisation, craft and manual skills, play a certain role in the exhibition. So do collaborative methods, research-based practices, the rural, and cosmos. Media such as painting, sculpture, video, photography, performance and installation will be featured.more →

Magisk byråkrati av Måns Wrange
Tensta konsthall
11.10 2017–14.1 2018 Den Stockholmsbaserade konstnären Måns Wrange har sedan 1980-talet på ett unikt sätt korsbefruktat konstnärligt arbete med curating som social praktik. Utställningen Magisk byråkrati är en mindre curatorisk retrospektiv som lyfter fram Wranges curerade projekt under perioden 1983–1998. Den byggs upp utifrån skilda fenomen som utopisk byråkrati, magisk realism och immaterialitet och involverar projekten The Aerial Kit och The Stockholm Syndrome. Wranges initiativkraft, självorganisering och roll som introduktör av både konstnärskap och curatoriska metoder är viktiga aspekter. Utställningen är gestaltad i samarbete med arkitekten och formgivaren Igor Isaksson (Stockholm) och är curerad av Nina Möntmann (Hamburg).more →

Magic Bureaucracy by Måns Wrange?
Tensta konsthall
11.10 2017–14.1 2018 Since the 1980s, the Stockholm-based artist Måns Wrange has cross-fertilized his artistic work with curating as a social practice. The exhibition at Tensta konsthall is a smaller “curatorial retrospective” which highlights Wrange’s curated projects during the period 1983–1998. The exhibition is based on issues regarding utopian bureaucracy, magical realism, and immateriality and includes the projects The Aerial Kit and The Stockholm Syndrome. Wrange’s initiative, self-organization, and contribution to the development to both artistry and curatorial methods are important aspects of the exhibition. This presentation is designed in collaboration with the architect and designer Igor Isaksson and is curated by Nina Möntmann (Hamburg). more →

New Eelam av Christopher Kulendran Thomas
Tensta konsthall
11.10 2017–14.1 2018 New Eelam: Tensta är ett långsiktigt verk som handlar om framtidens boende och medborgarskap utformat som ett teknikföretag i fastighetsbranschen, skapat av konstnären Christopher Kulendran Thomas i samarbete med Annika Kuhlmann. Syftet med företaget är att ta fram ett flexibelt, globalt bostadsabonnemang som ska göra hemmen lika strömningsbara som musik och film. Det här post-kapitalistiska startup-företaget bygger på kollektiv tillgänglighet i stället för enskilt ägande och planerar att omformulera äganderelationer genom att låta en slags lyx-kommunalism ersätta den privata egendomen.
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New Eelam by Christopher Kulendran Thomas
Tensta konsthall
11.10 2017–14.1 2018 New Eelam: Tensta is an exploration into the future of housing and citizenship. Conceived by the artist Christopher Kulendran Thomas, in collaboration with Annika Kuhlmann, the long-term artwork takes the form of a real-estate technology company that intends to develop a flexible, global housing subscription that aims to make homes as streamable as music or movies. Based on collective access rather than individual owner-ship, the post-capitalist startup plans to rewire property relations through the luxury of communalism rather than of private property. more →

The Annotated Friends of Interpretable Objects by Mariana Silva
Tensta konsthall
?1.6–3.9 2017 In Space, Tensta konsthall’s?platform online, the artist Mariana Silva (Lisbon/New York) examines the second wave of digitalization?that is sweeping through western museums. Silva filters them through both fact and fiction and poses?timely questions about digitalization in a time when we are being confronted by the destructive consequences of climate change?and war. Crucial are questions concerning how digitalization?distorts ideas about ownership in relation to the acquisition of main attractions in museum collections which are coloured by circumstances now viewed in terms of colonial encroachment. Critics mean that such objects are stolen goods and should be returned to their country of origin. more →

The New Hird by Ylva Westerlund
Tensta konsthall
1.6–24.9 2017 Borderlands, the future, and the relationship between the countryside and the suburb are the focus of artist Ylva Westerlund’s watercolors and pen-and-ink drawings in the Tensta gallery entrance. The images depict depopulated environments in and around a paper mill community in western Norrland, and a well-known suburb and surrounding green areas of the Järva Field (Järvafältet). Every day, Westerlund walks through the forest between her home in Tensta and her studio at Eggeby Farm. The landscape of her commute forms the background for some of her drawings, and others depict creatures that form a new kind of troop ready to make contact with a changed landscape. more →

Discrepancies with G.G. by Leonor Antunes
Tensta konsthall
1.6–24.9 2017 The minimalist and yet sensual installations of Leonor Antunes reveal traces of twentieth-century modernist architecture as well as how materials move across the world. Antunes’ works often allude to figures that for many different reasons have been neglected within the context of art history or architecture, while also re-creating shapes and patterns from specific sites. In her research-based installations, furniture designed by for instance Eileen Moray Gray (1878–1976) and buildings by the architect Lina Bo Bardi (1914–1992) function as points of reference for new work. The atmospheric installations are also inspired by the specific context in which they are staged, the characteristics of the space itself. Another recurring feature is how techniques and materials which travel long distances and thus become?part of global trading appear in the work, for example hemp, cork and wood. At one and the same time, the installations activate the space and act as tactile and evocative en- counters between the architectural memory and craft history of certain places, and patterns of movement. more →

Den nya hjorden av Ylva Westerlund
Tensta konsthall
1.6–24.9 2017 Gränsområden, framtid och förhållandet mellan landsbygd och förort står i fokus när konstnären Ylva Westerlunds akvareller och tuschteckningar presenteras i konsthallens entré. Bilderna skildrar avbefolkade miljöer i och omkring?ett pappersbruk i Västernorrland samt en välbekant förort med det närliggande grönområdet Järvafältet som mittpunkt. Varje dag promenerar Westerlund från Tensta genom skogen till ateljén på Eggeby gård. Det omgivande landskapet bildar fonden för en del av teckningarna, i andra finns varelser som skulle kunna vara början till en annorlunda trupp som vill etablera kontakt med en förändrad natur. more →

Discrepancies with G.G. av Leonor Antunes
Tensta konsthall
1.6–24.9 2017 Leonor Antunes minimalistiska men sinnliga installationer bär spår av modernistisk 1900-talsarkitektur och vittnar om hur material fraktas världen runt. Antunes verk refererar ofta till gestalter som av många olika skäl har försummats i konst- och arkitekturhistoriska sammanhang, samtidigt som de återskapar former och mönster från specifika platser. I hennes installationer, som grundar sig på noggrann research, fungerar exempelvis möbler designade av Eileen Moray Gray (1878–1976)? och byggnader ritade av arkitekten Lina Bo Bardi (1914–1992) som referenspunkter för nya verk. De stämningsmättade installationerna är även inspirerade av den särskilda kontext i vilken de iscensätts, av själva rummets egenskaper. Ytterligare ett återkommande inslag är hur material – och tekniker – som färdats lång väg och därmed kommit att ingå i den globala handeln sedan framträder i konsten, exempelvis hampa, kork och trä. Installationerna aktiverar rummet och fungerar?på samma gång som taktila och associationsväckande förbindelseled där platsernas hantverkshistoria och arkitektoniska minne möter olika rörelsemönster.
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Autonomy Cube av Trevor Paglen
Tensta konsthall
1.2–7.5 2017 Idag vet alla att varje klick, kommentar, like och delning som go?rs online ocksa? o?vervakas och registreras av vad som liknar ett allseende o?ga, i form av fo?retag, myndigheter eller na?got annat. Autonomy Cube (2014) a?r ett verk av Trevor Paglen (San Francisco/ Berlin) som a?r framtaget i sam- arbete med civilra?ttsaktivisten, datasa?kerhets-forskaren och konstna?ren Jacob Appelbaum fo?r att motverka den situationen. Tanken a?r att kuben placeras i konstinstitutioner, gallerier eller offentliga platser och da?r erbjuder beso?karna ett sa?kert wifi-na?tverk. Pa? sa? sa?tt a?r kuben en skulptur som kan la?sas ba?de estetiskt och konceptuellt och dessutom anva?ndas praktiskt.more →

Autonomy Cube by Trevor Paglen
Tensta konsthall
1.2–7.5 2017 Today, it is common knowledge that any activity online is being tracked. Every click, comment, like, share that we do is noticed by what seems to be an all-seeing gaze, be it an authority or marketer. Autonomy Cube (2014) is a work by Trevor Paglen (San Francisco/Berlin)made in collaboration with digital civil liberties activist, computer secrity researcher, and artist Jacob Appelbaum, which subverts that situation. The cube is intended to be placed in art institutions, galleries, and other public spaces, and provides a secure Wi-Fi network to visitors. In this way, it is a sculpture which can be both aesthetically and conceptually appreciated, and practically used. more →

It is Not Necessary to Understand Everything av Naeem Mohaiemen
Tensta konsthall
1.2–7.5 2017 Konstna?ren Naeem Mohaiemen (Dhaka/New York) tar sig an den globala va?nsterns fo?rha?llande till visioner och misslyckanden genom essa?er, fotografier och film. Utsta?llningen It is Not Necessary to Understand Everything kretsar kring United Red Army (2011), en film som tar sin utga?ngspunkt i 1977 a?rs kapning av Japan Airlines flygning 472, da? planet omdirigerades till Dhaka, Bangladesh. En tidsaxel och en bangladeshisk tidning fra?n tiden som bera?ttar om ha?ndelsen och ackompanjerar filmen i Tensta konsthalls stora utsta?llningsrum.Som en del av Eros-effekten: Konst, solidaritetsro?relser och kampen fo?r social ra?ttvisamore →

It is Not Necessary to Understand Everything by Naeem Mohaiemen
Tensta konsthall
1.2–7.5 2017 Naeem Mohaiemen (Dhaka and New York) takes on the global left’s relationship to visions and failures through essays, photographs, and films. The exhibition It is Not Necessary to Understand Everything centers around United Red Army (2011), a film essay which departs from the 1977 hijacking of Japan Airlines flight 472, in which the plane was forcefully redirected to Dhaka, Bangladesh. An annotated Bangla- deshi magazine that covered the event at the time, and a timeline accompany the film in Tensta konsthall’s main exhibition space. As part of The Eros Effect: Art, Solidarity Movements and the Struggle for Social Justice.more →

Guide to Standard Length of a Miracle
Goldin+Senneby
Standard Length of a Miracle was a mutating retrospective by Goldin+Senneby. Over the past ten years, the Stockholm-based artist duo has explored virtual worlds, offshore companies, withdrawal strategies, and subversive speculation. In a unique and subtle way, they combine artistic practice, financial theory, and performative methods, which are sometimes borrowed from the world of magic. The retrospective was presented as installations and performances at Tensta konsthall as well as at other places not primarily associated with contemporary art. Stockholm School of Economics, the Third Swedish National Pension Fund, the Financial Supervisory Authority, the clothing store A Day's March, Cirkus Cirkör, and the historical art museum Prince Eugen’s Waldemarsudde all serve as stages for reactivations of Goldin+Senneby’s oeuvre from the past ten years. Introducing the artistic field to public institutions and commercial centers enables a shift of perspective about where art takes place and who the audience is.
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Fuel to the Fire med Natascha Sadr Haghighian
Tensta konsthall
20.10 2016–15.1 2017 I Natascha Sadr Haghighians nya installation Fuel to the Fire (Bränslet på elden) lyfts aktuella ämnen som militarisering av förorten, fotografier som vittnesmål och institutionalisering av rasism och våld. Centralt i utställningsrummet är screentryckta filtar med bilder på polisvåld som alla orsakat stora protester i olika delar av världen. I installationen ingår även delar av en balkong från ett hus i ett miljonprogramsområde, ett ljudverk med läckande hörlurar och tidningsurklipp som återger både mediastereotyper och alternativa berättelser. En nyproducerad tidning innehåller historiskt material kring piketpolisens historia och om hur ögonvittnens videoinspelningar skapar en legitimitetskris för polisen.more →

Fuel to the Fire with Natascha Sadr Haghighian
Tensta konsthall
20.10 2016–15.1 2016 Natascha Sadr Haghighian’s new installation Fuel to the Fire raises topical issues like the militarization?of the police, images as testimonies, and institutionalized racism and violence. In one area, the blankets carry screen-printed images of incidents of police violence that have evoked significant protests. The installation also includes parts of a balcony from a million program housing unit, a sound piece with leaking headphones, and newspaper clippings echoing media stereotypes and alternative narratives. A newly produced newspaper contains material on the history of SWAT police and on the role of eyewitness video that creates a legitimacy crisis for the police. more →

Viet Nam Diskurs Stockholm av Marion von Osten med Peter Spillmann
Tensta konsthall
10.6–25.9 2016 Viet Nam Diskurs Stockholm. Marion von Osten i samarbete med Peter Spillmann, Center for Post-Colonial Knowledge and Culture, som en del av Eros-effekten: Konst, solidaritetsrörelser och kampen för social rättvisa. I utställningen Viet Nam Diskurs Stockholm återvänder konstnärerna och forskarna Marion von Osten och Peter Spillmann till Peter Weiss och Gunilla Palmstierna-Weiss pjäs Viet Nam Diskurs (1968) och dess komplexa produktionshistoria, samt det politiska och kulturella sammanhang i vilket den tillkom. Deras pågående forskning introducerar samtida perspektiv på 1960-talets radikala politik och hur den blev en del av filmen, teatern och konsten. På Tensta konsthall antar Viet Nam Diskurs Stockholm formen av en växande samling. Vietnamdiskurs legendariska scenografi, av Gunilla Palmstierna-Weiss, presenteras i form av skisser, fotografier, texter och vittnesmål.more →

Viet Nam Discourse Stockholm by Marion von Osten with Peter Spillmann
Tensta konsthall
10.6–25.9 2016 Viet Nam Discourse Stockholm by Marion von Osten with Peter Spillmann The Center for Post-Colonial Knowledge and Culture (CPKC).As part of The Eros Effect: Art, Solidarity Movements and the Struggle for Social Justice. For the project Viet Nam Discourse Stockholm, the artist and researcher Marion von Osten and Peter Spillmann have revisited Peter Weiss's and Gunilla Palmstierna-Weiss's drama Viet Nam Diskurm complex production history as well as the political and cultural context in which the play was created. Their ongoing research is creating a virtual archive of the radical politics of the 1960s and how they became a part of film, theater, and art. During the summer Viet Nam Discourse Stockholm at Tensta konsthall is creating a platform for conversations, interpretations, and readings about and of the entangled histories of art practice and solidarity movements. The play’s legendary set design by Gunilla Palmstierna-Weiss will be presented in the form of sketches, photographs, texts, and testimonies.more →

Andra generation & Vit, vit, vit
Mona Monasar
Förstapristagare Tensta konsthalls textpris 2016. more →

Halvmånsformade ärr
Evin Cherif
Andrapristagare Tensta konsthalls textpris 2016. more →

Nioosha Shams
En värld som färgas röd
Tredjepristagare Tensta konsthalls textpris 2016.more →

Standardlängden av ett mirakel av Goldin+Senneby
Tensta konsthall
27.1–15.5 2016 Standardlängden av ett mirakel är en muterande retrospektiv av Goldin+Senneby. Den Stockholmsbaserade konstnärsduon har under de senaste tio åren utforskat virtuella världar, offshore-företag, strategier för undandragande och subversiv spekulation. På ett ovanligt och underfundigt vis kombinerar de konstnärlig praktik, finansiell teori och performativa metoder som bl a lånats från magins värld. Retrospektiven presenteras genom installationer och performance dels på Tensta konsthall, dels på platser som inte specifikt förknippas med samtidskonst. Handelshögskolan, Tredje AP-fonden, Finansinspektionen, klädbutiken A Day’s March, Cirkus Cirkör och det konsthistoriska museet Prins Eugens Waldemarsudde fungerar som scener där verk från Goldin+Sennebys tioåriga praktik återaktiveras. Genom att låta det konstnärliga fältet möta offentliga institutioner och kommersiella aktörer förskjuts perspektiven för var konsten kan ta plats och vem som är publik. more →

Karta/Map Standardlängden av ett mirakel/Standard Length of a Miracle
Tensta konsthall

Standard Length of a Miracle by Goldin+Senneby
Tensta konsthall
27.1–15.5 2016 Standard Length of a Miracle is a mutating retrospective by Goldin+Senneby. Over the past ten years, the Stockholm-based artist duo has explored virtual worlds, offshore companies, withdrawal strategies, and subversive speculation. In a unique and subtle way, they combine artistic practice, financial theory, and performative methods, which are sometimes borrowed from the world of magic. The retrospective will be presented as installations and performances at Tensta konsthall as well as at other places not primarily associated with contemporary art. Stockholm School of Economics, the Third Swedish National Pension Fund, the Financial Supervisory Authority, the clothing store A Day's March, Cirkus Cirkör, and the historical art museum Prince Eugen’s Waldemarsudde all serve as stages for reactivations of Goldin+Senneby’s oeuvre from the past ten years. Introducing the artistic field to public institutions and commercial centers enables a shift of perspective about where art takes place and who the audience is.more →

Standardlängden av ett mirakel
Jonas Hassen Khemiri
Författaren Jonas Hassen Khemiri svarar på Goldin+Sennebys tioåriga praktik genom en litterär meta-fiktion som läses upp på konsthallen varje dag kl 14:12. I novellen Standardlängden av ett mirakel tar berättarjaget namnet Anders Reuterswärd, med förhoppningen om att kunna få jobb på en konsthall. I ett rappt berättartempo utan punktion och möjlighet att hämta andan, slungas läsaren in i en medvetandeström där alla associationer är lika viktiga. Monologen kopplas också samman med en ek-installation på konsthallen.more →

Standard Length of a Miracle
Jonas Hassen Khemiri
The author Jonas Hassen Khemiri’s meta-fictional response to Goldin+Senneby’s ten-year practice will be read out loud at the konsthall every day at 14:12. In the short story The Standard Length of a Miracle, the narrator changes his name to Anders Reuterswärd, hoping to increase his chances of getting hired at a konsthall. At a brisk pace without punctures or breathing space, the reader gets thrown into a stream of consciousness where all associations are equally important. The short story’s monologue is connected to the installation of an oak in the gallery space. more →

Standard Length of a Miracle (Arabic)
Jonas Hassen Khemiri
The author Jonas Hassen Khemiri’s meta-fictional response to Goldin+Senneby’s ten-year practice will be read out loud at the konsthall every day at 14:12. In the short story The Standard Length of a Miracle, the narrator changes his name to Anders Reuterswärd, hoping to increase his chances of getting hired at a konsthall. At a brisk pace without punctures or breathing space, the reader gets thrown into a stream of consciousness where all associations are equally important. The short story’s monologue is connected to the installation of an oak in the gallery space. more →

New Visions med Rana Begum, Nadia Belerique, Monir Farmanfarmaian, David Maljkovic, Philippe Parreno, Adam Pendleton, Yelena Popova
Tensta konsthall
27.1–15.5 2016 Hur ser vi? Med vilken blick och från vilken horisont? I grupputställningen New Visions ingår verk där seendets mekanismer och förutsättningar står i fokus. I målningar, reliefer och fotografier av Rana Begum, Nadia Belerique, Monir Farmanfarmaian, David Maljkovic, Philippe Parreno, Adam Pendelton och Yelena Popova riktas uppmärksamheten till mötet mellan verket och den som betraktar. Som betraktare bidrar en till att formulera verket, påverka vilka mönster som framträder och vilka associationer som väcks. I New Visions uppmanas betraktaren att skärpa blicken och kroppsligt erfara såväl verken som deras plats i utställningsrummet.more →

New Visions with Rana Begum, Nadia Belerique, Monir Farmanfarmaian, David Maljkovic, Philippe Parreno, Adam Pendleton, Yelena Popova
Tensta konsthall
27.1–15.5 2016 How do we see? With what gaze and from what horizon? In the group exhibition New Visions, seven artists with interests in the mechanisms and conditions of seeing address these questions. In paintings, prints, and photographs, the attention is pointed back to the observer. Thus, the observer contributes to the formulation of the work, affecting the patterns that appear and the associations that come forth. By refocusing and refiguring the way the eye apprehends a given space, New Visions contests the habits of seeing and the methods of directing the eye.
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Transmission from the Liberated Zones by Filipa César
Tensta konsthall
18.10 2015–17.1 2016 Opening this fall is the artist and filmmaker Filipa César's new work Transmission from the Liberated Zones. The show marks the starting point of a two-year program line at Tensta konsthall that investigates contemporary art’s relation to international solidarity movements and examines the notion solidarity can imply today. Since 2008, César has worked with the post-colonial history of Portugal and the liberation movement in Guinea-Bissau. Her work renegotiates the mechanisms of history writing by combining established and subjective perspectives with the poetics inherent in moving images.more →

Transmission from the Liberated Zones av Filipa César
Tensta konsthall
18.10 2015–17.1 2016 I höst visas konstnären och filmaren Filipa Césars nya verk, Transmission from the Liberated Zones (Sändningar från befriade områden). Den utgör startpunkten för en två år lång programlinje på Tensta konsthall som undersöker samtidskonstens förhållande till internationella solidaritetsrörelser och vad begreppet solidaritet kan betyda idag. César har sedan 2008 arbetat med Portugals postkoloniala historia och befrielserörelsen i Guinea-Bissau. Hennes verk omförhandlar historieskrivandets mekanismer genom att kombinera vedertagna och subjektiva perspektiv med filmens poetiska potential. more →

Symposium Eros-effekten: Konst, solidaritetsrörelser och kampen för social rättvisa
Tensta konsthall
Symposium: Eros-effekten: Konst, solidaritetsrörelser och kampen för social rättvisa som ägde rum lördag 17.10, 10:00–18:00. Symposiet utgjorde startpunkten för Eros-effekten: Konst, solidaritetsrörelser och kampen för social rättvisa, en flerårig studie av förhållandet mellan konst och solidaritetsrörelser som manifesteras i form av utställningar, workshops, presentationer, filmvisningar m m. I en tid då fascistiska partier vinner mark i Europa och samhällsklimatet blir allt hårdare, vill vi återvända till begreppet solidaritet för att pröva dess giltighet idag. Har solidaritetsbegreppet en framtid eller måste vi hitta nya sätt för att beskriva samtidens politiska organisering och kamper? Vad innebär det att inse allvaret i en situation och hur agerar man därefter?

Bland de inbjudna deltagarna fanns Mathieu Kleyebe Abonnenc (Metz), Filipa César (Berlin), Kodwo Eshun (London), Peo Hansen (Norrköping), Ingela Johansson (Stockholm), Stefan Jonsson (Norrköping), Kristine Khouri (Beirut), Doreen Mende (Berlin), Bojana Piškur (Ljubljana), Natascha Sadr Haghighian (Berlin/Tehran), Rasha Salti (Beirut), Rojda Sekersöz (Stockholm), Gulf Labor/Natascha Sadr Haghighian (Ashok Sukumaran (Mumbai)), Dmitry Vilensky (S:t Petersburg), Marion von Osten (Berlin), Mathias Wåg (Stockholm) och Aleksandra Ålund (Norrköping).
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Liquidity Inc. av Hito Steyerl
Tensta konsthall
10.10 2015–10.1 2016 Liquidity Inc. av Hito Steyerl, som en del av Den nya modellen. ”Be water, my friend.” Så inleds Hito Steyerls videoinstallation Liquidity Inc. (2014) om det formlösa, flytande, våldsamma och samtidigt livsnödvändiga som är vatten. I Liquidity Inc. strömmar vattnet fram över tv-skärmar och iPhone- skärmsläckare. Vattnet är på samma gång en faktisk vätska och en outtömlig metafor, kapitalets flytande form, It- bubblan när den spricker.more →

Symposium The Eros Effect: Art, Solidarity Movements and the Struggle for Social Justice
Tensta konsthall
Symposium: The Eros Effect: Art, Solidarity Movements and the Struggle for Social Justice, was held Saturday 17.10, 10:00–18:00. The symposium is the starting point of a multi-year inquiry into the relationship between art and solidarity movements, performed in a series of commissions, exhibitions, workshops, presentations, and film screenings. Faced with fascist parties gaining ground in Europe and an increasingly tough social climate, we see the necessity to return to the notion of solidarity in order to try its validity today. Will solidarity still be relevant in the future, or is it a historical concept? Do we need to find new ways to describe the political movements of today and their struggles, sympathies, and commitments? What does recognizing the urgency of a situation imply, and how do we act upon it?

The invited speakers were Mathieu Kleyebe Abonnenc (Metz), Filipa César (Berlin), Kodwo Eshun (London), Peo Hansen (Norrköping), Ingela Johansson (Stockholm), Stefan Jonsson (Norrköping), Kristine Khouri (Beirut), Doreen Mende (Berlin), Bojana Piškur (Ljubljana), Natascha Sadr Haghighian (Berlin/Tehran), Rasha Salti (Beirut), Rojda Sekersöz (Stockholm), Gulf Labor/Natascha Sadr Haghighian (Ashok Sukumaran (Mumbai)), Dmitry Vilensky (S:t Petersburg), Marion von Osten (Berlin), Mathias Wåg (Stockholm) and Aleksandra Ålund (Norrköping).
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Liquidity Inc. by Hito Steyerl
Tensta konsthall
10.10 2015–10.1 2015 Liquidity Inc. by Hito Steyerl, as part of The New Model. “Be water, my friend” reads the initial phrase in Hito Steyerl’s Liquidity ?Inc. (2014), a video installation about the formless, floating, violent, and simultaneously vital water. In Liquidity Inc., water gushes out of television screens and iPhone screen savers. It functions both as a liquid and as an inexhaustible metaphor: the liquefied form of capital, the dot-com bubble when it bursts.more →

Tensta museum: Fortsättning
Tensta konsthall
17.6–4.10 2015 Tensta museum: Fortsättning följer upp den uppmärksammade utställningen Tensta museum: Rapporter från nya Sverige, om historia och minne i Tensta. Efter höstavdelningen (26.10 2013–13.1?2 014) och våravdelningen (18.1–18.5 2014) samt filialer under samma period på Stockholms Stadsmuseum och Stockholms Medeltidsmuseum, fortsätter ortens eget museum att vara en integrerad del av konsthallens verksamhet. I konsthallens entré visas utställningen Det träden ser av Tenstabaserade konstnären Mats Adelman. I klassrummet visas videoverket Porto 1975 av konstnären Filipa César och kortfilmen Rehearsals. I det sinnrika Tenstaskåpet får vi ta del av material från de projekt och utställningar som konstnärerna Nina Svensson och Bernd Krauss gjort i samarbete med konsthallen de senaste åren. På onlineplattformen Space presenteras radioprogrammet SR Urbania där rapparen Adam Tensta befinner sig i ett framtida Tensta.
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Tensta Museum Continues
Tensta konsthall
Tensta Museum Continues follows up on the highly acclaimed exhibition Tensta Museum: Reports from New Sweden, about history and memory in Tensta. After Tensta Museum Fall Department (26.10 2013–13.1 2014) and Spring Department (18.1–18.5 2014) as well as branches during the same period at the Stockholm City Museum, and Museum of Medieval Stockholm, the suburbs’ own museum now continues as an integrated part of Tensta konsthall. On view in the entrance of the konsthall is the Tensta-based artist Mats Adelstam’s exhibition, What the Trees See. The classroom space features the video Porto 1975, by the artist Filipa César and the short film Rehearsals. The ingenious Tensta Cabinet features material from projects and exhibitions made in recent years by the artists Nina Svensson and Bernd Krauss in collaboration with Tensta konsthall. The online platform Space presents the radio program SR Urbania in which the rapper Adam Tensta resides in a future Tensta.more →

Here We LTTR: 2002–2008
Tensta konsthall
23.5–27.9 2015 LTTR är namnet på ett queerfeministiskt konstnärskollektiv med hjärtat i New York. I början på 2000-talet bedrev gruppen ett ambitiöst redaktörsarbete och kunskapsinsamlande som bl a resulterade i en årlig tidskrift, performancer och filmprogram. Genom samarbeten, organisering, föreläsningar och tidsskriftsskapande, kopplade LTTR samman ett vibrerande queer community. Tidskriften, som kan beskrivas som å ena sidan ett konstverk och å andra sidan en politisk händelse, antog för varje nummer en ny skepnad – så som spiralblock med guldinskription, manillakuvert och LP-omslag. LTTR skapade ständigt nya dialoger och utmanade givna former, även sina egna. Förkortningen LTTR befann sig i konstant rörelse och kom under åren att betyda allt från Lesbians To The Rescue, Listen Translate Translate Record, Lesbians Tend To Read till Lacan Teaches To Repeat. more →

Here We LTTR: 2002–2008
Tensta konsthall
23.5–27.9 2015 LTTR is a feminist, genderqueer artist collective originally based in New York. In the early 2000s, the group engaged in ambitious editorial work and knowledge gathering that resulted in an annual journal, performance events, and video programs, among other things. LTTR catalyzed a vibrant queer community in formation through collaboration, organizing, explicit discourse, journal making, and distribution. The journal, half work of art, half political event, took on a new guise for each issue, ranging from spiral notebooks with golden inscriptions to manila envelopes to LP covers. LTTR constantly created new dialogues and challenged given forms, including their own. The acronym LTTR was in constant motion and was to be read in a multitude of ways, including Lesbians To The Rescue, Listen Translate Translate Record, Lesbians Tend To Read, and Lacan Teaches To Repeat. more →

Jag är en Tensta-katt
Marianne Al-Ghorabi
Vinnande (förstapristagare) bidrag i Tensta konsthalls textpris 2015. more →

Om platsen där jag bor är världen vem är jag då?
Arezo Arif
Vinnande (tredjepristagare) bidrag i Tensta konsthalls textpris 2015. more →

Platsen där jag bor/Vår historia
Evyn Redar
Vinnande (andrapristagare) bidrag i Tensta konsthalls textpris 2015. more →

Untitled
Lema Shansab
Hederspristagare av Tensta konsthalls textpris 2015.more →

Frederick Kiesler: Visions at Work. Annotated by Céline Condorelli and Six Student Groups
Tensta konsthall
11.2–2.5 2015 In collaboration with the Austrian Frederick and Lillian Kiesler Private Foundation in Vienna, Tensta konsthall shows the first exhibition in Sweden of Frederick Kiesler's genuinely transdisciplinary work. Frederick Kiesler (1890–1965) was an architect, artist, scenographer, pedagogue, theorist and - not least - a groundbreaking exhibition designer.more →

Frederick Kiesler: Visioner i arbete. Med tillägg av Céline Condorelli och sex studentgrupper
Tensta konsthall
11.2–2.5 2015 Frederick Kiesler: Visioner i arbete, med tillägg av Céline Condorelli och sex studentgrupper. I samarbete med Austrian Frederick and Lillian Kiesler Private Foundation i Wien, visas den första utställningen i Sverige med Frederick Kieslers genuint transdisciplinära arbeten. Frederick Kiesler (1890–1965) var arkitekt, konstnär, scenograf, pedagog, teoretiker och – inte minst – banbrytande utställningsdesigner.more →

Life as a Full-Scale Demonstration: Konsument i oändligheten:1971
Helena Mattsson
One particular aspect of the exhibition will be treated in this article, the use of "real full-scale architecture" as a curatorial practice, and how architecture, framed by the museum, becomes a tool for constructing a critical space based on corporeal experiences. The environments play with the reality and realism not only by their full scale but also by mirroring existing environments outside the museum. more →

A Canon of Exhibitions
Bruce Altshuler
Discussion of an exhibitionary canon is something new. And it is new because the serious study of exhibitions is something new, or at least relatively new. The two factors have driven recent research and publication on exhibitions: the changing landscape of art history, with its expanding interests in social and institutional histories, and, perhaps more importantly, the curatorial boom of the late 1980's and 1990s.
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A Short Organum for the Theatre
Bertold Brecht
The following sets out to define an aesthetic
drawn from a particular kind of theatrical performance
which has been worked out in practice
over the past few decades. In the theoretical statements,
excursions, technical indications occasionally
published in the form of notes to the writer’s
plays, aesthetics have only been touched on casually
and with comparative lack of interest. There
you saw a particular species of theatre extending or
contracting its social functions, perfecting or sifting
its artistic methods and establishing or maintaining
its aesthetics — if the question arose — by rejecting
or converting to its own use the dominant conventions
of morality or taste according to its tactical
needs.
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Monogamy
Tirdad Zolghadr
Monogamy is something you endure. It marks a sustained condition, rather than a rational decision or a natural impulse. In the best of cases, by highlighting the idea of commitment as an institution, monogamy denaturalizes commitment even as it consolidates it.more →

The Undercommons - Fugitive Plannings & Black Study
Stefano Harney & Fred Moten
In this series of essays Fred Moten and Stefano Harney draw on the theory and practice of the black radical tradition as it supports, inspires, and extends contemporary social and political thought and aesthetic critique.
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Research by Drawing
Dieter Bogner
Frederick Kiesler was one of the 20th century’s most radical exhibition designers. To this day, the concepts he developed over four decades in Vienna, Paris, and New York redefine the relationships between exhibition object, spatial design, and spectator. Most importantly, Kiesler proposed that in every period of art, artists relate to specific aspects of the complex process of perception. more →

Det här är alla ställen av Ane Hjort Guttu
Tensta konsthall
22.10 2014–11.1 2015 Det här är alla ställen av Ane Hjort Guttu, del av Den nya modellen. Filmen Det här är alla ställen består främst av en dialog mellan två kvinnor i Stockholmsförorten Tensta. Den arabiska våren utgör en bakgrund för dialogen och filmen kopplar ihop de tre senaste årens globala proteströrelser med protesterna i Husby, Tensta och på andra platser i Sverige i maj 2013. Det här är alla ställen är samtidigt en förföriskt vackert filmad studie av förhållandet mellan politiska och personliga kriser. Den Oslobaserade konstnären Ane Hjort Guttu arbetar poetiskt med grundläggande existentiella och politiska förhållanden, ofta i video- och installationsform. http://www.anehjortguttu.netmore →

This Place is Every Place by Ane Hjort Guttu
Tensta konsthall
New ModelThis Place is Every Place essentially consists of a dialogue between two women in the suburb of Tensta in Stockholm. The Arab spring is a backdrop for their conversation, and the film puts forward a connection between the global protest movements of the past three years and the riots in the Swedish suburbs. This Place is Every Place is a seductive, beautifully shot study of the relationship between political and personal crises, pointing to widespread lost faith in alternative social organization. The Oslo-based artist Ane Hjort Guttu works poetically with fundamental existential and political conditions, often in the form of video and installation. http://www.anehjortguttu.netmore →

School Section av Dave Hullfish Bailey
Tensta konsthall
22.10 2014–11.1 2015 School Section av Dave Hullfish Bailey, del av Den nya modellen. Med utgångspunkt i 1960-talets utopiska idéer hittar konstnären Dave Hullfish Bailey i installationen School Section verkliga och påhittade samband mellan hur mark används i USA och det offentliga skolsystemet där. Han söker sig ut i ett landskap fyllt med sociala, politiska och ekonomiska spänningar. Drop City i Colorado, USA, var en sorts hippiekollektiv som låg i närheten av en nedlagd kommunal skola. Skolan hade byggts trettio år tidigare, som en följd av depressionen. Här valde progressiva amerikaner att satsa på den offentliga utbildningen och lokalt möta den ekologiska och ekonomiska ödeläggelsen som kom i spåren av sandstormar i regionen. Genom att utgå från skolan, ”det institutionella spöket", som ett villkor för livet i Drop City, finner Hullfish Bailey historiska - möjliga eller omöjliga - samband emellan dem båda. more →

School Section by Dave Hullfish Bailey
Tensta konsthall
22.10 2014–11.1 2015 School Section by Dave Hullfish Bailey, as part of The New Model. Bailey's practice is rooted in close observation, cross-disciplinary analysis and the experimental mapping of specific places, often sites where geographical edges coincide with cultural and economic margins. Sculptural processes and forms—including models, improvised devices, working prototypes, provisional architectures and sited interventions—play multiple roles in his projects, not only as conceptual motors and concretely experienced objects, but as means for speculative realignments of social patterns.more →

No Exceptions
Mickael Löfgren
Inga undantag (No Exceptions) is the name of a new report authored by Mikael Löfgren and developed by Klister, a nationwide network of small and medium-sized contemporary art centers in Sweden. In the report, Löfgren argues that the demand for measurability and immediate statistics that characterizes contemporary cultural discourse is not suitable for evaluating the work of the country's smaller art institutions. Such a pragmatic and economically-driven model of analysis is taken from New Public Manegement (NPM) and only works if the primary goal of a business is to generate profit. But as cultural institutions in general, and smaller art galleries in particular, work towards other objectives, evaluations must also adapt to their language and methods. more →

Rapport: Inga undantag
Mikael Löfgren
Inga undantag är namnet på en ny rapport författad av Mikael Löfgren, och framtagen av Klister, ett rikstäckande nätverk för små och medelstora samtidskonsthallar i Sverige. I rapporten argumenterar Löfgren för att de krav på mätbarhet och omedelbara siffror som kännetecknar vår tids kulturdiskurs inte lämpar sig för att utvärdera det arbete som bedrivs på landets mindre konstinstitutioner. Löfgren menar att det som framför allt kännetecknar konsthallarnas arbete är deras förmåga att etablera fungerande nätverk, både lokalt, regionalt, nationellt och globalt.more →

The Paths to the Common(s) Are Infinite
Tensta konsthall
11.6–28.9 2014 The Paths to the Common(s) Are Infinite utgår från de New York-baserade konstnärerna Ayreen Anastas och Rene Gabris frågeställningar och formuleringar kring begreppet the common(s) och utgörs av olika undersökningar, erfarenheter och materiella spår av möten. Med commons (allmänningar) har man historiskt sett avsett delat ägande och nyttjande av land och vatten, som t ex i medeltida England, men idag har begreppet vidgats avsevärt för att innefatta även kultursfären, programvara och allmännyttans grundskola, sjukvård och infrastruktur. Konstnärerna finner otaliga exempel på Commoning (att "göra det gemensamma") och en strävan efter the Common(s) i vår tid av  privatiseringar och ekonomiska nedskärningar.more →

The Paths to the Common(s) are Infinite
Tensta Konsthall
11.6-28.9 2014 The Paths to the Common(s) are Infinite is an attempt by the New York-based artists Ayreen Anastas and Rene Gabri to situate and share various inquiries, experiences, and material traces of encounters, which have brought them to questions of the common(s). The commons have historically referred to shared ownership and care of land and water, for example in Medieval England, but what is commonly held today is much wider encompassing the cultural sphere, software, and public goods such as public education, health care, and infrastructure. For the artists, the practices of commoning and struggles for common(s) in an ever more privatized and economized existence are everywhere today.more →

Miraklet i Tensta (Theoria)
Tensta konsthall
11.6–28.9 2014 Magnus Bärtås nya film Miraklet i Tensta (Theoria) är en egensinnig skildring av hur Jungfru Maria uppenbarade sig i Tensta sommaren 2012, baserad på vittnesmål från internet. Med hjälp av boende i Tensta har vittnesmålen gestaltats och filmats i samma rum på konsthallen där filmen kommer att visas. Del av Den nya modellen.more →

The Miracle in Tensta (Theoria)
Tensta Konsthall
11.6–28.9 2014 Magnus Bärtås' new film, The Miracle in Tensta (Theoria) is a wayward depiction of how the Virgin Mary appeared in Tensta in the summer of 2012, based on testimonies on the internet. With the help of Tensta residents, the testimonies have been visualized and shot in the same room in the gallery where the film will be shown. A part of The New Model.more →

META och regina: Två tidskrifter i systerskap
Tensta konsthall
11.6–28.9 2014 Arkivutställning. META och regina är två tidskrifter som grundades oberoende av varandra på 1990-talet av två kulturproducenter. Båda använde sitt förnamn som titel på tidningen och därmed hade de skapat sig varsitt verktyg för att nå ut till allmänheten med en institutionskritisk hållning till rådande normer i tidens konstvärld. De två tidningarna har olika karaktär och arbetar utifrån var sin strategi men utgår båda från ett feministisk perspektiv.??more →

META and regina: Two (Magazine) Sisters in Crime
Tensta Konsthall
11.6–28.9 2014 Archive exhibition. META and regina: Two (Magazine) Sisters in Crime. META and regina are both magazines founded independently in the 1990’s by two female cultural producers. Using their first names as titles of the magazines they made a public statement as a tool of institutional critique on normative concepts within the art system at the time. Although distinguished by their unusual characters and strategies, the two magazines - META and regina - share a common feminist position and subversive approach that make them 'sisters in crime'.more →

Tensta museum: Fortsättning
Tensta konsthall
11.6–28.9 Tensta museum: Rapporter från nya Sverige handlar om historia och minne i Tensta, i förhållande till platsen och till människor som bor och verkar här. Efter Tensta museums höstavdelning (26.10 2013–13.1 2014) och våravdelning (18.1–18.5 2014) samt filialer under samma period på Stockholms Stadsmuseum och Stockholms Medeltidsmuseum fortsätter nu ortens eget museum i form av Salong Tensta, ett klassrum för svenskalektioner, originalritningar av Tenstas planarkitekt Igor Dergalin, affischer av konstnären Jakob Kolding, konst- och litteraturvandringar och seminarier. På onlineplattformen Space presenterar Beiruts Arab Image Foundation Rifat Chadirji Collection med fotografier av senmodernistisk arkitektur och människor i det offentliga rummet i Irak under perioden ca 1950–75. Medborgare till medborgare, en mötesplats för nyanlända som behöver stöd och kunskap om samhället i Sverige, äger rum varje tisdag. Genom The Silent University arrangeras språkcafé.more →

Tensta Museum Continues
Tensta Konsthall
11.6–28.9 Tensta Museum: Reports from New Sweden is about history and memory in Tensta, both in relation to the place and to the people who live and work here. After Tensta Museum Fall Department (26.10 2013–13.1 2014) and Spring Department (18.1–18.5 2014) as well as branches in the same period at the Stockholm City Museum, and Museum of Medieval Stockholm, the suburbs own Museum is now continuing in the form of Salon Tensta, a classroom for Swedish lessons, original drawings of Tensta by architect Igor Dergalin, posters by artist Jakob Kolding, an Arts and Literature walk in Tensta and seminars. The online platform Space and Beirut’s Arab Image Foundation present Rifat Chadirji’s Collection of photographs with late modernist architecture and people in public space in Iraq from the period around 1950–75. Citizen to Citizen, a venue for newcomers who need support and knowledge of the community in Sweden takes place every Thuesday and a language café is organized through The Silent University.more →

Rifat Chadirji’s work: building modern Iraqi identity and hadara
Caecilia Pieri
Rifat Chadirji is considered to be one of the major 20th century Iraqi architects, not only through his realizations but also through the considerable bulk of his work in the fields of architectural practice, theory, teaching and photography. The text was first published in Modern Heritage Observer, Beirut (2013). more →

Doing the Dirty Work?: The Global Politics of Domestic Labour (2000)
Editor: Bridget Jane Anderson
Pages 1-27. There has been a tendency amongst feminists to see domestic work as the great leveller, a common burden imposed on all women equally by patriarchy. This unique study of migrant domestic workers in the North uncovers some uncomfortable facts about the race and class aspects of domestic oppression. Based on original research, it looks at the racialisation of paid domestic labour in the North - a phenomenon which challenges feminsim and political theory at a fundamental level.more →

Reverberation: A film portrait of Megafonen by Behzad Khosravi Noori and René León Rosales
Tensta Konsthall 13.6–29.9 2013
In the 30 minute long documentary Reverberation (2012), the artist Behzad Khosravi Noori (Teheran/Stockholm) and the ethnologist René León Rosales (Stockholm) follow some of the members of Megafonen on a trip to Gothenburg. Megafonen is an organization that works for social justice and the rehabilitation of the Swedish suburbs. During the trip many questions are asked regarding the processes of segregation and integration in Sweden today. more →

Vad hände med strejkkonsten? Ett konstprojekt av Ingela Johansson (2010-)
Tensta konsthall
14.3–26.5 2013 Utgångspunkten för konstnären Ingela Johanssons projekt är den vilda strejk som utbröt i december 1969 i malmfälten i Norrbotten. strejken spred sig från Kiruna till Svappavaara och Malmberget och efter några dagar hade ca 5000 gruvarbetare lagt ner arbetet. Genom FNL-grupperna, och andra politiska grupperingar kom många kulturarbetare att solidarisera sig med gruvarbetarna, och engagera sig i deras situation. Projektet rymmer olika undersökningar av strejken och de materialiseras på skilda sätt. En del består av visandet av Gruvarbetarnas strejkkonstsamling, en konstsamling som kom till under strejken som stöd till strejkkassan, till vilken cirka åttio konstnärer skänkte verk.more →

Göra som man vill: Marie-Louise Ekman i sällskap med Sister Corita Kent, Mladen Stilinovic och Martha Wilson
Tensta konsthall
18.10 2012–13.1 2013 Göra som man vill fokuserar på Marie-Louise Ekmans verk från sent 1960-tal till sent 1980-tal och inkluderar på samma gång arbeten från samma period av Sister Corita av Kent, Mladen Stilinovic och Martha Wilson. För första gången i Sverige presenteras nu Ekmans tidiga verk tillsammans med samtida utomsvenska konstnärer vars intressen och arbetssätt är besläktade med hennes.more →

Doing what you want: Marie-Louise Ekman accompanied by Sister Corita Kent, Mladen Stilinovic and Martha Wilson
Tensta Konsthall
18.10 2012 –13.1 2013 Doing what you want focuses on Marie-Louise Ekman’s work from the late-1960s to the late-1980s and also includes work from the same period by Sister Corita of Kent, Mladen Stilinovic and Martha Wilson. For the first time in Sweden, Tensta konsthall will present Ekman’s early work together with contemporary non-Swedish artists with kindred interests and spirits.more →

Katitzis resa genom Sverige
Tensta konsthall
25.10 2012–27.1 2013 Utställningen handlar om Katarina Taikons självbiografiska romanfigur Katitzi som är huvudpersonen i tretton böcker och åtta seriealbum publicerade 1969-1982. Den lyfter fram och diskuterar en unik flickkaraktär, vars romska bakgrund är central i berättelsen, från barn- och ungdomslitteraturens värld. Utställningen består av originalutgåvor av böcker, serietidningar och album samt illustrationer, artiklar, recensioner, TV-inspelningar, fotografi och annat arkivmaterial.more →

Katitzi: A Literary Character Rooted in Reality
Tensta konsthall
9.10–5.12 2013 The exhibition Katitzi - A Literary Character Rooted in Reality, was first shown at Tensta konsthall in 2012 and will now be on view at Gallery8, the contemporary art space of the European Roma Cultural Foundation in Budapest.??The exhibition deals with Katarina Taikon’s (1932-1995) autobiographical figure Katitzi, who is the main character of thirteen books and eight comics published from 1969 to 1982. The exhibition consists of original editions of books, comic books and albums, as well as illustrations by Björn Hedlund, articles, reviews, TV recordings, photography, and other archival materials.more →

Conceptualismo y Economía
Sofía Hernández Chong Cuy, Lee Lozano, Seth Price, Mario García Torres & Aaron Schuster, Joe Scanlan
"El título es puntual: Conceptualismo y Economía. La publicación reúne proyectos artísticos--en forma de ensayo, propuesta, guión y manifiesto--que tratan sobre la relación del arte conceptual y la economía. Esta pequeña publicación intenta introducir un puñado de obras que hacen una reflexión crítica y creativa de estos temas." Published by Murmur, 2009.more →