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Soul Service—music, conversations and food

6.2 2025, 18:00— 20:00


THE EVENT IS FULLY BOOKED! New registrations will be put on a waiting list and contacted by us if there are cancellations.
Thursday February 18:00–20:00
Address: The Classroom, Tensta konsthall
The event is free of charge, but registration is needed. Please rsvp to paulina@tenstakonsthall.se no later than February 3.

With Soul Service Tensta konsthall welcomes the public to an evening with music, food and conversations. The overarching theme is shared knowledge of survival and of building structures for care and healing. How can we disrupt the colonial processes and strengthen the emotional and cultural support required to imagine a different world order?

The series Soul Service is a part of the exhibition Imagine an after and will take place during the spring 2025. The program is curated by Marie-Louise Richards as part of the course Reconstructions at The Royal Institute of Art in Stockholm in collaboration with Tensta konsthall and IASPIS. In English

Program
18:00
Doors open. Food, beverages are served.
Welcome! Marie-Louise Richards and Paulina Sokolow introduce the evening.

18:30
In her lecture, the São Paulo-based architect and urban planner Gabriela De Matos will share her research which explores the genealogy of Afro-Brazilian Architecture. She develops analytical frameworks for understanding contemporary Afro-Brazilian architecture with attention on how earth (terra) acts as a central motif in Afro-Brazilian cosmologies, representing erased knowledge from the Black population and indigenous groups that make up the majority of the population in Brazil.

19:00
The artist Carla Zaccagnini presents her work The Present, Tomorrow which looks into the relationship between modern Brazil and its colonial past, with a certain church bell from one of the first chapels in Vila Rica as a starting point. The bell chimed at the inauguration of the modernist city of Brasília. Zaccagnini’s work De sino a sina (from bell to fate), 2018 will be activated.

19:30 The artist Eric Magassa rounds up the evening with a “listening session” with music that reflects on spatial preconditions, geographical mapping, heritage and memory. His The Lost Series (2017–2019) is presented in the exhibition.

About the participants

Gabriela De Matos is an architect, urban planner, curator, and researcher. Her research explores the genealogy of Afro-Brazilian Architecture and develops analytical frameworks for understanding contemporary Afro-Brazilian architecture. Over the past year, she has lectured on this research in the United States, England, Switzerland, the Netherlands, Spain, Portugal, Uruguay, Colombia, and Argentina. In 2023, she co-curated the Brazilian Pavilion at La Biennale di Venezia, winning the unprecedented Golden Lion for Best National Participation. She is the founder of Black Women Architects Project (2018). Currently, she is in an artist residency at Cité Internationale des Arts in Paris.

Marie-Louise Richards is an architect. She leads the experimental courses Reconstructions and the Sylvia Wynter study group at the Department of Research and Further Education in Architecture and Art at the Royal Institute of Fine Arts. Stockholm School of Art. Her work explores "black feminist spatial futures" through architectural and artistic research, curatorial practice, and writing. Together with Cathryn Klasto, she is co-editor of the special issue “Citations” in PARSE Journal (September 2023).

Eric Magassa lives and works in Gothenburg. His art revolves around the reclaiming of lostplaces. Magassa often thematizes urban places marked by popular additions, such as posters, graffiti and temporary constructions. Music is also a central part of his work. Magassa studied at Central Saint Martins in London and at the Art Students League in New York. In 2022, he wasthe recipient of the Stena Olsson Foundation’s culture grant. In recent years, he has exhibitedat Malmö konsthall, Gothenburg Art Museum and Marres House for Contemporary Culture inMaastricht, Netherlands, among other places. Magassa has also participated in group shows at Moderna Museet in Stockholm, Gothenburg International Art Biennial (GIBCA) and Valongo Festival Santos, Brazil, Göteborgs Konsthall, Österängens Konsthall and Skånes Konstförening.

Carla Zaccagnini was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina. She was trained as an artist in São Paulo, Brazil and currently lives in Malmö. Since 2017, she is Professor of Conceptualand Contextual Practices at the Royal Danish Academy of Art in Copenhagen, and in 2021she was the guest curator for the 34th São Paulo Biennial in Brazil. Zaccagnini has exhibited at institutions such as Reina Sofía in Madrid, the Guggenheim in New York, LACMA in LosAngeles and Malmö konsthall and has had solo exhibitions at Museo Experimental el Eco inMexico City, MASP in São Paulo and the Van Abbemuseum in Eindhoven. Her works arerepresented at Moderna Museet, Stockholm; MUSAC; Tate Modern and Guggenheim.Soul Service takes place in the form of three gatherings with invited guests in the spring of 2025 and is curated by Marie-Louise Richards in collaboration with Tensta konsthall.

Soul Service is arranged in collaboration with Reconstructions at the Royal Institute of Art in Stockholm. The gatherings include lectures as well as conversations, music and shared meals. Soul Service is part of the program for the exhibition Imagine an after at Tensta konsthall, curated by Paulina Sokolow and Cecilia Widenheim. The exhibition revolves around how places are created, destroyed and reborn and what happens to us when we are forced to leave a place and create new spaces. The exhibition features works by Carlos Capelán, Goldin+Senneby, Eric Magassa, Jumana Manna, Susanna Marcus Jablonski, Walid Raad, Carla Zaccagnini as well as Andjeas Ejiksson and Joanna Zawieja.