Hours
Wednesday 11–21
Thursday–Friday 11–18
Saturday–Sunday 12–17
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.
In conjunction with tours our Café T can offer light meals and snacks at good prices.
For reservations and more information about tours contact Emily Fahlén at emily@tenstakonsthall.se or 08-36 07 63.
Directions
Take the blue line metro towards Hjulsta and get off at Tensta. The ride takes about twenty minutes from Stockholm's Central Station (T-Centralen). Tensta konsthall is located directly under the Tensta Centrum shopping mall and there is a flight of stairs from Tensta Allé leading down to Taxingeplan, the square just in front of the konsthall.
The café is the entrance to Tensta konsthall. The café offers coffee and light meals, and its opening times are the same as the gallery’s. Tensta konsthall and its café, with free Internet service, also functions as a meeting place for individuals, groups and organizations, and as a workplace. The menu varies from day to day, and can include substantial salads, soups and grilled sandwiches. The café also offers espresso, a large selection of teas, which can be accompanied by, for example, baklava, carrot cake, cinnamon rolls.
For reservations for groups and catering, call 08-360763 or email emily@tenstakonsthall.se
Hours:
Monday–Tuesday 11-17
Wednesday 11–21
Thursday–Friday 11–18
Saturday–Sunday 12–17
Contact
Tensta konsthall
Taxingegränd 10
Box 4001
163 04 SPÅNGA
SWEDEN
T: +46 8 36 07 63
F: +46 8 36 25 60
E: info@tenstakonsthall.se
W: www.tenstakonsthall.se
Tensta konsthall is a private foundation organization with number: 802409-6110.
Staff
Emily Fahlén, mediator
emily (at) tenstakonsthall.se
Ulrika Flink, assistant curator + press
ulrika (at) tenstakonsthall.se
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Maria Lind, director
maria (at) tenstakonsthall.se
Laurel Ptak, curator
laurel (at) tenstakonsthall.se
Hedvig Wiezell, mediator
hedvig (at) tenstakonsthall.se
Giorgiana Zachia, producer
giorgiana (at) tenstakonsthall.se
Fahyma Alnablsi
Hans Carlsson
Jan Ekman
Safiya Guleed
Sofia Hultin
Sanna Lampainen
Board:
Calle Nathansson (head of board)
Christina Jerlin
Anna Kettner
Sven Lorentzi
Birgitta Rydell
Katarina Sjögren
Funders
Tensta konsthall is supported by Stockholm City, Swedish Arts Council, Stockholm County Council
Abstract Possible: The Stockholm Synergies is supported by Danish Arts Council, FastPartner, Foundation for Arts Initiative, Malmö konsthall, Mondrian Foundation, The Office for Contemporary Art Norway, Austrian Embassy; Parts of Abstract Possible: The Stockholm Synergies are realized in collaboration with ABF, Center for Fashion Studies, Stockholm University, Konsthall C, The Royal Institute of Art, Ross Tensta Gymnasium, Sternberg Press, Tensta Library; Special thanks to Iaspis; Part of the project was realized as a consultancy commission at Bukowskis
Art Camps are realized in collaboration with Gerlesborgsskolan, Göteborgs konstskola, Konstfack, Lava Kulturhuset, The Royal Institute of Art, Nyckelviksskolan, Unga Dramaten
Bidoun Library is realized in collaboration with Bagdad Café
Cluster is realized with support by European Cultural Foundation, Swedish Arts Council
Curatorial Summer Workshop is realized in collaboration with Kungl. Konsthögskolan, initiated by Maria Lind and Nina Möntmann
Doing what you want: Marie-Louise Ekman accompanied by Sister Corita Kent, Mladen Stilinovic and Martha Wilson is realized in collaboration with Henie Onstad Kunstsenter in Oslo. The seminar series Dream and Reality is realized in collaboration with the Institution for Culture and Communication at Södertörn University and ABF
Gallery club is realized in collaboration with TioTretton Kulturhuset, Cinema Africa, Blå Huset
Hinrich Sachs Kami, Khoka, Bert and Ernie (World Heritage) is realized with support from Baselland, Basel-Stadt, Pro Helvetia, Royal Institute of Art; The Embassy of Switzerland in Stockholm, Parts of Hinrich Sachs Kami, Khoka, Bert and Ernie (World Heritage) are realized in collaboration with Askebyskolan Rinkeby, Livstycket
Katitzi: A Literary Character Rooted in Reality is realized in collaboration with Angelica Ström. The seminar series is realized in collaboration with ABF and the publishers, Natur och Kultur
Publishing In Process: Ownership In Question is realized with support by Iaspis, Konstfack. It is realised in the framework of COHAB, a two-year project initiated by The Showroom, Casco - Office for Art, Design and Theory, Utrecht and Tensta Konsthall, Stockholm, realized with the support of the Culture Programme of the European Union
T.451 by Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster and Ari Benjamin Meyers is realized in collaboration with Stockholm konst, who produced the project, and with support by Stockholm Library and Tensta Library; Thanks to Greater Stockholm Fire Department, The Organization Röda Hanen, The Kurdish Association Spånga, Stockholm City Museum
Tensta Museum: Or What is Cultural Heritage? is part of Beginning as Well as We Can: How Much Fascism Can We Take, a collaboration between WHW, Zagreb, and Grazer Kunstverein, Graz. With the support of the Culture Programme of the European Union. With support from the European Commission
The Cut is realized with support by Kulturbryggan
The Fashion Project is realized in collaboration with the Center for Fashion Studies, Stockholm University
The New Model is realized with support by European Cultural Foundation, Goethe Institut, Kulturkontakt Nord; Parts of the New Model are realized in collaboration with The School of Architecture at The Royal Institute of Technology. It is realised in the framework of COHAB, a two-year project initiated by The Showroom, Casco - Office for Art, Design and Theory, Utrecht and Tensta Konsthall, Stockholm, realized with the support of the Culture Programme of the European Union
The Society Without Qualities is realized as part of The New Model which is realized with support by European Cultural Foundation, Goethe Institut, Kulturkontakt Nord and is realised in the framework of COHAB, a two-year project initiated by The Showroom, Casco - Office for Art, Design and Theory, Utrecht and Tensta Konsthall, realized with the support of the Culture Programme of the European Union. Thanks to Gallery Nicolai Wallner and Kulturkontakt Nord. Sharon Lockhart would like to thank neugerriemschneider, Berlin, Gladstone Gallery, New York and Brussels, and Blum & Poe, Los Angeles. Learning Site would like to thank The Swedish Arts Grants Committee and Danish Art Agency.
What does an art institution do? is realized in collaboration with Konstfack’s Master program Art in the Public Realm and Curatorlab; The project is supported by Iaspis
What Does Social Practice Do? is realized in collaboration with the KTH School of Architecture, KTH in Tensta and the Stockholm City Planning Office. In Collaboration with CuratorLab, Konstfack. Supported by FCT (Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia); IASPIS; Instituto Camões Stockholm; TAP airlines; Portuguese Embassy in Stockholm
Who Will Fund Contemporary Art? is realized in collaboration with Botkyrka konsthall, Konsthall C, Marabouparken and Mossutställningar
Program
It is Tensta konsthall’s ambition to be an institution with a given place in the local community. At the same time Tensta konsthall aims to offer a program of the highest international quality, to be an ongoing and self-evident destination for people interested in art. Central to the konsthall is its particular focus on both various kinds of collaborations and on the intensive mediation of new ideas.
Art mediation, generally and even internationally, has lagged behind other aspects of art and therefore it is important to provide equal possibilities for its development. Essential to Tensta konsthall’s work with art mediation is a grounding in contemporary art and a development that retains the integrity of and respect for both the art itself as well as the public. This means, amongst other things, that each aspect of mediation must be tailor-made in relation to the art in question and to the individuals and groups involved in the interchange, demanding a great deal of time and energy.
In addition to investigative exhibitions and commissioned art projects, Tensta konsthall will include a program focusing on archives, collections and libraries. Three main thematic lines will be followed and developed within the program: questions concerning artistic formulation, interpretation and organization; art and economy; and artists’ conditions of work and production.
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What does an art institution do? Thursday 3.5, 18:30 at Tensta konsthall
Community Matters: Sofia Victorino on the Whitechapel Art Gallery in London and Abdellah Karroum on L’appartement 22 in Rabat. Local referent: Diana Baldon, Index – The Swedish Contemporary Art Foundation. On institutional work which relates directly to communities in the immediate vicinity of the institution.
The Complex Object (Affecting Abstraction 3) Saturday 14.4 at Tensta konsthall
Performance by and with artist Falke Pisano as part of Abstract Possible: The Stockholm Synergies.
What does an art institution do? Thursday 29.3, 18:30 at Tensta konsthall
All Over the Place: On the mobile institution which works with various partners and sites. Sofía Hernández Chong Cuy on the Patricia Phelps de Cisneros Foundation and Kate Fowle on Independent Curators International. Local referent: Lena From, Stockholm konst.
Marina Vishmidt on Production Wednesday 11.4, 18:30 at Tensta konsthall
Third in a series of four seminars, part of Publishing in Process: Ownership in Question. As the distribution between what is privately owned and publicly shared in society is being fundamentally questioned and protested in many parts of the world, what do notions of production, property, ownership, exchange, surplus and value mean to us right now?
Mai-Thu Perret Thursday 15.3, 18:30 at Tensta konsthall
Perret’s work combines radical feminist politics with utopian literary texts, homemade crafts and 20th century avant-garde aesthetics. Her wallpaper covers parts of both Tensta konsthall’s exhibition space and a seminar room at Center for Fashion Studies, Stockholm University and harks back to the origin of abstract art, to the textiles with abstract patterns made by constructivist Varvara Stepanova in Moscow in the 1920s. Talk as part of Abstract Possible: The Stockholm Synergies at Tensta konsthall, in collaboration with the Royal University College of Fine Art.
A Guiding Light by Liam Gillick/Anton Vidokle Sunday 26.2, 13:00 at Cinema Zita, Birger Jarlsgatan 37
This film by Liam Gillick/Anton Vidokle, takes as its starting point a manifesto written by Gao Shiming, the Executive Curator of the latest Shanghai Biennial. The manifesto is an attack on the art system and its limiting monoculture and artists Gillick and Vidokle have responded by inviting a handful of emerging artists, curators and critics to interpret and extrapolate from the text itself. The 22-minute long film hovers between cultural criticism and soap, borrowing its title from the longest running soap opera on American television.
Maria Lind: Formal & Economic Abstraction in Contemporary Art Wednesday 18.4, 18:30 at Tensta konsthall
The final of four lectures in the series Abstract Art Now and Then, Here and There on the topic of abstract art. In collaboration with ABF.
Maria Lind: Latin American Challenges Wednesday 21.3, 18:30 at Tensta konsthall
The third of four lectures in the series Abstract Art Now and Then, Here and There on the topic of abstract art. In collaboration with ABF.
The New Model Sunday 11.3, 12:00-17:00 at Tensta konsthall
The point of departure for The New Model is Palle Nielsen’s legendary project from 1968, Modellen. En modell för ett kvalitativt samhälle (The Model. A model for a qualitative society).
Antonia Hirsch on Exchange Thursday 22.3, 18:30 at Tensta konsthall
Second in a series of four seminars, part of Publishing in Process: Ownership in Question. As the distribution between what is privately owned and publicly shared in society is being fundamentally questioned and protested in many parts of the world, what do notions of production, property, ownership, exchange, surplus and value mean to us right now?
The Cut Saturday 11.2, 12-17 at Tensta konsthall One-day discussion forum as hair salon. Platform of unmoderated conversation and instantaneous change to test and investigate alternative sites of learning. With artists Emanuel Almborg, Jens Strandberg, The Hair Cut Before The Party (Richard Houguez and Lewis Bassett) and others.
Florian Schneider on Property Wednesday 29.2, 18:30 at Tensta konsthall
First in a series of four seminars, part of Publishing in Process: Ownership in Question. As the distribution between what is privately owned and publicly shared in society is being fundamentally questioned and protested in many parts of the world, what do notions of production, property, ownership, exchange, surplus and value mean to us right now?
Jan Hjärpe Tuesday 21.2, 18:30 at Tensta konsthall
On abstraction in traditional Muslim art and architecture. The second of four lectures in the series Abstract Art Now and Then, Here and There. In collaboration with ABF.
What Lies in the Future for Contemporary Art? Debate on the forms of financing for art–today and 10 years hence 23.2, 18:30 at Tensta konsthall
Six representatives, public and private actors, have been invited to give short presentations: Cilene Andréhn, Ann Larsson, Ingrid Lomfors, Mika Romanus, Michael Storåkers, Måns Wrange. In collaboration with Konsthall C.
What does an art institution do? Thursday 2.2, 18:30 at Tensta konsthall
How Size Matters: Chris Dercon on Tate Modern in London and Gabi Ngcobo on Center for Historical Reenactments in Johannesburg. Local referent: Kim Einarsson, Konsthall C. On the potentials and problems of large and small-scale institutional work.
Sven Lütticken Thursday 12.4, 18:30 at Tensta konsthall
Talk as part of Abstract Possible: The Stockholm Synergies at Tensta konsthall, in collaboration with the Royal University College of Fine Art.
Walid Raad Saturday 24.3, 14:00 at Tensta konsthall
Artist talk as part of Abstract Possible: The Stockholm Synergies at Tensta konsthall, in collaboration with the Royal University College of Fine Art.
Mai-Thu Perret Thursday 15.3, 18:30 at Tensta konsthall
Artist talk as part of Abstract Possible: The Stockholm Synergies at Tensta konsthall, in collaboration with the Royal University College of Fine Art.
Wade Guyton Thursday 9.2, 18:30 at Tensta konsthall
Artist talk as part of Abstract Possible: The Stockholm Synergies at Tensta konsthall, in collaboration with the Royal University College of Fine Art.
A Guiding Light by Liam Gillick/Anton Vidokle Sunday 29.1, 13:00 at Cinema Zita, Birger Jarlsgatan 37
This film by Liam Gillick/Anton Vidokle, takes as its starting point a manifesto written by Gao Shiming, the Executive Curator of the latest Shanghai Biennial. The manifesto is an attack on the art system and its limiting monoculture and artists Gillick and Vidokle have responded by inviting a handful of emerging artists, curators and critics to interpret and extrapolate from the text itself. The 22-minute long film hovers between cultural criticism and soap, borrowing its title from the longest running soap opera on American television.
Contemporary Art and its Commercial Markets: A Report on Current Conditions and Future Scenarios Saturday 28.1, 14:00 at Tensta Träff, Hagstråket 13, Tensta
Noah Horowitz, Andrea Phillips, Olav Velthuis and Thea Westreich. A symposium on the occasion of a report with the same title, exploring a number of interrelated institutional developments in the last decades which have had a significant impact on the way art is marketed and perceived by its audiences. The rise of the art fair, the internet and the increased competition of auction houses on the contemporary market both reflect and further propel the globalization and commercialization of the art world; the latter much to the dismay of numerous artists and critics who claim that commerce has an uneasy relationship with art production and perception.
Abstraction and the Classical Avant Garde by Maria Lind Wednesday 25.1, 18:30 at Tensta konsthall
The first of four lectures in the series Abstract Art Now and Then, Here and There on the topic of abstract art. In collaboration with ABF. Lecture by Maria Lind, director of Tensta konsthall and curator of the current exhibition Abstract Possible The Stockholm Synergies.
Black Transparency One (The Letters) by Metahaven Sunday 22.1, 14:00 at Tensta konsthall
A reading accompanied by images of Amsterdam-based design duo Metahaven's recent design work that explores how transparency, once a high modernist ideal perfectly suited to design objects and institutions, has more recently become a loose set of strategies and tactics to scrutinize and expose the existing order. From the revelations of WikiLeaks to the actions of Anonymous, this new “black transparency” is more insurgent than institutional, and more civic than corporate.
The Wittgenstein Suite by José León Cerrillo & Sara Lundén Saturday 14.1, 16:00 at Tensta konsthall
Thirteen pop songs in honor of philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein make up the core of artists Cerrillo and Lundén’s collaborative musical performance The Wittgenstein Suite. Lyrics based on elements of Wittgenstein's book Bemerkungen über die Farben (Remarks on Color).
Doug Ashford Thursday 19.1, 18:30 at Tensta konsthall
Talk by teacher, artist and writer Doug Ashford. Ashford is Associate Professor at Cooper Union in New York where he has taught design, sculpture and theory since 1989. His principle art practice from 1982-96 was as a member of Group Material and since that time he has gone on to make paintings, write and produce independent public projects. As part of Abstract Possible: The Stockholm Synergies at Tensta konsthall, in collaboration with the Royal University College of Fine Art.
Abstract Possible: The Stockholm Synergies
12 January-22 April 2012
Doug Ashford, Claire Barclay, José León Cerrillo, Yto Barrada, Matias Faldbakken, Priscila Fernandes, Zachary Formwalt, Liam Gillick/Anton Vidokle, Goldin+Senneby, Wade Guyton, Iman Issa, Gunilla Klingberg, Dorit Margreiter, Åsa Norberg/Jennie Sundén, Mai-Thu Perret, Falke Pisano, Walid Raad, Emily Roysdon, Tommy Stöckel, Mika Tajima, Haegue Yang
Bidoun Library
12 January-May 2012
The Bidoun Library, founded in 2009 by Bidoun Projects, is a mobile library consisting of books, magazines and other printed matter.