now

23.6–15.8
Opening hours during summer

11.6–28.9 2014
META and regina: Two (Magazine) Sisters in Crime

11.6–28.9 2014
The Miracle in Tensta (Theoria) by Magnus Bärtås

11.6-28.9 2014
The Paths to the Common(s) are Infinite by Ayreen Anastas & Rene Gabri

11.6–28.9 2014
Tensta Museum Continues

11.6–28.9
Space, Tensta konsthall's curatorial platform online
Arab Image Foundation – Rifat Chadirji Collection

Wednesday 23.7, 15:00—17:00
Reading the summer exhibitions

Every Thursday and Saturday, 14:00
Guided tour of the exhibitions

Summer Art Camp
June, July and August

 Wed-Fri 2.7–15.8, 12:00–15:00
Textile workshop at Taxingeplan

Wednesdays 2.7–15.8, 13:00–15:00
The Silent University: Language Café

 25.7–27.7
TAF! – Photography workshop

Thursday 31.7, 15:00
  Art and Literature walk in Tensta

1.8–3.8 2014
Stockholm Music and Arts
Do It Together

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Opening hours during summer

23.6–15.8 Opening hours during summer.

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META and regina: Two (Magazine) Sisters in Crime

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'.

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The Miracle in Tensta (Theoria)

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.

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The Paths to the Common(s) are Infinite

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).

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. But unnamed and unperceived as such, they continually lose coherence and are often reabsorbed into a logic of capital accumulation or reforming an increasingly neo-liberal state.

The artists write: "Common(s) can be thought of as the shared premises of life, extending from ideas, knowledge, languages and histories to seeds, forests, and seas. For others common(s) can be thought of as the means of our everyday reproduction and subsistence (e.g., everyone needs non-toxic food, clean water, unpolluted air, a place to live, open access to knowledge, a basis for a livelihood). But in a paradigm of ownership (public and private) and with the increasing power bestowed to money in every facet of life, these shared premises are being enclosed, privatized, monetized, and rapidly deteriorated. Even as increasing protests, riots, and disagreements foment globally against these processes of enclosure, the political language and imagination of those taking part and those interpreting these revolts remain largely captured by the public/private ownership or state/people dichotomy."

How can these struggles and even revolutions manifest as struggles for a common(s)? And what place can art and artists have within such struggles today, which are as much material as they are on a level of language, ideas and perception? Moreover, how do these questions find relevance in the context of Sweden and Tensta today? The Paths to the Common(s)Are Infinite will address these questions in various ways and the exhibition will include drawings, notes, diagrams, videos, performances, and various situations.

Commoning Times, where The Paths to the Common(s) are Infinite, the Stockholm portion of the project, has been going on since 2010 and will be continuing not only in Tensta, but also in New York, Detroit, London, Utrecht and Vienna. In Stockholm the artists hope to be able to use – as they did in Documenta 13 in Kassel in 2012 – both the exhibition context of Tensta Konsthall and their studio period in IASPIS to propose, share, and stimulate debates and actions around contemporary struggles toward a common(s).

Conversations, meetings, and (un)workshops which will take place are also part of The Paths to the Common(s)Are Infinite. Rather than the individual work of any artist, these different pieces form the framework for a collective inquiry organized with individuals and groups in different cities around notions of common(s) and practices of commoning. For those interested in taking part or potentially contributing to this collective process, please write to commoner@commoningtimes.org. A Stockholm-specific mailing list will also be initiated; to subscribe please write to stockholm-join@commoningtimes.org.

In addition to their work as artists, Anastas and Gabri have been regular contributors to the influential 16 Beaver Group in New York’s financial district since 1999. 16 Beaver Group is a collectively maintained platform for the production, presentation, and discussion of art, politics, and economy. The space has been organized without the constraints and influence often placed by funders and funding schemes (what some have called the not-for-profit industrial complex) by sharing their space and rent with other individuals and organizations. The space and those who have animated it have been instrumental in shifting discussions in the artistic field as well as political/economic thought, including becoming part of the unforeseen meshwork of groups, singularities, and spaces that supported the occupation of Wall Street.

To read the handouts, including an interview with Ayreen Anastas and Rene Gabri, push bag to the right, check the box and click save to download.

Opening Thuesday 10.6, 16:00–19:00

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Arab Image Foundation – Rifat Chadirji Collection

11.6–28.9 Rifat Chadirji is reckoned to be one of the most important architects in the Arab world. He was born in 1926 in Iraq and trained as an architect in London. Soon after his graduation he returned to Iraq and participated in the large-scale, modernist building projects carried out in Iraq during the 1950s, made possible because of income from Iraq’s oil industry. Chadirji had a prominent role in this work. In addition to his employment as advisor to the government, he also started the company Iraq Consult, in 1952, which became well known for its artistic use of architecture.

11.6–28.9 Rifat Chadirji is reckoned to be one of the most important architects in the Arab world. He was born in 1926 in Iraq and trained as an architect in London. Soon after his graduation he returned to Iraq and participated in the large-scale, modernist building projects carried out in Iraq during the 1950s, made possible because of income from Iraq’s oil industry. Chadirji had a prominent role in this work. In addition to his employment as advisor to the government, he also started the company Iraq Consult, in 1952, which became well known for its artistic use of architecture.

Space is Tensta konsthall's curatorial platform online. To see the slideshow of images push main up to the right.

Chadirji always shaped his projects in close cooperation with artists, writers and intellectuals and thus landed in the middle of the cultural-political debate. He asked how a language of art, which is both modern and traditional, can be formulated. How does architectonic sensitivity arise?

At Tensta Konsthall’s curatorial platform, Space, photographs of Chadirji’s work, which is both important and vital, will be shown – it ranges from private residences to government buildings and national theatres. Amongst his many works, the magnificent Unknown Soldier Monument in Bagdad, from 1958, and the monumental Central Post Office, from 1957, must be mentioned. He is an accomplished photographer, documenting street life, cafés, mosques and public baths in Iraq. He also often photographs street advertising and political posters.

His images are now available at the Arab Image Foundation (Beirut), an organisation and an archive which, since its start in 1997, has collected pictures and other visual material from the Middle East, North Africa and the Arab diaspora. This collection differs from other archives in that its members are not historians, but artists and curators, who in a critical way, want to pose questions around what an archive can be and do. AIF has initiated several research projects in the world and the images it contains cover many genres, from advertising images, still lives and nudes to a comprehensive documentation of Iraq’s transformation of housing.

Push bag to the right to download the text Rifat Chadirji's work: building modern Iraqi identity and hadara by Caecilia Pieri, first published in Modern Heritage Observer, Beirut (2013).

The presentation is part of Tensta Museum: Reports from New Sweden.

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Tensta Museum Continues

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 museum the area can now call its own is 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. A language café is organized through The Silent University.

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. A language café is organized through The Silent University.

Rifat Chadirji Collection – Space

11.6–28.9 Rifat Chadirji is reckoned to be one of the most important architects in the Arab world. He was born in 1926 in Iraq and trained as an architect in London. Soon after his graduation he returned to Iraq and participated in the large-scale, modernist building projects carried out in Iraq during the 1950s, made possible because of income from Iraq’s oil industry. Chadirji had a prominent role in this work. In addition to his employment as advisor to the government, he also started the company Iraq Consult, in 1952, which became well known for its artistic use of architecture.

Space is Tensta konsthall's curatorial platform online. To see the slideshow of images push main up to the right.

Chadirji always shaped his projects in close cooperation with artists, writers and intellectuals and thus landed in the middle of the cultural-political debate. He asked how a language of art, which is both modern and traditional, can be formulated. How does architectonic sensitivity arise?

At Tensta Konsthall’s curatorial platform, Space, photographs of Chadirji’s work, which is both important and vital, will be shown – it ranges from private residences to government buildings and national theatres. Amongst his many works, the magnificent Unknown Soldier Monument in Bagdad, from 1958, and the monumental Central Post Office, from 1957, must be mentioned. He is an accomplished photographer, documenting street life, cafés, mosques and public baths in Iraq. He also often photographs street advertising and political posters.

His images are now available at the Arab Image Foundation (Beirut), an organisation and an archive which, since its start in 1997, has collected pictures and other visual material from the Middle East, North Africa and the Arab diaspora. This collection differs from other archives in that its members are not historians, but artists and curators, who in a critical way, want to pose questions around what an archive can be and do. AIF has initiated several research projects in the world and the images it contains cover many genres, from advertising images, still lives and nudes to a comprehensive documentation of Iraq’s transformation of housing.

Push bag to the right to download the text Rifat Chadirji's work: building modern Iraqi identity and hadara by Caecilia Pieri, first published in Modern Heritage Observer, Beirut (2013).

SFI Västerort at Tensta konsthall

Mon-Fri 30.6-25.7, 9:00–12:00 During the month of July SFI Västerorts summer courses will take place at Tensta Konsthall. The four classes held this summer will inhabit the art gallery for one week at a time. The regular teaching and schedule will be integrated with artistic workshops and tours of the current exhibitions led by the staff at Tensta konsthall. With "the common" as a thematic starting point we will explore Järvafältet as a site and landscape painting as a mode of expression.

 SFI (Swedish for immigrants) Västerort is a public school located in Tensta that offers all different kinds of SFI courses, but with a particular focus on students with a limited educational background. Approximately 500 students study at SFI Västerort and more than 30 people work there.

SFI's activities in the temporary classroom at Tensta Konsthall and at Järvafältet, 2014

Art and Literature walk in Tensta

Thursday 3.7, 15:00  and Thursday 31.7, 15:00   Art and Literature walk in Tensta  with Emily Fahlén and Tal LewinskyIn the Tensta subway, Helga Henschen conjures an image of the 70s using words like solidarity and sisterhood. When the poet Meron Mangasha makes a contemporary depiction of the same site, the metro's blue line becomes royal blood. On the adjacent Järvafältet the Taikon family once upon a time set up their camp in the childhood portrayal of the young Katitzi. Tensta emerges through a motley and interesting patchwork of literary and artistic narratives. Join us on an alternate walk through Tensta’s settlements, lookouts and public spaces. In collaboration with Tensta Library. The tour starts at Tensta Konsthall.

The Silent University: Language Café

 Wednesdays 2.7–15.8, 13:00–15:00   Every Wednesday 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 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. For registration and information please contact fahyma@tenstakonsthall.se  

The Language Café is a part of The Silent University, an autonomous knowledge platform for asylum seekers, refugees and undocumented immigrants. www.thesilentuniversity.org

Salon Tensta: Work in Focus  

 Wednesday 23.7, 19:00 and  Thursday, 21.8, 19:00   Salon Tensta: Work in Focus. Tensta Konsthall invites a new local artist network with artists based in Järva, among others the participants from the 2013 project Salon Tensta. During the meetings, individual practices will be in focus through extended studio visits. Would you like to talk with the group about a work that you are having trouble going forward with? Or maybe you need some feedback on a proposal for an art project? Are you looking for a test audience for a new performance? Anything is possible. The club is shaped by individual initiatives and collective power.

The meetings will take place at Tensta Konsthall and at other locations in the city. Are you interested in participating? Please contact Ulrika Flink ulrika@tenstakonsthall.se

Presentation by the participants in Salon Tensta, 2013

Igor Dergalin’s city plans for Tensta

Wednesday 27.8 18:30 Conversations about Igor Dergalin between Ulf Melander and Maria Lind.
Architect Igor Dergalin (1929–2013) created the recognized plan for Tensta along with Joseph Stäck (1918–98), including a consistent traffic separation and bridges inspired by Venice. 5,600 housing units were built between 1967–72 with the help of many different architects and building technology solutions. No less than twenty construction companies were involved, and the chaos that ensued when the city failed to coordinate between them and the planning of infrastructure underlied the bad reputation Tensta quickly gained. The original drawings that are presented here were rescued in 2001 by architect Ulf Melander, a resident of Tensta, when they were about to be thrown away at the City planning office.

Jakob Kolding
Offset posters: Untitled (2000), Untitled (2000), Untitled (2001), Untitled (Schlachthof/Berlin) (2004), Untitled (Copenhagen) (2007)

An important part of Tensta Museum is formed by works of art from different parts of the world that deal with the global phenomenon of late modernist housing estates. Jakob Kolding (Copenhagen / Berlin) is one of the artists who since the 1990s has developed this new genre in which the architecture and areas involved are seen as complex and interesting social phenomena rather than terrifying, dangerous and ugly. Kolding’s primary artistic method is the collage, with roots in experimental film and avant-garde graphics, but also in arts and crafts and advertising history. His work contradicts both the architectural style’s seemingly unquestionable ideologies and the reflexively causal explanations that dominate the way to look at so-called social housing as a source of ghettoization for socially weak neighborhoods. In Kolding’s work the built room does not dominate the people - they use it in their own ways. The modern urbanism that figured in Kolding’s work is not only utopian in terms of how to (mis)perceive their social plans and ideas, but also because we nowadays rarely see extensive social visions at all.

de:tune Järva, Tarek Atoui   

The artist Tarek Atoui is looking into the district's musical identity along with musicians from Järva. Concerts are performed as part of the Stockholm Music and Arts at Skeppsholmen, 1–3.8 and Tensta Market, 6-7.9. Playlist in Tensta Konsthall café.   The core of Tarek Atoui’s work is an ongoing reflection on the instrument as an idea and of the performative act as a complex, open, and dynamic process. He builds new instruments and invites groups of professional musicians to take on music that is unknown to them and then create new music based on it; he has for example worked with deaf children and observed Arabic music’s unwritten history. Atoui is an artist, composer, and musician from Beirut who prefers a collective approach and testing restrictive practice opportunities in performance, composition, and improvisation. He has extensive experience in initiating and managing artistic innovation and workable common processes, among others at the art exhibition Documenta in Kassel in the summer of 2012 and at the biennial in Sharjah the next year.

  The music presented in Stockholm is the result of a process where a group of twenty people associated with the Järva area create the basis for a new piece of music through constant change and refinement of already existing music of their choice. The project started in April when posters were put up in the Järva area inviting musicians to an open meeting at Tensta Konsthall. After the audition process a new group of musicians was created, playing everything from jazz, hip hop, and afrobeat to reggae, folk, and soul. All of the musicians carry a curiosity and willingness to test their limits in a project whose foundation is in improvisation and experimental music. In May they started recording new material in the EMS studio 2. The newly recorded music is shared among the group's members for reinterpretations and remixes. The final step in the creative process is that all the new versions of the music are collected. From this Atoui creates a new whole in which improvisation has a natural role to play, and together they perform the piece of music on stage.

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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.org

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Textile workshop at Taxingeplan

 Wed-Fri 2.7–15.8, 12:00–15:00 This summer the porch of Tensta Konsthall will become a venue for textile meetings, welcoming guests of all ages. Embroider, patch clothes, make buddy bands and draw. The workshop will be open Wednesday-Friday throughout the summer, rain or shine. Join us and teach us what you know so we can swap craftsmanship together.

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The Silent University: Language Café

Wednesdays 2.7–15.8, 13:00–15:00   Every Wednesday 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 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. For registration and information please contact fahyma@tenstakonsthall.se

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Reading the summer exhibitions

Wednesday 23.7, 15:00—17:00. To read is to enter a relationship. With the text, the work, the world. During three Wednesday afternoons, we will meet and talk about texts that relate to the summer exhibitions at Tensta Konsthall: META and regina: Two (Magazine) Sisters In Crime by Ute Meta Bauer and Regina Möller, The Paths to the Common(s) Are Infinite by Ayreen Anastas and Rene Gabri, and The Miracle in Tensta (Theoria), a film by Magnus Bärtås.

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TAF! – Photography workshop

 25.7–27.7 Friday, 14:00–17:00, Sat–Sun, 12:00–17:00    TAF! (Photographic Action Workshop) is a mobile photography workshop led by the documentary photographer Oriana Elicabe (Barcelona). The workshop is about using public space to discuss burning issues with the help of photography. The participants decide what to discuss and then work together to develop suitable imagery. The photographs will be a way to attract attention to issues in the urban environment. The target group are activists living along the subway blue line but also others who engage in the local community.

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Art and Literature walk in Tensta

Thursday 3.7, 15:00  and Thursday 31.7, 15:00   Art and Literature walk in Tensta  with Emily Fahlén and Tal LewinskyIn the Tensta subway, Helga Henschen conjures an image of the 70s using words like solidarity and sisterhood. When the poet Meron Mangasha makes a contemporary depiction of the same site, the metro's blue line becomes royal blood. On the adjacent Järvafältet the Taikon family once upon a time set up their camp in the childhood portrayal of the young Katitzi. Tensta emerges through a motley and interesting patchwork of literary and artistic narratives. Join us on an alternate walk through Tensta’s settlements, lookouts and public spaces. In collaboration with Tensta Library. The tour starts at Tensta Konsthall.

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Stockholm Music & Arts 2014

1.8–3.8 2014 Do It Together at Stockholm Music and Arts. Tensta konsthall invites Ayreen Anastas & Rene Gabri, Tarek Atoui, Dave Hullfish Bailey, LTTR and Hito Steyerl to Stockholm Music & Arts
at Skeppsholmen, Stockholm.

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Tours

Guided tours every Thursday and Saturday at 14:00. META and regina: Two (Magazine) Sisters in Crime, The Miracle in Tensta (Theoria) by Magnus Bärtås and The Paths to the Common(s) are Infinite by Ayreen Anastas & Rene Gabri

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Stockholmsskolan

Spring 2014 Stockholmsskolan (Stockholm school) at Konstfrämjandet runs during the spring at Botkyrka konsthall, Konsthall C, Marabouparken, and Tensta konsthall.

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Writing workshop – Stories from New Sweden

Writing workshop with the writer Maja Andreasson. What does literature have to do with memory? What does exile have to do with poetry? Is it possible to write in order to create space in the world and in what world do we want to write?

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The only thing we/you are the worlds best at Hästsportens Hus

3.4–18.5 2014 "The only thing we/you are the worlds best at" is currently displayed at Hästsportens Hus. An installation by the artists Nina Svensson and Bernd Krauss is being shown in the chancery of Svensk Travsport, at Scandinavia’s largest trotting track, Solvalla.

3.4–18.5 2014 "The only thing we/you are the worlds best at" is currently displayed at Hästsportens Hus. An installation by the artists Nina Svensson and Bernd Krauss is being shown in the chancery of Svensk Travsport, at Scandinavia’s largest trotting track, Solvalla.

The only thing we/you are the world’s best at presents eight years’ experience of trotting or harness racing, an area of Swed- ish culture that actually achieves a utopian “world’s best”. To be best in the world is a parameter that is frequently used in Swed- ish politics. It was most often used during the period of the welfare state, when good conditions for mankind were the objective. At the moment, the classification “world’s best” is primarily used in advertising – for everything. The exhibition piece includes parts of different projects, ongoing and older, in which Krauss (Nürnberg/Stockholm/Rotterdam) and Svensson (Timrå/ Stockholm) artistically, pedagogically and curatorially worked with trot racing, with, for instance, upper secondary students in Sundsvall, art students in Jakobstad and trot racing camp participants in summer 2013 at Tensta Konsthall. The camp participants visited Solvalla race course, whose horses grazed in Tensta’s surround- ing countryside before the arrival of the Million Dwelling Programme.

The basic structure of the installation is a sort of mobile paddock for various media and materials that show not only how the world of trotting functions as an activity and an industry, but also its more passive, playing-the-horses side. Equestrian sports reveal a living culture in Sweden and they take place in a cultural landscape between big cities and the countryside. As so often in Krauss’ work, amateurs and contempo- rary artists, traditional crafts techniques and conceptual notions converse here. This method reflects both the potential and the limitations of power relations, for example, between the artist and the art institution. In a way typical for Svensson’s work, the context, space, area and institution combine to formulate questions around everyday yet marginalized phenomena.

"The only thing we/you are the world’s best at" was shown at the fall department of Tensta Museum: Reports from new Sweden, at Tensta konsthall. Bernd Krauss and Nina Svensson also participate with the project Tensta Travsällskap at Tensta konsthall's branch at the Museum of Medieval Stockholm. Tensta Travsällskap was founded in 2013 to recognize and develop the relationship between residential Tensta and the Swedish Trotting Association, both historically and today.

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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. Summer Art Camp June, July and August.

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Drawing Tuesday

Drawing Tuesday is an art club during the semester for children between the age of 10 and 13. Under the direction of mediators at Tensta konsthall the children meet every Tuesday between 15:00 and 16:00 for a drawing workshop with different themes. Participants get the chance to draw and work artistically. Drop-in for interested children. In collaboration with Enbacksskolan.

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Tensta konsthall Text Prize

Tensta konsthall is instituting a text prize for young people in Tensta. The prize aims to encourage creative writing and to contribute new stories from the area to the area itself. The jury is comprised of the August Prize winner Lena Andersson, poet Meron Mangasha, publisher Björn Linnell, journalist Rouzbeh Djalaie, Tal Lewinsky from Tensta Library, and Emily Fahlén from Tensta konsthall.

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Brunch

From the menu: waffles, tofu scramble, couscous salad, dips, beetroot beef, virgin bellini, lemonade, and more. Email info@tenstakonsthall.se for booking.

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Swedish with baby

Wednesdays 10:30–11:30 Every Wednesday ”Swedish with baby” (Svenska med baby) gets together in the Tensta konsthall cafeteria, as a part of the non-profit work of ”International Acquaintances” (Internationella bekantskaper). The aim is to create a social meeting place for parents to exchange experiences and at the same practice speaking Swedish. Meetings have been taking place since September of this year.

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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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Peculiar graphics by Marie-Louise Ekman at Grafikens Hus this summer

6.7-3.11 The exhibition Förförelsens och motståndets tryck (Prints of seduction and resistance) is produced by Tensta konsthall in collaboration with Grafikens hus. It includes, amon'g other, graphic work from Marie-Louise Ekmans private collation. Some of the work are from the 21st century and has never before been shown to the public. Many of the work are from the appreciated exhibition at Tensta konsthall from 2012, Doing What You Want: Marie-Louise Ekman accompanied by Sister Corita Kent, Mladen Stilinovic and Martha Wilson.

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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.

Ongoing from September 2012 The network Klister is a nationwide network for small and medium-sized contemporary art institutions in Sweden.

The network seeks to highlight the role of smaller contemporary art institutions in society. Today, contemporary art constitutes a free zone for experiments and discussions of increasing importance. Central are issues about economy, democracy, the audience and the ”ecosystem” of art itself. The smaller, often under-financed institutions willingly invest in younger, less established artists and new ways of working. They are therefore an important link in the production and distribution for big institutions and the art market. They are also important for the forthcoming generations of artists and audiences nationwide.

The members of Klister include Bildmuseet in Umeå, Kulturens Hus in Luleå, Gävle Konstcentrum, Tensta konsthall in Stockholm, Marabouparken in Sundbyberg, Konsthall C in Stockholm, Botkyrka Konsthall, Borås konstmuseum, Skövde kulturhus, Göteborgs konsthall, Röda sten in Gothenburg, Lunds konsthall and Malmö konstmuseum. On the initiative of Tensta konsthall and Konsthall C, a first gathering took place in Tensta in September 2011.

In 2013, Klister, together with Riksutställningar, has arranged a series of “relay discussions” entitled what function does art have in society? The discussions aim at highlighting contemporary art and the importance and value of smaller contemporary art institutions in a democratic, economic and societal perspective. Discussions have been arranged in Skövde and Gävle, and during the year additional discussions will take place in Stockholm, Gothenburg, Malmö and Luleå. David Karlsson is moderator for the discussions involving officials and politicians from the different locations where they are set.

Klister is concerned with questions like: What role does art play in society? In order to be a resource for a place, a city or a community, art needs a scope for action. The importance of art is greater than the singular gallery, museum, or any other venue for art. The role of culture in the development of society is today widely discussed, but these discussions are often of a quite general nature. Furthermore they are more about art’s social and economic utility function. What do these connections actually look like? How can politics, cultural life and artists, big and small institutions, municipalities, state and the regions cooperate to create processes, allowing the potential of art to flourish? more→

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Tea and Coffee Salon

25.5, 14:00–16:00 Tea and Coffee Salon: Bread salon. The Tea and Coffee Salons began in spring 2012 and are an ongoing collaboration with Women's Center Tensta Hjulsta and the Lebanese Family Association. The associations present themselves and their members at Tensta konsthall through the different themes of the salons.

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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

2011-2013 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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Gallery Club

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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Wade Guyton: Untitled

Ongoing The floor in Tensta konsthall's exhibition space is a work by New York based artist Wade Guyton. The very means of artistic production—particularly painting—are the focus  of many of his works. Untitled (2010) is a remake of the floor in Guyton’s former studio space.

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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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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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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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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 can offer light meals and snacks at good prices.

For reservations and more information about tours contact Emily Fahlén 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.

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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.

The café is run by XpandiaVision, a non-profit social company. All proceeds will be used to create new jobs and career development for people who stand outside of the labor market.

For reservations for groups and catering, call 08-360763 or email asa.lindgren@xpandiavision.se

Hours:
Monday-Tuesday 11-17
Wednesday 11-21
Thursday-Friday 11-18
Saturday-Sunday 12-17

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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

Fahyma Alnablsi, host
fahyma (at) tenstakonsthall.se

Emily Fahlén, mediator
emily (at) tenstakonsthall.se

Ulrika Flink, assistant curator + press
ulrika (at) tenstakonsthall.se

Asrin Haidari, communication + press 
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Maria Lind, director
maria (at) tenstakonsthall.se

Hedvig Wiezell, producer
hedvig (at) tenstakonsthall.se

Nora Chaker
Lars Hedelin
Evelina Hedin
Bruno Hilbombo
Carl-Oskar Linné
Masha Taavoniku

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: Reports from New Sweden is funded with support from Svenska Postkodlotteriet and is also a 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 from the Culture Programme of the European Union and 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, Office for Contemporary Art Norway, 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, Office for Contemporary Art Norway, 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 Conteporary Art? is realized in collaboration with Botkyrka konsthall, Konsthall C, Marabouparken och Mossutstllningar

Undoing Property? book release at Tensta konsthall. Editors: Marysia Lewandowska and Laurel Ptak, supported by the Polish Institute Stockholm.

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Sunday 6.7, 14.00
Talk
The Paths to the Common(s) Are Infinite – Palestine

Thursday 12.6, 14:00
Ayreen Anastas and Rene Gabri introduces
The Paths to the Common(s) are Infinite

Tuesday 20.5, 15:00–16.30
Tensta Museum: Reading
The Grand Domestic Revolution Goes On…

18.1–18.5
On View
Last chance
Tensta Museum: Reports from New Sweden

18.1–18.5 2014
Tensta Museum: This Spring´s Program

Saturday and Sunday 17.5–18.5
Bostadsvrålet: National Housing Policy Forum

26.2–18.5
Tensta Museum: Artoteket
Borrow art at the Library

Tuesday 13.5, 13:00–15:00
Tensta Museum: Workshop
Object of Study: The Grand Domestic Revolution continues...

Saturday 10.5, 13:00
Tensta Museum: Tea and Coffee Salon with Women's Center in Tensta-Hjulsta

Wednesday 14.5, 18:30–20:00
Tensta Museum: Presentation by Tone Olaf Nielsen
Object of Study: The Grand Domestic Revolution Goes On…

Friday 16.5, 15:00
Tensta Museum: Art and Literature walk

Friday 16.5, 17:30
Tensta Museum: Fish migration and inauguration with The Järva Project

Sunday 11.5, 14:00
Tensta Museum: Walk in Tensta with architect Erik Stenberg

Tuesday 29.4, 17:45–18:45
Tensta Museum: Screening BSB – Bland svartskallar och blekfisar at Ross Tensta gymnasium

Thursday 8.5, 18:00
Tensta Museum: Aktion Arkiv
The Struggle for space

Friday 9.5, 15:00
Tensta Museum: Walk in Tensta with archeologist Barbro Århem

Sunday 27.4, 14:00–17:00
Tensta Museum: Kurdish Sunday Poetry
with Kurdish Association Spånga

Sunday 27.4, 14:00–18:00
Tensta Museum: Aktion Arkiv 2 at Glömmingegränd

Wednesday 16.4, 18:30
Tensta Museum: Heidrun Holzfeind and Marwa Arsanios

Lördag 26.4, 15:00
Tensta Museum: Architect Erik Stenberg shows apartments in Tensta

Wednesday 9.4, 18:30
Tensta Museum: Lecture
Irene Molina on segregation processes in Sweden

Thursday 10.4, 15:00
Tensta Museum: Guided tour
of Spånga church

Sunday 6.4, 14:00
Tensta Museum: Talk on the book Förortshat

Saturday 29.3, 15:00
Tensta Musuem: Artist Talk
Marion von Osten

Wednesday 26.3, 18:30
Tensta Museum: Tensta before
the Million Dwelling Programme
with Spånga Local Heritage Society

Thursday 20.3, 14:00–17:00
Tea and Coffee Salon with Women´s Centre
at Stockholm City Musuem

Thursday 20.3, 18.30
Tensta Museum: Screening
The Stuart Hall Project by John Akomfrah

Sunday 16.3, 14:00
Tensta Musuem: Lecture
Lisa Kings & Zhanna Kravchenko

Wednesday 5.3, 17:30–19:30
Tensta Museum: Witness seminar
Aktion Akriv

Sunday 9.3, 14:00
Tensta Museum: Seminar
Art and asylum rights activism

Wednesday 26.2 16:30–19:00
Tensta Museum: Opening of Artoteket
at Tensta Library

Wednesday 19.2, 18:30
Tensta Museum: Talk
Brita Landoff about the film BSB – Bland svartskallar och blekfisar

Sunday 2.3, 14.00
Tensta Museum: Presentation
Artist Behzad Khosravi Noori

Saturday 22.2, 15:00
Tensta Museum: Presentation
Helena Mattsson, Meike Schalk and Sara Brolund de Carvalho about Aktion Arkiv

Sunday 23.2, 14:00
Tensta Museum: Lecture
Rohat Alakom – When Sweden became the land of the Kurds

Wednesday 12.2, 18:30
Tensta Museum: Lecture by Tom Avermaete on norms of public spaces

Saturday 15.2, 15:00
Tensta Museum: Tour of Tensta subway station

Wednesday 5.2, 18:30
Tensta Museum: Lecture by the urban historian Håkan Forsell

Wednesday 22.1, 18.30
Tensta Museum:
Students from The Royal Institute of Technology in Tensta present their project

Saturday 8.2, 12:30
Tensta Museum: Architect Erik Stenberg shows his rebuilt Tensta apartments

Sunday 9.2, 14:00
Tensta Museum: Listening and watching session with Urban Re-Mix and professor Peter Lang

Friday, 31.1, 18:00
Tensta Museum: Sound artist Tarek Atoui is looking for musicians in the Järva area

Saturday 1.2, 15:00
Tensta Museum: Artist Peter Geschwind presents Time Space Shuttle (Apollo Pavilion)

Sunday 2.2, 14:00
Tensta Museum: Lecture by architect Ylva Larsson

Thursday 23.1, 15:00
Tensta Museum:
Guided tour Spånga Church

Saturday, 18.1, 14:00–17:00
Tensta Museum: Inauguration of
Spring Department

Sunday 19.1, 13:00
Tensta Museum: Artist Talk

26.10 2013-18.5 2014
Tensta Museum: Reports from New Sweden

4.1–5.1 2014 12:00–15:00
Drawing Workshop on Christmas holiday

Saturday 21.12, 15:00
Tensta Museum: Director Maria Lind about the interest of contemporary art in late modern housing projects

Wednesday 11.12, 18:30
Tensta Museum: Terence Gower

Saturday 14.12, 12:00–17:00
Tensta Museum: Talk with The Järva Project
and Salon Tensta

Söndag 15.12, 14:00
Tensta Museum: Screening
documentary about Amin Amir

Saturday 7.12 12:00–17:00
Tensta Museum: Christmas market with the Women’s Centre in Tensta Hjulsta. 15.00 Petra Bauer and Sofia Wiberg talk about their project

Sunday 1.12, 14:00
Tensta Museum: Lecture
Everyday scenes in watercolour

Wednesday 27.11, 18:30
Tensta Museum: Dialogue between Groruddalen in Oslo and Järva Field in Stockholm

Saturday 30.11, 13:00
Tensta Museum: Seminar
Structures of Race – Voices from the Present

Saturday 23.11, 15:00
Tensta Museum: Presentation
Talk with artist Thomas Elovsson about his and Peter Geschwind's installation Time-Space Shuttle (Apollo Pavilion)

Wednesday 20.11, 18:30
Tensta Museum: Salon Tensta
Workshop with Tanja Tuurala

Thursday 21.11, 15:00
Tensta Museum: Guided Tour
Spånga church

Sunday 17.11, 14:00
Talk about the history of Kurds in Sweden with the Kurdish Association

Wednesday, 13.11, 18:00–21:00
Witness seminar about Tensta’s childhood
Participants: Bo Werner, Lilian Larsell, Ricardo-Osvaldo Alvarado, Mats Hulth

Saturday 16.11, 15.00
Film about and tour of Tensta subway by Helga Henschen
With Babis Tsokas and Friends of Helga Henschen

Saturday 9.11, 13.00
Tensta walk with architect Erik Stenberg

Sunday 10.11, 14:00
Lecture
Sonja Vidén on The Million Dwelling Programme

Wednesday 6.11, 18:30
Lecture
Irene Molina about segregation processes in Sweden

Sunday 3.11, 14:00
Family Sunday – on the image of Somalia

28.9, 14:00
Introduction
Reverberation: A videoportrait of Megafonen

13.6-29.9
Last week
Iman Issa

14.9, 14:30
Free concert
Linda Pira and Dj Salla

13.6-29.9
Last week
Bernd Krauss
We continue BBDG

22.9, 14:00–16:00
Book release
No Is Not an Answer
Marie-Louise Ekman

25.9, 18:30
Book release
Undoing Property?

7.9-8.9
Tensta market
Public tour and face painting for children

Deadline 11.9
Salon Tensta
open call with a jury

28.8, 18:30
Anna Lundh
Lecture performance

13.8-18.8
This year's art camp at Lava

Friday 2.8
Where did she go?
The visual arts program at the Stockholm Music & Arts.

Wednesday 26.6
18:30
Art Camp artists in conversation: Filippa Arrias and Stefan Petersson

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The Paths to the Common(s) Are Infinite – Palestine

Sunday 6.7, 14.00  The Paths to the Common(s) Are Infinite of Ayreen Anastas and Rene Gabri with guests: Palestine from the perspective of Common(s) and Subsistence. During The Paths to the Common(s) Are Infinite a series of parallel conversations, screenings, and encounters will be taking place both in and beyond Tensta focusing on common(s) questions and some of the paths leading to them.

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Space, Blått blod

25.6 2013 –12.1 2014 Blått blod (Blue Blood), Meron Mangasha & Senay Berhe.
Blått blod is an everyday portrait of the the blue line in the Stockholm subway system, told visually and fuelled by words. It is an attempt to mirror and immortalize the time and place where we presently live. Blått was filmed along the blue line in two recording sessions.

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Program The Paths to the Common(s) are Infinite

Thursday 12.6, 14:00 Ayreen Anastas and Rene Gabri introduces The Paths to the Common(s) are Infinite that is an attempt by the New York-based artists 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. But unnamed and unperceived as such, they continually lose coherence and are often reabsorbed into a logic of capital accumulation or reforming an increasingly neo-liberal state.

Thursday 12.6, 14:00 Ayreen Anastas and Rene Gabri introduces The Paths to the Common(s) are Infinite that is an attempt by the New York-based artists 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. But unnamed and unperceived as such, they continually lose coherence and are often reabsorbed into a logic of capital accumulation or reforming an increasingly neo-liberal state.

More introductions will take place during July–September. Keep updated here at the website.

Commoning Times, /.../the Stockholm portion of the project, has been going  on since 2010 and will be continuing not only in Tensta, but also in New York, Detroit, London, Utrecht and Vienna. In Stockholm the artists hope to be able  to use – as they did in Documenta 13  in Kassel in 2012 – both the exhibition context of Tensta Konsthall and their studio period in IASPIS to propose, share, and stimulate debates and actions around contemporary struggles toward a common(s).

Conversations, meetings, and (un)workshops which will take place are also part of The Paths to the Common(s)Are Infinite. Rather than the individual work of any artist, these different pieces form the framework for a collective inquiry organized with individuals and groups in different cities around notions of common(s) and practices of commoning. For those interested in taking part or potentially contributing to this collective process, please write to commoner@commoningtimes.org. A Stockholm-specific mailing list will also be initiated; to subscribe please write to stockholm-join@commoningtimes.org.

http://www.tenstakonsthall.se/?the-paths-to-the-commons-are-infinite-1 more→

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Stockholm City Museum museum apartment in Tensta

Wednesdays, 14:00 2014 Tour of the Stockholm City Museum museum apartment in Tensta. What did people's homes in Tensta look like in 1969? Every Wednesday, a guided tour of the Stockholm City Museum museum apartment in Tensta will be held. It's a reconstruction of the Artursson family's apartment as it looked then in the newly built neighbourhood. Meet outside Tensta konsthall for the tour.

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Home Economics: Readings from the Kitchen

Tuesday 20.5, 15:00–16.30 2014 Object of Study: The Grand Domestic Revolution Goes On… Home Economics: Readings from the Kitchen I with Jenny Richards. As part of Grand Domestic Revolution Library, a library at Tensta konsthall with books related to domestic labor, artistic and architectural methods of participation and cooperation, feminism, alternative economies, and a philosophical inquiry into ideas of community. At Women's Centre in Tensta-Hjulsta.

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Wednesday 23.7, 15:00—17:00Reading the summer exhibitions

Every Thursday and Saturday, 14:00Guided tour of the exhibitions

Summer Art CampJune, July and August

Wed-Fri 2.7–15.8, 12:00–15:00Textile workshop at Taxingeplan

Wednesdays 2.7–15.8, 13:00–15:00The Silent University: Language Café

25.7–27.7TAF! – Photography workshop

Thursday 31.7, 15:00 Art and Literature walk in Tensta

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