now

28.6–29.8
Wednesdays–Sundays 12:00–17:00
Opening hours during summer

1.6–24.9 2017
Discrepancies with G.G. by Leonor Antunes

1.6–24.9 2017
The New Hird by Ylva Westerlund

1.6–3.9 2017
Space: The Annotated Friends of
Interpretable Objects
by Mariana Silva

5.7–24.9 2017
Semra Ertan and Audio Tape Index
by Cana Bilir-Meier
As part of Tensta Museum Continues

Wednesdays–Fridays 13:00–16:00
The Art Porch

Wednesdays 14:00–16:00
The Silent University: English Language Café

2017
Tensta Museum Continues

New nordic network for
art centers

Lithograph by Marie-Louise Ekman  
Fantasifullt möte (Fantasy Meeting) (2017)

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Opening hours during summer

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Discrepancies with G.G. by Leonor Antunes 

1.6–24.9 2017 Discrepancies with G.G. by Leonor Antunes. 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.

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The New Hird by Ylva Westerlund

1.6–24.9 2017 The New Hird by Ylva Westerlund. The Tensta-based artist Ylva Westerlund, with a studio at Eggeby Farm on the Järva field, is interested in liminal areas, norms, and the relationship between the rural and suburbs. In the entrance of Tensta konsthall, a series of her sci-fi-inspired drawings are presented, including Tensta motifs together with watercolors of interiors and exteriors of the paper mill in Husum, the artist's domicile.

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The Annotated Friends of Interpretable Objects by Mariana Silva 

1.6–3.9 2017 Space: The Annotated Friends of Interpretable Objects by Mariana Silva . To visit large museums often involves encountering flashy animations and opportunities to experience art digitally. Many museums have been making art work accessible two- dimensionally for a long time, but now they increasingly scan in and construct three-dimensional archives. This is a modern way of reaching the public. But what actually happens in the transition from physical object to mobile animation? And how do we visualize works of art, objects and artifacts?

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Semra Ertan and Audio Tape Index by Cana Bilir-Meier

5.7–24.9 2017 Semra Ertan and Audio Tape Index by Cana Bilir-Meier. In 1982, a 25-year-old poet, draughtswoman, and interpreter from Turkey set herself on fire in the German city of Kiel. This violent act was a protest against the racism that she and other migrants where experiencing in Germany. Many of them were guest workers who, in the words of the poet, were used by her old as well as her new homeland: “my country sold us abroad”. The suicide was reported by the media in both countries and triggered the composer Enjott Schneider to compose an octet in memory of the young woman. As part of Tensta Museum Continues.

5.7–24.9 2017 Semra Ertan and Audio Tape Index by Cana Bilir-Meier. In 1982, a 25-year-old poet, draughtswoman, and interpreter from Turkey set herself on fire in the German city of Kiel. This violent act was a protest against the racism that she and other migrants where experiencing in Germany. Many of them were guest workers who, in the words of the poet, were used by her old as well as her new homeland: “my country sold us abroad”. The suicide was reported by the media in both countries and triggered the composer Enjott Schneider to compose an octet in memory of the young woman. As part of Tensta Museum Continues.

Semra Ertan’s story is the starting point for Cana Bilir-Meier’s video Semra Ertan (2013, 7:30 minutes), which can be described as a filmic poem. Fragments of Ertan’s 350 poems, footage from interviews with her, glimpses from the funeral, family photographs, and details of rental contracts are interwoven with “visual pauses”—empty images which help prevent the impression of a seamless story. The film is not a portrait or a biography, but rather an attempt at “respectful handling of her-story”, according the artist herself. Ertan’s poetry, Bilir Meier’s images, and Schneider’s quietly dramatic music remind us of the life and work of a young woman.

In the silent Audio Tape Index (2016, 10 minutes), a computer desktop is the stage for the story. Windows are opened and closed as the corser moves back and forth across the screen. Lists with various amounts of money, images of audio and videotapes, old postcards and envelopes with neat handwriting, photographs of a man in 1960s attire in a factory setting and on the beach, and a woman in a long dress in front of a wooden house appear. Newspaper clippings tell the story of guest worker Gani Bilir who in two years sent a record amount of money from Kiel to his wife Vehbiye and the five daughters in Turkey—30.000 DM, enough to build a house.

Interspersed are questions that anybody dealing with research, whether an artist or not, is familiar with: “whose research is it?”, “how will its results be disseminated?”, “who will benefit from it?”, and “who owns it?”. The questions are quotes from Linda Tuhiwai Smith’s 1999 book Decolonizing Methodologies: Research and Indigenous Peoples, which likewise pointed to crucial issues when regarding a family archive.

Cana Bilir-Meier lives and works in Vienna and Munich. She obtained her art degree from Vienna Fine Arts Academy, the Department of Media Arts and Arts and Education, and Sabancı University in Istanbul. She has worked as a teacher, as a guest lecturer in different universities, and in a yearlong artistic-educational based research project of HKW (Haus der Kulturen der Welt) in Berlin from 2016–17. 2015/2016 she was a grantee of the Austrian scholarship „kültür gemma!“, a project which promotes city culture in Vienna as well as migrant art and cultural production. She won the 2016 Birgit Jürgenssen Award for her video works. Since 2016, she has been a member of the selection committee for short films at the Kassel Documentary and Video Festival.

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Tensta Museum Continues 2017

Tensta Museum Continues 2017 Who can and should formulate histories about “New Sweden” and what happens when an art space pretends to be a museum? Born out of the exhibition Tensta Museum: Reports from New Sweden (2013/2014), Tensta Museum continues in the form of a program focusing on local history and memory, while looking forward and proposing future scenarios for the suburb.

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Screening and conversation: Metahaven

Wednesday 30.8, 19:00 Designduo Metahaven’s first documentary film, The Sprawl (Propaganda About Propaganda) (2015/2016), revolves around disinformation and world events such as the annexation of Crimea, the circumstances surrounding Malaysia Airlines flight MH17, and the spread of ISIS. At the same time, the film offers a subversive reading of the internet as a geopolitical superpower. Also screened is Information Skies (2016), a film that fuses three approaches — live action, anime-like animation and digital abstraction — creating fragmented territories, attractive and terrifying at the same time. After the screenings, Vinca Kruk and Daniel van der Velden (Metahaven) will have a conversation with the artist duo Goldin+Senneby.

Wednesday 30.8, 19:00 Designduo Metahaven’s first documentary film, The Sprawl (Propaganda About Propaganda) (2015/2016), revolves around disinformation and world events such as the annexation of Crimea, the circumstances surrounding Malaysia Airlines flight MH17, and the spread of ISIS. At the same time, the film offers a subversive reading of the internet as a geopolitical superpower. Also screened is Information Skies (2016), a film that fuses three approaches — live action, anime-like animation and digital abstraction — creating fragmented territories, attractive and terrifying at the same time. After the screenings, Vinca Kruk and Daniel van der Velden (Metahaven) will have a conversation with the artist duo Goldin+Senneby. Since 2011, Metahaven has been responsible for Tensta konsthall's visual identity, including banners, the website, and handouts. Amsterdam-based Metahaven, founded in 2007, is a collective working across design, art, and filmmaking. Stockholm-based Goldin+Senneby is a framework for collaboration set up by artists Simon Goldin and Jakob Senneby, which explores juridical, financial and spatial constructs through notions of the performative and the virtual.

Founded by Vinca Kruk and Daniel van der Velden, Metahaven is a collective working across design, art, and filmmaking. Recent solo presentations include ‘Information Skies’, Auto Italia, London (2016), ‘The Sprawl’, YCBA, San Francisco (2015), ‘Black Transparency’, Future Gallery, Berlin (2014), and ‘Islands in the Cloud’, MoMA PS1, New York (2013). Recent group exhibitions include ‘Fear & Love’, Design Museum, London (2016), ‘Dream Out Loud’, Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam (2016), ‘The Eighth Climate (What Does Art Do?)’, the 11th Gwangju Bienniale (2016), ‘All of This Belongs to You’, Victoria & Albert Museum, London (2015), ‘Private Settings: Art After the Internet’, Museum of Modern Art Warsaw (2014), ‘Frozen Lakes’, Artists Space, New York (2013), and ‘Immaterial Labour Isn’t Working’, Auto Italia, London, (2013). Recent publications include ‘Black Transparency’ (2015), ‘Can Jokes Bring Down Governments?’ (2013), and ‘Uncorporate Identity’ (2010). Music videos by Metahaven include ‘Home’ (2014), and ‘Interference’ (2015), both with musician, composer and artist Holly Herndon, as part of an ongoing collaboration. Metahaven’s first full-length documentary, ‘The Sprawl (Propaganda about Propaganda)’, premiered at the International Film Festival Rotterdam in 2016.

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L’hommage: Hall of Femmes

As part of the exhibition Discrepancies with G.G. by Leonor Antunes (Lisbon/Berlin), the feminist initiative Hall of Femmes arranges the series L’hommage, talks that highlight and visualize women’s contributions to design and architecture. On two occasions, architects Eileen Gray and Léonie Geisendorf are discussed. Hall of Femmes promotes an exchange of experiences between places and generations; the initiative's book series includes texts about Ruth Ansel, Lillian Bassman, Janet Froelich, Carin Goldberg, Tomoko Miho, Paula Scher, and Lella Vignelli. www.halloffemmes.com

As part of the exhibition Discrepancies with G.G. by Leonor Antunes (Lisbon/Berlin), the feminist initiative Hall of Femmes arranges the series L’hommage, talks that highlight and visualize women’s contributions to design and architecture. On two occasions, architects Eileen Gray and Léonie Geisendorf are discussed. Hall of Femmes promotes an exchange of experiences between places and generations; the initiative's book series includes texts about Ruth Ansel, Lillian Bassman, Janet Froelich, Carin Goldberg, Tomoko Miho, Paula Scher, and Lella Vignelli. www.halloffemmes.com

Wednesday 6.9, 19:00 L’hommage: Katarina Bonnevier on Eileen Gray . The architect and artist Katarina Bonnevier's presentation looks at how architecture reflects society's norms and thus constructs people in it. Focusing on self-taught designer and architect Eileen Gray (1878–1976), with a queer perspective, she analyzes how Gray's life and work in Paris as a gay woman in a male-dominated industry can be seen as a criticism of heteronormal architecture. Bonnevier takes a closer look at the house E.1027 that Gray designed and built on the French Riviera (1926–29) and how the house is shaped by man while shaping man in it.

With finesse, Gray played with architectural boundaries between private and public, inside and outside. She created or broke limits of sound, sight, and space in a house that carries a series of secrets. Bonnevier draws parallels to how Gray herself lived as boundary-breaking, both sexually and in terms of gender roles, and how this may have influenced her way of designing. Her design has been described as experimental and foreign—Le Corbusier himself was obsessed with her work.
As part of the exhibition, the feminist initiative Hall of Femmes arranges the series L’hommage, talks that highlight and visualize women’s contributions to design and architecture. On two occasions, architects Eileen Gray and Léonie Geisendorf are discussed. Hall of Femmes promotes an exchange of experiences between places and generations; the initiative's book series includes texts about Ruth Ansel, Lillian Bassman, Janet Froelich, Carin Goldberg, Tomoko Miho, Paula Scher, and Lella Vignelli. www.halloffemmes.com

Katarina Bonnevier (b. 1970) is an architect and artist currently working with the artistic research project "Clubscenen" at the Swedish Centre for Architecture and Design, where she works with large-scale public art installations as well as writing. Through buildings, scenography, costume, and performance, Bonnevier explores the relationships between architecture, aesthetics, and power. Her works include: Production designer for the movie Mamman flickan demonerna (2016), directed by Suzanne Osten; Costume design for Lammungarnas fest, directed by Suzanne Osten, theater Unga Klara, Hitteblomster; Public Interactive Sculpture (2016), Bagarmossen, Stockholmshem; House Architect of St. Anna Gården (2014–). In 2013, she was the host of Fasad, produced by Filt on Sweden's radio P1, for which she earned the year's educator award from the Architects Sweden. In 1997, she obtained her architectural degree from the Architecture School, KTH, where she also studied in 2007 and wrote the dissertation Behind Straight Curtains: Towards a Queer Feminist Theory of Architecture (Stockholm: Axl Books, 2007). Since 2012, she has been part of the design, architecture, and art family, MYCKET with Mariana Alves Silva and Thérèse Kristiansson (www.mycket.org). They work from intersectional perspectives, such as anti-racism and queer feminism, within a practice influenced by theatricality, carnival, and activism.

Wednesday 13.9, 19:00 L’hommage: Charlie Gullström Hughes on Léonie Geisendorf. Architect SAR/MSA SIA Léonie Geisendorf’s architectural practice was primarily based in Sweden, where she counts among the most prominent architects of late modernity and forms part of Le Corbusier’s diaspora across Europe. She is especially known for her expressive treatment of raw concrete, the new material of International Style. The entrance hall of St Göran Gymnasium, a domestic sciences college in Stockholm (1961) is a good example of this, as well as Villa Delin in Djursholm (1970). Both buildings provide a vigorous, three-dimensional spatial experience and distinctive treatment of light, creating (almost miraculously) warm and sunny interiors from raw concrete.

Léonie Geisendorf was born as Leonja Kaplan in 1914 in and later studied architecture at ETH in Zurich. At the end of her studies (1937–38), she worked at Le Corbusier’s practice at Rue de Sèvres in Paris and was greatly inspired by his work. In 1937, Paris hosted a world exhibition that was a melting pot of architects from all over the world. Sweden participated with a pavilion designed by Sven Ivar Lind; the pavilion was ridiculed in Swedish media, though praised and recognised internationally–a disparity which created curiosity among architects. Léonie Geisendorf was working on the design for Le Corbusier’s Pavillon des Temps Nouveaux and saw the works of Sven Ivar Lind and Alvar Aalto at the world exhibition. Like many young architects at the time, she was inspired by and recognised the work opportunities in Scandinavia while Europe was at war. She moved to Sweden in 1938, married a Swiss colleague from ETH (Charles Edouard Geisendorf), and started an architectural practice with him in Stockholm in 1950. He was later appointed professor at ETH, after which they ran parallel offices in Stockholm and Zürich from 1957—thereby pioneering a distributed, collaborative practice across Europe.

Charlie Gullström, PhD, Architect SAR/MSA, is an international authority on Léonie Geisendorf’s architecture. She is University Lecturer and Researcher at KTH Royal Institute of Technology Department of Architecture, where she combines teaching with research and heads the interdisciplinary research group KTH Smart Spaces: Architecture & Interactive Media. Her research addresses architecture in the era of digitalisation and how the design of virtual space enables mediated presence (presence research). Shared virtual spaces emerge as new public spaces that citizens can share. Charlie Gullström also works in the management of the recently awarded Strategic Innovation Programme for Smart Sustainable Cities. This new initiative ensures that Sweden meets its energy and climate goals through an effective use of digitalisation (ICT, IoT); it is funded by the Swedish Energy Agency 2017-2029 and hosted by KTH. A very different research topic of hers addresses Léonie Geisendorf (1914-2016), with whom Gullström had collaborated since 1990. Gullström is currently writing a book with the working title ‘Women in the making of modernity - Architect Léonie Geisendorf's pioneering collaborative practice across Europe’.

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Tours

Guided tours every Thursday and Saturday at 14:00.

Guided tours every Thursday and Saturday at 14:00. Current exhibitions: Discrepancies with G.G. by Leonor Antunes and The New Hird by Ylva Westerlund.

Discrepancies with G.G. by Leonor Antunes
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 New Hird by Ylva Westerlund
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.

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.

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Reading Aleksandra Kollontai

Thursday 7.9, 13:00–17:00 Konstfack CuratorLab and Tensta konsthall present: Reading Aleksandra Kollontai. An introduction to the life and work of Russian revolutionary feminist, political activist, writer and diplomat Aleksandra Kollontai (1872–1952), with Michele Masucci (Konstfack). At a time when universal emancipation again is on the agenda, with intersectional approaches as powerful tools, it is an interesting moment to revisit Kollontai’s legacy.

Thursday 7.9, 13:00–17:00 Konstfack CuratorLab and Tensta konsthall present: Reading Aleksandra Kollontai. An introduction to the life and work of Russian revolutionary feminist, political activist, writer and diplomat Aleksandra Kollontai (1872–1952), with Michele Masucci (Konstfack). At a time when universal emancipation again is on the agenda, with intersectional approaches as powerful tools, it is an interesting moment to revisit Kollontai’s legacy.

Kollontai was a pioneer of political engagement and writing on sexual politics, at the same time as she fought for workers’ rights advocating a participatory organization of production. While leading a highly unconventional life for a woman of her generation, she worked directly with women workers during the years leading up to the October Revolution engaging with social and emotional emancipation, critiquing bourgeois family relations and arguing for example for the right to divorce and abortion. As the first female ambassador in the world, Kollontai served as the Soviet representative in Stockholm 1930–1945.

How can we today relate to, portray and engage critically with this historical figure and her deeds? What is to be learnt from Kollontai’s political practice and personal life? Each reading session will host guests bringing their suggested reading, presentations and topics for discussion. With the medical doktor, writer and activist Shabane Barot, artist Petra Bauer, researcher and critic Rebecka Thor, political philosopher Michael Hardt, researcher Oxana Timofeeva and artist and researcher Michele Masucci and others. This will act as a spring board for Dora Garcia’s exhibition at Tensta konsthall in the summer of 2018. In collaboration with CuratorLab, Konstfack.

To sign up for the reading group or for more information please contact michele.masucci@konstfack.se

Thursday 7.9, 13:00–17:00 Michele Masucci

Monday 13.1 Shabane Barot

Thursday 22.2 Petra Bauer och Rebecka Thor

Monday 14.5 Oxana Timofeeva

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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.

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The Silent University: English Language Café

Wednesdays 14:00–16:00 During the summer, every Wednesday an English language café is held at Tensta konsthall. Under the leadership of New York-based curatorial student Piper Ross Ferriter, a group of young and old is taught vocabulary and conversation through different exercises. The educational model is based on creating an informal learning environment where the language is practiced by hanging out and chatting. Everyday activities, various interests, and the current art exhibitions are discussed. Volunteers are welcome to attend, email didem@ tenstakonsthall.se. As part of Tensta Museum Continues.

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The Art Porch

Wednesdays–Fridays 13:00–16:00 The Art Porch. This is the last week to participate in the open art workshop for children and adults this summer. There are sewing machines to use and materials to experiment with. Participants can bring their own craft projects from home or start new ones here. You can also try  to embroider, sew, make friendship bracelets and keychains, as well as  dye fabrics. This year, the workshop is led by Tensta konsthall staff Makda Embaie and Muna Al Yaqoobi. The Art Porch is also hosted by various artists and crafters, and will include plant coloring and a kite-making workshop. Every Thursday, the local youth club Hjuset’s girls group will host guest games with exciting activities.

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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?

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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.

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Siri, Roten och den observerade luftfuktigheten by Pia Sandström

Siri, Roten och den observerade luftfuktigheten by Pia Sandström. As an homage to the public work Frisk luft, Rent vatten, Fruktbar jord (Clean air, clean water, fertile soil) (1976) by Siri Derkert at Gullingeskolan in Tensta, the artist Pia Sandström developed a wall-based work with text and drawing on concrete. The work came about as part of the project Art Detectives, where Pia Sandström and architect Stefan Petersson, together with teachers and students at the Tensta Schools Enbacksskolan, Elinsborgsskolan, and Gullingeskolan, charted and discussed public art in their own schools. In collaboration with the Stockholm konst. As part of Tensta Museum Continues.

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Saturday Drawing with Ylva Westerlund

One Saturday every month the Tensta-based artist Ylva Westerlund teaches drawing techniques in graphite, ink and indian ink. Westerlund has a studio at Eggeby Gård (Eggeby Farm) on Järvafältet (Järva Field) and is interested in borders and norms. Drop-in, open to both adults and children. Free to attend. For questions: emily@tenstakonsthall.se

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Lithograph by Marie-Louise Ekman  

Marie-Louise Ekman’s lithograph Fantasifullt möte (Fantasy Meeting) (2017) is being sold to benefit the Women's Center in Tensta-Hjulsta (KITH), a cross-ethnic association with about 250 members of over 30 different native languages. KITH was founded in 1997 and, among other things, hosts language and computer courses in an association premises in Tensta. It functions as an extended living room for women of all ages—a unique and safe meeting place that is shaped on the women's own terms.

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Women Café

Tuesdays and Thursdays, 13:00 Every Tuesday and Thursday afternoon, 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 amplified up and reinforced by teachers from Hemslöjden and by the other participants.

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Tensta Talks: Symposium: The Eros Effect: Sound records

Sound records Symposium: The Eros Effect: Art, Solidarity Movements and the Struggle for Social Justice, was held Saturday 17.10, 10:00–18:00 2015. 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?

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The Eros Effect: Art, Solidarity Movements and the Struggle for Social Justice

The Eros Effect: Art, Solidarity Movements and the Struggle for Social Justice.  The symposium forms 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 Eros Effect: Art, Solidarity Movements and the Struggle for Social Justice.  The symposium forms 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?

Saturday 17.10, 10:00–18:00 2015 Symposium The Eros Effect: Art, Solidarity Movements and the Struggle for Social Justice. Listen to the presentations here.

The invited speakers are 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/Ashok Sukumaran (Mumbai), Håkan Thörn (Göteborg), Dmitry Vilensky (S:t Petersburg), Marion von Osten (Berlin), Mathias Wåg (Stockholm) and Aleksandra Ålund (Norrköping).

The Eros Effect project borrows its title from the researcher and activist George N. Katsiaficas's essay by the same name from 1989. We will continue to build on the analytical tool “Eros Effect,”which is an attempt to acknowledge the emotional aspects of social movements. The concept thus aims to turn away from earlier theories that considered “mass movements” as primitive and impulsive, as emotional outbursts, or as exclusively rational efforts in order to change the norms and institutions of a society. With his notion the Eros Effect, Katsiaficas suggests that social movements always constitute both and that the struggle for liberation is equally an “erotic” act and a rational desire to break free from structural and psychological barriers. Franz Fanon made similar observations when he stated that resistance towards colonialism causes positive effects on the emotional life of individuals.  

The symposium is a collaboration with REMESO: The Institute for Research on Migration, Ethnicity and Society at Linköping University. The opening for Filipa César's project Transmission From the Liberated Zones will be from 19:00 to 21:00. This is the first presentation within the project The Eros Effect: Art, Solidarity Movements and the Struggle for Social Justice.  

RSVP to office@tenstakonsthall.se no later than Thursday, 15 October.

Program (changes might appear)

10:00 Introduction by Maria Lind, Stefan Jonsson, and Peo Hansen
10:30 Filipa César:  Notes on Luta Ca Caba Inda (The struggle is not over yet)
10:50 Marion von Osten: The Tricontinentale Net – Prospects and Projects 
11:10 Mathieu Kleyebe Abonnenc: A Continental Drift
11:30 Pause 
11:50 Håkan Thörn:  The Meaning of Solidarity: The Case of the Global Anti-Apartheid Movement
12:10 Ingela Johansson: 
The Great Miners’ Strike 1969–70 in Sweden and its solidarity actions
 12:30 Bojana Piškur:  The Museum of Solidarity in Santiago 1971 
12:50 Kodwo Eshun:  Forms of Discontent in Handsworth Songs
by Black Audio Film Collective
13:10 Kristine Khouri and Rasha Salti: In the Labyrinths of Exhibition Histories:
The International Art Exhibition for Palestine, Beirut 1978 
13:45 Lunch 
14:30 Stefan Jonsson:  The Question of Solidarity 
14:45 Peo Hansen:  Solidarity Knows Only Borders:
Reflections on the Current Refugee Crisis in the European Union 
15:10 Natascha Sadr Haghighian:  Left To Our Own Devices 
15:30 Mathias Wåg:  The Politics of Self Organization 
15:50 Pause 
16:10 Aleksandra Ålund:  Swedish Urban Justice Movements – Options Ahead? 
16:30 Ashok Sukumaran/Gulf Labor: The Museum and the Camp 
16:50 Dmitry Vilensky:  Rosa’s House of Culture 
17:10 Rojda Sekersöz:  The Story in Focus
 17:30 Doreen Mende:  Solidarity in Struggle 
18:00 Discussion

The symposium is free of charge.   

A film program that includes some of the symposium's guests took place Sunday 18.10, 13:00–16:00.

Ca va, ça va, on continue (2013) by Mathieu Abonnenc
The Lesson on Dis-Consent (2011) by Chto Delat
In the Year of the Quiet Sun (2013) by Otolith Group
The Poetry of Anger (1978) by Lennart Malmer

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The Trial: Rossella Biscotti

The Trial by Rosella Biscotti. On April 7, 1979, a number of militant and intellectual former members of Potere Operaio (Workers Power) and Autonomia Operaia in Italy were arrested on suspicion of terrorism. They were accused of having initiated the armed organization the Red Brigades and of the kidnapping of Aldo Moro.

The Trial / Il Processo (2010/2017) by Rosella Biscotti. Based on the original courtroom recordings from the 1982–84 trial of members of Autonomia Operaia in Rome.

Important update: The actual performance is postponed until May. Instead an open working rehearsal around The Trial will take place Sunday 29.1, 13.00–16.00.

13.00–14.00 Introduction to the context, the characters and the participants to the 7th April Trial. Mathias Wåg, Michele Masucci, Joanna Warsza, and CuratorLab.  

14.00–16.00 Round table on the characters, their characteristics, and short readings.

With: Samira Ariadad, Florin Bobu, Emily Fahlén, Domna Gounari, Madelene Gunnarsson, Nikki Kane, Sarah Kim, Christine Langinauer, Julia Lindblom, Maria Lind, Staffan Lundgren, Jérôme Malpel, Michele Masucci, Burak Mungen, Saima Usman, Joanna Warsza and others. Curated by Tensta konsthall and CuratorLab directed by Joanna Warsza.

On the April 7, 1979, a number of left-wing activists and intellectuals, members of Potere Operaio (Workers Power) and Autonomia Operaia, including the subsequently influential philosophers Antonio Negri and Paolo Virno, were arrested across Italy on charges of terrorism. They were accused of leading the armed organization Brigate Rosse (the Red Brigades) and creating the intellectual backing for left-wing radicalism. The original trial took place between 1982 and 1984, before the Criminal Court of Rome, in the same high-security courthouse that hosted important trials of Italy’s ‘years of lead’ (Anni di piombo) – a period of social turmoil and extremism in Italy (its name comes loosely from the number of bullets being used back then). The fact that Autonomia Operaia was not related to and did not direct the Red Brigades was eventually recognized by the Italian legal system when all charges were dropped on appeal in 1987.

Rossella Biscotti edited a six-hour excerpt from the original recordings by Radio Radicale, a radio station run by Italy’s Radical Party. The original audio is translated and interpreted live by a number of Stockholm-based cultural producers including CuratorLab participants, invited artists, activists, and other inhabitants from Tensta.

The act of translation is also an act of mediation, and an embodiment of the ideas developed by Autonomia Operaia. The piece offers the performative act of transversing and translating the trial with one’s own body, experiencing and re-expressing concepts such as labour, wage negotiation, precarity, immaterial working conditions, and other core notions. These are all concepts that many cultural workers of today are actively rethinking–often inspired by the so-called Operaist movement–in order to potentially gather in solidarity and organize.

In the end, activists and intellectuals were convicted; for example Virno was sentenced to twelve years in prison for "subversive activities and creation of an armed group." In 1987 he appealed and was released. 
Negri was still in prison awaiting trial in 1983 when he got elected as a member of the Radical Party. The fact that he was a member of parliament gave him an opportunity to claim immunity and he was temporarily released. He then escaped to France and stayed there for fourteen years. In 1997, after negotiations, his prison time got reduced from 30 to 13 years. Negri returned to Italy to serve the end of his sentence and was released from prison in the spring of 2003.

Rossella Biscotti has taken part in major international exhibitions including Sonsbeek 16, Arnhem (2016) 55th Venice Biennale and 13th Istanbul Biennale (2013), dOCUMENTA 13 (2012), and Manifesta 9 (2012). She will participate in the coming Contour Biennial, Mechelen. Her work has been presented in solo exhibitions at Museion in Bolzano (2015), Wiels in Brussels, Sculpture Center in New York (2014), Secession in Vienna, e-flux in New York (2013), and CAC Vilnius (2012) among others.

The performance is a part of Tensta konsthall’s multi-year inquiry The Eros Effect: Art, Solidarity Movements and the Struggle for Social Justice, which looks 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 test 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 Eros Effect project borrows its title from the researcher and activist George N. Katsiaficas's essay by the same name from 1989. We will continue to build on the analytical tool “Eros Effect,” which is an attempt to acknowledge the emotional aspects of social movements. The concept thus aims to turn away from earlier theories that considered “mass movements” as primitive and impulsive, as emotional outbursts, or as exclusively rational efforts in order to change the norms and institutions of a society. With his notion the Eros Effect, Katsiaficas suggests that social movements always constitute both and that the struggle for liberation is both an “erotic” act and a rational desire to break free from structural and psychological barriers. Franz Fanon made similar observations when he stated that resistance towards colonialism creates positive effects on the emotional life of individuals. 

With support from the Italian Institute in Stockholm.

The Trial is a joint project by Tensta konsthall, CuratorLab at Konstfack University College of Arts, Crafts and Design, and Konstfack Research Week 2017.

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Citizen to Citizen

Thuesdays 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.se

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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.

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Goldin+Senneby in art-agenda

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

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Text Prize 2016

For the third year in a row, Tensta konsthall presents a text prize for young people aged 15-25 years who reside in Stockholm’s outer urban areas. The form of the text is not set: it can be a short story, a diary note, or an essay as well as rap lyrics, poetry, or an everyday observation. It is more important that stories get a chance to be formulated and get spread than that they have correct grammar and flawless Swedish. The prize aims to promote young people's interest in language and the desire to dress their own reality, their thoughts and ideas, in words. It is the formulated existence that creates clear contours.

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Vegan brunch

Vegan brunch. On the last Sunday of every month, café Auel hosts the konsthall’s popular vegan brunch with East African dishes. On the menu : Injera (sourdough bread), cauliflower mash, parsley, chick-peas with berbere, spinach beet and kale stew, zucchini with chilli, lentil stew with caraway, sweet potato salad with pomegranate and rocket salad, tabbouleh and more. Sittings: 12:00 and 13:30. For bookings please contact: auelcoffee@hotmail.com.

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The Art Detectives

Ongiong 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?

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?

Based on the school's art and the public places in Tensta, the students themselves design the task of mapping and discussing what is already available on site. They will also suggest what new artwork at school could look like based on urban design, architecture, and public art. During the project, field trips to various locations in the city will be made, including Prince Eugen's Waldemarsudde, the College of Arts, KTH School of Architecture, and Siri Derkert metro station in Östermalm.
The project will be the basis for the development of a new public artwork in Tensta by Pia Sandström in 2017.

Art Detectives is a collaboration between Tensta Konsthall, the artist Pia Sandström, architect Stefan Petersson (KTH, Tensta), Stockholm kunst, and the Tensta Schools Enbacksskolan, Elinsborgsskolan, and Gullingeskolan.

Pia Sandström is an artist active both in Sweden and internationally. She participates in solo and group exhibitions and public commissions. Sandström was educated at the Royal Art Academy in Stockholm and at the Academy in Helsinki and has been exhibited at Bonniers Konsthall, Botkyrka Konsthall, Kiasma, Helsinki, and ARTES, Porto, among other places. www.piasandstrom.com

Stefan Petersson is an active architect in Stockholm who has operated the firm Spad since 2003. His main work is in the borderland between citizen participation in planning processes, user perspective, teaching, lectures and design in business development, urban planning and architecture. Since 2008, he has been director and teacher at KTH, Tensta (Tensta Architecture School).

KTH, Tensta is a preparatory school in Architecture and Urban Planning for those who are curious about the area. The school, which has existed since 2008 and is based in Ross Tensta Gymnasium, functions as a natural link to higher education through its presence and activities in Tensta. The course spans over two semesters.

Stockholm konst works with public art according to the one percent rule in Stockholm, i.e. the rule which states that when the city is building new structures, a percentage of each construction project cost should be allocated to artistic creation. Stockholm konst works with art for streets, parks, neighborhoods, and squares, as well as with the purchase of art for workplaces, kindergartens, schools, retirement homes, and the urban environment.

Gullingeskolan in Tensta. Work by Siri Derkert: Ren luft, Rent vatten (1972)

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The News Agency

Ongoing The News Agency, a long-term initiative for young people who are interested in journalism that focuses on the production and analysis of different forms of documentary storytelling. Nyhetsbyrån is a part-time course for young people aged 18 to 26 that is run in collaboration with JMK, the Department of Media Studies at Stockholm University, and GDI, the Graphic Design & Illustration department at Konstfack. By borrowing methods from art, the course enables an approach that opposes a sensationalist media logic in favor of thought and reflection.

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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.

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.

Headless captures the reader with a delirious flight through the slippery corridors of offshore business, seen through the eyes of the British ghost writer, John Barlow. He goes out to find an elitist, Bataille-inspired secret society in the Bahamas/…/, obsessed with sacrifices. The society seems capable of anything in order to retain its power and position.

Clandestine money transfers to exotic islands is a highly debated phenomenon. Terms like "tax havens" and "offshore" are also widely known, both connoting faraway dreamy places in tropical settings. A utopia for savvy swindlers. But what if this model of thought is instead applied to a different kind of island life, picturing withdrawal as a strategy. This is something the philosopher and writer Georges Bataille suggested already in the 1930s.

 The Swedish release of Headless took place at a secret location in Stockholm on the 20th of May. The release included a conversation between Mara Lee, author of e g. the novel, Future Perfect and the thesis, När andra skriver (2014) and Rasmus Fleischer, historian and researcher (Stockholm University), appearing as one of the characters in Headless. The conversation was moderated by Maria Lind, director of Tensta konsthall.

Headless is a sneak peak of Goldin+Senneby's retrospective at Tensta konsthall, scheduled for February–May 2016.

Past Headless releases:

4.9, Salt Beyoğlu, Istanbul.
Respondents: Ismail Ertürk (cultural econimist), Övül Durmusoglu (curator), and Kaya Genç (writer). Moderator: Maria Lind.

14.7, Manchester Business School, Manchester.
Respondents: Nikolai Ssorin-Chaikov (social anthropologist), Liz McFall (sociologist), Ed Granter (organisational studies), Peter Folkman (venture capitalist)
Moderator: Ismail Ertürk (cultural economist)

27.6, Miss Read Art Book Fair, Berlin.
Respondents: Hito Steyerl (artist) a.o. Moderator: Caleb Waldorf.

28.5, Librairie Le Monte-en-l'air, Paris.
Respondents: Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster (artist), Emilie Notéris (writer), Christian Chavagneux (economist). Moderator: Sandra Terdjman.

26.5, Open School East, London.
Respondents: Ned Beauman (writer), Angus Cameron (economic geographer), Nicky Marsh (literary scholar). Moderator: Andrea Phillips.

13.5, Triple Canopy, New York.
Respondents: Katie Kitamura (writer), Jill Magid (artist), Joseph O’Neill (writer), Mary Poovey (Professor of English). Moderator Alexander Provan.

2.4, Tranzit, Prague.
Respondent: Fedor Blaščák (philosopher/curator/activist)

1.2, LA Art Book Fair, Los Angeles.
Respondent: Bill Maruer (anthropologist) a.o.

More to be confirmed.

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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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de:tune Järva

Ongoing The artist and composer Tarek Atoui work with the music genre, Tarab, and other classical Arabian music. It has a very sparsely documented history which Atoui, trained in electro-acoustic music and sound art, has delved into over several years. In Tensta he creates, over a period of six months, a kind of living archive together with local musicians and people interested in music. It becomes a bank of experience, whose constant changes and elaborations take place through encounters, listening together, improvisational concerts and conversations about music. All this ends up in various pieces of music that can be heard in the gallery café and concerts at Stockholm Music & Arts and Tensta Market. The participants' various musical traditions become an expression of Järva’s diverse musical identity.

Ongoing The artist and composer Tarek Atoui work with the music genre, Tarab, and other classical Arabian music. It has a very sparsely documented history which Atoui, trained in electro-acoustic music and sound art, has delved into over several years. In Tensta he creates, over a period of six months, a kind of living archive together with local musicians and people interested in music. It becomes a bank of experience, whose constant changes and elaborations take place through encounters, listening together, improvisational concerts and conversations about music. All this ends up in various pieces of music that can be heard in the gallery café and concerts at Stockholm Music & Arts and Tensta Market. The participants' various musical traditions become an expression of Järva’s diverse musical identity.

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.

de:tune Järva: Abdugani Abdukerim, AfroDiivas, Afrodistance, James Barrett, Simon Bwomono, Taha Elneshily, Flimpoman, Bruno Hibombo, Örjan Hultén, Guljahon Hurramova, Fiedavs Kakimov, Jonas Kronman, Jan Liljekvist, Victor Lisinski, Tassos Spiliotopoulos, Zahir Tahir and Malin Thurén.

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1.8–3.8 Tarek Atoui and de:tune Järva at Stockholm Music & Arts
7.9 Tarek Atoui and de:tune Järva at Tensta Market

Participants de:tune Järva at Stockholm Music & Arts 2014. Photo: Jean-Baptiste Beranger

Participants in de:tune Järva at Stockholm Music & Arts 2014. Photo: Jean-Baptiste Beranger

Playlist at Tensta konstall’s café, 2015

Jonas Kronman  

The playlist was made by Jonas Kronman, 39, who grew up in Tensta. Jonas works with music in geriatric care. He joined de:tune Järva because of his desire to challenge himself and his broad interest in music, something that is clearly demonstrated in his playlist. “My playlist consists of African American music, Romani, Balkan, reggae, Finnish tango, Swedish ballads, Latin, etc. I love music partly because it creates the possibility of meetings.”  Jonas Kronman is an active member of the music project detune: Järva, a project where musicians linked to the Järva area explore the district’s musical identity. Led by the artist and musician Tarek Atoui.  

1. Arja Saijonmaa - Jag vill tacka livet
  2. Bob Marley - Three Little Birds
  3. Mikael Wiehe - Ska nya röster sjunga
  4. Dire Straits - Brothers in Arms  
5. Cyndi Lauper - True Colors 
6. John Coltrane - Favourite Things  
7. Louis Armstrong - What a wonderful world  
8. Mary J. Blige - No More Drama
 9. 2pac - Life Goes On  
10. Mary Gauthier - Mercy Now  
11. Karin Krog & Dexter Gordon - How Insensitive  
12. Yasmin Levy - Naci En Alamo (Vengo) 

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Taha Elneshily and Malin Thurén
Playlist in Tensta konsthall Café, 2015
(artist/song)

1. Nina Simone – Feeling Good
2. Ana Carolina – Voce nao sabe
3. Ferran Savall – Paris
4. Samir Soror – Alf Lela we Lela
5. Mohamed Abdel Wehab – El naher el kaled - piano and violin
6. Amal Maher - Hob eh – song by Om Kolthom
7. Gahad Akl – Gabar played by violin
8. Shaima el Shaybe – Mahma tachoudni kadoudni el modone
9. Samo Zen – Helemt biki
10. Sherine – Ana kolli milkak 2014
11. Jihad Akl – Shiraz
12. Mehrezyia – El taouile fat el maedt - song by Om Kolthom
14. 13. George Assad – Songs in memory of Mohamed Abd el Wehab - violin
15. Karem Mahmoud – Enaby played with oud
16. Purcell – Dido & Aeneas - When I am laid in earth (Dido's lament) Elin Manahan Thomas
17. Hosno – Ana bahebec - turkish music
18. Laleh – Snö
19. Ray Lamontagne – A Falling Through
20. Philip Glass – The Hours (2002) soundtrack_ 01. The Poet Acts
21. Tingsek ft. Ane Brun – Easier
22. Nat King Cole – Unforgettable (HQ)
23. Saian Supa Crew – Abecedaire des cons (KLR)
24. Bo Sundström och Frida Öhrn – Det är vackrast när det skymmer
25. Mohammed Ali – Sista Resan (Officiell Musikvideo)
26. Halo by Ane Brun feat. Linnea Olsson – (If I Stay MV)
27. Ane Brun – Big in Japan
28. Avishai Cohen – Halah
29. Marin Marais – Le Badinage - Jordi Savall
30. First Aid Kit – Emmylou
31. Michael Kiwanuka – Home Again
32. Fatoumata Diawara – Makoun Oumou
33. Stina Nordenstam – Fireworks
34. Lisa Ekdahl – Nature Boy
35. Lisa Ekdahl – Vem vet
36. Françoise Hardy – Soleil
37. Laleh – dar yek gooshe
38. Laleh – Vårens Första Dag

Bruno Hibombo
Playlist in Tensta konsthall Café, 2014
(artist/song)

Diamanda Galás –supplica a mia madre  
Fiona Apple – Red Red Red  
Tori Amos – Time
Pj Harvey – The Darker Days of Me & Him  
Kate bush – Houdini 
Laurie Anderson – walking and falling  
Cibo Matto – Artichoke
Deerhoof – Whither the Invisible Birds?  
Joni Mitchell – Hejira 
Portishead – Threads  
Charles Ives (Piano: Gilbert Kalish) – Piano Sonata  
No. 2, “Concord. Mass., 1840–60”: Third Movement, “The Alcotts”  
Philip Glass/Philip Glass Enesmeble – Closing  
Jocelyn Pook – Masked Ball
Tricky – Makes Me Wanna Die
Lokua Kanza – Liteya
ACO–AmenoHinoTameni  
Moloko – It’s Nothing
Papa Wemba – Awa Y’ Okeyi (Emotion Version)  
Peggy lee – Is That All There Is?
  Olivier Messiaen – O Sacrum Convivium!
Henryk Gorecki – 3 pieces in old style: I.
Michael Nyman (Harpsichord: Elisabeth Chojnacka) – Concerto for Harpsichord and Strings: Part 3
Henry Cowell – The Tides of Manaunaun

Bruno Hibombo is a musician and participant in de:tune Järva.

James Barrett
Playlist in Tensta Konsthall café, 2014
(song/artist)

Archangel Thunderbird - Amon Duul II
Black Fella White Fella - Warumpi Band
Born into Magic - Stag Hare
Boss Tabla - Transglobal Underground
Death to Everyone – ’Bonnie’ Prince Billy
Deer Head Apparition - Pelt
Dread at the Controls - Mikey Dread
Ephemeral Lakes - Gondwanaland
Final Enclosure (Featuring Hakim Bey) –
Braindamage
Flowering of the Crown - 6majik9
From the Side of Man and Womankind -
Tony Conrad and Faust
Good Morning, Captain - Slint
Heaven - Talking Heads
Immigrants on Course - DJ Mutamassik
Kailash Kokopelli - Kokopelli Dreaming
Little Fluffy Clouds - The Orb
Lysergic Sound Of Dub - High Tone
Monday Morning in Lagos - Fela
Kuti and Afrika 70
Money - P.A.I.N.
(Propaganda and Information Network)
One Way - The Levellers
Place de Abbessess - Birdy Nam Nam
Pêche de nuit - Henri Chopin
Raga Bhimpalasi - Mallikarjun Mansur
Raga Yaman - Villyat Kahn
Red Skin Girl - A Tribe Called Red
Theme de Yoyo - Art Ensemble of Chicago
The Water Wheel - Hamza El Din
Well-Heeled Man - Josephine Foster
and The Supposed
You Used to Think - Erica Pomerance
Zombie - Fela Kuti and Afrika 7

James Barrett is an Australian sound artist, poet, academic and writer living in Stockholm, Sweden. He is completing a PhD in digitally mediated narrative in the Department of Language Studies at Umeå University. James plays didgeridoo, sitar, different hand drums, jaw harp, mouthorgan, guitar and various flutes. He has released CDs and individual sound pieces on labels in Australia, the United States and in Ukraine. More of his story and downloads of his music can be accessed from here: http://about.me/James.G.Barrett

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Tensta konsthall Text Prize

For the second year in a row Tensta konsthall is presenting 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.

For the second year in a row Tensta konsthall is presenting a text prize for young people, year 15–25, 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.

The 2015 winners are Marianne Al-Ghorabi with the text I am a Tensta-cat; Evyn Redar with The place where I live / Our history; and Arazo Arif with If the place where I live is the world than who am I.

The winners will receive 3000, 2000, and 1000 Swedish krona.

This year Lema Shansab is awarded an honorable mention for her honest story about the absurdity of religious oppression and the experience of being delimited by gender and faith.

To read the texts, visit the bag section on this web page. Click bag in the top right corner, check the box, and click "save bag" in order to download.  

The jury’s motivation:  

First Prize: Marianne Al-Ghorabi 
I am a Tensta-cat

  In a wayward and imaginative view of Tensta as seen through the eyes of a familiar stranger, Marianne Al-Ghorabi allows the reader to access different spaces in the city and the borough through the unsentimental and nonjudgmental eyes of a cat. This exceptional and scrutinizing story is guided by humor and precision. 

Second prize: Evyn Redar
The place where I live/Our History  

This story offers delicately observed situations and substantial snapshots of young people's lives in a particular location, all depicted with both warm sincerity and cold aloofness. A rhythmic language allows the reader to enter into Evyn Redar's fictional world for a moment, where powerful images of friendship and betrayal, joy and boredom, and hope and hopelessness are evoked.

Third prize: Arazo Arif 
If the place where I live is the world then who am I  

With strong, formal poetry and profound reflections, Arazo Arif takes the reader into a world of language where nothing really exists outside of its wording. Here, well-pitched metaphors reveal a complex reality that becomes obvious only when it is spoken.

Honorable mention: Lema Shansab  
An honest and naked story about the absurdity of religious oppression and what it's like to be defined by your gender and faith. With minor stylistic actions, Lema Shansab conveys the homelessness that intolerance entails. She evokes a painful desperation through a child's inquiry, which is softened only by the relationship with a beloved grandfather.

Winners 2015: Arazo Arif, Lema Shansab, Marianne Al-Ghorabi and Evyn Redar

Winners 2014: Sofia Pappa, Evin Ahmad and Nebay Araya

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Thursday 13.3, 14.00 Award Ceremony Tensta konsthall text price. The jury as well as the winners are present during the ceremony. Readings and refreshments. (The jury: Lena Andersson, Rouzbeh Djalaie, Emily Fahlén, Tal Lewinsky and Björn Linnell). more→

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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.

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The Silent University: Swedish Language Café

Thursdays 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.

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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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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.

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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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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.

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.

The full report can be downloaded at bag on this website.
Press the bag on the top right, mark the box, and click "save bag" to download.

In 2013, Klister, together with Riksutställningar, arranged a series of “relay discussions” entitled what function does art have in society? The discussions aim was highlighting contemporary art and the importance and value of smaller contemporary art institutions in a democratic, economic and societal perspective. Discussions was arranged in Skövde and Gävle, Stockholm, Gothenburg, Malmö and Luleå. David Karlsson was 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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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.

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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– 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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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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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: 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

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Auel Coffee

Tensta konsthall’s cafe is situated in the entrance hall and, since 2016, has been managed by Auel Coffee –a local, family-owned business with three brothers in the lead. Auel is Tigrinja for the day’s first cup of coffee, and it’s this very coffee that has become Auel’s speciality. The aromatic coffee beans are roasted according to Ethiopian traditions, and the hot beverage is served in clay cups. The beans, directly imported from Ethiopia, are fair trade and organic.

The konsthall cafe serves tasty salads, soups, and East African dishes, and there are always vegetarian and vegan options. The cafe area, with free Internet service, also functions as a meeting place for individuals, groups, and organizations and as a workplace.

On the last Sunday of every month, Auel hosts the konsthall’s vegan brunch. For more info and reservations please contact Samuel Berhane at 076-597 39 09 or mailaauelcoffee@hotmail.com

Cafe opening hours:
Monday–Tuesday 11–17
Wednesday 11–20
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.

Hours
Wednesday 12-20
Thursday-Friday 12-18
Saturday-Sunday 12-17

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.

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 (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 (immediately in front of the public toilet). Go down the wooden stairs. Tensta konsthall is located directly on your right.

Staff

Fahyma Alnablsi, reception, economy and teaching
fahyma (at) tenstakonsthall.se

Muna Al Yaqoobi, leader of Women's Cafe
muna (at) tenstakonsthall.se

Emily Fahlén, mediator and production
emily (at) tenstakonsthall.se

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

Ailin Moaf Mirlashari, leader of The News Agency
nyhetsbyran (at) tenstakonsthall.se

Hedvig Wiezell, infrastructure and mediation
hedvig (at) tenstakonsthall.se

Didem Yildirim, assistance
didem (at) tenstakonsthall.se

Hosts
Arazo Arif
Makda Embaie
Isabella Tjäder

Board:
Qaisar Mahmood (head of board)
Nabil Belkacem
Anna Kettner
Sven Lorentzi
Birgitta Rydell
Katarina Sjögren

Funders
Tensta konsthall is supported by Stockholm City, Swedish Arts Council, Stockholm County Council

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Måns Wrange 

11.10 2017–21.1 2018 Since the 1980s, Måns Wrange has cross-fertilized his artistic work with curating as a social practice. The exhibition at Tensta konsthall is based on issues regarding utopian bureaucracy, magical realism, and immateriality.

11.10 2017–21.1 2018 Since the 1980s, Måns Wrange has cross-fertilized his artistic work with curating as a social practice. The exhibition at Tensta konsthall is based on issues regarding utopian bureaucracy, magical realism, and immateriality.
 
According to the philosopher Max Weber, bureaucracy creates a utopian quality when it is applied to prevent the abuse of power and to make organizations more democratic. Wrange looks at Weber's theory through the magic-realist lens of the writer Jorge Luis Borges, embedding magical elements in a realistic setting. “Magic bureaucracy” thereby creates a third reality, both rational and absurd, and, at the same time, realistic and utopian, and immaterial rather than object-like. The exhibition's own story, including a new sound work as well as large-scale wall drawings, will guide the visitors through an (un)organized space.

The exhibition includes Wranges conceptual project The Aerial Kit (1983-1989), a yellow metal box similar to the artist Marcel Duchamp's mini museum "boite a valise." It contains about thirty different works relating to spaces of air including sounds, images, clippings, and objects from the activities of the eccentric farmer M. Swingberg, who in the late 1960s cemented his fields to create a private airfield. (The box is part of the art collection of Moderna Museet). The art club "Salongen" at the cinema Lido on Södermalm 1991-1992, organized by Wrange together with his brother Paul, was a space for exhibitions, debates, video screenings, a magazine library, and food. During the same period, he curated the video section at Stockholm Film Festival in collaboration with Moderna Museet. Wrange selected several feminist and queer works by Martha Rosler, Chantal Akerman, Mona Hatoum, and John di Stefano. Some of the films will be included in the exhibition, in an environment that refers to "Salongen." 

Wrange will also create a new version of his famous work "Stockholm Syndrome" (1998), an interactive exhibition structured as a story with several layers, based on the hostage drama at Norrmalmstorg. Works by Eija-Liisa Ahtila, Chris Burden, Thomas Demand, Stan Douglas, Renée Green, Abigail Lane, Shirin Neshat, Ricardo de Oliveira, and others are part of the project.

With support from Goethe Institut Schweden.

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Christopher Kulendran Thomas 

18.10 2017–21.1 2018 New Eelam, by Christopher Kulendran Thomas (London), is a long-term artwork in the form of a start-up—a real-estate technology company founded by the artist to develop a flexible, global housing subscription that aims to make homes as streamable as music or movies. Based on collective co-ownership rather than private property, it aims to rewire property relations through the luxury of communalism rather than of individual ownership.

Wednesday 5.7, 17:00–19:30
Summer opening:
Cana Bilir-Meier, Mariana Silva, James Voorhies

Thursday 1.6, 14:00
Artist presentation: Leonor Antunes

Saturday 10.6, 15:00
Artist presentation by Ylva Westerlund

Spring Dates
2017

Tuesday 9.5, 18:00
Talk and screening:
Palestinian Cinema:
Solidarity Through Film

What Does an Archive Do?
A seminar series
Next up: Wednesday 10.5, 19:00 Seeing Revolution Non-linearly by Alisa Lebow

1.2–7.5
It is Not Necessary to
Understand Everything by Naeem Mohaiemen

1.2–7.5
Autonomy Cube by Trevor Paglen 

1.2–7.5
Same Time Next Day
by Emily Fahlén & Ahmet Ögüt

Friday 5.5, 10:00–17:00
Symposium
Contested Histories From El Complejo:
The Intersection Between Erasure and Remembrance

28.9 2016–25.3 2017
Space
The Wrong Side of Me by Agnieszka Polska

Saturday 22.4, 14:00
City walk in Tensta with Erik Stenberg

Tuesday 7.3, 19:00
Lecture: Feminism in the suburbs
with Johanna Gullberg and
Nattalie Ström Bunpuckdee

Wednesday 22.3, 19:00
Last Man in Dhaka Central
(The Young Man Was, Part III)
by Naeem Mohaiemen

 Saturday 25.3, 14:00
Artist talk by Trevor Paglen

Wednesday 1.2, 19:00
Artist presentation: Naeem Mohaiemen

Thursday, 2.2, 19:00
Lecture: Curating audio visual
cultural heritage: Thoughts on
diversity, archives, and memory
by Dagmar Brunow

Wednesday 25.1, 13:00
Artist presentation: Agnieszka Polska

20.10 2016–15.1 2016
Fuel to the Fire with Natascha Sadr Haghighian

20.10 2016–15.1 2017
Partisanism with Babi Badalov

20.10 2016–15.1    2017
Homeland by Halil Altındere

Wednesday 11.1 2017, 14:00–18:00
Symposium: World of Matter; New Material

Thursday 12.1, 17:00–21:30
Symposium: Fuel to the Fire
With Gregory Everett, Natascha Sadr Haghighian,
Hamid Khan, and Irene Molina

28.12–29.12, 13:00–16:00
Text workshop with the
poet and journalist Arazo Arif

Wednesday 14.12, 19:00
Lecture:
The artist’s archive by Matts Leiderstam

Thursday 10.11, 19:00
Presentation: Metabolism by curator Doreen Mende

Wednesday 23.11, 19:00
Screening: Riots Reframed by Fahim Alam

Wednesday 16.11, 19:00
Screening: Handsworth Songs

Sunday 13.11, 14:00
Marie-Louise Ekman in conversation
with director Maria Lind

Torsdag 20.10, 14:00
Artist presentations
Natascha Sadr Haghighian
och Babi Badalov

10.6–25.9 2016
 Future Flourish by Ingela Ihrman

Wednesday 21.9, 19:00
Personal guided tour of Viet Nam Discourse Stockholm
With the artist Petra Bauer

Friday 23.9, 13:00
Personal guided tour of Future Flourish
With the artist Ingela Ihrman

Saturday 24.9, 15:00
Performance
Giant Utter Giving Birth by Ingela Ihrman

Onsdag 7.9, 13:00
Personal tour
Gunilla Palmstierna-Weiss

Saturday 10.9, 15:00
A city walk in Tensta with Erik Stenberg

Wednesday 14.9, 19:00
Lecture
Peter Weiss’s Life and Work: Documental Dreams by
author Magnus Bergh

Friday 16.9, 12:00
Artist tour
Please note, change of time
With Marion von Osten and Peter Spillmann

Saturday 17.9, 16:00
Premiere
Viet Nam Discourse Stockholm – The Choreography
At Blå Huset in Tensta

Wednesday 7.9, 19:00
Lecture: Language in Exile: On Peter Weiss’s
authorship by Markus Huss

Wednesday 31.8, 18:00
Conversation
Gunilla Palmstierna-Weiss & Maryam Fanni

Friday–Saturday 2.9-3.9
Tensta market

8.12 2015–30.6 2016
Space
I Miss You, I Miss You,
‘Till I Don’t Miss You Anymore
by Flaka Haliti

Friday 8.7, 14:00
A walk around the Järva field
with The Swedish Society for Nature Conservation

Friday 1.7, 13:00
Release: projects by summer workers

Wednesday 15.6, 19:00
Talk and plant demonstration: What thrives in the future? With the artist Ingela Ihrman and ethnobiologist Ingvar Svanberg

Thursday 16.6, 18:00
Presentation: How political was the dance? Professor Cecilia Roos in conversation with dancers Karin Thulin and Solweig Linde

Wednesday, 22.6, 17:00-20:00
Release: Article 14 with the People's Campaign for Right of asylum

Friday 10.6, 13:00
Artist tour by Ingela Ihrman

Saturday–Sunday, 11.6–12.6
Weekend Symposium:
Viet Nam Discourse Stockholm

Last Chance
8.12 2015–15.5 2016
Tensta Museum Continues
Laura Oldfield Ford

11.5, 12.5, 19:00
Magic Show: Goldin+Senneby
On a Long Enough Timeline the Survival Rate
for Everyone Drops to Zero at Cirkus Cirkör

Wednesday 4.5, 19:00
Lecture
Council: Our institutional experimentations

Wednesday 27.4, 19:00
Screening: Monir
A documentary about the artist
Monir Farmanfarmaian

Wednesday, 20.4, 19:00
Presentation:
The Swedish Anti-apartheid
Aovement by Anita Jansson

Saturday 9.4, 15:00
Walk in Tensta
with architect Erik Stenberg

Wednesday 13.4, 19:00
Presentation: The Kurdish fight for freedom and
the female guerrilla as radical chic by
curator Övül Ö. Durmusoğlu

Wednesday 6.4, 19:00
Conversation: To find yourself in someone else:
Fashion as identity construction
with Behnaz Aram and Lisa Ehlin

Thursday 10.3, 17:00
Tensta konsthall visits Tempo Documentary Festival
Film screening:
In the Year of the Quiet Sun by The Otolith Group
Transmission from the Liberated Zones by Filipa César

Wednesday 23.3, 19:00
CuratorLab (Konstfack) project
 Reality Production: A performative staging in three scenes
With Tai Shani, Luisa Ungar
and Isak Sundström

 8.12 2015–26.2 2016
Tensta Museum at
Stockholm County Museum

Wednesday 17.2, 16:30
Saturday 20.2, 17:30
Film commissioned by Tensta konsthall
at Berlinale 2016
Transmission from the Liberated Zones
by Filipa César

Wednesday 27.1, 12:00
New Visions
Guided tour by the artists
Rana Begum, David Maljkovic, and Yelena Popova

Wednesday 10.2, 19:00
Book release and talk
Black Transparency by Metahaven

Sunday 17.1, 12:00–19:00
Bodies of Evidence at Tensta konsthall

10.10 2015–10.1 2016
Last chance
Liquidity Inc. by Hito Steyerl

Sunday 25.11, 12:00–15:00
Vegan brunch and Christmas market

Thursday 3.12, 19:00
Screening: The White Game (1968)

Wednesday 9.12, 19:00
Lecture:  
Using the Camera as a Weapon and Testimony:
Remembering  the Political Seventies.  Solidarity Films
on TV 1967–75  by Malin Wahlberg

Thursday 26.10, 15:00
Tour of Spånga church

Monday 23.11 and Tuesday 24.11, 9:00, 11:30, 14:00 
School Film Screening with CinemAfrica

Thursday 26.11, 19:00
Group therapy about the digital life with Showww

Wednesday 4.11, 19:00
Lecture
Africa South of Sahara – Emancipation/Liberation and Decolonization?  by Anders Claréus

Wednesday 11.11, 19:00
Screenings
A Nation’s Birth (1973) and Poetry of Anger (1978)

Wednesday 28.10, 14:00
Screening: Taikon

17.6–4.10 2015
Tensta Museum Continues
with Mats Adelman, Filipa César, Rehearsals,
Nina Svensson & Bernd Krauss och Adam Tensta

Monday 7.9, 19:00
LTTR: Open Lecture by Fanny Ambjörnsson
“When You Grow Up and Marry. On Age,
Heteronormativity and Gender”

Wednesday 19.8, 19:00
LTTR Walkthrough with
Karina Sarkissova and Ofelia Jarl Ortega

Art porch
Wed–Fri 1.7–31.7, 13:00–16:00

Thursday 13.8, 15:00
Guided tour at Eggeby Gård
with Mats Larsell

Thursday 30.7, 15:00
Art and Literature walk in Tensta

Wednesday 5.8, 18:00
LTTR Walkthrough with Renate Lorenz

Saturday 6.6, 14:00
LTTR Walkthrough with
Trifa Shakely and Matts Leiderstam

11.2–3.5 2015
Last chance
Frederick Kiesler: Visions at Work
Annotated by Céline Condorelli
and Six Student Groups

Wednesday 29.4, 19:00
Clémentine Deliss: Collecting life’s unknowns
What Does an Exhibition Do?

Saturday 2.5, 13:00
Jam-session and consert
de:tune Järva

Saturday 25.4, 13:00–16:00
Tea and Coffee Salon
with Women's Center in Tensta-Hjulsta

Wednesday 15.4, 15:00
Student presentation: Talk Show
Mejan Arc, Royal Institute of Art

Thursday 16.4, 16:00
Student presentation: Screening
CuratorLab, Konstfack
How to Live?  Documentation
of Andrea Zittel’s lecture
on Frederick Kiesler

Sunday 19.4 15:00
Book Release
Eurafrica - Europe's Colonial Roots

Monday 23.3, 18:00
de:tune Järva: Lecture
Music of the Future – a crackdown in sound art
and the development of electronic music

Wednesday 25.3, 12:00
Frederick Kiesler: Visions at Work
Student presentation: KTH School of Architechture

Friday 6.3, 12:00
Presentation
collective-conversations with Ricardo Basbaum

Saturday 28.2, 13:00
Book release
Hästa Gård: A Farmhouse on the Countryside in the City
by Erik Sjödin

Tuesday 17.2, 15:00–16:30
Student presentation: Valentina Sansone
CuratorLab, Konsfack
Lecture on Endless House by Florian Medicus
Skype introduction by artist Ian Kiaer

Saturday 10.1, 15:00
Lecture
Lars Bang Larsen: Childhood's End

2.1–4.1, 12:00–16:00
Writing workshop over the Christmas holiday
with Maja Andreasson

Wednesday 17.12, 18:30
Book release
Phantom of Liberty: Contemporary Art
and the Pedagogical Paradox

Friday 12.12, 12:30
Lunch talk about feminism, art and internet

Wednesday 22.10, 18.30
The New Model – A conversation between Gunilla Lundahl, Ane Hjort Guttu and Dave Hullfish Bailey

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

23.6–15.8
Opening hours during summer

Wednesday 17.9, 18:30
Book release Cluster: Dialectionary  with
presentation by Andrea Phillip

Wednesday 10.9, 18:30
Magnus Bärtås invites Lena Séraphin, Suzana Milevska and Michelle Teran

Wednesday 27.8, 18:30
Conversation about Igor Dergalin with Ulf Melander
and Maria Lind

Wednesday 20.8, 17:00
Magnus Bärtås will introduce The Miracle in Tensta (Theoria)

Wednesday 20.8, 18:30
About The New Model with Magnus Bärtås
& Gunilla Lundahl

Wednesday 13.8, 18:00–20:00
Reading regina

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

1.8–3.8 2014
Stockholm Music and Arts
Do It Together

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

 25.7–27.7
TAF! – Photography workshop

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...

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

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, 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?

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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Art and Literature walk

Wednesday 9.8, 15:00 2017  Art and Literature walk in Tensta. The art of Tensta is unknown to many, although it is a wonderful treasure that depicts a brilliant and interesting patchwork of artistic and literary stories. Tensta was home to Lena Andersson as she grew up, as well as Kurdistan’s most famous poet, Sherko Bekas, during the 80s and 90s. In Tensta’s subway, Helga Henschen illustrated the 70s with words such as “solidarity” and a focus on sisterhood. You can see Olof Hellström’s childhood sculptures in Silverpilsparken and Siri Derkert’s last monumental work,  a tribute to environ-mental peace and women warriors, at the school yard of Gullingeskolan. With Emily Fahlén (Tensta konsthall) and Tal Lewinsky (Tensta Library). Meet at Tensta konsthall. As part of Tensta Museum Continues.

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Summer opening: Cana Bilir-Meier, Mariana Silva, James Voorhies

Wednesday 5.7, 17:00–19:30 2017 Cana Bilir-Meier will introduce and show her two films which convey the personal hardship of migration and employment. Mariana Silva will present her online exhibition of artwork and challenging comparison between digital preservation and colonial seizure. James Voorhies will discuss his newly released book Beyond Objecthood examining how and why museum exhibitions have changed over the last 50 years.

Wednesday 5.7, 17:00–19:30 2017 Cana Bilir-Meier will introduce and show her two films which convey the personal hardship of migration and employment. Mariana Silva will present her online exhibition of artwork and challenging comparison between digital preservation and colonial seizure. James Voorhies will discuss his newly released book Beyond Objecthood examining how and why museum exhibitions have changed over the last 50 years.

Programme

17:00–17:45 Introduction to the films Semra Ertan (2013) and Video Tape Index (2016) by Cana Bilir-Meier in the Classroom
18:00–18:30 Presentation by Mariana Silva
19:00–19:30 Talk + release of Beyond Objecthood: The Exhibition as a Critical Form by James Voorhies. Conversation with artist Carsten Höller, James Voorhies, and curating student Piper Ross Ferriter

Presentation: Cana Bilir-Meier

Semra Ertan and Video Tape Index by Cana Bilir-Meier. In 1982, a 25-year-old poet, draughtswoman, and interpreter from Turkey set herself on fire in the German city of Kiel. This violent act was a protest against the racism that she and other migrants where experiencing in Germany. Many of them were guest workers who, in the words of the poet, were used by her old as well as her new homeland: “my country sold us abroad”. The suicide was reported by the media in both countries and triggered the composer Enjott Schneider to compose an octet in memory of the young woman.

Semra Ertan’s story is the starting point for Cana Bilir-Meier’s video Semra Ertan (2013, 7:30 minutes), which can be described as a filmic poem. Fragments of Ertan’s 350 poems, footage from interviews with her, glimpses from the funeral, family photographs, and details of rental contracts are interwoven with “visual pauses”—empty images which help prevent the impression of a seamless story. The film is not a portrait or a biography, but rather an attempt at “respectful handling of her-story”, according the artist herself. Ertan’s poetry, Bilir Meier’s images, and Schneider’s quietly dramatic music remind us of the life and work of a young woman.

In the silent Video Tape Index (2016, 10 minutes), a computer desktop is the stage for the story. Windows are opened and closed as the corser moves back and forth across the screen. Lists with various amounts of money, images of audio and videotapes, old postcards and envelopes with neat handwriting, photographs of a man in 1960s attire in a factory setting and on the beach, and a woman in a long dress in front of a wooden house appear. Newspaper clippings tell the story of guest worker Gani Bilir who in two years sent a record amount of money from Kiel to his wife Vehbiye and the five daughters in Turkey—30.000 DM, enough to build a house.

Interspersed are questions that anybody dealing with research, whether an artist or not, is familiar with: “whose research is it?”, “how will its results be disseminated?”, “who will benefit from it?”, and “who owns it?”. The questions are quotes from Linda Tuhiwai Smith’s 1999 book Decolonizing Methodologies: Research and Indigenous Peoples, which likewise pointed to crucial issues when regarding a family archive.

Cana Bilir-Meier lives and works in Vienna and Munich. She obtained her art degree from Vienna Fine Arts Academy, the Department of Media Arts and Arts and Education, and Sabancı University in Istanbul. She has worked as a teacher, as a guest lecturer in different universities, and in a yearlong artistic-educational based research project of HKW (Haus der Kulturen der Welt) in Berlin from 2016–17. 2015/2016 she was a grantee of the Austrian scholarship „kültür gemma!“, a project which promotes city culture in Vienna as well as migrant art and cultural production. She won the 2016 Birgit Jürgenssen Award for her video works. Since 2016, she has been a member of the selection committee for short films at the Kassel Documentary and Video Festival.

Presentation: The Insect Wing of the Museum by Mariana Silva

At the museum, the moth epidemic continues. Environmentalists are outraged by the institution’s eradication of the infestation in order to protect the collections—privileging preservation over conservation. In Space, Tensta konsthall’s online platform (www.tenstakonsthall.se ), artist Mariana Silva (Lisbon/New York) examines the second wave of digitalization sweeping through western museums. The Annotated Friends of Interpretable Objects (2013–) incorporates two videos, First Digitalizations of Specimens from Nature and First Digitalizations of Museological Artefacts.

Silva filters this 3D-imaging trend through fact and fiction, and poses apt questions about digitalization in an era confounded by the destructive consequences of climate change and war. Her works scrutinize how the relationship between nature and culture is comprehended, the mechanisms framing the historical borders of objecthood and personhood, and the slippery slope from digital preservation to colonial appropriation.

In Silva’s presentation of her ongoing investigation, she will acknowledge the environmentalist’s argument that returning the nearly extinct species to its natural habitat could help recover its ecosystem of origin—as well as the counter argument that just as hives have mutated over the last century, so have infestations. And we have with them. Our crowds, publics, mobs, and masses can still be seen in the Museum of Social Forms. But they are not the same.

Mariana Silva has had exhibitions and screened her work at Gwangju Biennale (2016), Moscow Biennale (2016), EDP Foundation (Lisbon, 2015), Astrup Fearnley Museum (Oslo, 2015), Parkour (Lisbon, 2014), e-flux (New York, 2013), Indie Film Festival (Lisbon, 2012), Whitechapel Gallery (London, 2011), Kunsthalle Lissabon, (Lisbon, 2011), and Serralves Museum for Contemporary Art (Oporto, 2010). Together with artist and writer Pedro Neves Marques, she runs Inhabitants, an online channel for exploratory video and documentary reporting (http://inhabitants-tv.org/).

Beyond Objecthood: The Exhibition as a Critical Form av James Voorhies

Beyond Objecthood focuses on innovative figures, artworks, and institutions that pioneered the exhibition as a critical form, tracing its evolution through the activities of curator Harald Szeemann, relational art, and New Institutionalism. Voorhies examines recent artistic and curatorial work by Liam Gillick, Thomas Hirschhorn, Carsten Höller, Maria Lind, Apolonija Šušteršič, and others, at such institutions as Documenta, e-flux, Manifesta, and Office for Contemporary Art Norway, and he considers the continued potential of the exhibition as a critical form in a time when the differences between art and entertainment increasingly blur.  James Voorhies is a curator and art historian of modern and contemporary art. He is Dean of Fine Arts and Associate Professor at California College of the Arts in San Francisco, and founder of Bureau for Open Culture.

Carsten Höller is a scientist and artist with a decades-long exhibition history of international renown. His interactive installations resemble laboratory experiments that distill the user-experience to the sensorial with unpredictability and irreverence.

Piper Ross Ferriter is an independent curator and curatorial fellow of the School of Visual Arts in New York City.

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Course: History of migration and migration politics

2017 A course in the histories and politics of migration. Featuring, amongst others, Petra Bauer, Peo Hansen, Stefan Jonsson, Shahram Khosravi, Mahmoud Keshavarz, and Ahmet Ögüt.

2017 A course in the histories and politics of migration. Featuring, amongst others, Petra Bauer, Peo Hansen, Stefan Jonsson, Shahram Khosravi, Mahmoud Keshavarz, and Ahmet Ögüt.

When asylum rights are continuously violated and migration is economized, a need is created to counteract knowledge deficiency and stop historical ignorance from spreading. Tensta konsthall has therefore initiated a collaboration with several universities and research institutes, resulting in a multi-disciplinary night class beginning in February 2017. The class covers the history of migration, cross-border policy in Europe and internationally, migration beyond the concept of the nation state, asylum rights, etc. Contemporary art will be a feature throughout the course, as the questions and ideas addressed are at the core of the work exhibited at the konsthall, and artists working with the themes will join the class, sharing ideas and insights. In collaboration with Södertörn University; Stockholm University; REMESO – Institute for Research on Migration, Ethnicity and Society at Linköping University; Royal Institute of Art; and Malmö University. The course starts 8.2 with meetings approximately twice a month.

Note that the course does not give credits.

Application deadline 1.2 2017.

For registration and further information: emily@tenstakonsthall.se

Schedule spring 2017:

Wednesday 8.2, 19:00 Global migration: An introduction by Shahram Khosravi (Stockholm University)

Global migration, especially forced migration, is an important feature of our times. It is characterized by two opposing global trends: one is migration due to political or military conflict, or/and poverty or environmental disasters. The second consists of the increasingly strict migration policies of wealthy countries. Shahram Khosravi (Stockholm University) is the first contributor to Tensta konsthall’s new course in the histories and politics of migration, which runs over two semesters. Khosravi’s lecture will touch on the causes and consequences of migration and provides history as well as a comparison between various parts of the world. In collaboration with Södertörn University; Stockholm University; REMESO—Institute for Research on Migration, Ethnicity and Society at Linköping University; Royal Institute of Art; and Malmö University. The course is fully booked, to get on the waiting list email emily@tenstakonsthall.se.

Saturday 18.2, 14:00 Symposium: Museums in Exile and witness seminar Excavating International Solidarity: Artist Actions, Museography, and Exhibition Histories by Rasha Salti and Kristine Khouri

For the past five years, the curators Kristine Khouri and Rasha Salti have researched the highly unique exhibition The International Art Exhibition for Palestine, which was inaugurated in Beirut in 1978. It was organized by the PLO and consisted of a few hundred artworks donated by artists around the world, including artists like Roberto Matta, Antoni Tàpies, and Joan Miró. The exhibition was meant to be the starting point for a Palestinian museum in exile, and took the form of a touring exhibition until it could be handed over to a free and democratic Palestine. When Israel attacked Beirut in 1982, the archive building was bombed and all of the material was lost. Khouri and Salti trace the history of the exhibition, its organization, and links to artistic solidarity movements and museums in exile of that time.

Wednesday 22.2, 19:00 Borders and irregular immigration by Shahram Khosravi (Stockholm University)

When asylum rights are continuously violated and migration is economized, there is a need created to counteract misinformation and to stop historical ignorance from spreading. In this lecture, Shahram Khosravi, professor of Social Anthropology at Stockholm University, explores boarders and irregular migration in relation to issues such as global (in)security, asylum, and human trafficking.

Wednesday 15.3, 19:00 No entry – The relationship between migration, politics, and aesthetics by Stefan Jonsson (REMESO)

As migration has increased, border crossings have turned into one of the most important political issues, an issue that makes governments fall and sweeps authoritarian leaders to power. What is often forgotten is that migration is simultaneously a political force in its own right, a force of which migrants are the subject. Professor Stefan Jonsson asks what it would mean if policy and research on migration treated migrants as subjects rather than objects and devised new ways of looking at borders, home, identity, and territory. Moreover, how can art, which often questions walls, identities, and lines of demarcation, be important?

Wednesday 5.4, 19:00 EU and the failure of migration policy by Peo Hansen (REMESO)

Peo Hansen lectures on migration and refugee policy in the EU today. Two of the main questions will be: why does the EU believe that it is hit by a refugee and migration crisis, and why do refugees keep dying at Europe's borders? To these questions are added necessary historical and political-economic perspectives. The question of why the current situation arose is answered by a look back at some of the main forces behind migration policies – from the 1950s economic boom to the current economic crisis and austerity policies. Peo Hansen is a professor at REMESO, Linköping University. For registration: emily@tenstakonsthall.se

Wednesday 19.4, 19:00 Migration in the Arts by Petra Bauer (Royal Institute of Art)

How can we understand migration history through the experiences of a local women's association in Tensta or London? The artist Petra Bauer has a particular interest in women's organizations and in political resistance in its most everyday forms. She will introduce her work with Southall Black Sisters, a feminist organization in London that works against the oppression of black women. There will also be a screening of the film Sisters! (2011), which came out of that process. Additionally, Bauer will present the newly initiated project k.ö.k (Kvinnor önskar kollektivitet – Women Desire Collectivity), experimenting with ways to build a feminist institution in the existing Women's Center in Tensta-Hjulsta.

Wednesday 26.4, 19:00 Towards a Transversal Pedagogy and The Silent University by Ahmet Ögüt (Tensta konsthall)

The artist Ahmet Öğüt presents the project The Silent University, a solidarity-based knowledge exchange platform by refugees, asylum seekers, and migrants initiated in 2012. For five years, The Silent University has involved people who, despite having a degree, have been unable to exercise their skills or training because of structural problems and discrimination. Together, the participants have developed lectures, talks, events, archives, and publications. The Silent University exists in various forms in London, Hamburg, Ruhr, Athens, Amman, and Stockholm. Since 2013, the project has been present at Tensta konsthall, currently in the forms of a language cafe and Citizens for citizens with Fahyma Alnablsi.

Thursday 4.5, 19:00 Screening Claudia Del Fierro (Tensta konsthall) 

Screening of the video works El Complejo: Territorio liberado / Liberated territory (2017, Spanish / Swedish with English subtitles, 20 minutes) and El complejo: La Guerrilla, la memoria / The Guerrilla, recollection) (2014, Spanish with English subtitles, 16 minutes) by Claudia Del Fierro. Conversation with the artist and researchers Hans Carlsson and Julia Willén.

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Artist presentation Ylva Westerlund

Saturday 10.6, 15:00 2017 Artist presentation and guided tour of the exhibition The New Hird by Ylva Westerlund. 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.

Saturday 10.6, 15:00 2017 Artist presentation and guided tour of the exhibition The New Hird by Ylva Westerlund. 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.

Between growing up in the small industrial community of Husum and living in Tensta, which has come to be Westerlund’s home and workplace, the artist has developed a distinctly singular view of her surroundings. Both intricate details of the natural environment and panoramic scenes of urban landscapes reveal her engagement with local ecological processes. Her vision of the future through an ecological lens becomes most apparent in a series of cartoons that depict a large explosion de- vastating the Järva area. On first glance, the images appear dystopian, but in Westerlund’s narrative, the catastrophe seems to ignite positive change by sparking the growth of other perspectives and new ideas. Eggeby Farm, where the artist’s studio is located, has long functioned as a gathering place for all sorts of activities. In the past, the building was the vicarage for Spånga Church. Today, the property is owned by the city of Stockholm and is leased by Järva People’s Park (Järva Folkets Park), and is home to horses, three dovecotes, bee hives, a theatre barn, a small sculpture park, and artists’ studios.

Ylva Westerlund studied at Malmö Konsthögskola, 1998–2003. She has participated in numerous exhibitions in Sweden and internationally, including, for example, Contemporary Art Center i Vilnius, 2016, Malmö Konstmuseum 2016, Momentum 9th Nordic Biennal of Contemporary Art in Moss, 2017, and Galleri Krasny, Moskow, 2017.

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Artist presentation by Leonor Antunes

Thursday 1.6, 14:00 2017 Artist presentation by Leonor Antunes. The minimalist installations of Leonor Antunes (Lisbon/Berlin) reveal traces of a twentieth-century modernist architecture. Antunes's works allude to geometric forms and patterns from lesser-known designers and architects, often women. In her research-based installations, furniture designed by Eileen Moray Gray (1878-1976) as well as buildings by the architect Lina Bo Bardi (1914-1992) are interpreted.

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28.6–29.8 Wednesdays–Sundays 12:00–17:00Opening hours during summer

1.6–24.9 2017Discrepancies with G.G. by Leonor Antunes

1.6–24.9 2017 The New Hird by Ylva Westerlund

1.6–3.9 2017Space: The Annotated Friends of Interpretable Objects by Mariana Silva

5.7–24.9 2017Semra Ertan and Audio Tape Index by Cana Bilir-Meier As part of Tensta Museum Continues

Wednesdays–Fridays 13:00–16:00 The Art Porch

Wednesdays 14:00–16:00The Silent University: English Language Café

2017Tensta Museum Continues

New nordic network forart centers

Lithograph by Marie-Louise Ekman Fantasifullt möte (Fantasy Meeting) (2017)

Opening hours during summer

Discrepancies with G.G. by Leonor Antunes

The New Hird by Ylva Westerlund

The Annotated Friends of Interpretable Objects by Mariana Silva

Semra Ertan and Audio Tape Index by Cana Bilir-Meier

Tensta Museum Continues 2017

Screening and conversation: Metahaven

L’hommage: Hall of Femmes

Tours

Guided tours every Thursday and Saturday at 14:00.

Reading Aleksandra Kollontai

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.

The Silent University: English Language Café

The Art Porch

Nordic art network

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.

Siri, Roten och den observerade luftfuktigheten by Pia Sandström

Saturday Drawing with Ylva Westerlund

Lithograph by Marie-Louise Ekman

Women Café

Tensta Talks: Symposium: The Eros Effect: Sound records

The Eros Effect: Art, Solidarity Movements and the Struggle for Social Justice

The Trial: Rossella Biscotti

Citizen to Citizen

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.

Goldin+Senneby in art-agenda

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

Text Prize 2016

Vegan brunch

The Art Detectives

The News Agency

Headless

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.

de:tune Järva

Tensta konsthall Text Prize

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

The Silent University: Swedish Language Café

Homework assistance Individuell människohjälp

The Silent University

Parents group with Rädda Barnen

Cluster

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.

The Sibling Art Centers

COHAB

The New Model

The Fashion Project

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

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.

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.

Gunilla Klingberg: Brand New View—Tensta

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.

Tommy Støckel: Workshop with Ross Tensta Gymnasium and KTH Tensta

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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28.6–29.8
Wednesdays–Sundays 12:00–17:00
Opening hours during summer

1.6–24.9 2017
Discrepancies with G.G. by Leonor Antunes

1.6–24.9 2017
The New Hird by Ylva Westerlund

1.6–3.9 2017
Space: The Annotated Friends of
Interpretable Objects
by Mariana Silva

5.7–24.9 2017
Semra Ertan and Audio Tape Index
by Cana Bilir-Meier
As part of Tensta Museum Continues

Wednesdays–Fridays 13:00–16:00
The Art Porch

Wednesdays 14:00–16:00
The Silent University: English Language Café

2017
Tensta Museum Continues

New nordic network for
art centers

Lithograph by Marie-Louise Ekman  
Fantasifullt möte (Fantasy Meeting) (2017)

Discrepancies with G.G. by Leonor Antunes 

The Annotated Friends of Interpretable Objects by Mariana Silva 

Lithograph by Marie-Louise Ekman  

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.

Contact

Asrin Haidari, Press Officer
asrin (at) tenstakonsthall.se
T: +46 8 36 07 63

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Måns Wrange 

Christopher Kulendran Thomas 

Wednesday 5.7, 17:00–19:30
Summer opening:
Cana Bilir-Meier, Mariana Silva, James Voorhies

Thursday 1.6, 14:00
Artist presentation: Leonor Antunes

Saturday 10.6, 15:00
Artist presentation by Ylva Westerlund

Spring Dates
2017

Tuesday 9.5, 18:00
Talk and screening:
Palestinian Cinema:
Solidarity Through Film

What Does an Archive Do?
A seminar series
Next up: Wednesday 10.5, 19:00 Seeing Revolution Non-linearly by Alisa Lebow

1.2–7.5
It is Not Necessary to
Understand Everything by Naeem Mohaiemen

1.2–7.5
Autonomy Cube by Trevor Paglen 

1.2–7.5
Same Time Next Day
by Emily Fahlén & Ahmet Ögüt

Friday 5.5, 10:00–17:00
Symposium
Contested Histories From El Complejo:
The Intersection Between Erasure and Remembrance

28.9 2016–25.3 2017
Space
The Wrong Side of Me by Agnieszka Polska

Saturday 22.4, 14:00
City walk in Tensta with Erik Stenberg

Tuesday 7.3, 19:00
Lecture: Feminism in the suburbs
with Johanna Gullberg and
Nattalie Ström Bunpuckdee

Wednesday 22.3, 19:00
Last Man in Dhaka Central
(The Young Man Was, Part III)
by Naeem Mohaiemen

 Saturday 25.3, 14:00
Artist talk by Trevor Paglen

Wednesday 1.2, 19:00
Artist presentation: Naeem Mohaiemen

Thursday, 2.2, 19:00
Lecture: Curating audio visual
cultural heritage: Thoughts on
diversity, archives, and memory
by Dagmar Brunow