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Friday 24.6
We are closed due to Midsummer's Eve

19.3 - 28.8 2022
Current exhibition - Hurting and Healing: Let’s Imagine a Different Heritage

11.6 2022
Art Saturday - Introductions to the current exhibition every hour

Summer opening hours
Starting 13.6

Starting 13.6
The Art Porch with Anna Nordström

20 - 23.6 2022
Green Summer Camp at Taxingeplan

12.6 - 2021
Tensta's Magical Wormholes by Bella Rune

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Midsummer

Friday 24.6, Midsummer's Eve, we are closed
Open again Monday 27.6 at 11

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Summer Opening Hours

Opening hours from 13.6 until 18.8 2022:

Mondag - Friday 11 - 17
Saturday and Sunday closed

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Art Porch with Anna Nordström

Tuesday - Thursday 14.6 - 18.8 2022: The Art Porch
This summer, the Art Porch, our open, recurring activity focusing on crafting, will work on a new cooperative piece in the form of a curtain for the Classroom. During a number of weeks, in a project, lead by the artist Apolonija Šušteršič and under the guidance of the textile artist Anna Nordström, a collective textile work will be created out of fabrics with memories from far and near.

THE CLASSROOM at Tensta konsthall is used daily as a room for homework, for the Language Café and the Women’s café and since many years it has been re-decorated by different artists, as for instance, Olivia Plender and Christian Nyampeta. Drop in. no fees.

ANNA NORDSTRÖM

Stockholm based Anna Nordström is an artist who graduated from Konstfack in 2012. In her textile practice, she uses traditional as well as self innovated techniques with wich she creates an imagery inspired by classical art history as well as by commercials and everyday signs, public information, digital symbols and from life. Among others, she has exhibited at Hälsinglands museum, London Design Fair and Amala Gallery in Tokyo.

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Green Art Camp - Gardening course at Taxingeplan

20 - 23.6 2022 GREEN SUMMER CAMP: Gardening course at Taxingeplan

When: 20-23 June 11-13

Together with our art mediator George Chamoun and special co-star Fahyma Alnablsi, also engaged in Orten Odlar. We learn basics about gardening, seeds, watering, soil and harvesting. A lighter lunch is served. Register to George Chamoun. Where: Taxingeplan, outside Tensta konsthall. Ages: 7-16 years (parents are welcome). The project was realized with the support of Familjebostäder, Stockholmshem and Svenska Bostäder

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Art Saturday

Saturday 11.6 2022- Art Saturday - tours and short introductions to our current exhibition all day.

12 - 17

12: Tensta konsthall opens

-13: Special introduction - Hurting and Healing - cultural heritage and colonialism in the Nordic countries with curator Susanne Ewerlöf

14: Short introduction to all 13 works in the exhibition with curator student from the Royal Academy of Art Katinka Saarnak

15: Introduction in Arabic by Fahyma Alnablsi

15.30: Introduction in Somali by Asha Mohammed

16: The Refugee camp as a cultural heritage, introduction to the major work in the exhibition Refugee Heritage by DAAR (Alessandro Petti & Sandi Hilal) by Paulina Sokolow

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Sonic Insurrections with Nombuso Mathibela

26.3 2022 Sonic Insurrections with Nombuso Mathibela

Sonic Insurrections is a series of public gatherings that present sound and listening as sites of affect, memory, solidarity, pulse, rhythm and spirituality. We delve into sound for its history, situatedness and processes to map out an ‘otherwise’.

From the standpoint of thinking of ‘an otherwise’ we affirm attempts to undo the definition of heritage as “denoting or relating to special architectural, historical or natural values that are preserved for the nation.” With this definition, we come to notions of heritage as material, historical and as part of world-making and nation-building. However, nation-building is fraught with violence, war and anti-Blackness. If heritage is aligned with this context, what makes connection across borders possible? We do not have exact answers but we sense that music and sound perforate these demarcations allowing connectivity within Black communities and beyond.

26.3 2022 Sonic Insurrections with Nombuso Mathibela

Sonic Insurrections is a series of public gatherings that present sound and listening as sites of affect, memory, solidarity, pulse, rhythm and spirituality. We delve into sound for its history, situatedness and processes to map out an ‘otherwise’.

From the standpoint of thinking of ‘an otherwise’ we affirm attempts to undo the definition of heritage as “denoting or relating to special architectural, historical or natural values that are preserved for the nation.” With this definition, we come to notions of heritage as material, historical and as part of world-making and nation-building. However, nation-building is fraught with violence, war and anti-Blackness. If heritage is aligned with this context, what makes connection across borders possible? We do not have exact answers but we sense that music and sound perforate these demarcations allowing connectivity within Black communities and beyond.

Sonic Insurrections responds to Hurting and Healing in two iterations. The first takes place at Tensta konsthall and includes an onsite introduction by the curators of the series, Tawanda Appiah and Mmabatho Thobejane, and an online performative talk and vinyl set by Nombuso Mathibela. The second takes the form of a listening session at the Royal Institute of Art’s Listening Room. More information about this iteration will soon be released.

18:30 – 19:00 - Introduction: Tawanda Appiah and Mmabatho Thobejane

19:00 – 19:30 - Performative talk: “the personality of Black sonics” by Nombuso Mathibela

19:30 – 19:50 - Q&A

19:50 – 20:50 - Vinyl set + Listening Session by Nombuso Mathibela

Nombuso Mathibela is a South African cultural worker, writer, educator, sonic practitioner

and vinyl selector. She is the cultural political educator for the African Ecofeminist Collective

that works on anti-capitalist ecological justice, political art education and histories. Much of

her work aims to question and account for the cultural instincts that inform Black sonic

aesthetics through dance and performance and situates these forms within a collective

class consciousness ethic. Her sonic selections move against prescribed form, borders,

across seas, only for dancers, and sometimes a bit obsessed with the seventies but always

reflecting the soulful palettes of Black life.

Mmabatho Thobejane (she/her) is a curator, producer and writer currently based in Stockholm, Sweden. She graduated from the University of Cape Town with a BCom (Finance and Economics) in 2016 and a BA(Hons) in Curatorship in 2017. She received a Masters in Curating from Stockholm University in 2021. She currently splits her time between being the process leader and curator at Grafikens Hus, for the project Samlande Tankar/Collecting Thoughts, and as a producer at MDT, located at Skeppsholmen, Stockholm. Her curatorial practice focuses on centering Black creative practices and her writing practices centers and excavates Black Indigenous knowing, sense and unfolding.

Tawanda Appiah is a Zimbabwean independent curator, researcher and writer based in Malmö, Sweden. He is part of Njelele Art Station and previously worked as a co-curator at Skånes konstförening and Curator of Education & Public Programming at the National Gallery of Zimbabwe. In 2021 he co-curated the GIBCA Extended exhibition – Comforting the machine. Other projects and interventions include No Country Like (Skånes konstförening, 2018); Better Safe and Sorry (Moderna Museet, 2018); On Practices (Malmö Konsthall and Skånes konstförening, 2019); To Where Are We Beautifully Going? (2020); in(visible) (Malmö Konstmuseum, 2021). Appiah sits on various boards including Paletten Art Journal.

The events are organized in collaboration with the Nordic Art Association

Image: Nombuso Mathibela, photographer: Andile Buka

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Hurting and Healing: Let’s Imagine a Different Heritage

19.3 - 28.8 2022 Hurting and Healing: Let’s Imagine a Different Heritage

This spring's exhibition at Tensta konsthall poses the following question: How can the understanding of cultural heritage be decolonized by societies and organizations shaped by European knowledge systems? In this project, Charles Esche, director of the Van Abbemuseum and Tensta konsthall engage in dialogue with a number of artworks, artists, researchers and guest curators with the purpose of looking closer at how western-centric perception of cultural heritage can be challenged and redefined.

Opening program Saturday 19.3:

Doors open 12

12 - 14 For children: Watercolor workshop under the guidance of our art mediator George Chamoun

15 Hurting and Healing: Rethinking heritage today. Conversation with the exhibition curator Charles Esche, Tensta konsthall’s curator Susanne Ewerlöf, Alessandro Petti & Sandi Hilal (DAAR), Renzo Martens, Katarina Pirak Sikku, Dina El Kaisy Friemuth and all artists present. In English

Presentation of the program Sonic Insurrections curated by Tawanda Appiah and Mmabatho Thobejane

17 Al Madhafah invites you to visit a number of Tensta’s citizens who will open up their homes for the evening. Each host can welcome a small group of guests and will serve tea and delicious vegetarian food. Once there, you will have the chance to see DAAR’s (Sandi Hilal / Alessandro Petti) project Refugee Heritage in the form of unique books that represent the Palestinan villages from which people were expelled in 1948. Please note, to participate you need to register. Send an email to paulina@tenstakonsthall.se Read more here.

During the opening Tensta konsthall’s staff is available in the exhibition for spontaneous introductions in Swedish, English, Arabic and Somali.

19.3 - 28.8 2022 Hurting and Healing: Let’s Imagine a Different Heritage

This spring's exhibition at Tensta konsthall poses the following question: How can the understanding of cultural heritage be decolonized by societies and organizations shaped by European knowledge systems? In this project, Charles Esche, director of the Van Abbemuseum and Tensta konsthall engage in dialogue with a number of artworks, artists, researchers and guest curators with the purpose of looking closer at how western-centric perception of cultural heritage can be challenged and redefined.

Opening program Saturday 19.3:

Doors open 12

12 - 14 For children: Watercolor workshop under the guidance of our art mediator George Chamoun

15 Hurting and Healing: Rethinking heritage today. Conversation with the exhibition curator Charles Esche, Tensta konsthall’s curator Susanne Ewerlöf, Alessandro Petti & Sandi Hilal (DAAR), Renzo Martens, Katarina Pirak Sikku, Dina El Kaisy Friemuth and all artists present. In English

Presentation of the program Sonic Insurrections curated by Tawanda Appiah and Mmabatho Thobejane

17 Al Madhafah invites you to visit a number of Tensta’s citizens who will open up their homes for the evening. Each host can welcome a small group of guests and will serve tea and delicious vegetarian food. Once there, you will have the chance to see DAAR’s (Sandi Hilal / Alessandro Petti) project Refugee Heritage in the form of unique books that represent the Palestinan villages from which people were expelled in 1948. Please note, to participate you need to register. Send an email to paulina@tenstakonsthall.se Read more here.

The exhibition has its origins in Palestine and in a close working relationship between Esche and the artists/architects Sandi Hilal and Alessandro Petti. In their Refugee Heritage, they speculate on what would happen if the Dheisheh refugee camp in Palestine was designated a UNESCO World Heritage Site, and afforded the same status as, say, the Pyramids of Giza, Birka or the Taj Mahal. The installation, which consists of light boxes and photo albums, makes reference to the camp and its relations with the Palestinan villages from which people were driven out in 1948. Dheisheh, created in 1949, can be understood as a permanently temporary society within a stateless nation, existing both in adherence and in contradiction to the UN regulations. By proposing it as something to preserve and nurture, the conditions for how a world heritage site can emerge are shifted for a moment. Can exile take us towards a different understanding of the need for a nation state? What should be preserved once the occupation of Palestine is a historical memory?

From this central question, the exhibition contains a series of works that each present concrete proposals for how new cultural heritage can be imagined, or shift, twist and turn existing perceptions of how the past works in our time and in the future. Several works address the historical colonial exploitation, inequality and devastation caused by global capitalism. As for example Jonas Staal's documentary images from Rojava, images that depict the process to establish democratic confederalism in the Kurdish area of North Syria, and Taus Makhacheva's balancing act, in which museum paintings are moved between mountaintops in the Caucasus Mountains by a tight-rope walker, and an installation by Otobong Nkanga addressing the subject of land exploitation in Brazil, Namibia and locally. Also in the exhibition is Renzo Martens & CATPC's portrayal of a conflict over cultural heritage between a group of artists from the Democratic Republic of Congo and an American museum. The exhibition will also present works by Katarina Pirak Sikku, FCNN, Jeannette Ehlers & La Vaughn Belle, and others, all of which relate to Scandinavia's colonial past and future.

Many of the works belong to the Van Abbemuseum in Eindhoven, which has processed its colonial history together with artists in a number of exhibitions, seminars and publications over the last few years. In conjunction with the exhibition, an extensive programme will be presented in dialogue with art historian Mårten Snickare, who teaches postcolonial studies at the Stockholm University, and who researched the colonial trophies of the days of the Swedish Empire, and speculated on the potential futures of those specific museum objects. The programme series ”En annan blick på…” ["Another look at…"] consists of a sequence of visits to places and collections, with the overall purpose of sparking discussions on how our notions of cultural heritage have shifted over the centuries, as colonialism, post- and neo-colonialism have brought us to where we are today.

Two events are organized in collaboration with curators Tawanda Appiah and Mmabatho Thobejane, which will deal with how sound has been perceived and used as cultural heritage by Black groups all over the world. In their work, they place the discussion on cultural heritage around the immaterial, beyond nation-building, and try sound as a place for affect, memory, pulse, solidarity and spirituality across space and time. They depart from, and expand on, Black sonic traditions to explore how these are lived and experienced in a Swedish context, and how they overlap with traditions from the African continent and broader diaspora. The two events encompass performances, deep listening sessions, and (re)interpretations of musical archives, engage various artists and are organised in collaboration with Lyssningsrummet at the Royal Institute of Art.

During the spring, an anti-racist book club for young adults, which will be focused on the study of Frantz Fanon's classic The Wretched of the Earth (1961), a treatise on racism, power structures and colonialism. The group will meet for four Tuesday evening sessions, to discuss the current situation and their own experiences in relation to the history of racism, and the ideas that have made Fanon one of the most important thinkers of our time. All participants receive a complimentary copy of the book. The book club will be led by Shahram Khosravi, Professor of social anthropology at the Stockholm University, and is produced in collaboration with Tensta Library.

Participating artists: Brook Andrew, DAAR (Decolonizing Architecture Art Research) Sandi Hilal & Alessandro Petti, Jeannette Ehlers & La Vaughn Belle, FCNN (Feminist Collective with No Name), Edi Hila, Patricia Kaersenhout, Manjot Kaur, Taus Makhacheva, Rabih Mroué, Renzo Martens & CATPC (Cercle d’Art des Travailleurs de Plantation Congolaise), Otobong Nkanga, Katarina Pirak Sikku and Jonas Staal.

The exhibition is produced in collaboration with the Van Abbemuseum in Eindhoven and the programme is carried out together with The Royal Institute of Art, Mårten Snickare / Accelerator and Tensta Library with the support of the Mondriaan Fund and the Delegation of Flanders / Embassy of Belgium.

Image: Refugee Heritage

DAAR - Sandi Hilal and Alessandro Petti

Photographic documentation: Luca Capuano

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Tensta

Permanently Tensta’s Magical Wormholes by Bella Rune, 2021

Mobile app, sprayed patterns on asphalt

Did you notice the five stenciled, spray-painted patterns on the asphalt at Taxingeplan? There’s a simple flower, two doves with a year, a paisley-figure, a tulip-form and an abstract pattern. What you see is Tensta’s Magical Wormholes. For Tensta konsthall, the artist Bella Rune has created five portals into other worlds. Visit the app-store on your cell-phone, download the app Tensta’s Magic Wormholes and follow the instructions.

In Bella Rune’s project Tensta’s Magical Wormholes, doors open into other worlds and to other ways of perceiving reality. And since Taxingeplan is a highly cosmopolitan place, where many languages are spoken and where there’s room for experiences from all over the world, there’s a good chance of making long distance connections there, maybe even intergalactic ones.

Permanently Tensta’s Magical Wormholes by Bella Rune, 2021

Mobile app, sprayed patterns on asphalt

Did you notice the five stenciled, spray-painted patterns on the asphalt at Taxingeplan? There’s a simple flower, two doves with a year, a paisley-figure, a tulip-form and an abstract pattern. What you see is Tensta’s Magical Wormholes. For Tensta konsthall, the artist Bella Rune has created five portals into other worlds. Visit the app-store on your cell-phone, download the app Tensta’s Magic Wormholes and follow the instructions.

In Bella Rune’s project Tensta’s Magical Wormholes, doors open into other worlds and to other ways of perceiving reality. And since Taxingeplan is a highly cosmopolitan place, where many languages are spoken and where there’s room for experiences from all over the world, there’s a good chance of making long distance connections there, maybe even intergalactic ones.

With our cell phones, we exist in the interface between something private, with our thoughts and net, and in the midst of the public. We are simultaneously both still and moving freely in our thoughts. Together with participants from the Women’s Café at Tensta konsthall, Bella Rune has searched for textile patterns that lead us into both close and distant stories. Events that have taken place recently or long ago. One could say that she is interested in how people communicate, organize and get together around textiles and the digital, no matter if it’s for protecting or decorating oneself or to create something in a collective activity. Textile has connected people from all over the world and it has been a central part of trade between countries and continents. Patterns and materials have travelled, been admired and reinterpreted. With Tensta’s Magical Wormholes, unexpected things can happen in familiar places.

About the patterns:

1. Tulip

Everyone loves tulips and many of us associate them with the Netherlands, where cultivation and exporting became a mega-industry in the 1600s, which even caused the first financial bubble in Europe. But the story behind the tulip is older than that. Historians have spotted tulips at least as early as in the eleventh century in Persia, today’s Iran. Later, the flower arrived in Europe via the Ottoman Empire. The name, tulip, is said to originate from the Turkish tülbend (muslin-cloth) and partly from the Persian delband (turban). The tulip-pattern was found on a tablecloth belonging to Muna al Yakoobi, who leads the Women’s Café, which she had brought here from Turkey.

2. An embroidery in the form of doves

Memories often come in the form of textiles. Dresses, cloths or curtains. Objects that are easy to bring from one place to another. This fact makes many patterns travel far and leads them to be saved and stored in new homes. In this case, it’s about a lady’s bag that has been preserved as a memory after a tragic event connected to the year 1966. For the family, this was a way to honor the memory after someone whose grave, for various reasons, can’t be visited. At the same time, the motif brings hope for the future; that the soul of the one who has passed might have returned as a dove up at the Tensta centrum.

3. Paisley-patterns

This pattern comes and goes regularly in fashion. Still. The paisley-pattern is much appreciated on ties, shawls and dresses. The drop-shaped patterns originate from Persia and India. The symbols of flowers and plants are connected to happiness, success and fertility. The name paisley comes from the Scottish city of Paisley, which promoted the pattern as its own. The pumpkin that pops up on your screen refers to the flourishing harvests which come up from the soil in Tensta konsthall’s own allotment, where Fahyma Alnablsi, our colleague, prefers to lead the Language Café. Here, they do not only grow the usual plants: just like patterns, seeds have travelled in pockets and via mail, journeying from all corners of the world to end up in new soil. Another funny aspect is that pumpkin in German is Kürbis, which is the origin of the famous Dalecarlian decoration technique.

4. Abstract patterns

A very appreciated face in Tensta is Emma Drarr. Few who have tasted her home-roasted coffee or Ethiopian traditional food will ever forget it. During the years when she ran the restaurant at Tensta konsthall, Auel Coffee, visiting her was as much of a highlight as the art, and people from all over the city came just to enjoy it. Emma is also known for loving to dress up in beautiful clothes. One of her dresses that she wore one day had a familiar pattern, namely a type of decoration that you find inside the famous underground, cross-shaped church in Lalibela, Ethiopia, built in the thirteenth century and cut directly out of the mountain. It’s this magnificent building that appears when you direct the screen towards the pattern.

5. Flower

During the summer 2021 and the project Aktion Taxingeplan, many members of the staff were on vacation and one of the people who ran the daily activities was Fredda Berg, who is trained both as an artist and as a nurse. An outgoing person skilled in both artists’ processes and health care. On one of his legs, he has a tattoo in the same shape as the flower on the asphalt. In a way, the ewer and the flower personify Fredda, a colleague and friend who mediates art as much as he cares about other people’s well-being. He makes it grow in the concrete!

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13.6 – 12.12 2020: The Little Gallery - Body to Body New work by Åsa Norberg & Jennie Sundén

In their practice, the artist duo Åsa Norberg and Jennie Sundén, unite textile history with pedagogical innovators throughout time. As curious researchers, they dive into different pedagogical worlds of ideas, dealing with the connections between play, democracy and the building of a community as a contrast to authoritarian methods and fixed truths.

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Women

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

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Futures: Katharina Berndt Rasmussen and Moa Bursell

20.11 18:30 Futures: Katharina Berndt Rasmussen and Moa Bursell

Katharina Berndt Rasmussen
Imagine Linda, a business woman with strong anti-racist values. Despite her explicit values, she employs only light-skinned people, with Swedish-sounding names. Can we explain the difference between her explicit values and actual behaviour? A similar situation exists on the social level: Sweden is a liberal democracy with strong, anti-discrimination laws that forbid ethnic discrimination. According to very recent investigations, racist attitudes are on the decline amongst Swedes and a clear majority declare positive attitudes towards multiplicity. However, despite this, statistics indicate a widespread ethnic segregation and discrimination. How can this discrepancy be explained on both the individual and social level?

During the last 10-15 years, social science researchers have identified correlations between discriminating behaviour and so-called implicit prejudices. They have shown that these prejudices can contradict an individual’s explicit values and that they exist in all of us. Research results can contribute to explaining observed ethnic discrimination on the individual level — as in Linda’s case — and on the societal level.

But what should we do, as individuals and in society in general, to counteract our implicit prejudices and their effects? One answer to this question requires a moral philosophical perspective, in addition to the social scientific one. I will talk about moral philosophical questions such as: can Linda really be held responsible for implicit prejudices that she is unaware of? Should we blame or censure her? And how far should we go in our attempts to counteract implicit prejudices?

Self-presentation: I am a researcher in practical philosophy at the Institute for Future Studies. My areas of philosophical interest include political philosophy, moral philosophy and feminist philosophy. I have previously carried out research on democracy, discrimination, sexism, racism, harm and justice. In my present research I examine the moral philosophical implications that accompany empirical research on implicit bias. I received my PhD in 2013 at Stockholm University, with the thesis Democracy and the Common Good: A Study of the Weighted Majority Rule. The thesis was awarded the Stockholm University Association’s prize for the best thesis in the Humanities at Stockholm University. I am a university instructor, teaching courses in critical thinking, feminist philosophy, modern political philosophy and normative ethics. I am also editorial assistant for Tidskrift för Politisk Filosofi (the journal of political philosophy), a member of SWIP-Sweden (the Society for Women in Philosophy Sweden) and engaged in the public debate concerning issues such as equality, justice and democracy.

Moa Bursell: Can We Counteract Prejudices That We Don’t Know We Have?

Ethnic discrimination creates an unequal access to resources and opportunities. This relates not least to encounters between citizens and authorities, when ethnic background can affect, for instance, a civil servant’s judgement of how social welfare should be distributed or to encounters between employers and job applicants, when the assessment of the applicant’s qualifications or merits can be influenced.

Discriminatory judgements can depend on implicit — that is, unconscious — values that influence individuals without their knowing it. However, there are studies showing that these implicit negative attitudes can be reduced — or alternatively, controlled — at least temporarily through various psychological exercises. But we still don’t know whether these changes are temporary or permanent. Neither do we know if a reduction of implicit negative attitudes or increased control over them has any significant effect on the real assessments and decisions that employers and civil servants make concerning employment or distribution of welfare. I will present existing research in this area and discuss the form in which efforts to counteract unconscious prejudices might take.

Self-presentation: I am a researcher in sociology at the Institute for Future Studies. In 2012 I defended my PhD thesis, Ethnic Discrimination, Name Change and Labour Market Inequality — Mixed Approaches to Ethnic Exclusion in Sweden. I have continued to research ethnic discrimination in the labour market, and on discrimination in encounters between citizens and public institutions.

20.11 18:30 Futures: Katharina Berndt Rasmussen and Moa Bursell

Katharina Berndt Rasmussen
Imagine Linda, a business woman with strong anti-racist values. Despite her explicit values, she employs only light-skinned people, with Swedish-sounding names. Can we explain the difference between her explicit values and actual behaviour? A similar situation exists on the social level: Sweden is a liberal democracy with strong, anti-discrimination laws that forbid ethnic discrimination. According to very recent investigations, racist attitudes are on the decline amongst Swedes and a clear majority declare positive attitudes towards multiplicity. However, despite this, statistics indicate a widespread ethnic segregation and discrimination. How can this discrepancy be explained on both the individual and social level?

During the last 10-15 years, social science researchers have identified correlations between discriminating behaviour and so-called implicit prejudices. They have shown that these prejudices can contradict an individual’s explicit values and that they exist in all of us. Research results can contribute to explaining observed ethnic discrimination on the individual level — as in Linda’s case — and on the societal level.

But what should we do, as individuals and in society in general, to counteract our implicit prejudices and their effects? One answer to this question requires a moral philosophical perspective, in addition to the social scientific one. I will talk about moral philosophical questions such as: can Linda really be held responsible for implicit prejudices that she is unaware of? Should we blame or censure her? And how far should we go in our attempts to counteract implicit prejudices?

Self-presentation: I am a researcher in practical philosophy at the Institute for Future Studies. My areas of philosophical interest include political philosophy, moral philosophy and feminist philosophy. I have previously carried out research on democracy, discrimination, sexism, racism, harm and justice. In my present research I examine the moral philosophical implications that accompany empirical research on implicit bias. I received my PhD in 2013 at Stockholm University, with the thesis Democracy and the Common Good: A Study of the Weighted Majority Rule. The thesis was awarded the Stockholm University Association’s prize for the best thesis in the Humanities at Stockholm University. I am a university instructor, teaching courses in critical thinking, feminist philosophy, modern political philosophy and normative ethics. I am also editorial assistant for Tidskrift för Politisk Filosofi (the journal of political philosophy), a member of SWIP-Sweden (the Society for Women in Philosophy Sweden) and engaged in the public debate concerning issues such as equality, justice and democracy.

Moa Bursell: Can We Counteract Prejudices That We Don’t Know We Have?

Ethnic discrimination creates an unequal access to resources and opportunities. This relates not least to encounters between citizens and authorities, when ethnic background can affect, for instance, a civil servant’s judgement of how social welfare should be distributed or to encounters between employers and job applicants, when the assessment of the applicant’s qualifications or merits can be influenced.

Discriminatory judgements can depend on implicit — that is, unconscious — values that influence individuals without their knowing it. However, there are studies showing that these implicit negative attitudes can be reduced — or alternatively, controlled — at least temporarily through various psychological exercises. But we still don’t know whether these changes are temporary or permanent. Neither do we know if a reduction of implicit negative attitudes or increased control over them has any significant effect on the real assessments and decisions that employers and civil servants make concerning employment or distribution of welfare. I will present existing research in this area and discuss the form in which efforts to counteract unconscious prejudices might take.

Self-presentation: I am a researcher in sociology at the Institute for Future Studies. In 2012 I defended my PhD thesis, Ethnic Discrimination, Name Change and Labour Market Inequality — Mixed Approaches to Ethnic Exclusion in Sweden. I have continued to research ethnic discrimination in the labour market, and on discrimination in encounters between citizens and public institutions.

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Futures is a series of seminars at Tensta konsthall in collaboration with the Institute for Future Studies, for presentation throughout 2018

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

In this lecture series, some of the themes and phenomena that will influence future developments will be discussed. How can democracy survive in a globalised world, where the importance of nation states is declining and technique and communication corporations are gaining more and more influence? Within what time frame do we need to think about “futures”? Do studies of the future need a Copernican turn with less human-centrism and a different conception of intelligence? How are tomorrow’s values affected by the waves of immigrants and new social media? New ways to discriminate against people have been seen recently — how can efforts against such kinds of injustice be reinforced? Does the survival of humankind depend on possibilities to leave our planet and move elsewhere in cosmos?

The seminar series is part of Tensta konsthall’s 20th anniversary.

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Futures

2018 A series of seminars at Tensta konsthall in collaboration with the Institute for Future Studies, for presentation throughout 2018

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

2018 A series of seminars at Tensta konsthall in collaboration with the Institute for Future Studies, for presentation throughout 2018

The seminar series is part of Tensta konsthall’s 20th anniversary.

Tuesday 20 March, 18:30 Metahaven and Benjamin Bratton

Benjamin Bratton: Trump Win + Calif Legal Weed x Universal Secessionism/Withdrawal = Bullish on VR Stocks?

The rise of idiocratic ethno-nationalism in global politics puts many things in question, including the “future” in “design futures”. Design of what and for what? Tomorrowland or Mad Max? It does not, however, change the reality of our systems-scale design problems. While there are many reasons to be suspicious of those whose main entitlement is to stand earnestly against the real, we may do the same for those whose main alibi is simple “futurism”. Among the main reasons is the conventional definition of “the future” as a time ten to fifty years from now. The year 2050 CE is not the future. For systems design we are designing 2050 today, and doing poorly so for the most part. Additionally, the alternative alibi of presentism — that “the real world” requires only the most myopic forms of stakeholder utilitarianism without further abstraction — is precisely what makes the deferral into some future or past even possible in the first place. Presentism and futurism conspire to validate an intuitive sense of cause and effect bound within an autobiographical tempo of life and death. In contrast with the dumb heuristics of human-centered design, we should presume that subjective “user” experiences of cause and effect are flawed, and insufficient for modelling solutions directly, and so we must continue to look elsewhere.

A Copernican turn in design that I would champion focuses on how intelligence is imbued in accumulating layers of material technologies (grammar, the grave, the GPU, etc.) allow successive generations to build on or against them and to automate processes for escaping intuitive and arbitrary cognitive biases, not reinforcing their chauvinisms. The world is a model open to design and designation, not by human mastery and self-reflection over its sovereign domain, but because our planet uses humans to know itself and remake itself. We are the medium, not the message.

Self-presentation: Benjamin H. Bratton's work spans philosophy, art, design and computer science. He is Professor of Visual Arts and Director of the Center for Design and Geopolitics at the University of California, San Diego. He is Program Director of the Strelka Institute of Media, Architecture and Design in Moscow. He is also a Professor of Digital Design at The European Graduate School and Visiting Faculty at SCI_Arc (The Southern California Institute of Architecture). Twitter @bratton   In The Stack: On Software and Sovereignty (MIT Press, 2016. 503 pages) Bratton outlines a new theory for the age of global computation and algorithmic governance. He proposes that different genres of planetary scale computation — smart grids, cloud platforms, mobile apps, smart cities, the Internet of Things, automation — can be seen not as so many species evolving on their own, but as forming a coherent whole: an accidental megastructure that is both a computational infrastructure and a new governing architecture. The book plots an expansive interdisciplinary design brief for The Stack-to-Come. See thestack.org

Metahaven: Skopje’s Megastructure

In 1963, the Macedonian capital of Skopje was hit by a massive earthquake. The Japanese architect and urbanist Kenzō Tange, figurehead of the metabolist movement, was commissioned to design a new master plan for Skopje. The plan was realised, yet never completed. Today, Tange’s megastructure for Skopje lies buried, part in memory, imagination, and possibility. Here and there, his spaceship surfaces as a post office or brutalist housing block.

Since 2014, the Macedonian government has brandished a wave of gold-painted sculptural interventions around the city. Known as the baroquization project, the endeavour was somehow meant to stimulate Skopje’s sense of grandeur and Macedonia’s sense of historical identity in the face of an uncertain future and a dicey geopolitical climate. Is Skopje’s baroquization a “mobile technology appropriation in a distant mirror?” Plastic-gold post-internet statues now sit on top of Tange’s hidden megastructure, literally. The white formica dictator chic upholsters the Chandigarh of South-eastern Europe, and this is not an end but just a beginning. Skopje tells us things about the politics of interface — as in the music video of Oneohtrix Point Never — Problem Areas — while during the 2016 US election, in the formerly thriving industrial town of Veles in Central Macedonia, bored teenagers earned tens of thousands of dollars by running pro-Trump fake news websites. There is nothing to worry about. There are only more interfaces than there are eyes. And there is more truth than there is reality. There is no planetary-scale plan for this.

Self-presentation: Founded by Vinca Kruk and Daniel van der Velden, Metahaven’s practice spans filmmaking, installation, writing and design to provoke new imaginaries that are equally bound to aesthetics, poetics, and politics. Recent solo presentations include Truth Futurism, Futura, Prague (2017) Information Skies, Auto Italia, London (2016), and Mumbai Art Room, Bombay (2016), The Sprawl, YBCA, San Francisco (2015), Black Transparency, Future Gallery, Berlin (2014), and Islands in the Cloud, MoMA PS1, New York (2013). Recent group exhibitions include the Sharjah Biennial 2017, Sharjah, UAE, Fear & Love, Design Museum, London (2016), Dream Out Loud, Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam (2016), The Eighth Climate (What Does Art Do?), the 11th Gwangju Biennale (2016), All of This Belongs to You, Victoria & Albert Museum, London (2015), Private Settings: Art After the Internet, Museum of Modern Art Warsaw (2014), and Frozen Lakes, Artists Space, New York (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 are the designers of Tensta konsthall’s visual communication since 2011. Metahaven’s full-length documentary, The Sprawl (Propaganda about Propaganda), premiered at the International Film Festival Rotterdam in 2016. Its successor, a short film titled Information Skies, was shot and edited in 2016 and was nominated for the 2017 European Film Awards. Metahaven’s film Possessed (in collaboration with Rob Schröder) premiered at IFFR 2018 and was nominated for a Tiger Award and nominated for the New:Vision award at CPH:DOX 2018 in Copenhagen. Their latest film, Hometown, is yet to be released, it was shot in Beirut and Kyiv in 2017. Twitter: @mthvn. Instagram: @metahaven

Thursday 22 March, 18:30 Karim Jebari and Ahmet Ögut

Karim Jebari: Why Move into Space?

The last human being left the Moon in December 1972. That was 45 years ago, many people at the time thought that humankind was developing towards becoming a multi-planet species. But at that time, to leave our planet’s gravity wells was altogether too expensive for any government to contemplate doing it. Today, thanks to progress within robotics, we have totally new possibilities to establish ourselves on new celestial bodies. Should we try again - and in which case, why? To prevent the demise, the end of humanity? How shall we proceed? And what will be required of future Martians, Mercurians, Titans and Europeans?

Self-presentation: I am a researcher at the Institute for Future Studies, Stockholm. In December 2014, I received my PhD in Philosophy at the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH). My thesis was on applied ethics, and specifically, on how we should relate to the challenges and possibilities of technological development. I am interested in most matters related to politics, ethics and philosophy. My main interest at present is transhumanism and its existential risks.

Ahmet Ögut: What If the Mechatronic Engineers Are the Artists of Future?

What if mechatronic engineers become more creative and increasingly more productive in the future, or if artists were to develop technical skills to a level that they become mechatronic engineers. What if they create new devices for communication beyond current cell phone technology that emit radiofrequencies, or what if they transform the crime-prediction algorithms into crime-prevention algorithms and abolished all land, sea and sky-based armed forces. What if they develop a system that has equal representation for all of the different ethno-linguistic groups; or subvert the gender binary, or shut down corporations who inject liquid at high pressure into subterranean rocks, or invent a system that cleans particulates, biological molecules and other harmful substances from the atmosphere? I have a problem with utopia seen as something to come in the future which is better than present times. I believe utopia must be emancipated from the future. In order to avoid such dominating conception, I suggest that we find a way to look at the present time properly to establish a profound transformation despite current conflicts, with the question how do we activate our imagination right now and right here?

Tuesday 10 April, 18:30 Bi Puranen and Pontus Strimling

Bi Puranen: To Come to Sweden — Extreme but at the Same Time Moderate: How Can This Go Together?

Amongst the questions that are taken up in my presentation: how do you become accepted in a society which is both extreme and moderate? Why are values and social norms important? What do we know about how values change when people migrate? Who does what, when values conflict with Swedish law? How is confidence in democracy affected by populism and how does populism influence our view of immigration? Human rights as a target.

Self-presentation: Bi Puranen, is a researcher at the Institute for Future Studies, General Secretary for World Values Survey.

Pontus Strimling: Why Liberals are winning the culture war  The culture war refers to the struggle between conservative and liberal values. In the US this struggle has focused on a set of moral issues surrounding sexuality, religion, race, gender and guns. Surveys show a dramatic movement on certain issues (e.g., gay rights), whereas public opinion has barely moved at all on other issues (e.g., abortion rights). If issue positions are categorised as liberal vs. conservative, we can see that the majority of the movement in public opinion has been toward the liberal positions. But why are the liberals winning the cultural war? And why does public opinion move more on some issues than on others?   Self-presentation: My research deals with how cultural traits change over time, particularly how norms are created, sustained and transformed. Throughout my career, I have worked with a range of interdisciplinary collaborators across the field and I have published in anthropology, biology, psychology, mathematics, linguistics, and economy. My goal is to further the understanding of cultural change to the point where it can be used to predict real-world dynamics. To this end, I use formal models to understand and illustrate how macro cultural processes function. These models are informed by data gathered from experiments ensuring that the micro-processes from which the models aggregate their prediction are in line with reality. My work ranges from basic research on the rules surrounding punishment to applied research on why the changing norms of hygiene become stricter.

Thursday 19 April, 18:30: Massimiliano Mollona

Artcommons: On Commoning, Art and Radical Imagination

Art is a force that both freezes and abstracts the flow of life (a movement of enclosure) and puts life in motion (a movement of radical opening.) As we enter into a new era of primitive accumulation, how can art contribute to the double movement of anti-capitalist critique and epistemological and discursive construction of a new post-capitalist imaginary, including new forms of making and representation in which art and politics inform each other?

In this talk I propose the notion of ARTCOMMONS intended as a set of material skills, collaborative practices and prefigurative actions aimed at creating minor and everyday forms of resistance against the radical enclosures of late capitalism. Ultimately, the talk reflects on what does it mean to be human and to exist in commons at a time of extreme political repression and economic dispossession. In the first part of the talk, I discuss the relationships between art and politics since the global neoliberal turn in the 1980s; in the second part, I discuss the Institute of Radical Imagination, a hybrid between an art project, a travelling research centre, a refuge for intellectuals and artists at risk and a policy-making body generating ideas and applied knowledge that responds to specific urgent needs on the ground — an intellectual logistical infrastructure more than a structure, operating across existing arts, academic and activist networks. The aim of the Institute is to implement six steps towards a post-capitalist society also intended as five forms of commoning — of labour, money, space, personhood and knowledge.

Self-presentation: Massimiliano Mollona is a writer, filmmaker and anthropologist. He has a multidisciplinary background in economics and anthropology. His work focuses on the relationships between art and political economy and his practice is situated at the intersection of pedagogy, art and activism. He conducted extensive fieldworks in Italy, UK, Norway and Brazil, mainly in economic institutions, looking at the relationships between economic development and political identity through participatory and experimental film projects. One of Massimiliano’s main research interests is to look at the role of art institutions and cultural organisations in relation to the bio-politics and political economy of late capitalism. Mollona was Director of the Athens Biennale in 2015-17 and one of the artistic directors of the Bergen Assembly (2017). Mollona has written extensively on political and economic anthropology, especially the anthropology of labour and on visual art. He has made several film projects on labour.

This seminar is a collaboration with Alessandro Petti and The Royal Institute of Art.

Tuesday, 11 September, 18:30 Folke Tersman and Gustaf Arrhenius

Folke Tersman and Gustaf Arrhenius: Borderless democracy

There is increasing recognition that the global problems we confront (climate, migration, terrorism, resistance to antibiotics, etc.) demand stronger and better supranational political organs which will allow us to cooperate across nation state borders and together prioritise what is best for the whole of mankind. At the same time, there is a worry that such organs could move political power even further from citizens and thereby undermine democracy. How can we ensure that democracy survives in a system where nation states have less and less importance? This is one of the questions Gustaf Arrhenius and Folke Tersman address in their conversation.

Tuesday 20 November, 18:30 Katharina Bernd-Rasmussen and Moa Bursell

Katharina Berndt Rasmussen

Imagine Linda, a business woman with strong anti-racist values. Despite her explicit values, she employs only light-skinned people, with Swedish-sounding names. Can we explain the difference between her explicit values and actual behaviour? A similar situation exists on the social level: Sweden is a liberal democracy with strong, anti-discrimination laws that forbid ethnic discrimination. According to very recent investigations, racist attitudes are on the decline amongst Swedes and a clear majority declare positive attitudes towards multiplicity. However, despite this, statistics indicate a widespread ethnic segregation and discrimination. How can this discrepancy be explained on both the individual and social level?

Moa Bursell: Can We Counteract Prejudices That We Don’t Know We Have?

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Art Club

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

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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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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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Citizen to Citizen

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

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

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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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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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

Fridays and Sundays 14:00–17:00   Every Friday and Sunday afternoon a Language Café led by Fahyma Alnablsi will be arranged. The Language Café welcomes those who wish to learn the basics of the Swedish and Arabic language, meet new friends and share experiences and ideas. Especially welcome are those students who are currently outside the Swedish education system while awaiting asylum. During the meetings we will practice grammar, socialize, read simple books and do conversational exercises. This fall we are looking for Swedish-speaking volunteers. If you are interested in participating, contact fahyma@tenstakonsthall.se.

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Homework assistance Individuell människohjälp

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

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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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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.

book shop

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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: Tensta Museum: Reports from New Sweden

Language: English

Price: SEK200

Editor: Maria Lind

Writers: Beatrice von Bismarck, Boris Buden, Emily Fahlén, Mark Fisher, Emily Pethick and Christina Zetterlund

Publisher: Sternberg Press

Design: Metahaven

Year: 2021

Pages: 224

Price: SEK 200

Title: The New Model: An Inquiry

Language: English

Price: SEK200

Editors: Maria Lind and Lars Bang Larsen

Writers: Magnus Bärtås, Ane Hjort Guttu, Palle Nielsen, Hito Steyerl, Gunilla Lundahl, Lars Bang Larsen and Maria Lind

Design: Metahaven

Publisher: Sternberg Press

Year: 2020

Pages: 176

Price: SEK200

Title: Migration: Traces in an Art Collection

Language: Swedish and English editions

Editors: Maria Lind and Cecilia Widenheim

Writers: Ernst Fischer, Lars-Erik Hjertström Lappalainen, Maria Lind, Cecilia Widenheim, Joanna Warsza, among others

Publisher: Sternberg press

Design: Lisa Olausson

In cooperation with Malmö Konstmuseum

Year: 2020

Pages: 320

Price: SEK250

Titel: Red Love: A Reader on Alexandra Kollontai / A Play by Agneta Pleijel

Language: English

Editors: Maria Lind, Joanna Warsza, Michele Masucci

Writers: Bini Adamczak Sara Ahmed, Petra Bauer & Rebecka Thor, Dora García, Michael Hardt, Agneta Pleijel, Nina Power, Paul B. Preciado, Alla Mitrofanova, Aaron Schuster, Oxana Timofeeva together with participants from CuratorLab

Design: Jiri Adamik-Novak

Year: 2020

Pages: 511

Price: SEK200

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Title: The Day I am Free

Language: English

Price: 200 kr

Editors: Lawen Mohtadi, Maria Lind

Writers: Lawen Mohtadi, Maria Lind, Katarina Taikon

Publisher: Stenberg Press

Year: 2019

Pages: 327

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

Contact
Tensta konsthall
Taxingegränd 10
Box 4001
163 04 SPÅNGA
SWEDEN

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

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

Opening hours
Summer opening hours
Monday - Friday 11 - 17
Saturday and Sunday closed
(Starting from 13.6 2022)

Free entrance. Voluntary donation.
Tours

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

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

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

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

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

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

Staff

Cecilia Widenheim, director
cecilia (at) tenstakonsthall.se

Didem Yildirim, producer
didem (at) tenstakonsthall.se

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

Susanne Ewerlöf, curator
susanne (at) tenstakonsthall.se

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

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

Paulina Sokolow, communicator
paulina (at) tenstakonsthall.se

Board:
Karin Lekberg (head of board)

Carolina Frände

Nabil Belkacem

Anna Kettner

Birgitta Rydell

Mats Ohlén

Samira Boubana

Åsa Mårtensson

Bouabana Samira

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

Privacy policy and processing of personal data

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

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

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

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

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

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

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11.6 - 15.11 2020

Body to Body:
Åsa Norberg and Jennie Sundén 

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Body to Body: Åsa Norberg and Jennie Sundén 

Body to Body

Åsa Norberg and Jennie Sundén 

11.6 - 15.11 2020

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

26.5 We are Closed
Due to Swedish Holiday

Closed May 20-22
Tensta konsthall visits Jokkmokk

May 1 - We are closed
Opens again May 3.

Holidays are coming
Our Opening Hours

11.5 2022
A Different Look at… Frescati

13.4 2022
Sonic Insurrections with EMBASSY

Saturday 19.3 at 17
Al Madhafah - Livingroom

Saturday 26.3
26.3 2022 Sonic Insurrections with Nombuso Mathibela

We are closed
New opening 19.3 2022

New Exhibition Opening 29.10
Phantoms of the Commons–Tensta konsthall Open Call

24.12 - 9.1 2022
Holiday Opening Hours

25 - 2.2 2022
Baba Karam - Dance away at Tensta konsthall

1 - 5.11 2021
Fall break: Design Course with Beckman School of Design

We are rehangning a new exhibition
Preliminary opening 29.10 2021

Applications accepted until 5.9 2021
Tensta konsthall open call - the jury

20 - 22.8 2021
Workshop with Bella Rune and Shadhin Kamruzzaman

Deadline 5.9 2021
Invitation to open call

12.6 - 20.8 2021
Aktion Taxingeplan - We are moving outdoors!

12.6 - 20.8 2021
Ângela Ferreira: Talk Tower for Forough Farrokhzad

We are open!
Fri - Sun until 9.5

25.9 2020 - 9.5 2021
Re-opening - Åke Hodell: Resistance. Opening hours

8.5 2020 17 - 19.15
Automatization - An online event

Re-opening 10.4
Friday – Sunday 11 – 17

Submission until 15.1
Tensta konsthall Text Prize 2020

Until 9.5 2021
The Lesser Amman Library

Saturday 24.10
Tensta konsthall closes at 15:00

25.9-27.9 2020
Opening Weekend Åke Hodell–Resistance

22 + 23.8 2020
Last Week of Michael Rakowitz: The Invisible Enemy Should Not Exist (Room G) - Ending 23.8.

Summer 2020
Opening hours. Until 31.8

Friday 19.6
Midsummer Eve we are closed

Saturday 13.6 13 - 17
Opening of Body to Body, Åsa Norberg & Jennie Sundén and reopening of Michael Rakowitz

European Training Network FEINART
Doctoral programme in the area of socially engaged art

Wednesday 17.6 18:00
Bookrelease – Migration: Traces in an Art Collection

Fridays from 26.6
Art Fridays for children and young adults

We are closed
Due to current circumstances

Saturday and Sunday 14-15.3
Closed

Thursday 12.3
Concerning the corona virus: We are open today 12.3

Tuesday 21.1 17:30
Artist talk at Konstfack: Jumana Manna

22.1-24.5 2020
Jumana Manna:Wild Relatives

Tuesday 7.1
Open until 5PM

24 - 28.2 2020
Winter Break Fashion Camp

Saturday 22.2
Seed Run at Tensta konsthall

Opening hours during Christmas holidays

Tuesday 14.1 13:30 - 15:00
Try-Out-Yoga with Ulrika Hedlund

17.10 2019–19.01 2020
Sites of the Future

Sunday 5.1, 13:00
Introduction to Sites of the Future
by Maria Lind

Tuesday 15.10, 17:00
Role Play & Radical Pedagogy
Film Screening and Discussion

Sunday 29.12, 13:00
Artist presentation: Enno Hallek

Tuesday 12.11, 18:00
Everybody’s House in Hjulsta-Tensta

Sunday 3.11, 13:00
Artist talk with Enno Hallek

Wednesday 27.11, 18:00
Screening: Hold Hold Fire by Olivia Plender

Tuesday 26.11 18:00
Fallow: Seminar with Åsa Elzén

Wednesday 16.10, Thursday 28.11
14:00
Role play Workshop:
The Komtemåtta Citizens’ Assembly

15.5–22.9
Migration: Traces in an Art Collection

CuratorLab public program

24.8 12:00-16:00
Orten Odlar: Allotment Festival

15.5–22.9
On Allomorphing: Anna Daučíková

Wednesday-Friday 26.6–9.8, 13:00-16:00
Art Porch

Monday–Friday 12.8–16.8, 10:00–16:00
Woodwork Camp
with Ockie Basgül Dogan

5.2–22.4
Three Sisters:
Tanja Muravskaja

Tisdag 12.3, 18:00–20:00
Workshop: Taboos and
self-censorship in literature

Thursday 21.3, 18:00
Screening: Workers!
by Petra Bauer and SCOT-PEP

Tuesday 26.3
18:00
Artist Presentation Søssa Jørgensen
and Geir Tore Holm
– Stream ripple – Our Inner River

Friday 5.4
13:30
Walk along Igelbäcken with the artists
Søssa Jørgensen and Geir Tore Holm

Thursday 28.3, 14:00–17:00
Writing Workshop with Alva Uddenberg
and Tone Schunnesson

Tuesday 2.4, 18:00
Artist Presentation: Olivia Plender

Saturday 30.3, 12:00
The first seed pop-up in Järva

Tuesday 5.2, 15:00
Let the River Flow –
artist presentations

Tuesday 12.2, 18:00
Lecture:
Gunvor Guttorm on duodji

Thursday 21.2, 14:00
Artist presentation:
Tanja Muravskaja on Three Sisters

Tuesday 5.2, 18:00
Lecture: Ebba Johannesson
and Anne-Marie Karlsson on
Fogelstad Women’s Citizenship School

Tuesday 26.2
18:00
Lecture: Katarina Pirak on
Julevädno – The Lule River

25.2-1.3
Art Camp –
Between two and three dimensions

30.10–13.1 2019
Cosmism: Anton Vidokle,
Arseny Zhilyaev

30.10 2018–13.1 2019
The Final (Crime Weekly): housing piffle
with Leif PG Tensta: Bernd Krauss

9.12–13.1 2019
My Room is Another Fishbowl:
Philippe Parreno

7.2–13.1 2018
Art Treasures: Grains of Gold
from Tensta’s Public Schools

1.6 2018–13.1 2019
Tensta Museum Branch at ArkDes

Tuesday 18.12
18:00–19:00
Conversation with the Tensta Profile
Ricardo-Osvaldo Alvarado about
El Complejo and the current research to Chile – At ArkDes

Wednesday 19.12
18:30
Screening at Zita: Tensta konsthall–
Today and in the Future

27–28.12
13:00–16:00
The Whittling Guild– come and carve with us!

Thursday 27.12
13:00
Screening in the Classroom:
Sometimes it was Beautiful
by Christian Nyampeta

Friday 28.12
14:00-18:00
Screening in the Classroom:
Anywhen by Philippe Parreno

Wednesday 12.12
13:00-14:00
The Tensta konsthall Text Prize 2018
Reading with the winners at ArkDes

Thursday 6.12 12:00- 13:00
Dreams of a quarter and the organizing of women

Wednesday 28.11 13:00
Producer Hanna Nordell introduces
Tensta Museum Branch at ArkDes

Wednesday 28.11 17:30
Screening at Stockholm’s Museum of Ethnography: Christian Nyampeta’s new film Sometimes It Was Beautiful

Thursday 29.11 14:30–17:30
For whose body is the city created?
A workshop on intersectional urban planning

Saturday 1.12 13:00–17:00
Your application to higher art education – how to do it!
Introductory course in contemporary art with Makda Embaie

26.5–1.12
Introductory course
to contemporary art

Saturday 17.11 13:00-17:00
Introductory course to contemporary art:
Writing with Makda Embaie

Tuesday 20.11 18:30–20:30
Do you have prejudice?
An evening with the Institute for Futures Studies

Saturday 24.11 16:00
Premiere Screening in Hallstavik: Christian Nyampeta’s new film Sometimes It Was Beautiful

Tuesday 13.11 17:00–19:00
Book release Ane Hjort Guttu:
Writings, Conversations, Scripts

Thursday 8.11 14:00
Unique art tour at
Enbacksskolan and Gullingeskolan

Tuesday 13.11 18:00-19:00
Seminar - What Does a Museum Do?

Wednesday 14.11 13:00
Producer Hanna Nordell introduces
Tensta Museum Branch at ArkDes

Saturday 3.11 13:00–17:00
Introductory course to contemporary with
Sara Brolund de Carvalho

Thursday 1.11 14:00
Conversation on Cosmism

Wednesday 17.10 13:00
Public introduction to
Tensta Museum Branch at ArkDes

29.10–2.11 10:00–16:00
Drawing and Painting Course

Saturday 13.10 13:00
A Different Public Room – KITH on self organizing
and society building

2018
Report: Agencies of Art

16.5–7.10
Red Love: Dora García

19.6–7.10
A Wall Becomes A Table With
Candlestick Legs: Anne Low

16.5–30.9
Space: Tyler Coburn

18.9 14:30
Textile historic lecture
by Ulla-Karin Warberg

21.9 10:00–17:30
Symposium: Large-Scale Housing Projects as
Productive Space in Literature and Culture

22.9 12:00
Host Rasmus Sjöbeck introduces
Tensta Museum Branch at ArkDes

Thursday 27.9 14:00
Costume history by
Charlotte Hellsten Husman from
Stockholm County Museum

Sunday 30.9 12:00–15:00
Vegan brunch – Café Auel

22.9 13:00–17:00
Introductory course to contemporary art
with Ylva Westerlund

22.9 17:00–19:00
Public reading by Agneta Pleijels play
on Aleksandra Kollontai

8.9 13:00–17:00
Cut out, paste – Workshop
with Beckmans Collage of Design

8.9 12:00
Host Rasmus Sjöbeck introduces
Tensta Museum Branch at ArkDes

8.9 13:00–16:00
The Women’s Café visits
Tensta Museum Branch
at ArkDes

11.9 18:30
Futures: Katharina Berndt Rasmussen
and Karim Jebari

12.9 12:00
Production coordinator Didem Yildrim
introduces Tensta Museum Branch at ArkDes

15.9 13:00
Walk in Tensta with
Erik Stenberg

27.6–19.8
Opening hours
during summer

22.8 12:00
Erik Stenberg Introduces
his Tensta Archive

24.8 14:00
Walk on the Järva Field
with Mats Adelman
and Ylva Westerlund

25.8 12:00
Host Rasmus Sjöbeck introduces
Tensta Museum Branch at ArkDes

26.8 12:00–15:00
Vegan brunch

29.8 12:00
Production Coordinator Didem Yildrim
introduces Tensta Museum Branch at ArkDes

1.9 12:00
Emily Fahlén and Magnus Bärtås
introduce their works in the
Tensta Museum Branch at ArkDes

31.8 14:00
Arts and Literature walk
in Tensta with Hanna Nordell

6.6
Closed for the day

27.6–17.8
Art Porch

13.8–17.8
10:00–15:00
Art Camp: Pattern with
weave and natural dye,
with Friends of Handicraft’s School

9.8 14:00
Communicator Isabella Tjäder
introduces current projects

11.8 12:00
Host Rasmus Sjöbeck introduces
Tensta Museum Branch at ArkDes

18.8 14:00
Assistant Fredda Berg
introduces current projects

15.8 12:00
Producer Hanna Nordell introduces
Tensta Museum Branch at ArkDes

16.8 14:00
Mediator Nina Svensson
introduces current projects

11.8 14:00
Assistant Fredda Berg
introduces current projects

16.5–17.6
Tensta Museum: Continues
Pinar Ögrenci's Mawtini

2.8 14:00
Producer Hanna Nordell
introduces current projects

18.8 14:00
Assistant Nawroz Zakholy
introduces current projects

7.7 14:00
Assistant Fredda Berg
introduces current projects

12.7 14:00
Assistant Fredda Berg
introduces current projects

14.7 12:00
Host Karolin Grahn introduces
Tensta Museum Branch
at ArkDes

14.7 14:00
Language Café leader
Fahyma Alnablsi
introduces current projects

18.7 12:00
Assistant Makda Embaie introduces
Tensta Museum Branch at ArkDes

19.7 14:00
Artist presentation
with Tyler Coburn

21.7 14:00
Assistant Fredda Berg
introduces current projects

26.7 14:00
Assistant Nawroz Zakholy
introduces current projects

28.7 12:00
Host Rasmus Sjöbeck introduces
Tensta Museum Branch at ArkDes

28.7 14:00
Assistant Fredda Berg
introduces current projects

20.6 12:00
Hanna Nordell introduces
Tensta Museum Branch
at ArkDes

21.6 14:00
Didem Yildrin Introduces
Current Projects

28.6 14:00
Producer Hanna Nordell
Introduces Current Projects

30.6 14:00
Assistant Fredda Berg
Introduces Current Projects

30.6 12:00
Assistant Makda Embaie Introduces
Tensta Museum Branch at ArkDes

4.7 12:00
Production Assistant
Didem Yildrim Introduces
Tensta Museum Branch
at ArkDes

5.7 14:00
Erik Stenberg Introduces
his Tensta Archive

5.7 14:00
Communicator Isabella Tjäder
Introduces Current Project

11.6–15.6, 10:00–15:00
Art Camp:
Paper, Pen and Brush
– Tell Your Own Story

16.6 13:00–17:00
Sculpture Workshop
with Artist Nina Svensson

16.6 13:00–15:00
Architecture Walk in Tensta
with Erik Stenberg

19.6 14:00
Arts and Literature walk in Tensta
with Emily Fahlén

29.5–14.6
What Does Camaraderie Do?:
Film screenings with Eric Baudelaire,
Chto Delat?, and Otolith Group,
curated and introduced by Azar Mahmoudian

30.4–15.5
Closed – Rehanging

17.5, 14:00
Artists' Introduction:
Dora García and Pinar Ögrenci

16.5 11:00–19:00
Red Love: CuratorLab contributions

5.2–27.4 2018
Dates spring 2018

14.5 14:00–17:00
Reading Alexandra Kollontai:
Oxana Timofeeva

19.5 12:00–18:00
Red Love: CuratorLab contributions

7.2–29.4
Last chance:
Osías Yanov on Space

30.4–2.4
Opening Hours During Easter

14.4-6.5
Anne Low at
Sorunda Folkets Hus

19.4 14:00
Introduction to Current Exhibitions by
Maria Lind and Sorawit Songsataya

20.3 18:30
Futures:
Metahaven and
Benjamin Bratton

10.4 18:30
Seminar Series
Futures: Bi Puranen
and Pontus Strimling

14.4 13:00–16:00
Opening:
Anne Low at
Sorunda Folkets Hus

22.3 18:30
Futures:
Karim Jebari
and Ahmet Ögut

19.4 18:30
Seminar Series
Futures:
Massimiliano Mollona

21.4 13:00–14:00
Walk in Tensta
with Erik Stenberg

23.2 11:45–15:00
And all is yet to be done
– Reading Aleksandra Kollontai

12.2–18.6
k.ö.k. – women desire collectivity

8.3 14:00, 10.3 14:00
Monika Wallin introduces
Art Treasures: Grains of Gold
from Tensta’s Public Schools

6.3 18:30
Seminar: What does
artistic research do?

25.2 13:00–16:00
Workshop with Taus Makhacheva

26.2–2.3 10:00–15:00
Art camp: A Patterned World
with Konstfack Textiles

7.2 12:00–17:00
A Fiesta of Art

13.1 2018 14:00–15:30
Artist tour: Måns Wrange
presenting Magic Bureaucracy

Last chance 14.1 2018
New Eelam by Christopher Kulendran Thomas 

Last chance 14.1 2018
Magic Bureaucracy by Måns Wrange 

Last chance 14.1 2018
Welfare Panels: The Pre-Fabricated
Structural Systems of the Swedish
Million Program Era in an International
Context by Erik Stenberg, Helena Westerlind,
Pedro Ignacio Alonso,
Hugo Palmarola, and José Hernández

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

Tensta museum: Continues
fall 2017

Wednesday 6.12, 15:00–17:00
Conversation:
Acts of Solidarity:
Statements and Consequences
with Håkan Thörn and Julia Willén

Wednesday 22.11, 13:00–16:00
Symposium:
Standardization, Systems, and the Citizen
in Global and Globalized Housing
With Erik Stenberg, Helena Westerlind,
and Hugo Palmarola

Wednesday 22.11, 19:00
When Sweden Became Contemporary
by the critic Anders Olofsson 

Tuesday 7.11, 19:00–21:00
Symposium:
On Curating and Being Curated –
Examining Power, Responsibility
and Care within the Curatorial

Wednesday 15.11, 14:00–21:00
Symposium:
Citizenship, the Nation State
and Universal Basic Income:
Scenarios in Art, Architecture,
Anthropology and Sociology
With Christopher Kulendran Thomas,
James Holston, Jennifer Mack and Roland Paulsen

Wednesday 11.10, 19:00
Conversation between Måns Wrange and Nina Möntmann

Saturday 21.10, 14:00
Walk in Tensta: Welfare Panels:
Building Systems of the Swedish
Million Program Era in an
International Context with
the architect Erik Stenberg

Saturday 23.9, 14:00
Guided tour of the current exhibitions
by host Arazo Arif

Saturday 9.9, 12:00–15:00
Saturday Drawing with Ylva Westerlund

1.6–24.9 2017
Last chance
The New Hird by Ylva Westerlund

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

Wednesday 30.8, 19:00
Screening and conversation:
Metahaven & Goldin+Senneby

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

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

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 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

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

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

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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Closed for holidays Thursday 26.5 2022

26.5 2022 Closed due to Swedish holiday
27.5 OPEN 11 - 17
28.5 OPEN 12 - 17
29.5 OPEN 12 - 17

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Closed May 20-22

The weekend May 20-22 we are closed due to a visit to Messaure and Gallok which is part of our series A Different Look at...See below. Tensta konsthall opens again May 24 at 11.

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May 1 - We are closed

May 1 - We are closed. Tensta konsthall opens again on Tuesday 3rd at 11. Also open Saturday 30.4 12 - 5PM. Welcome!

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A Different look at...Frescati

11.5 5 2022 - 7:30PM A Different Look at… Frescati

In the area around Stockholm University we are looking for traces of scientists and colonisers but also for centuries of Sámi presence. We welcome you to participate in a performative walk with artist Hanni Kamaly, curator student Lina Aastrup and archeologist Jonas Monié Nordin, Stockholm University. Artist Malin Lin Nordström contributes a sound piece.

A Different Look at… Frescati. A Performative Walk in Two Acts

If we look around, what do we see? What do the monuments and the places surrounding the university tell us? When were the monuments erected, why and by whom? How were the places named, what do they say to us today?

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Higher seminar and the book launch of Refugee Heritage by DAAR

24.5 2022 2 - 5PM Higher seminar and the book launch of Refugee Heritage by DAAR

The Royal Institute of Art and Tensta konsthall are inviting you to a higher seminar and the book launch of Refugee Heritage by DAAR – Sandi Hilal and Alessandro Petti, on May 24, 2–5 pm at Tensta konsthall within the frame of the group exhibition Hurting and Healing: Let’s Imagine a Different Heritage.

Starting from the book-dossier and the installation Refugee Heritage at Tensta konsthall, the seminar will revolve around the following fundamental questions: who has the right to define what constitutes heritage? How can modernist and patriarchal conception of heritage be challenged? Are there other forms of heritage outside the nation-state that include all the people who belong to more than one place simultaneously?

24.5 2022 2 - 5PM Higher seminar and the book launch of Refugee Heritage by DAAR

The Royal Institute of Art and Tensta konsthall are inviting you to a higher seminar and the book launch of Refugee Heritage by DAAR – Sandi Hilal and Alessandro Petti, on May 24, 2–5 pm at Tensta konsthall within the frame of the group exhibition Hurting and Healing: Let’s Imagine a Different Heritage.

Starting from the book-dossier and the installation Refugee Heritage at Tensta konsthall, the seminar will revolve around the following fundamental questions: who has the right to define what constitutes heritage? How can modernist and patriarchal conception of heritage be challenged? Are there other forms of heritage outside the nation-state that include all the people who belong to more than one place simultaneously?

The Refugee Heritage book-dossier attempts to deactivate the claims of objectivity and universalism contained within conventions followed by UNESCO in determining World Heritage status; it presents different narratives that do not fit within such statist discourse, reorienting heritage towards non-hegemonic forms of life and collective memory. By reusing, misusing and redirecting UNESCO World Heritage guidelines and criteria, Refugee Heritage challenges definitions of heritage and their colonial foundations, asking instead how architecture is mobilized as an agent of political transformation.

The seminar will be divided into three parts: 1. An introduction of the exhibition Hurting and Healing and the installation on Refugee Heritage by the curators and DAAR; 2. The participants are encouraged to voice shared experiences from refugee heritage; 3. A moderated conversation on refugee heritage. We invite all participants to engage with the dossier prior to the seminar and prepare short statements taking their own experiences and reflections as a point of departure. See below for links to the dossier. You will receive more detailed information about the statements by registration.

As we have a limited number of places registration is required for the event. Send an email to: Asa.Andersson@kkh.se

About the higher seminar:

The higher seminar is a place where we together explore and discuss issues that have emerged through the various artistic research processes that take place at the Royal Institute of Art. Each seminar has a form and content that reflect the specific question and artistic project that we are invited to engage with. The core of the higher seminar is the communal thinking and sharing of methods and experiences in the middle of an artistic research process.

About the book:

Refugee Heritage is comprised of the first four parts of the Annex 5 UNESCO nomination dossier for the inscription of Dheisheh Refugee Camp as a World Heritage Site, and an Appendix containing architectural interventions, conversations and responses, produced over the course of the last six years with the participation of organizations and individuals, politicians and conservation experts, activists, and governmental and non-governmental representatives. The publication of this book has been made possible with the generous support of the Royal Institute of Art, Stockholm; IASPIS, the Swedish Arts Grants Committee’s International Programme for Visual Artists; Van Abbemuseum; Art Jameel in Dubai.

https://artandtheory.org/.../coming-soon-refugee-heritage

About DAAR:

For almost a decade DAAR – Sandi Hilal and Alessandro Petti -, together with the refugee community, heritage experts, activists, artists and researchers, have produced exhibitions, public gatherings, and a book-nomination dossier to confront dominant Western conceptions of heritage and presents different narratives, reorienting heritage towards non-hegemonic forms of life and collective memory. www.decolonizing.ps

About Hurting and Healing:

The exhibition Hurting and Healing contains a series of works that present concrete proposals for how new cultural heritage can be imagined. They shift, twist and turn existing perceptions of how the presence of the past works in our time, or might do so in the future. Works address historical colonial exploitation, inequality and the devastation caused by global capitalism.

The exhibition is curated by Charles Esche together with Susanne Ewerlöf and Cecilia Widenheim and produced in close collaboration with the Van Abbemuseum, with generous support of the Mondriaan Fund, the Delegation of Flanders in the Nordic Countries and the Embassy of Belgium.

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Friday 24.6We are closed due to Midsummer's Eve

19.3 - 28.8 2022Current exhibition - Hurting and Healing: Let’s Imagine a Different Heritage

11.6 2022Art Saturday - Introductions to the current exhibition every hour

Summer opening hoursStarting 13.6

Starting 13.6 The Art Porch with Anna Nordström

20 - 23.6 2022Green Summer Camp at Taxingeplan

12.6 - 2021Tensta's Magical Wormholes by Bella Rune

Midsummer

Friday 24.6, Midsummer's Eve, we are closed Open again Monday 27.6 at 11

Summer Opening Hours

Opening hours from 13.6 until 18.8 2022:Mondag - Friday 11 - 17Saturday and Sunday closed

Art Porch with Anna Nordström

Green Art Camp - Gardening course at Taxingeplan

Art Saturday

Sonic Insurrections with Nombuso Mathibela

Hurting and Healing: Let’s Imagine a Different Heritage

Tensta

Women

Futures: Katharina Berndt Rasmussen and Moa Bursell

Futures

Art Club

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.

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.

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.

The Art Detectives

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.

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

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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11.6 - 15.11 2020 Body to Body: Åsa Norberg and Jennie Sundén

Body to Body: Åsa Norberg and Jennie Sundén

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26.5 We are ClosedDue to Swedish Holiday

Closed May 20-22 Tensta konsthall visits Jokkmokk

May 1 - We are closedOpens again May 3.

Holidays are comingOur Opening Hours

11.5 2022A Different Look at… Frescati

13.4 2022Sonic Insurrections with EMBASSY

Saturday 19.3 at 17Al Madhafah - Livingroom

Saturday 26.326.3 2022 Sonic Insurrections with Nombuso Mathibela

We are closedNew opening 19.3 2022

New Exhibition Opening 29.10 Phantoms of the Commons–Tensta konsthall Open Call

24.12 - 9.1 2022Holiday Opening Hours

25 - 2.2 2022Baba Karam - Dance away at Tensta konsthall

Friday 24.6
We are closed due to Midsummer's Eve

19.3 - 28.8 2022
Current exhibition - Hurting and Healing: Let’s Imagine a Different Heritage

11.6 2022
Art Saturday - Introductions to the current exhibition every hour

Summer opening hours
Starting 13.6

Starting 13.6
The Art Porch with Anna Nordström

20 - 23.6 2022
Green Summer Camp at Taxingeplan

12.6 - 2021
Tensta's Magical Wormholes by Bella Rune

Friday 24.6, Midsummer's Eve, we are closed
Open again Monday 27.6 at 11

Opening hours from 13.6 until 18.8 2022:

Mondag - Friday 11 - 17
Saturday and Sunday closed

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Paulina Sokolow, communicator

paulina@tenstakonsthall.se

Direct: +46 (0)736 730 578

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11.6 - 15.11 2020

Body to Body:
Åsa Norberg and Jennie Sundén 

Body to Body: Åsa Norberg and Jennie Sundén 

26.5 We are Closed
Due to Swedish Holiday

Closed May 20-22
Tensta konsthall visits Jokkmokk

May 1 - We are closed
Opens again May 3.

Holidays are coming
Our Opening Hours

11.5 2022
A Different Look at… Frescati

13.4 2022
Sonic Insurrections with EMBASSY

Saturday 19.3 at 17
Al Madhafah - Livingroom

Saturday 26.3
26.3 2022 Sonic Insurrections with Nombuso Mathibela

We are closed
New opening 19.3 2022

New Exhibition Opening 29.10
Phantoms of the Commons–Tensta konsthall Open Call

24.12 - 9.1 2022
Holiday Opening Hours

25 - 2.2 2022
Baba Karam - Dance away at Tensta konsthall

1 - 5.11 2021
Fall break: Design Course with Beckman School of Design

We are rehangning a new exhibition
Preliminary opening 29.10 2021

Applications accepted until 5.9 2021
Tensta konsthall open call - the jury

20 - 22.8 2021
Workshop with Bella Rune and Shadhin Kamruzzaman

Deadline 5.9 2021
Invitation to open call

12.6 - 20.8 2021
Aktion Taxingeplan - We are moving outdoors!

12.6 - 20.8 2021
Ângela Ferreira: Talk Tower for Forough Farrokhzad

We are open!
Fri - Sun until 9.5

25.9 2020 - 9.5 2021
Re-opening - Åke Hodell: Resistance. Opening hours

8.5 2020 17 - 19.15
Automatization - An online event

Re-opening 10.4
Friday – Sunday 11 – 17

Submission until 15.1
Tensta konsthall Text Prize 2020

Until 9.5 2021
The Lesser Amman Library

Saturday 24.10
Tensta konsthall closes at 15:00

25.9-27.9 2020
Opening Weekend Åke Hodell–Resistance

22 + 23.8 2020
Last Week of Michael Rakowitz: The Invisible Enemy Should Not Exist (Room G) - Ending 23.8.

Summer 2020
Opening hours. Until 31.8

Friday 19.6
Midsummer Eve we are closed

Saturday 13.6 13 - 17
Opening of Body to Body, Åsa Norberg & Jennie Sundén and reopening of Michael Rakowitz

European Training Network FEINART
Doctoral programme in the area of socially engaged art

Wednesday 17.6 18:00
Bookrelease – Migration: Traces in an Art Collection

Fridays from 26.6
Art Fridays for children and young adults

We are closed
Due to current circumstances

Saturday and Sunday 14-15.3
Closed

Thursday 12.3
Concerning the corona virus: We are open today 12.3

Tuesday 21.1 17:30
Artist talk at Konstfack: Jumana Manna

22.1-24.5 2020
Jumana Manna:Wild Relatives

Tuesday 7.1
Open until 5PM

24 - 28.2 2020
Winter Break Fashion Camp

Saturday 22.2
Seed Run at Tensta konsthall

Tuesday 14.1 13:30 - 15:00
Try-Out-Yoga with Ulrika Hedlund

17.10 2019–19.01 2020
Sites of the Future

Sunday 5.1, 13:00
Introduction to Sites of the Future
by Maria Lind

Tuesday 15.10, 17:00
Role Play & Radical Pedagogy
Film Screening and Discussion