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1.11 2017–31.10 2018 The project Sites of the Future focuses on the parallels existing between the suburbs and rural communities in present-day Sweden. Despite what seem to be huge differences, rural communities and urban suburbs share many common denominators today: the closure of schools and other social services, the disappearance of job opportunities, and the fact that structural subordination is in the process of becoming entrenched. The parallel conditions between the suburbs and the countryside may be seen in a concentrated form in the county of Stockholm.

The project presents context-sensitive art in Hallstavik, Rågsved, Sorunda and Tensta. The artists involved come from different parts of the planet and reflect the younger generations' great interest in "the rural" and handicrafts as well as food production and natural resources. The project is carried out and activated in collaboration with the residents of the respective localities.

The artists:

-Christian Nyampeta (Kigali/Amsterdam/New York), Hallstavik and the Ethnographic Museum in October

-Suki Seokyeong Kang (Seoul), Rågsved Folkets Hus and Lerkrogen in Älvsjö in September

-Anne Low (Vancouver), Sorunda, exhibition in Sorunda Folkets Hus, 14.4–6.5, opening 14.4 13.00–16.00

-Joar Nango (Tromsö), Tensta and Nälsta gård (Spånga Local History and Folklore Society) in February

Sites of the Future, a cooperation between Folkets Hus and Parks (People's Houses and Parks), Stockholm County Museum and Tensta konsthall, takes place during 2018 in Hallstavik., Rågsved, Sorunda and Tensta. This collaboration also involves Hallstavik Folkets Hus and Häverödal hembygdsförening; Rågsveds Folkets Hus and Brännkyrka hembygdsförening; Sorunda Folkets Hus, Sorunda hembygdsförening and Sorunda hemslöjdsförening and Spånga Fornminnes and Hembygdsgille.

BOOK CIRCLE: MOA MARTINSON 2018

As a feature of Sites of the Future, and to connect the four different parts of the project, a book circle is organized during 2018. We are reading Moa Martinson's novels and study her life and work. Göran Eriksson, former head of the cultural section of ABF in Stockholm (Arbetarnas Bildnings Förbund - The Workers' Educational Association) and member of the board of the Society of Friends of Moa, will participate. Maria Lind, director of Tensta konsthall; Makda Embaie, art student, poet and assistant at Tensta konsthall; and Fahyma Alnablsi, who runs the language café at Tensta konsthall, will lead the book circle together.

18.3 14:00–17:00 Tensta konsthall

15.4 13:00–16:00 Sorunda and visit to Moa Martinson's cottage at Johannesdal in Ösmo

23.9 15:00–17:00 Älvsjö at the local community centre, Lerkrogen

October (date to be set) in Hallstavik

18.3 14:00–17:00 at Tensta konsthall. Göran Eriksson will introduce Moa Martinson's life and work, after which we will read parts of Kvinnor och Äppelträd (Women and Apple Trees) and watch an episode of the TV series Mor gifter sig (Mother Gets Married). If you wish to participate, please mail fahyma@tenstakonsthall.se

Sunday 15.4, 13.00-16.00 in Sorunda. The day after the opening of Anne Low's exhibition, the book circle will be held at Sorunda Folkets Hus. We will also visit Moa Martinson's cottage and Anne Low's exhibition.

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Futures: Massimiliano Mollona

19.4 18:30 A series of seminars at Tensta konsthall in collaboration with the Institute for Future Studies, for presentation throughout 2018

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?

19.4 18:30 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.

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.

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Futures: Folke Tersman and Gustaf Arrhenius

11.9 18:30 A series of seminars at Tensta konsthall in collaboration with the Institute for Future Studies, for presentation throughout 2018

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.

11.9 18:30 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, 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.

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Futures: Katharina Bernd-Rasmussen and Moa Bursell

20.11 18:30 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.

20.11 18:30 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 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?

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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Metric Mysticism: lecture performance by Zach Blas

24.4 18.30 As a part of Soon Enough: Art in Action, Zach Blas (Point Pleasant, WV/London) will conduct a lecture performance where he gazes into the crystal balls of Silicon Valley and charts the transmutation of big data into a magical substance that can predict — and police — the future. Focusing on the appropriation of mysticism and magic by Silicon Valley enterprises and governmental surveillance agencies, the lecture suggests that the crystal ball, a transparent device that permits one to see into the future, has come to stand as a paradigm for how tech entrepreneurs prefer to imagine the algorithmic processing of information. Palantir Technologies, it is suggested, is at the forefront of such metric mysticism. Co-founded by Peter Thiel, the controversial data analytics company appropriated the palantír, which is an all-seeing crystal ball used by wizards in J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings. Here, in Blas’s palantir, data becomes a new absolute, determining what the future is and how it should be controlled.

24.4 18.30 As a part of Soon Enough: Art in Action, Zach Blas (Point Pleasant, WV/London) will conduct a lecture performance where he gazes into the crystal balls of Silicon Valley and charts the transmutation of big data into a magical substance that can predict — and police — the future. Focusing on the appropriation of mysticism and magic by Silicon Valley enterprises and governmental surveillance agencies, the lecture suggests that the crystal ball, a transparent device that permits one to see into the future, has come to stand as a paradigm for how tech entrepreneurs prefer to imagine the algorithmic processing of information. Palantir Technologies, it is suggested, is at the forefront of such metric mysticism. Co-founded by Peter Thiel, the controversial data analytics company appropriated the palantír, which is an all-seeing crystal ball used by wizards in J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings. Here, in Blas’s palantir, data becomes a new absolute, determining what the future is and how it should be controlled.

Yet, what if one were to gaze not into a palantir but rather a chunk of silicon? Not the transparent glass but rather an opaque, geologic material at the core of digital technology. Against the prediction of the future, might gazing into silicon offer a way in which to consider the crisis of the present?

The lecture performance is part of Contra-Internet, a project spanning video, sculpture, performance and text, engaging the emerging militancies and subversions of the Internet, such as the global proliferation of encryption tactics, autonomous mesh networks, and darknets. The project aims to performatively critique the Internet as both a hegemonic descriptor for digital networking and premier arena of political control. It also documents and speculates upon network alternatives that activists are developing globally. Contra-Internet is oriented from a feminist and queer perspective, in an effort to unite such political positions with a hacker ethos. Thus, the project functions as an expansive conceptual, practical, and experimental framework for refusing the control logic of the Internet while building alternatives to its infrastructure.

Zach Blas is an artist and writer whose practice confronts technologies of capture, security, and control. Currently, he is a Lecturer in the Department of Visual Cultures at Goldsmiths, University of London. Blas has exhibited and lectured internationally, recently at Art in General, New York; Gasworks, London; Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane; Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven; Institute of Contemporary Arts Singapore; e-flux, New York; and Museo Universitario Arte Contemporáneo, Mexico City. Blas’s recent works respond to biometric governmentality and network hegemony. Facial Weaponization Suite (2011-14) consists of “collective masks” that cannot be detected as human faces by biometric facial recognition software. Contra-Internet (2014-2018) explores subversions of and alternatives to the internet and is supported by a 2016 Creative Capital award in Emerging Fields and the Arts Council England. Blas’s writings can be found in Documentary Across Disciplines (The MIT Press and Haus der Kulturen der Welt); Queer: Documents of Contemporary Art (The MIT Press and Whitechapel Gallery); and e-flux journal. He is producing two books, an artist monograph, and Informatic Opacity: The Art of Defacement in Biometric Times, a theoretical study that considers biometric facial recognition as an emerging form of global governance alongside aesthetico-political refusals of recognition, such as masked protest. His work has been featured in Artforum, Frieze, Art Review, Mousse Magazine, and The Guardian.

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Walk in Tensta with Erik Stenberg

21.4 13:00–14:00 What were the ideas behind Sweden’s extensive Million Program areas, and what kind housing policy is required today for the suburbs of the future?

As a large part of the construction of the welfare state, a million homes were built in Sweden during the period 1965–1974. In 1968, there were 16 different types of pre-fabricated systems and 15 percent of the total building stock were built using these systems. Three of these systems distinguished themselves with their inbuilt flexibility and adaptability, making them able to account for the challenges of today. Questions about how the very ambitious million program relates to politics, sustainability, and segregation are once again pressing as we face a new housing crisis, which again requires a vast production of houses.

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Anne Low at Sorunda Folkets Hus

14.4-6.5 Sorunda's legendary cultural heritage meets contemporary art methods in Anne Low's exhibition, which opens at Folkets Hus in Sorunda on Saturday, 14 April. The result of a unique cooperation involving Sorunda Hembygdsförening, Hemslöjdsförening (Arts and Crafts Society), Folkets Hus in Sorunda, Folkets Hus and Parks, Stockholm County Museum and Tensta konsthall, the exhibition contains newly woven curtains, hundred year-old working clothes, well-preserved local district folk costumes, hand-printed wall paper, and tables that have been modelled on the walls of the author Moa Martinsson's cottage in Ösmo. Anne Low combines all these elements in a captivating installation that links together the past, the present and the future.

14.4–6.5 Sorunda's legendary cultural heritage meets contemporary art methods in Anne Low's exhibition, which opens at Folkets Hus in Sorunda on Saturday, 14 April. The result of a unique cooperation involving Sorunda Hembygdsförening, Hemslöjdsförening (Arts and Crafts Society), Folkets Hus in Sorunda, Folkets Hus and Parks, Stockholm County Museum and Tensta konsthall, the exhibition contains newly woven curtains, hundred year-old working clothes, well-preserved local district folk costumes, hand-printed wall paper, and tables that have been modelled on the walls of the author Moa Martinsson's cottage in Ösmo. Anne Low combines all these elements in a captivating installation that links together the past, the present and the future.

The exhibition will be open:
14.4–6.5
Fridays–Sundays 11:00–16:00

Based in Vancouver, Anne Low's sculptures and installations are inspired by older handicraft traditions that many will recognized. She has learned hand weaving methods that for the most part come from the textile industry existing in Europe during the 18th century and whose products were exported. At the same time Low's art is not bound to a particular historical period but addresses contemporary subjects such as housework, the decorative, utility and taste.

Anne Low's exhibition is part of the project Sites of the Future, which focuses on the parallels existing between the suburbs and rural communities in present-day Sweden. Despite what seem to be huge differences, rural communities and urban suburbs share many common denominators today: the closure of schools and other social services, the disappearance of job opportunities, and the fact that structural subordination is in the process of becoming entrenched. The parallel conditions between the suburbs and the countryside may be seen in a concentrated form in the county of Stockholm.

The artists:

-Christian Nyampeta (Kigali/Amsterdam/New York), Hallstavik and the Ethnographic Museum in October

-Suki Seokyeong Kang (Seoul), Rågsved Folkets Hus and Lerkrogen in Älvsjö in September

-Anne Low (Vancouver), Sorunda, exhibition in Sorunda Folkets Hus, 14.4–6.5, opening Saturday, 14.4, 13.00–16.00

-Joar Nango (Tromsö), Tensta and Nälsta gård (Spånga Local History and Folklore Society) in February

BOOK CIRCLE: MOA MARTINSON 2018

Sunday 18.3, 14.00-17.00 Tensta konsthall

Sunday 15.4, 13.00-16.00 Sorunda and visit to Moa Martinson's cottage at Johannesdal in Ösmo

Sunday 23.9, 15.00-17.00, Älvsjö at the local community centre, Lerkrogen

October (date to be set) in Hallstavik

Sunday 18.3, 14.00-17.00 at Tensta konsthall. Göran Eriksson will introduce Moa Martinson's life and work, after which we will read parts of Kvinnor och Äppelträd (Women and Apple Trees) and watch an episode of the TV series Mor gifter sig (Mother Gets Married). If you wish to participate, please mail fahyma@tenstakonsthall.se

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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

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

Folke Tersman and Gustaf Arrhenius: Borderless democracy

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

Katharina Berndt Rasmussen

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

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Soon enough: Art in Action

7.2–29.4 Invited artists: Alma Heikkilä (Helsingfors), Amol Patil (Mumbai), Ane Graff (Oslo), Ann Lislegaard (Köpenhamn), Anne Low (Vancouver), Bella Rune (Stockholm), Christian Nyampeta (Kigali/Amsterdam/New York), Dale Harding (Brisbane), Faivovich & Goldberg (Buenos Aires), Flo Kasearu (Tallinn), Forensic Architecture (London), Ingela Ihrman (Malmö), Jillian Mayer (Miami), Joar Nango (Tromsö), Kultivator (Öland), k.ö.k. (Stockholm), Marie Kølbæk Iversen (Köpenhamn), Matts Leiderstam (Stockholm), Osías Yanov (Buenos Aires), Pauline Boudry & Renate Lorenz (Berlin), Sorawit Songsataya (Auckland), Suki Seokyeong Kang (Seoul), Taus Makhacheva (Makhachala), Yu Ji (Shanghai), Zach Blas (London), and Zhou Tao (Guangzhou)

7.2–29.4 Invited artists: Alma Heikkilä (Helsingfors), Amol Patil (Mumbai), Ane Graff (Oslo), Ann Lislegaard (Köpenhamn), Anne Low (Vancouver), Bella Rune (Stockholm), Christian Nyampeta (Kigali/Amsterdam/New York), Dale Harding (Brisbane), Faivovich & Goldberg (Buenos Aires), Flo Kasearu (Tallinn), Forensic Architecture (London), Ingela Ihrman (Malmö), Jillian Mayer (Miami), Joar Nango (Tromsö), Kultivator (Öland), k.ö.k. (Stockholm), Marie Kølbæk Iversen (Köpenhamn), Matts Leiderstam (Stockholm), Osías Yanov (Buenos Aires), Pauline Boudry & Renate Lorenz (Berlin), Sorawit Songsataya (Auckland), Suki Seokyeong Kang (Seoul), Taus Makhacheva (Makhachala), Yu Ji (Shanghai), Zach Blas (London), and Zhou Tao (Guangzhou)

Soon enough: art in action is an exhibition about futures. It is inspired by the urgencies of our time, and a conviction that artistic practice can communicate complex problems and coordinate resistance. Some art works in the exhibition address the future directly, others point to phenomena, topics, skills or attitudes which will be more important in days to come. Self-organisation, craft and manual skills, play a certain role in the exhibition. So do collaborative methods, research-based practices, the rural, and cosmos. Media such as painting, sculpture, video, photography, performance and installation will be featured.

Installation views

Photo: Jean-Baptiste Beranger

The exhibition is a part of the collaboration They Were, Those People, A Kind of Solution with WHW (Zagreb), eipcp - the European Institute for Progressive Cultural Policies (Vienna) and Center for Peace Studies (CMS) (Zagreb). With support from the Creative Europe Programme of the European Union.

With financial support from: the Cultural Endowment of Estonia; the Danish Arts Foundation; Goethe Institut Schweden; Kreativa platser, Kulturrådet; the Mondriaan Fund, the public cultural funding organization focusing on visual arts and cultural heritage; Office for Contemporary Art Norway and the Swiss Arts Council Pro Helvetia.

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Introduction to Current Projects

Thursdays and Saturdays 14:00 Open introduction to current exhibitions Soon enough: Art in Action, and Art treasures: Grains of gold from Tensta’s public schools.

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Osías Yanov on Space

7.2–29.4 Osías Yanovs Gomero (The Order of Orgies) is currently on display in Space, Tensta konsthall’s curatorial platform online. To reach Space, click the word main in the page’s upper right corner.

7.2–29.4 Osías Yanovs Gomero (The Order of Orgies) is currently on display in Space, Tensta konsthall’s curatorial platform online. To reach Space, click the word main in the page’s upper right corner.

Osías Yanovs Gomero (The Order of Orgies), text by Maria Lind

Six figures, all high up in the tree, appear in Osias Yanov’s three-minute silent video Gomero (The Order of Orgies). They all become part of a fantastical human-plant-animal hybrid. As much as it crosses the divide between animal and vegetable, the work too also bridges the gap between genders, for Yanov’s figures mix traditional male and female features. They appear in stature as if having found a place to inhabit quietly. The experience of watching this is almost like witnessing one of the transformations from Ovid’s or Kafka’s tales of metamorphosis: not as melodramatic as most Greek or Roman myths; more towards the quotidian transformations of Kafka’s tales of human-animal beings, pre-postmodern precursors of cyborgs. The video, filmed with a steady camera, is shown on Tensta konsthall’s online platform space, www.tenstakonsthall.se.

The tree in Yanov’s video is a Ficus elastica, which reproduces via a co- evolved relationship with a specific type of wasp. Such co-evolutions, something Charles Darwin wrote about, occur

on both microscopic and macroscopic levels, across the plant and animal kingdoms. Genetic diversity probably has a source here. In addition to the age-old fascination with transformations of humans into animals and plants, and gender performativity, this genetic side directly connects it with current discussions of the pharma-pornographic regime of our time with biochemistry as a dominant factor. Social and political things also happen on a molecular level. At the end of Yanov’s video, a seventh body materialises, backlit by strong sunlight as if specially chosen. This creature wears a full bodysuit, head and body entirely covered with green foliage patterns. Now in total camouflage, the figure merges with the majestic Ficus elastica, equally as un-dramatic. There seems to be something important about this quiet appearance and occupation of a particular place, something pointing to the future.

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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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Dates spring 2018

5.2–27.4 2018 Events January–April

TENSTA KONSTHALL EVENTS JANUARY-APRIL

Thursdays and Saturdays, 14:00 Introduction to current exhibitions

Monday 5.2-Wednesday 7.2 Joar Nango and Lajos Gabor work on their sculptural and performative collaboration The European Everything at Taxingeplan outside Tensta konsthall. Previous iterations of the project have been presented at Document 14 in Kassel and Athens in 2017.

Tuesday 6.2, 17:00-20:00 Opening of Soon Enough: Art in Action and Art Treasures: Grains of Gold from Tensta's Public Schools. Performance Queen of the Night by Ingela Ihrman.

Wednesday 7.2, 12:00-18:00 A Fiesta of Art, a day of presentations of the works in the exhibition with Alma Heikkilä, Amol Patil, Ane Graff, Ann Lislegaard, Anne Low, Bella Rune, Christian Nyampeta, Dale Harding, Flo Kasearu. Ingela Ihrman, Joar Nango, Lajos Gabor, Marie Kølbæk Iversen, Mathieu Vrijman & Malin Lindmark Vrijman (Kultivator), Matts Leiderstam, Suki Seokyeong, and Yu Li.

Sunday 11.2, 14:00-16:00 Joar Nango is showing the work Sami Shelters, a series of knitted sweaters, at Nälsta gård, the folk museum of Spånga Local Heritage Association.

Friday 23.2, 13:00-17:00 Reading group Alexandra Kollontai in collaboration with Konstfack's CuratorLab with Petra Bauer and Rebecka Thor. The group will meet up at Tensta konsthall and continue to The Women's Centre in Tensta-Hjulsta.

Saturday 24.2, 14:00-17:00 Facing structural racism - unraveling the NSU Complex, seminar with the Association of the Friends of Halit, among others Natascha Sadr Haghighian and Ayse Gülec, who commissioned the work 77SQM-9:26MIN by Forensic Architecture.

Sunday 25.2, 14:00-17:00 Taus Makhacheva is conducting a workshop on superheros.

Monday 26.2-Friday 2.3 Art camp with the textile department of Konstfack University College of Arts, Crafts and Design, with professor Bella Rune.

Tuesday 6.3, 18:30 What does artistic research do? With the artists Andjeas Ejiksson, Ane Graff, Anna Lundh, Behzad Khoosravi Noori, Jan Peter Hammer, Liv Bugge, Marie Kölbaek Iversen, Olivia Plender.

Tuesday 20.3, 18:30 Seminar with design studio Metahaven and researcher and theorist Benjamin Bratton. The first seminar in a series running throughout 2018 in collaboration with The Institute for Future Studies, celebrating Tensta konsthall's 20th anniversary.

Thursday 22.3, 18:30 Seminar with Karim Jebari, The Institute for Future Studies, and Ahmet Ögut, artist. The second seminar in a series running throughout 2018 in collaboration with The Institute for Future Studies, celebrating Tensta konsthall's 20th anniversary.

Sunday 25.3, 12:00-15:00 Vegan Brunch with Auel Coffee.

Tuesday 3.4– Friday 6.4, 10:00–15:00
Week-long workshop in collaboration with Beckman’s College of Design, where children aged 10–15 will explore different modes of creating symbols and logotypes. One day is spent at Beckman’s College of Design.

Tuesday 10.4, 18:30 Seminar with Bi Puranen and Pontus Strimling, The Institute for Future Studies- The third seminar in a series running throughout 2018 in collaboration with The Institute for Future Studies, celebrating Tensta konsthall's 20th anniversary.

Thursday 19.4, 18:30 Seminar with Mao Mollona, researcher Goldsmiths College. The fourth seminar in a series running throughout 2018 in collaboration with The Institute for Future Studies, celebrating Tensta konsthall's 20th anniversary.

Tuesday 24.4, 18:30 Performance-lecture by Zach Blas, artist.

Friday 27.4, 17:00 Eyal Weizman on Forensic Architecture and 77SQM_9:26MIN.

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Art treasures: Grains of gold from Tensta’s public schools

7.2–31.12 2018 An exhibition that shines light on art in the public schools of Tensta. Around thirty works by artists such as Berta Hansson, Sven X:et Erixson, Carl Larsson, and Randi Fisher will be moved from their permanent location and hung salon style at Tensta konsthall. Meanwhile, the emptied spaces will be filled with works by Bernd Krauss (Nürnberg/Rotterdam), Mats Adelman (Stockholm), Nina Svensson (Timrå/Stockholm), Peter Geschwind (Stockholm), Thomas Elovsson (Stockholm), and Ylva Westerlund (Stockholm). As a part of Tensta museum: Continues

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Symposium: Art

9–11.3 2018 Can you measure the importance of art and place? Over 40 small scale art institutions and kunsthalles from the Nordic countries now team up to jointly deal with the question of art's values by organizing a large-scale symposium in Oslo. Among the speakers taking part in the symposium are leading experts within the cultural-economic field: Pier Luigi Sacco, professor of Cultural Economics at IULM University in Milano; Andrea Phillips, art professor and Head of Research at Valand Academy, University of Gothenburg; Lars Strannegård, professor and president at The Stockholm School of Economics; Binna Choi, curator and director of Casco, Office for Art, Design and Theory; and Azar Mahmoudian, curator and researcher based in Tehran.

9–11.3 2018 Is it possible to measure the significance and impact of art? More than 40 smaller visual arts institutions from the Nordic countries are organizing a large-scale symposium in Oslo in order to address the question of the agency of art and the work of such institutions. Leading experts within the cultural-economic field will take part in the symposium, among them: Pier Luigi Sacco, professor of Cultural Economics at IULM University of Milano; Andrea Phillips, art professor and director of the BxNU Research Institute, Northumbria University and BALTIC Centre of Contemporary Art in Newcastle; Lars Strannegård, professor and president at the Stockholm School of Economics; Binna Choi, curator and director of Casco – Office for Art, Design and Theory in Utrecht; as well as Azar Mahmoudian, curator and researcher based in Tehran.

The Agency of Art
How can one fathom the implications and values of smaller arts institutions within the greater arts’ ecosystem? One key aspect is their ground-breaking approach to relations between art and society, education, and the formation of public spheres. Another is their important role in local communities whilst maintaining a constant dialogue within the international arts context. But how can we create dialogue around the values that are being built—beyond visitation numbers and media coverage? What cooperative processes can be adopted so that artists and culture, small and large institutions, municipalities, regions, states and federal politics all cooperate to encourage art’s potential?
During the fall of 2017 curator and theorist Jonatan Habib Engqvist and Nina Möntmann, art historian and curator, have worked on a report focusing on the artistic, social, societal and economic values of the contemporary kunsthalles within a Nordic context. The work is being presented in the symposium alongside presentations by some of the most significant experts in the field. The symposium will gather art institutions, officials and politicians within the cultural sectors of the Nordic countries as well as international guests. The program includes lectures, panels, smaller group discussions, and guided visits at art institutions in Oslo. The symposium will take place at Office for Contemporary Art Norway (OCA). It has received support from the Nordic Culture Point and Art’s Council Norway.

The symposium is free of charge, but participants are asked to pay for arranged meals, travels and stay. RSVP is mandatory and is accepted before February 11 to ingrid@oslokunstforening.no. First come first serve.

The Nordic Network
The organisation of the network is based on three existing associations of kunsthalles: Foreningen af Kunsthaller i Danmark which has been active since 1992; Klister in Sweden and Kunsthallene i Norge, which was both formed in 2011. Each of these networks has arisen out of a need to organize in order to highlight and debate the function of small and medium sized contemporary art institutions, their significance as well as their existing terms of governance. Situational reports have been commissioned by all three networks from their respective countries. The Danish report is titled The kunsthalle: A crucial participant in contemporary art and for contemporary art (Kunsthallen: En afgørende aktør i samtidskunsten og for samtidskunsten). The Swedish report No exceptions: Value creation in small and medium-sized kunsthalles (Inga undantag. Värdeskapande i små och medelstora konsthaller) by Mikael Löfgren is available for download here (in English). In Norway, Telemarksforsking has completed a report which is available here (in Norwegian).

The symposium is arranged by the Nordic network through Marianne Hultman (Oslo Kunstforening), Kristine Kern (Fotografisk Center, Copenhagen), Maria Lind (Tensta konsthall, Stockholm), Cecilie Nissen (Kristiansand Kunsthall), Helene Nyborg Bay (Nikolaj Kunsthal, Copenhagen) and Bettina Pehrsson (Marabouparken konsthall, Sundbyberg).

Contact
Hanna Nordell, hanna@tenstakonsthall.se
Ingrid Vold Bjørkamo, ingrid@oslokunstforening.no

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Reading Alexandra Kollontai

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

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

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

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

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

Thursday 7.9, 13:00–17:00 Michele Masucci, Maria Lind, Agneta Pleijel and Joanna Warsza

Monday 13.11, 13:00–17:00 Shabane Barot

Shabane Barot is a medical doctor, activist, and writer. Barot was one of the organizers of the event Marx 2013 at ABF (The Workers’ Educational Association) and a member of the editorial board of the journal Fronesis. Shabane is a reader of Aleksandra Kollontai and has written articles on Kollontai for the Swedish weekly newspaper Arbetaren and Fronesis. She is one of the members of CMS, Centre for Marxist Social Studies, based in Stockholm.

Friday 23.2 Petra Bauer and Rebecka Thor

Monday 14.5 Oxana Timofeeva

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The Silent University: English Language Café

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

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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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Lithograph by Marie-Louise Ekman  

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

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Women Café

Tuesdays, Thursdays 13:00 and Saturdays 12:00 Every tuesday, thursday and saturday afternoon, women from the Järva area meet at Tensta konsthall to work with different kinds of crafts. Through joint handiwork, a safe space is made possible where conversation and exchange of experience is at the center. The craftsmanship skills that women in the group already have is amplified up and reinforced by teachers from Hemslöjden and by the other participants.

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Citizen to Citizen

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

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Klister report: Inga undantag (No Exceptions)

Inga undantag (No Exceptions) is the name of a new report authored by Mikael Löfgren and developed by Klister, a nationwide network of small and medium-sized contemporary art centers in Sweden.

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Goldin+Senneby in art-agenda

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

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Vegan Brunch

29.4 12:00–15:00 Vegan brunch. On the last Sunday of every month, café Auel hosts the konsthall’s popular vegan brunch with East African dishes. On the menu : Injera (sourdough bread), cauliflower mash, parsley, chick-peas with berbere, spinach beet and kale stew, zucchini with chilli, lentil stew with caraway, sweet potato salad with pomegranate and rocket salad, tabbouleh and more. Sittings: 12:00 and 13:30. For bookings please contact: auelkaffe@gmail.com.

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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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de:tune Järva

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

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

The core of Tarek Atoui’s work is an ongoing reflection on the instrument as an idea and of the performative act as a complex, open, and dynamic process. He builds new instruments and invites groups of professional musicians to take on music that is unknown to them and then create new music based on it; he has for example worked with deaf children and observed Arabic music’s unwritten history. Atoui is an artist, composer, and musician from Beirut who prefers a collective approach and testing restrictive practice opportunities in performance, composition, and improvisation. He has extensive experience in initiating and managing artistic innovation and workable common processes, among others at the art exhibition Documenta in Kassel in the summer of 2012 and at the biennial in Sharjah the next year.

  The music presented in Stockholm is the result of a process where a group of twenty people associated with the Järva area create the basis for a new piece of music through constant change and refinement of already existing music of their choice. The project started in April when posters were put up in the Järva area inviting musicians to an open meeting at Tensta Konsthall.

After the audition process a new group of musicians was created, playing everything from jazz, hip hop, and afrobeat to reggae, folk, and soul. All of the musicians carry a curiosity and willingness to test their limits in a project whose foundation is in improvisation and experimental music. In May they started recording new material in the EMS studio 2. The newly recorded music is shared among the group's members for reinterpretations and remixes. The final step in the creative process is that all the new versions of the music are collected. From this Atoui creates a new whole in which improvisation has a natural role to play, and together they perform the piece of music on stage.

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

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

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

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

Playlist at Tensta konstall’s café, 2015

Jonas Kronman  

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Tensta konsthall Text Prize

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

For the second year in a row Tensta konsthall is presenting a text prize for young people, year 15–25, in Tensta. The prize aims to encourage creative writing and to contribute new stories from the area to the area itself. The jury is comprised of the August Prize winner Lena Andersson, poet Meron Mangasha, publisher Björn Linnell, journalist Rouzbeh Djalaie, Tal Lewinsky from Tensta Library, and Emily Fahlén from Tensta konsthall.

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

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

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

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

The jury’s motivation:  

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Winners 2014: Sofia Pappa, Evin Ahmad and Nebay Araya

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

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

Focusing on the alarming spread of fascism in Europe, the various contributions in the book Art and the F Word: Reflections on the Browning of Europe indicate the power of art to imagine futures beyond the present situation and what can be perceived as irrevocable. Contributions from the cultural critic Boris Buden, the curators Jelena Vesic and Barnabas Benczik, and the artists Lawrence Abu Hamdan and Petra Bauer create and formulate resilient and constructive possibilities for artistic and social work. The language of politics and philosophy are examined, but also populistic tendencies, social contexts, media, science, and aesthetics.

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The Silent University: Swedish Language Café

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

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Homework assistance Individuell människohjälp

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

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The Silent University

The Silent University is initiated by artist Ahmet Ögüt and started in Stockholm as part of Tensta Musuem: Reports from new Sweden fall 2013. The Silent University is an autonomous knowledge exchange platform by and for refugees, asylum seekers, and migrants who have had a professional life and academic training in their home countries, but are unable to use their skills or professional training in Sweden due to a variety of reasons related to their status. The Silent University aims to address and reactivate the knowledge of the participants and attempt to make systemic failure apparent. www.thesilentuniversity.org

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Parents group with Rädda Barnen

One Tuesday a month 17:30–19:30 Parents group with Rädda Barnen. One Tuesday evening every month Rädda barnen (Save the Children) organizes Parenting Forum at Tensta Konsthall. The Rädda barnen parents group meets at Tensta konsthall, providing a place for parents to meet, have discussions, and gain new experiences and knowledge. The meetings are free with complimentary refreshments. Each session focuses on different themes, such as the housing situation in Järva, local politics, or parenting and gender equality, and invited guests offer expertise in the different subjects.

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Cluster

Ongoing Cluster is a network of eight internationally operating contemporary visual art organisations situated in residential areas on the peripheries of major European cities (plus one in Holon, an industrial zone outside of Tel Aviv). Each of these organisations are actively involved in their local contexts, fostering their embeddedness within their surroundings.

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KLISTER

Ongoing from September 2012 The network Klister is a nationwide network for small and medium-sized contemporary art institutions in Sweden. Klister seeks to highlight the role of smaller contemporary art institutions in society.

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

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

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

Inga undantag (No Exceptions) is the name of a new report authored by Mikael Löfgren and developed by klister, a nationwide network of small and medium-sized contemporary art centers in Sweden. In the report, Löfgren argues that the demand for measurability and immediate statistics that characterizes contemporary cultural discourse is not suitable for evaluating the work of the country's smaller art institutions. Such a pragmatic and economically-driven model of analysis is taken from New Public Manegement (NPM) and only works if the primary goal of a business is to generate profit. But as cultural institutions in general, and smaller art galleries in particular, work towards other objectives, evaluations must also adapt to their language and methods.

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

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

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

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The Sibling Art Centers

Ongoing The network of sibling art centers in Stockholm. The Sibling Art Centers form a network of smaller contemporary art centers in Stockholm and include Botkyrka konsthall, Konsthall C, Marabouparken and Tensta konsthall. The art centers meet regularly to exchange ideas and organize events that are pertinent to cultural policies. In 2012, the Sibling Art Centers arranged a series of hearings to highlight and discuss the prevailing cultural policies as well as art institutions and artists' access to financing. Questions about gentrification and "creative industries" continue to be hot topics when the Siblings Art Centers meet.

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COHAB

2012–2014 Casco, Office for Art, Design and Theory, Utrecht, Tensta konsthall, Stockholm, and The Showroom, London are pleased to announce the launch of the two-year project COHAB that investigates meaningful ways in which artists and organisations can be deeply invested within their local contexts and at the same time form close dialogues in an international arena.

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The New Model

2011– Lars Bang Larsen, Magnus Bärtås, Ane Hjorth Guttu, Dave Hullfish Bailey, Hito Steyerl. Started in 2011 at Tensta konsthall, over a period of two years, The New Model will investigate the heritage from The Model: A model for a qualitative society in a number of projects, seminars, workshops and exhibitions. Participants will include Lars Bang Larsen, Magnus Bärtås, Ane Hjorth Guttu, Dave Hullfish Bailey and Hito Steyerl.

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The Fashion Project

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

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Café

Ongoing Our café serves food and sweets with inspiration from all over the world. We have free wifi for guests, toys for the children, and Swedish and international art magazines to read.

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Gallery Club

Ongoing In the spring of 2011 Konsthallsklubben (Gallery Club) was initiated by a group of 11 year-old girls from a nearby school. The club is aimed at children, 10-13 years old, who meet once a week to discuss and make art together with invited artists and staff.

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Gunilla Klingberg: Brand New View—Tensta

Ongoing Gunilla Klingberg’s work on the two front windows of Tensta Centrum, Brand New View—Tensta, is a new work in a series of installations with cut-out foil on windows. For Abstract Possible: The Stockholm Synergies  she has made a new version of Brand  New View, this time relying on logos found in Tensta Centrum, for example,  the grocery store Matvärlden and the kebab restaurant Tasty Fried Chicken.

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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: 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

cafe

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Auel Coffee

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

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

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

Cafe opening hours:
Monday–Tuesday 11–17
Wednesday 11–20
Thursday–Friday 11–18
Saturday-Sunday 12–17

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Contact
Tensta konsthall
Taxingegränd 10
Box 4001
163 04 SPÅNGA
SWEDEN

T: +46 8 36 07 63
F: +46 8 36 25 60
E: info@tenstakonsthall.se
W: www.tenstakonsthall.se

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

Hours
Tuesdays 11–20
Wednesday-Friday 11-18
Saturday-Sunday 12-17

Free entrance. Voluntary donation.

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

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

In conjunction with tours our Café can offer light meals and snacks at good prices.

For reservations and more information about tours contact Nina Svensson nina@tenstakonsthall.se or 08-36 07 63.

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

Staff

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

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

Isabella Tjäder, communication + press 
isabella (at) tenstakonsthall.se
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Maria Lind, director
maria (at) tenstakonsthall.se

Asha Mohamed, assistance
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Fredrik Berg
Makda Embaie
Ailin Moaf Mirlashari
Rasmus Sjöbeck

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Nabil Belkacem
Anna Kettner
Sven Lorentzi
Birgitta Rydell
Katarina Sjögren

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Dora Garcia and Aleksandra Kollontai

16.5–23.9 2018 Dora Garcia’s (Barcelona) research based practice deals with the possible ways of thinking about resistance and an embodiment of politics. Her exhibition in Tensta konsthall takes as a starting point the life and work of the Russian revolutionary, feminist, writer and diplomat Aleksandra Kollontai (1872-1952). The exhibition is preceded by an open reading group in collaboration with Konstfack University of Arts, Crafts and Design’s CuratorLab, with a focus on Kollontai’s writings. As a part of The eros Effect: Art, Solidarity Movements and the Struggle for Social Justice.

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Philippe Parreno

Autumn 2018 Artist Philippe Parreno (Paris), works in film, sculpture, drawing and writing. Artistic practice and the exhibition as a format are important points of reference in his art. Tensta konsthall will present a new project which continues some of his earlier shows, such as "H{N)YPN(Y}OSIS," at Park Avenue Armory in New York, where he used past and current pieces to create a sensory journey with light, sound and apparitions.

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Anton Vidokle: Cosmism

Autumn 2018 Vidokle’s poetic films discover the connections between Fyodorov’s ideas of resurrection of all the dead, capitalist and socialist cosmic expansion, the flows of energy as well as contemporary transhumanist theories. It aligns the life of post-Soviet rural residents and the futurological projects of Russian cosmism to emphasize that the goal of the early Soviet breakthroughs aimed at the conquest of outer space was not so much technical acceleration, but the common cause of humankind in their struggle against the limitations of earthly life.

30.4–2.4
Opening Hours During Easter

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

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?

24.2, 14:00-17:00
Facing structural racism
– the unraveling of the NSU Complex

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

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

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

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

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

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

L’hommage: Hall of Femmes
Wednesday 13.9, 19:00
Charlie Gullström Hughes on Léonie Geisendorf

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

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 2016
Fuel to the Fire with Natascha Sadr Haghighian

20.10 2016–15.1 2017
Partisanism with Babi Badalov

20.10 2016–15.1    2017
Homeland by Halil Altındere

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

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

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

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

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

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

Wednesday 16.11, 19:00
Screening: Handsworth Songs

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

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

10.6–25.9 2016
 Future Flourish by Ingela Ihrman

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Friday–Saturday 2.9-3.9
Tensta market

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

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

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

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

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

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

Friday 10.6, 13:00
Artist tour by Ingela Ihrman

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

 8.12 2015–26.2 2016
Tensta Museum at
Stockholm County Museum

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Thursday 26.10, 15:00
Tour of Spånga church

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

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

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

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

Wednesday 28.10, 14:00
Screening: Taikon

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

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

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

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

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

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

Wednesday 5.8, 18:00
LTTR Walkthrough with Renate Lorenz

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

23.6–15.8
Opening hours during summer

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

1.8–3.8 2014
Stockholm Music and Arts
Do It Together

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

 25.7–27.7
TAF! – Photography workshop

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Sunday 19.1, 13:00
Tensta Museum: Artist Talk

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

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

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

Wednesday 11.12, 18:30
Tensta Museum: Terence Gower

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Saturday 9.11, 13.00
Tensta walk with architect Erik Stenberg

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

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

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

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

13.6-29.9
Last week
Iman Issa

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

13.6-29.9
Last week
Bernd Krauss
We continue BBDG

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

25.9, 18:30
Book release
Undoing Property?

Deadline 11.9
Salon Tensta
open call with a jury

28.8, 18:30
Anna Lundh
Lecture performance

13.8-18.8
This year's art camp at Lava

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

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

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Opening: Anne Low at Sorunda Folkets Hus

2018 14.4 13:00–16:00 Anne Low’s new art project opens at Sorunda Folkets Hus (Sorunda People’s House). A mini-bus will leave from Ösmo commuter rail station at 12.15 and 12.45. After a short stop at Moa Martinson’s cottage, the bus will continue to Sorunda. The exhibition will be inaugurated at 14.30 by Ulla-Karin Warberg, from Nordiska museet (the Nordic Museum). In conjunction with the return journey to Ösmo, at about 15.00, the bus will stop at Fattigstuga (the Poor House), which is run by Sorunda Hembygdsförening (Sorunda Local History and Folklore Society). RSVP to office@tenstakonsthall.se, latest 11 April.

More information about the exhibition can be found here.

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Futures: Bi Puranen and Pontus Strimling

2018 10.4 18:30 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 10.4 18:30 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 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?

Bi Puranen is a researcher at the Institute for Future Studies, and the General Secretary for World Values Survey. Amongst the questions taken up in her presentation are: 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?

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?   

Pontus Strimling's research deals with how cultural traits change over time, particularly how norms are created, sustained and transformed. Throughout his career, he has worked with a range of interdisciplinary collaborators across the field and published in anthropology, biology, psychology, mathematics, linguistics, and economy. His main 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, he uses 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. His work ranges from basic research on the rules surrounding punishment to applied research on why the changing norms of hygiene become stricter.

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Opening Hours During Easter

Good Friday closed

Holy Saturday 12:00-17:00

Easter Sunday 12:00-17:00

Easter Monday closed

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Futures: Karim Jebari and Ahmet Ögut

2018 22.3 18:30 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 22.3 18:30 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.

Thursday 22.3 18:30 Karim Jebari and Ahmet Ögut

Karim Jebari: Why Move into Space?

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

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Futures: Metahaven and Benjamin Bratton

2018 20.3 18:30 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 20.3 18:30 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?

Metahaven: Skopje’s Megastructure

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5.2–27.4 2018Dates spring 2018

7.2–29.4Soon enough: Art in Action

7.2–31.12 2018Art Treasures: Grains of Gold from Tensta’s Public Schools

14.4-6.5 Anne Low at Sorunda Folkets Hus

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

19.4 18:30Seminar Series Futures: Massimiliano Mollona

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

24.4 18.30Metric Mysticism: lecture performance by Zach Blas

27.4 18:00–19:00 Eyal Weizman on Forensic Architecture

Thursdays and Saturdays 14:00 Introduction to Current Projects

1.11 2017–31.10 2018Sites of the Future

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

7.2–29.4Osías Yanov on Space

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

Eyal Weizman on Forensic Architecture

27.4 18:00–19:00 Presentation by Eyal Weizman on Forensic Architecture, the “unrecognised” Bedouin village Umm al-Hiran in the Negev targeted for demolition, and the National Socialist Underground in Germany.

Introduction to Current Exhibitions by Maria Lind and Sorawit Songsataya

Sites of the Future

Futures: Massimiliano Mollona

Futures: Folke Tersman and Gustaf Arrhenius

Futures: Katharina Bernd-Rasmussen and Moa Bursell

Metric Mysticism: lecture performance by Zach Blas

Walk in Tensta with Erik Stenberg

Anne Low at Sorunda Folkets Hus

Futures

Soon enough: Art in Action

Introduction to Current Projects

Thursdays and Saturdays 14:00 Open introduction to current exhibitions Soon enough: Art in Action, and Art treasures: Grains of gold from Tensta’s public schools.

Osías Yanov on Space

7.2–29.4 Osías Yanovs Gomero (The Order of Orgies) is currently on display in Space, Tensta konsthall’s curatorial platform online. To reach Space, click the word main in the page’s upper right corner.

Art Club

Dates spring 2018

5.2–27.4 2018 Events January–April

Art treasures: Grains of gold from Tensta’s public schools

Symposium: Art

Reading Alexandra Kollontai

The Silent University: English Language Café

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.

Lithograph by Marie-Louise Ekman

Women Café

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.

Vegan Brunch

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.

de:tune Järva

Tensta konsthall Text Prize

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

The Silent University: Swedish Language Café

Homework assistance Individuell människohjälp

The Silent University

Parents group with Rädda Barnen

Cluster

KLISTER

Ongoing from September 2012 The network Klister is a nationwide network for small and medium-sized contemporary art institutions in Sweden. Klister seeks to highlight the role of smaller contemporary art institutions in society.

The Sibling Art Centers

COHAB

The New Model

The Fashion Project

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

Café

Ongoing Our café serves food and sweets with inspiration from all over the world. We have free wifi for guests, toys for the children, and Swedish and international art magazines to read.

Gallery Club

Ongoing In the spring of 2011 Konsthallsklubben (Gallery Club) was initiated by a group of 11 year-old girls from a nearby school. The club is aimed at children, 10-13 years old, who meet once a week to discuss and make art together with invited artists and staff.

Gunilla Klingberg: Brand New View—Tensta

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.

book shop

cafe

5.2–27.4 2018
Dates spring 2018

7.2–29.4
Soon enough:
Art in Action

7.2–31.12 2018
Art Treasures: Grains of Gold
from Tensta’s Public Schools

14.4-6.5
Anne Low at
Sorunda Folkets Hus

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

19.4 18:30
Seminar Series
Futures:
Massimiliano Mollona

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

24.4 18.30
Metric Mysticism:
lecture performance
by Zach Blas

27.4 18:00–19:00
Eyal Weizman on
Forensic Architecture

Thursdays and Saturdays 14:00
Introduction to Current Projects

1.11 2017–31.10 2018
Sites of the Future

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

7.2–29.4
Osías Yanov on Space

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

Lithograph by Marie-Louise Ekman  

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isabella (at) tenstakonsthall.se
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30.4–2.4
Opening Hours During Easter

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

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?

24.2, 14:00-17:00
Facing structural racism
– the unraveling of the NSU Complex

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