now

26.9–20.10
Rehanging

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

20.10 2016–15.1 2017
Partisanism with Babi Badalov

28.9 2016–15.1 2017
Space
The Wrong Side of Me by Agnieszka Polska

Report
No Exceptions: Value Creation in Small and Mid-sized Galleries of Contemporary Art by Mikael Löfgren

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Rehanging

Next exhibitions open 20.10 2016: Fuel to the Fire with Natascha Sadr Haghighian and Partisanism with Babi Badalov.

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Fuel to the Fire with Natascha Sadr Haghighian

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

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Partisanism with Babi Badalov

20.10 2016–15.1 2017 Partisanism with Babi Badalov. Hand-drawn words like discrimiNATION, Rain-Car-Nation, Mona Khartoum, Musulman-Musulwoman, WHOMAN, Joseph Boys Joseph Girls, and 1001 arabian nights, 1001 arabian fights are central to Badi Badalov’s (Lerik/St. Petersburg/Paris) installations. Sometimes written on textiles in different sizes which together create a pattern, sometimes written directly on the wall, the misspelled, fragmented, and assembled words are often combined with clipped images to form huge wall collages.

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The Wrong Side of Me by Agnieszka Polska

28.9 2016–15.1 2017 The Wrong Side of Me by Agnieszka Polska. Agnieszka Polska (Lublin/Berlin) has made a slide show with a selection of her iconic images for Tensta konsthall’s online art project platform.

28.9 2016–15.1 2017 The Wrong Side of Me by Agnieszka Polska. Agnieszka Polska (Lublin/Berlin) has made a slide show with a selection of her iconic images for Tensta konsthall’s online art project platform. The slideshow begins with a crystal clear picture of the top part of a perfectly shaped champagne glass, filled with a liquid that shimmers in blue, purple, light yellow, and pink. It's gasoline. But something is wrong—the surface is not horizontal but slopes downwards, as if there were no gravity. In a way, this is true, given how humanity's dependence on fossil fuels has upset the laws of nature as we previously recognized them. The image of the champagne glass is followed by a glass ashtray with cigarette butts and smoke, a flint knife on its end, a fingertip with text written in squiggly cursive handwriting, and, finally, a hand covered in metallic paint, holding a glass filled with a black substance.

The highly stylized, dreamlike images are borrowed from the internet and digitally processed by the artist and at times described as “post-internet art.” There are also parallels to the so-called Pictures Generation of the 1980s United States, when artists such as Cindy Sherman, Richard Prince, and Barbara Kruger appropriated images from popular culture, especially photographs from the world of advertising. Here, the new digital state functions as a backdrop. Polska also highlights the gaps in art history and aims to reconstruct forgotten stories, particularly focusing on the avant-garde. Her works are unhurried and contemplative, and many times they require a meditative attention, both from the maker and the viewer.

Polska talks about how her works often occur at the intersection of outermost emotions, like outrage at the news together with fear of cosmic distances, deep sadness combined with an excitement that comes from thinking about quantum mechanics, or animals with photosynthetic abilities. Past experiences that are important to her art are working as a cleaner in a hotel at the Grand Canyon, studying the work of the Polish avant-garde group Zameks, and being infected by bacteria from an insidious tick.

Agnieszka Polska, born in 1985 in Lublin, lives and works in Berlin and Warsaw; studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Cracow and the Universitaet der Kunste Berlin. Works with film, animation, video installation and performance. Her works were presented in: Suspended Animation, Hirshhorn Museum, Washington, D.C. (2016), You Imagine What You Desire, 19. Bienale of Sydney (2014); Mom, Am I Barbarian?, 13. Istanbul Biennale, (2013); Future Generation Art Prize, Pinchuk Art Centre, Kijev (2012); Early Years, KunstWerke Center for Contemporary Art, Berlin (2010). Her solo shows include: I Am the Mouth, Nottingham Contemporary (2014), Pseudoword Hazards, Salzburger Kunstverein (2013); Aurorite, CCA Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw (2012).

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Tensta Talks: Symposium: The Eros Effect: Sound records

Sound records Symposium: The Eros Effect: Art, Solidarity Movements and the Struggle for Social Justice, was held Saturday 17.10, 10:00–18:00. The symposium is the starting point of a multi-year inquiry into the relationship between art and solidarity movements, performed in a series of commissions, exhibitions, workshops, presentations, and film screenings. Faced with fascist parties gaining ground in Europe and an increasingly tough social climate, we see the necessity to return to the notion of solidarity in order to try its validity today. Will solidarity still be relevant in the future, or is it a historical concept? Do we need to find new ways to describe the political movements of today and their struggles, sympathies, and commitments? What does recognizing the urgency of a situation imply, and how do we act upon it?

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

The Eros Effect: Art, Solidarity Movements and the Struggle for Social Justice.  The symposium forms the starting point of a multi-year inquiry into the relationship between art and solidarity movements, performed in a series of commissions, exhibitions, workshops, presentations, and film screenings. Faced with fascist parties gaining ground in Europe and an increasingly tough social climate, we see the necessity to return to the notion of solidarity in order to try its validity today. Will solidarity still be relevant in the future, or is it a historical concept? Do we need to find new ways to describe the political movements of today and their struggles, sympathies, and commitments? What does recognizing the urgency of a situation imply, and how do we act upon it?

The Eros Effect: Art, Solidarity Movements and the Struggle for Social Justice.  The symposium forms the starting point of a multi-year inquiry into the relationship between art and solidarity movements, performed in a series of commissions, exhibitions, workshops, presentations, and film screenings. Faced with fascist parties gaining ground in Europe and an increasingly tough social climate, we see the necessity to return to the notion of solidarity in order to try its validity today. Will solidarity still be relevant in the future, or is it a historical concept? Do we need to find new ways to describe the political movements of today and their struggles, sympathies, and commitments? What does recognizing the urgency of a situation imply, and how do we act upon it?

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

The invited speakers are Mathieu Kleyebe Abonnenc (Metz), Filipa César (Berlin), Kodwo Eshun (London), Peo Hansen (Norrköping), Ingela Johansson (Stockholm), Stefan Jonsson (Norrköping), Kristine Khouri (Beirut), Doreen Mende (Berlin), Bojana Piškur (Ljubljana), Natascha Sadr Haghighian (Berlin/Tehran), Rasha Salti (Beirut), Rojda Sekersöz (Stockholm), Gulf Labor/Ashok Sukumaran (Mumbai), Håkan Thörn (Göteborg), Dmitry Vilensky (S:t Petersburg), Marion von Osten (Berlin), Mathias Wåg (Stockholm) and Aleksandra Ålund (Norrköping).

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

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

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

Program (changes might appear)

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

The symposium is free of charge.   

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

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

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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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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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Text Price 2016

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

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The Art Detectives

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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The News Agency

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

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Headless

What do a fishy offshore company, secret artists, a ghost writer and French philosophy have in common? No connections are inconceivable in the recently published thriller Headless. The novel is published by Tensta konsthall, Triple Canopy (New York) and Sternberg Press (Berlin) and forms the final phase in a nine year-long performance on state sovereignty, surveillance and strategies for withdrawal, initiated by the artist duo Goldin+Senneby.

What do a fishy offshore company, secret artists, a ghost writer and French philosophy have in common? No connections are inconceivable in the recently published thriller Headless. The novel is published by Tensta konsthall, Triple Canopy (New York) and Sternberg Press (Berlin) and forms the final phase in a nine year-long performance on state sovereignty, surveillance and strategies for withdrawal, initiated by the artist duo Goldin+Senneby.

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

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

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

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

Past Headless releases:

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

More to be confirmed.

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Tenstakonsthall.se

Ongoing Tensta konsthall's new website and a communication strategy is specific for the art space and its program. Design by Amsterdam-based design studio Metahaven.

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de:tune Järva

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Playlist at Tensta konstall’s café, 2015

Jonas Kronman  

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Tensta konsthall Text Prize

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

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

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

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

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

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

The jury’s motivation:  

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Winners 2014: Sofia Pappa, Evin Ahmad and Nebay Araya

Previous:

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: 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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Tours

Guided tours every Thursday and Saturday at 14:00.

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Homework assistance Individuell människohjälp

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

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The Silent University

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

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Parents group with Rädda Barnen

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

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Cluster

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

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KLISTER

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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The Sibling Art Centers

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

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COHAB

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

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The New Model

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

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The Fashion Project

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

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Café

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

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Gallery Club

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

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Gunilla Klingberg: Brand New View—Tensta

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

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Wade Guyton: Untitled

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

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Tommy Støckel: Workshop with Ross Tensta Gymnasium and KTH Tensta

Ongoing The results from the workshop that the artist Tommy Støckel held in December 2011, together with students from Ross Tensta gymnasium and KTH Tensta in conjunction with Tensta konsthall are exhibited in Ross Tensta Gymnasium’s conservatory. The workshop was carried out during Abstract Possible: The Stockholm Synergies, where Tommy Støckel partook with the piece In My Mind This Goes On Forever (2012).

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Spatial Concept: Nikolaus Hirsch

Ongoing The spatial concept for the new Tensta konsthall has been developed by architect Nikolaus Hirsch. Architect Filippa Stålhane has developed the details.

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The book shop at Tensta konsthall offers a wide selection of art books and publications. In the web shop, you can find books Tensta konsthall has been involved in publishing.

To order: info@tenstakonsthall.se

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Title: Selected Maria Lind Writing
Language: English
Price: 150 kr
Editor: Maria Lind
Writers: Beatrice von Bismarck, Ana Paula Cohen, Liam Gillick,
Publisher: Sternberg Press
Year: 2010
Pages: 413

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Auel Coffee

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

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

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

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

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Contact
Tensta konsthall
Taxingegränd 10
Box 4001
163 04 SPÅNGA
SWEDEN

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

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

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

Free entrance. Voluntary donation.

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

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

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

For reservations and more information about tours contact Emily Fahlén emily@tenstakonsthall.se or 08-36 07 63.

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

Staff

Fahyma Alnablsi, host
fahyma (at) tenstakonsthall.se

Emily Fahlén, mediator
emily (at) tenstakonsthall.se

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

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

Hedvig Wiezell, producer
hedvig (at) tenstakonsthall.se

Hamdi Farah
Carl-Oskar Linné
Ylva Westerlund
Abraham Zehaye

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

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

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10.6–25.9 2016
Viet Nam Discourse Stockholm
by Marion von Osten & Peter Spillmann

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

Thursday 11.8, 15:00
Art and Literature walk in Tensta

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
27.1–15.5 2016
Standard Length of a Miracle
by Goldin+Senneby
Wednesdays–Sundays, 14:12
Reading of Jonas Hassen Khemiri's
short story takes place in the exhibition

Last Chance
27.1–15.5 2016
New Visions with Rana Begum,
Nadia Belerique,
Monir Farmanfarmaian,
David Maljkovic, Philippe Parreno,
Adam Pendleton, Yelena Popova

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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Personal tour by Sköld Peter Matthis in Viet Nam Discourse Stockholm

Thursday 15.9, 15:00 2016 Personal tour by Sköld Peter Matthis in Viet Nam Discourse Stockholm. Sköld Peter Matthis was the founder of the Swedish FNL movement. In a personal tour of the exhibition Viet Nam Discourse Stockholm, Sköld Peter Matthis talks about the radical politics of th 1960s, focusing on the Vietnam movement in Sweden. Few other international solidarity movements have had as big of an impact: it engaged generations in depth and constituted a breeding ground for future political engagemensts. As part of The Eros Effect: Art, Solidarity Movements and the Struggle for Social Justice.

Thursday 15.9, 15:00 2016 Personal tour by Sköld Peter Matthis in Viet Nam Discourse Stockholm. Sköld Peter Matthis was the founder of the Swedish FNL movement. In a personal tour of the exhibition Viet Nam Discourse Stockholm, Sköld Peter Matthis talks about the radical politics of th 1960s, focusing on the Vietnam movement in Sweden. Few other international solidarity movements have had as big of an impact: it engaged generations in depth and constituted a breeding ground for future political engagemensts. As part of The Eros Effect: Art, Solidarity Movements and the Struggle for Social Justice.

During the summer, Marion von Osten and Peter Spillmann's Viet Nam Discourse Stockholm at Tensta konsthall is creating a platform for conversations, interpretations, and readings about and of the entangled histories of art practice and solidarity movements. The play’s legendary set design by Gunilla Palmstierna-Weiss will be presented in the form of sketches, photographs, texts, and testimonies. The film documentation of the play’s premier in Frankfurt 1968 and of the Russell Tribunal held in Stockholm in 1967 by film maker Staffan Lamm will be on view, as well as private and press photographs from trips to Vietnam, demonstrations, and meetings.

One year before Viet Nam Discourse premiered, the Russell Tribunal, a worldwide highly acclaimed international war crime tribunal, was conducted at Folkets Hus in Stockholm in 1967. The aim of the tribunal was to investigate US war crimes in Vietnam. It was initiated and organized by the philosopher Bertrand Russell and realized in Stockholm in collaboration with the doctor and activist John Takman, the author and public intellectual Sara Lidman, Peter Weiss and Gunilla Palmstierna-Weiss, and others. The tribunal had a major international impact and was supported and realized by some of the most prominent thinkers of that time such as the philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre, the writers Simone de Beauvoir, Günther Anders, Alice Walker, James Baldwin, and many others.

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Tensta Museum Continues 2016

10.6–25.9 Tensta Museum Continues follows up on the highly acclaimed exhibition Tensta Museum: Reports from New Sweden about history and memory in Tensta. It also follows after Tensta Museum Fall Department (26.10 2013–13.1 2014) and Spring Department (18.1–18.5 2014), as well as branches during the same period at Stockholm City Museum and Museum of Medieval Stockholm.

10.6–25.9 Tensta Museum Continues follows up on the highly acclaimed exhibition Tensta Museum: Reports from New Sweden about history and memory in Tensta. It also follows after Tensta Museum Fall Department (26.10 2013–13.1 2014) and Spring Department (18.1–18.5 2014), as well as branches during the same period at Stockholm City Museum and Museum of Medieval Stockholm.

The exhibition traveled in the form of Tensta Museum on the Move (16.12 2013–15.2 2014) to Galerija Nova in Zagreb and Stockholm County Museum (8.12 2015–26.2 2016). The suburbs’ own museum continues as an integrated part of Tensta konsthall. Future Flourish, an exhibition by Ingela Ihrman, is shown in the reception and in the smaller exhibition space. Just as the late modernist residential area Tensta borders and constantly relates to a large green field, Järvafältet, Ihrman is looking at human relations with animals and nature. In her sculpture Jättebjörnlokan (The Giant Hogweed) she depicts the invasive species found on the field. Ahmet Ögüt’s art project The Silent University lives on as a language café in Swedish and Arabic and Citizen to Citizen, advisory activity for newly arrived immigrants, run by the receptionist Fahyma Alablsi.

SFI Västerort’s summer courses and the language café will take place in the Classroom, this time in the far end of the art space. The classroom tables, previously used in the exhibition The Paths to the Common(s) Are Infinite by Ayreen Anastas and Rene Gabri, are designed by the artists and made exclusively from organic materials and entirely without nails and screws. At the bulletin board, visitors can see materials including pieces from ongoing projects by participants of Tensta konsthall’s project The News Agency, maps of Tensta, and excerpts from the architect Erik Stenberg’s publication about the million program history. The reading corner accommodates the Silent University’s reference library, the author Mekonen Tekeste’s self-illustrated stories about Eritrea, written during his exile in Stockholm and Tensta, are on view.

The local shop in the gallery’s entrance offers jewelry and marmalades made by the Women’s Center in Tensta-Hjulsta. Together with Stockholm konst the Arts detectives will continue in September. Based on the school’s art and public spaces in Tensta, the students and teachers, along with artist Pia Sandström and architect Stefan Petersson, look into art historical treasures in Tensta.
This summer the Art Porch will become a venue for young and old that can meet and try different kinds of crafts, with educators from the association Hemslöjden.

Guided tours of Tensta Museum Continues by the staff at Tensta konsthall occur every Thursday and Saturday at 14:00.

In collaboration with ABF Stockholm.

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Future Flourish by Ingela Ihrman

10.6–25.9 2016 In Ingela Ihrman’s peculiar imagery, plants adopt human characteristics and new mythologies grow in the shrubbery. Ihrman is interested in how humans interact with other species. What social significance do animals and plants have in our lives? What stories are created around troublesome species, around vermin and weeds? As part of Tensta Museum Continues.

10.6–25.9 2016 In Ingela Ihrman’s peculiar imagery, plants adopt human characteristics and new mythologies grow in the shrubbery. Ihrman is interested in how humans interact with other species. What social significance do animals and plants have in our lives? What stories are created around troublesome species, around vermin and weeds? As part of Tensta Museum Continues.

Ihrman describes her perspective as ethno-biological, which means that the focus is not on nature itself but rather on how humans use and perceive it. The limits of norms and the action spaces of larger bodies are examined. Out of this, a loving relationship with clumsy existences and overgrown habitats develops. In the exhibition Future Flourish, we meet the hairy sculpture The Giant Hogweed and the sculptural costume Bjuvstegocefalen. At the opening and finissage, we take part in the performance Giant Otter Giving Birth.

Ingela Ihrman is based in Malmö. Her practice moves freely between performance art, installations, and writing and is characterized by humoristic and tactile handicrafts. In the video The Giant Knotweed Panflute Ensemble (2015), Ihrman has made pan flutes from last year’s giant knotweed stems. The composition is determined by the plant itself, and, in the unusual flute meditation, the viewer is invited to listen to the giant knotweed instead of trying to eradicate it. In the performance Giant Water Lily Victoria Amazonica BLOOMS (2012), which, for example, was performed when Tensta konsthall curated Stockholm Music & Arts in 2013, Ihrman is enrobed in a self-made water lily costume of cloth, plastic, and golf tees. She stages the water lily’s spectacular flowering, which only occurs two nights per year. Costumes and directed situations reoccur in Ihrman’s art practice. In the video Obstacle (2013), a toad tries to get itself through the different stations of an obstacle course in a gymnasium, and when Ihrman performs with the music and art project The Botanical Garden of Hägerstens, otters and flowers enter the stage. The Botanical Garden of Hägerstens, which, besides Ihrman, also consists of the artist Sofia Hultin and the musician Johan Eriksson, has toured all over Sweden. Unlike many other botanical gardens, The Botanical Garden of Hägerstens is not so interested in naming, classification, and origin. Instead, they are keen to keep the collection unsorted. Over the years, the garden has arranged everything from a gala in support of the Baltic Sea to a radio show for broken gardener hearts.

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Viet Nam Discourse by Marion von Osten with Peter Spillmann

10.6–25.9 2016 Viet Nam Discourse Stockholm. Marion von Osten in collaboration with Peter Spillmann, Center for Post-Colonial Knowledge and Culture, as part of The Eros Effect: Art, Solidarity Movements and the Struggle for Social Justice

10.6–25.9 2016 Viet Nam Discourse Stockholm by Marion von Osten with Peter Spillmann The Center for Post-Colonial Knowledge and Culture (CPKC).As part of The Eros Effect: Art, Solidarity Movements and the Struggle for Social Justice

In March 1968 Viet Nam Discourse premiered in Frankfurt, a performance that would shake the foundations of the Western theater world. The drama was written by the Berlin-born and Stockholm-based author, filmmaker, and artist Peter Weiss (1916–1982) who was one of the most influential German writers of the postwar period. It was one of the first documentary pieces, addressing the day’s most burning issues on the stage with forceful set design by Gunilla Palmstierna-Weiss. In a harsh tone, Viet Nam Discourse attempted to teach the theater audience about the rich history of Vietnam and the long liberation struggle of the population.

For the project Viet Nam Discourse Stockholm, the artist and researcher Marion von Osten and Peter Spillmann from CPKC Berlin have revisited the drama’s complex production history as well as the political and cultural context in which the play was created. Their ongoing research is creating a virtual archive of the radical politics of the 1960s and how they became a part of film, theater, and art. Few international solidarity movements have been as influential as the Vietnam liberation movement. It deeply engaged several generations and formed the breeding ground for future political involvements. At the core of Viet Nam Discourse Stockholm stands the importance that Tricontinental—as in the case of North Vietnam—liberation and solidarity movements had for the emergence of the New Left in Europe and the emergence of radical political art in the 1960s and 1970s.

During the summer, Marion von Osten and Peter Spillmann's Viet Nam Discourse Stockholm at Tensta konsthall is creating a platform for conversations, interpretations, and readings about and of the entangled histories of art practice and solidarity movements. The play’s legendary set design by Gunilla Palmstierna-Weiss will be presented in the form of sketches, photographs, texts, and testimonies. The film documentation of the play’s premier in Frankfurt 1968 and of the Russell Tribunal held in Stockholm in 1967 by film maker Staffan Lamm will be on view, as well as private and press photographs from trips to Vietnam, demonstrations, and meetings.

Through a series of conversations over the last year with Gunilla Palmstierna-Weiss, Staffan Lamm, film maker Lennart Malmer, and film scholar Malin Wahlberg, the artists selected exhibits, documents, and materials in dialogue that will be activated and built upon through film screenings, talks, lectures, and personal guided tours of the exhibition. As part of the project, a summer course in collaboration with the University of Dance and Circus (DOCH), Tensta konsthall, and Center for Post-Colonial Knowledge and Culture (CPKC) will be organized. The choreographers Stina Nyberg and Nadja Hjorton will examine the historical material in relation to contemporary contexts, examining transnational meetings between art, solidarity and choreography. The goal is to put on parts of Viet Nam Discourse in Sweden for the first time ever.

Gunilla Palmstierna-Weiss designed both the stage and costumes for Viet Nam Discourse. Historical experts and advisors were involved in the production of this early “documentary play” addressing topical issues. The production gave an account of Vietnam’s occupation history from the ancient Chinese to French colonization, Japanese occupation, and, finally, US aggression. Its choreography was stylized with sharp silhouettes and geometric shapes, inspired by historical drawings from Vietnam. Palmstierna-Weiss compared the scenic presentation to a chessboard where the people acted like pieces in an endless game of war. The premiere caused heated debates and antagonisms. The dialogue was demanding with its objective, declaring content. In addition, Frankfurt student’s movement was trying to occupy the stage and boycott the theater performance, while police forces were protecting the theater. Nevertheless, for Peter Weiss, the stage functioned as a device for political mobilization: the Western bourgeois society should be confronted with histories of Vietnam that point towards an anti-colonial and non-imperialist future.

One year before Viet Nam Discourse premiered, the Russell Tribunal, a worldwide highly acclaimed international war crime tribunal, was conducted at Folkets Hus in Stockholm in 1967. The aim of the tribunal was to investigate US war crimes in Vietnam. It was initiated and organized by the philosopher Bertrand Russell and realized in Stockholm in collaboration with the doctor and activist John Takman, the author and public intellectual Sara Lidman, Peter Weiss and Gunilla Palmstierna-Weiss, and others. The tribunal had a major international impact and was supported and realized by some of the most prominent thinkers of that time such as the philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre, the writers Simone de Beauvoir, Günther Anders, Alice Walker, James Baldwin, and many others.

The travels, friendships, and physical meetings between cultural workers and politicians in the West and North Vietnam are central to understanding Viet Nam Discourse and the Russell tribunal. In May 1968, Palmstierna-Weiss and Weiss travelled to North Vietnam, invited as eye-witnesses with the mission to write about what was happening at the front. They also met with North-Vietnamese revolutionaries and fighters, historians, writers, playwrights, and visual artists in order to understand the central role of culture in the liberation movement. They discovered poems, plays, and images created despite daily bombing. Their insights and experiences from the trip were later published in the form of a travel notebook entitled “Notes on the cultural life of the Democratic Republic of Viet Nam” (1968).

Travel and encounters like these constitute a kind of meta-narrative for the understanding of radical political art in Europe, where solidarity was not just a unilateral giving but an exchange of thoughts and ideas. At the core of the project Viet Nam Discourse Stockholm at Tensta konsthall stands the production of a particular kind of political theater and its transnational contexts. However, the project does not want to offer a definitive version of the story. Rather, its fragments should be considered as an invitation to re-interpretation and activation.

This exhibition is part of the joint project with whw (Zagreb), LCCA (Riga) This Is Tomorrow. Back to Basics: Forms and Actions in the Future, realized with support from the European Union Programme Creative Europe. With organizational funding from the Stockholm Municipality, Swedish Art Council and the Stockholm County Council.

With support from Goethe-Institut Schweden, Institute for Foreign Cultural Relations  (IFA), ABF Stockholm.

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Lecture: FNL movement, a movement that changed Swedish foreign policy

Sunday 25.9, 13:00 2016 Åke Kilander will hold a lecture on the FNL: A Movement that Changed Swedish Foreign Policy. Kilander will talk about the history of FNL, focusing in particular on the movement’s posters, images, music, and press. When the USA started bombing Vietnam in 1965, youth protested. The Swedish Vietnam movement was the strongest in the Western world and changed the Cold War discourse in Sweden and Swedish foreign policy. Åke Kilander is the author of the book Vietnam var nära- En berättelse om FNL-rörelsen och solidaritetsarbetet i Sverige 1965–1975– (Vietnam was Close – A History of the FNL Movement and Solidarity Approach in Sweden 1965–1957). The book is available in the bookshop at Tensta konsthall. As part of The Eros Effect: Art, Solidarity Movements and the Struggle for Social Justice.

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26.9–20.10Rehanging

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

20.10 2016–15.1 2017 Partisanism with Babi Badalov

28.9 2016–15.1 2017 SpaceThe Wrong Side of Me by Agnieszka Polska

ReportNo Exceptions: Value Creation in Small and Mid-sized Galleries of Contemporary Art by Mikael Löfgren

Rehanging

Next exhibitions open 20.10 2016: Fuel to the Fire with Natascha Sadr Haghighian and Partisanism with Babi Badalov.

Fuel to the Fire with Natascha Sadr Haghighian

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

Partisanism with Babi Badalov

The Wrong Side of Me by Agnieszka Polska

28.9 2016–15.1 2017 The Wrong Side of Me by Agnieszka Polska. Agnieszka Polska (Lublin/Berlin) has made a slide show with a selection of her iconic images for Tensta konsthall’s online art project platform.

Tensta Talks: Symposium: The Eros Effect: Sound records

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

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.

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.

Text Price 2016

The Art Detectives

The News Agency

Headless

Tenstakonsthall.se

Ongoing Tensta konsthall's new website and a communication strategy is specific for the art space and its program. Design by Amsterdam-based design studio Metahaven.

de:tune Järva

Tensta konsthall Text Prize

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

The Silent University: Language Café

Tours

Guided tours every Thursday and Saturday at 14:00.

Homework assistance Individuell människohjälp

The Silent University

Parents group with Rädda Barnen

Cluster

KLISTER

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

The Sibling Art Centers

COHAB

The New Model

The Fashion Project

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

Café

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

Gallery Club

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

Gunilla Klingberg: Brand New View—Tensta

Wade Guyton: Untitled

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

Tommy Støckel: Workshop with Ross Tensta Gymnasium and KTH Tensta

Spatial Concept: Nikolaus Hirsch

Ongoing The spatial concept for the new Tensta konsthall has been developed by architect Nikolaus Hirsch. Architect Filippa Stålhane has developed the details.

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10.6–25.9 2016Viet Nam Discourse Stockholm by Marion von Osten & Peter Spillmann

10.6–25.9 2016 Future Flourish by Ingela Ihrman

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Saturday 17.9, 16:00 PremiereViet 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 ConversationGunilla Palmstierna-Weiss & Maryam Fanni

Thursday 11.8, 15:00Art and Literature walk in Tensta

Friday–Saturday 2.9-3.9Tensta market

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

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

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

Wednesday 15.6, 19:00Talk 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

26.9–20.10
Rehanging

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

20.10 2016–15.1 2017
Partisanism with Babi Badalov

28.9 2016–15.1 2017
Space
The Wrong Side of Me by Agnieszka Polska

Report
No Exceptions: Value Creation in Small and Mid-sized Galleries of Contemporary Art by Mikael Löfgren

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

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10.6–25.9 2016
Viet Nam Discourse Stockholm
by Marion von Osten & Peter Spillmann

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

Thursday 11.8, 15:00
Art and Literature walk in Tensta

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
27.1–15.5 2016
Standard Length of a Miracle
by Goldin+Senneby
Wednesdays–Sundays, 14:12
Reading of Jonas Hassen Khemiri's
short story takes place in the exhibition

Last Chance
27.1–15.5 2016
New Visions with Rana Begum,
Nadia Belerique,
Monir Farmanfarmaian,
David Maljkovic, Philippe Parreno,
Adam Pendleton, Yelena Popova

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