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11.2–2.5 2015
Frederick Kiesler: Visions at Work
Annotated by Céline Condorelli and Six Student Groups

Saturday 28.2, 14:00
Host Lars Hedelin introduces
Saturday 28.2, 16:00
Director Maria Lind introduces
Frederick Kiesler: Visions at Work.
Annotated by Céline Condorelli and Six Student Groups

Thursday 26.2, 15:00
City Walk
Tensta Museum: Spånga Church with Birgitta Arneving

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

Monday 2.3, 19:00
Bruce Altshuler: Exhibitions as Performative, or, Form and Function in Exhibition-Making
What Does an Exhibition Do?

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

6.12 2014–2.5 2015
Space
I'm Every Lesbian by Sofia Hultin

January 2015 –
The News Agency

Education initiative
Stockholmsskolan (Stockholm school)

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Frederick Kiesler: Visions at Work Annotated by Céline Condorelli and Six Student Groups

11.2–2.5 2015 In collaboration with the Austrian Frederick and Lillian Kiesler Private Foundation in Vienna, Tensta konsthall shows the first exhibition in Sweden of Frederick Kiesler's genuinely transdisciplinary work. Frederick Kiesler (1890–1965) was an architect, artist, scenographer, pedagogue, theorist and - not least - a groundbreaking exhibition designer.

11.2–2.5 2015 In collaboration with the Austrian Frederick and Lillian Kiesler Private Foundation in Vienna, Tensta konsthall shows the first exhibition in Sweden of Frederick Kiesler's genuinely transdisciplinary work. Frederick Kiesler (1890–1965) was an architect, artist, scenographer, pedagogue, theorist and - not least - a groundbreaking exhibition designer.

From the 1920's constructivist-inspired theater exhibitions in Vienna and Paris and the early 1930's acclaimed shop window presentations in New York City to the legendary scenography for Peggy Guggenheim's Manhattan gallery Art of This Century (1942) and the collaboration with Marcel Duchamp, Kiesler paved the way for a dynamic view of the art experience.

Working with the monumental 'The Shrine of the Book' (1965) in Jerusalem, he extracted ideas and forms from his often reproduced 'Endless House', a visionary bio-morphic building where, to quote Kiesler himself, 'all the ends meet' . Underlying much of Kiesler's work were his thoughts on the continual interaction between man and his natural and technological environments, as defined in the theory of correalism. Although Kiesler was a member of de Stijl, a close friend and collaborator of Duchamp, André Breton, Alfred H. Barr and several other key figures in the art of the 1900's, as well as an influential teacher at Columbia University in New York, he is something of an unknown.

The exhibition will feature models and documentations of Kiesler's designs for exhibitions, buildings, interiors, shop-windows, etc. from various periods. The exhibition will also include prototypes, including those of his Mobile Home Library and the mass-produced so-called correalist furniture, among others. The focus will be on Kiesler's interest in the intersection between art and life and how this manifests in his works. The artist Céline Condorelli, who has a long-time interest in exhibition design and modes of presentation, will contribute to the project.

Student groups from KTH Tensta, KTH School of Architecture, Mejan Arc at the Royal Institute of Art, Interior Architecture & Furniture Design and CuratorLab at Konstfack, and a fifth grade at Askebyskolan in Rinkeby will be involved with the exhibition.

In collaboration with The Austrian Frederick and Lillian Kiesler Private Foundation. With support from Embassy of Austria in Stockholm and Wittmann.

Correalist Rocker, 1942 and photo of Endless House, 1959

Model of Kiesler's Surrealist Gallery in Peggy Gugggenheim's Art of This Century Gallery, 1942

Swindelier and The Strategy of Everything, 2015 by Céline Condorelli

Study for concave wall viewing apparatus, 1942

Reconstruction Mobile Home Library by Wittmann

Kiesler's furniture infront of sepia print of the monument The Shrine of The Book, 1957–1965

Study for presentation-unit at the ‘Painting-Library’, 1942

Student work by Askebyskolan in Rinkeby, KTH Tensta, Intertior Architecture & Furniture Design, Konstfack

Students at Interior Architecture & Furniture Design at Konstfack made among other a scale model, and a full-scale reconstruction of Kiesler’s L- and T-System

Furniture inspired by the Endless House, a collaboration between KTH Tensta and the fifth grade class at Askebyskolan in Rinkeby, Stockholm

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What Does an Exhibition Do?

What Does an Exhibition Do? is a series of seminars at Tensta konsthall in spring 2015 exploring what an exhibition actually does, both historically and now. In the wake of curating taking shape as a field, many different forms through which art goes public are in use today. The exhibition is one of them, and is perhaps the oldest form for making art public that is still important as such. Nevertheless, the primacy of the exhibition is contested when artists and curators seek to follow the needs of the art works rather than a set formatand as a result, curating and exhibition-making are being disentangled.

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City Walks Tensta Museum

Spring 2015 Tensta Museum: Reports from New Sweden is about history and memory in Tensta, both in relation to the place and to the people who live and work here. After Tensta Museum Fall Department (26.10 2013–13.1 2014) and Spring Department (18.1–18.5 2014) as well as branches in the same period at the Stockholm City Museum, and Museum of Medieval Stockholm, the museum the area can now call its own is continuing. among other things, in the form of City walks.

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Tea and Coffee Salon

Saturday 21.3, 13:00–16:00 Textiles, jewelry, and baked goods for sale. The association is multi-ethnic, with members from some 20 countries, and contributes towards increasing women’s possibilities for engaging themselves and influencing society. The Centre aims at breaking women’s isolation and segregation, reinforcing women’s self-confidence and identity.

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The News Agency

Nyhetsbyrån (The News Agency) is 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. In January 2015, Nyhetsbyrån begins a part-time course for young people aged 18 to 25 that will be run in collaboration with JMK, the Department of Media Studies at Stockholm University, and GDI, the Graphic Design & Illustration department at Konstfack.

Nyhetsbyrån (The News Agency) is 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. In January 2015, Nyhetsbyrån begins a part-time course for young people aged 18 to 25 that will be run in collaboration with JMK, the Department of Media Studies at Stockholm University, and GDI, the Graphic Design & Illustration department at Konstfack.

The course follows the educational tactics used at the universities, but it also makes use of unconventional tools and norm-critical methods, such as comics, video pods, and research-based work, that are rarely used in news media. These methods, borrowed from art, enable an approach that opposes a sensationalist media logic in favor of thought and reflection.

Nyhetsbyrån is taught by teachers from JMK and Konstfack together with invited guest teachers. Some educational moments will take place in the school's workshops and studios, but most of the work will be done at Nyhetsbyrån's facilities in Tensta. Study visits and internships at workplaces are important components of the course.

The course poses questions regarding the possibilities for developing new routes into prestigious university programs for journalism and art. How can the entire city of Stockholm be represented at schools for art and journalism and in the editorial offices of newspapers and TV and radio stations? A long-term goal is to make these programs, which are currently dominated by very homogeneous student groups, available to more people.

In the same way as TT News Agency, Nyhetsbyrån intends to operate under the slogan "we make other better." The production of text, images, graphics, and video material, with an emphasis on documentary storytelling from the suburbs, is a way to act as a national news agency aimed towards a more representative journalism. Nyhetsbyrån's web page will hopefully play an important role as a body of knowledge to be used by established media in their research.

Nyhetsbyrån will also arrange separate courses, public conversations, open lectures, and screenings of video work. more→

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City walks Tensta Museum

Spring 2015 ensta Museum: Reports from New Sweden is about history and memory in Tensta, both in relation to the place and to the people who live and work here. After Tensta Museum Fall Department (26.10 2013–13.1 2014) and Spring Department (18.1–18.5 2014) as well as branches in the same period at the Stockholm City Museum, and Museum of Medieval Stockholm, the museum the area can now call its own is continuing, among other things, in the form of City walks.

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I'm Every Lesbian

6.12 2014–2.5 2015 I’m Every Lesbian by Sofia Hultin, aspart of Tensta Museum Continues. I'm Every Lesbian is a city tour in I-form, based on interviews with lesbians living in specific locations. In addition, the walk’s extensive material from the project is presented at Space, Tensta Konsthall´s curatorial platform online.

6.12 2014–2.5 2015 I’m Every Lesbian by Sofia Hultin, aspart of Tensta Museum Continues. I'm Every Lesbian is a city tour in I-form, based on interviews with lesbians living in specific locations. In addition, the walk’s extensive material from the project is presented at Space, Tensta Konsthall´s curatorial platform online. The tour presents parts of the site’s lesbian history, highlighting both official history—important meeting places, campaigns, groups, legislation, etc.—and personal stories about love and relationships in order to reflect how political and social movements affect the individual. The personal is political and the political is personal. Lesbian history has been made invisible in both normative historical writing and LGBTQ history, where gay men's history has often occupied space at the expense of lesbians and transgender people. Carrying out the project in the form of a city tour is a way of letting lesbians claim space in a traditionally male arena; the public space.

City tour in Tensta: Saturday 21.3, 15:00. Meet at Tensta konsthall.
City tour in Tensta: Saturday 25.4, 15:00. Meet at Tensta konsthall.

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