26.10 2013-18.5 2014 Tensta Museum: Reports from New Sweden is about the history and memories of Tensta, both in relation to the place and to the people who live and work there. Some forty artists, architects, local associations, performers, sociologists, cultural geographers, philosophers, and others address the past in, for example, art works, research projects, seminars, and guided walks. At the same time they will be reporting on the condition of things in Tensta today, on what can be described as the “new Sweden.”

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.

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.

25.5, 14:00–16:00 Tea and Coffee Salon: Bread salon. The Tea and Coffee Salons began in spring 2012 and are an ongoing collaboration with Women's Center Tensta Hjulsta and the Lebanese Family Association. The associations present themselves and their members at Tensta konsthall through the different themes of the salons.

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.
Fall break 28.10–1.11 Comics and superheroes from New Sweden, age: 13-19 years



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.

2011-2013 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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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).

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.

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

Hours
Wednesday 11-21
Thursday-Friday 11-18
Saturday-Sunday 12-17

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 and get off at Tensta. The ride takes about twenty minutes from Stockholm's Central Station (T-Centralen). Tensta konsthall is located directly under the Tensta Centrum shopping mall and there is a flight of stairs from Tensta Allé leading down to Taxingeplan, the square just in front of the konsthall.

The café is the entrance to Tensta konsthall. The café offers coffee and light meals, and its opening times are the same as the gallery’s. Tensta konsthall and its café, with free Internet service, also functions as a meeting place for individuals, groups and organizations, and as a workplace. The menu varies from day to day, and can include substantial salads, soups and grilled sandwiches.  The café also offers espresso, a large selection of teas, which can be accompanied by, for example, baklava, carrot cake, cinnamon rolls.

For reservations for groups and catering, call 08-360763 or email  asa.lindgren@xpandiavision.se

Hours:
Monday-Tuesday 11-17
Wednesday 11-21
Thursday-Friday 11-18
Saturday-Sunday 12-17

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.

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

Paulina Sokolow, communication + press

paulina (at) tenstakonsthall.se

Hedvig Wiezell, producer
hedvig (at) tenstakonsthall.se

Giorgiana Zachia, producer (on leave)
giorgiana (at) tenstakonsthall.se

Nora Chaker
Lars Hedelin
Evelina Hedin
Bruno Hilbombo
Carl-Oskar Linné
Hanna Svensson
Masha Taavoniku

Board:
Calle Nathansson (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

Abstract Possible: The Stockholm Synergies is supported by Danish Arts Council, FastPartner, Foundation for Arts Initiative, Malmö konsthall, Mondrian Foundation, The Office for Contemporary Art Norway, Austrian Embassy; Parts of Abstract Possible: The Stockholm Synergies are realized in collaboration with ABF, Center for Fashion Studies, Stockholm University, Konsthall C, The Royal Institute of Art, Ross Tensta Gymnasium, Sternberg Press, Tensta Library; Special thanks to Iaspis; Part of the project was realized as a consultancy commission at Bukowskis

Art Camps are realized in collaboration with Gerlesborgsskolan, Göteborgs konstskola, Konstfack, Lava Kulturhuset, The Royal Institute of Art, Nyckelviksskolan, Unga Dramaten

Bidoun Library is realized in collaboration with Bagdad Café

Cluster is realized with support by European Cultural Foundation, Swedish Arts Council

Curatorial Summer Workshop is realized in collaboration with Kungl. Konsthögskolan, initiated by Maria Lind and Nina Möntmann

Doing what you want: Marie-Louise Ekman accompanied by Sister Corita Kent, Mladen Stilinovic and Martha Wilson is realized in collaboration with Henie Onstad Kunstsenter in Oslo. The seminar series Dream and Reality is realized in collaboration with the Institution for Culture and Communication at Södertörn University and ABF

Gallery club is realized in collaboration with TioTretton Kulturhuset, Cinema Africa, Blå Huset

Hinrich Sachs Kami, Khoka, Bert and Ernie (World Heritage) is realized with support from Baselland, Basel-Stadt, Pro Helvetia, Royal Institute of Art; The Embassy of Switzerland in Stockholm, Parts of Hinrich Sachs Kami, Khoka, Bert and Ernie (World Heritage) are realized in collaboration with Askebyskolan Rinkeby, Livstycket

Katitzi: A Literary Character Rooted in Reality is realized in collaboration with Angelica Ström. The seminar series is realized in collaboration with ABF and the publishers, Natur och Kultur

Publishing In Process: Ownership In Question is realized with support by Iaspis, Konstfack. It is realised in the framework of COHAB, a two-year project initiated by The Showroom, Casco - Office for Art, Design and Theory, Utrecht and Tensta Konsthall, Stockholm, realized with the support of the Culture Programme of the European Union

T.451 by Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster and Ari Benjamin Meyers is realized in collaboration with Stockholm konst, who produced the project, and with support by Stockholm Library and Tensta Library; Thanks to Greater Stockholm Fire Department, The Organization Röda Hanen, The Kurdish Association Spånga, Stockholm City Museum

Tensta Museum: Or What is Cultural Heritage? is funded with support from Svenska Postkodlotteriet and is also a part of Beginning as Well as We Can: How Much Fascism Can We Take, a collaboration between WHW, Zagreb, and Grazer Kunstverein, Graz. With the support from the Culture Programme of the European Union and the European Commission.

The Cut is realized with support by Kulturbryggan

The Fashion Project is realized in collaboration with the Center for Fashion Studies, Stockholm University

The New Model is realized with support by European Cultural Foundation, Goethe Institut, Kulturkontakt Nord; Parts of the New Model are realized in collaboration with The School of Architecture at The Royal Institute of Technology. It is realised in the framework of COHAB, a two-year project initiated by The Showroom, Casco - Office for Art, Design and Theory, Utrecht and Tensta Konsthall, Stockholm, realized with the support of the Culture Programme of the European Union

The Society Without Qualities is realized as part of The New Model  which is realized with support by European Cultural Foundation, Goethe Institut, Kulturkontakt Nord and is realised in the framework of COHAB, a two-year project initiated by The Showroom, Casco - Office for Art, Design and Theory, Utrecht and Tensta Konsthall, realized with the support of the Culture Programme of the European Union. Thanks to Gallery Nicolai Wallner and Kulturkontakt Nord. Sharon Lockhart would like to thank neugerriemschneider, Berlin, Gladstone Gallery, New York and Brussels, and Blum & Poe, Los Angeles. Learning Site would like to thank The Swedish Arts Grants Committee and Danish Art Agency.

What does an art institution do? is realized in collaboration with Konstfack’s Master program Art in the Public Realm and Curatorlab; The project is supported by Iaspis

What Does Social Practice Do? is realized in collaboration with the KTH School of Architecture, KTH in Tensta and the Stockholm City Planning Office. In Collaboration with CuratorLab, Konstfack. Supported by FCT (Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia); IASPIS; Instituto Camões Stockholm; TAP airlines; Portuguese Embassy in Stockholm

Who Will Fund Conteporary Art? is realized in collaboration with Botkyrka konsthall, Konsthall C, Marabouparken och Mossutstllningar

Undoing Property? book release at Tensta konsthall. Editors: Marysia Lewandowska and Laurel Ptak, supported by the Polish Institute Stockholm.