A Memorial for Catherine Christer Hennix (1948-2023)
26.1 2025, 14:00 – evening Zäta-salen, ABF Stockholm, Sveavägen 41, Stockholm
Blank Forms, Mint and Vassa tassar present a commemorative day-long program honoring the life and practice of Catherine Christer Hennix (1948-2023). Marking nearly a year since Hennix’s passing, this memorial program offers an opportunity for friends and admirers to experience a large-scale realization of her final sound work, Kamigaku, and reflect on her life and work. For this memorial program, members of Hennix’s ensemble—Ellen Arkbro, Mattias Hållsten, Marcus Pal, Susana Santos Silva and Amedeo Maria Schwaller—will present Kamigaku in her absence.
Catherine Christer Hennix was born in 1948 in Stockholm, Sweden. Trained in jazz drumming from a young age, Hennix was also an early member of Stockholm’s Elektronmusikstudion, where she composed computer and electronic music. She studied linguistics and philosophy at Stockholm University before deciding to focus on mathematics, a discipline in which she would continue to work for many decades.
As a sound artist, musician, and composer, Hennix was part of the minimalist New York downtown school of harmonic sound and has worked extensively with some of its key figures, including Henry Flynt and La Monte Young. Influenced by her studies with Pandit Pran Nath, a master of the Kirana tradition of classical Hindustani music, and the contemplative practices transmitted by him, Hennix has produced a large body of sound works, including sine-wave compositions, solo works for tambura and for keyboard, as well as ensemble works performed by her own groups, all of which emphasize an orientation to harmonicity as an expression of the divine.
At Stockholm’s Moderna Museet in 1976, Hennix both displayed her art—steel sculptures, sine waves, paintings, projections, and texts—in a solo exhibition titled Topos and Adjoints and performed her compositions as part of Brouwer’s Lattice, a ten-day festival of new music she organized with Swedish curator Ulf Linde. She returned to New York to teach in the mathematics and computer science department at SUNY New Paltz in 1978–79 and remained upstate for much of the next decade before relocating to Sweden and the Netherlands. During this time she continued to display her work in group shows across Europe and the United States. Hennix was given the Centenary Prize Fellow Award by the Clay Mathematics Institute for her collaboration with the Russian-American poet and mathematician Alexander Esenin-Volpin in 2000. Around 2003, she returned to composing computer music, and a few years later assumed the role of bandleader for the first time in decades, playing with Hilary Jeffery, James Fulkerson, and an early iteration of the Chora(s)san Time-Court Mirage. In 2018, the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, opened Catherine Christer Hennix: Traversée du Fantasme, her first institutional solo exhibition, while Hong Kong’s Empty Gallery hosted Thresholds of Perception, a large survey of her work. Hennix’s releases with Blank Forms include an LP of her 1974 interpretation of Karlheinz Stockhausen’s Unbegrenzt (2020), the Deontic Miracle’s Selections from 100 Models of Hegikan Roku (2019), Selected Early Keyboard Works (2018), and the two-volume collection of her writings Poësy Matters and Other Matters (2018). During Hennix’s last years she resided in Istanbul, where she was pursuing studies in classical Arabic and Turkish maqam.
This program is co-presented by Blank Forms, Mint, and Vassa Tassar. It is supported by the Swedish Arts Council, The City of Stockholm and The Sundén Art Foundation, realized through a collaboration with ABF Stockholm and Elektronmusikstudion (EMS).
Art for Palestine
Until December 20, 2024
Featuring: Rosa Aiello, Meriç Algün, Kasra Alikhani, Theodor Ander, Josefina Anjou, Astrid Braide Eriksson, coyote, Andjeas Ejiksson, Goldin+Senneby, Johanna Gustafsson Fürst, Tarik Kiswanson, Karl Holmqvist, Marie Karlberg, Liv Melin, Luzie Meyer, Olivia Plender, Iris Smeds and Lisa Tan
In solidarity with the Palestinian people and their right to freedom, justice and peace, Mint, together with 19 artists, is organising an art sale taking place during the month of November. The money raised will be donated in full to Palestinagrupperna*.
The works for sale are presented below and the instagram account @mint_for_solidarity
For questions or interest in purchasing a piece, please contact info@m-i-n-t.se
About the fundraiser
The art sale is organised as part of a collective event where the organisations MDT, Höjden, Cinema Queer and Konsthall C, through fundraising, talks, workshops and film screenings, join forces to mark the International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People, November 29.
*Palestinagrupperna in Sweden is a solidarity organisation formed in 1976. The organisation regularly supports the aid projects that Palestinagrupperna run together with local partners in Lebanon, the West Bank and Gaza. The emergency fundraiser goes to the Palestinian groups’ partners Gaza Community Mental Health Programme (GCMHP), Palestinian Medical Relief Society (PMRS) and Youth Vision Society Gaza (YVS).
For more information: https://www.palestinagrupperna.se/akutinsamling/
Rosa Aiello
Seduction, 2024 31.5 cm x 41.5cm Greyboard cover, acetate film, digital prints on pearl photo paper, glue Price: 12.000 SEK
Rosa Aiello is an Italian–Canadian artist, filmmaker, and writer based in Berlin. She works in a range of styles from animation to documentary collage to cinematic narrative, as well as architectural installation and photographic series. She takes an experimental approach and uses what is at hand, in her domestic space, in her relationships, on her habitually used streets. She is interested in structures; both social constructs, like the family, and the actual built world, like architecture and city infrastructure. Her works have been shown at numerous international art venues, including Fridericianum, Centre Pompidou, Kunsthalle Zurich, Pirelli Hangar Bicocca, ICA London, Anorak e.V, Kevin Space, Cittipunkt, and SculptureCenter.
Meriç Algün
The Orchard of Resistance (Petrified Males), 2018 Afyon marble, carved by Ebru Akıncı, edition 05/50 Dimensions variable Price: 7000 SEK
Meriç Algün, born 1983 in Istanbul and currently lives and works in Stockholm. Permeating through a variety of media, her work concentrates on issues of identity, borders, bureaucracy and language. Selected solo exhibitions include Lunds Konsthall (2024); Magasin III (2023); Spike Island, Bristol (2019); ARoS (2016); Kunstverein Freiburg (2015); Moderna Museet, Stockholm (2014); Art in General, New York (2013). She has participated in group shows such as 14th Istanbul Biennial (2015); 56th Venice Biennale (2015); 12th Cuenca Biennial (2014); 19th Biennale of Sydney (2014) and 12th Istanbul Biennial (2011). She is currently a Senior Lecturer in InterdisciplinaryPractices at Konstfack University of Arts, Crafts and Design.
Kasra Alikhani
Centrum, 2024 C-print in clipframe 30 x 40 cm Price: 7000 SEK
Analog photograph of an installation consisting of a painted cardboard model with a background drawn in pastel. The model depicts a center facility from the million program that was recently demolished in Gothenburg.
Kasra Alikhani is a Stockholm based artist who was born in Iran 1987 and raised in Sweden. He studied Fine Art at HDK-Valand Academy of Art and Design in Gothenburg. Through stagings he attempts to dramatise how uniformity/conformity is maintained and what is repressed by the pretence in the theatre of the everyday. Expressions borrowed from mass culture and documentary observations are woven together in order to inject the eerie, the playful and the absurd into that which feels familiar.
Theodor Ander (b. 1991, Sweden) is a Stockholm based sculptor. Graduated with a BFA (2017), and is currently completing his MFA (2025) at Konstfack, Stockholm. His practice is rooted in craftsmanship and driven by curiosity and how materials can be redefined through tender manipulation. His practice spans across sculpture, collage, relief, and drawing. Through intricate layering and manipulation, his works evoke a sense of bodily presence, lust and discomfort.
Josefina Anjou
Mister Jester Cocktail, 2024 Screenprint, ink, & oil on canvas 54 x 40 cm Price: 14 000 sek
Josefina Anjou is a Stockholm based artist, foremost a painter, whose work often bridges over onto its surrounding architecture. Either through elaborative frames in various materials such as wood, wax, metal and plastic, or in trickery and painterly effects of framing. In her work there is always a play with the flat image and where it stops being flat. The history of it, the meaning of it, the context of it. Anjou’s paintings are painted in a wide range of styles, techniques, methods and modes. Essentially her approach is explorative of the medium of image making, and is like that enabling an endless discovery for herself and the viewer.
Josefinas Anjou (b. 1993, SE) graduated with a BFA from Gerrit Rietveld Academie, Amsterdam, in 2019 and a MFA at Konstfack, Stockholm in 2024. She has exhibited in duo- and solo shows at Arti et Amicitae, Galerie Fons Welters and Bologna CC in Amsterdam, Konstnärshuset and Andy’s Gallery in Stockholm, and group shows around Europe such as , Kunstverein (Amsterdam), Intersticio (Madrid), Coulisse Gallery, (Stockholm) as well as in a vast number of artist organized group shows.
Astrid Braide Eriksson
Exhibit # 13 (Blasieholmen 26 maj 2023 kl 15- 16.43 och 12 juni 2023 kl 13.40-16.07), 2024 Analogue photo (digitally processed), inkjet print on photo paper, MDF, pine, wood stain, lacquer, glass, whiteboard pen, found object (Taxi Stockholm receipt) 45 x 23 x 9 cm Price: 12 000 SEK
Astrid Braide Eriksson (b. 1993, Gothenburg) lives and works in Stockholm. She is educated at Kungl. Konsthögskolan in Stockholm and Akademie det Bildenden Künste, Vienna. Her work has been shown at the Stockholm School of Economics, Tempo Documentary Film Festival and Research Week at the Royal. Academy of Fine Arts.
coyote
Untitled (New Centuries Are Rare), 2023 Inkjet print on Baryta, edition of 5 (3 + 2 AP), frame 32 x 46 cm Price: 10500 kr
From a series of photos presented in monochromatic light. The work depicts upscaled still images from archival footage of raves. Like the video with the same title it explores the electronic music scene of the 1990s and rave as a possible state of resistance.
coyote is a multidisciplinary artist collective founded in 2017; their practice explores the potentials of collectivity with a site-specific sensibility, where social activities evolve into new formats and modes of presentation.
Andjeas Ejiksson
Ur mytologin I (2015), Ur Mytologin II (2019), Ur Mytologin III (2021) 215 x 140 mm / 210 x 145 mm / 215 x 140 mm Blandteknik på papper Price 8.000 SEK (säljs tillsammans)
Andjeas Ejiksson (1978) is an artist and writer based in Stockholm, Sweden. His artistic practice explores how ideologies and imaginaries are established through cultural and political transitions, and processes of translation. Ejiksson works in editorial and textual formats as well as with performance and moving image. The work is often research based, he has been the editor of several journals, researcher at HDK-Valand in Gothenburg, the Royal Institute of Art in Stockholm, and at the Jan van Eyck Academy in Maastricht.
Goldin+Senneby
Goldin+Senneby Multiple Scars (59°56’38.1”N 26°08’87.4”E), 2021 Resin 28 x 22 x 4 cm Edition 1 of 3 + 3 AP Price: 40.000 SEK
The sculpture series Multiple Scars was cast from marks left by historical resin tapping on pine trees and created on-site within a conservation forest in Estonia. The artwork is part of a longer exploration of immunity and autoimmunity, and the title of the work alludes to the autoimmune disease multiple sclerosis (MS). The GPS coordinates in the title of each work indicate the location of the individual tree from which the cast was made.
Goldin+Senneby is a Stockholm-based artist subject. Since 2004 their work has explored the structural correspondence between conceptual art and finance capital, drawn to its (il)logical conclusions. Recent works include a ghostwritten detective novel about an offshore company on the Bahamas (2007-2015), a magic trick for the financial markets (2016) and a proposal for an eternal employment at a train station (2026-). Currently their practice is mutating: Drawing on bodily experiences of an autoimmune disease, they are staging a fiction with an ”autoimmune tree” as the main protagonist.
Solo exhibitions include: ”Insurgency of Life”, e-flux, New York (2019); ”Standard Length of a Miracle”, Tensta konsthall, Stockholm (2016); ”M&A”, Artspace NZ, Auckland (2013); ”The Decapitation of Money”, Kadist, Paris (2010); and ”Goldin+Senneby: Headless”, The Power Plant, Toronto (2008). Their work has been included in the 11th Gwangju Biennial (2016); 13th Istanbul Biennial (2013); Manifesta 9, Genk (2012); and 28th Sao Paulo Biennial (2008). They are represented in the collections of Moderna Museet, Stockholm; Centre Pompidou, Paris; and The Museum of Modern Art, New York.
Johanna Gustafsson Fürst
Autoimmunity, 2024 Knife handle in Olive wood, knifeblade from Mora knife 21.5 x 4 x 3 cm Price: 30 000 SEK
Johanna Gustafsson Fürst works with sculpture and installations where the physical’s capacity for relationality is central to create shifts between the known, the unknown and the imagined. Recurrent preoccupations revolve around exercise of power, maintenance of vulnerability and responsibility, and how language can behave as physical bodies in space.
Since 2020, she works as a professor in fine art at the Royal Institute of Art in Stockholm. Selected exhibitions: Not That Cloud (Moderna Museet, Stockholm, 2017), Everything Was Forever, Until It Was No More (Riga International Biennial of Contemporary Art, 2018), Graft the Words, Whip My Tongue (Accelerator, Stockholm, 2020), Glossolalala, I Bite My Nails to Reach a Softer Surface o the World (Arter Istanbul (2024
Tarik Kiswanson
SOLD The Window, 2024 Piezography on drawing paper 46,5 x 35,7 cm Edition of 12 (+3AP)
For over a decade, Tarik Kiswanson has explored notions of rootlessness, metamorphosis, and memory through his interdisciplinary practice. A legacy of displacement and transformation permeates his works and is indispensable to both their form and the modes of sensing they produce. While retaining an attachment to the intimate and personal, his work speaks to universal concerns and to social and collective histories of rupture, loss, and regeneration. Kiswanson’s oeuvre can be understood as a cosmology of related conceptual families, each exploring variations on themes like refraction, multiplication, disintegration, levitation, and polyphony through their own distinct language.
Tarik Kiswanson was awarded the Marcel Duchamp Prize in 2023 at Centre Pompidou. His work has been the subject of several solo exhibitions at institutions, most recently at Kunsthalle Portikus (2024), Oakville Galleries (2024), Bonniers Konsthall (2023), Salzburger Kunstverein (2023), Museo Tamayo (2023), M HKA-Museum of Contemporary Art Antwerp (2022), Hallands Konstmuseum (2022) and Carré d’Art-Musée d’art contemporain (2021).
He has participated in group exhibitions and biennials at institutions such as Centre Pompidou, Kunsthalle Münster, Gothenburg International Biennial for Contemporary Art, Lyon Biennial of Contemporary Art, The Ural Biennial, Performa Biennial, Gwangju Biennial, and MUDAM-Museum of Contemporary Art Luxembourg. Kiswanson received his MFA from École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts de Paris (2014) and BFA from Central Saint Martins-University of the Arts London (2010). He holds four nationalities and speaks and writes in five languages. He serves as advisor on the scientific committee of the Edouard Glissant Art Fund.
Karl Holmqvist lives and works in Berlin. His work often includes writing in artist’s books, installations, video and spoken word performance. Recent one-person exhibitions include Laxart, Los Angeles, Fridericianum, Kassel, Centre d’Art Contemporaine, Geneva, Indipendenza, Rome (with Klara Liden), Kunstverein Braunschweig (with Klara Liden), Power Station, Dallas and Camden Arts Centre, London. He has participated in the Venice Biennial in 2003 and 2011 and Performa, New York in 2005, 2007, 2013 and 2023. In 2024 he’s about to take up a residency at The Schindler House in Los Angeles. Karl Holmqvist’s works can be found in the collections of Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Le Musée d’Art Moderna de la Ville de Paris, Paris, Fridericianum, Kassel and Kunstverein für die Rheinlande und Westfalen, Düsseldorf. He is represented by Galerie Neu, Berlin, dépendance, Brussels and House of Gaga, Mexico City and Los Angeles.
Marie Karlberg
IT TAKES COURAGE TO NOT WORK (LA COLLECTIONNEUSE, 1967) ARE YOU STILL A MARXIST? (MY NIGHT AT MAUD’S, 1969) IT’S THE LAST LIGHT BEFORE SUNSET (THE GREEN RAY, 1986) 2024 Riso print on paper, (A3) Ed. 1 of 10 (+2AP), frame 42 x 29,7cm Price: 5000 SEK each
Posters from Watching Paint Dry, a performance piece by Marie Karlberg with actor John Bullfrost, performed at ISSUES gallery in January 2024. The performance took place in the gallery surrounded by twelve works on paper with quotes from various Éric Rohmer films.
Marie Karlberg (b. 1985) lives and works in Stockholm. Marie began making art as a reaction against predetermined forms of social life. Marie is currently enrolled in the MFA programme at the Royal Institute of Art in Stockholm and started the artist run gallery Beau Travail since February 2024.!Marie has most recently performed at Art Basel Miami, hosted by MoMA PS1 as well as presenting video in the acclaimed exhibition Greater New York at MoMA PS1, New York. She has done solo shows at Tramps, New York; Bonny Poon, Paris; Plymouth Rock, Zurich; Tramps, London and Reena Spaulings Fine Arts, New York. She has staged performances at Elevation1049, Gstaad; Palais de Tokyo, Paris; Künstlerhaus Halle für Kunst & Medien, Graz and Artists Space, New York. Marie has participated in group shows and ensemble performances at various galleries and institutions such as The Goethe Institute, New York; Whitney Museum of Art, New York; MoMA, New York; The 9th Berlin Biennale, Berlin and Schinkel Pavillon, Berlin. Her work is included in public collections such as The Schaulager Foundation, Münchenstein; Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris and Moderna Museet, Stockholm.
Liv Melin
Naken på hösten, 2019 Papier maché, plaster, organza, acrylic paint. Mounted on aluminium. 87x49cm Price: 16.000 SEK
Liv Melin (f. 1995) is based in Stockholm and works with installation, painting and sculpture with a close regard to narrative, image, subjective perspective and materiality.
Melin holds a BFA (2019) from Oslo Academy of the Arts and is currently completing an MFA at Konstfack. Presentations include the solo exhibitions Sky High Rides (Galleri Golsa 2018), Liten Stöld… (Vällingby C 2022) and Clara Locus (Strändernas Svall 2024) and the collaborative projects Walk wicked (Kunstplass Oslo, 2019) Tick tock, well come! calls clock (Painting Practice 2022), På något sätt avlägsnat huvud (Studio Ardoise 2024).
Luzie Meyer
A Paper Pusher’s Wet Dream, 2024 B/W analog photograph 10cm x 15 cm Frame: 20cm x 25cm Price: 5000 SEK
Luzie Meyer (*1990 in Tübingen) is a Berlin-based interdisciplinary artist, poet and translator. She studied philosophy at the Goethe-University and fine arts at the HfBK Städelschule in Frankfurt am Main. Based on a cross-genre writing practice, Meyer produces videos, sound works, photographic installations, and performative readings to combine conceptual and improvisational approaches. Meyer’s artistic works have previously been exhibited widely; most recently at the Hochschule für Angewandte Künste, Vienna (2024); Frac Lorraine, Metz (2024); Badischer Kunstverein, Karlsruhe (2024); on c0da.org (2024); Sentiment, Zürich (2023); Kunsthalle Bremerhaven (2022); Istituto Svizzero Rome (2022); Galerie Sweetwater, Berlin (2022); at MINT in Stockholm SWE (2022); Kölnischer Kunstverein (2022). From 2019 – 2021 Luzie Meyer taught at the Kunsthochschule Weißensee as part of a DiGiTal pre-doctoral fellowship. Her poetry and critical writings were published in magazines such as Texte zur Kunst, Conceptual Fine Arts, Spike, Edit #84/85 and Starship #17. Meyer was also co-editor of the anthology “Sibyl’s Mouths – A Pure Fiction Publication,” published by Sternberg Press in January 2023.
Iris Smeds
New script/ Placeholders 1-2, 2024 Pencil and coloured pencil on acid-free 240g drawing paper 29,7×42 cm Price: 7500 SEK each (14.000 SEK for both)
Iris Smeds’ work centres on the marketability of the individual and examines our existence and society from a poetic and performative perspective. With a background in theatre, her projects often blur the boundaries between installation, performance and moving image, with theatrical and surrealist imagery. Since 2013 she runs the one-woman punk band Vaska Fimpen.
Lisa Tan
2 Americans, 2010 Letterpress on paper (unframed), edition 4 of 5 39 x 31 cm Price: 15 000 SEK
The barely visible “blind-stamped” text is lifted from a New York Times article on the June 1, 2009 crash of Air France flight 447, an international passenger flight from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, to Paris, France. Starting with “2 Americans”, ending with “2 Swedes and a Turk”, the alphabetized list of passenger nationalities is a temporary stand-in for a permanent loss. The list, and others like it, begins a curious process of personal and political identification that occurs in relation to nationality.
Lisa Tan traces the contours of life as it is shaped by desire and determined by the contingent encounters that form it. Her work takes the form of installation, photography, video, and writing, among other gestures. In 2023-24, she presented a solo exhibition, Dodge and/or Burn at Accelerator in Stockholm. For more, see lisatan.net
Olivia Plender
Sylvia Pankhurst Protesting, 2024 Pencil on paper 21 x 29.7cm Price: 14 000 SEK
Olivia Plender is an artist based in Stockholm and London. Her work is often based on social history, and frequently explores the relationships between gender, power and authority. Plender’s artwork is in museum collections including: Tate Museums, Arts Council England, UK; Statens konstråd, Malmö Konstmuseum, Sweden. In 2024 she co-curated the exhibition Chronos: Health, Access and Intimacy, at Tensta Konsthall, Stockholm. She exhibits internationally, including recent solo shows at Kalmar konstmuseum, Sweden (2023); Maureen Paley, London (2022); Amant Foundation, New York (2022). Group shows include: You Belong Here, Southbank Centre, London (2024); Spring Never Comes Again, Zachęta – National Gallery of Art, Warsaw (2023); The School of Creators: The Art of Learning from the 1960s to the present, Centre Pompidou-Metz, France (2022); 34th Bienal de São Paulo (2021); Life Support, Glasgow Women’s Library, UK (2021); Not Without My Ghosts, Hayward Gallery Touring exhibition, UK, (2021-2022); Göteborg International Biennial (2017); BAHAR, Off-Site Project for Sharjah Biennial 13, Istanbul (2017); Taipei Biennial (2010); Manifesta 8, Murcea (2010); Altermodern: Tate Triennial, Tate Britain, London (2009); The Greenroom, Hessel Museum of Art, CCS Bard, New York (2008); Romantic Detachment, MoMA PS1, New York (2004).
Mint in Solidary with Ukrainian artists
21 April–29 May
May 11–13 the works will be exhibited at Mint, Sveavägen 41, Stockholm. Opening hours 13:00–18:00
For a month, Mint arranges sales of works of art donated by Swedish artists Edith Hammar, Susanna Jablonski, Lap-See Lam, Matts Leiderstam, Helena Lund Ek, Olof Marsja, Santiago Mostyn, Ksenia Pedan, Olga Pedan & Iris Smeds
Proceeds from the sale go in full to the Ukrainian Emergency Art Fund. For questions or interest in buying a work, contact info@m-i-n-t.se
Ukrainian Emergency Art Fund is a local organization that supports cultural workers in Ukraine who are in urgent need of support to ensure a basic standard of living and protection. The organization also supports curators, theorists, researchers and other cultural workers working in non-governmental organizations for continuity in their activities.
SOLD! Bälte (2021) Cheramics 30 x 17 cm Price: 10 000 SEK
Edith Hammar born 1992 in Helsinki and educated at the Royal. Stockholm Academy of the Arts. Edith works with ink, wood, ceramics and also draws educational and homoerotic comics.
SOLD! Cork Tree (2016) Archival inkjet print Edition 3/5 + 1 AP 75 x 50 cm Price: 7000 SEK
Susanna Jablonski (b.1985) is an artist based in Stockholm that makes sculptural installations in which diverse materials carry and contrast each other in an expanded spatial language. Jablonski’s work has been shown at Moderna Museet (SE 2022), Kalmar Konstmuseum (SE 2021), Bonniers Konsthall (SE 2020), Revolver Galería (PE 2020) among other places, and is in the collections of Moderna Museet and Statens Konstråd (SE).
SOLD! Ett drakfjäll (2022) Quintus pressed sheet brass 480 x 450 x 1 mm Price: 40 000 SEK
Lap-See Lam (b. 1990, Stockholm) holds an MFA from the Royal Institute of Art in Stockholm. She was awarded the Dagens Nyheter Culture Prize in 2021. She has participated in numerous national and international exhibitions, including Future Generation Art Prize, Kyiv (2021); Trondheim kunstmuseum (2021); Performa 19, New York (2019) and Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain, Paris (2019). She recently presented her first comprehensive solo exhibition at Bonniers Konsthall (2022). Lams work is included in collections such as KADIST (France/ USA), Moderna Museet (Sweden) and Public Art Agency (Sweden).
SÅLD! Efterbild (The Dead Christ and the Three Maries) (2012) C-print Ed. 2/10 + 1 AP 42 x 63,7 cm, framed Price: 20 000 SEK
Matts Leiderstam (b. 1956), lives and works in Stockholm and Malmö. Selected solo presentations from recent years: The Royal Swedish Academy of Fine Arts, Stockholm (2022); Tomelilla Konsthall (2021); Salonul de proiecte, Bucharest (2021); Andréhn-Schiptjenko, Paris (2021); Wilfried Lentz, Rotterdam (2017). Selected group exhibitions: Heine Onstad Kunstsenter, Oslo (2022); Moderna Museet, Stockholm (2022); Malmö Konstmuseum (2021); Art Encounters Biennial, Timișoara (2019); Tensta Konsthall, Stockholm (2018); 11th Shanghai Biennale (2016); The National Gallery, Prague (2016); Prada Foundation, Milan (2015); 8th Berlin Biennale (2014); Tamayo Museum, Mexico City (2013).
SOLD! Radie (2022) Acrylic and pastel on cotton 32 x 42 cm Price: 20 000 SEK
Helena Lund Ek (b. 1988) works with painting as a method, image and installation. In recent years, Lund Ek has initiated her own exhibitions in rooms outside the white cube and has participated in the Moderna Show at Moderna Museet (2018) and Insights – Swedish Acquisition at Moderna Museet (2022). She is currently working as a senior lecturer in painting at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts, Stockholm.
SOLD! Fail harder next time. (2017-2019) Satin, paint, rubberfoam, rope 340 x 130 cm Price: 25 000 SEK
Iris Smeds (b. 1984, Härnösand) work revolves around the commodification of the individual and examines our existence and society from a poetic and performative viewpoint. Her projects blur the boundaries between installation, performance, video and sculpture, often using theatrical and surreal imagery. Since 2013, she has also performed in the one-woman punk band “Vaska Fimpen”.
Ksenia Pedan (b. 1986, Kharkiv) is an artist and set designer based in Stockholm and London. She works with sculpture and installation, often in collaboration with other artists, where the installations play a double role, also functioning as set design for performances and video art.
Finley in the Mist (Tagged) (2021) Inkjet print on aluminum dibond 79 x 100 cm Edition: Unique Price: 23 000 SEK
Santiago Mostyn (b. 1981, San Francisco) is an artist based in Stockholm, Sweden. He is currently a fellow at Akademie Schloss Solitude in Stuttgart.
SOLD! Home Complements (2021 ) Distemper on MDF, Meranti frame Price: 24 000 SEK
Olga Pedan (b. 1988) in Kharkiv, grew up in Sweden and studied art at Goldsmiths University in London and Städelschule in Frankfurt am Main. For the last few years her work has mainly been focused around painting using traditional methods such as distemper and egg tempera on chalk ground. The works are often a mix of abstract and representational and often contain words or letter combinations.
Olof Marsja (b. 1986) is based in Gothenburg and was educated at Konstfack and works mainly with sculpture where the organic, industrially produced and the handmade are put together into ambiguous figures and objects. Carefully carved wood, cast metal, hand-blown glass coexist with found and roughly processed materials. The sculptures that emerge are hybrid figures that glide between visual arts, crafts, imagination, reality, history and the present. Marsja has exhibited at Röhsska Museet, Bonniers Konsthall, Havremagasinet, Moderna Museet, Göteborgs Konsthall, Sami Center for Contemporary Art, Galleri Nevven and Kiruna Konstgille. He is represented in the collections of Moderna Museet, Gothenburg Art Museum, the Norwegian Sami Parliament, the City of Gothenburg, the Swedish Arts Council, the Röhsska Museet and Västra Götaland.
Together with Red Banners, 2020 Various textile techniques 180 x 130 cm Price: 28000 SEK
Made by artist Bella Rune in a collective process with her Konstfack/Textile master students; Alexander Jakobsson, Linette Tran, Matilda Envall, Maja Fredin, Linea Matei, Alma Winkler, Lea Constan, Malin Hallgren, Hazel Mallon, Sara Lundgren, Frida Nordelöw, Amanda Nordqvist, Hannah Molly Brown, Josefin Gäfvert and Karen Modrei. Researcher Margareta Ståhl and her dissertation, ”Vår fana röd till färgen” (Our banner red of colour) was a great influence on the work.
The work was performed in social distancing due to Covid restrictions. Together we made 6 portraits of historical red banners from working-class movement history, mainly from Sweden. Each participator interpreted a part of the original banners in different textile techniques. After working in isolation we met to put all the parts together to make a whole. On Black Friday 2020 we walked with our banner-portraits from Konstfack, Telefonplan to ABF-house on Sveavägen.
The work was made for the exhibition A Careful Strike curated by Michele Masucci at Mint autumn 2021
LOVE TEST: Cruising for a Bruising
LOVE TEST: Cruising for a Bruising is a collaboration between artist Rosa Aiello and actor Dylan Aiello. Building on a lifelong creative collaboration, the siblings stitch together film and live performance to stage the slippery dynamics of testing love, attention-seeking, and pushing past thresholds of social comfort—power plays in search of meaningful connection. This piece is made up of short comic routines, or “Lazzi”, performance units from Commedia dell’Arte theatre used to construct, break into, and unravel plots. Here they serve to destabilise the roles we take on as friends, family, professionals, lovers.
LOVE TEST: Cruising for a Bruising puts a spotlight on the urge to act, to control, to make something happen: it is a variety show, an ecstatic conversation, a road trip, a succession of interruptions, asking “Who is in charge?” The one behind the camera, in front of the audience, the one driving, the one watching?
The original performance piece was commissioned by Anorak e.V, and premiered at their location in the Green House, Berlin in May 2023.
In collaboration with ABF Stockholm. We acknowledge the support of the Canada Council for the Arts and Hessische Kulturstiftung
LOVE TEST: Cruising for a Bruising, September 2024. Photo: Johan Österholm.
LOVE TEST: Cruising for a Bruising, September 2024. Photo: Johan Österholm.
LOVE TEST: Cruising for a Bruising, September 2024. Photo: Johan Österholm.
LOVE TEST: Cruising for a Bruising, September 2024. Photo: Johan Österholm.
LOVE TEST: Cruising for a Bruising, September 2024. Photo: Johan Österholm.
LOVE TEST: Cruising for a Bruising, September 2024. Photo: Johan Österholm.
LOVE TEST: P.O.V.
Exhibition: LOVE TEST: P.O.V. 19.9 – 27.10, 2024 Mint, Sveavägen 41, Stockholm
The stage is a skull. The camera is a hole. The body has at least nine holes. LOVE TEST: P.O.V. is a series of experiments in communicating and embodying point of view. The central video work Povera Noi, was shot this April with their family and community in Lamezia Terme, Calabria, using three police-style body cams worn by five neighbours. Sounds come through the wall, introducing the knowledge that something is going on over there, the picture changes when you stand in a different place.
Rosa Aiello is an Italian–Canadian artist, filmmaker, and writer based in Berlin. She works in a range of styles from animation to documentary collage to cinematic narrative, as well as architectural installation and photographic series. She takes an experimental approach and uses what is at hand, in her domestic space, in her relationships, on her habitually used streets. She is interested in structures; both social constructs, like the family, and the actual built world, like architecture and city infrastructure. Her works have been shown at numerous international art venues, including Fridericianum, Centre Pompidou, Kunsthalle Zurich, Pirelli Hangar Bicocca, ICA London, Anorak e.V, Kevin Space, Cittipunkt, and SculptureCenter.
Dylan Aiello is an Italian–Canadian actor, theatre maker, and performance artist based in London. He works with physical improvisation and flow-state composition techniques drawing widely from the traditions of Commedia Dell’Arte, animal transformation, Rudolph Laban, Grotwoski and corporeal mime. He studied at RADA’s MA Theatre Lab, and has worked on numerous original and interpretive pieces showing at Transmission Gallery, CBC Gem, Emily Harvey Foundation, Berghain Main Stage, Berliner Philharmonie Kammermusiksaal and Edinburgh Fringe Festival, Bloomsbury Festival, Soho Theatre London, among others, and collaborating with directors such as Euripides Laskaridis, Lesley Ewen, and Juri Nael. Creating community and leading workshops is one of the central strands of Dylan’s artistic practice.
In collaboration with ABF Stockholm. Mint is supported by the City of Stockholm and the Swedish Arts Council and is run in collaboration with ABF Stockholm. We acknowledge the support of the Canada Council for the Arts.
Images fantômes – Hervé Guibert
Welcome to an evening at Mint, dedicated to the writer Hervé Guibert. Three contemporary Swedish writers, critics and translators – Eli Levén, Hanna Johansson and Mathias Westin – take a look at Guibert’s versatile practice. The participants read partly from Guibert’s texts, partly from their own texts that engage with Guibert’s writing, approaching the authorship from different angles and opening it up for interpretation.
In recent years, several books have been published based on the life and work of the French writer, critic, filmmaker and photographer Hervé Guibert (1955–1991). In Sweden, his writing has reached a new generation thanks to the reissues of To the Friend Who Did Not Save My Life and Blindsight, and his perspective on memory and transience, obsession, illness and sexuality, as well as his distinctive voice – which gives the reader a rare strong illusion of closeness and familiarity – has, since his untimely death in 1991, never ceased to captivate.
The evening takes place in Polys Peslika’s ongoing exhibition Young Predictions at Mint (11.4 – 15.6, 2024) .
The event is free and does not require advance registration. In Swedish.
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Eli Levén is the author of the novels Du är rötterna som sover vid mina fötter och håller jorden på plats and Hur jag skulle vilja försvinna, as well as critic and filmmaker. He has written the foreword to Norstedt’s new edition of Blindsight, 2021.
Hanna Johansson is the author of the novel Antiquity as well as a critic and art editor at SvD. She has written about Hervé Guibert in, among other things, SvD’s Under Strecket (“The art of getting to know a dead stranger”, 2023).
Mathias Westin is a psychologist and translator. Among other things, he is working on a translation of Hervé Guibert’s novel Le protocole compassionnel, 1991.
My desire is local, says Polys Peslikas. He refers to its origin being traced to a specific landscape where abstractions are formed in a particular light, in a particular temperature and among specific colors. A sexual identity and the desire to paint intertwined early in life in a confusing yet inseparable feeling.
“Summer 1988. Limassol / Germasogeia. By the sea front. The eastern outskirts of Limassol known as the Tourist area. Favorite places to go were THE CLUB and THE CARIBBEAN. The illuminated glass and the gelatine flashing lights were coloring everyone in monochromes of fuchsia pink, blue, red, yellow”
The exhibition Young Predictions at Mint is Polys Peslikas’ first presentation in Sweden. Collages from the early 90s are shown alongside new paintings and other works. The opening also marks Mint’s anniversary, celebrating 5 years as an art space in Stockholm.
Polys Peslikas (b. 1973, Cyprus) is a painter based in London. His practice also includes works on paper, performance and photography. Peslikas is interested in the constructed narratives of image and desire, and in notions of the physical in the history of western art. In his own image creation, he strives for an open and intuitive process where particular elements are often repeated in a sequence of motifs based on different technical and emotional inputs. He draws his references from classical mythology, film, iconography as well as pop and trash culture. Since 1986, he has compiled a library of printed images and cutouts that form important references for his imagery.
Solo exhibitions include among others: This Delusive Sentiment, ARCH (GR); And leaned shoulder against the window, Radio Athènes (GR); Reenactments (Bacchus), ICA (IT), The Future of Color, Cyprus Pavilion at the Venice Biennale 2017. Recent group shows include: Ah, This!, FELIX GAUDLITZ (AUT); How to Build a Garden, Point Center (CY); Nuit Blanche, Villa Medici (IT)
Image: Polys Peslikas, Collage on bank statement notes,1993-1996
The People’s Family Court
This is an invitation to participate in the performance The People’s Family Court by Iris Smeds. The performance is organised as part of Mint’s ongoing exhibition The Isolated Bone. Please find the mandatory sign up form below!
On Saturday, 17 February at 1–4 pm, The People’s Family Court will be held in Katasalen in ABF-huset (floor 1). Four people stand accused: Mom, Dad, Child and Dog. On stage are the four family members, and in the audience are the people holding them to account.
During the performance – which is also a filming of a scene for Smeds’ upcoming film “The Little House in the Food Court” – the audience will make accusations against the family members. These are formulated and submitted in advance in the form below. The accused character can be acquitted or convicted, the penalty for a conviction being exclusion from the family.
The People’s Family Court runs for a total of three hours, from 13-16, including replays.
Instructions for you as an audience / extra
You book your seat by writing an accusation to a family member using the online form below. You will not read out your allegations yourself. It is important that you address your accusation in a maximum of 250 characters to ONE family member; Mum, Dad, Child or Dog. You can accuse your own mother, father, child or dog, or the symbol of the mother, father, child or dog,
As a spectator and extra, you will take part in the event and will be filmed at the same time. As the whole scene is documented, it is important that you can stay from the beginning to the end.
Since 2020, Iris Smeds has been working on the film project The Little House in the Food Court, whose story consists of a queer theatre group that in an undefined future settles in a mall’s food court and stages an adaptation of Laura Ingalls’ book series The Little House on The Prairie as a play. The theatre group creates scenes that confront and renegotiate different roles and power structures within a family, where the concept of family also serves as an allegory for the state. Scene 5 is currently on display in Mint’s exhibition The Isolated Bone.
The Isolated Bone
Andjeas Ejiksson Iris Smeds Marion Scemama & David Wojnarowicz
On November 23, The Isolated Bone opens at Mint. Through installation, film and theatrical interventions, the exhibition touches on a collective concept of truth that is put out of play. With a disintegration of public and private, through the spectacle of the family and the rule of law, ideas of a shared reality versus testimony and a swaying sense of not being believed, are negotiated.
The exhibition consists of two new installations by Andjeas Ejiksson and Iris Smeds as well as a film work from 1989 by Marion Scemama & David Wojnarowicz.
The Isolated Bone is part of a larger project that takes shape through exhibitions, performance, and poetry. The first episode took place earlier this year in the form of a performance evening at Mint titled The Family is the First Spectacle.
Iris Smeds, Det Tusenåriga riket (Scen 5 och 7), 2023
Iris Smeds, Det Tusenåriga riket (Scen 5 och 7), 2023
Iris Smeds, Det Tusenåriga riket (Scen 5 och 7), 2023
Iris Smeds, Det Tusenåriga riket (Scen 5 och 7), 2023
Iris Smeds, Det Tusenåriga riket (Scen 5 och 7), 2023
David Wojnarowicz och Marion Schemama, Inside This Little House, 1989
David Wojnarowicz och Marion Schemama, Inside This Little House, 1989
Andjeas Ejiksson (b. 1978) is an artist and writer based in Stockholm, Sweden. His artistic practice explores how ideologies and cultural imaginaries are established through political transitions and processes of translation. Ejiksson works in editorial and textual formats, performance and moving image. The work is often research based, he has been the editor of several journals, researcher at HDK-Valand in Gothenburg, the Royal Institute of Art in Stockholm, and at the Jan van Eyck Academy in Maastricht
Iris Smeds‘ work revolve around the individual’s marketability and examines our existence and society from a poetic and performative perspective. She has a background in theatre and her project often blurs the boundaries between installation, performance and moving image, with a theatrical and surreal imagery. Since 2013, she has also run the one-woman punk band Vaska Fimpen.
David Wojnarowicz (b. 1954 New Jersey d. 1992 New York) was an artist, writer, filmmaker, and AIDS activist prominent in the New York City art scene of the 1980s. Marion Scemama (b. 1950, Casablanca) is a photographer and filmmaker based in Paris. Wojnarowicz and Scemama met in New York 1983. Out of this encounter was born a special friendship, one marked by mutual support and numerous collaborations.
Talk and tea with Armin Lorenz Gerold and Barbara Urbanic
Please join us this Sunday, 24th of September at 12 noon for tea and a conversation between artist and composer Armin Lorenz Gerold and experimental gardener Barbara Urbanic moderated by Mint’s artistic director Emily Fahlén. Gerold and Urbanic will discuss Mint’s upcoming exhibition ‘Many ways to now’ – an audio-visual system of ceramic sculptures, vibrating devices, sounds and screens, transforming the exhibition space into a sensory acoustic landscape –their collaborational installation ‘Verstärkung (amplification), 2021’, sound vessels, melancholy and their approaches to finding strategies against time.
Barbara Urbanic (*1982) studied History of Religion in Vienna, where she lives and grows an experimental cut flower garden. In her practice, semi-jokingly referred to as “The Politics and Aesthetics of Flowers”, she brings both a theoretical cultural studies approach and a creative process reflecting her historical research to floral and botanical designs. Beyond the garden, she co-organizes the literature format „Linkes Wort“, held since 1975 at the Austrian Communist Party’s annual summer fair.
Armin Lorenz Gerold (*Graz/Austria) is an artist and composer based in Berlin. His work has been presented at Halle für Kunst Steiermark, KW Berlin, LambdaLambdaLambda (Kosovo); fluent (Spain), mint (Sweden) and the Gothenburg Biennale for Contemporary Art (in a collaboration with Doireann O’ Malley). In 2021, the artist published his first artist book including his most recent play Manuel or A Hint Of Evil, alongside a collection of essays and texts. The publication was published by Mousse Publishing, Milan, supported by the Ruisdael Stipend. In November 2022, Manuel or A Hint Of Evil premiered as a live audio play at Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin.
