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.

To read more: https://ueaf.moca.org.ua/

ARTWORKS

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”.

Terminus (2014)
Mdf, gips, epoxi, fotokollage 
Diameter 58 cm
Price: 20 000 SEK

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. 

SOLD!
Blått ansikte (2022)
Plywood, epoxy, alder wood, mdf, spraypaint
Price: 28 000 SEK

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.

With:

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.

Young Predictions

Polys Peslikas

11.4 2024 – 15.6 2024

Mint, ABF Stockholm, Sveavägen 41, Stockholm


Opening hours:
Wednesday 13–17, Thursday 13–20 and Friday 13–17
Saturday 12–16

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. 

SIGN UP HERE

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 

23.11 2023 – 24.2 2024

Mint, ABF Stockholm, Sveavägen 41, Stockholm


Opening hours:
Wednesday & Friday 13–17
Thursday 13–20
Saturday 12–16

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, OORDNING-ORDNING-OORDNING-ORDNING, 2023

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.

Many Ways to Now

During the autumn, Mint presents a new commission by the Austrian artist and composer Armin Lorenz Gerold. The artist invites visitors into an audio-visual system of ceramic sculptures, vibrating devices, sound and screens, transforming the exhibition space into a sensory acoustic landscape.
The artist draws inspiration from Anne Boyer’s work The Fallen Angel of the Senses, in which the author and poet maps the decay of the minor senses; touch, taste, and smell, in our “present arrangement of the world”, hyperextended or fractured from “capitalism’s distortions and pressures”. Working across a multitude of media, Gerold primarily focuses on voice and sound, making audio plays, live-performances, broadcasts, and installations. For the exhibition at Mint, Gerold has invited a range of artists and poets to contribute texts that negotiate questions about time and temporality through a variety of cultural, political and poetic angles that disrupt, alter or shape the present.

With contributions by: Lori E. Allen, Anne Boyer, Jay Bernard, Reece Cox, Andrew Yong Hoon Lee, Mara Lee, Thuy-Han Nguyen-Chi, Alex Turgeon and James Schuyler.

Armin Lorenz Gerold, Many ways to now , 2023, installation view

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.

The exhibition is supported by the Swedish Arts Council, BMKOES and the Austrian Embassy in Stockholm

Photos by Johan Österholm

Cara Tolmie, Rian Treanor & Em Silén

Welcome to the final performance event of Cara Tolmie’s exhibition Cascade Bend Chamber at Mint. For this occasion Cara has invited past collaborators Em Silén and Rian Treanor to join her in an open experiment within the space of the exhibition, exploring the setting together through their shared languages in sound making and vocalisation.

We will also listen together to a piece by artist Nakul Krishnamurhty that invites another set of vocal sounds into the fabric of the installation.