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

Utan titel, 2024
Pine, MDF, wax, wood pulp, shellac, pigment
L64*B30*H52cm
Pris: 15.000

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

Untitled (12TREE), 2015
Offset print, Artist’s frame, Edition of 20 
30x40cm
Price: 25.000 SEK

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).

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

Mint Poetry Festival 2024

With: Anne Boyer (US/UK), David Wojnarowicz & Marion Scemama (US), Judith Kiros (SE), Hanna Rajs (SE), Karl Holmqvist (SE/DE), Kim Hyesoon (KR) distantly with Andjeas Ejiksson (SE) & Jennifer Hayashida (US/SE), Shadi Angelina Bazeghi (DK), XTC in the XIV (SE).

Mint Poetry Festival 2024 follows a dramaturgy defined by the ecstatic. In the displaced temporality of illness, through revelation, death, and pleasure, language stretches towards an ‘other’ reality. At the center of the event is human vulnerability and rapture, conveyed through reading, song, and film.

The Poetry Festival is produced by the artists Andjeas Ejiksson and Iris Smeds and Mint’s curator Emily Fahlén, as part of The Isolated Bone, a project that touches on a collective concept of truth that is being put out of play. Through a disintegration of public and private, via the spectacle of the family and the rule of law, ideas of a shared reality versus testimony – along with a precarious sense of not being believed – are negotiated.

Mint Poetry Festival is organized in collaboration with ABF Stockholm and with support from the Swedish Arts Council.

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.