September ssions

Accelerator is an exhibition space where art, science and societal issues meet. It is part of Stockholm University. The mission of Accelerator is to engage actively with society, producing exhibitions presenting international and Swedish contemporary art.

Accelerator organises a public program of presentations and talks with artists, researchers, students and the general public. Accelerator’s programme is driven by an ambition to contribute towards a transparent and empathetic society by opening up opportunities for art to spark discussions and interdisciplinary dialogue.

OPENING HOURS
Thursday: opening night invite only 18–20h
Friday: 11–17h (preview open to the public)
Saturday: 12–16h (official opening day)
Sunday: 12–16h


DURING THE FESTIVAL


Saturday 13.9, 12.30, Curator-led tour of the exhibitions Gravity, Be My Friend – Pipilotti Rist & Vera Was Here – Nora Al-Badri, Diana Agunbiade-Kolawole, Nicole Khadivi, Bitsy Knox and Dala Nasser

Gravity, Be My Friend – Pipilotti RistAccelerator presents the exhibition Gravity, Be My Friend by Pipilotti Rist – a large-scale audiovisual installation that takes up one of Accelerator’s two galleries. As a visitor, you are invited to lie down on large islands of mats and immerse yourself in sound and film projected onto amorphous structures in the ceiling. When the work Gravity, Be My Friend was made, Pipilotti Rist's artistic investigations centred on how we experience the moving image when lying down and, in her words, how we can be ‘gentler with ourselves’. When lying down, our muscles are more relaxed, which in turn affects the way we think, see, and experience.Pipilotti Rist (b. 1962) is a pioneer within spatial video art. Since the mid-1980s, she has played a key role in the international art scene. Her art evolves with new technologies and is characterised by strong colours, experimental editing, and sound and image integration. Rist combines nature recordings with human elements and often uses the body as a means of expression. She explores themes of identity, perception, and power, and she sees vulnerability as a creative resource in her work, questioning people's self-image and privileged position. Pipilotti Rist lives and works in Zurich. She has had solo exhibitions at institutions such as MoMA New York, The Geffen Contemporary and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; UCCA Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing; The National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto; Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris; Louisiana Museum, Humlebæk; Fondazione Prada, Milan; Magasin III Museum of Contemporary Art, Stockholm, and has participated in numerous group exhibitions and biennials, including in Venice, Istanbul, Santa Fe, Shanghai and Sao Paolo.

Vera Was Here – Nora Al-Badri, Diana Agunbiade-Kolawole, Nicole Khadivi, Bitsy Knox and Dala Nasser

The group exhibition Vera Was Here is centred on the relationship between lens-based media, perception, memory, and historiography.Participating artists approach indexicality, image transmission processes and memory practices beyond the camera in various ways. This entails the activities of collecting, preserving, archiving, and reproducing personal and collective experiences and histories. Through different forms of abstraction, the artists explore collective myth-making, speculative archaeology, mourning processes, time, and energy fields. The artistic methods behind the works have been characterised by performativity, embodied knowledge and direct contact with the material.

https://acceleratorsu.art

Frescativägen 26A, 114 18 Stockholm

Thursday 11.9, 17.00, Opening Annika Eriksson (part of Houred Time)

Beau Travail is an artist-run gallery founded by Marie Karlberg in Stockholm in February 2024. With a focus on multidisciplinary, project-based work, the space forgoes exclusive representation in favor of a collaborative curatorial model shaped closely with exhibiting artists. Beau Travail positions itself as a responsive and artist-first platform within the contemporary art landscape.

OPENING HOURS
Saturday 13.9, 17.00–20.00 (opening )


DURING THE FESTIVAL


Saturday 13.9, 17.00–20.00, Opening 2025/2025 by Elmer Blåvarg
18.30 Performance /, made in collaboration with Liza Tegel and Theodor Örn
Elmer Blåvarg (b.1996) is an artist based in Stockholm and Paris. He has studied at Kunstakademie Düsseldorf and holds an MFA from the Royal Institute of Art in Stockholm. Blåvarg’s work is conceptual and takes its form in various media including print, photography, video, sound, sculpture, performance and exhibition making. In his work he aims to put the relationship between the artwork and the experience of it in an uncertain position with respect to time and the production of knowledge.

https://beautravail.se

Skånegatan 108, Stockholm

Since it’s opening in 2006, Bonniers Konsthall has commissioned and exhibited works by numerous Swedish and international artists. As a non-collecting institution, Bonniers Konsthall works closely with artists to realize their visions and engages diverse audiences through a range of programmes and publications. Conveying the new is central to our work. Bonniers Konsthall has its roots in the Maria Bonnier Dahlin Foundation, which was created in 1985 by Jeanette Bonnier in memory of her daughter Maria, and which yearly awards grants to young artists.

OPENING HOURS
Wed: 12–20
Thu-Sun: 12–17
Free entrance on Friday

DURING THE FESTIVAL


Saturday 13.9, 13.00, Performance Marthe Ramm Fortun
Marthe Ramm Fortun forms emphatic and meaningful connections with her audience with distinct performance series and site specific sculptural environments. Her ambulating performance practice often calls attention to the vulnerability of individual bodies, confronting a gulf between the historically governed representation of the female body in a time of extreme violence, extending to the barriers that surround life and work when you belong to one or more categories of otherness.


www.bonnierskonsthall.se

Torsgatan 19, 113 21 Stockholm

Cues serves as an intermittent venue run by Anton Halla and Annie Åkerman, hosting a variety of presentations centered around the scenario of a bar. Based in a residential cooperative in central Stockholm, it operates in a basement that echoes its former use. The programming consists of artistic responses to using its premises both as backdrop and as a site for informal encounters. Activities have no fixed format or duration and cater to the preferences of each invited guest.

OPENING HOURS
TBA


DURING THE FESTIVAL


Thursday 11.9 + Friday 12.9 + Saturday 13.9, 21.00–00.00

Filmform is one of the oldest organizations in the world devoted to video art and experimental film and was founded in 1950 in Stockholm, Sweden, originally as an independent film co-op. Later it was re-organized into a foundation and is now the most important driving force for artists' films and videos in Sweden – working with archiving, distribution as well as dissemination of knowledge and information. Filmform is further an important intermediary between independent filmmakers and governmental agencies and is often engaged as an advisor to museums, galleries, universities, and festivals. Constantly expanding, the distribution catalogue spans from 1924 to the present, including works by Sweden’s most prominent artists and filmmakers within the field of moving images.

Filmform has its origin in the post-war generation of artists that experienced the cinema as a new and expanding creative field. In film – personal expression, free from the regulations of convention, could maintain its independence. Artists' films – as well as videos later on – made it possible to connect to the world and to modern times. Filmform has been the hub of artists' films and videos since several decades. Artists like Viking Eggeling, Peter Weiss, and Gunvor Nelson have been important in this process, and new names are merging continuously. It is a beautiful coincidence that the first film that was planned when the association once formed in 1950 was called Vision. The vision of artists moving images is under constant review. Works from Filmform are available to rent for public screenings and exhibitions as well as for educational purposes.


OPENING HOURS
Friday: 9.30–17h

DURING THE FESTIVAL


Friday 12.9, 9.30–17.00, Open house for curators and programmers at Filmform

Filmform invites you to an exclusive presentation of their collection and resource for curating and learning on Friday, September 12th. The organization as well as the distribution catalogue will be presented in detail and a few newly acquired works from the collection will be shown. The presentation is first and foremost intended for those working as a curator, writer, researcher, producer, programmer, scholar, or teacher. Artists are also welcome to drop by.

Doors open at 9.30. The presentation will take place between 10–12 AM. Afterwards, between 1–5 PM the office is open for spontaneous drop-in meetings for those who can’t make it to the presentation. A light breakfast will be served. Please RSVP to info@filmform.com in order to secure a seat and make a reservation to the morning presentation.
If you are interested in previewing full length films and videos from the catalogue (https://www.filmform.com/catalogue) – please contact andreas.bertman@filmform.com in order to receive online screener links to specific works as well as suggestions on what to see in relation to your research and field of interest. Finally, don’t hesitate to contact Filmform for separate physical or online meetings if you can’t make it to the open house during September Sessions.

www.filmform.com

Svarvargatan 2, 112 49 Stockholm

IASPIS is the Swedish Arts Grants Committee’s International Programme for Visual and Applied Arts. The programme is aimed at professional artistic practitioners within, for example, visual arts, crafts, design, illustration, architecture, spatial and urban practice.

IASPIS programme include residency programmes in Sweden and abroad, public programmes in Sweden and internationally, publications, expert visits programmes, regional and international collaboration programmes, and an archive.

IASPIS programme aims to contribute in various ways to developing and deepening international contacts between practitioners, organisations, audiences and markets and in this way contribute to artistic development and improved job opportunities.


OPENING HOURS
TBA

DURING THE FESTIVAL


Thursday, 11.9, 17.00, Presentation with OEI – A Layered Love #2
Durational publishing in a short amount of time. A reading-viewing-publishing situation presented by Jonas (J) Magnusson & Cecilia Grönberg (OEI).

Jonas (J) Magnusson & Cecilia Grönberg are editors, writers, artists and researchers based in Stockholm and Paris. Since 2001 we have been working together on different publishing projects: books, magazines, exhibitions. Our work often revolves around questions on archives, images, documents, montage, locality and alternative forms of historiography. We have been running the publishing structure OEI since the early 2000s. OEI is a magazine for extra-disciplinary spaces and de-disciplinizing moments – experimental forms of thinking, montages of art, poetry, theory, film and documents. OEI has published 107 issues. The accompanying publishing structure OEI editör has released some hundred titles of investigative poetry, aesthetic documents, bookworks, theoretical and poetological essays. 

During our residency at IASPIS we will work on our artistic research project “The Extended Book” and especially address questions of spatial reading & three-dimensional publishing, relations between fieldwork & editing, long temporalities & nature-culture overlays. We are interested in the concept of “local knowledge” & “site-specific materialities” linked to the systems of art and literature. We will explore megalithic culture & early archaeology in Sweden, “excavations” & “reconstructions”. But we will also continue our work on experimental publishing & infrastructural poetics.

IASPIS / GALLERI DUERR, Friday 12.9, 17.00 – Questioning the boundaries of the photographic medium — an artist talk between Kristina Jansson and Eva-Teréz Gölin, held within Gölin’s exhibition Transparency and Its Shadows at Gallery Duerr.

www.iaspis.se

Maria Skolgata 83, 118 53 Stockholm

Index – The Swedish contemporary art Foundation has a history of more than 40 years behind it. Firstly, with a focus on photography and publishing, and for the last 25 years with contemporary art as its cultural sphere.

Index has multiple public roles as an art institution: We are a platform for artists and for audiences. We understand that the role of an art institution like Index does not begin and end with an exhibition – instead there is an ongoingness to the activities, research processes, learning programs and relationships between Index, artists and audiences. Index works with an artistic conceptual approach that aims to carve out space and time for criticality, dialogue, curiosity and building discursive situations that develop the role of art today. The size of Index is “human” and the contact with its visitors is defined as a permanent dialogue. Being placed at the center of Stockholm helps Index to be understood as a key institution and node within contemporary art networks.

OPENING HOURS
Friday: 12–18h
Saturday: 12–16h
Sunday: 12–16h


DURING THE FESTIVAL


Thursday 11.9, 17.00–21.00, Opening exhibition.
Claudia Pagès Rabal: ALJUB
19.00, Performance with nara is neus

With her works, Claudia Pagès Rabal creates image situations where multiple layers, dialogues and a sense of choreography define new possibilities for art. Pagès Rabal’s video installations offer a special physicality while observing social and economic realities. First shown at the European Nomadic Biennial Manifesta15 in Barcelona (with production support by Index), the video installation Aljubs i Grups is now the central piece of the exhibition ALJUB in Stockholm. The exhibition ALJUB is the first presentation of Claudia Pagès Rabal in the Nordic Countries.

nara is neus is a physicist, musician and producer of ambient music and soundtracks from Barcelona. They combine parts of several subgenres to compose music that has a distinctive sound. Their music is distinguished by complex metrics, captivating melodies, engrossing soundscapes that take listeners to different realms, and ambient textures that elicit a wide range of feelings. Their songs have a special deep bond with existential questionings, sending listeners on an emotional rollercoaster. nara is neus has been working with Claudia Pagès Rabal and the sound production of the installation Aljubs i Grups, presented at Index on the occasion of the performance.

Friday 12.9, 18.30–19.30, Performance with Chipo Chipaziwa: Slipping Into Slipping Away

With her latest performance, Slipping Into Slipping Away, Chipaziwa investigates into the intersections of memory, legibility, archives, liminal encounters, and psychoanalysis. During the performance, the artist book My Mother, My Home will be available.

https://indexfoundation.se

Kungsbro strand 19, 112 26 Stockholm

Konsthall C is a public work of art, an urban renewal project and an art institution located in a former communal laundry in Hökarängen. The objectives of Konsthall C are to lead socially engaged practices, support new curatorial and artistic experiments, and contribute to discussions on justice, democracy, and urban development. Ulrika Flink, the Artistic Director, presents a program that delves into the influence of voice and language on personal and collective expressions of rights. The program emphasizes the importance of interconnectedness recognizing oneself in others. It brings together practitioners who engage in collective thinking, incorporating powerful language, poetry, and listening tools.

Through this combination, the program sheds light on the consequences of structural violence and advocates for alternative forms of resistance and radical liberation.

OPENING HOURS
Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday & Sunday: 12–17h

DURING THE FESTIVAL


Friday 12.9, 17.00–21.00, Opening Prophetic Map I – Toju Ba Farabale with Evan Ifekoya

Konsthall C is pleased to showcase artist Evan Ifekoya’s work Prophetic Map I: Toju Ba Farabale within the Sacred Spaces Artistic Program. Sacred Spaces (2024–2026) is a program where artists reflect on spirituality and address questions of religion and society.

Evan Ifekoya’s installation Prophetic Map I: Toju Ba Farabale speaks to the human need for spaces of connection, communion and reflection. The work is named after the Yorùbá proverb, “Toju Ba Farabale” which is translated as “if the eyes are patient, they will see the nose.” In other words, patience begets clarity, reward, and prosperity. Within the Yorùbá tradition, such sayings offer spiritual, moral, and practical guidance and are passed down across generations.

Ifekoya draws on Yorùbá wisdom and tradition to create spaces for ritual and healing. Through a carefully cultivated spiritual practice and harnessed ancestral technologies, Ifekoya constructs immersive experiences of light, sound, silence, and listening that alter the relationship between body, place, and time. Ifekoya grounds their work in the complex cosmology of the Yorùbá tradition, while placing Black and queer consciousness at its forefront.

In the artist’s words: “In the sacredness of the mundane I develop a true and authentic perception of my reality. Thinking through legacy, thinking through genealogy, thinking about belonging. As a Black person, as a Nigerian person – Yorùbá specifically, as a queer person.”

About the artist:
Evan Ifekoya is an interdisciplinary artist whose practice mirrors their role as a spiritual practitioner, perceiving art as a platform for redistributing and renegotiating resources, challenging implicit rules and hierarchies in public and social spaces.

https://www.konsthallc.se

Cigarrvägen 14, 123 57 Farsta

Liljevalchs belongs to the City of Stockholm and was inaugurated in 1916 as the first public art space for contemporary art in Sweden. Today, Liljevalchs stays true to its founding intentions of nurturing an art institution of national and international status, showing the most relevant contemporary art. The original building was designed by architect Carl Bergsten and is located on the scenic Djurgården in Stockholm. The new extension Liljevalchs+ was completed in autumn 2021, designed by architect Gert Wingårdh in collaboration with glass designer Ingegerd Råman.

OPENING HOURS:
Thursday: 11–20h
Friday–Sunday: 11–17h


DURING THE FESTIVAL


Sunday 14.9, 15.00, Happening Edicola Due by Liselotte Watkins
Drawing upon her cultural heritage and daily life, Liselotte Watkins weaves together art, history, philosophy, and popular culture with her own personal narratives. For Liljevalchs she is building a site specific Edicola – a chapel-like kiosk. Edicola refers to certain Italian newsstands selling newspapers, as well as constituting places of communal and cultural significance. As a part of the installation at Liljevalchs, the kiosk will offer a special newspaper edited by Watkins. During September Sessions, the Edicola awaits to be activated by the visitors, offering a place for cultural exchange and special readings by secret guest(s).

Liselotte Watkins (b. 1971) initially made a name for herself in New York as a fashion illustrator, working for clients like Prada, Vogue, and The New Yorker. After moving to Italy, she shifted her focus entirely to art. Watkins studied at the Art Institute of Dallas and has previously exhibited at Millesgården in Stockholm, Borås Textilmuseum, Villa San Michele on Capri, and CFHILL in Stockholm.

https://liljevalchs.se

Liljevalchs+, Falkenbergsgatan 3, 115 21 Stockholm

MDT Moderna Dansteatern is a platform for contemporary dance and choreography, located on Skeppsholmen in Stockholm. With a theatre and studios at its heart, MDT co-produces and presents work by both Sweden-based and international artists. As a space for artistic development, critical discourse, and choreographic experimentation, MDT supports practices that challenge and expand the field of dance.

DURING THE FESTIVAL


Saturday 13.9, 19.00, & Sunday 14.9, 19.00, Performance Malign Junction (Goodbye, Berlin) by Alex Baczyński-Jenkins
Malign Junction (Goodbye, Berlin) is a group work that revolves around the theme of finitude. It reflects on captivity, betrayal, loss and movement in relation to power at a time when we find ourselves at a turbulent historical crossroads. The performance refers to Christopher Isherwood's 1939 novel Goodbye to Berlin, which takes place during the last days of Berlin's nightlife and cabaret culture in the shadow of fascism.

The stage is both a theatre, a strange trap, an inner fragmented landscape, a club and a waiting room. Here we find silent actors, a broken heart, a will to resist, grief, ecstatic decay, despair and captured showgirls.

Desire, alienation and relationships play central roles in Alex Baczyński-Jenkins' artistic practice. Through choreographic methods, he explores the subtle nuances of mutual dependence and suspended time. His distinctive physical vocabulary and minimal, tactile visual expressions move between the most fleeting and the infrastructural.

Alex Baczyński-Jenkins is an artist and choreographer engaging with queer affect, embodiment and relationality. Through gesture, collectivity, touch and sensuality, his practice unfolds structures and politics of desire. Relationality is present in the dialogical ways in which the work is developed and performed as well as in the materials and poetics it invokes. This includes tracing relations between sensation and sociality, embodied expression and alienation, the textures of everyday experience, the utopian and latent queer histories. He approaches choreography as a way of reflecting on the matter of feeling, perception and collective emergence, while indulging in other ways of experiencing memory, time and change. He is co-founder of Kem, a Warsaw based queer feminist collective focused on choreography, performance and sound at the interface with social practice. Through various experimental formats and community building, Kem engages in critical intimacy and queer pleasure.

https://mdtsthlm.se

Slupskjulsvägen 30, 111 49 Stockholm

Mint is a non-profit exhibition space situated in the Workers' Educational Association in central Stockholm, initiated in 2019 by curators Emily Fahlén and Asrin Haidari. Focusing on contemporary art and poetry, Mint is embracing experimental practices, cross-generational encounters and site-specific interventions. As the practice of a museum relates to – and is in dialogue with – its collection, Mint allows its program to be inspired and directed by the history of the building and its events, struggles, organisations and cultural expressions.

OPENING HOURS
Friday: 19–22h


DURING THE FESTIVAL


Friday 12.9, 19.00–22.00, Opening Inside, Crystals and Circuitry with Jules Reidy.

20.00 Performance Jules Reidy (part of Houred Time)

https://m-i-n-t.se

Sveavägen 41, 111 40 Stockholm