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In this Aural Exhibition, artist Rosana Antolí creates a series of sound spaces with several moods, feelings and a continuous desire for connection while escaping. Bodies, movement, rituals, dance, fluids, mutation, skins, liquids, choreographies, language, art, poetry and music share this unlimited expanding universe. “The Aural Exhibitions” are a series of sound only exhibitions produced by Inde...

In 1993, curator Hans Ulrich Obrist had a conversation with artists Christian Boltanski and Bertrand Lavier that led to the idea to offer instructions to  produce “do it yourself” exhibitions. For this Aural Exhibition, Hans Ulrich Obrist selects some instructions resulting in a continuum relating to ecology, artistic practices, poetic gestures, history,  the present and the future. “The...

In her Aural exhibition, curator Alexandra Laudo offers a series of encounters with invisibility. Museums closed due to the covid pandemic, stolen works of art leaving their aura behind, and performative artistic gestures become the material to be intertwined in this narrative constructed by bits and fragments. “The Aural Exhibitions” are a series of sound only exhibitions produced by Index – The...

Curator Sara Rossling invited artist Natália Rebelo to work together with this Aural Exhibition. From locations to environments, the exhibition offers a performative experience beyond linguistic constructions. This exhibition includes a new work by Natália Rebelo that has been produced specifically for this project. “The Aural Exhibitions” are a series of sound only exhibitions produced by Index –...

In this Aural Exhibition, curator Tiago de Abreu Pinto takes a specific situation and visualizes a future, using the role of art to define what this future could be. The exhibition becomes a declaration of possibilities from collective practices between the artistic and the political, between life and culture–If there is a difference. “The Aural Exhibitions” are a series of sound only exhibitions...

This Aural Exhibition titled “Leave a Message” by the collective Editorial Board, takes the Exquisite Corpse as a starting point, and activates the process through recorded phone messages that describes one single artwork. The final result of this game makes up the exhibition you are about to listen to. The Editorial Board collective is inspired by the genre of the book-as-exhibition and utilizes...

Artist Nils Norman and curator Samantha Lippett brainstorm a citywide exhibition and urban plan, titled ‘The Model: A City Reimagined’. The exhibition draws inspiration from public playgrounds as a site for imagination, collaboration and activism. Nils Norman is an artist working across the disciplines of public art, architecture and urban planning. Samantha Lippett is a curator and educator worki...

A Scenario is an exhibition inspired by the science fiction book “Mother of Invention” by the Nigerian-American author Nnedi Okorafor. From this story, Swedish curator Susanne Ewerlöf positions the story’s main character, Anwuli, as the focal point from which the exhibition is built around. Anwuli, a young, soon-to-be mother is kept safe in a high-tech house prepared for her by her lover, but the...

A podcast made by Index Teen Advisory Board. In January of 2021, the members of ITAB joined an online conference with their sibling advisory board connected the Oslo based art institution PRAKSIS. During the conference, participants split up into smaller groups to discuss different questions relating to the theme of In Character. The podcast you're about to hear...

It’s November 2021 and Kristian Vistrup Madsen is visiting Stockholm to meet some students at the Royal Institute of arts. One evening, Vistrup Madsen is at Index to present his book Doing Time: Essays on Using People . In a conversation with the writer Mara Lee, Kristian Vistrup Madsen observes words and moments, people and stories, ways of writing and thinking.

While still in a pandemic world, the beginning of September 2021 was the month whenIndex openedPauline Curnier Jardin’s exhibitionWAITING FOR AGATHA, SEBASTIAN AND THE REST OF THE HOLY CHILDREN — UNFOLDING A FILMIC RESEARCH. An opening in these times means an assumed performativity of social distancing and hand sanitzer, however a public talk with Pauline was also organized with a focus on her pre...

In early June 2021, against the backdrop of Hanni Kamaly’s exhibition THE MIGHT THEY HAVE, the Index team were the intimate audience for a conversation between Kamaly and researcher and writer Rebecka Katz Thor, whose research focuses on the aesthetics of commemoration, image production’s and contemporary art’s relation to historical, ethical and political claims. The discussio...

In spring 2021, C-print first physical number was presented at Index. During a long evening we recorded some informal conversations and public presentations with Sara Kaaman and Emma Löfström, Edith Ekström, Olivia Ekelund and My Hasselgren, Shaon Chakraborty, Hannes Ferm and Emma Dominguez. C-Print is a platform based in Stockholm observing and following artistic practices. With a desire for new...

The slow release of Silon took place at Index throughout an evening in late spring 2021, within Hanni Kamaly’s exhibition THE MIGHT THEY HAVE. Silon volume one is a collection of readings by curators, artists and architects on decolonizing the white cube, exploring questions around education and land and a meditation that brings feminine awareness to the complex phenomena and philosophy of Frantz...

As the exhibition Editorial Thinking came to its close during spring of 2021, Index hosted the release of Delta - an ocean call, a publication on water histories, narratives and practices published and co-edited by Pontus Pettersson and Izabella Borzecka of PAM Stockholm. The slow release of the publication took place at Index throughout an entire day, with workshops, conversations, performances,...

In March 2021, while the exhibition Editorial Thinking was open with care for visitors to Index, artist Alex Reynolds met online with Magdalena Malm, founder of MAP – Mobile Art Production, to discuss their collaboration around Alex’s project But They Are Not You, which took place in Stockholm during the winter of 2011/12. The project began with an email invitation, circulated by MAP. The individu...

November 2019, and the exhibition "Ride Ride Ride" by Teresa Solar was on show at Index. Numerous objects defined the space, with colors everywhere, multiple languages and identities within a non-static constellation. The exhibition space at Index was packed with several interconnections and visual references. Within this context, Sven-Olov Wallenstein and Daniel Birnbaum presented the book "Spaci...

In February 2020 Index opened the exhibition “I am healthy, I cannot write this letter myself” by Ramesch Daha. The exhibition presented an immense project based on subjective and family approaches to history. In this case, the history of concentration camps and the remaining genealogical trauma. Right now -during corona times- at Kindl Art Center in Berlin this work by Ramesch Daha is presented a...

Cold outside - warm inside. The exhibition Tracking Distribution that opened at Index in late November 2020 is a compilation of artworks, ideas and artistic productions related to the question of distribution. In times of coronavirus, we present this podcast as a special visit to the exhibition: Sònia López (thinker and producer working with digital formats and processes) visits Tracking Distribut...

November 2018. Index space was full of blue and pink colors, textiles hung with manifestos and an intense video program is on. It was the exhibition And Tomorrow And , a project and a platform for many voices regarding ecology, possible futures and the urgency to act. During that summer forests were burning in Sweden. Within the frame of And Tomorrow And , Index organized a two day seminar around...

In August 2020, curator Sue Spaid and artist Ulrika Sparre met at Index to talk about stones and the coming exhibition project by Ulrika Sparre at Index. Sue Spaid is one of the writers at the book Ear to the Ground published by Art&Theory, a book observing the artistic production of Ulrika Sparre regarding her projects with minerals and stones. Sue and Ulrika talk about rocks and memories, ar...

In June 2020, Index Director Marti Manen and artist and Kybernein Institute Director Nathalie Gabrielsson met to record a conversation about The Campaign -the exhibition presented at Index with the research artistic project developed by Nathalie Gabrielsson. Nathalie Gabrielsson uses artistic practice to share complex criticality: Art is understood as a field between subjectivity and objectivity,...

During 2020 Index’ ongoing research process of looking into how artists deal with and reinvent formats for distribution, has itself been re-distributed - frozen - sped up - paused - and accelerated by the global turn. The rollercoaster of stillness and intensity has put a new lens on how we see the movement of information, the movements of our bodies and the material realities of distribution. As...

In the 1970s and 80s Sweden, along with many other countries in the world, went through a shift in political narration. The stories that so far had shaped the idea of the Swedish national identity, the welfare state, the democratic workers movement started to leak in the face of crisis. Nathalie Gabrielsson’s exhibition The Campaign at Index investigates these ideological behaviors that came to ef...

In April 2019, artist Roxy Farhat and curator Gaby Cepeda met at Index to talk at Roxy Farhat’s exhibition WUH-PSHHH. In this conversation regarding the need to rethink, their discussion takes on productivity, carving spaces, art and systematic stress, loving and hating what you are doing, open letters to Kim Kardashian, being lazy, capitalism, collective practices, race, feminism and queer approa...