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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.

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Index Teen Advisory Board - Going to an exhibition in character 27.03.2020 1:24:50

February 22, 2020, Index Teen Advisory Board sat down to discuss the first part of the workshop Going to an exhibition in character . This workshop has been growing over the years, responding to both the imaginary and real barriers of going to an exhibition and feeling like you have to know something or be someone. It’s a crowded Saturday, they just asked us to move from the cafe into the library...

Andrea Fraser on the role of the artist, power and mechanisms of control, April 2019 26.03.2020 1:38:43

The performance artist Andrea Fraser is one of the most important figures working in institutional critique.  In April 2019, Fraser gave a talk at Index, sharing her views on power structures, the role of the artist, economy, hierarchies and mechanisms of control. Listen to the podcast here. "Our relationship to institutions is not that we go into them, they go into us. We incorporate them, e...

Chris Kraus talk during the opening of her exhibition at Index, May 2019. 19.12.2019 27:38

“What is our identity if not a compilation of the people who have influenced us? We become the people who have influenced us the most deeply” – Chris Kraus In May Chris Kraus joined us for the opening of her exhibition FILMS BEFORE AND AFTER . Listen to the full conversation between Kraus and the Index team here.

A dinner conversation with artist Teresa Solar 12.12.2019 56:46

A conversation with the artist Teresa Solar, recorded at the NKF (Nordic Art Association) in Stockholm the day before the opening.