Summer Exhibition Finissage
Friday, Saturday & Sunday
25.08.23–27.08.23
Friday, Saturday & Sunday
25.08.23–27.08.23
The program is stirred by the ideas of the four participating artists in the Summer Exhibition Maja Gunn, Josefin Lindskog, Mona Namér and Nontokozo Tshabalala.
Röda Sten Konsthall will host a Dance Film Festival´s program selection, along with lectures and conversations inspired by Mona Namér’s intersectional practice in dance film, art and fashion. Nontokozo Tshabalala will be re-enacting her opening performance iNkululeko the performance (Freedom the performance) followed by a conversation on Afrofuturism and black experience, in relation to her works in the exhibition.
The exhibition closes on Sunday with two programs, a curatorial guided tour with Amila Puzić, and a sustainable fashion concert by the choir Rabalder and the performing arts production Stagebird. This event is developed in dialog with the exhibition, and particularly in relation to textile and fashion in Josefin Lindskog and Maja Gunn’s artworks.
Friday 6–8 pm
Location: Annex, Röda Sten Konsthall
Admission fee: regular admission
Saturday 1–1.45 pm
Language: Swedish
Location: Annex, Röda Sten Konsthall
Admission fee: regular admission
Saturday 2–2.45 pm
Language: Swedish
Location: Annex, Röda Sten Konsthall
Admission fee: regular admission
Saturday 3.30–3.45 pm
iNkululeko the performance (Freedom the performance) is an ushering and calling of those who want to be free. Accompanied by experimental audio, the artist would like to take you through the inconceivable dimensions between the present and the imagined future to which they travel. Merging versions of struggle songs, vibrations, humming and sounds of possibility yet to be created. Tshabalala wishes to hold your hand as we embark on this journey of exploration together.
Sound design: Samar Jabri
Location: Cathedral, Röda Sten Konsthall
Admission fee: regular admission
Saturday 4–5 pm
The Afrofuturistic imaginary has been summoned by black communities through the years to resist against global anti-blackness. They use their creativity and the power of the imaginary to create alternatives, getaways, outcomes, and to nurture the dream to completely emancipate their minds, lifestyles and spirits from systemic chains.
Through this conversation, Nsunda and Tshabalala aim to build a bridge between the dream and their daily life. They ponder on how to make the imaginary a reality and authorize themselves to daydream through our liberation. Nsunda and Tshabalala invite you to take a moment to reflect to make the Afrofuturistic dream tangible.
Emmanuelle Nsunda is a researcher, writer and curator based in Belgium. In 2017, she founded the project Afrofeminism in progress with the aim to organize, observe and collect black experiences within the Belgian cultural field, among other. The project is in a new phase experimenting strategies and solutions to fully emancipate black artistic practices from the Western institutional gaze.
Nontokozo Tshabalala is one of the artist in the Summer Exhibition.
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Language: English
Location: Annex, Röda Sten Konsthall
Admission fee: regular admission
Sunday 2–3.30 pm
Last chance to join a guided tour of the Summer Exhibition together with curator Amila Puzić, curator at Röda Sten Konsthall.
Language: English
Location: Röda Sten Konsthall
Admission fee: regular admission
Sunday 7–8 pm
Location: Cathedral, Röda Sten Konsthall
Admission fee: ordinary 120 SEK / under 18 and members of Röda Sten Kulturförening 90 SEK
Tickets: Places are limited. Tickets in the reception or via Biletto:
