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RELEASE
Svenska förvärv/Swedish Acquistions Catalogue
 19 September, 2024
Moderna Museet/Art & Theory Publishing 
Stockholm, Sweden

In 2021 works by 169 Swedish artists were purchased by Moderna Museet in Stockholm. This publication presents the many acquisitions, including introductions of both the artists and works. 
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 GROUP EXHIBITIONVi behöver varann/We Need Each Other Haninge Konsthall 
18 June—25 August, 2024
Haninge, Sweden

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GROUP EXHIBITION In the Power of Our Unexpressed or  Unrecognised FeelingsAlex Rosa, Conny Karlsson Lundgren, A. Karlsson Rixon
Örebro Konsthall/Open Art 
15 June—8 September, 2024
Örebro, Sweden

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RELEASE
Jag kysser dina ögon/I Kiss Your EyesMonograph/Catalogue
Bonniers Konsthall/Art & Theory Publishing 
April, 2024
Stockholm, Sweden

Published in collaboration with Bonniers Konsthall in conjunction with the exhibition I Kiss Your Eyes. Editors: Albin Hillervik, Joanna Nordin. Texts: Kristofer Folkhammar, Joanna Nordin, Andria Nyberg Forshage, Lisa Rosendahl, Louise Wolthers och Erika Larsson. Design: Varv Varv.

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FILM SCREENING
Utopia Today: Queer PerspectivesVideocity x REX Box
February 29—March 27, 2024
 Bern, Switzerland

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FILM SCREENING
Utopia Today: A WalkVideocity x REX Box
February 1—22, 2023
 Bern, Switzerland

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SOLO EXHIBITION
Jag kysser dina ögon/
I Kiss Your EyesBonniers Konsthall 
February 14—April 7, 2024
Opening February 13
Stockholm, Sweden

Bonniers Konsthall are proud to present the first major solo exhibition by the artist Conny Karlsson Lundgren. The exhibition highlights the artist’s practice mid-career. Performance, scenographic installations, video works and photography fill the galleries, together with an ambitious new work.

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INAUGURATION 
Gläntan/The GladeNovember 11, 2023
Gothenburg, Sweden

Sweden’s first LGBTQI+ monument will be inaugurated at Esperantoplatsen in Gothenburg. Opening speeches by Joakim Berlin, Ulrika Flink, Patrik Steorn and Claudia Schaper. Performances with Eddie Mio Larson and Lina Holmberg, dj-set by Mamdouh. Followed by a panel discussion. 

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GROUP EXHIBITION
Utopia TodayVideocity Parcour
October 6—December 17, 2023
St Pölten, Austria

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GRANT
Awarded The Swedish Art Grants Committee’s Five Year Working Grant 
September 2023

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PERFORMANCE
We Feel a Desire for Caresses by MenNorrlandsoperan/Umeå Pride 
September 29—30, 2023
Umeå, Sweden

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OPEN CALL
PillowsFebruary 14—March 31, 2023
We are calling for pillows and memories to be part of Gläntan (The Glade), Sweden's first LGBTQI+ monument. 

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NEW ACQUISITION
Ola’s GardenOctober 2022
The video installation including 15 memorial plaques in brass is now part of the Ystad Art Museum collection.
Ystad, Sweden

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STOCKHOLM PRIDE 2022
Swedish Acquistions: MatchesModerna Museet
2—4 August, 2022
Stockholm, Sweden

Join a guided tour of Swedish Acquisitions: Matches with the exhibition’s curator Asrin Haidari. During Stockholm Pride 2022, we offer three guided tours, focusing on one artist on each occasion: Conny Karlsson Lundgren, Leif Holmstrand and Iris Smeds. Welcome!
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PERFORMANCE
We Feel a Desire for Caresses by Men (Portrait Parlé)Muséhagen
Muséplass 3, 5017 Bergen, Norway
12 June, 2022
At 16:00 and 18:00

We Feel a Desire for Caresses by Men (Portrait Parlé) is a development of a performance shown at  Göteborgs Konsthall earlier in 2022. In this new version, specially conceived for VOLT, the many voices of forensic psychiatric documents form a monologue, performed by an actor as a choreographic mirroring of an erotic photo collection. The bodily and sensual becomes a source of resistance and empowerment, activated in the present and moving through time to permeate and heal  the wounds of history.

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GROUP EXHIBITION
Swedish Acquistions: MatchesModerna Museet
7 May—14 August, 2022
Stockholm, Sweden

Swedish Acquisitions: Matches is the second of two group exhibitions presenting works from Moderna Museet’s major project to purchase new art: Swedish Acquisitions 2021. Meet artists who create alternative universes, express their desire for queer community or promote biological diversity through experimental methods of collaboration.

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RELEASE
Biennials as Sites of Historical Narration—Thinking through Göteborg International Biennial for Contemporary ArtCatalogue
April, 2022

It is GIBCA’s pleasure to announce the launch of the publication Biennials as Sites of Historical Narration—Thinking through Göteborg International Biennial for Contemporary Art edited by Lisa Rosendahl and published with Mousse Publishing. A resource for curatorial studies and exhibition history, the book explores how artists and curators evoke the past as a part of the present within the framework of contemporary art biennials through essays, interviews and excerpts of artworks, and takes the editions of 2019 and 2021 of GIBCA as case-studies.

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GROUP EXHIBITION
PLAY: Video Art in the CollectionGöteborgs Konstmuseum/Art Museum
23 April—6 November, 2022
Gothenburg, Sweden

The installation Aleksa & the Others will be featured in Play: video art in the collection. For the first time, visitors can become acquainted  with this part of the museum’s collection in a larger presentation. The exhibition offers an insight into video art at the Gothenburg Museum of Art during the past 20 years and invites us to reflect on the role of the moving image in artistic depictions of our own era.

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DUO EXHIBITION
Traces of DesireYstads Konstmuseum/Art Museum
9 April—28 August, 2022
Ystad, Sweden

In Traces of Desire, Conny Karlsson Lundgren and Benny Nemer explore collections, gardens, and art history. The artists engage in a dialogue in which the artworks become pathways for connection with queer comrades and ancestors, memories and desires.

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PUBLIC COMMISSION
Gläntan/The GladeLGBTQI+ MONUMENT
Gothenburg, Sweden
March, 2022

The proposal Gläntan (The Glade) has been selected as Sweden’s first LGBTQI+ monument and will be installed at Esperantoplatsen in Gothenburg. Planned inauguration in 2023 and completed in collaboration with Göteborg konst and New Order Arkitektur.

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PERFORMANCE
We Feel a Desire for Caresses by Men (The Gothenburg Affair) in the exhibition With New Eyes 
Göteborgs Konsthall 
December 11, 2021—March 27, 2022

Swedish
January 5, 7, 8, 12, 21, 22, 26
February 4, 5, 18, 19, 23
March 4, 5, 9, 18, 19, 26
English
January 14, 15, 19, 28, 29, 
February 2, 9, 11, 12, 16, 25, 26, 
March 2, 11, 12, 16, 23, 25

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OPEN STUDIOS
ISCP 2021 Fall Open Studios November 13, 2021
New York City, US

The International Studio & Curatorial Program (ISCP) Fall Open Studios is an exhibition of international contemporary art presented by the 34 artists and curators from 26 countries currently in residence. Guest speaker and ISCP alumna Tania Candiani will make remarks during Open Studios.

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FILM SCREENING
Film Night with Pauline Curnier JardinKulturhuset Stadsteatern
Tuesday, October 20, 2021 at 6 PM
Stockholm, Sweden

Index: The Swedish Contemporary Art Foundation, in collaboration with Kulturhuset Stadsteatern, presents Pauline Curnier Jardin’s 2021 film Fat to Ashes. The evening’s program also includesa selection of films by Swedish artists. Participating Artists: 
Pauline Curnier Jardin, Josefin Arnell, Conny Karlsson Lundgren, Joanna Lombard, Gunvor Nelson, Axel Petersén, Joanna Rytel.

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PUBLIC COMMISSION
LGBTQI+ Monument
Shortlisted as one of three artists for Public Art Commission. 
Esperantoplatsen, October, 2021  
Gothenburg, Sweden

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NEW ACQUISITIONOur Trip To France (Mont Des Tantes)September 2021
Stockholm, Sweden
The 2-channel video installation with objects is now part of the Moderna Museet collection.

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BIENNIAL
The Ghost Ship and the Sea ChangeRöda Sten Konsthall, Göteborgs Konsthall etc.
June 5, September 4—November 11, 2021
Gothenburg, SE

The 11th edition of GIBCA, The Ghost Ship and
the Sea Change, coincides with the 400-year anniversary of the city of Gothenburg. Because of this, the biennial  will open in two parts. The first part opens at Röda Sten Konsthall on 5 June 2021, the same weekend as the anniversary. The second part opens on 4 September in collaboration with Göteborgs Konsthall and a number of other venues across the city.

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FILM SCREENING
Homecoming Outdoor Screening August 20, 2021
ISCP, New York City, US

The International Studio & Curatorial Program (ISCP) is participating in NYC Homecoming Week, a citywide celebration, featuring live concerts at iconic venues, free movie screenings, cultural activities, 
public art, and more. 

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OPEN STUDIOSISCP 2021 Spring Open Studios April 27 & 28, 2021
New York City, US

Join us for two days of virtual talks, screenings, performances, studio tours, and interviews with our incredibly talented residents and guest speaker Aruna D’Souza.

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OPEN STUDIOS
ISCP 2020 Fall Open Studios November 17 & 18, 2020
New York City, US

Join us for our second ever online open studios, with an updated format this Fall to share our visionary residents’ work and experiences in a series of short talks, screenings, performances, studio tours, and interviews in a Zoom webinar with guest speaker Martha Wilson.

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