Guided tour of the exhibition every day at 13:00. Included in the entrance fee.
5 July 2025–5 October 2025
Johanna Gustafsson Fürst – Everyone in Their Storm, All of Us in This Weather
This summer’s main exhibition at Marabouparken konsthall, Everyone in Their Storm, All of Us in This Weather, is a solo by Swedish artist Johanna Gustafsson Fürst. The work that has given name to the exhibition consists of a group of sculptures that in themselves as well as together create different dramas – depictions of power, lies, tenderness, pitifulness and stupidity. The works speak of fundaments of the human condition, existentially and politically – about our capacity for action and language in a violent time like this. Gustafsson Fürst has dealt with that incapacitating void through these sculpted bodies, not with argumentation and information aimed at confronting the paralysis caused by a language of politics that disrupts understanding but attempting instead to reclaim agency and create meaning. For this glitch in meaning is also an opening to the unknown. The elasticity of language, which the political lie abuses in order to simplify and to conceal, also holds the potential which art uses to complicate and to open up – enabling shifts in perspective that make us view the world in a new way.
The artist has linked the work’s title to the need for finding the point at which phenomena can be grasped – in the move from the individual to the communal, and in the necessity of assessing our actual impact on radical events.
Johanna Gustafsson Fürst says about her process:
“The near impossibility of translating a state of being or a feeling to a physical material creates an excess of meaning. To try again and again in order to get closer offers up new impulses to translate. What arises when we stand in front of a sculpture, a physical body next to our own, therefore creates surprising twists and turns that give other answers than the one I thought I was seeking. In this strive to and against the impossible, a space is formed where a paralyzing void can be transformed into dialogue, and suddenly there is a situation instead, in which to dwell. We seek out art to have our normative ways of thinking disturbed, to approach what we did not yet know and to find space for thought. The glitches and intricacies of art are not there to ensnare us, but to nuance, elaborate and prepare an emotional space that can become a place for resistance.”
The installation Everyone in Their Storm, All of Us in This Weather fills the big gallery hall with sculptures. Some have been shown in previous contexts, but here they form a new whole together with newly produced works.
Johanna Gustafsson Fürst is a Swedish artist and professor of fine art with specialization in sculptural processes at the Royal Institute of Art. She mainly works with sculpture and site-specific installations. Her art often touches upon linguistic violence and the relation between social systems and individual existence. She has previously exhibited in Arter, Istanbul, Accelerator and Moderna Museet both in Stockholm.