Guided tour of the exhibition every day at 13:00. Included in the entrance fee.
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Bokhylla, 2026. Foto: Sara Appelgren
7 March 2026–3 May 2026
Marja-Leena Sillanpää – Librarium Futurum 1968–2028
Marabouparken konsthall begins this springs exhibition program with a solo exhibition with the artist Marja-Leena Sillanpää.
Sillanpää sees the world through books. In her eyes anything, a stone, a piece of wood can be a book. At the same time, she views books in the same manner as other artistic materials. In them she finds an opening that allows her to implement an idea and a conceptual action. When she finds, or is found by, a charged object, she approaches it based on the idea it gives rise to. By manipulating them in some way – painting, sewing, cutting and carving – the book is given new meaning and form.
The exhibition Librarium Futurum 1968–2028 can be viewed as a preparatory work for her upcoming work with the same name – a permanent and finished library of her books. In the exhibition all her three thousand plus books together with sculpture, objects and a larger work with old maps which fills the gallery’s back wall.
ARTIST TALK
Saturday, March 21, 1 p.m.
Marja-Leena Sillanpää in conversation with Peter Bodén, owner of Antikvariat Hundörat and Erik Sandberg, curator of the exhibition.
PERFORMANCE
Saturday, April 18, 12 a.m.–4 p.m.
A full day with performances by Marja-Leena Sillanpää in collaboration with Sundbyberg’s library. During the full opening hours of the gallery, Sillanpää will manipulate discarded books from Sundbyberg’s library. The performance will take place in the exhibition.
PERFORMANCE
Sunday, May 3 12 a.m.–4 p.m.
Performances with invited guest artists who freely interprets Marja-Leena Sillanpää’s exhibition. Participating artists: Anna Koch, Beata Berggren, Arijana Kajfes, Heidi Edström and Malin Arnedotter and Johanna de Verdier.
Marja-Leena Sillanpää is born 1965 in Pori, Finland and educated at the Royal Institute of Art in Stockholm. She lives and works in Stockholm and works with many different techniques and mediums such as sound, performance, video, sculpture and installations. She has previously exhibited at Kulturhuset, Konstnärshuset, both in Stockholm, Röda Sten, Gothenburg, Norrtälje konsthall, Norrtälje and Örebro konsthall, Örebro.