Open Call 2019

Marabouparken konsthall are happy to announce that Sebastian Dahlqvist and Helena Fernández-Cavada have been chosen to produce and subsequently present an exhibition during the autumn of 2019.

Sebastian Dahlqvist och Helena Fernández-Cavada Inhale, exhale, resume 10 oktober–24 november 2019
Inhale, exhale, resume
Sebastian Dahlqvist and Helena Fernández-Cavada
Open Call

Sebastian Dahlqvist and Helena Fernández-Cavada was chosen to produce and subsequently present an exhibition during the autumn of 2019. Sebastian Dahlqvist and Helena Fernández-Cavada were selected from 87 applicants by Marabouparken’s advisory group, which consists of Elof Hellström, Sharam Khosravi, Marie-Louise Richards and Selam Tadele, together with Rudy Loewe, who was selected in last year’s Open Call.

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The exhibition examines and highlights artist-driven movements and collective strategies and ambitions during the 20th century in Sweden. It raises questions about the history and potential of political imagery, as well as stories of collective organization in the Swedish art field. But also the boundaries often go for these we-formations. The exhibition at Marabouparken is a first part of an ongoing study and focuses mainly on collective and movements operating in Stockholm during the years 1938-1955.

The movements and collectives that the exhibition highlights emerged as reactions to the inaccessible position of art in society, a growing fascism and the acceleration of global capitalism. Today we are experiencing a resurfacing and normalization of fascism and reactionary movements. Moreover, the acceleration of global capitalism has assumed even more violent attributes. Throughout the exhibition, artists Sebastian Dahlqvist and Helena Fernández-Cavada look towards earlier colleagues, their ambitions and failures to find a common ground where to belong. An attempt to discern what opportunities, or even responsibilities, are left to those who come after.

The exhibition features a montage of archival material, two new video works, a cartographic exploration of various sites in Stockholm used by previous colleges for collective organizing and a performative walk through the city. The gaps in between the tables on which the archival materials is displayed reminds us that what is presented is and will remain incomplete.

The research behind the exhibition builds on the private archive and previous research done by the art historian Thomas Millroth. Other archival material has been borrowed from the Jan Myrdal Library and the Swedish Labour Movements Archives and Library. After the end of the exhibition part of the material will be donated to the Swedish Labour Movement Archives and Library. Together with archivists the artists are working to ensure the future and accessibility for the material making it possible for other colleges to continue building on.

The exhibition is supported by Arbetarrörelsens Kulturfond

Sebastian Dahlqvist is an artist and curator based in Malmö and Stockholm. His artistic practice often involves collaborations and engages with questions related to collective memory, ways of reading and writing history and the production of social and political relations to space.

Helena Fernández-Cavada is a visual artist currently based in Malmö, Sweden. She draws every day in order to pose questions and spend time with them – a process which Hannah Arendt called ‘understanding’. This process ranges from the questioning of established relationships to emerging contradictions as an attitude to life.

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Open Call

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In an increasingly individualised social sphere and commercialised art context how can we find methods for working together against the fragmentation of our lives and work? We believe the art space to be a meeting place where artists and the public can come together to share our different interests, experiences and knowledges. What kinds of platforms do artist and groups needs today to be able to work together and present work publicly? How can we push the boundaries of the white walled gallery to accommodate experimental practices?

We felt there is a need for exhibition platforms and spaces to meet. Through a new commission and exhibition in Marabouparken’s BOX, Open Call aims to build more opportunities for artists, groups and projects at the early stages of their practice. The platform seeks to develop work exploring questions of solidarity and collectivity as well as support for a wider peer group through a public programme of events.

In the first round of the Open Call in 2018, Rudy Loewe was selected to present an exhibition. Read more about Rudy Loewe and the exhibition Sharing Knowledges here.

This year, in its second edition, Sebastian Dahlqvist and Helena Fernàndez-Cavada have been selected to present an exhibition during this coming autumn.

 

Advisory Group

Elof Hellström

Elof Hellström is working with questions around space and power as part of the collaborative artistic research groups SIFAV (Southern Districts Institute for Different Visions) and mdgh. He is also active at Cyklopen where he runs recurring events of text, theater, art, film and music.

Shahram Khosravi

Shahram Khosravi is Professor at Stockholm University and Uppsala University. He has written many books and articles focused on migration and asylum politics and experience including, The Illegal Traveler: An Auto-Ethnography of Borders (2010); and After Deportation, Ethnographic Perspectives (2017).

Marie-Louise Richards

Marie-Louise Richards is an architect and and adjunct lecturer in the post-graduate course Decolonizing Architecture at the Royal Institute of Art. Current research “Hyper-visible invisibility” investigates “invisibility” as critical strategy and spatial category.

Selam Tadele

Selam Tadele works in Sundbyberg Stad as the integration co-ordinator for the Culture and Leisure department. Here she works with different local groups and initiatives to build collaborations and develop the support the commune can provide to its residents.

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Rudy Loewe

Rudy Loewe is a visual artist working with drawing, painting and printmaking. They are a storyteller, using various forms of image making as a way of exploring complex social dynamics and histories. Through their work, Rudy questions what kinds of art can exist inside and outside of the white cube, and who gains access to these spaces. Rudy Loewe was selected for Marabouparken’s Open Call 2018.