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IASPIS Open Studios Spring 2026

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Graphic design: Jonas Williamsson, drawing on fragments and typefaces from IASPIS’s graphic design practice over the past 30 years.

IASPIS Open Studios Spring 2026
Thursday 26 March | 1:00–8:00 pm

The IASPIS International Residency Programme in Stockholm opens its doors to the public for the Spring edition of Open Studios, curated by IASPIS Guest Curator Corina Oprea. You are invited to explore a constellation of spaces — studios, dance studio, project room, kitchen, and stage — where works emerge and conversations begin. Throughout the day, you can encounter works-in-progress, installations, screenings, and performances, and engage in dialogue with the participating artists:

Anton Alvarez (Sweden), Daniele Di Girolamo (Sweden/Italy), Roxy Farhat (Sweden), Alanna Stuart (aka PYNE) (Kanada), Halla Ólafsdóttir (Sweden), Stina Persson (Sweden), C. Matthew Szösz (USA), Adrien Tinchi (France), tsu-tsu (Japan).

Invited Guests: Emily Fahlén, Artistic Director, Mint/ Eleonora Fors Szuba, Director, Stockholm Konst/Adam Gustafsson, Artist /Anna Johansson, Curator, Malmö Art Museum/ Sepideh Khodarami, Performance Artist/ Joa Ljungberg, Curator, Moderna Museet, Malmö/Helen Rix Runting, Architectural Theorist, Secretary.

All talks and performances are held in English. No pre-booking is required. Snacks and drinks will be available throughout the day.

Ongoing throughout the day (1:00–8:00 pm)

  • C. Matthew Szösz – sculptural activations in Studio 4 and unexpected corners around the house
  • Stina Persson – Six Experiments in Sculpture and Somatics – Studio 9
    Six short sessions exploring the relationship between sculptural thinking and embodied awareness. One booking slot begins every hour (10 minutes each).

 


PROGRAMME

1:10 PM Welcome address by Mika Romanus, Director General, Konstnärsnämnden & introduction by Corina Oprea, IASPIS Guest Curator (Foyer)

 

1:30 PM Where Sculpture Meets Engineering
Anton Alvarez in conversation with Eleonora Fors Szuba, Stockholm konst (Foyer)

The conversation reflects on how designing tools and systems reshapes the relationship between artist and process. It will consider experimentation, improvisation, and how technical invention can become a form of artistic thinking within contemporary sculpture.

Eleonora Fors Szuba is the Director of Stockholm konst. She previously headed the Art Unit at the Västra Götaland Region and has many years of experience as a curator of public art. With a background in Art History and curatorial studies at Stockholm University, she works to develop and challenge how public art can inhabit the city and shape meaningful encounters in public environments.

 

2 PM Material Encounters: Glass, Space, and Sensory Experience
C. Matthew Szösz in conversation with Helen Rix Runting, Secretary (Studio 4)

C. Matthew Szösz and Helen Rix Runting discuss how materials, spatial perception, and form influence how environments are experienced. Moving between art, architecture, and craft, the conversation reflects on the sensory and conceptual possibilities that emerge when materials shape space and perception.

Helen Rix Runting is an architectural theorist, urban designer, and co-founder of the Stockholm-based architecture practice Secretary. Her work explores how architecture structures everyday life and urban populations. She writes widely on architecture and cities and is co-curator of the Bruges Triennial 2027.

 

2:30 PM Between Body and Form
Stina Persson in conversation with Joa Ljungberg, Moderna Museet Malmö (Studio 9)

Stina Persson reflects on her sculptural practice at the intersection of the figurative and the abstract. The conversation explores the materiality of sculpture and the relationship between form, the somatic, and embodied experience—considering how sculptural processes engage the body both in making and in perception.

Joa Ljungberg is Curator of Exhibitions at Moderna Museet Malmö. She has curated numerous exhibitions and public art projects and has previously directed international biennials including Göteborg International Biennial for Contemporary Art (GIBCA) and the Tirana International Contemporary Art Biennial.

 

3 PM Becoming Another: Documentary Acting and the Vessel of the Self
tsu-tsu in conversation with Adam Gustafsson (Studio 6)

tsu-tsu introduces his practice of documentary acting, a performance method that investigates the process of one person becoming another. Grounded in the concept of tsu-tsu (筒)—a “vessel” of personality beyond language and stereotypes—his work focuses on encounters with individuals whose lives often remain outside dominant narratives. Reflecting on projects such as Back-flow to the junction, he considers performance as a way to explore shared human conditions across cultures, between isolation and solidarity.

Adam Gustafsson is an artist working with installations, scenography, and social situations. He examines how the method of working together can instigate alternative spaces and stories engaging with collectivity. Adam Gustafsson is based in Stockholm and was a IASPIS resident back in 2023.

 

3:30–4:30 PM Roxy Farhat with Sepideh Khodarami (Studio 7)

Get a grip, the world is burning! We are in dire times with a decline in democracy and a collapsing climate, two major crises which art in its current form is failing to tackle. Welcome to Roxy Farhat’s studio for a wake up call.

 

4:40 PM Sound, Movement, and the Living Sculpture
Daniele Di Girolamo in conversation with Anna Johansson, Malmö Art Museum (Foyer)

In this conversation, Daniele Di Girolamo speaks with Anna Johansson about his multidisciplinary practice spanning kinetic sculpture, sound, and installation. Their discussion explores how physical phenomena, movement, and sonic elements shape sculptural forms and create spaces of encounter, reflecting on vulnerability, transformation, and the emotional resonance of material processes.

Anna Johansson is an art historian and curator at Malmö Art Museum. Her work focuses on contemporary art, exhibition making, and institutional research, and she has curated several major exhibitions exploring social, environmental, and artistic transformations.

 

5:00–5:40 PM The Scratch and Soundless Thought (La rayure et la pensée sans son)
Adrien Tinchi in conversation with Emily Fahlén, Mint
– Silent lecture and artist talk – (Studio 3)

Adrien Tinchi explores the relationship between sound, absence, and notation through the motif of the scratch or strikethrough. Drawing connections between the acoustic research of instrument inventor François Baschet and the journals of Clive Wearing—who developed profound amnesia in 1985—the work reflects on memory, interruption, and the traces left by thought. The presentation will be followed by a conversation between Adrien Tinchi and Emily Fahlén, independent curator, educator, and writer. She is the founding director of Mint, located in the building of the Workers’ Educational Association in central Stockholm.

 

5:45–6:45 PM Roxy Farhat with Sepideh Khodarami (Studio 7)

Get a grip, the world is burning! We are in dire times with a decline in democracy and a collapsing climate, two major crises which art in its current form is failing to tackle. Welcome to Roxy Farhat’s studio for a wake up call.

 

6:00–6:30 PM Cinda F(****) rella
Halla Ólafsdóttir – Open rehearsal (30 min) – (Dance Studio)

Halla Ólafsdóttir opens her studio for an early-stage rehearsal of the project Cinda F(*****) rella*, developed together with choreographer Erna Ómarsdóttir. The session offers insight into the initial research phase of the work, focusing on movement exploration and the development of ideas before they take performative form.

 

6:40–7:20 PM  Femmehall: Deconstructing the Dancefloor
Alanna Stuart (aka PYNE) (Project Room)

In this live, musical work-in-progress, Alanna Stuart (aka PYNE) performs fragments of her Femmehall practice, a feminine approach to dancehall music production and performance. As a sound, Femmehall merges heavy sub bass, gospel-inflected vocals, and the rhythmic legacy of 90s dancehall. The stripped back solo show lays bare the tenets of her music-making process itself—negotiating space between emotive voice, hard kick drums, and improvised body gestures, and using diasporic, feminist experimentation to stretch the bounds of dancehall’s “anything goes” ethos.

Following her performance, Stuart invites us to engage in a collective reflection by sharing who or what came to mind during her performance. In response, Stuart will share her ongoing research into Femmehall as both a musical and spatial practice. Stuart’s work asks what happens when her selves—Black, woman, Jamaican, Canadian, artist, technician—are moved from the margins to the centre? What happens to the music? What happens to the music space? And how can she unbother (maintain a sense of agency in) her body in the presence of others? Stuart is exploring this by designing and building a Femmehall music studio prototype–a music production studio guided by dancehall’s history of unruly uses of technology and a Black feminist care ethic, as well as her broader interest in architecture and diasporic cultural placemaking. In performance and research, Stuart conveys a multifaceted identity specific to Toronto’s Jamaican diaspora—rooted, while still forming itself.

 

7:30 PM Why control everything?
Daniele Di Girolamo
–Sound performance (Foyer)

Why control everything? is a project developed following a period of research during the protests in Hong Kong in 2019. Rather than addressing the events directly, the work reflects on the linguistic, cultural, and perceptual gaps experienced by an outsider navigating a charged political landscape. Through sound, fragments, and shifting interpretations, the performance explores misunderstanding not as failure but as a space where new meanings and perspectives can emerge.

 

The public programme schedule might be subject to changes.