Students curate art installation in Kiruna
2 September five Curating art students from Stockholm University curate the making of a collaborative art installation in soapstone, together with artist Anna Zingmark in Kiruna.
The event is called ’Reshaping Boundaries’ and is part of the Curera project. It is organized by Joel Albinsson, Hanna Mara Noor Bargheer, Jonas van Kappel, Victoria McCarthy, and Linnea Wästfelt, all students at the International Master's Programme in Curating, including Art, Management and Law.
This art installation is a part of the Curera project's collaboration programe Learnings. The students recently developed a proposal for the relocation of Kiruna’s public art to the new city park.
Together with the artist Anna Zingmark (b.1990, Gällivare) the area where the future park is being built will be explored, tracing its contours, marking its boundaries and imagining its future possibilities. The manifestation aims to create a sense of collective ownership of Kiruna’s new city park as a space for art, and thus the public is invited to actively participate in this ceremonial inauguration.
Arranged by Konstfrämjandet Norrbotten and Curating Art at the Department of Culture and Aesthetics together with Kiruna Municipality.
Participating artist
Anna Zingmark
Participating curators
Joel Albinsson is a Stockholm based curator whose work engages with the temporal and spatial qualities of sounding art, as well as with questions regarding democracy, urbanities, and the power over the city.
Hanna Mara Noor Bargheer is a curator working between Sweden and Germany. She aims to combine art and politics in her work, thinking about the ways in which we have meaningful and democratic access to culture and our cities.
Jonas van Kappel is a curator and art historian from the Netherlands, Amsterdam. His work centers around multisensory and associative art experiences, site specificity and audience perspectives by combining social issues with philosophical questions.
Victoria McCarthy is an Argentinian visual arts curator and producer specialised in contemporary art. She is currently looking into the intersection of art and lithium extraction, focusing on neoextractivism and the ‘green’ transition.
Linnea Wästfelt is a curator and artist based in Stockholm. She holds a degree in fine art photography from Glasgow school of art and is mainly focusing on audience participation and involving the local community in projects.
Last updated: August 31, 2023
Source: Department of Culture and Aesthetics