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(she/her) Alyssa Chloe is an internationally recognized dancer, choreographer, educator, and cultural bearer and is acknowledged as “The Matriarch of Punking” by Oiriginal Punker and Choreographer Viktor Manoel. She is one of the premier leading forces of its Renaissance in the early aughts for her mastery of the style of Punking/Whacking and deep roots in underground club culture. With over 25 years of experience, Alyssa has worked alongside many legendary street-dance pioneers and icons...

(he/him · 1933–2018, Vimmerby)

Anja Thedenius (Architect SAR/MSA) is an architect with 25 years of experience in the profession. Renovations, restorations and wooden construction combined with exploratory and innovative thinking characterize her work. Sustainable construction in various forms is a recurring theme. She holds a degree in architecture from the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm and completed postgraduate training in Restoration Art at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts.

Anna Gavanas is a social anthropologist with a focus on dance music culture, working life, migration, and family politics. She has published a number of interview based and archival studies on Swedish electronic dance music scenes with a focus on technological shifts, gender and cultural politics. Gavanas has also worked as a DJ and producer since the 1990s and onwards.

Anna-Karin Arvidsson is an artist and ceramicist based in Växjö, Småland, working in the fields of public art, crafts, design, artistic research, and teaching. Anna-Karin has her studio at the Italian Palace in Växjö.

(she/her · f. 1974, Jönköping) Creating illustrations is about more than just drawing—it’s about telling a story, evoking emotions, and conveying a message. With nearly 20 years of experience in illustration and an academic background in art and visual arts education, I create images that move, engage, and communicate. My work spans a range of genres and techniques, from classic pencil sketches to digital art, always with the goal of creating a powerful visual experience.

Anne Hamrin Simonsson, born 1967, is an artist living in Färjestaden on Öland.

(she/her · f. 1915, Ulricehamn) Ann Margret Dahlquist-Ljungberg (born 1915 in Ulricehamn and died 2002 in Ljungby) was an artist, author, and writer. She studied at Konstfack from 1931 to 1936 and continued her education in etching at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts from 1936 to 1941. She is considered one of Sweden’s foremost illustrators and is represented in collections at the Moderna Museet, the Gothenburg Museum of Art, and in international museum collections in Norway, Germany, the United...

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(he/him · f. 1978, Lund)

Behzad Khosravi Noori lives in Stockholm. He is an artist and researcher who moves between several worlds. Trained in film in Iran and with a master's degree from Konstfack in Stockholm, Khosravi Noori describes himself as a visual artist, necromancer and educator – titles that suggest the multi-layered, almost mystical nature of his artistry.

Brandon LaBelle is an artist, writer, theorist, and artistic director of The Listening Biennial. His work focuses on questions of agency, community, pirate culture, and poetics, which results in a range of collaborative and extra-institutional initiatives, such as Communities in Movement (2019-2023) and Oficina de Autonomia (2018-). In 1995 he founded Errant Bodies Press, an independent publishing project supporting work in sound art and studies, performance and poetics, artistic research and...

(Šabac, Serbien)

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(she/her · f. 1978, Värnamo)

Erik Wingquist was born in Växjö and trained as an architect at LTH. He lives and works in Stockholm. His architectural practice spans strategic urban development, design, teaching and artistic research, and focuses on the interaction between the individual and society, the public and the private.

b. 1985, Ashford, England

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Hedda Hultman (b. 1994) works with sculpture, often in wood, and storytelling in text, video and sound.

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Ingela Ihrman’s art is rooted in the intense emotions of everyday life and a desire to understand, question, or express what it means to be a living being. She is particularly fascinated by the emotions associated with coexistence, loneliness, and desire. Dressed in sculptural, handmade costumes made of simple, familiar materials, she sometimes pretends to be something else, such as a pinecone or a giant clam.

Ingrid Gustafsson (b. 1988) works with wood and textiles.

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(she/her · b. 1973, Jönköping) Johanna Billing was born in Jönköping in 1973, studied at Konstfack and lives and works in Stockholm. Her conceptually oriented video art dwells on the interaction between the individual and society, the public and the private, and between staging and improvisation.

Johannes Stjärne Nilsson is a filmmaker, director, screenwriter, visual artist and poet. His work is exploratory and conceptual, and often revolves around universal human and everyday philosophical questions in a mix of humor and darkness. He has an MFA in Industrial Design from Konstfack in Stockholm. His multiple award-winning work has reached a wide international audience with films such as Music for one apartment and Six drummers and Sound of Noise, both awarded with a Guldbagge and awarded...

(he/him · b. 1971, Montevideo, Uruguay) Juan-Pedro Fabra Guemberena (b. 1971, Montevideo) lives and works between Stockholm, Montevideo and Berlin. He works with film, photography and installation, among other things, and his practice revolves around memory, migration and the traces that political events leave in humans. Through his art, he examines how history is carried forward through the body and the image – how collective traumas are translated into personal gestures and everyday rituals.

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In Kerstin Björk's work, embroidery emerges without predetermined goals, through a partially automatic approach. With the thread, she attempts to capture thoughts and mysteries while simultaneously creating her own. It is about exploring and shaping nature and nature magic, and also about an underlying awareness of the prevailing climate changes. It reflects humanity's ability to exploit rather than to become a part of the Earth's resources.

(they/them · f. 2005, Dyestad, Öland) Kultivator Is founded and run by Mathieu Vrijman and Malin Lindmark Vrijman

As an artist, Linda Persson primarily works through sculptural and filmic processes that address the contexts surrounding colonial interventions in landscape, body, and language. Her work process has often involved long-term residencies or assignments over several years in places such as the Eastern Goldfields desert in Western Australia, where she, together with Wongatha women, explored the effects of extreme excavation, language oppression, and water toxins.

MADAM Carpentry & Furniture Restoration is a collaborative craft venture between Magdalena Marano, a furniture conservator and restorer, and Marie Carlsson, a cabinetmaker and woodcarver.

(he/him · b. 1962, Jönköping) Magnus Bärtås (b. 1962 in Jönköping) lives in Stockholm. He is an artist, writer and professor of fine arts at Konstfack in Stockholm. With a background as a doctor in artistic research, he has developed a distinctive essayistic narrative style in contemporary art.

Participating in Anger as compost Smålandstriennalen 2026

MADAM Carpentry & Furniture Restoration is a collaborative craft venture between Magdalena Marano, a furniture conservator and restorer, and Marie Carlsson, a cabinetmaker and woodcarver.

I am a self-taught visual artist. I’m drawn to ideas that make me uncomfortable. These might be paradoxes, taboos, or contradictions. Or when things aren’t what I expected. That’s when I want to reorganize, simplify, and pare down the subject matter so I can see things in a new light. I try to understand emotions, issues, complex contexts, and how other people think. The creative process becomes a space where I can test and challenge perspectives and values by manipulating my motifs. Since...

Gothenburg-based dancer trained at the Royal Swedish Ballet School.

(he/him · b. 1969, Uppsala)

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Hundred Buckets of Peace is a ceremony to activate the solo, One Bucket of Peace that MOA Kompani created in 2020. A commission from then dance developer Camilla Eskel, Jönköping region in collaboration with cultural director Lars Alkner, Värnamo municipality.

Onkar Singh Kular is Professor of Design at HDK Valand, Academy of Art & Design, University of Gothenburg. His research is disseminated through exhibitions, programming, education and publications. He has guest-curated exhibitions for The Citizens Archive of Pakistan, Karachi, and the Crafts Council, UK. He was Stanley Picker Fellow in 2016, Artistic Director of Gothenburg Design Festival in 2017, Co-Artistic Director of Luleå Art Biennial in 2022 and curator of the sonic festival, Bass...

(he/him · b. 1965, Ryd)

(he/him · b. 1979, Dzerzhinsk) Pavel Otdelnov was born in 1979 in Dzerzhinsk, Russia. He is educated at the Moscow State Academic Art Institute, named after V.I.Surikov, and the Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA), Moscow. Until February 2022, he lived and worked in Moscow. Now he spends some time in Sweden.

Petra Lindholm (b. 1973, Karis, Finland) lives and works outside Älmhult. She creates video and textile artworks that have a slow, almost musical tempo. Color, tone and rhythm are woven together into poetic investigations of time, memory and change. Through her images, she tests the boundary between the material and the fleeting – how a thought or a light can take physical form.

(she/her · f. 1984, Linköping)

(she/her · b. 1981, Örebro) Sara Wallgren (b. 1981, Örebro) lives outside Vetlanda. She often works with drawing, sound and sculpture as a language. Her works are like carefully executed material studies where the physical surface becomes a resonance base for what cannot be heard – vibrations, signals, mental movements. Through the pencil line, the electrical resistance of graphite and the discipline of repetition, she seeks to trace states of concentration, worry or presence.

Stina Nilsson is a dancer based in Jönköping, educated at the Ballet Academy in Umeå and the School of Modern Dance in Copenhagen.

(he/him · b. 1913–2010)

(she/her · b. 1979, Fukuoka, Japan) Takeuchi's work moves on the border between the poetic and the conceptual. She often works with subtle expressions where small shifts, repetitions and details invite the viewer to reflect and slow contemplation. "Since 2003, I have worked with the theme of MUSUBI (to tie) - a traditional Japanese word and expression - and created works with textile as the main material. I have investigated the character and history of places, and through the filter of MUSUBI...

Born in Stockholm but raised in Dalsland. Background as a musician in various experimental and more conventional ensembles since 1987. Studies at Gotlands Tonsättarskola under Sven-David Sandström and the composition department at Gothenburg University under Ole Lützow-Holm and has worked as a composer and cultural worker since graduating in 2003. Member of FST (Swedish Composers' Association) since 2004. He is active in Gothenburg and is then based in Elementstudion but lives in Småland where...

(he/him · b. 1968, Helsingborg) Tor Lindstrand (Stockholm) is an architect, professor of urban planning at BTH and one of the founders of Larsson Lindstrand Palme arkitektkontor AB.

Veronica has a three-year dance education from the Ballet Academy in Stockholm and runs the dance company Framework Dancing Art together with Catrin Jonasson.

Born in 1990 in Daejeon, South Korea. Lives and works in Nîmes, France.