Summer 2022 program

During the summer of 2022, ArkDes invites you to experience the spaces in and around the museum on the island of Skeppsholmen. In the studio gallery Boxen, Amie Siegel’s The Silence premieres on June 3—a new work by the acclaimed New York–based artist. The exhibition Sigurd Lewerentz: Architect of Death and Life is open until August 28. Outdoors, in the shadow of Pablo Picasso’s Déjeuner sur l’herbe, the iconic jazz club Fasching opens a stage in the museum’s garden with a packed programme of evening concerts. The evolving summer programme is also filled with family workshops, unique culinary experiences, and guided tours.

For Utomhusverket 2022, a new location at the museum—Bakgården—becomes the secluded backdrop to a diverse programme, for which Stockholm-based designers Mira Bergh and Josefin Zachrisson unveil a soft, metal landscape.

Utomhusverket 2022: a public space with private intentions
If the public space of the city appeals to a broad and normative public, such neutrality often works to expand some parts of the public realm while restricting others. Through the lenses of pleasure and the emotional relationships we forge with the spaces we share, Bergh and Zachrisson have designed a secluded pleasure garden that challenges tendencies to “neutral” public space. Their prototypical furniture set makes room for visibility and invisibility, trysts, assignation, and play. The installation is accessible seven days a week and 24 hours a day throughout the long Swedish summer.

Mira Bergh and Josefin Zachrisson have collaborated since they graduated in 2019. The Stockholm-based duo works across objects and installations, with a conceptual and experimental approach. By questioning norms and acknowledging values beyond function, they aim to challenge preconceived notions in materials, contexts, and interactions. They are both a part of the art and design collective Swedish Girls.

Utomhusverket
Utomhusverket is ArkDes’s annual summer outdoor installation. Each commission stitches the spaces of the museum to the streets of the city by way of a large-scale outdoor installation, creating a testing ground that makes room for architects and designers to imagine new possibilities for public life. Each iteration seeks to demonstrate the potential of inclusive and design-driven public space, enabling individual and collective action in the heart of the city. During 2018 and 2019, Dansbana! created a public dancefloor outside the museum. In 2020, the Australian artist Linda Tegg created Infield, transforming the space outside the museum in to a living meadow. In 2021, Studio Ossidiana created an archipelago of activities and encounters between people, plants, birds, and minerals.

Design: Mira Bergh, Josefin Zachrisson
Curator: James Taylor-Foster
Production Studio: Hamilton & Serrander
Installation: Hangmen
Graphic Identity: Research and Development

Director of ArkDes: Kieran Long