Preparations Stockholm

Aron Agélii (b. 1993) lives and works in Stockholm. MFA & BFA: Royal Institute of Art, Stockholm. Agélii investigates materials and structures in relation to their supporting qualities. His works are presented as spatial installations: series of sculptures, architectural interventions or acoustic processes animated using simple technology. He is exploring a sustaining potential found within breaking points and thresholds, where structures open (or close) and renegotiate their character. Agélii’s methodology relies on observation and listening, folding and unfolding, and the translation between materials.

Andy Allen-Olivar (b.1995) was born in Bogotá, Colombia, raised in Oxford, England and in Buenos Aires, Argentina. He recently won the Bernadotte Programme of 2025 from Konstakademien, exhibiting his solo show ‘Solkatt’ there, Helge Ax:son Johnson’s grant of 2024, has recently exhibited at Fotografiska, and is currently exhibiting a solo exhibition ‘Solkatt’ in Konstakademien in Stockholm 2026.He studied a Post Masters in Decolonizing Architecture at KKH, Stockholm, Sweden (2023-2024), Masters in Fine Art at Konstfack, Stockholm, Sweden (2020-2022), Bachelors in Fine Art at Chelsea School of Art, London, UK (2015), Bachelors in Fine Art Photography at Akademin Valand, Gothenburg, Sweden (2016-2017), and Documentary Film-making in Biskops Arnö Folkhögskola, Sweden (2018-2020). He lives and works in Stockholm and is part of the Glada Sprutan Collective and Centrum för Social Skulptur.

Ahmed Al-Nawas is a Helsinki-based artist and curator whose practice combines video, installation, archival research, and collaborative methods. His work examines questions of memory, identity, migration, and political power, often through overlooked or contested histories. He holds a master’s degree in visual culture from Aalto University and completed the post-master’s Decolonizing Architecture program at the Royal Institute of Art in Sweden. His work has been presented at the Helsinki Biennale, HAM Helsinki Art Museum, Serlachius Museum, and Turku Art Museum, and is included in the collections of the Finnish National Gallery and the City of Helsinki.

Axel Berger is an artist working across the fields of performance art, visual art and dance. His method is constituted of material interventions and performances presenting bodies in different situations of movement. In 2017 he graduated from Malmö Art Academy and he has since then presented work internationally and in Sweden at Supermarket Art Fair, Sthlm Fringe Festival, Lunds Konsthall amongst others.

Nisse Bergman explores the essence of materiality through information, scientific experimentation, and subcultures related to special and minority interests. His art draws inspiration from research articles, standard specifications, and instructional videos. During the creative process, he continuously gathers background material such as images of nerdy technicians' meticulous cable handling, videos of overly enthusiastic machinists precision grinding metal surfaces flat, articles on translating ancient manuscripts, or the mathematics behind optimal methods for cable packing.

Sarali Borg (b. 1990) creates sculptural sound installations that explore the space between signal, body, and event. Through sound, vibration, and technological connections, her works translate distant occurrences into subtle movements and resonances, revealing invisible forces within the physical space.

Ida Brockmann (b. 1991, DK) is a visual artist based in Copenhagen. Working sculpturally with time, memory and artefacts, her practice explores our relationship to the past and the traces we leave behind. Drawing on our fascination with ruins and material remnants of the past, she reflects on what endures over time and how it is given meaning in the present. Her practice revolves around movements between past, present and future. She holds a BFA from Valand Academy and an MFA from Malmö Art Academy (2024).

Chiara Bugatti (b. 1991, Italy) is an artist based in Stockholm, Sweden. Working across sculpture, installation, text, performance and moving image, her practice explores materiality, monumentality and the ways power is embedded in how we measure, inhabit and represent the world.Her work often begins with materials such as marble, stone and earth, which she approaches as both physical matter and carriers of histories, associations and political structures. Through an open-ended process of experimentation and rehearsal, Bugatti stages spacial situations where materials and objects resist fixed meanings and scales.Bugatti holds an MFA from Umeå Academy of Fine Arts and a Postmaster from the Royal Institute of Art, Stockholm. Her work has been exhibited internationally in institutions including Bonniers Konsthall, Marabouparken, Stuttgart Art Museum and Palazzo Monti. She has recently collaborated at two theatre pieces which premiered respectively at Die Württembergische Staatstheater Stuttgart and HNK The Croatian National Theatre in Zagreb.

Maja Fredin, born in Uppsala in 1992 and is currently based in Stockholm. She studied at institutions such as Nyckelviksskolan, Handarbetes Vänner, and Konstfack, where she most recently completed her Master’s degree in Textile Art in 2022.Blending humor, excess, and a kitsch aesthetic, she draws on references to consumer culture, food, body image, and physical decay to construct situations that oscillate between irony and discomfort. Her practice turns this tension into a space for critically observing the desires, norms, and contradictions that shape contemporary societies.In 2023, she was awarded the Maria Bonnier Dahlin Foundation grant for young artists and has since exhibited at institutions including KiN –Konstmuseet i Norr, Diö Konsthall, Uppsala Art Museum, and NorrtäljeArt Hall. This year, 2026, she is participating in Jeune Création Internationale – the Lyon Biennale – with the project titled "Broiler".

Max Glader is an artist and curator based in Stockholm, educated at the Gerrit Rietveld Academie, Amsterdam and Stockholm University. For the past two years he has worked extensively on Marcel Duchamp, writing and combining material from his own collection with archival and historical sources, resulting in D is for Duchamp: The Deep Dyed Deceiver presented at the Arsenale Institute for Politics of Representation, Venice.

Guttorm Glomsås (b. 1993, Fredrikstad Norway) is a visual artist based in Bergen. He holds an MFA from the Royal Institute of Art in Stockholm and a BFA from the Bergen Academy of Art and Design. His practice spans sculpture, photography and installation, with a particular interest in materiality and in how physical structures, surfaces and processes of production shape perception. In his sculptural work, materials are approached not as neutral carriers, but as active elements with their own weight, resistance, history and social associations. His photographic work examines relationships between labour, landscape and ecological transformation. Glomsås has presented solo exhibitions at Nonneseter Kapell, Palmera, KRAFT and Galleri Toll. He also co-runs the exhibition space Nye Bokboden in Bergen.

Erik Gustafsson (b. 1987) currently lives and works in Berlin. He has studied at HDK-Valand and in recent years Gustafsson has shown his work in exhibitions in Sweden and internationally, as well as published four artist's books. Gustafsson works with photography and focuses on questions of materiality and meaning-making, representation, as well as the possibilities of experiencing time and space on a flat surface.

Joseph Bradley Hill is an artist, designer & producer engaging with organisation, permutation and improvisation.

He is the founder and host of Late Works, editor of plates (x5) & releases music under 'one-four' & 'Nothing Doing'.

jorba (Joacim Nilsson) is an artist based in Stockholm who works primarily with photography. He makes darkroom photographs both with and without camera involvement, interpolating text, images and scavenged materials. His work utilises time as matter, working both with found objects and his own negatives to explore both the optic and the haptic qualities of the mediums and materials that get intertwined with photographs. The method he works in involves the connection between humans and matter, mark makings and photography as process resulting in framed works with both sculptural and two dimensional aspects.

Working across video, performance, text, and sculpture, Karin Keisu and Josse Thuresson’s practice explores Sweden's colonial history, the politics of language, and the lived experiences of minoritized communities through their respective first languages, Meänkieli and Swedish Sign Language. Their artistic practice articulates the power of existing at the margins; insisting on queerness, opacity, gaps, silences, poetry, contradiction, playfulness and, at times, beauty salons.Keisu (b.1995) was born in Juoksengi, Sweden, and Thuresson (b.1992) in Stockholm, Sweden. They hold a master’s degree in Fine Art from Konstfack University of Arts, Crafts and Design and their work has been exhibited internationally. In 2024, they were artists in residence at IASPIS in Stockholm. They live and work between Stockholm and Tornedalen.

Olga Krüssenberg (b. 1995) is an artist and filmmaker based in Stockholm. She holds an MFA from the Royal Institute of Art in Stockholm and has studied documentary filmmaking at Biskops Arnö. Krüssenberg works with moving image, installation, and sculpture, exploring the relationship between human and non-human memory, and how these traces are embedded in landscapes, bodies, and materials.

We are Nonhuman Nonsense, a research-driven art and design collective working in the realm of social dreaming and world-making. Our projects engage with the nonhuman: animals, objects, ecology, technology, and the spectres between and beyond categories.We see nonsense as an antidote to “common sense” – embracing paradoxical stories to explore the ethical and metaphysical layers of our relationship with the (nonhuman) world. We create contradictory scenarios & propositions in which we appropriate ideas from fields such as science, computing, law and mythology. Our projects take various forms - interactive installations, workshops, short films, public sculptures, campaigns, chatbots and books.We enjoy curiosity, cherish compassion, and recognize that separating the human from the nonhuman is nonsense.We frequently collaborate with other beings, including scientists, researchers and friends but at the core consist of 3 people - Leo Fidjeland, Linnea Våglund, and Filips Staņislavskis, based between Amsterdam and Stockholm.

Rasmus Richter is  a sculptor working with wood, plaster, and bronze, with things he picks up from the street and things he has saved for a long time in small boxes. His sculptures keep breaking even though he tends to be very careful with them. They stand on legs that give away to their own weight, hold themselves together, and often wander off into thought. They speak through balance, scale, material, color, and form a way of seeing the world with curious warmth.

Hedvig Schroeder is based in Gothenburg, Sweden. She works across a range of materials, creating both sculpture and drawing. She is interested in questions of time and natural processes, on both planetary and microscopic scales.

Felicia Sjögren is a sound artist and composer based in Stockholm. Her sonic practice involves electronic synthesis, antennas, field recordings, acoustic instruments and objects, exploring texture and timber through repetitive patterns in slow gradual transformations. She recently performed at Orlunda Radiostation, Norberg Festival and Lumen Project.

Maya is a material based artist, currently living in Stockholm, Sweden. With a background in silver- and blacksmithing, she works with sculpture and sound. Theese two themes currently taking form in bell making and foundry work. Through her work, a voice is released from the material itself.

Portrait orientation. Landscapes. A 10:11 ratio. Symmetry. Material obsession. Pre-set guidelines permeate the work—a red thread, if you will.Wood-scapes. Escaped two-dimensional frames. Images turning into—or stepping over—boundaries and into rooms, car trunks, trailers, roof racks, shelves.Within the practice, the rite often overwrites the initial train of thought. Rather than arriving at a fixed intention, it leaves behind fragments spilled into a pattern—one that becomes categorized and gradually absorbed into the familiar process that defines the work.

A native of Seoul, Korea,  Lisa Ullén grew up in the northern part of Sweden, and is based in Stockholm.She is a graduate of the Royal Musical Academy in Stockholm, Sweden, where she studied classical piano in the late 1980s and early 1990s.

Since the late 1990s, she has devoted herself entirely to improvised music, in the form of free jazz as well as avant garde and contemporary classical and experimental music. A versatile player with a singular musical vision, Ullén has repeatedly proven her ability to imprint her absolute sense for tonal texture on whatever musical context she appears in.Internationally recognized as a distinctive and uncompromising musician and composer, Ullén over the last decade has produced more than fifteen albums.

Ullén has collaborated extensively with many well-known Swedish artists and dancers, and has also scored several dramatic productions. She’s also performed and recorded music by contemporary composers. In 2018 she released the triple album Piano Works and Ep Sekvenser och Lager on her own label Disorder. In October 2018 Lisa Ullén was awarded the Jazzcomposer of the Year-prize by the Swedish Radio

Hara Alonso is a Stockholm-based pianist, composer and sound artist from Spain. Her compositional process is grounded in performance and corporeal experience, exploring multisensory practices, memory and space as instruments for sound-making.Hara’s music has been showcased in the form of ensemble, solo, sound installation and EAM in festivals such as Mutek (Mexico), Keroxen (Spain) or Malmöfestivalen (Sweden).  She has collaborated extensively in the dance scene, working, among others, with the choreographers Pontus Pettersson, Oda Brekke, Martin Sonderkamp and Eleonora dall’Asta.In the last years she has expanded the timbral and performative possibilities of the piano through extended techniques, somatic practices and signal processing. Her sonic universe, described as a ‘gloomy bubbling electronic power ambient’, navigates between granular landscapes, minimal beats and hypnotic layers with a strong micro lyrical presence.

eurodyke [Valerie Jehanne Kore Niki Rieke Mol] (1997) is a San Marinese sound composer, non-musician and artists’ book writer. Above all, her mission is to, through musical fission, force the listener to disavow their humanity by performing funny piano melodies, exhuming tiny sonic horrors and practicing sample-bending. She prefers frequencies above 999.999999[...]Hz. In 2025, OTOROKU released her debut record ”The extrauniversal clouds”, a sonic fabulation about peculiar beings. eurodyke has performed her music in a lighthouse in Reykjavík, at Cafe OTO, Kontinent Dalsland, and Fylkingen, and was also the latters chairwoman 2023-2024. eurodyke has studied electroacoustic composition and intellectual history, worked at the Swedish Agency for Clouds [Statens Molnverk] and digitizes cassettes at the National Collections of Music, Theatre and Dance. ⱽᵃˡᵉʳⁱᵉˢ ˢᵒᵘⁿᵈˢ ʰᵃᵛᵉ ᵇᵉᵉⁿ ᵖʳᵃⁱˢᵉᵈ ᵇʸ ᶜᵒˡⁱⁿ ᶠᵃʳʳᵉˡˡ ᵃⁿᵈ ᵗʰᵉ Wᵉˢᵗ Fˡᵉᵐⁱˢʰ Fᵉᵈᵉʳᵃᵗⁱᵒⁿ ᵒᶠ Fⁱˢᶜᵃˡ Aᵇᵒˡⁱᵗⁱᵒⁿⁱˢᵗˢ. SHE looks out for sardines—>!