24/05/2026
Opening images, 16 May.
”Gränser”
16 May – 14 June 2026
Alina Chaiderov ( )
Cecilia Germain
Christian Andersson ( )
David Altmejd ( )
Elinor Silow ( )
Johan Thurfjell ( )
Karon Nilzén (.nilzen )
Mateas Pares (.pares )
Olof Inger (.inger )
Peter Johansson ( )
Tobias Bradford ( )
Torbjörn Johansson ( )
Curated by StudyForArtPlatform
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With the support of Region Stockholm. ()
Thsnks to Bitburger. ()
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Gränser
According to institutions and research reports such as Pew Research Center, the World Values Survey, the European Social Survey, Harvard University, and Bertelsmann Stiftung, political, social, and cultural polarization is increasing in a growing number of countries. At the same time, studies in cognitive psychology, political science, and media studies suggest that rising polarization is associated with an increased tendency toward black-and-white thinking, marked by a need for certainty and quick answers, in which the space for nuance and complex, critically examined perspectives diminishes. Research has also shown that when convictions are defended, the reasons more often rest on an unconscious maintenance of identity, moral values, or emotional attachments than on a consistent testing of knowledge. This is further confirmed by studies in which people are asked to provide epistemologically coherent arguments for the acts of demarcation that shape their convictions, and are often found to struggle greatly to do so.
The group exhibition ”Gränser” explores how our beliefs are formed, justified, and sustained, and what this comes to mean over time. Bringing together a number of artists and works, the exhibition engages questions of boundaries, limits, distinctions, and thresholds. It touches on aesthetic, conceptual, moral, and epistemological forms of demarcation, while insisting that none of them can be privileged without loss or excluded without violence. In this sense, the exhibition can be seen as an analogy for the grey sludge of life.
