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Index - The Swedish Contemporary Art Foundation

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Index - The Swedish Contemporary Art Foundation

Index - The Swedish Contemporary Art Foundation is an arts organisation based in Stockholm. Admission to our exhibitions is always free.

Events are free unless otherwise mentioned, with reduced ticket prices for students, pensioners and unemployed people.

15/06/2026

The board of Index – The Swedish Contemporary Art Foundation is pleased to announce Övül Ö. Durmuşoğlu as the new Director of Index, starting in September.  Durmuşoğlu is an internationally acknowledged curator, writer and educator, known for her lyrically dissident work inspired by histories and conflicts of living together from the Eastern Mediterranean and the South. With long-standing ties to Sweden and the Nordic scene, her appointment marks a warm return to construct new legacies in the rich history of Index. 
Masha Taavoniku, Chair of the Board:

”The board is unanimous in its excitement to welcome Övül Ö. Durmuşoğlu as the new Director of Index. With visionary thinking, intellectual curiosity, and a genuinely collaborative leadership style, she will continue building on the foundation’s strong legacy. We look forward to supporting her every step of the way.”
 A statement from Övül Ö. Durmuşoğlu:  ”It is a true pleasure to be entrusted with the leadership of Index – The Swedish Contemporary Art Foundation, an institution that sits at the heart of Stockholm’s center and its art scene with its outstanding legacy of artist-driven, experimental institutional thinking. I have followed Index’s activities for many years, ever since my studies in Critical Studies at Malmö Art Academy. This is a special moment in which our paths converge at a pivotal point in world history, when critical artistic imagination is more necessary than ever and its freedom no longer a luxury. I am looking forward to leading this unique institution, drawing on the rich vision and experience I have gained as a curator, educator and writer in Germany, Türkiye, the Western Balkans, Eastern Mediterranean and the international arts scene. This is the next exciting chapter of a long and warm conversation with the Swedish art scene that always made me feel at home.”

Read the full board announcement on Index’ website

Index Board:
Masha Taavoniku (Chair), Henrik Andersson, Johanna Billing, Malin Hüber, Olga Krzeszowiec Malmsten, Koshik Zaman, Didem Yıldırım

Image: Övül Ö. Durmuşoğlu outside Index, June 2026.
Image credit: Tony Karlsson Savci

12/06/2026

This weekend is the final chance to visit Index before we close for summer. Index is open today, Friday, 12:00-18:00, Saturday and Sunday 12:00-16:00.

Two exhibitions are on view: Agnė Jokšė: REALITY CRACKS and Pontus Pettersson: AIR, his year-long artist residency and performative exhibition at Index. Browse Index bookshop for some summer reading and find traces from past exhibitions, events and Bookshop Situation Series.

On Sunday, 14 June, Pontus Pettersson is hosting an Open Studio, inviting visitors to explore his ongoing work within the walls of the projection room for Agnė Jokšė’s filmwork. A conversation with Pontus and Index’ director Isabella Tjäder will take place at 14:00. Don’t miss it! There will be coffee and fika. Welcome!

Please note that Agnė Jokšė’s filmwork Careerist will be available to view on request during the Open Studio.

Image: Pontus Pettersson in the studio within the projection space, outside of exhibition hours. Credit: Index

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Agnė Jokšė

11/06/2026

Looking back at Reading/Viewing/Speculating

Throughout the month of May, Index presented the research project Reading/Viewing/Speculating, organised by Michaela Yarmol-Matusiak, focused on developing and testing a new method for co-reading-visiting contemporary novels and contemporary art exhibitions. Through the thematic pairing of Agnė Jokšė’s ongoing exhibition REALITY CRACKS and author Alvina Chamberland and her novel Love the World or Get Killed Trying (2024), Reading/Viewing/Speculating explored topics relating to linguistics, syntax, gender, and auto-ethnography within the context of a study group and presentation.

During the three sessions, seminars, workshops, conversations, novel reading, exhibition visiting, and a public presentation with invited author Alvina Chamberland took place. Within the research project, participants were introduced to the methodology and tested a series of guided structures within the project’s experimental approach to fiction and narrative. Thank you to all the attendees and research participants who joined.

Images and Scans: Tony Karlsson-Savci, Monika Jonikane, Silvia Thomackenstein, and Michaela Yarmol-Matusiak

07/06/2026

Index is open today 12:00-16:00. Welcome!

Before the doors close for summer on 14 June, take time to visit the two exhibitions currently presented in parallel in Index’ space: Agnė Jokšė’s REALITY CRACKS and Pontus Pettersson’s ongoing year-long exhibition AIR.

In REALITY CRACKS, Agnė Jokšė’s two film works Daring Dreams (2022) and Careerist (2026) offer intimate insights into moments of personal and sociopolitical rupture, connected to very different events which nonetheless resonate at similar frequencies.

Image: Installation view, Agnė Jokšė, REALITY CRACKS, Index 2026. Photo credit: Julia Malmquist

06/06/2026

Index Teen Advisory Board, together with the youth boards of PRAKSIS and PUBLICS, met with art historian and writer Macarena Dusant for an online workshop exploring the colonial histories embedded within art institutions, and the structures through which art and the contemporary are classified.

Taking the cabinet of curiosities as a historical point of departure, the boards examined how the modern museum has been shaped, in part, through imperial, exclusionary and exploitative processes. They also reflected on how contemporary art, as a category, is often positioned against what is framed as traditional, craft-based or vernacular practice, and how institutions hold significant power in deciding what can be recognised as contemporary art.

The workshop opened up a conversation around how these labels and structures are never neutral, but deeply political. They shape what is made visible or invisible, valued or devalued, included or excluded. If practices can move between categories depending on institutional recognition, what role do contemporary art institutions play in producing and reproducing these distinctions? And how might they work against them?

Through these questions, the session invited further reflection on inclusion, diversity, representation, and the ongoing responsibility of institutions to critically examine the cultural imperialism and colonial logics that continue to shape them.

04/06/2026

Index is open with normal hours this Saturday 6 June, 12:00-16:00. Welcome!

There are just two weeks to visit until Index’ doors close for summer. Don’t miss this chance to visit the two exhibitions currently presented in parallel in Index' space: Agnė Jokšė's REALITY CRACKS and Pontus Pettersson's ongoing year-long exhibition AIR.

In REALITY CRACKS, Agnė Jokšė's two film works Daring Dreams (2022) and Careerist (2026) offer intimate insights into moments of personal and sociopolitical rupture, connected to very different events which nonetheless resonate at similar frequencies.

Pontus Pettersson's artistic residency at Index has entered a new working mode, in part responding to the spatial configuration of Jokšė's exhibition. Pettersson has developed a studio within the projection room – inside the temporary walls that cut across Index' exhibition space. Whilst sculptural and text-based works continue to proliferate and move around the exhibition space, this inner studio allows Pettersson to experiment by developing other works behind the scenes, with an upcoming Open Studio (Sunday 14 June) as a moment to invite visitors to experience them in situ. More info at Index website and here Sunday Session #2: Pontus Pettersson's Open [AIR] Studio

31/05/2026

Opening Doors is a three-year project developed through Future Futures, a cross-Nordic youth advisory board network connecting Index Teen Advisory Board (ITAB), PRAKSIS Teen Advisory Board (PTAB) and PUBLICS Youth Advisory Board (PYAB). The project explores accessibility, communication and agency within art institutions, using peer-to-peer strategies and close engagement with institutions to open doors into contemporary art spaces for other young people through social media, printed publications and creative outputs.

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As part of this year’s ITAB programme, the board will engage with Index’s activities while carrying out site evaluations at three local art institutions and places where art is presented: Beau Travail, Konsthall C and Moderna Museet. Alongside these evaluations, ITAB will interview staff and organisers at each site. At the end of the ITAB year, the board will gather its findings in a report and present them together with a public intervention at one of the sites. In parallel, PTAB and PYAB will use the same evaluation tools during visits to local institutions in their respective cities.

The three boards will communicate with each other and share their processes on TikTok: future_futures.now

Future Futures: Opening Doors is funded by Erasmus+ Youth programme of the European Union 2026-2029

Photos by ITAB members Tiffany OIafson, Saga Björklund, Avneet Kaur and Johanna Skogholm Allered

30/05/2026

Moments that linger from Alvina Chamberland’s presentation at Index last week.

Alvina Chamberland was invited to Index by Michaela Yarmol-Matusiak within the framework of the research project Reading/Viewing/Speculating. The session included live-readings from Chamberland’s novel, Love the World or Get Killed Trying, and reflected on the themes of linguistics, narrative, gender, intimacy, and auto-fiction, in relation to Agnė Jokšė’s ongoing exhibition REALITY CRACKS. Thanks to all who joined.

Alvina Chamberland is a Swedish-American author of predominantly literary autofiction novels, residing in Athens. She has an MA in Gender Studies from Södertörn University, with a thesis on trans feminine sisterhood and intersectionality in New York City. In 2015, she published her co-authored book Allt som ar Mitt: Våldtäkt, Stigmatisering och Upprättelse (All that is mine: R**e, Stigmatization and Reparation). In September 2018, her novel Utelåst – Uppvaxt- nostalgi for freaks (Locked Out – A nostalgic account of growing up for freaks), a parody of the coming-of-age genre, was released. Her latest novel and English language debut, Love the World or Get Killed Trying (2024), presents an autofictional journey through the wilderness of Iceland and city boulevards of Berlin and Paris probing questions of eternity, sexuality, longing, death, love, and how hard it is to remain soft when you’re a ceaseless target of straight men’s secret lust and open disgust. It was a finalist for the Lambda Literary Award in Transgender Fiction and listed by the bookstore Shakespeare and Co., Paris, as one of the 121 best books of the 21st Century.

Images: Tony Karlsson Savci

29/05/2026

Index’ bookshop selection is not compiled by ordering in publications. It is cumulative: traces from events, collaborations, conversations with artists and other producers who are connected with, or get in touch with, Index.

The most frequent way a book makes its way to our rolling bookshop stand is that several copies are added after a Bookshop Situation Series event, for example Tyler Coburn: Some Monologues, a release and performance in January earlier this year.

The Bookshop Situation Series at Index is based on events to present books, magazines, records and other artistic formats. The bookshop situation is a way to test content, to share it, to distribute it, offering situations to be part of a community of experimental producers and users.

All the publications are available for purchase during Index’ opening hours:

Thur / Fri: 12:00-18:00
Sat / Sun: 12:00-16:00

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Fredag	12:00 - 18:00
Lördag	12:00 - 16:00
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