A Temporary Constellation: A program series with HDK-Valand

The collaboration with HDK-Valand dates back to 1925 when the first graduating students from the Valand Academy exhibited at Göteborgs Konsthall.This year, as Göteborgs Konsthall awaits a new building in Slakthusområdet, the collaboration instead revolves around a series of public events including panel discussions, film screenings and listening sessions.Together with invited guests, we explore ideas of time and perception, body politics, artistic strategies of dissidence and representation of conflict.The series of public events draw on the students’ works in the graduation show A Temporary Constellation. Both the exhibition and the program series are held at HDK-Valand’s premises.Artists: Fey Tewedros, Silas Lilo Jensen, Alexandra Bittarová, Maria del Mar D’amato, Nils Karlsson, Catalina Gomez and Johan Sandler.Guests: Erika Alm, MC Coble, Marie-Louise Richards, Michele Masucci and Josefine Wikström.16 May – 31 May 2026.Vasagatan 50, Gothenburg.Svensk översättning här:https://goteborgskonsthall.se/hdk-valand/Both the exhibition and the program events take place in the art academy’s own premises.We recommend arriving a little before the program events begin if you would like time to see the exhibition. The exhibition “A Temporary Constellation” is open until 5:30 PM on the days when the program takes place.--------------------------------------------------------------PROGRAM:Tuesday, May 19, 5:30–6:30 PM: On Temporality and AtmospheresWelcome to a panel discussion around the topic of temporality, how it shapes our perception and the spaces that surround different notions of time.Josefine Wikström, critic and theorist, will moderate the conversation with the artists Nils Karlsson, Alexandra Bittarová and Maria del Mar D’Amato, whose artistic practices meet in the interest of time as a phenomenon and structure. The session will depart from the artist’s works and processes that are displayed in the exhibition A Temporary Constellation.--------------------------------------------------------------Tuesday, May 19, 7:00–7:40 PM: Black Death is SanctuaryA video work and dialogue approaching Black Social Death as structural, troubling the terms of the Human as normative through film, dialogue and reflection.The screening of Even Love and Death is Headquartered (7:14) will open with a dialogue featuring video artist and writer Fey Tewedros and architect and researcher Marie-Louise Richards.--------------------------------------------------------------Wednesday, May 20, 5:30–6:30 PM: Here, There and In-BetweenWelcome to a panel discussion with the artists Catalina Gomez and Johan Sandler, moderated by artist and researcher Michele Masucci.The conversation takes place in the artists’ studio and explores how art can operate both within and beyond its traditional artistic context, engaging in ecological, economic, and sociopolitical conflicts.In cooperation with CAPIm (The Centre for Art and the Political Imaginary) is committed to interdisciplinary practice and research in the meeting between contemporary art and the future of politics. Based at two institutions of higher education in art: HDK-Valand and Kungl. Konsthögskolan, the Centre’s aim is to facilitate connections between research and education through an engagement with experimental approaches. It is the first Swedish Centre of Excellence in the field of Artistic Research.--------------------------------------------------------------Thursday, May 21, 5:30–7:30 PM: Listening to the Body: Sound as ResistanceJoin a listening session exploring sound as intervention, followed by a live podcast on queer resistance in art with artists Silas Lilo Jensen, MC Coble and gender researcher Erika Alm.--------------------------------------------------------------Read more about the program and all participating artists and guests:https://goteborgskonsthall.se/hdk-valand/