Experiments through art and architecture in Gröndal
Vernissage: Thursday June 5, 17.00–21.00
Exhibition: Friday June 6, 11.00–16.00 and Saturday June 7, 11.00–16.00
Festival hub: Gröndalsvägen 1, Stockholm
Exhibiting participants
Ingrid Bay-Larsen, cultural policy maker (NO) Vlad Brăteanu, artist (RO/DE) Carlos Pena, architect and urban planner (ES/FR) Lodewijk Heylen, artist (BE) Liene Jakobsone, cultural policy maker (LV) Elena Kanevsky, architect (US/SE) Max Landegren, artist (SE) Povilas Marozas, landscape architect (LT) Martina Pereira Norrman, landscape architect (SE) Nina Nowak, artist (PL/DE) Anna Öberg, choreographer (SE) Avni Patel, curator (UK), Eftychios Savvidis, architect, (CY/GR) Tanja von Brünken, cultural policy maker and landscape architect (SE) Aldo Zetterman, artist (SE)
The OPI Lab Festival presents sketches, prototypes and alternative imaginaries developed by participants of OPI Lab, a multidisciplinary laboratory for art, architecture and public making.
How can soil be a collaborator in urban development and in the making of public space? Can spatial practices and social formats in public spaces blur the boundaries between audience, performer and environment? How can public art be used to bring meaning and value to otherwise unprogrammed private land? During the one-year advanced course OPI Lab, which is part of the Royal Institute of Art in Stockholm, participants collectively explore the specific role of art in shaping our living environments.
By exploring the intersection between art and architecture, the lab aspires to develop tools, methods, and strategies that can shape and reshape our built environments and public spaces. The course is based at Of Public Interest’s premises in Gröndal and is founded and directed by artist and professor Jonas Dahlberg and led together with artist and lecturer Stefan Pedersen.
Program
Multiple works are on view throughout the duration of the festival. For information about performances and activations, please visit www.of-public-interest.com/opi-public.
About OPI Lab
Of Public Interest (OPI) Lab is a practice-based, multidisciplinary hub and research environment for various practitioners, including a PhD fellow, at the Royal Institute of Art in Stockholm that also offers an advanced level further education course. The research is multidisciplinary in nature and relates to all actors and stakeholders involved in the urban development process, but from an art perspective. A central theme is how art can understand and promote the creation of “publicness” within built environments. OPI Lab works in close connection to actual sites undergoing transformation and in dialogue with the people affected by it.
Read more about the advanced course Of Public Interest (OPI) Lab at the Royal Institute of Art.