Färgfabriken's exhibitions and programme 2025

For 30 years, Färgfabriken has explored the big questions about the common good and our future through dialogue and collaboration. In 2025, three major solo exhibitions will be shown in which the artists' personal searches, fears, fantasies and stories are at the centre and results in unique artistic expressions. The programme is deepened through public conversations, research collaborations and Open Studios that revolve around people's relationships with nature, society and technology. Färgfabriken is pleased to welcome Konstfack's master students in fine art and their spring exhibition again this year.

Exhibitions

Photo: Vargmamma (2022), details.. Lisa Englund.

Lisa Englund
Beckers Art Award 2025
1 February to 16 March
Scholar exhibition, Main hall
Curator: Emilia Rosenqvist

Lisa Englund (b.1993) also called LIEN is a Swedish artist from Västerås based in Stockholm. Englund works with textile tapestries as her primary medium. For Lisa, the expression “from seed to feed” is a reality. She collects mushrooms and plants and dyes by hand the yarns in wool and linen that form the basis of the tapestries.

In the motives, she discusses issues around the dichotomies; culture/nature, sacred/profane and human/animal. Welcome to a dreamy, stylised and comical world, with an underlying pulse of longing and gloom and maybe a few jabs of complex eroticism. Thus, all is playful and compliant, and full of improvisation in a craft of a nature that actually makes it impossible to improvise.

Lisa Englund has a master’s degree from Konstfack CRAFT with a focus on textiles and has previously studied at The Gerlesborg School of Fine Art. She has participated in group exhibitions at Kulturhuset, ArkDes and Västerås Konsthall.

The Beckers Art Award exhibition at Färgfabriken and KKAM Höganäs in 2025 will be her first major solo exhibition.

Read more about the artist and the jury statement here.

Photo: The artist Roland Persson in his studio (2024)

Roland Persson
5 April to 15 June
Solo exhibition, Stora salen
Curator: Anna-Karin Wulgué and Emilia Rosenqvist
Stockholm-based Roland Persson, born in 1963, is one of Sweden's most prominent artists, internationally recognised for his surreal silicone sculptures that explore human's relationship with nature. Using the unique technique of colouring silicone during the casting process, Persson creates works that visually seduce through their realistic detail. In his works, fears, grief, sexuality and death are intertwined into a web of expression.

Persson creates surreal compositions through hyper-realistic casts of flora and fauna, where the flexible silicone material plays a central role. Using a painterly approach and experimental techniques, he creates extraordinary detail in his sculptures. The details are so meticulously executed that they appear as real fragments of nature - frozen moments in a surreal, dreamlike world where nature clings to life despite human destruction.

Roland Persson has exhibited his work both in Sweden and internationally since graduating from the Umeå Institute of Art in 1993. His work has been shown at the Liverpool Biennial in 2021, the Ostrobothnian Museum in Vaasa in 2023, and at Amos Rex and HAM in Helsinki in 2024. Persson is represented in collections and in many public spaces around Sweden, including the square in Västra skogen, Stockholm, Täby Municipal Hall and Stortorget in Örebro. He has also been nominated for Finland's most important visual arts prize, Ars Fennica 2025.

This spring's exhibition with Roland Persson is a major presentation spanning over three decades.

Konstfack's spring exhibition
15 May to 23 May
Graduation exhibition, Smedjan and the project rooms
Students from Konstfack's Master's Programme in Fine Art will have their graduation exhibition at Färgfabriken and Platform Stockholm as part of Konstfack's Spring Exhibition in May 2025.

Konstfack's Spring Exhibition is an annual exhibition of graduating students from all of Konstfack's programmes, usually held at the school's premises in the old Ericsson factory at Telefonplan. The collaboration with Färgfabriken and Platform Stockholm is a student-driven initiative organised by the class with the support of Konstfack and Färgfabriken.

Photo: Flo Kaserau on a study visit to Cementa, Lövholmen, Stockholm.

Flo Kasearu
Build Absolutely Nothing Anywhere Near Anyone (BANANA)
13 September to 23 November
Solo exhibition, Main hall
This autumn's exhibition will be the first major presentation of Estonian artist Flo Kasearu in Sweden. Kasearu often uses different materials and modes of expression - ranging from found objects and personal artefacts to digital media - to create narratives about the dynamics of exclusion and inclusion that define contemporary urban development.

The exhibition title refers to residents' opposition to proposed development projects in their neighbourhood due to perceived negative impacts. It problematises how urban development can reshape neighbourhoods without taking into account local contexts and perspectives. In the exhibition, she encourages a deeper understanding of how our private choices have public consequences and how conflicting factors and viewpoints shape urban development.

Flo Kasearu studied painting and fine arts at the Estonian Academy of Arts, as well as at Rebecca Horn's multimedia studio at the Berlin University of the Arts. In 2013, she opened her own house-museum in Tallinn. Kasearu has participated in the Gwangju Biennale in South Korea, the Performa Festival in New York and received several awards such as the Estonian State Cultural Award (2021). In addition to private collections, her works are held by the Estonian Art Museum, Tartu Art Museum, Kiasma and the European Central Bank.

The exhibition is a collaboration with the Kai Art Centre in Tallinn and has been developed during a one-year research residency at an energy company in Tallinn, and through site visits to Färgfabriken and Lövholmen.

Open studio

Färgfabriken's Open Studio invites projects, artists, architects and other creators to take over one or two project rooms to explore an idea for a period before it takes its final form. In 2025, several multifaceted projects will take shape.

Photo: Still image from film, Anna Lundh.

Miss Clock (into the groove) 
22 January to 26 January
Anna Lundh
Artist Anna Lundh has been invited to a public research residency, where she will conduct an in-depth artistic investigation of our increasingly complex relationship with technology. The exhibition Miss Clock (into the groove) explores different aspects of time in relation to digitalisation and society, but also questions of sex and gender in relation to technology - in particular ‘talking technologies’ - and how the close connection of the human voice to identity and interpersonal trust is being radically renegotiated.

Relational Technologies, Technological Relations
8 February to 2 March
Curator: Jacek Smolicki and Uppsala Hub for Digital Existence
Exhibition, workshops and conversations based on the BioMe research project. The project explores the growing role of biometrics in our lives and cities - machine-based measurements and statistical analysis of people's unique physical and behavioural characteristics - and how Ai is already affecting us.
Artists and other participants: Joana Zylinska, Linda Hilfling Ritasdatter, Kristoffer Gansing, Maria Hellström Reimer, Tania Ruiz Gutiérrez, Mary Maggic, Mahmoud Keshavarz, Pedro Oliveira, Max Björverud and Jacek Smolicki.

The Artwork at the End of the World: Art and the Human Facing Death and Extinction
12 April to 11 May
David Revés
David Revés is a Portuguese curator, writer and researcher working on a PhD project linked to Nova University of Lisbon and Linköping University based on the methods of Queer Death Studies. His project develops critical perspectives on death and dying through artistic, historical and philosophical lenses and explores how contemporary art can reconcile, face or incorporate the certainty of death and dying, as well as how art can help us understand both human and planetary extinction.

The Ruderal Garden
Garden Loops
Ongoing
The art and architecture collective Garden Loops has been invited to further develop The Ruderal Garden project they established in 2024, including a small experimental garden in the car park of the Färgfabriken, a so-called ruderal garden that is a partly wild, partly cultivated landscape.

Programme

Here is a selection of the spring programme, more will be added.

Public Retreat
January
Public Retreat will return to Färgfabriken in early 2025 to finish its work that began in Färgfabriken's project room in autumn 2024. There will be a performance, book release and concert.

Elektronisk Flora
Lerin/Hystad
26 March
In connection with the publication of the book Elektronisk Flora by the art and music duo Lerin/Hystad - Simon Torsell Lerin and Bettina Hvidevold Hystad - an afternoon programme of lectures, a panel discussion and an impromptu concert with plants, sensors, modular synthesizer and guitar will be organised.

Conversations about the future of Stockholm
On the occasion of Färgfabriken's 30th anniversary, we are revisiting previous urban development projects such as Stockholm at large, Stockholm on the move and Experiment Stockholm. To shed light on visions of the growing city and the importance of images of the future.

Spring market
Färgfabriken Market is one of Stockholm's largest markets for arts, crafts and design. The spring market is between 21-23 March 2025.

Kulturnatten
26 April
Färgfabriken participates in Kulturnatten (Stockholm culture night) . The entire building and the ongoing exhibitions will be activated together with Färgfabriken's Café, Färgfabriken's youth council and invited guests.