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Press Preview & Opening: Flo Kasearu – BANANA
Flo Kasearu – BANANA – Press Preview and Opening
Flo Kasearu – BANANA (Build Absolutely Nothing Anywhere Near Anyone)
On September 13, 2025, Färgfabriken opens its major autumn solo exhibition with Estonian artist Flo Kasearu. BANANA(Build Absolutely Nothing Anywhere Near Anyone) marks the first large-scale presentation of Kasearu in Sweden. In the exhibition, Flo Kasearu explores everyday life when faced with change—and the fears that follow. With a distinctive blend of irony, humor, and absurd logic, Kasearu invites us to reflection upon humanity’s resistance to the unknown, while probing perspectives on safety, control and belonging.
Curator: Anna-Karin Wulgué
Dates
- Exhibition period: September 13 – November 23, 2025
- Press preview: September 12, 2025, 11:00. Please register your interest in advance with sigrid@fargfabriken.se.
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Public opening: September 13, 11:00–16:00.
14.00: Inaugural speech followed by artist talk
About the exhibition
What if a high-rise is planned in your neighborhood? What if all your friends move away? What if public space keeps shrinking? Should I put up a fence around what’s mine? What if my house is swept away or the internet cable is cut again? What if I no longer recognize my surroundings, and everything just feels completely BANANA?!
Kasearu raises questions about how urban development and green energy initiatives transform landscapes. The exhibition features both earlier works and new productions, weaving together the personal and the societal. The tension between private life and the surrounding community has been central to Kasearu’s practice from the very beginning. She has worked across a wide range of materials and techniques, creating works for both exhibitions and public spaces, while also running the site-specific work Flo Kasearu House Museum in her own home in Tallinn.
At Färgfabriken, visitors are invited into an artistic exploration of the emotions that arise when the familiar is unsettled—when a new construction project is planned in the neighborhood, when old houses are demolished, or when wind turbines rise on the horizon. Symbols of the future, sustainability, and progress simultaneously become projections of anxiety, loss, and conflict.
The exhibition is presented in collaboration with Kai Art Center in Tallinn, with support from the Estonian Ministry of Culture.
About the artist
Flo Kasearu studied painting and fine arts at the Estonian Academy of Arts, as well as in 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 has received several awards, including the Estonian State Cultural Award (2021). In addition to private collections, her works are represented in the collections of the Art Museum of Estonia, Tartu Art Museum, Kiasma, the European Central Bank, and the Flo Kasearu House Museum.
