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Sonic Weaving with João Renato Orecchia Zúñiga and Marcia Harvey Isaksson

Ellen Nyman reads Andra Sidan Berget

In celebration of the Stockholm Jazz Festival 2023, Southnord offered a three-evening jam session between the South African-born Swedish-based artists Lefifi Tladi and Mzwakhe Hlatshwayo and the Ingoma Project. They met in three unrehearsed sessions where music and poetry were delivered in an organic and improvised stream of consciousness.

Southnord teamed up with  Fotografiska  to activate the  Cindy Sherman  exhibition on 21 March 2024, offering an evening of talks and performance featuring the photography platform  Rise and Shoot. Based in Järva, Sweden, Rise and Shoot works to realise creative ideas of young people with passion for photographing with the aim of enabling pathways into the industry and promote diversity in crea...

John Paul performs The Mixed Race Mixtape

For Stockholm Craft Week 2023, Southnord's art space housed the works of Ismaila Fatty, a visionary artist who blends traditional craftsmanship with a deep connection to cultural roots. 'Collective Resonance' unveils a remarkable collection born from meticulous techniques, where humble rag-rugs transform into vibrant, organic sculptures. Ismaila's journey spans continents, drawing inspiration f...

We piloted the Southnord Incubator Programme with Rutendo Harvey, a Zimbabwean linguistic researcher exploring the intricacies of Bantu languages and how they have been influenced by modern communication. In an intimate workshop at #SouthnordArtspace, The Mbire Script came alive, revealing 21 unique perspectives embedded in the Bantu languages. In this video, Rutendo shares her inspiration and ...

Alexandra das Neves Lehmann was the winner of the 2023 Southnord UP NEXT Open Call. UP NEXT is an annual exhibition showcasing young up-and-coming Afro-Nordic artists between the ages of 16-24 years. “Earthbound: A Visual Journey of Earth's Embrace” was an exhibition by Swedish-Mozambican analogue photographer Alexandra das Neves Lehmann (b. 2001). It explored the connection between humanity an...

Sasha Huber (b. 1975, Switzerland) is a Helsinki-based visual artist of Swiss-Haitian heritage. Her work is concerned with the politics of memory and belonging in relation to the colonial residue left in the environment. Connecting history and the present, she uses and responds to archival material within a layered creative practice that encompasses performance-based reparative interventions, v...

Michelle Eistrup (b. 1969, Denmark) makes art that incorporates themes of identity, corporeality, faith, memory and post-colonialism, with her transnational background (Danish, Jamaican, American) frequently serving as a point of departure. She traverses varied artistic expressions that include photography, drawing, video, sound and performance, all integrated into a practice led by the spirit ...

Dyami Rafn Andrews (b. 1996, USA) is an African-American-Icelandic artist based between California and Iceland. Through simple and deliberate compositions his work captures the stark, sublime beauty of the Icelandic landscape. Using two-field arrangement and processes inspired by geological formation he creates works which vacillate between landscape & texture field. Informed by his biracial he...

Ina Nian (b. 1992, Sweden) is a conceptual artist, based in Malmö and with roots in Gambia. They have created a method called Black Noise which lets them explore another side of the art world, the one that is often erased but not imperceptible, depending on which frequency you’re able to perceive. They use Black Noise as a guideline in their research process which involves critical theory, hist...

Ismaila Fatty (b. 1957, Gambia) is a textile artist based in Sweden since 1988. His work bears strong reference to Gambian textile traditions and he often uses tie-dye techniques to manipulate and colour textiles, creating three-dimensional objects from hand-dyed cotton and silk fabrics. Some works appear to be shields; while others depict human forms holding hands, or praying. He has been exhi...

Diana Agunbiade-Kolawole (b. 1988, Nigeria) works with lens and non-lens based photography presented as installations, performance and prints. At the core of her practice is an investigation of material processes that explore new forms within the framework of established techniques. Agunbiade-Kolawole has exhibited widely in Sweden and internationally. Her work is represented in the the collect...

Southnord intro by Marcia Harvey Isaksson