Please join us at the opening of the exhibition Slow is a Verb — The Young Curators’ Reading Room at Nitja Center for Contemporary Art’s project room on Friday 27th February at 18:00. In connection with the opening, the publication Reaching Out by the PRAKSIS Teen Advisory Board will also be launched.
Join us for the finissage of Yanina Zaichanka’s solo exhibition this picture never existed on Sunday 15 February (15:00–16:00). Zaichanka will give a short introduction, followed by audience Q&A, refreshments, and informal conversation. The exhibition centres on a missing photograph of the artist’s late grandmother, Klava, explored through a multichannel sound work and embroidery. Please arrive from 15:00 to hear the 24-min loop before the discussion (15:30).
PDF #61 will take place at PRAKSIS, where Eunice Nanzala Schumacher and Henry Mainsah will present their research on African aesthetics in the Nordics.
Exhibition by Yanina Zaichanka combining embroidery and a multichannel sound installation. Starting from a missing portrait of the artist’s grandmother—whose life was shaped by repression in the USSR—the work retells a fragmented family history across 18 days of recordings, where repetition shifts the story and makes absence tangible.
PDF #61 will take place at Deichman Grünerløkka, where artists Sarah Sikorie and Jo Mikkel Sjåstad Huse will open the session by introducing their ongoing long-term research project into multispecies urban life.
Featuring open discussion and presentations, this edition of e for emergence will consider the ways art and science meet in the realm of imagination.
e for emergence is a series of dialogues interrogating the intersections of technology, globalization, and environmental change. It is currently convened by artists Susanne Winterling, Rajat Mondal, and climate scientist Kajsa Parding.
Art in the Rubble is a fundraising event supporting animation workshops for children in Gaza, led by Haneen Koraz, Shorouq Ahmad, and Nour Al-Jawad. Through their films, made under extreme conditions, children process fear, nurture joy, and tell their own stories. All proceeds sustain these vital creative spaces.
Join the residents of PRAKSIS Residency 31, Elasticity, as they introduce their work through short presentations, followed by open discussion and audience questions.
PRAKSIS Development Forum (PDF) is a monthly peer-discussion group for creative people. There is space for up to three people to sign up to gain feedback on their current work. Randi Thommessen, director of LNM, will open the session by inviting feedback on a curatorial project currently in development.
Artist Rajat Mondal will introduce his current project The Echoes of Resilience II, which reflects on the impact of climate change on local ecosystems and communities, while questioning the colonial legacies embedded in human exploitation of natural resources.
e for emergence is a series of dialogues interrogating the intersections of technology, globalization, and environmental change. It is currently convened by artists Susanne Winterling, Rajat Mondal, and climate scientist Kajsa Parding.
The Unloved is an exhibition by artists Felicia Honkasalo and Sam Williams in which the starring role is played by a plant largely deemed undesirable by humans: a “weed”.
PRAKSIS’s 30th group residency, Climate / Coloniality brings together eleven artists and researchers to investigate how enduring systems of power, culture, knowledge that are legacies of colonialism shape the geographically uneven effects of climate breakdown. This assembly draws upon the residents' individual and collective practices, opening a space to share knowledge, artistic responses and insights into this urgent and complex field.
PRAKSIS Development Forum (PDF) is a monthly peer-discussion group for creative people. There is space for up to three people to sign up to gain feedback on their current work. Kurniawan Adi Saputro, Danny Butt, and Helly Minarti from the Asia Pacific Artistic Research Network (APARN) will open this session, reflecting on the role of regional perspectives in their practices.
Join us at PRAKSIS as the residents of Climate / Coloniality give short presentations of their practices before inviting audience questions and discussion.
The second reading session of e for emergence focuses on Carbon majors and the scientific case for climate liability (2025) by Callahan and Mankin, recently published in the renowned scientific journal Nature. Convened by artists Susanne Winterling, Rajat Mondal, and climate scientist Kajsa Parding.
In PDF #58, artist Yaniya Mikhalina will introduce the ongoing research that underpins Appeal to All Western Countries, a sound sculpture originally inspired by a Soviet archive document dealing with the status of Tatar and Bashqort indigenous languages. Drawing on her artistic and personal experience, Mikhalina will explore themes of form, context, production and temporality.
Artist and researcher İz Öztat opens PDF 55 by sharing a video work in progress using hand puppets to explore artistic agency and accountability in confronting state violence. The session invites discussion on engaging with violent histories through creative practice, materiality, and narrative. Participants may also share their own works-in-progress.
Join us for a reading group exploring Rob Nixon’s Slow Violence and the Environmentalism of the Poor, discussing climate change, colonial legacies, and environmental injustice with artists Susanne Winterling, Rajat Mondal, and climate scientist Kajsa Parding.
Join us for an informal sharing of ideas and work-in-progress generated during PRAKSIS’s 29th residency, For real?
PRAKSIS and Karmaklubb* present an evening of performance, conversation, music, and dance. The evening will feature contributions by artist Harold Offeh and guests, and Jonathan Hielkema. Post-performance music, dancing and celebration will be hosted in the welcoming ambience of the Baba Bar.
PRAKSIS’s monthly peer-discussion group for creative people offers a friendly, informal hub for practitioners to meet, share and discuss works-in-progress. Session 56, invites artist Harold Offeh to start the round table sharing session. This PDF event is of particular relevance to artists interested in performance, social arts and learning practices as well as concepts of authenticity, pop culture, play and identity.
British artist Harold Offeh will discuss his research into notions of authenticity and self-representation including his project "The Real Thing," through which he investigates narrative techniques in commercial contexts and the marketing of authenticity.
Despite decades of research and increasing quantities of undeniable evidence, a critical disconnect persists in our understanding of climate change. Join climate researcher, Kajsa Parding for a roundtable discussion exploring why critical environmental messages struggle to resonate or prompt significant behavioural change.
Join us at PRAKSIS as the residents of For Real? give short presentations of their practices before inviting audience questions and discussion.
The Future Futures Talk Show: Through the Lens brings together three Nordic youth advisory boards in an experimental talk show format. As part of their year-long exploration of film and video in the arts, the Index Teen Advisory Board (Sweden), PRAKSIS Teen Advisory Board (Norway), and PUBLICS Youth Advisory Board (Finland) have conceptualised and produced three episodes examining representation and power in moving image. Filmed at Stockholm's Konstfack in November 2024, each episode features the boards in conversation with artists and experts, sharing their perspectives on how institutions can use video to reach new audiences.
Reimagining Tourism is a two-day conference exploring the ways that artists, architects and heritage experts can help tourism serve local communities better. Part of PRAKSIS’s long term project An Urgent Situation: Rethinking tourism through art, architecture and community, the event is a collaboration with the Lusaka Contemporary Art Centre, Balinese hotel and culture hub Samong Haven and Oslo-based architect Don Lawrence.
PRAKSIS’s monthly peer-discussion group for creative people offers a friendly, informal hub for practitioners to meet, share and discuss works-in-progress. Session 55, invites artist Dora Garcia to start the round table sharing session. This PDF event is of particular relevance to artists working with narrative, language, and politicised subject matter.
With the exhibition All Eyes On as a backdrop and with a shared commitment to peace, Bishop Kari Mangrud Alvsvåg meets two of the young curators, Laiba Shafiq and Rosa Horiat, for a conversation about how one can work to promote peace. The night will finish with musical performances and a complimentary dinner.
PRAKSIS’s monthly peer-discussion group for creative people offers a friendly, informal space to meet, share, and discuss works-in-progress. Session 54 invites artist Shannon Rae Stratton to kick off the round-table sharing session. Stratton transforms her old notebooks into new sheets of paper, embedding traces of their contents and drawing and painting on the surfaces. This edition is especially relevant for painters, particularly those who work beyond canvas, and for those interested in themes of memory, materiality, and transformation.
Welcome to an afternoon of presentations, panel discussions and interviews looking at the film medium’s potential for reversing gazes and recentering critical dialogues.
