Instagram story viewer> @pjukus> Posts

pjukus

@pjukus

1.7K

followers

1172

following

POSTS STORIES REELS TAGGED

Download All

Pontus Pettersson's works currently visible at Index.

Clouds (and skies, and puddles) have manifested as recurring fascinations during the time Pontus Pettersson has been inhabiting Index space. Formations that can exist within air – and AIR as the title of Pontus Petterson’s year long residency-exhibition-occupation.

What can be seen here are remnants of Pontus’ studio walls from within Agnė Jokšė’s exhibition REALITY CRACKS. These walls and the shelves Pontus built on them became surfaces in themselves, containers for works in process, and also held inspirations in the form of publications, material fragments, fragments of Pontus’ own text works.

Now, these wall fragments lean up against Index wall, behind the heavy drapes of Ruby Nilsson’s exhibition RECANTATION. A cohabitation of artistic practices and exhibitionary moments.

Index is open Thursday / Friday 12:00-18:00.
Weekend opening hours 12:00-16:00.

Welcome!

@pjukus by @pjukus

24

0

12 days ago

Sunday Session #1: Pontus Pettersson + Rachel Tess, Robert Malmborg and Stina Nyberg, 22 March 2026, 18:00–20:00

Sunday Sessions is an informal sharing of works intersecting with and/or inside of Pontus Pettersson’s one year residency and exhibition AIR at Index. Taking the form of either improvisation or therapy, a session can mean taking the time to reflect, to compose, to be in the moment and act from what one has at hand. With a wish to invite or expose more witnesses into Pontus Pettersson’s ongoing process within Index’ space, Sunday Session is an initiative that can serve dancing in whatever state it’s in. To accompany newly fresh poems or sculptures in transit or curatorial dwellings.

The first Sunday Session focuses on dance and choreography. Pontus invites Rachel Tess and her solo project Flip Side; Pontus is one of several choreographers making a solo for her in this project. Also invited is Stina Nyberg and a section of her piece For What We Will – which features a duet that Pontus and Robert Malmborg dance in.

Pontus Pettersson’s artistic practice is a blend of various disciplines and genres, where text, objects, sculptures, and choreographic work are interconnected.

Rachel Tess is an American choreographer and dancer living and working in Sweden. She is the director of Milvus Artistic Research Center (MARC) in Knislinge and senior curator for dance at Wanås Konst.

Robert Malmborg is a dancer and on occasion choreographer from Stockholm Sweden. Working with dance and voice, he is interested in the function and expression of these crafts in regards to labour.

Stina Nyberg is a choreographer and dancer and holds an MA in choreography from Stockholm university of the arts. Her practice departs from a fascination of the extraordinary within the ordinary, shifting between magic, storytelling, dancing and daydreaming.

Sunday Sessions is a recurring format that shares process, choreographic and performative moments connected to Pontus Pettersson’s year-long exhibition AIR at Index.

Image courtesy of Pontus Pettersson.

@pjukus by @pjukus

43

0

7 months ago

The cat's out of the bag!

Over the course of one full year, I will be artist-in-residence at Index—an unofficial/official residency that functions as both exhibition and performance. This project plays with the juxtaposed roles (or non-roles) of institutions and artists, exploring how these relationships can generate meaningful exchange or parasitic structures. From 19 February 2026 to 19 February 2027, AIR and Index will serve as both a creative hub and an open invitation for dialogue and collaboration with other artists, curators, guests, and thinkers who pass through—or by—Index.

The official start of the residency coincides with the opening of Harun Farocki: VIDEOGRAMME EINER REVOLUTION (2026), where Index, twenty years later, once again presents the very first Swedish solo exhibition by the German filmmaker Harun Farocki.

The opening takes place from 17:00 to 20:00. I will perform at around 18:30, inaugurating the one-year-long cycle, the opening also marks the last official exhibition by Marti Manen as Index’s director, a role he has held for many years, and in recent years shared as co-director together with Isabella Tjäder.

So please come and celebrate these three cycles of time converging! taken in Index - The Swedish Contemporary Art Foundation by @pjukus

77

2

8 months ago

Never really posted this beautiful documentation from Pancor Poetics from last year at @lmfestivaali , missing it today! Thank you again to @kerstinschroth and Isabel for such an amazing work making the festival happen as well as the crew at Taidehalli. It was really the best merge of both the world of dance and art! Thank you also for trusting me and the work, Sofia Charifi, Anni Koskinen, Vilma Mankonen, Robert Malmborg, Escarleth Romo Pozo, Jaakko Toivonen <3

“Pancor Poetics unfolds as a choreographic installation and performance, where Pontus Pettersson’s performative Cat Practice and poetry work intersects with a miniature golf course, all shaped by his own typeface, Pancor, serves as a poetic medium, blending visual, spatial and textual elements to explore poetry and choreographic inscriptures.”

Installation objects and choreography: Pontus Pettersson
Costume: Pontus Pettersson together with the performers
Dance and performance: Sofia Charifi, Anni Koskinen, Vilma Mankonen, Robert Malmborg, Pontus Pettersson, Escarleth Romo Pozo, Jaakko Toivonen.
Previously performed by and/or influential to the work: Sybrig Dokter, Robert Malmborg, Escarleth Romo Pozo, Ulrika Berg, Jim De Block, Louise Dahl, Madeleine Lindh, Aga Pędziwiatr, V Pierzyński, Tyra Wigg, Adam Seid Tahir, Ar Utke Acs, Peter Mills, Michelangelo Miccolis, nick von kleist, Anna Grip and Cristina Caprioli

In collaboration: Moving in November and Taidehalle
Visit supported by: Helsinki Model, Svenska kulturfonden, Nordic culture point, The Swedish-Finnish Cultural Foundation, The Swedish Arts Grants Committee.

images:
1, Patrik Rastenberger
2, Patrik Rastenberger
3, Petri Summanen
4, Patrik Rastenberger
5, Patrik Rastenberger
6, Patrik Rastenberger
7, Petri Summanen
8, Pontus Pettersson taken in Taidehalli Helsinki | Kunsthall Helsinki by @pjukus

118

10

a year ago

”A Dog called Drama”
Performance, 2025
Pontus Pettersson

”Yolking”
Interaktiv skulptur, 2018
Pontus Pettersson

”A Dog Called Drama” är ett draspelssolo en del av Pontus Petterssons längre forskningsprojekt om vatten, “All Departures Are Waves”, som tar form genom Pontus egen historia, praktik och dans. Under Covid-19-pandemin började Pontus spela dragspel – en solitär och vibrerande praktik, både andligt och fysiskt – som en bild av vågrörelser och andning, en ständig drivkraft. Som en del av eko/toner framförde Pontus en kortare version av solot på Studio Kapellet den 30/8. Med historier ur kroppsliga vattenupplevelser och begär, fick dragspelets vibrationer röra trädgården och dess besökare inifrån och ut.

I skulpturträdgården visar Pontus också verket ”Yolking”, två ägguleformade objekt av silikon med avtryck från hans gamla skor. I gräsmattan vid kapellet blir de en inbjudan till dig som besökare att stiga in. I gulan står fötterna och tiden still, blicken och kroppshållningen omorganiseras, en paus och ett annat tempo initieras. Du är välkommen att kliva in, och flytta runt gulorna i trädgården. Vänd dig mot någon om du vill, ett träd, ett konstobjekt – eller dit du vill.

Tack @pjukus för ditt vackra, inbjudande och vibrerande arbete och den närvaro som du skapade i trädgården ❤️🙏

Till och med den 27:e september kan du se den interaktiva skulpturen i Studio Kapellets skulpturträdgård enligt följande öppettider:

lör & sön 13 & 14 sep kl. 13-15
lörd 27/9 kl. 10-16, visning och workshop i samband med Tämnarrundan
Om du vill komma förbi en annan tid, kontakta Studio Kapellet på 0708545175 eller 0732015133.

Foton av @swallinfoto taken in Studio Kapellet by @pjukus

210

6

a year ago

På lördag öppnar vi äntligen första kapitlet av eko/toner! I samband med dagens avslutande knytkalas – den första måltiden – framför konstnären och koreografen Pontus Pettersson dragspelssolot A Dog called Drama.

Pontus gör verk där allt hänger samman: text, objekt och skulpturer växer, med koreografi som utgångspunkt, in i installationer, poesi och fontäner, vidare till objekt, kattpraktik och dans. Under Covid-19 började Pontus spela dragspel – en för honom solitär och vibrerande praktik av vågrörelser och andning. Hos Studio Kapellet rör dragspelets vibrationer trädgården och dess besökare inifrån och ut.

Pontus visar också verket Yolking, två ägguleformade objekt av silikon med avtryck från hans gamla skor. I gräsmattan vid kapellet blir de en inbjudan till dig som besökare att stiga in. I gulan står fötterna och tiden still, blicken och kroppshållningen omorganiseras, en paus och ett annat tempo initieras. Du är välkommen att kliva in, och flytta runt gulorna i trädgården. Vänd dig mot någon om du vill, ett träd, ett konstobjekt – eller dit du vill. taken in Studio Kapellet by @pjukus

171

5

a year ago

New phone, more selfies coming, väggen sjunger kroppens talan blev triptyk 😋 bästa ljuset var med soporna lols by @pjukus

141

8

a year ago

More blast from the past - PETS!

PETS is a desire

PETS is two that becomes one

PETS is that choreography gone mad

PETS is keeping you dance company

Pets is slowporn and off porn

Pets is dirty stories with a soundtrack, your new calendar holiday

Pets is a pink shower all over your dearest body parts

Pets will punch the dead donkey back to life

Pets actually happened and will not stop

PETS is Swedish choreographers Ofelia Jarl Ortega and Pontus Pettersson, PETS is a project and a performance where the two shares their interest in music text, performance, sex and gender, it's a joined desire and adventure on both sides were yeah the journey is the destination. So far PETS have produced two albums and toured to Norway, Macedonia and Austria, as well as performing in Sweden. by @pjukus

109

2

a year ago

38

0

a year ago

Continuing down memory lane is the sculptural installation Volver. Created as my contribution to the spring exhibition at Konstfack during my masters in fine arts. The work includes the iconic red chairs of konstfack made into a wallpaper, an egg fountain and chewing gum to write wishes on. Not seen is also a deck of conversation cards that was made out of images and words from fellow students at the school. taken in Konstfack by @pjukus

58

0

a year ago

In relation to the newly published monograph As If They Had a Spirit, I wanted to start posting some older works as a way to let them continuously live—similar to how they do through the publication that Adriano and Simon have created.
First out is Writing Wounds to Heal, a poetry and cloth project I did in 2015, as a way to show/read poetry through and on the body. I created a series of garments made out of velvet silk, onto which I applied my poetry using my own typography, Pancor. Alongside the clothes, I also made a “jewellery stencil” with all the letters.
The first image shows the stencils, mended together as a mirrored quilt (also used in the one-to-one performance The Stellar Blanket). The image is by the amazing Luis Alberto Rodrigues, and the second is by Märta Thisner—both invited to document the work through their artistic lens. @martathisner @luisalbertorodriguezstudio by @pjukus

117

7

a year ago

Väggen sjunger kroppens talan (The Wall Sings the Body’s Voice) –
Thank you to Alba, Jonas, and Emily for the invitation! Here are some pictures from the performance in Jönköping last week—beautiful shots by Weronika Bela!
Väggen sjunger kroppens talan is part of Pontus Pettersson’s artistic research project All Departures Are Waves and has been developed both in the studio and in scenic contexts. With the invitation to Gnistrande Skymd, Pontus has begun developing a solo version of Bodies of Water, where his work with clothing, accordion, and dance merges into a single piece.
In the three-hour-long performance, Pontus uses discarded clothes and fabrics from Erikshjälpen in Huskvarna, which are mounted onto the wall with a staple gun, creating an action painting-like scenario, interspersed with moments of accordion playing. The piece premiered at Gnistrande Skymd at Jönköping County Museum and will continue to MARC in Knislinge in April. Väggen sjunger kroppens talan was part of Gnistrande Skymd, created by Hillside Projects and curated by Alba Folgado. Thank you to Erikshjälpen in Huskvarna! taken in Jönköpings Läns Museum by @pjukus

87

4

2 years ago