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Welcome to Runo Lagomarsino’s 25% Doctoral Seminar on 28 September.

Runo Lagomarsino is a PhD candidate in the research field of Artistic Living Environment at Kungl. Konsthögskolan/Royal Institute of Art, Stockholm. His research is based at Of Public Interest (OPI) Lab in Gröndal, Stockholm.

Runo Lagomarsino’s PhD project investigates the (im)possibilities of sculptural practice within the public realm, exploring how materiality, history and memory are embedded in objects and places.

Discussant: Övül O. Durmuşoğlu, curator, writer, educator and Director of Index – The Swedish Contemporary Art Foundation.

When: Monday 28 September 2026, 17:00–20:00

Where: Of Public Interest (OPI) Lab, Gröndalsvägen 1, Stockholm
(Metro: Liljeholmen/Tram: Trekanten. Please note the space is not accessible, there are several steps.)

Places are limited. Please RSVP to asa.andersson@kkh.se by Friday 25 September.

More information on the Royal Institute of Art’s website.

Image: ”Violence is Harder than a Stone” (process image), 2026
Image credit: Runo Lagomarsino

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Point Of You Lövholmen 6 June 2026

Thank you participants for your sincerity ♡
Thank you Osynliga Teatern (Tomas and Jens) for your openness with Point Of You and willingness to change the stage
Thank you Helena for all your production work and to Niklas for leading the conversation
Thank you Stockholms Stad and Fariba for letting us borrow Kulturpontonen
Thank you OPI Lab and The Royal Institute of Art for the support

PC: the one and only @norgren_photo
Second pic: @donjohandevigo

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Point of You Lövholmen
Saturday, 6 June 2026

11:00 – 12:00 (Swedish)
13:00 – 14:00 (English)

Contribute to a more open society by participating in a democratic and innovative work, where research meets theater, which meets conversation.

A Day in Lövholmen is a one-day event produced by participants of OPI Lab 2025/2026. Through 11 spatial sketches, A Day in Lövholmen frames questions, comments and alternative imaginaries for the future of the area of Lövholmen.

For A Day in Lövholmen, curator and OPI Lab participant, Lauren Johnson has invited the artistic group Osynliga Teatern to stage an adaption of their participatory work Point of View in public space.

Places are limited. Book your spot and learn more here / link in bio:
https://point-of-you-at-a-day-in-lovholmen.confetti.events/

Of Public Interest (OPI) Lab is a practice-based research environment and advanced course for practitioners working in the fields of art and architecture, run through the Royal Institute of Art.

Artistic direction: @osynliga_teatern
Conversation leader: @niklasmesaros
Initiator: @lo.etgo
Graphic design: Elise Jensen & Bogusława Szlachciak

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Applications for OPI Lab 2026/2027 are open
4 March–15 April

How can practitioners working in art, architecture and related fields create their own conditions, define their own roles, initiate their own projects, and negotiate values that might be overlooked – or even unwelcome – in contexts where they are often not even invited?

Of Public Interest (OPI) Lab is a yearly advanced course at the Royal Institute of Art in Stockholm, situated in a practice-based research environment. The course is open to international applications from a diverse group of practices: visual artists, architects, landscape architects, curators, cultural producers, policy makers, and other associated fields.

OPI Lab is developed and directed by artist and professor Jonas Dahlberg and led together with curator and writer Jasmine Hinks as adjunct lecturer.

Visit OPI Lab’s storefront at Gröndalsvägen 1, 117 66 Stockholm.

Applications are submitted via the Royal Institute of Art’s website: kkh.se

Image: Båtbron (Boatbridge) by OPI Lab 2024/25 participants Lodewijk Heylen & Ingrid Agathe Bay-Larsen in collaboration with TSSM & HBK, for OPI Lab Festival in June 2025. Credit: Jonas Dahlberg

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Litt bilder fra panelsamtale Ytringens grense #3 på TSSK 4 februar. Takk til alle som kom!

Hvem er byen egentlig for?
Når ordene glatter over konflikter og interesser, blir det også vanskeligere å se hvem byen faktisk er til for.
«Å sminke grisen» på TSSK var en panelsamtale som traff noe mange kjenner på, men sjelden får rom til å diskutere i fellesskap: hvem som får definere byen, hvordan økonomiske interesser preger utviklingen, og hvorfor protest, motstand og et større fokus på «vi/oss» er nødvendige i stedsutviklingsdebatten.
Vi trenger byrom og arkitektur som gagner innbyggerne – og ikke bare signaliserer vekst og prestisje.
Takk til panelet Kathrine Emilie Standal, Jake Ford og Jonas Dahlberg, til moderator Johanna Gullberg, og til publikum for gode spørsmål og engasjement.
Samtalen var del av serien «Ytringens grenser», i samarbeid med Trondheimsbiennalen.
Foto: Amalie M Selvik / Trøndelag senter for samtidskunst

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Hamrin Foundation, som sedan 1985 delat ut mer än 350 miljoner kronor till individer, forskargrupper, institutioner och projekt, har valt att ekonomiskt stödja nödvändig forskningsinfrastruktur kopplad till plattformen Of Public Interest (OPI).

Plattformen, som grundades och leds av KKH-professorn och bildkonstnären Jonas Dahlberg, syftar till att initiera och realisera projekt med konstnärliga värden som grund i vår livsmiljö.

Of Public Interest (OPI) har sin verksamhet i en butikslokal i Gröndal – ett bostadsområde i Stockholm. Grannskapet, tillsammans med en pågående detaljplanprocess som syftar till att omvandla det närliggande industriområdet vid vattnet till bostäder, utgör det sammanhang där forskningen utvecklas.

Jonas Dahlberg:

– Butikslokalen som vi verkar i är helt nödvändig och fungerar som en form av rumslig ”publication”, en ”public(loc)ation”, där vi kan testa, utveckla och experimentera genom skissande och prototypframställning i skala 1:1. Samarbetet med Hamrin Foundation ger oss fantastiska möjligheter att utveckla och fortsätta driva vår forskning.

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The Hamrin Foundation, which has distributed more than SEK 350 million to individuals, research groups, institutions and projects since 1985, has chosen to provide financial support for research infrastructure linked to the Of Public Interest (OPI) platform.

The platform, founded and led by KKH professor and visual artist Jonas Dahlberg, aims to initiate and realize projects grounded in artistic values within our living environment.

Read more at kkh.se

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I love my sister. I love my friend @corner_stone_93 who people have thought in the past is my sister. I love @lo.etgo The Curator and best support and sweeper in the 'wrestling scene'.

We thought in many ways about disagreement for this work, and it became: an epos, an instruction, a stream of righteousness and a tent filled with dense pauses and longing. We threw in a bath tub cus why not. The title, a mis-rememberance of Chantal Akerman's erratic video work 'Blow Up My Town'.

𝗕𝗔𝗡𝗚 𝗨𝗣 𝗠𝗬 𝗟𝗜𝗙𝗘
by me, @runis1n @corner_stone_93 at @opi_lab 15.01.26
curated by @lo.etgo

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᥇ꪖꪀᧁ ꪊρ ꪑꪗ ꪶⅈᠻꫀ
performance by @runis1n @corner_stone_93 @jaanakristiina
Curated by @lo.etgo

For @opi_lab Open Door Sessions
15 Jan, 18:30 at OPI Lab storefront, Gröndalsvägen 1, 117 66 Stockholm

Perhaps the low tolerance for disagreement that can be observed in local, global, and medial society today, is what generates accelerating political polarization. Perhaps polarization decelerates said tolerance.

It might also be true — like the epos that will be presented at OPI Open Door Sessions on 15 January suggests — that reductive, rigid, latent and explosive disagreements alike, ultimately manifest a deeper anxiety about the loss of meaningful human interconnection. Would it be hard to disagree if it wasn’t painful to be mentally misaligned with others? Might the art of loving disagreement be forgotten in an increasingly alienated, echo chambered society? When people cannot honourably disagree, disagreements cannot generate synthesis. On the menu is only more disagreement. Progressives stop progressing.

A fragmented, compressed, and condensed epos by Jaana-Kristiina Alakoski, Cornelia Isaksson, and Runa Alakoski will be presented for the night. It will take the shape of three acts of a performance. Shorter than the many lifetimes traditionally required to fill an epic poem, 𝗕𝗮𝗻𝗴 𝗨𝗽 𝗠𝘆 𝗟𝗶𝗳𝗲 nonetheless presents the viewer with a few important lessons. Its multiple moral positions seep out through two voices which happen to belong to two sisters. These voices could also impersonate two crucial life companions: the self and its greatest ideological opponent.

𝐵𝒶𝓃𝑔 𝒰𝓅 𝑀𝓎 𝐿𝒾𝒻𝑒 and its thinking with conflict finds a natural resonance in the context of OPI Lab, a practice-based research environment and an advanced course at the Royal Institute of Art @kungl.konsthogskolan in Stockholm. OPI Lab centers artistic language in public space and insists that these spaces hold many, especially conflicting, voices and intentions.

Text by Lauren Johnson & Jaana-Kristiina Alakoski

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Accidental throwback to @opi_lab when a roll from 2 years ago was developed.

It still feels magical! @jonas_dahlberg_

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🇬🇧 ENG BELOW

Profesor Royal Institute of Art ve Stockholmu a zakladatel interdisciplinární laboratoře Of Public Interest (OPI) v Praze!
Program večera:

🎤 Jonas Dahlberg — přednáška (cca 40 min) o metodách práce a příkladech z výzkumného programu OPI ve Stockholmu.

🎤 Kurátoři festivalu VERTIKALITA MÍST Tomáš Moravec a Šárka Zahálková — krátké uvedení konceptu této edice festivalu a témat, která nás zajímají.

Otevřená debata (cca 1 hodina) s Jonasem i dalšími avizovanými umělci.

👉 Celková délka programu: 1,5–2 hodiny.

👉 Diskusi povedeme v angličtině s možností dotazů v češtině.
Přijďte se zapojit do dialogu o tom, jak umění formuje naše prostředí a jak prostředí formuje umění.
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Professor at the Royal Institute of Art in Stockholm and founder of the interdisciplinary laboratory Of Public Interest (OPI) in Prague!
Evening Program:

🎤 Jonas Dahlberg — lecture (approx. 40 min) on working methods and examples from the OPI research program in Stockholm.

🎤 Curators of the festival VERTICALITY OF PLACES, Tomáš Moravec and Šárka Zahálková — a short introduction to the concept of the festival and the themes that interest us.

Open debate (approx. 1 hour) with Jonas and other announced artists.

👉 Total program length: 1.5–2 hours.

👉 The discussion will be held in English, with the possibility of asking questions in Czech.
Come and join the dialogue about how art shapes our environment and how the environment shapes art.

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The symposium in Stockholm gave new meaning to the concept of Community of Communities, as partners invited their peers to join the discussion.

At the invitation of Precarnia, Illia Todurkin participated in the majority of the symposium programme. Todurkin is an artist from Mariupol who currently lives in Sweden.

At the invitation of Urban Re-Public, Andrii Lusta attended the Sharing Session. Lusta is an artist from Kherson who also currently lives in Sweden. During the sharing session, Yuliia Manukian presented Urban Re-Public’s Kherson Modernism project, which Lusta participated in.

Many friends of BAC and MARC also made essential contributions to the symposium’s success.

Image credits: Katya Libkind and Anna Norberg.

#FundedbySI #SIforUkraine

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⭐ WORK IN FOCUS ⭐

Nina Nowak
Ears to the Ground (2025)
Prototype for a permanent work in public space

Created as part of a collaborative, interdisciplinary project by Nina Nowak (artist), Anna Öberg (dancer/choreographer), JohannesBurström (sound artist), Eftychios Savvidis (architect) Liene Jakobsone (curator, policy maker) for OPI Lab festival 2025 (which took place over 5-7 June), Gröndal Stockholm, SE.

• The project is a score, a sculpture, a choreography, a bench.
• The sounds are based on the site specific sound, transformed and mutated.
• The object is an invitation to get in touch with the surrounding with all senses.

The OPI Lab Festival presents sketches, prototypes and alternative imaginaries developed by participants of OPI Lab, a multidisciplinary laboratory for art, architecture and public making.

📸 documentationworks.com

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