Thursday 3 April

12:00
Workshop for Smokers and Non-Smokers
Anne Marte Overaa (NO/SE)
Ambulatory printing workshop with 3D-printed printing press made with files from the open press project. Photopolymer with cigarette motif.
This workshop was developed out of an interest in the smoking area as a social space and time-marker. It can be delivered in public smoking spaces but also in other venues as an independent artistic activity.
Duration: 2 h. Location: All around and outside of the venue. Start at the Info Desk
WORKSHOP

12:30
se..is..mo..gr..aph
Jannike Brantås (SE)
Presented by Studio44
A seismograph is an instrument that responds to and registers ground displacement and shaking of earth’s inner movements. It was primarily a Chinese invention in 132 a.d.
An artist may be a seismograph.
Through root brushes this seismograph sucks up movements from beneath.
Waves are transferred through the brush and are displayed onto a paper.
Duration: 20–25 min. Location: Talks & Performance Stage
PERFORMANCE

13:00
Warhol Minutes
Jakob Anckarsvärd (SE)
Presented by Studio 44
Every day, Supermarket artists are invited to participate in an interview live-streamed via Youtube and posted on our Youtube channel.
Studio 44 was previously a factory of aluminium foil and bottle caps. At SUPERMARKET 2025 we offer the chance of being interviewed by Jakob Anckarsvärd. He has conducted art interviews via Pod radio and via Youtube for several years and written about art in various art outlets, such as Konsten, Omkonst, Konstperspektiv, Kulturen, and Supermarket Art Magazine. The interviews will be with artists exhibiting at the art fair or just visiting it. We will be focusing on the artists’ background, reasons for making art and their passions within their respective art processes.
Duration: 1 h. Each interview is 5–10 min. Location: Interview Studio and live-streamed
LIVE STREAM INTERVIEW
You can sign up for the interview in advance at the Info Desk or directly in the Interview Studio at the fair.

13:30
She Wears Her Nerves on Her Sleeve
Irina Laaja (FI/SE)
Presented by Galleri Rostrum
She Wears Her Nerves on Her Sleeve is partly a performance piece, partly a wearable sculpture in which Irina Laaja takes a nervous breakdown and imagines what it would look like if it took on a physical form. If we wore our nerves on the outside, what colours would they be? What shape, what movement? The sculpture is made from recycled clothes, which have been cut into yarn, crocheted, and sewn together into an abstract form. During the performance she wears the form and tries to move in it while relating to the space. The textile work becomes an extension of her body and at the same time an abstract form of its own.
Duration: 2 h. Location: All around the venue. Start at the Info Desk
PERFORMANCE

14:00
Paraphrase of ‘Teach Me Tiger’ (1959) by April Stevens and Nino Tempo
Eva Högberg (SE)
Love me, kiss me, teach me…
Eva dresses up in pink and sings about her longing for ‘Tiger’.
Follow Eva on her journey to ‘paradise’ and see what happens when she offers her body parts to Tiger while she talks, cares, waits in agony, kisses and thanks Tiger for anything. How will this end?
Duration: 5 min. Location: Cora booth
PERFORMANCE

14:30
Artist-Curated Spaces
Mouna Jemal Siala and Karim Sghaier, Elbirou, Sousse, Tunisia
Ieva Saudargaitė Douaihi, Takeover, Beirut, Lebanon
Moderated by Abir Boukhari (SY)
Artist curators in conversation with the Stockholm-based Syrian curator Abir Boukhari.
The artist-curators are invited in collaboration with Iaspis – International Programme for Visual and Applied Arts.
Duration: 45 min. Location: Talks & Performance Stage
TALK

15:00
Stabbing Drawings
Theresa Lekberg (SE)
Presented by Katarina AP
Theresa Lekberg’s work examines resilience and resistance, as well as their differences, and connects them through movement and action. An element of repetition is present in her research and recurres in her work. In this performance she embodies the impulses of defense and resistance that become repetitive stabs with pencils creating patterns.
Duration: 15–30 min. Location: Katarina AP booth
PERFORMANCE

16:00
ART-FAIR-RY-TAIL // A FAIRY TAIL ART FAIR RETAIL: UNFAIR – ART FAIR
David Helán (CZ), Tomáš Ruller (Black Passionger) (CZ)
Presented by Pragovka Gallery
Through fairy tale and improvisation the performance presents the theme of self-sale retail at the end of the artist’s professional career, when he no longer fully idealises the economic component of the artistic operation, and where Matheriarchy + Amatheater = Amatheriarch appears to be the basic linguistic lesson of performing. The artist treats the text as a world of his own, best described as his own representation: Charge de Art Fair, an infirm agent of art, urgently demanding the renewal of the principles of operation, which would best be grouped under the common heading of Neohaha.
The author conceptually treats an abstract, indefinite artistic substance, situated in the role of Art Fair of Foreign Affairs, a certain ministration of the eternal artistic form of immaturity, which you never grow out of, and which the viewer does not like. The protagonist promotes yet another of the cheap formulas of social dysfunction that have allowed him to survive so far, for which Alterego + Egoism = Alteregoism works best.
David Helán, still mentally unsettled, somewhere in a permanent descent and ascent, and freshly released from the deck of an airplane, unfortunately and apparently intends to move in the allotted space as a completely unmanageable individual, trying to convey to the viewer completely uninteresting impulses, albeit experienced in his personal life, which, above all, have clearly not yet found and must not find their application in the world of turbulent art economy.
Duration: 30 min. Location: Talks & Performance Stage
PERFORMANCE

17:00
Kreativ-Transfer – Why travelling and internal networks are essential for creatives
Kerstin Karge, Kreativ-Transfer, DTD (DE)
Guest contribution: Harald Etzemüller, EULENGASSE (DE)
We introduce you to the Kreativ-Transfer programme, which has been supporting international networking activities and the visibility of companies, artists and creatives in the performing arts, games and visual arts in Germany – whether they are gallery owners, project space operators or producer galleries – to help them expand their international network and strengthen their visibility on the global market.
We will also delve into the vibrant project space scene in Germany: How is the idea of non-commercialism discussed and lived? What international working methods and strategies are used, and what forms of self-organisation and successful network models have proven themselves?
As a special highlight, we will present the portal of touring artists that provides a wide range of information on cross-border mobility to support international (visual) artists coming to Germany.
Duration: 1 h. Location: Talks & Performance Stage
TALK

17:30
Walking as Passion: Murmurs of Future Days
Aurike Quintelier (BE)
A guided tour of SUPERMARKET 2025 by the architect and artist Aurike Quintelier.
It is late in the century. A team of archaeologists dig through layers of Supermarket art fair’s building and site. They create possible realities of the past. True facts merge with fiction, the world of the examiner seeps into the findings of the site. The art fair is an archaeological event of the past that once brought together artists, curators, and collectives from around the world.
Through virtual reality headgear the audience is immersed in SUPERMARKET 2025, a computer-generated environment with seemingly real scenes that appear before their eyes. Passed around are objects from the past, remnants of works of art, fragments of the ruins which once were the building before them, and tools used by artists in 2025. A guide gives a tour, sharing findings of the team of archaeologists.
At SUPERMARKET 2025, the architect, artist and teacher Aurike Quintelier will give guided tours from the perspective of a fictional future archaeologist, with a strong spatial and architectural focus. She shares stories from artists, curators and collectives, and passes along works of art that seem to have disappeared. It is no longer clear what is fiction or what is real.
Duration: 30 min. Followed by Q&A. Location: Start at the Info Desk
WALK
Sign up for the walk in advance at the Info Desk or join at the starting time. Please note that the number of maximum participants is 20.

18:00
Postcards from the Arctic
Marija Griniuk (LT)
Guest performers: Milda Paukštė (LT), Marit Bringedal Anti (NO) and Greta Balčiūnaitė (LT)
When the snow melts, the landscape reveals discarded items thrown from passing cars along highways and in villages. Found objects from nature are repurposed to make performance costumes. The performance manifests care and ecopoetics toward nature and the environment.
Supported by the Lithuanian Research Council S-PD-24-49 and Lithuanian Culture Institute.
Duration: 20 min. Location: All around the venue. Start at the Info Desk
PERFORMANCE

18:30
Reshaping
Sanna Söderholm (SE) and Ellinor Berglund Lindholm (SE)
In a captivating duo dance two artists explore the intricacies of the male anatomy through the lens of an inflatable plastic costume and the fluid quality of air. Choreographer Sanna Söderholm continues her choreographic investigations in relation to costume/materials together with dance artist Ellinor Berglund Lindholm.
Duration: 15 min. Location: Talks & Performance Stage
PERFORMANCE

19:00
KUBU – Coincidental culture house in the middle of nowhere
Sari Kippilä (FI) and Tuomo Tammenpää (FI), co-founders and co-directors KUBU
How a 100-year-old rural school was transformed into an independent and self-funded culture house. Hear the short story of KUBU and where we are at, 50 exhibitions, 100 workshops, three festivals, +10.000 visitors and three years later.
Duration: 15 min. Location: KUBU booth
TALK

12:00, 14:00, 16:00, 18:00
MELT
Ylva Törnlund (SE), Helene Berg (SE) and Kristina Frank (SE)
Presented by Candyland
Polar animals recreate their lost habitat.
Duration: 15 min. On and off during the day. Location: Candyland booth
PERFORMANCE

At various times
Makeout Car
Julia Weckman (FI), Sirpa Päivinen (FI), Pia Paldanius (FI), Anu Suhonen (FI)
Presented by Artist Collective Kunst
Artist Collective Kunst holds unexpected performative interventions around the media installation Makeout Car. The pulse of passion is maintained by four Makeout Moderators.
Duration: 15 min. Location: Artist Collective Kunst booth
PERFORMANCE

At various times
FieldLab (SE)
Presented by Candyland
FieldLab will carry out a series of bioelectrical investigations into the passion content of art and the subjective experience of art. Using a mobile set of sensors and instruments, the bioelectrical activity of the audience will be transformed into sound. The laboratory aims to conduct its research without disrupting the ongoing art fair or its visitors, in the hope that the study will contribute to a deeper understanding of the role of passion in qualitative art experiences.
Duration: Varied. On and off during the day. Location: All around the venue
PERFORMANCE

Friday 4 April

12:00
Walking as Passion: Shop-Art-Walk
Juanma González (ES/SE)
This project aims to reimagine the public space within Skärholmen’s shopping mall by turning it into a playful setting where walking becomes a medium for exploration and discovery. Under the title Shop-Art-Walk, the walk subverts the commercial functionality of the environment through participatory dynamics that encourage creative interaction with the space. Through walking in a different way, such as backwards, jumping, non-step-on-lines, non-linear routes, the participants are invited to experience the space differently, breaking predefined structures and generating new collective narratives.
This project challenges the logic of consumption and transit in shopping malls, offering an experience that slows down the everyday pace, prioritising contemplation and community connection. By decontextualising the space and activating its public dimension, it opens a territory for imagination and interaction, demonstrating art’s potential to transform everyday environments into arenas for play and reflection. The shopping mall transforms into a playground for the participants.
Duration: 45–60 min. Location: Starts and ends at the Info Desk
You can sign up for the walk in advance at the Info Desk or join at the starting time. Please note that the maximum number of participants is 25.

12:30
Plowman and Cummins are Plowman and Cummins
Sally Plowman (UK) and Cailin Cummins (UK)
Presented by Blackwater Polytechnic
Plowman and Cummins are an experimental clown duo from London. Using the incongruous relationship between hyper-femininity and slapstick, they are interested in performing comedy versus the grotesque body, gender and etiquette. Based on a splintered narrative of recognisable social situations, this performance is loosely narrative-led and looping. Plowman and Cummins are clumsy, fallible, failing, never getting it right, battling objects and authority, rules of physics, rules of the body; yet they are indestructible. Clowns speak the unspeakable, expose our flaws, and unveil the discrepancies in the sense we encounter daily.
Duration: 20–30 min. Location: Talks & Performance Stage
PERFORMANCE

13:00
Warhol Minutes
Jakob Anckarsvärd (SE)
Presented by Studio 44
Every day, Supermarket artists are invited to participate in an interview live-streamed via Youtube and posted on our Youtube channel.
Studio 44 was previously a factory of aluminium foil and bottle caps. At SUPERMARKET 2025 we offer the chance of being interviewed by Jakob Anckarsvärd. He has conducted art interviews via Pod radio and via Youtube for several years and written about art in various art outlets, such as Konsten, Omkonst, Konstperspektiv, Kulturen, and Supermarket Art Magazine. The interviews will be with artists exhibiting at the art fair or just visiting it. We will be focusing on the artists’ background, reasons for making art and their passions within their respective art processes.
Duration: 1 h. Each interview is 5–10 min. Location: Interview Studio and live-streamed
LIVE STREAM INTERVIEW
You can sign up for the interview in advance at the Info Desk or directly in the Interview Studio.

13:30
ACEY Europe – Arts & Culture Community
Yorgos Taxiarchopoulos (GR), founding director of ACEY, Irene Zinonos (CY) and Eleni Kamma (NL)
Join us for a talk on how and why ACEY Europe – Arts & Culture Community was founded, an artist-run space and international network of experts located in Athens, supporting artists. We will discuss the challenges artists face in the EU, share research-based information about the increase of unemployment and the opportunity to create culture together. We will speak about ways of creating new opportunities within an international network as an artist, by strengthening your professional skills and sharing them within a job framework.
Duration: 1 h. Location: ACEY booth
TALK

14:00
På en teater ska det vara ordentligt (It Should be Proper in a Theatre)
Ekrosjävlarna (Ewert Ekros & Co) (SE)
Presented by Fylkingen
An instance of creative process OR for heaven’s sake save yourself from imaginary threats.
Duration: 20 min. Location: Talks & Performance Stage
PERFORMANCE

14:30
Postcards from the Arctic
Marija Griniuk (LT)
Guest performers: Milda Paukštė (LT), Marit Bringedal Anti (NO) and Greta Balčiūnaitė (LT)
When the snow melts, the landscape reveals discarded items thrown from passing cars along highways and in villages. Found objects from nature are repurposed to make performance costumes. The performance manifests care and ecopoetics toward nature and the environment.
Supported by the Lithuanian Research Council S-PD-24-49 and Lithuanian Culture Institute.
Duration: 20 min. Location: All around the venue. Start at the Info Desk
PERFORMANCE

15:00
Fatal Manhattan
Aslı Dinç (TR)
Presented by PASAJ
Fatal Manhattan unfolds in Degirmendere, a small town facing one of Turkey’s largest oil refineries. Despite high lung cancer rates, the townspeople gather by the seaside each night, admiring the refinery’s glowing skyline – an industrial mirage they call ‘Manhattan’. A Don Quixotean anti-hero, also an archive worker from another planet, arrives with a vacuum cleaner, collecting data to assemble a cabinet of curiosities. As they analyse their findings, misunderstanding and societal reflexes emerge. The performance reflects on how capitalism turns death into spectacle and passion, aestheticising destruction and normalising toxicity.
Aslı Dinç is a multidisciplinary artist and researcher who delves into speculative and dystopian narratives, tech capitalism, and human-non-human-machine interactions. Her artistic journey is deeply influenced by science fiction, RPGs, cybernetics, interconnected networks and power. These influences, along with gamer theory, hacker culture, and the deep sea milieu, shape her creative practice. Inspired by cyberfeminism and tech-capitalism, she crafts playgrounds by using speculative and dystopian narratives as tools for resistance to reflection and critique. Her approach involves simulating, shape-shifting and emulating organisational tactics from these narratives to explore and challenge existing structures and systems.
Duration: 30 min. Location: Talks & Performance Stage
PERFORMANCE

15:30
Paraphrase of ‘Teach Me Tiger’ (1959) by April Stevens and Nino Tempo
Eva Högberg (SE)
Love me, kiss me, teach me…
Eva dresses up in pink and sings about her longing for ‘Tiger’.
Follow Eva on her journey to ‘paradise’ and see what happens when she offers her body parts to Tiger while she talks, cares, waits in agony, kisses and thanks Tiger for anything. How will this end?
Duration: 5 min. Location: Cora booth
PERFORMANCE

16:00
Presentation of the new double issue of
the journal Hjärnstorm 158-159
Sara Bonadea George (SE), guest editor, and Bengt Jahnsson-Wennberg (SE), editor
A key theme running through Hjärnstorm’s Flora issue is the human relationship with the plant realm. Flowers and trees carry the richness of human narrative. We explore how this is expressed in folkloric storytelling, in visual art, in poetry, and more.
Duration: 30 min. Location: Talks & Performance Stage
PUBLICATION RELEASE

16:30
I Need Darkness and Silence
Eva Zaragozá (ES), Ester Zaragozá (ES), Miguel Oliver (ES), Tatiana Nazarova (ES/RU)
Presented by Fosforita
Fosforita Madrid collective will present a slow way of understanding passion. Penelope knits. Penelope in continuous movement like the waters of a river, like the light that comes from very far away. She is wishing for the desire to love. The choir recites their thoughts.
Duration: 2 h. Location: Fosforita booth
PERFORMANCE

17:00
The Obsession Factory That Feeds On Passion
Paula Elion (AR/IL), Åsa Polfjärd (SE) and Charlotta Hayes (SE)
Presented by Detroit Stockholm
What happens during the gradual transformation from harmonious to obsessive passion? Where is the line drawn between passion and obsession? Our project explores the effects, tools and mechanisms of obsessive passion from three different angles:
1) A spiraling passion for creating art using AI.
2) An abstract mapping of the brain; is there physical evidence in our brain when passion turns into obsession?
3) An investigation of the gradual transition into obsessive passion through the unveiling of enclosed memories.
Duration: 20 min. Location: Detroit Stockholm booth
TALK

17:30
Release of Uncertain States Issue 23
Charlie Hay (SE) and Tor S. Ulstein (NO)
Presented by Uncertain States Scandinavia
Uncertain States Scandinavia (UCSS) was established in 2016 by Dagny Hay, Charlie Hay and Tor S. Ulstein. Together with Lilliana Rose Lyons, Rasmus Vasli and Deborah Eisinger they publish a free large format newspaper showing lens-based art. UCSS has published 22 issues and collaborated with galleries, schools and festivals with the aim to support the creative process, for other artists as well as themselves.
Come and celebrate issue 23!
Duration: 10 min. Location: Uncertain States Scandinavia booth
PUBLICATION RELEASE

18:00
FRINGE: Stockholm and Warsaw
Joanna Ogińska (PL), Marta Matysia (PL), Wojciech Gilewicz (PL), FRINGE Warszawa
Helena Bunker (SE), Adam Potrykus (SE), Stockholm Fringe Festival
Moderated by Alice Máselníková, Creative director, Supermarket (CZ)
FRINGE Warszawa is intended to platform a wide spectrum of independent art and culture initiatives in Warsaw – from artist-run spaces to nomadic and non-commercial initiatives. FRINGE highlights unique, grassroots projects and reflects the scale of the independent art scene in Poland. FRINGE is experimental, fluid, and evolving. The first edition in 2022 featured nine spaces and projects. For the second edition, the number grew to 22. Our third edition, FRINGE Warszawa 2024, consisted of more than 80 initiatives.
Stockholm Fringe Festival (STOFF) is a four day multidisciplinary ‘boutique’ arts festival, acting as a stage for local and international artists to present their innovative work, ranging from performance to installation art and anything in between. The festival stands for artistic freedom and focuses on out-of-the-box and ‘alternative’ works that may not fit into mainstream performance or exhibition spaces. STOFF is a chance for arts practitioners to test new ideas, network and collaborate with other artists, develop work, and get inspired by many different creative expressions. At the core, we elevate the local through the global as part of a community that harbours over 300 festivals worldwide.
Duration: 1 h. Location: Talks & Performance Stage
PANEL TALK

19.15
ICORN – Protective residencies for artists
Karin Hansson (SE), National Coordinator ICORN and
Sanaz Hakimi (AF), artist and ICORN-resident in Örebro
International Cities of Refuge Network, ICORN, is an international network of cities that provides protective residencies for writers, journalists and artists that face persecution due to their professional activities. In Sweden, the 25 member cities, municipalities and regions have since 2006 provided a safe haven for over 85 artists within all disciplines.
In this seminar you will learn more about ICORN, the artists and how you can support artists to continue their work.
Duration: 45 min. Location: Talks & Performance Stage
TALK

At various times
Makeout Car
Julia Weckman (FI), Sirpa Päivinen (FI), Pia Paldanius (FI), Anu Suhonen (FI)
Presented by Artist Collective Kunst
Artist Collective Kunst holds unexpected performative interventions around the media installation Makeout Car. The pulse of passion is maintained by four Makeout Moderators.
Duration: 15 min. Location: Artist Collective Kunst booth
PERFORMANCE

12:00, 14:00, 16:00, 18:00
MELT
Ylva Törnlund (SE), Helene Berg (SE) and Kristina Frank (SE)
Presented by Candyland
Polar animals recreate their lost habitat.
Duration: 15 min. On and off during the day. Location: Candyland booth
PERFORMANCE

At various times
FieldLab (SE)
Presented by Candyland
FieldLab will carry out a series of bioelectrical investigations into the passion content of art and the subjective experience of art. Using a mobile set of sensors and instruments, the bioelectrical activity of the audience will be transformed into sound. The laboratory aims to conduct its research without disrupting the ongoing art fair or its visitors, in the hope that the study will contribute to a deeper understanding of the role of passion in qualitative art experiences.
Duration: Varied. On and off during the day. Location: All around the venue
PERFORMANCE

Saturday 5 April

12:30
Artist-Curated Spaces
Guta Galli and Ivan Padovani, Canteiro, São Paulo (BR)
Moderated by Abir Boukhari (SY)
Artist curators in conversation with the Stockholm based Syrian curator Abir Boukhari.
The artist-curators are invited in collaboration with Iaspis – International Programme for Visual and Applied Arts.
Duration: 45 min. Location: Talks & Performance Stage
TALK

13:00
Warhol Minutes
Jakob Anckarsvärd (SE)
Presented by Studio 44
Every day, Supermarket artists are invited to participate in an interview live-streamed via Youtube and posted on our Youtube channel.
Studio 44 was previously a factory of aluminium foil and bottle caps. At SUPERMARKET 2025 we offer the chance of being interviewed by Jakob Anckarsvärd. He has conducted art interviews via Pod radio and via Youtube for several years and written about art in various art outlets, such as Konsten, Omkonst, Konstperspektiv, Kulturen, and Supermarket Art Magazine. The interviews will be with artists exhibiting at the art fair or just visiting it. We will be focusing on the artists’ background, reasons for making art and their passions within their respective art processes.
Duration: 1 h. Each interview is 5–10 min. Location: Interview Studio and live-streamed
LIVE STREAM INTERVIEW
You can sign up for the interview in advance at the Info Desk or directly in the Interview Studio.

13:30
Bird Watcher
Karin Augusta Nogva (NO)
Meet the Bird Watcher, a performative human-bird character who serves as the voice for birds amidst the encroachment on untouched nature, intertwining art and activism.
In the workshop you can make your own bird mask from colorful paper and practise bird chirping. Bring your mask and join in a parade around the fair led by the Bird Watcher, artist Karin Augusta Nogva.
Duration: 45 min + 10 min parade around the fair. Location: Talks & Performance Stage
WORKSHOP followed by a PERFORMANCE/PARADE

14:30
Against the Current
Stefan St Laurent (CA)
Curator Stefan St Laurent presents Against the Current, an international biennial gathering of artist-run centres in Ottawa-Gatineau, Canada, hosted by SAW and AXENÉO7. In 2025 the gathering will take place 11–13 June 2025 (www.againstthecurrent.art).
Duration: 45 min. Location: Talks & Performance Stage
TALK

15:00
Paraphrase of ‘Teach Me Tiger’ (1959) by April Stevens and Nino Tempo
Eva Högberg (SE)
Love me, kiss me, teach me…
Eva dresses up in pink and sings about her longing for ‘Tiger’.
Follow Eva on her journey to ‘paradise’ and see what happens when she offers her body parts to Tiger while she talks, cares, waits in agony, kisses and thanks Tiger for anything. How will this end?
Duration: 5 min. Location: Cora booth
PERFORMANCE

15:30
Holzwege (Wooden Paths): Poems, adventurous fairytales and passionate ‘true’ stories
Vládmir Combre de Sena (BR/DE), Harald Etzemüller (DE), Anette Kaplan (DE), Sabine Imhof (DE)
Presented by EULENGASSE
The trumped-up stories: We are haunted by this topic. Can we no longer see the wood for the trees? With poems, fables and true stories, we scrutinise the lies of our times. Let’s think together about how we can keep going.
So we are collecting stories from our members and we will do a varied storytelling talk, integrating the public.
Duration: 30 min. Location: Talks & Performance Stage
TALK

16:00
ART-FAIR-RY-TAIL//A FAIRY TAIL ART FAIR RETAIL: ART FAIR OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS
David Helán (CZ)
Presented by Pragovka Gallery
Through fairy tale and improvisation the performance presents the theme of self-sale retail at the end of the artist’s professional career, when he no longer fully idealises the economic component of the artistic operation, and where Matheriarchy + Amatheater = Amatheriarch appears to be the basic linguistic lesson of performing. The artist treats the text as a world of his own, best described as his own representation: Charge de Art Fair, an infirm agent of art, urgently demanding the renewal of the principles of operation, which would best be grouped under the common heading of Neohaha.
The author conceptually treats an abstract, indefinite artistic substance, situated in the role of Art Fair of Foreign Affairs, a certain ministration of the eternal artistic form of immaturity, which you never grow out of, and which the viewer does not like. The protagonist promotes yet another of the cheap formulas of social dysfunction that have allowed him to survive so far, for which Alterego + Egoism = Alteregoism works best.
David Helán, still mentally unsettled, somewhere in a permanent descent and ascent, and freshly released from the deck of an airplane, unfortunately and apparently intends to move in the allotted space as a completely unmanageable individual, trying to convey to the viewer completely uninteresting impulses, albeit experienced in his personal life, which, above all, have clearly not yet found and must not find their application in the world of turbulent art economy.
Duration: 30 min. Location: Start at the Info Desk
PERFORMANCE

17:00
Walking as Passion: Taking Dictation
Heather (Hey There) Kapplow (USA)
Do you have a passion for rule-following? A deep-seated desire to please authority figures? If so, you’ll love Taking Dictation, a grownup, walking version of the kind of children’s games called ‘Simon Says’ or ‘Follow the Leader’ in the USA (‘Gör si, gör så’ or ‘Följa John’ in Sweden). But this version has so much more complexity that it might be unrecognisable.
Which means that if you hate rule-following and pleasing authority, but are gaga for entropy, then you’ll also love Taking Dictation.
The title is a play on words around the practice of transcribing speech, which is a practice that is meant to be faithful to exactly what is spoken but often has unintended variability. In this case there is an effort to see how far variability can go, to the degree that the ‘taking’ of dictation becomes potentially a taking away of dictatorial power.
We will move together in a state that vacillates rapidly between obedience and disobedience, fairness and unfairness, freedom and restriction, order and chaos. The combination of movement, prompts, and sound will build simultaneous, contradictory routes through time and space as an experimental method for discovering previously unseen paths of resistance to the imposition of the ideas of others upon ourselves.
Duration: 30-45 min with optional time for discussion. Location: Starts and ends at the Info Desk
Sign up for the walk in advance at the Info Desk or join at the start. Please note that the maximum number of participants is 25.
WALK

18:30
No One
Sofia Härdig (SE)
Presented by Fylkingen
Instruction: Audience sit down, watch and try not to help.
Performer stands on stage and tries not to ask for help.
Duration: ca 10 min. Location: Talks & Performance Stage
PERFORMANCE

19:00
Loop of Pursuit
Rachel Macmanus (IE)
Presented by Interface
Loop of Pursuit is a live performance work which relates to the theme of passion (defined as a strong and barely controllable emotion, or the suffering and death of Jesus) in that the artist is often driven to a point of extreme despair and fury which leads to an inability to progress – caught in a present tense loop of indecision and uncertainty, but trying to journey on, to continue despite this.
There is a Sisyphean nature to the endlessness of the action, and the repetition of the task of dressing/undressing. The circular nature of the path the artist takes in the performance means they are neither coming nor going, arriving or leaving. This circular repetition also suggests being trapped in a Godot-esque somewhat ridiculous scene that plays over and over.
Duration: 30–40 min. Location: Talks & Performance Stage
PERFORMANCE

At various times
Makeout Car
Julia Weckman (FI), Sirpa Päivinen (FI), Pia Paldanius (FI), Anu Suhonen (FI)
Presented by Artist Collective Kunst
Artist Collective Kunst holds unexpected performative interventions around the media installation Makeout Car. The pulse of passion is maintained by four Makeout Moderators.
Duration: 15 min. Location: Artist Collective Kunst booth
PERFORMANCE

12:00, 14:00, 16:00, 18:00
MELT
Ylva Törnlund (SE), Helene Berg (SE) and Kristina Frank (SE)
Presented by Candyland
Polar animals recreate their lost habitat.
Duration: 15 min. On and off during the day. Location: Candyland booth
PERFORMANCE

At various times
FieldLab (SE)
Presented by Candyland
FieldLab will carry out a series of bioelectrical investigations into the passion content of art and the subjective experience of art. Using a mobile set of sensors and instruments, the bioelectrical activity of the audience will be transformed into sound. The laboratory aims to conduct its research without disrupting the ongoing art fair or its visitors, in the hope that the study will contribute to a deeper understanding of the role of passion in qualitative art experiences.
Duration: Varied. On and off during the day. Location: All around the venue
PERFORMANCE

Sunday 6 April

12.30
Nukleopatra
Tilly Hawkins (UK)
Presented by Blackwater Polytechnic
Nukleopatra is the creation of UK-based digital artist Tilly Hawkins, styled as ‘Doomsday Prepper Princess’ and ‘Miss Information.’ Her poignant lyrics take aim at tech corporations, the fossil fuel industry, and social media culture. Her music is a soundtrack for the impending apocalypse that draws inspiration from industrial, hyperpop, and lo-fi hiphop to create a uniquely contemporary sound. Drawing on her visual art practice, which juxtaposes found text and images into large-scale digital collages, the artist incorporates samples from documentaries, news footage, and popular media to create layered sonic tapestries which simulate the experience of information overload.
Recent performances include the opening party of her solo exhibition of posters and banners, ‘Pure Ecstasy Upon Receiving Oblivion’, recently headlined Future Frequencies at Colchester Arts Centre, and regular performances at East Anglian Noise Alliance and Queer Noise Ipswich events. Releases include several singles and music videos, with a debut album scheduled for the summer of 2025.
Duration: 20–30 min. Location: Talks & Performance Stage
PERFORMANCE

13:00
Warhol Minutes
Jakob Anckarsvärd (SE)
Presented by Studio 44
Every day, Supermarket artists are invited to participate in an interview live-streamed via Youtube and posted on our Youtube channel.
Studio 44 was previously a factory of aluminium foil and bottle caps. At SUPERMARKET 2025 we offer the chance of being interviewed by Jakob Anckarsvärd. He has conducted art interviews via Pod radio and via Youtube for several years and written about art in various art outlets, such as Konsten, Omkonst, Konstperspektiv, Kulturen, and Supermarket Art Magazine. The interviews will be with artists exhibiting at the art fair or just visiting it. We will be focusing on the artists’ background, reasons for making art and their passions within their respective art processes.
Duration: 1 h. Each interview is 5–10 min. Location: Interview Studio and live-streamed
LIVE STREAM INTERVIEW
You can sign up for the interview in advance at the Info Desk or directly in the Interview Studio.

13:15
Loop of Pursuit
Rachel Macmanus (IE)
Presented by Interface
Loop of Pursuit is a live performance work which relates to the theme of passion (defined as a strong and barely controllable emotion, or the suffering and death of Jesus) in that the artist is often driven to a point of extreme despair and fury which leads to an inability to progress – caught in a present tense loop of indecision and uncertainty, but trying to journey on, to continue despite this.
There is a Sisyphean nature to the endlessness of the action, and the repetition of the task of dressing/undressing. The circular nature of the path the artist takes in the performance means they are neither coming nor going, arriving or leaving. This circular repetition also suggests being trapped in a Godot-esque somewhat ridiculous scene that plays over and over.
Duration: 30 min. Location: Talks & Performance Stage
PERFORMANCE

13:30
Paraphrase of ‘Teach me tiger’ by April Stevens and Nino Tempo from 1959
Eva Högberg (SE)
Love me, kiss me, teach me…
Eva dresses up in pink and sings about her longing for ‘Tiger’.
Follow Eva on her journey to ‘paradise’ and see what happens when she offers her body parts to Tiger while she talks, cares, waits in agony, kisses and thanks Tiger for anything. How will this end?
Duration: 5 min. Location: Cora booth
PERFORMANCE

14:00
se..is..mo..gr..aph
Jannike Brantås (SE)
Presented by Studio44
A seismograph is an instrument that responds to and registers ground displacement and shaking of earth’s inner movements. It was primarily a Chinese invention in 132 a.d.
An artist may be a seismograph.
Through root brushes this seismograph sucks up movements from beneath.
Waves are transferred through the brush and are displayed onto a paper.
Duration: 20–25 min. Location: Talks & Performance Stage
PERFORMANCE

15:00
Art Shots
Supermarket Art Shots use the format of Pecha Kucha. We present five speakers/galleries from the ranges of our exhibitors, each of whom have exactly 10 minutes to deliver their presentation in 10 images. The session is followed by an open discussion.
Duration: 1 h. Location: Talks & Performance Stage
TALK

16:00
ART-FAIR-RY-TAIL // A FAIRY TAIL ART FAIR RETAIL: CHARGE DE FAIR – ART FAIR
David Helán (CZ)
Presented by Pragovka Gallery
Through fairy tale and improvisation the performance presents the theme of self-sale retail at the end of the artist’s professional career, when he no longer fully idealises the economic component of the artistic operation, and where Matheriarchy + Amatheater = Amatheriarch appears to be the basic linguistic lesson of performing. The artist treats the text as a world of his own, best described as his own representation: Charge de Art Fair, an infirm agent of art, urgently demanding the renewal of the principles of operation, which would best be grouped under the common heading of Neohaha.
The author conceptually treats an abstract, indefinite artistic substance, situated in the role of Art Fair of Foreign Affairs, a certain ministration of the eternal artistic form of immaturity, which you never grow out of, and which the viewer does not like. The protagonist promotes yet another of the cheap formulas of social dysfunction that have allowed him to survive so far, for which Alterego + Egoism = Alteregoism works best.
David Helán, still mentally unsettled, somewhere in a permanent descent and ascent, and freshly released from the deck of an airplane, unfortunately and apparently intends to move in the allotted space as a completely unmanageable individual, trying to convey to the viewer completely uninteresting impulses, albeit experienced in his personal life, which, above all, have clearly not yet found and must not find their application in the world of turbulent art economy.
Duration: 30 min. Location: Pragovka booth
PERFORMANCE

17:00
På en teater ska det vara ordentligt (It Should be Proper in a Theatre)
Ekrosjävlarna (Ewert Ekros & Co) (SE)
Presented by Fylkingen
An instance of creative process OR for heaven’s sake save yourself from imaginary threats.
Duration: 20 min. Location: Talks & Performance Stage
PERFORMANCE

12:00, 14:00, 16:00
MELT
Ylva Törnlund (SE), Helene Berg (SE) and Kristina Frank (SE)
Presented by Candyland
Polar animals recreate their lost habitat.
Duration: Varied. On and off during the day. Location: Candyland booth
PERFORMANCE

At various times
Makeout Car
Julia Weckman (FI), Sirpa Päivinen (FI), Pia Paldanius (FI), Anu Suhonen (FI)
Presented by Artist Collective Kunst
Artist Collective Kunst holds unexpected performative interventions around the media installation Makeout Car. The pulse of passion is maintained by four Makeout Moderators.
Duration: 15 min. Location: Artist Collective Kunst booth
PERFORMANCE

At various times
FieldLab (SE)
Presented by Candyland
FieldLab will carry out a series of bioelectrical investigations into the passion content of art and the subjective experience of art. Using a mobile set of sensors and instruments, the bioelectrical activity of the audience will be transformed into sound. The laboratory aims to conduct its research without disrupting the ongoing art fair or its visitors, in the hope that the study will contribute to a deeper understanding of the role of passion in qualitative art experiences.
Duration: Varied. On and off during the day. Location: All around the venue
PERFORMANCE

About Walking as Passion, walking events at SUPERMARKET 2025
Walking As Practice Collective (WAPC) is a group of artists dedicated to traversing spaces, rethinking and critiquing systematic constraints. In motion, they challenge norms and propose the distribution of agency by deploying vulnerability as a strategy for togetherness. We are passionate about walking as an art form and want to give you a chance to experience some walks by WAPC artists. The artists in the WAPC collective are based in various locations, making it, in all senses, a nomadic collective.

WAP/WAPC is initiated by Ami Skånberg & Anna Viola Hallberg/Berg Duo. John Schuerman is the curator of WAP at SUPERMARKET 2025. He was the co-curator of WAP24 June Edition. As a curator he’s produced over 30 exhibitions across the Midwestern U.S. on topics that address current concerns in our collective psyche. Schuerman is also an environmental artist. His artwork reflects his deep interest in nature both human and nonhuman. His aesthetic style and social consciousness formed as he grew up on a dairy farm in southern Wisconsin, U.S.. His primary art practices are Walking and Drawing, which he uses to examine his community’s physical, social, and psychic landscapes.

Find out more about the artists and curator at www.walkingaspractice.org/s25

SUPERMARKET TALKS & PERFORMANCE PROGRAMME

TALKS & PERFORMANCE have formed a vital part of the art fair since it began with the aim to stimulate the interest of the broad public in questions, topics and trends relevant to contemporary art. Live Action, Lokal_30, No Budget Performance, STOFF – Stockholm Fringe Fest, Fylkingen, IASPIS, KRO – Artists’ Association of Sweden, Konstpool, PAiN – Performance Art in Norrbotten, PALS – Performance Art Links, Istanbul Performance Art, and many more have been important contributors to the Talks & Performance programme.

SUPERMARKET TALKS functions as an open space for talks, presentations, and debates on contemporary art and its relation to society in general. The previous themes have been Art of the Future (2009), Documentation/Non-documentation (2010), The Absent Hub (2011), The Waiting Room of Eternity (2012), Happiness (2013), Difference(s) (2014), Invisibility – who represents who? (2015), 10th anniversary of Supermarket (2016), Intimacy (2017), Legacy: who will survive and what will be left of them? (2018), Temporary moratorium: all allowed? (2019), Fabricated (2020), Shapeshifters (2021), Holy Fluff (2022), Twilight Zone (2023) and Dream On (2024). The theme of Supermarket 2025 is Passion. 

SUPERMARKET PERFORMANCE shows works by performance artists from around the world and offers a range of performances from durational pieces to participatory or lecture performances.

TALKS & PERFORMANCE PROGRAMME 2025 COORDINATOR: Alice Máselníková
ON-SITE COORDINATOR: Mimi H-C Horrell

All rights to the text and photographs belong to the artists if nothing else is specified.
© Supermarket Art Fair ek. för. 2025
With questions about the programme contact alice@supermarketartfair.com