Here you will find all our events from 2025, from the launch of our residency programme to When We See Us at Liljevalchs.
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We are thrilled to launch the Southnord Residency Programme, a unique opportunity for visual artists and curators of African decent situated in the Nordics to spend time with their practices, while immersed in a contemporary African art context. Join us for a series of webinars featuring some of the amazing independent art spaces operating in different countries.
Image: Lusaka Contemporary Art Centre
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Join us as we open Southnord's inaugural collection exhibition, Mindscape. The exhibition presents a selection of works from the ever-growing art collection that Southnord is investing in. The works portray human figures in different forms and techniques, most of them in repose or deep contemplation.
Image: Diana Agunbiade-Kolawole
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Join us for inna-Mindscape, a multi-layered sonic exploration that transforms the Southnord space and Mindscape exhibition into a live conversation between sound, thought, and presence.
Image: Marque Gilmore, inna Alchemist (cropped)
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Join us for Mindful Hands, a workshop by Alicia Samson which invites you to slow down, tune in and move with the quiet rhythm of clay making. There’s no rush here, no pressure to create a perfect piece—just an open space to explore, discover and co-create with the clay.
Image: Inward by Alicia Samson
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Southnord invites you to embark on an enriching and informative walk I slavhandelns fotspår (In the footsteps of the Slave Trade) followed by a boat ride to Liljevalchs for the opening of When We See Us: A Century of Black Figuration in Painting, a landmark exhibition celebrating 100 years of Black portraiture exhibition.
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Southnord presents the concert "Afro Nordic Blue" in collaboration with Liljevalchs as part of the program for the exhibition "When We See Us: A Century of Black Figurative Painting", internationally acclaimed as one of the most significant exhibitions of our time.
Image: Sofia Jernberg
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Join us for a gathering and presentation of Shying a Way, a publication/research notebook created at the conclusion of a three-year collaboration between CCA, Lagos and Uniarts Helsinki’s Academy of Fine Art as a proposal for a future distributed university.
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Join Marcia on an explorative walk-through of the exhibition “When We See Us: A Century of Black Figuration in Painting” focusing on the women depicted in the exhibition. From those in repose, in revelry and in the everyday; Marcia is interested in women as emancipated, sensual and spiritual beings.
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Join us for the third edition of the Southnord UP NEXT exhibition. The year we present Viola Nimuhamya, an Ugandan-born artist based in Bergen, Norway. Her practice centers on storytelling as a way of processing personal and collective memory, using installation, fiber art and sculpture, to create works that are both tactile and emotionally resonant.
Image: Work by Viola Nimuhamya
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Southnord invites you and your little ones to a book reading with child educator, Vera Nyblom. This is the first of a series of children and youth programs we have prepared as part of the When We See Us exhibition at Liljevalchs.
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Southnord invites you to this guided session, Stanley Nyoni — a master facilitator, energy healer, personal and leadership coach — will hold space for meditation and reflection inspired by the When We See Us exhibition.
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Join us for an immersive performance by Freddy Houndekindo dubbed Becoming Tree, which unfolds monthly throughout the entire duration of When We See Us at Liljevalchs. Rooted in dance and movement, the work turns the performer’s body into a vessel of rhythm, voice, and breath — where labor and recovery coexist in cycles of repetition and renewal.