Southnord is an artist-run platform dedicated to the vast and varied artistic expressions, approaches and narratives the Afro-Nordic experience gives birth to.
Current and Upcoming
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UP NEXT 2025 Exhibition
3 September - 31 October 2025
Southnord's UP NEXT 2025 exhibition, One at a Time, features 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.
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Southnord x Liljevalchs Konsthall
10 October 2025 - 30 August 2026
This October, Liljevalchs will open the doors to When We See Us: A Century of Black Figuration in Painting, a landmark exhibition celebrating 100 years of Black portraiture. Southnord is proud to be programming a series of activations alongside this extraordinary show, bringing new perspectives and dialogues to Stockholm.
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Durational Performance with Freddy Houndekindo
8 & 9 November 2025
Southnord invites you to an immersive performance 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.
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Book Launch: Shying A Way
16 November 2025
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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Library
Explore our growing directory of black and Afro-Nordic artists, literature, works and performances. This content is made available to inspire and enrich new works and research projects.