AWARD-WINNING CURATOR LAUNCHES NEW CULTURAL PLATFORM AND ART SPACE FOR BLACK AND AFRO-NORDIC ARTISTS
Zimbabwean-born curator, spatial storyteller, and artist, Marcia Harvey Isaksson, launches a new cultural platform in Stockholm. Southnord works across the Nordic region with artists, curators and organisations, making space for the vast and varied artistic expressions, approaches, and narratives the Afro-Nordic experience gives birth to.
”In an increasingly polarised world, there is a need to tell nuanced stories from different perspectives. We want to tell our stories in our way,” says the founder, who previously ran Fiberspace an arena for textile art, craft and design, and for which she was awarded both the Dynamo Award by the Swedish Arts Grants Committee and the Cathrine von Hauswolff Award in 2022. The project is a truly regional undertaking, bringing together an advisory team of experienced curators and artists from Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Finland and Iceland.
Southnord aims to facilitate exchange and dialogue between past, present and future generations of Afro-Nordic artists by providing a space where art practitioners can come together to develop projects and build networks. The platform collaborates with other institutions and initiatives in order to realise larger and more far-reaching projects. This autumn’s main event is the Southnord artfest hosted by Kulturhuset in Stockholm from 26 October 2023 to 14 January 2024.
The official launch of Southnord is on 7 September 2023 in their artspace in Södermalm, in Stockholm.
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