About the artists

Camila Sposati

Born in 1972 in Sao Paulo, and lives and works in Vienna. Her work is interdisciplinary, and spans across geology, philosophy, and politics – from writings to installation, sculpture and performance. She received her MA in Visual Arts from Goldsmiths College in London. In the third Biennale in Bahia in 2014 she suggested an analogy between studies of human anatomy and that of the earth. In the project ”Charting Revolution, Transecting the Symbolic Roots of the Earth” Sposati traveled to Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan. Her solo-exhibitions, ”Atem-Stücke (part 1)” at IFA Stuttgart and (part 2)” at IFA Berlin in 2023 as well as the group exhibitions ”Hard/Soft” at MAK and ”Cybernetics of the poor”, both in Vienna in 2020 bear mentioning. Sposati has also been artists in residence at several institutions, in 2023 at IASPIS – the international program of the Swedish Art Grants Committee in Stockholm.

Pakui Hardware

A duo, based in Vilnius and Berlin, formed in 2014. It consists of Ugnius Gelguda, who is a sculptor, and Neringa Cerniauskaite, who is an artist, curator, and writer. In sculptures and installations of hybrid materials trace how diverse technologies expand, test and control promise of bodily perfection. The duo represented Latvia at the 60th Venice Biennale where the term inflammation became a metaphor for the harm that is systemically caused humanity and the planet. Pakui Hardware is currently preparing for a solo-exhibition at Zachęta National Gallery of Art in Warsaw, as well as participation in the Bukhara Biennale. They have previously held larger exhibitions at BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art i Gateshead och MUMOK in Vienna, the Istanbul Biennale, the 13th Baltic Triennial in Vilnius, MAXXI in Rome, and the National galleries in Prague and Vilnius.

Ingela Ihrman

Born in 1985 and lives in Stockholm. Her practice includes performance, sculpture, video and text, often in collaboration with others. Through sculpted costumes Ingela Ihrman dresses up in the forms of other living beings. Ihrman challenges our ways of categorizing and exploiting nature, while exploring themes such as desire and loneliness. She has an MFA from the Konstfack university of arts, crafts and designs in Stockholm from 2012 and her work has been displayed at Gasworks in London, 2023, Carl Eldhs studio museum, 2023 and in the Nordic Pavilion at the 58th Venice Biennale in 2019. 2024 an extensive solo-exhibition was held, Frutti di Mare, at Malmö Konsthall. She has also partaken in several residences, most recently Art Inside Out in Halland.

Pia Sandström

Born in 1969 and is based in Stockholm. She was educated at the Art Academies in Stockholm, Helsinki and Trondheim. Her work revolves around the layers of reality, fiction, normality, and the magic that surround us. Sandström is represented at, among other places, Nya Karolinska Solna, 2016, Stockholm University library, 2007 and has participated in solo- and group exhibitions, for example at Moderna Museet, Bonniers Konsthall, Kalmar Art Museum, Kristianstads Konsthall, Kiasma in Helsingfors, ARTES in Porto and during the Venice Biennale for architecture in 2014. In collaboration with the curator Lisa Rosendahl Sandström has created several sonic walks that link together places, time spans, and fates in Sweden such as on Öland and Kalmar as well as in Gothenburg, in connection with the Biennale 2019–2021.

Xadalu Tupã Jekupé

Born in Alegrete and belongs to the indigenous people of the Rio Grande do Sul pampa in southern Brazil. In his work, he uses serigraphy, painting, photography and various objects to depict a cosmology, a way of being and thinking imbued with connections to nature, where the spirits of ancestors lead the way. Through decolonial studies he addresses points of conflict between indigenous and western culture, especially concerning Jesuit missions and climate disasters and social inequality. Tupã Jekupés work can be found in the collections of Museu Nacional de Belas Artes, Museu de Arte Moderna de São Paulo and Museu Nacional. As an artist in residence he has travelled to countries like France, Spain, Italy, and the Mapuche region of Chile for the 35th São Paulo Biennale. In 2024 he was an artist in residence at IASPIS – the international program of the Swedish Art Grants Committee in Stockholm. He has received several awards, like the Pipa-award 2022.