Subject: August at Konsthall C: Exhibition, Residency, and more

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Image: Louise Sinaga Helmfrid; Left to right: Sander Neant Falk, Mariam Elnozahy, Erik Annerborn

Konsthall C team back from summer holiday!

Image: Nikola Lamburov / Mylan Hoezen

Mohammed Tatour, Sacred Spaces artist-in-residence

Residency Period: 15 August to 5 September

Vernissage: 6 September, 18:00

Location: Konstdax, David Helldéns torg, Hökarängen


Please welcome Mohammed Tatour, the first artist-in-residence in the Sacred Spaces program at Konsthall C. Tatour will undertake a residency at the Research Station to produce a series of in-situ artworks for the Konstdax public art commission located at David Helldéns torg in the center of Hökarängen.


Mohammed Tatour is a multidisciplinary artist, researcher, and designer from Palestine, currently based in Amsterdam. The opening of Tatour’s public artwork at Konstdax will be Friday, the 6th of September alongside the new exhibition Meditation Room opening at Konsthall C. 


About the artist: 

Tatour works with a broad range of mediums including photography, painting, graphic design, installation, and video art. From living his life under occupation, especially his years in Jerusalem, his work portrays socio-cultural expressions by intertwining past struggles with current experiences. Through storytelling and communal narratives, Tatour captures the essence of Palestinian local histories, offering a profound reflection on their ongoing journey of resilience towards freedom.

Image: UN Photo

Meditation Room

Vernissage: Friday, 6 September,18:00

Exhibition Period: 6 September –10 October 2024

Location: Konsthall C, Hökarängen


Meditation Room opens the next artistic program (2024-2026) at Konsthall C, Sacred Spaces, where artists reflect on spirituality, address questions of religion and society, and experiment with occultism. 


Reimagined at Konsthall C, the original Meditation Room, which first opened in 1952 at the United Nations headquarters in New York, aspired to serve as a multi-faith, room of quiet for contemplative, spiritual reflection in the vision of an ideal, peaceful, “new world order.” 


The room was initiated by Wallace K. Harrison, chief architect of the UN, and renovated by Dag Hammarskjöld, former secretary general of the UN, who redesigned the space to adhere to his vision of twentieth century internationalism. In 1957, the Meditation room reopened with an abstract, in situ fresco produced by artist Bo Beskow, a 6-tonne iron ore stone altar donated by the Swedish monarchy, and benches produced by designer Carl Malmsten.

Hammarskjöld wrote of the Meditation Room: 

“The stone in the middle of the room reminds us also of the firm and permanent in a world of movement and change…Of iron, man has forged his swords, of iron he has also made his plowshares. Of iron he has constructed tanks, but of iron he has likewise built homes for man.”


“There is an ancient saying that the sense of a vessel is not its shell but the void. So it is with this room. It is for those who come here to fill that void with what they find in their center of stillness.” 


Drawing on Hammarskjöld’s legacy as a diplomat, economist, and spiritual man of letters, the Meditation Room will be used as a space to host critical political discussions and reflect on the role of Sweden in global affairs historically and today. We will also hold community gatherings, reading nights, and meditation sessions. 

The full program will be released at the end of August.

Image: James Southwick

Reading Night with Meister Eckhart

Time: Saturday 7 September at 20:00 – Sunday 8 September at 09:30 (overnight)
Location: Konsthall C, Hökarängen


Read a medieval mystic as it has never been read before. This event invites you to spend the night at Konsthall C, reading, listening, and falling asleep to the writings of the German theologian Meister Eckhart. 


“Reading Night” is the first program to take place in the Meditation Room exhibition and is inspired by Dag Hammarskjöld’s fascination with Meister Eckhart, elaborated in his posthumous book, Markings, which outlined his spiritual and moral values. 


Eckhart's writings both exemplify and at once transcend Christian spirituality, exploring themes of love, detachment and radical surrender to what is unknown within us. Through a contemplation of sound, space, and collective participation, you are invited to encounter this famously mysterious person in a new way: we will speak his words and hear them spoken, and maybe even try a little unknowing ourselves.


This event is convened by Áron Birtalan, {artist}, {musician} and a student of theology, whose work explores languages of pleasure and anguish between angel, creature and computer.


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