Selected Works & News 


PUBLIC RETREAT Radio episode DEATH selected to air as part of the experimental radio and sound art festival Radiophrenia 2025!

Glasgow, (UK), April, 2025



PUBLIC RETREAT ‘s sound work Radio Soundscape nominated for Short Dox Award, Tempo Dokumentärfestival! First aired at radiOrakel (NO) in 2024.

Stockholm (SE), March, 2025



PUBLIC RETREAT airing of sound installation from  PUBLIC RETREAT – on fire, at Färgfabriken Architecture Triennial in October 2024, at Radio Sydväst.

Stockholm (SE), March, 2025



PUBLIC RETREAT’s sound walk the Graveyard Digression shortlisted to the SWS24 - Sound Walk September Awards 2024 by Walk Listen Create (UK)!

December, 2024





PUBLIC RETREAT Explorer – a newspaper!


Stockholm (SE), 2025

A release of a newspaper, the magazine FIRE and a solo exhibition at Platform Stockholm and Färgfabriken.

>> www.public-retreat.com



Of Others’ Uses - Svenska Margaretakyrkan,  Oslo


Oslo (NO), Ongoing

Of Public Interest (OPI) Studio was commissioned by Svenska Margaretakyrkan in Oslo to make a public artwork celebrating the churches 100th anniversary in 2025.


PUBLIC RETREAT – on Fire
at Färgfabriken Architecture Triennale


Stockholm (SE), 2024

A Solo exhibition as part of the Architecture Triennale at Färgfabriken.

>> www.public-retreat.com

Årsta Scout Group


Årsta (SE), Ongoing

Remodeling and reprogramming of approximately 500 sqm main building for the Årsta Scout Group. 

In collaboration with Magiska Barnarkitekter &
Transfer Studio.


PUBLIC RETREAT at Platform Deep Dive


Stockholm (SE), August - December 2024

First artist entry to be invited to the practice-based research program Platform Deep Dive, initiated by Platform Stockholm.

>> www.public-retreat.com

SFA. Sub-consultant to Hultén Olsson Arkitekter


Stockholm + Nacka (SE), Ongoing


SFA, Stockholm Future Wastewater Treatment Plant, Henriksdal. 

>> www.hultenolsson.se






Vem är Yvonne? (Who is Yvonne?)


Ongoing

Our most private space can probably, maybe obviously, be said to be our home. Where we sleep, eat, love, cry, dream, work, take our first wobbly steps, argue, and laugh – live.

The meetings with a woman called Yvonne – through her supposed acquaintances – initiated a study of how we share our most private space with strangers – over time.


 

PUBLIC RETREAT Radio – a series of 12 episodes broadcasted on radiOrakel


Oslo (NO), September – November 2024

Radio and sound work exploring the intricate relationship between city, sound, and public space.

>> www.public-retreat.com




Place de l’Étoile


Ongoing

The story of an innocent misunderstanding, and a gesture of forgivness. Drawing, installation, sound, and text.


PUBLIC RETREAT ...through the eye of the ear. Click, stop, ) ) ) ) !?


Helsinki (FI), March 2024

Solo exhibition at Galleria Oksasenkatu 11. An immersive sound experience about how we sense the world with our ears.




PUBLIC RETREAT - The Graveyard Digression + Begravningsplatsavvikelsen.


Malmö (SE), October 2023  

Group exhibition curated by Jonas Dahlberg and Jasmine Hinks from Of Public Interest (OPI) Lab – Scores from Gröndal / Scores for Malmö at Galleri Spark. 


NYA LÖVHOLMEN - a citizen proposal + radio program + magazines + collective listening session


Lövholmen (SE), January-June 2023

An interdisciplinary art and architecture project researching sound, art and architecture with the urban area Lövholmen in Stockholm (SE) as a case study. Through fiction, text, sound recordings, fictional soundscapes, performative experiments, alternative narratives and imaginary plan proposals, we showed the area’s potential. NYA LÖVHOLMEN was nominated to Architect’s Swedens Critic Award 2023 (Kritikerpriset). The work was produced within the framework of the postmaster education Of Public Interest (OPI) Lab at the Royal Institute of Art, Stockholm. A collaboration between Jo Mikkel Sjaastad Huse (NO), Nicole Cecilie Bitsch Pedersesn (DK) and Johanna Fager (SE).

>>www.public-retreat.com




SVOA. Sub-consultant to Hultén Olsson Arkitekter


Stockholm (SE) 2020

New entrance building. 

>> www.hultenolsson.se


Terra


Portugal, 2020

Competition proposal for a wine tasting facility at the vineyard Quinta do Monte d’Oiro in Portugal. 

Collaboration with Roger Bejinha.




Villa K


Västerås (SE), 2016

Proposal for a private residence.


ANTICIPATING 2020 + Telge Hovsjö


Södertälje (SE), 2013-2014

Master’s Diploma project followed by a commission from the Municipal Housing Company Telge Hovsjö to take part in the strategy and planning of a redevelopment process of the area Hovsjö, Södertälje.















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