Selected Works & News
PUBLIC RETREAT Explorer – a newspaper!
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
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
A Solo exhibition as part of the Architecture Triennale at Färgfabriken.
>> www.public-retreat.com
Årsta Scout Group
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
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
SFA, Stockholm Future Wastewater Treatment Plant, Henriksdal.
>> www.hultenolsson.se
Vem är Yvonne? (Who is Yvonne?)
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
Radio and sound work exploring the intricate relationship between city, sound, and public space.
>> www.public-retreat.com
Place de l’Étoile
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, ) ) ) ) !?
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.
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
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
New entrance building.
>> www.hultenolsson.se
Terra
Competition proposal for a wine tasting facility at the vineyard Quinta do Monte d’Oiro in Portugal.
Collaboration with Roger Bejinha.
Villa K
Proposal for a private residence.
ANTICIPATING 2020 + Telge Hovsjö
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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