November 2024

Sat30Nov(Nov 30)10:00Sat18January(Jan 18)00:00Cecilia HedlundWho owns our public works?30 November - 18 January Type of Arrangement:Exhibition

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PANEL CONVERSATION

Who owns our public works? Can the owner do whatever they want with the work?

Invited panelists:
Loulou Cherinet, member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Fine Arts and professor of fine arts at Konstfack.
Cathrine Mellander Backman, Senior Advisor at the National Heritage Board.
Bjorn Norberg, freelance curator assignments related to urban development and public art.

Date: Saturday, January 18
Time: at 14:00 PM – 15:00 PM
Location: The Royal Academy of Fine Arts auditorium
Free entry, no pre-registration required

THE EXHIBITION
Who owns our public works? Is the owner of public works allowed to do whatever he wants? A critical examination of the ownership of public works and a dialogue with a public monumental work threatened with demolition that no one seems to want to own, let alone take care of. The work and the exhibition are funded with support from the City of Stockholm and the Swedish Arts Council. A publication is funded by the Längmanska Cultural Foundation.

Cecilia Hedlund (b.1984) was born and works in Stockholm. She has completed postgraduate courses at Konstfack, and has artistic education from Edinburgh College of Art, the University for the Creative Arts (Master of Fine Arts) and Gerlesborgsskolan in Stockholm. In addition, she also holds a Master of Arts in publishing/graphic design from Oxford Brookes University and a Bachelor of Laws from Edinburgh University.

Cecilia Hedlund during the performance "Omsorgdemonstration" for the demolition-threatened work Mur by Eva Lange, Marie Stenqvist and Nicke Rosén in Sätra Centrum. Photo: Cecilia Hedlund, member of BUS/Image copyright

LISTEN!

© The rights to the audio work are owned by Cecilia Hedlund and Jordan Rowe.

A sound work in which Cecilia Hedlund has invited Jordan Rowe, curator and researcher.  > Listen here

© The rights to the sound work are owned by Cecilia Hedlund

Conversation between artists Eva Lange and Cecilia Hedlund about Lange's work with Wall in Sätra Centrum, outside Stockholm. Wall is a public work that is threatened with demolition due to new construction plans for the city center. Wall was commissioned by the City of Stockholm, opened in 1965 and was financed with public funds. Later, Sätra Centrum was sold on. Currently, no one wants to take ownership of Wall or its maintenance responsibility.  > Listen here