Gallery Korvfabriken
September 30 – October 5 / Styckmästargatan 6
Tuesday–Thursday 17:00–21:00, Friday–Saturday 17:00–late, Sunday 12:00–19:00
The exhibition is free – acts requires a single ticket or festival pass.
Korvfabriken and Cinema Queer join forces to create Gallery Korvfabriken: a constipated meeting place where ideas are ground down, mixed, and stuffed into entirely new shimmering skins. The collaboration results in a group exhibition spanning sculpture and installation to performance and video.
Korvfabriken is a studio collective founded by seven professional artists with the vision of creating studios, workshops, and an art scene in Stockholm’s former meatpacking district. The practice is housed in a former sausage factory, renovated and equipped for artistic production. Here, workshops for metal, wood, glass, and multimedia provide space for members to develop their own projects while also welcoming external artists. Today, Korvfabriken’s members work across sculpture, installation, performance, sound, and video.
During the festival week, the Homografiska Museet will also move in. Usually based in the deep forests of Fengersfors, the museum will now open its doors with us. The museum preserves and cares for a unique collection of art, objects, documents, and archival materials. It is a physical, digital, and traveling museum that presents a utopian worldview where representation, diversity, and variation are key, constantly reminding us that history is always subjective, depending on who tells it and who listens.
Throughout the week we also present performances by AnnaLeena Prykäri, Zafira Vrba Woodski, Hanna Kisch, and Shirley Harthey Ubilla, among many others.
On Sunday we close in the best possible hungover way: with a grand brunch in collaboration with Transfest Stockholm.
The full program is available on our website. Exhibitions at Gallery Korvfabriken are free of charge, but performances require a ticket or festival pass!
And don’t forget, life is too short for bad sausage!
Participating Artists:
Hanna Kisch searches for in-betweens and borderlands in her work with costume and scenography. In sewer she collaborates with her partner in crime and lover, performer Shirley Harthey Ubilla. As a trans and queer butch of color, Shirley is especially drawn to in-betweens, often exploring the state or moment when something is about to transform into something else. Together they wish to explore the sewers of Korvfabriken.
Lior Nønne Malue Hansen is a Danish artist working with large-scale sculpture and installations that explore ecology, politics, poetics, psychology, and the contradictions of being human in late-stage capitalism. Her works engage with discarded materials, uncovering their latent potential as a way of questioning systems of value and function. By merging poetic absurdity with tactile precision, her works often resemble a surreal collision between amusement park and junkyard – evoking both vulnerability and resilience.
Educated at the Royal Institute of Art in Stockholm, she collects, rebuilds, and reflects – constructing layered worlds that ask not only what it means to feel, but how we make sense of it all.
Picture:
I CONTINUOUSLY BREAK MY BODY TRYING TO DEAL WITH THIS TRAIL OF TRAUMA YOU LEFT BEHIND, THE LEAST YOU COULD DO IS PAY ME (2022)
Installation in Aarhus, Denmark
Photo: the artist
Marcus Bergman’s work explores the relationship between the marginalized individual and mortality, examining how this connection extends to broader themes such as extinction, unconventional love, and the human body’s future and existence. He expresses this through sculptural installations that, via the inherent agency of wax, navigate questions of inherited pain, historiography, and the language-bearing properties of materiality.
Marcus Bergman (b. 1993 in Mölndal) is an artist based in Stockholm, and received his MFA from the Royal Institute of Art in 2024. His works have been shown in both solo and group exhibitions, including at Artipelag and Coulisse Gallery.
Moa Johansson (external)
THE LESBIAN FIRST AIDER is a speculative artwork centered on a denim vest made from two pairs of upcycled jeans, covered with pockets of various sizes and hung on a metal hanger to be viewed from multiple angles. Next to the vest stands a podium with textile scraps and fabric markers. Visitors are invited to reflect on what tools are needed in crisis situations to create collective care, mutual support, and non-hierarchical networks. Each person is encouraged to write down their chosen “tool” on a piece of fabric and place it in one of the vest’s pockets. The tools may be practical items such as a sewing kit or Sara Ahmed’s book Queer Phenomenology, but also more abstract contributions such as a joke, first aid skills, or kindness. Over time, the pockets fill with contributions, and the vest becomes a growing, collectively constructed “toolbox.” After the exhibition, all collected fabric pieces will be sewn together into a new artwork (this may be staged as a closing performance if possible).
Nicole Khadivi (b. 1998) is a Stockholm-based artist working with video and installations where light, glass, and movement interact in optical machines that explore perception, memory, and humanity’s relationship to technology. Through glass engraving, reflections, video works, and spatial animations she creates pieces that move between permanence and transience. In 2025 she will present her first institutional solo exhibition After Home at Uppsala Art Museum and participate in the group exhibition Vera Was Here at Accelerator in Stockholm.
Image: Seen From Somewhere, 2023
Photo: Jean-Baptiste Béranger
Olga Krüssenberg (b. 1995) works with moving image and installation. She holds an MFA from the Royal Institute of Art in Stockholm and has studied documentary filmmaking at Biskops Arnö and Ölands Folkhögskola. Her films have been screened at International Film Festival Rotterdam, Tempo Documentary Festival, Tromsø International Film Festival, and competed in Startsladden at Gothenburg Film Festival, Sweden’s largest short film competition.
Sara Ekholm Eriksson works with sculpture and installations in the borderland between human and nature. Her works investigate time, ecology, metamorphosis, and humanity’s relationship with nature.
Photo: Laslo Strong
Sofia Priftis is a multidisciplinary artist and architect, working in the borderland between body, space, and social rituals. Her works often take the form of temporary constructions, textile structures, or playful objects that invite participation. She uses humor, play, and poetry as tools to set norms into trembling motion. In her artistic practice, she continually returns to the body as landscape and as a political arena. Through subtle shifts in material and form, she opens up space for both laughter and reflection.
Sofia Zwahlen (b. 1992 in Sigtuna) works with sculpture and installation in her exploration of concepts such as nature, knowledge, corporeality, and emotions. She holds an MFA from the Royal Institute of Art and has previously exhibited at Färgfabriken, Stockholm and Skissernas Museum, Lund.
Work:
”Tense Jaws”, 2024
Photo – Jean-Baptiste Béranger
