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• Bigert & Bergström’s project Broken Greenhouse / Embodied Climate Futures explores humanity’s complex relationship with climate change. Through five sculptural greenhouses inspired by the UN’s climate scenarios for the year 2100, visitors are invited on a journey through possible climate futures. The exhibition’s title alludes to what Bigert & Bergström has identified as a contemporary feeling of brokenness. Despite increasing awareness of the impact of climate change on the planet, it can be difficult to visualise the future in concrete terms. Broken Greenhouse / Embodied Climate Futures is the artist duo’s attempt to contribute to understanding through experiences and dialogue. The exhibition takes place outdoors, outside Accelerator and in the Bergius Botanic Garden, both of which are part of Stockholm University. Outside Accelerator, the artists have created a gathering place with a group of canopy swings that serve as a starting point for the exhibition and for the walk between the greenhouses. SSP, short for Shared Socio-economic Pathways, sets out five possible scenarios for the future (SSP1 to SSP5), in which climate trends are based on assumptions about changes in socio-economic factors. Bigert & Bergström’s greenhouses have been developed in collaboration with climate researchers at Umeå University and each one embodies one of these specific future scenarios—ranging from a more sustainable and circular development path to more resource-intensive and high-emitting societal models. As part of the exhibition, a research festival will take place at the university on 25–26 September, featuring guided walking tours led by researchers and artists in dialogue about the future of climate challenges. The festival serves as an interdisciplinary meeting place where art and science come together to bring the UN’s climate scenarios to life and make them more accessible to a wider public. The initiative is the result of a collaboration between Accelerator, the Bergius Botanic Garden, the Bolin Centre at Stockholm University, the Anthropocene Lab at the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, and Bigert & Bergström.
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  Broken Greenhouse

  Until 18 Oct 2026

  
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• Aerpiemaahtoe is Southern Sámi and can be translated as ‘traditional knowledge’ or ‘ancestral knowledge’. As a contemporary art institution situated at Stockholm University, a centre for academic knowledge production, Accelerator’s programme in 2026 focuses on different knowledge systems and how these are valued, managed, and prejudiced. The exhibition coincides with the presentation of findings from the Truth Commission for the Sámi People, the governmental mandate of which has been to map and ‘increase the general public understanding of Sámi history and how historical injustices affect the conditions for Sámi people today.’ The artists in the exhibition engage with Sámi knowledge traditions that historically have been marginalised and silenced. They explore how history writing has erased traces of Sámi life, address historical injustices, and ask whether, or how, reconciliation is possible within continued Nordic colonialism. Aerpiemaahtoe is based on knowledge systems rooted in the relationship between humans, animals, and the land—a reciprocal way of understanding and engaging with the world. It is a living knowledge tradition that is constantly evolving and, with resilience, passed down through generations in language, storytelling, the work of the hand, and lived experiences. The exhibition has been developed through the multi-year exhibition project Art & Truth-Telling, produced by Bildmuseet and Gaaltije Saemien Museume to acknowledge the work of the Truth Commission for the Sámi people on the Swedish side of Sápmi. Art & Truth-Telling has taken various forms across different collaborations and highlights truth-telling as a process, as well as art’s potential to articulate both personal and collective truths.
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  Aerpiemaahtoe

  Until 14 Feb 2027

  
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• The exhibition presents works by five artists: Absalon, Stina Fors, Hassan Khan, NUG and Öberg/Arvefjord. Through installation, performance, painting, sound, and video works, the artists explore ways knowledge can be conveyed. Visitors are met with various expressions of bodies in motion, voices and rhythms. Most works are newly commissioned for the exhibition. From its position within Stockholm University, Accelerator aims to draw attention to knowledge systems that have long been excluded from, or subordinated to, academic knowledge. Knowledge that is shaped by the body, everyday life, heritage and living conditions—lived and experience-based knowledge—is often marginalised, despite being fundamental to how people navigate the world. The Owl of Minerva also highlights tacit knowledge—the kind of knowledge that is difficult to put into words but evident in action and practical skill. Above all, it emphasises intuition and rhythm as alternative ways of understanding and experiencing the world. Intuition manifests itself as a form of immediate knowing, beyond the strictly rational, whilst rhythm points towards recurring patterns, movements and temporalities—both in the body and in the surroundings. Together, these experiences broaden the understanding of knowledge as not solely conceptual but also involving emotional engagement and lived experience.
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  The Owl of Minerva

  Until 14 Feb 2027

  
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