Peace with Earth, Tensta Konsthall, 2025
10.5- 31.10 2025
Tensta Konsthall
An exhibition about birds, multinational chocolate and healing at Järva Gymnasium.
Chirps from extinct birds, waste on beaches that will never decompose and a wooden giant made from a pruned chestnut tree from Djurgården. These are some of the works that visitors will encounter in the exhibition Peace with the Earth at Järva Gymnasium this spring.
Participating artists: Ann Lislegaard, CATPC, Enno Hallek, Hira Nabi, Ingela Ihrman, Mats Adelman, Mona Monasar, Tom Bogaard, Aqui Thami and Ylva Westerlund.
The location is the so-called Glaskilen, a room surrounded by a winter garden with exotic plants, which was part of the architect Gösta Uddén's vision when he designed the school building next to the center of Tensta in the early 1980s. Based on the garden and the proximity to the Järvafältet cultural reserve, the exhibition approaches the burning questions about the connection between nature and economy, between exploitation and care and between environmental destruction and healing processes.
The title of the exhibition is borrowed from the book Peace with Earth, written in 1940 by the journalist and author Elin Wägner (1882–1949) and the landowner Elisabeth Tamm, a time when Europe had just been thrown into a world war. In the book Elin Wägner points out connection between the struggle for peace and sustainable agriculture, and her ideas have later become of great importance for the emergence of a broader environmental policy.
Chirps from extinct birds, waste on beaches that will never decompose and a wooden giant made from a pruned chestnut tree from Djurgården. These are some of the works that visitors will encounter in the exhibition Peace with the Earth at Järva Gymnasium this spring.
Participating artists: Ann Lislegaard, CATPC, Enno Hallek, Hira Nabi, Ingela Ihrman, Mats Adelman, Mona Monasar, Tom Bogaard, Aqui Thami and Ylva Westerlund.
The location is the so-called Glaskilen, a room surrounded by a winter garden with exotic plants, which was part of the architect Gösta Uddén's vision when he designed the school building next to the center of Tensta in the early 1980s. Based on the garden and the proximity to the Järvafältet cultural reserve, the exhibition approaches the burning questions about the connection between nature and economy, between exploitation and care and between environmental destruction and healing processes.
The title of the exhibition is borrowed from the book Peace with Earth, written in 1940 by the journalist and author Elin Wägner (1882–1949) and the landowner Elisabeth Tamm, a time when Europe had just been thrown into a world war. In the book Elin Wägner points out connection between the struggle for peace and sustainable agriculture, and her ideas have later become of great importance for the emergence of a broader environmental policy.
Image: Ylva Westerlund, Breathing rain, 2024.
https://www.tenstakonsthall.se/se/hander-pa-konsthallen/fred-med-jorden
