Stockholm Cosmologies

Stockholm Cosmologies brings together fifteen fine artists working across media and active in multiple geographies, spanning Scandinavia, Africa, and its diaspora. Stockholm Cosmologies looks at the concept of cosmology as a poetic and political model for how artists relate to the world, time, place, material, and to one another.  
In this second iteration of the curatorial project that began with Stockholm Cosmology (2024), Liljevalchs continues its survey of the Swedish art scene by considering various contact zones and turning its gaze further afield. 
One contact zone stems from the diplomatic relations between Sweden and the South African government-in-exile between the 1960s and mid 1990s, a relationship rooted in solidarity and kinship. 
The practice of South African-born artist Lefifi Tladi, and his life of exile, existing between Sweden and South Africa, is a departure point for the curatorial journey.