Routes of Resistance

26 November – 1 December 2024

Birgit Rausing’s Hall

Vernissage November 26 at 17–20, inauguration at 18.00

During a creative week at Skissernas Museum the curators from Routes of Resistance will collectively continue the process by exploring each other’s material to create a joint form of expression, negotiating polyphonic, more complex perspectives on global artistic routes of resistance.

In Birgit Rausing’s Hall, this process-based project develops in the form of an exhibition and a zine, a collaborative publication.

Artists, curators, writers and activists have long resisted centres of power, instead centring their work and lived experiences. This modular exhibition questions freedom as it relates to creative practice, asking how artists express themselves without threat or what the consequences are of those threats. They also accompany social movements and demands, showing how arts are places of resistance, dialogue, consensus and dissent.

Moving between the historical and contemporary position, the exhibition expands the notion of freedom beyond the “international human rights” language and into a meaningful series of reflections on lived experiences. It further moves the definition of freedom into recognising that artists need to sustain themselves to be free and that artists are integral to the health of societies in which oppositional points of view can coexist.

The Routes of Resistance exhibition project was initiated by SH|FT, a non-profit organisation dedicated to artistic freedom. Following a creative brainstorm session in Mexico City in December 2022, a collective project was formed with curators from District 6 Museum in Cape Town, Borderlands Art in Kampala, Studio Barakeh in Berlin, and El Centro Cultural Universitario Tlatelolco in Mexico City. Each curator has since then created and displayed
their unique exhibition with regional and international artists in each location.

Represented artists:

Regina José Galindo, Adán Vallecillo, Saúl Kak, PH Joel, Délmer Membreño, and Robin Canul.
Curated by Sofia Carrillo Herrerías

Charity Atukunda, Elsadig Janka and Gloria Kiconco
Curated by Dr Helga Rainer and Dr Kara Blackmore

Dean Hutton, Iman Zanele Omar, Lindsay Petersen, Minenkulu Ngoyi, Randy Hartzenberg, Levy Pooe, Hugo Kabeya and Donovan Ward.
Curated by Ayesha Price and Bonita Bennett.

Adam Broomberg, Rafael Gonzalez, Anaïs Duplan (poet, curator, Bastardilla, Anti Story (anonymous art project)
Daniela Ortiz, Ghayath Almadhoun, Halima Aziz, Hamja Ahsan, John Keane, Johanna Tagada Hoffbeck, Liad Hussein Kantorowicz, Phoebe Walton, Raphaël Malik, Ruangrupa, Shahidul Alam, Taring Padi and Tinne Zenner.
Curated by Khaled Barakeh

Participating Curators on site:

Bonita Bennett, District Six Museum, Cape Town, South Africa
Dr Kara Blackmore, Borderlands Art, Kampala, Uganda
Khaled Barakeh, Studio Barakeh, Berlin, Germany
Sofía Carrillo Herrerías, Centro Cultural Universitario Tlatelolco, Mexico City, Mexico
Process Leader/Zine Maker: Gloria Kiconco, Kampala, Uganda

Read more about SH|FT

This project is funded by the Swedish Postcode Lottery Foundation.

Thanks to Hedlandet Residens

Program

Wednesday 28 November at 17–19
Meet the curators and talk to them about the works they represent.
Meet the curators of Routes of Resistance