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26.9 – 13.1 Tensta Museum Branch at ArkDes Winter. Part II, Winter.  

1982 was the year when the city authorities had decided to close down ner Norra Latins Gymnasium (high school), and the administration together with the staff and everything, had to move to the brand new Tensta gymnasium building. A few years later, a film, including interviews and reports with teachers and students, was made about how it all had turned out. This film and some other fascinating stories from the suburb Tensta, will be presented in part two. 

Tensta Museum is Tensta konsthall’s ongoing project with its focus on history and memory in Tensta, seen through the eyes of those who live and work here, starting from the spot as well as all the historical layers. One could say that we ”play museum”, now with a branch at ArkDes. 

–The housing area in Tensta was built 1967–72 as part of the million dwelling program and this happened on ancient agricultural land, thus the housings are located side by side with tombs from the Iron age, rune stones and here’s also where you can find one of the oldest churches in Stockholm, Spånga kyrka. Of ca 20 000 people living here, about 90 percent have a trans local background. Evidently, it’s a place with many facets.  

The Tensta Trotting Society was founded in 2013 by the artists Bernd Krauss and Nina Svensson together with a group of children from the area, who, in a somewhat original way asked themselves the questions: What is typically Swedish? The artists were interested in how trotting is related to identity. In Sweden, trotting is a mainstream culture at same time as Sweden is counted as the foremost trotting country in the world. At ArkDes, an entertaining film about Tensta Trotting Society is shown, made by the gaming association ATG.  

Participants and artists: Adam Tensta, Aktion Arkiv med Sara Brolund de Carvalho, Meike Schalk and Helena Mattsson, Ane Hjort Guttu, Brita Landoff, Claudia del Fierro, Kvinnocenter i Tensta-Hjulsta, k.ö.k, Marie-Louise Ekman, Nina Svensson and Bernd Krauss, StreetGäris, Tensta konsthall’s Text Prize and works by Mona Johansson and Olle Nyman from public schools in Tensta.

Public Luxury at ArkDes is an exhibition about architecture, design and the struggle for the common. Until 13.1.19