Åsa Elzén
June 2, 2012
Opening: Mary Wollstonecraft’s Scandinavian journey 1795 re-traced at Kalmar Konstmuseum, 2/6 – 2/9 2012
December 2, 2016
5 –8 pm
Opening: A new job to unwork at, curated by Andrew Kachel and Clara López Menéndez, Artspace, New Haven CT, 2/12 2016 – 4/3 2017
YES! Association / Föreningen JA! is contributing with our new durational participatory action All that you touch You Change. All that you
Participating artists include: Kristine Anthis, Anna Betbeze, Jesse Darling, Joao Enxuto & Erica Love, Park McArthur, Mierle Laderman Ukeles,
YES! Association / Föreningen JA! and Constantina Zavitsanos.
January 14–15, 3–8 pm + January 19–22, 3–6 pm, 2017
OPEN STUDIO: Åsa Elzén, Enikö Márton, Markus Wetzel and Upcycling / François Rossier
Zönotéka/Hobrechtstr 54, 12047 Berlin
Come visit!
February 25, 2017
12.30 am – 7.45 pm
Symposium: A new job to unwork at, organized by Andrew Kachel and Clara López Menéndez, Artspace, New Haven CT
On Saturday, February 25, curators Andrew Kachel and Clara López Menéndez will host a day-long symposium at Artspace in conjunction with A new job to unwork at. A lineup of workshops, talks, and performances will involve artists featured in the exhibition, as well as other artists, writers, performers, and students whose practices explore the ways cultural production is enmeshed in a larger network of labor relations and social contexts. The symposium is free and open to the public.
May 21, 2017
4– 7pm
Opening: The Work of Love, The Queer of Labor, curated by Olga Kopenkina and Yevgeniy Fiks, Franklin Street Works, Stamford CT 21/5– 27/8, 2017
YES! Association / Föreningen JA! is contributing with a.o. the new project A New Spelling of a Street – A tribute to Audre Lorde.
The aim of the project is to name / rename a street in South End, Stamford to Audre Lorde Street in honor of (with her own words)
”black lesbian feminist mother poet warrior“ Audre Lorde (1934-1992) who lived and worked in Stamford during the 1950s.
Participating artists: Angela Beallor, Hugo Gellert, Montague Glover, Noam Gonick, Hagra, William E. Jones, Erik Moskowitz+Amanda Trager, Jaanus Samma, and YES! Association / Föreningen JA!
June 28 , 2017
7 pm
Opening: Performing Relationships, curated by Krisztina Hunya_Daniel Niggemann, KV Leipzig, Leipzig, DE, 29/6 2017 – 13/8 2017
YES! Association / Föreningen JA! is participating with a second version of the durational participatory action All that you touch You Change.
All that you Change Changes you #2
Participating artists include: Johannes Bendzulla, Jennifer Bennett, Miklós Erhardt (Big Hope), Máté Fillér, Mutter/Genth, titre provisoire,
Anna Lena von Helldorff, YES! Association / Föreningen JA!, Heimo Zobernig.
June 30, 2018
1 pm
Opening: Bie biennal/text curated by Lars Hermansson and Daphne Carlos, Bie, Sweden 30/6 – 15/7 2018
I am presenting a participatory site specific installation / action While I am trying to get to know Fredrika, I am always thinking of
you (Medan jag försöker bli bekant med Fredrika, tänker jag jämt på dig). The title is a quote from a letter written by Elin Wägner
to Klara Johanson 19/4 1948 (in Swedish).
Participating artists and writers: Dave Allen, Ebba Bohlin, Åsa Elzén, Jörgen Gassilewski, Camilla Hammarström, Johan Malmström,
Tina Nykvist, Cia Rinne, Hanna Stahle, Johan Svensson, Pär Thörn, Markus Weiss, Markus Wetzel
April 27, 2018
7 pm
Opening: To Become Two exhibition and book by Alex Martinis Roe, Archive Kabinett and Archive Books, Berlin 27/4 – 25/5 2018
co-commissioned by ar/ge kunst (Bolzano); Casco – Office for Art, Design and Theory, (Utrecht); If I Can’t Dance, I Don’t Want To Be Part Of Your Revolution (Amsterdam) and
The Showroom (London)
I am participating in the book and contributed to the workshop Our Future Network that is part of this project.
October, 2018
Public Art Commission: Forest Calling – A Never-ending Contaminated Collaboration or Dancing is a Form of Forest Knowledge
in collaboration with Malin Arnell within the framework of Local Art Projects founded by Statens Konstråd / Public Art Agency Sweden (2019 - 2020)
More info soon!
November 29, 2018
Symposium: The Voice and the Institution, organized and moderated by Lisa Rosendahl and Marthe Ramm Fortun, Academy of Fine Art Oslo
Malin Arnell and I will present some of YES! Association / Föreningen JA!s work during the event. Other participants: Maria Navarro Skaranger, Ahmad Umar, Lisa Vippola, Lars Brekke, Goro Tronsmo.
December 6 -7, 2018
Malin Arnell and I will participate in the start-up meeting within Local Art Projects, Gothenburg organized by Statens Konstråd / Public Art Agency Sweden and present our on-going collaboration Forest Calling – A Never-ending Contaminated Collaboration or Dancing is a Form of Forest Knowledge
May 11, 2019, 12.00 - 16.00
Opening: En Trädas biografi / Biography of A Fallow, solo exhibition at Eskilstuna Konstmuseum, Eskilstuna, Sweden 11/5 – 22/9 2019
More info soon!
“En Träda” / “A Fallow”, (detail) rug 6 x 4,6 m,
wool and linen, composed by Maja Fjaestad,
vowen by Amelie Fjaestad, commissioned by Elisabeth Tamm at Fogelstad, 1919 - 1920