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Welcome to join us at Index for a double exhibition opening and a warm farewell to Marti Manen as Director of Index!Opening 19 February 2026, Index presents two exhibitions with dramatically expanded temporalities—layering histories and the present moment, in relation to historical exhibition formats and the expanded role of the institution. One exhibition draws a line through time to 2006, restaging Harun Farocki’s first Swedish solo exhibition twenty years later; the other initiates an extended exhibition by choreographer, artist, and curator Pontus Pettersson, who begins a year-long exhibition at Index—in parallel with the overarching exhibition program—playing with performativity, artistic experimentation and occupying the role of a social ghost within the Index team.
18:00 – Welcome and introduction to the exhibitions by co-directors Marti Manen and Isabella Tjäder
18:30 – Performance by Pontus Pettersson
Harun Farocki: VIDEOGRAMME EINER REVOLUTION (2026)
Index presents (again, twenty years later) the first Swedish solo exhibition featuring the German film-maker Harun Farocki, whose work has been an important reference for other filmmakers and artists as well as for media theorists since the 1960s. His analytical use of film was unique, both in regard to the quantity of films he made, and the influence he had on the contemporary discussion of image as language and tool for political structures. After Harun Farocki’s exhibition at Index, he left his films at the institution with the intention of sharing them. The exhibition in 2026 marks an important moment for observing the role of art and film in relation to social constructions and political readings. In the last two decades, the velocity of the visual image have transformed society, yet the impact of the subjective gaze remains significant.
Pontus Pettersson: AIR
Over the course of one full year, Stockholm-based choreographer, artist, and curator Pontus Pettersson will be present at Index through the format of an extended exhibition and performance—playing with the juxtaposed roles (or non-roles) of institutions and (often solitary) artists, exploring how these relationships can generate meaningful exchange or parasitic structures.
The extended exhibition offers Pontus Pettersson the frame to develop new works while experimenting with innovative modes of presentation and artistic processes, almost joining—or slightly shadowing—the Index team. AIR is part ghost, part immaterial, part shadow, part language: sometimes its presence is visible, sometimes missing.
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