Name: September Sessions 2024
Start: 2024-09-19T17:00:00+02:00
End: 2024-09-22T17:00:00+02:00
Location: Stockholm, Sweden

SEPTEMBER SESSIONS—A Contemporary Art Festival in Stockholm
19.9–22.9 2024
(with a prelude 14.9)
An initiative by Mint and Index including a festival programme curated by Yaby.
September Sessions—A Contemporary Art Festival in Stockholm is back with a four-day programme spread across various art organizations in the city as well as public spaces in Stockholm. The festival hosts exhibitions, performances, concerts, film screenings, IASPIS Open Studios, and social gatherings. Whilst celebrating the diversity of Stockholm’s art scene, September Sessions aims to create a platform for invited curators’ contributions.
Collaborating art organisations are Bonniers Konsthall, Filmform, Ghost Platform, IASPIS, Index, Konsthall C, Liljevalchs, MDT, Mint, Public Art Agency Sweden. A prelude will be arranged on September 14 by Accelerator, featuring artist collective CHEAP.
The second edition of September Sessions presents Rouge Ravager—a programme from the curatorial duo Yaby, founded in Madrid 2017 by Beatriz Ortega Botas and Alberto Vallejo. The programme includes work by artists Alex Margo Arden, Sam Cottington, Craig Jun Li, z.No scott, Cara Tolmie among others.
Rouge Ravager will unfold in the curious setting of Skandia, a 1920s cinema designed by one of Sweden’s leading modernist architects, Gunnar Asplund. Its velvet interiors, taut projection screen and cinematically invocated elsewhere intermingle and set the tonal frame for the works featured.
Rouge Ravager looks at the performative side of visual art through a series of offsite pieces that engage with “liveness”—they happen, they do something, they conjure up time and respond theatrically to the narratives staged by a particular space. Like in the architectural and cinematic demeanor of Skandia, notions of here and elsewhere underlie the works of the selected artists, pulling the audience to different settings and pointing their attention to different places or moments where a sense of meaning or at least completeness might be located. Presentness gets boosted through anticipation and spark, charged with conjecture, tropes, wariness and hanging emotions.
As part of September Sessions, a series of exhibitions and events will be organized by Accelerator, Bonniers Konsthall, Filmform, Ghost Platform, Index, Konsthall C, Liljevalchs, MDT, Mint, and Public Art Agency Sweden with Rosa Aiello and Dylan Aiello, CHEAP, Dynamic Resistance, Elisabete Finger and Manuela Eichner, Frida Orupabo, Ksenia Pedan, Massinissa Selmani, Xiu Xiu.
Also, IASPIS international residency programme in Stockholm opens its doors with the seasonal Open Studios, featuring artists Becca Albee, Emelie Carlén, Martine Flor, Leif Holmstrand, Xadalu Tupã Jekupé, Göksu Kunak, Bror Ida Lennartsson, Sara Lindström Lindhe, Mounira Al Solh, Lauda Virginia Vargas.
Graphic design: Aron Kullander-Östling
Banner photo: Lasse Olsson

SCHEDULE – SEPTEMBER SESSIONS 2024
[SATURDAY 14/9
(Prelude)
19.00–22.00: Performance: CHEAP: A World Where Nothing Is Private
Location: Accelerator]

THURSDAY 19/9
17.00–20.00: Opening:
Massinissa Selmani: 1000 VILLAGES
Location: Index
17.00–20.00: Opening:
LOVE TEST: P.O.V.
–Rosa Aiello & DylanAiello
Location: Mint
20.30: Performance:
LOVE TEST: Cruising for a Bruising – Rosa Aiello & Dylan Aiello
Location: Mint

FRIDAY 20/9
9.30–17.00: Open House and Breakfast for curators and art professionals
Location: Filmform
13.00–20.00: Iaspis Open Studios
Location: IASPIS
17.00–19.00: Listening session and reception:
Artistic research projectGhost platform.
Location: Holländargatan 13
19.00–21.00: Opening September Sessions’ programme Rouge Ravager curated by YABY. With Alex Margo Arden and Craig Jun Li.
Location: Skandia
22.00: Performance: Monstra by Elisabete Finger, Manuela Eichner. Produced by Statens konstråd.
Location: MDT
21.00–23.00: September Sessions Bar
Location: Skandia

SATURDAY 21/9
14.00: Conversation: Reflections on the Meditation Room with Mmabatho Thobejane.
Location: Konsthall C
14.00: Conversation: Artist Ksenia Pedan and Bonniers Konsthall’s artistic director Joanna Nordin talk in Pedan's exhibition FORMING THE CULTURE OF A DORMANT BRAIN.
Location: Bonniers konsthall
15.00: Special visit: Fanna Norrby presents Frida Orupabo On Lies, Secrets and Silence exhibition (in Swedish).
Location: Bonniers konsthall
16.00: Artist talk: Massinissa Selmani and Khaled Bouzidi.
Location: Index
18.00–21.00: September Sessions’ Rouge Ravager curated by YABY with Sam Cottington, z.No Scott and Cara Tolmie.
Location: Skandia
21.00–23.00: September Sessions Bar
Location: Skandia

SUNDAY 22/9
12.00: Guided tour: With Rosa Aiello and Dylan Aiello.
Location: Mint
13.00: Performance: Dynamic Resistance (for Liljevalchs), by Jojo Ahlkvist and Hedda Bauer.
Location: Liljevalchs
15.00: Performance: Monstra by Elisabete Finger, Manuela Eichner. Produced by Statens konstråd.
Location: MDT

EXHIBITIONS:
Rosa Aiello & Dylan Aiello: LOVE TEST: P.O.V.
Location: Mint
Ksenia Pedan: FORMING THE CULTURE OF A DORMANT BRAIN
Location: Bonniers Konsthall
Frida Orupabo: ON LIES, SECRETS AND SILENCE
Location: Bonniers Konsthall
Massinissa Selmani: 1000 VILLAGES
Location: Index
HEARTBRAIN: 50 YEARS OF CONTEMPORARY ART THROUGH THE COLLECTION OF MARIKA AND CG WACHTMEISTER
Location: Liljevalchs
MEDITATION ROOM
Location: Konsthall C