CurExRes/CER: A Curator Exhibition Residency Programme

Our next Curator-in-residence will be selected by an open call, and is a collaboration with the Austrian Ministry of Culture and KÖR Kunst im öffentlichen Raum im Wien, Austrian Embassy in Sweden and SWAN - Swedish Artist Residency Network.

The main concept of CER is that a curator gets to engage in the local art life in a Swedish city over a longer period, connect with artists and have time to reflect - and ideally have the possibility of curating an exhibition or at least give a talk at the end of their stay. The framework for the exhibition or presentation (spaces, budget, technology) will be different for each residency. Each curator residency is tailor maid from the interests of the individual curator.

The residency is flexible in time but ideally the curator stays for at least one, two, or three months long and is intended for the curator to engage with the local art scene and meet its artists, but also to take time to do research, studio visits and spend time on own terms.

CER is developed in collaboration with Swedish Curator’s Association and has prevously hosted two curators, Awa Konaté (Denmark/Ivory Coast) and Farida Youssef (Egypt).

Awa Konaté / Culture Art Society was in a Curator-in-Residence in collaboration with SITE Zones at NKF, Nordiska Konstförbundet 2023 and CER supported by Region Stockholm, and the residency resulted in an exhibition at SITE Zones. Konaté stayed for one month in the center of Stockholm. Konaté also held a talk at NKF at the end of her stay.

Farida Youssef is involved in a long-term curatorial exchange project between Egypt and the Nordic countries named Cultivating Curating, with is partnering with the Swedish Curator’s Association, CuratorLab Stockholm (curatorial programme at Konstfack College of Art and Design), Index Foundation Stockholm, Something Else art festival in Egypt and Ard Art Institution in Cairo. Youssef stayed for one week at the end of 2024, visiting Stockholm and Malmö and gave a talk in Malmö hosted by Iaspis, International Programme for Visual and Applied Arts through Power Ekroth/CER.

The host and founder of CER is Power Ekroth.

CER is a member of SWAN.

Power Ekroth (SWE/NO) is an independent curator, critic and educator as well as the managing editor of SITE Zones. She is a curator at Stockholm konst, working with commissioning and purchasing of art to public spaces in the city. She recently curated the Greenlight Triennial in Skien and Porsgrunn, Norway entitled The Curse of an Unstoppable Appetite. She will curate the summer exhibition Beyond the Safe Zone at Borås Konstmuseum during 2025. She co-founded the Swedish Curator Association with Jonatan Habib Enquist, whom she also administrates the informal group Nordic Curators United. For more information see www.powerekroth.net