Art Architecture
S E S
Studio Elin Strand Ruin
THE KITCHEN SQUARE -
Women from Hallonbergen redesign the city,
Marabouparken Konsthall Nov 26 - Dec 18, 2022
Nov 26 - Dec 18, 2022 - Workshops during exhibition at Marabouparken Konsthall, https://marabouparken.se/elin-strand-ruin-kokets-torg/?lang=en
May 23 MAPPING URBAN RESOURCES & KITCHEN SQUARE CONFERENCE
at Marabouparken konsthall. Part of the international research project MAPURBAN (2021-22) in collaboration with Anne Legeby, KTH, UCL, University of Kent, University of Coventry, Free University, Berlin. Swedish partners:
The City of Sundbyberg, the Growth and Regional Planning Office (TRF), A-KTH and Marabouparken konsthall. https://jpiurbaneurope.eu/project/mapurban/ https://research.kent.ac.uk/mapurban-eu/
May 9, 16, 23 2022 'The Kitchen Square' cooking relay with 24 local women and their social networks in the local neighbourhood of Hallonbergen in collaboration with
Marabouparken Konsthall, MAPURBAN research project, the pre-school Stella Nova, Verdandi and Balder.
https://marabouparken.se/matlagningsstafett-pa-kokets-torg/?lang=en
THE BLIND ALLEY, Istanbul, March 2022
The Blind Alley by Özge Açıkkol and Elin Strand Ruin, ' REFECTIONS FROM THE WOMANS ARCHIVES', DEPO Istanbul, MARCH 2022
The women from Balat visited the replica of 'their street' at the exhibition March 29, 2022. Tea, cake and discussions together with The Womens Library and Archive, Özge Açıkkol and Elin Strand Ruin.
The Blind Alley by Özge Açıkkol and Elin Strand Ruin, ' REFECTIONS FROM THE WOMANS ARCHIVES', DEPO Istanbul, MARCH 2022
The exhibition REFECTIONS FROM THE WOMEN'S ARCHIVES DEPO, Istanbul March 17 - April 29, 2022
An art project researching The Woman’s Library and Archive initiated by Mike Bode, The Swedish Consulate General, The Swedish Institute/Equal Spaces in collaboration with Gallery Depo. In the project three Swedish and Turkish artists are paired: Larissa Araz and Petra Bauer, Şafak Şule Kemancı and Ays Alayat, Özge Açıkkol and Elin Strand Ruin
“Is this space really as narrow as it looks from the outside?”(Ertug, 2013/20)
model of a domestic public space with the potential to become a strategic urban countermovement for today's environmental crises. A living archive and sensory experience: collected knowledge and recipes entwined with photographs, cut outs, letters and sound files, plants and words, gestures, textures, itineraries, connections and feelings from the everyday life of the women both from the Women’s Library an-archive and from the rural-urban neighbourhood of Balat and many other places in Istanbul.
Text by Elin Strand Ruin and Özge Açıkkol: https://www.depoistanbul.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/2022_13m2_OzgeElin.pdf
“How Women Relate to Space in Rural Anatolia” (2020) by Fusun Ertug in Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Woman and Space in Turkey, ed. Gönül Bakay, Peter Lang, 2020.
Azime, Besime, Eda, Fevziye, Füsun, Güllü, Müfide, Makbule,
Meliha, Simla, Süreyya, Şengül, Zehra, Nakiye, Ecem and Gökçe.
The Blind Alley emerged from our common interest in women’s networks explored in relation to public space. By focusing on domestic life and everyday practices in The Women’s Library’s archive and connecting it to its close neighbourhood of Balat, the research led us to uncover lost connections. Not only between the private households and local women’s networks in Balat and the public institution of the Archive, but also between rural women and urban spatial circumstances and the Archive’s founding women’s network. The Blind Alley is presented at Depo Istanbul as an existing
The Kitchen of Praxagora, 2021-2022
Photo Anders Bobert
'The Kitchen of Praxagora 2.0' Six days cooking relay with local women in suburbs of Stockholm: Husby, Tensta , Hökarängen and Bredäng, The City of Stockholm (2021-2022)
The Sphinx Contemplating Napoleon, 2021
(Bloomsbury) Included in publication by Giliane Tawadros with Mona Hatoum,Jananne Al-Ani, Gilliam Wearing, Yinka Shonibare,Susann Hiller, Barbara Kruger, Sherin Neshat etc. https://www.bloomsbury.com/.../sphinx-contemplating.../
Speaking Bernina, a four days performance at the Pump House Gallery in London in 2000, and then in the subsequent group exhibition The Veil, curated by Iniva (Institute of International Visual Art) and shown at The New Art Gallery in Walsall, UK; the Bluecoat Gallery in Liverpool, UK; Modern Art Oxford, UK; and Kulturhuset, Stockholm, Sweden (2003-2004). https://iniva.org/programme/projects/veil/; https://iniva.org/shop/publications/veil-veiling-representation-and-contempo rary-art/
THE KITCHEN SQUARE, 2019-
Photo Anders Bobert
Photo Alexandra Sell
Photo Alexandra Sell
The Kitchen Square, 2019
Photo Anders Bobert
The Kitchen Square, 2019, in the suburb of Hallonbergen, The City of Sundbyberg, Stockholm. A public space, permanent sculpture and a social tool. A long-term dialogue process that will last during the Hallonbergen Centre Refurbishment (2019-24) focusing on exploring and developing ' The Kitchen Square Method ' . When the downtown area is completed, The Kitchen Square will get att permanent position: 'a sculpture on a pedestal' on the city square, still possible to activate as a large common local kitchen. In collaboration with Stella Nova, Verdandi, Marabouparken Artspace and the developer Balder. Funded by Kulturbryggan and Balder.
Photo Anders Bobert
Photo Anders Bobert
The Kitchen of Praxagora, 2016, Documentation-film by Lisa Partby and Elin Strand Ruin
KNITTING HOUSE 2010-2017
Knitting house in collaboration with the New Beauty Council, 2010
ArkDes, 2013
Knitting House, ArkDes, Stockholm 2013
Knitting House sought to create space for speculation and imagination, but also to produce place and identity rather than simply representing or reflecting it.
Knitting House, Arkdes, 2013, exhibitioncatalogue https://arkdes.se/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/knitting-house.pdf
Knitting House has been exhibited at Husby Art Space (2010), The Reykjavik Art Museum, Iceland (2012), ArkDes (Sweden's National Centre for Architecture and Design in Stockholm) (2013) and Marabouparken Art Space (2017). Knitting House takes the form of a knitted model of a two-bedroom apartment in a building on Oslogatan 8 in the Stockholm suburb of Husby. I initiated this art-architecture project, which was implemented through a collaboration with the curator Annika Enqvist of The New Beauty Council, in response to an invite from Husby Artspace; it took five years to complete the work. The project was realized in the autumn of 2010 mainly by a group of local women from the neighborhood; and initially students from the Masters of Architecture program at KTH-A and the Masters of Textile Design program at Konstfack, the University of Arts, Craft and Design; a couple of professional craftspeople. Over the course of eight weeks, we turned the
2-bedroomflat at Oslogatan 8 in Husby into a factory and an active public space. The idea of "knitting" the flat was a tribute, a declaration of love to the lives lived in these flats for nearly 40 years. By using twelve knitting machines, we created a reproduction of the Oslogatan dwelling, which is a typical standard apartment from the Swedish Million Programme era (built 1974). Moving out of the relatively private sphere of the flat into the public sphere of the art gallery also reinforced the feeling that the work was relevant outside the group itself. The women from Husby spoke at the opening seminar of their residential environment and problems in this low-income area.
Knitting House - production at Oslogatan 8 and exhibition at Husby Art 2010 - Film commissioned by Arkdes 2013 edited by Shiva Anoushirvani and Elin Strand Ruin.
EXHIBITIONS LECTURES DEBATE
LECTURES / PANELS / MODERATION: Lecture / Panel reSITE, Prag, 2017 and Bilgi University, Istanbul 2019, Public Art Agency Sweden 2014, Feministic City planning seminar, Dome of Vision, KTH, 2016, Architecture now and beyond, Dhaka, 2021, Uppsala Artmuseum: Public art and City development , 2019, Lecture at Sheffield School of Architecture, 2022 etc
MY KITCHEN, H+, 2011
Comissioned by Stockholm Arts (Stockholm Konst) An animal theatre with feelings and weather in collaboration with MADAM Snickeri (2014-2019)
Elin Strand Ruin is an artist and architect working within the field of partcipatory artpractice and urban place-making based on CARE and existing female networks. Her work operates at the interface between performative art and architecture, exploring how to catalyse social change by implementing everyday activities in the public space. Strand Ruin has exhibited at leading artistic, architectural and planning venues around Sweden and Europe during the last 20 years and is active in the debate issuing public space. Strand Ruin is educated in Fine Art at Goldsmiths College, UK, The Royal College of Art, Stockholm and has a MA in Architecture, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm. She is part of the researchproject MAPURBAN (Sthlm, Berlin, London) 2021-2022. She is based in Stockholm and runs the practice: S E S Studio Elin Strand Ruin.
Selected works: The Blind Alley in collaboration with the turkish artist Özge Açıkkol, 'Reflections from the Women's Archive', DEPO Istanbul, March (2022) Invited by the Swedish Institute and General Swedish Consulate. The Kitchen Square (2019-2023) exploring The Kitchen Square Method in collaboration with Stella Nova, Verdandi, Balder and Marabopuparken Artspace in Hallonbergen, The City of Sundbyberg.
She has developed The Kitchen of Praxagora, 2.0 with the City of Stockholm/ART (2021-2022). Knitting House (2010), My Kitchen (2011), The Heart of Darkness (2013), An Animal Theatre with Feelings and Feather (2014-2019), the group show Behind the Green (2018) Visby, Sweden, The Feministic Recycling-park (2016-21). Invited to speak at the Bilgi Univeristy in Istanbul (2019), and the Urban conference reSITE (2018) in Prague guest-curator Greg Lindsay, US, she moderated the Feministic City Planning Seminars by NCC (2016) and Feminst Cityplanning Conference by Safer Sweden (2018).
The project ‘Speaking Bernina’ is included in The Sphinx Contemplating Napoleon (2021) (Bloomsbury) by Giliane Tawadros including work by Mona Hatoum, Jananne Al-Ani, Gilliam Wearing, Yinka Shonibare, Susann Hiller, Barbara Kruger, Sherin Neshat etc. Published the project ‘The Kitchen of Praxagora’ in the anthology Architecture and Feminism, Routledge in association with AHRA, edited by Hèléne Frichot, Catharina Gabrielsson, Helen Runting (Sept)
