VÅRSALONG is here! Our second collaboration with Ljurhalla Fabriken.
An afternoon of art, music, and performance set within the grounds of a former factory built in 1938 for the production of agricultural machinery.
Exhibiting artists: Sessa Englund, Mariana Paniagua Cortés and Ann-Maj Risgaard
Artist talk: Ann-Maj Risgaard
Live Set: LIZ
Spring is here. If you want it.
NSFW & Ljurhalla Fabriken
*LjurhallaFabriken is a non-profit organisation and meeting place for art, design and craft, based within a 1930s factory and surrounding forest in rural Vårgårda, Sweden. Founded in 2021 by artist Rachel Barron and child culture designer Nathan Clydesdale, LjurhallaFabriken supports community building, resource sharing, artistic practice and cross-disciplinary collaboration.
→ Sessa Englund (b. 1989, Connecticut, USA) is a Swedish-American sculptor based in Berlin. They grew up in Gothenburg, Sweden, studied art in New York City and later lived in Los Angeles, continuing to exhibit internationally.
Recent solo exhibitions include Willing & Able at NSFW Gallery (2024), Feigning Death (2023) and Fool’s Errand (2021) at Hunter Shaw Fine Art, and Wild Objects with Alicia Adamerovich at Project Pangée, Montreal (2019). Selected group shows include Dream in Deixis at Tufenkian, Los Angeles (2022), Forever Mall at Shoot the Lobster (2020), and Games of Ceres at King’s Leap, Brooklyn (2018).
Their practice explores transience, identity, and the fragility of objects, examining the shifting dynamics between materiality and the body.
→ Mariana Paniagua Cortés (Mexico City, 1994) approaches landscape as a field of multiple forces, examining the different configurations these forces take when embodied within the world. Her practice also explores forms of figuration that emerge through the processes of painting: an accumulation of layers of time and material that gradually settle and condense into an object that appears to return an uncanny gaze.
She holds a BA in Visual Arts from the Faculty of Arts and Design at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), where she is currently also pursuing a master's degree.
Her solo exhibitions include Hongos brotan de la noche anterior (Museo Hospicio Cabañas, 2025), Miro el sol y no lo reconozco (Sala GAM, 2024), Every spore like a fall (NSFW, 2024), Yo pasé entre los dos colmillos (ISLERA, 2023), and Como renuncia a ser flor lo que es hierba (Nixxxon, 2022), among others.
She has participated in numerous group exhibitions both in Mexico and internationally, including: El rumor de las cosas (PEANA, 2025), Relatos de lo insólito (Museo de Arte de Zapopan, 2025), El cuarto de los ojos sucios (Museo Raúl Anguiano, 2025), Suceder (Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Querétaro, 2024), Vestigios metabólicos (MASA Galería, 2023), Eje Neovolcánico (Museo de Arte Moderno, Mexico City, 2023), and Hacer algo de la nada (Museo de Arte Carrillo
→ Ann-Maj Risgaard (b. 1994) is a Danish textile artist based in the countryside outside Gothenburg. Trained in fashion design, she maintains a strong interest in the corporeal dimension. Her work is a material- and technique-based interaction between landscape and human presence. Using caring techniques such as braiding and ultra-local resources like wool and grass, she seeks to create new forms of dialogue between humans and the landscape — potentially suggesting an alternative hierarchical order. Her works are junctions of formerly acquainted bodies, shaped by the repetitive work of care.
→ LIZ, a new proto-industrial soundtrack to the shadow-world, played and produced by artist and musician Johannes Brander. Previously circulating on underground tapes, the debut LP will be released by Discreet Music later this year.