Like a drop of water in a rock crevasse, we permeate the difficult questions. We are the capillary force itself, in liquid form we move through a fragile explosive force. We seep down into dark soils. We seek for the roots themselves to take care of what wants to grow out of them. EPOKEN (formerly Art Lab Gnesta) is constantly changing but is, at the same time, unshakable. We are experimenting with new alternatives in the present and the future(s). Through the artistic thought and the artistic work, we are a site for mourning, play and resistance.
Event
Fire, music, and Alchemic spirits
– We welcome the public as a year of collaboration between Epoken and the Center for Art and the Political Imaginary comes to head. September 26, 7:00–9:00 p.m. Over the course of the year, Epoken and CAPIm have developed a partnership, and on September 25–27, CAPIm will host its second Research Annual, “Epochality: Art and […] Read more
Event | Exhibitions
By the Beasts for the Beasts
The exhibition will be on view from September 5 to November 29, 2026.
A day on the threshold of a new epoch; Epoken – we open the doors to Fagernäs and let the new place begin to take shape.
Welcome to Epoken in Mölnbo on Saturday, 5 September 2026, from 12:00 to 16:00.
In 2026, Art Lab Gnesta sheds its skin and steps into Epoken. After fifteen years in the old brewery in Gnesta, the organisation is moving to Fagernäs in the neighbouring village of Mölnbo, and shifting it up to the next level. Here, a new place for artistic production, residencies, research, participation, exhibitions and public programmes is being nested into being.
2026 is a year of transition, with the locations Bryggerihuset and Fagernäs existing side by side. Terike Haapoja’s exhibition By the Beasts for the Beasts stretches between the two sites, taking over the façades of both buildings. The work muddies the boundaries between human, animal and beast – boundaries that have been drawn and enforced at Fagernäs for more than a century. Read more
Address: Fagernäsvägen 7, 153 60 Mölnbo
Event
Artistic Research at Epoken
In 2026, Art Lab Gnesta and CAPIm, The Centre for Art and the Political Imaginary, will launch a collaboration focused on artistic research, site-specific practice, and visions of the future. CAPIm is a center for interdisciplinary practice and research at the intersection of contemporary art and the future imaginative capacity of politics, based at HDK-Valand, […] Read more
Epoken (formerly Art Lab Gnesta)
For many years, our home has been the old brewery in Gnesta, where we have worked in studios, a risograph studio, a large greenhouse, workshops, and exhibition spaces. We will continue to operate here in 2026.
After fifteen years in the old brewery in Gnesta, the operation is moving to Fagernäs in the neighboring village of Mölnbo and stepping up its activities. A new venue for artistic production, residencies, research, participatory projects, and public programs.
We do exhibitions, publications, talks, interventions and other events both in the house, in public space and with our collaborating partners. In our residency program, artists are invited to produce new artworks that cultivate discussions about our present and its possible future(s).
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EPOKEN at Fagernäs, in Mölnbo.
EPOKEN at Fagernäs in Mölnbo
In 2026, our operations will be fully underway in Gnesta, while we gradually establish a presence in Mölnbo, where we will move into Fagernäs in 2027. Read more about Fagernäs
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