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, the University of Gothenburg, and the Royal Institute of Art in Stockholm. The center works to strengthen the links between research and education through experimental methods and is Sweden’s first research center dedicated to artistic research.
The collaboration begins in May with a residency at the artwork Solastalgia Pangolin at Epoken in Mölnbo, where students, researchers, and staff are invited to stay, reflect, read, and keep a journal in close connection with the landscape. Here, slow, attentive, and site-specific forms of artistic work are explored, where the encounter with the site becomes part of the investigation. Follow ongoing updates about the guests and their work via our Instagram.
In September, the collaboration continues with CAPIm’s Annual Research Symposium 2026, taking place September 25–27, 2026, at the Royal Institute of Art in Stockholm and at Epoken in Mölnbo. This year’s symposium invites to three days of reflection, exploration, and critical dialogue on epochality, and how it structures our understanding of time, shapes how we view the past, and influences our ability to imagine the future.
During the symposium, Epoken will serve as a space for collaborative work, experimentation, conversation, and collective exercises exploring how a new era might be brought about, drawing on Epoken’s origins, specific location, and conditions, including its ecological disruptions and more-than-human realities.
Epoken is the next phase in the development of Art Lab Gnesta, an art(ist)-driven institution in the Swedish countryside, characterized by long-term, exploratory, and site-specific work. The move to a former industrial site in Mölnbo continues an ongoing attempt to create new spatial, ecological, and institutional conditions for artistic work beyond the Anthropocene.