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AMISTAD / VÄNSKAP, 8–29 November 2025, Palacio Huerto Ruano, Lorca, Spain



Open Studio with Anneli Tegelberg. 10 October 2025, Friday



Paths – Juanma González & Alice Máselníková. 7 June-10 August 2025, ODA: Heritage Room, Gyumri, Armenia.



Rootless ground, forgetting flows – Luz Bañón. 23 May–5 June 2025, AllArtNow, Stockholm

Stereoscopic Interventions, multi-channel audiovisual installation, 2020


Open Studio with Ida-Johanna Lundqvist & Henrik Ekesiöö. 9 May 2025, Friday



Painters’ Salon 2024. Södertälje konsthall


Allemansrätten / Right to Roam – Sarah Calmus. 18–25 October 2024, Studio PANK, Stockholm

Sarah Calmus, Incremental (detail), 11 x 11 cm, projection slides with photographs on tiles and green satin, 2024

Flat Octopus is starting an artist-in-residence programme in July 2024

Courtesy of Sarah Calmus

Flat Quinquepus – Celebrating 5 Years with Flat Octopus. Saturday, 1 June 2024

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Blast From the Past – Cecilia Sterner. Supermarket 2024. 25–28 April, SKHLM Skärholmen Centrum

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Cecilia Sterner, Blast from the Past, installation detail – video work, 2020–21

To Oppose the Invisible – Ljubomir Popović. Slipvillan, 15–17 December 2023

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Ljubomir Popović,  Camo cold (detail), paper collage, 2023

1 RoK, egen brunn – Konrad Lidén. 8–9 December 2023

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Konrad Lidén, Kråslottsbacken 3C (staff entrance), cropped, mixed media, 2023

CROSSOVER. Studio 44, Stockholm. 10–24 November 2023

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Studio Visit – Ebba Jordelius, Stockholm. 23 November 2023

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Practices of Abstraction. A Meeting Point for Art and Science. Weld, 11 October 2023

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Studio visit – Sara Elggren, Stockholm. 18 September 2023

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Attempts On Her Kind – Karen Modrei and Hazel Mallon. 15–17 September 2023

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Photo by intra:knit

Malmö Studio Visits. 5 September 2023

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Finally home – Bengt Jahnsson-Wennberg, Alice Máselníková, Jesper Thour. Juxtapose Art Fair 2023, 1–3 September 2023

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Bengt Jahnsson-Wennberg, Alice Máselníková, Jesper Thour

The Emptiness Between – Eliška Kováčiková and Zahra Zavareh. 18–20 August 2023

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Showroom – Jonas Kjeldgaard Sørensen. Supermarket 2023, 11–14 May 2023

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Used image: Jonas Kjeldgaard Sørensen, Våbensliberen – The Weapon Grinder, performative installation, 2022

Perpetual Pulsation – Fanny Hellgren. Domeij Gallery, 31 March–2 April 2023

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Fanny Hellgren, Flux, acrylic on unprimed cotton canvas, 110 x 80 cm, 2023

Studio visit –  Ljubomir Popović, Stockholm. 22 February 2023

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Trädgården hemma hos mig – Anna Cherednikova. Botkyrka Residence, 10–12 February 2023

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Anna Cherednikova, The study of resistance, 2020. Photo: Anna Cherednikova

Finissage – Painters’ Salon 2022. 11 December 2022, 13–20

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Studio visit – Richard Griffith Carlsson, Stockholm. 25 November 2022

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Painters’ Salon 2022. Flat Octopus at Molekyl gallery, Malmö. 18 November–11 December

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Susanne Lund Pangrazio, Poise (detail), oil and iridescent acrylic on linen, 30 x 30 cm, 2022

Pilgrims on Gotland – Playing the game. 22 October 2022, 13-16

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{@} – Kaare Ruud. Galleri Nef, 7–9 October 2022

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Kaare Ruud, Untitled rose figure (looking for patterns in pebbles). Photo: Kaare Ruud


Exhibition Case at Färgfabriken: Katarina Sylvan – Two Blue Fencers. 11 August–30 September 2022

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Katarina Sylvan, Two Blue Fencers, video still

Landscapes of other places at Supermarket 2022

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Exhibition Case at Färgfabriken: Amanda Selinder – Myceliated. 30 April – 19 June 2022

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Amanda Selinder, Myceliated, process documentation. Fungal mycelium, silk and nutrient agar in petri dish, 2021. Photo by Ricard Estay.

Schools and Gardens 2022 – Sodas 2123, Vilnius, Lithuania. 27 April 2022

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Joanna Sieradzka på bio. Aspen Bio, 7-10 April 2022

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Joanna Sieradzka, untitled, oil on paper, 38 x 55 cm, 2022

THREE YEARS OF OCTOPUSSING. 02 April 2022, 18-22

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VOICES: From inside to here. Sunday 13 March 2022, 13–14

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Exhibition Case at Färgfabriken: Maria Nordsø Lundberg – Memory & VOICES: From inside to here. 13 March–16 April 2022

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Maria Nordsø Lundberg, Memory, Mongolian papiér maché, 42 x 51 x 36 cm, 2020

Exhibition Case at Färgfabriken: Filippa Wikner – Curling Scene. 5–26 February 2022

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Filippa Wikner, Curling scene, mixed media (wood, plaster, pigment), 15 x 15 x 62 cm, 2022

Julauktion/Christmas auction with Hammer and Auctioneer
11 December 2021, 13–20

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1st Stockholm Painters’ Salon
19 November–12 December 2021

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Jesper Thour, Vakt/Guard (cropped), oil on wood, 47 x 66 cm, 2020

Exhibition Case: Jesper Thour – A little landscape of smaller things. 16–28 November 2021

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Jesper Thour, A little landscape of smaller things (detail), site-specific installation, oil, acrylic and watercolor on paper and wood, ca 50 x 50 x 55 cm, 2021

Flat Octopus @ Färgfabriken Project Space. 18 September–17 October 2021

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CLUSTER 8: A POINT IN TIME. 3–5 September 2021

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Cluster 8 map. Digital montage, objects from the Sandberg archive and still images from A Pixel of a Ruin by Sara Ekholm Eriksson, 2021.

Sian Costello: Rapture of the Sisters. 23 June – 11 July 2021

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Sian Costello, Rapture of the Sisters Leucippide (II) (detail), pastel and oil on canvas, 2021

Organismo vivo/Levande Organism. Performance, 14 June 2021, 14-15

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Exhibition Case: Paula Elion – Multiplied presence. 28 May–18 June 2021

Paula Elion, Upside down, coffee capsule, doll, gold paint, glue, 2021. Photo: Natalie Koski

Maria Hilmersson Landgren: An ongoing constant. 14 May – 3 June 2021

Maria Hilmersson Landgren, 2018

THE EXHIBITION CASE – OPEN CALL – Flat Octopus & Crash Boom Bang

Exhibition Case: Stuart Mayes – ‘Mr Dandy Blue’s Lepidopterarium’. 30 April–21 May 2021

Stuart Mayes, Mr Dandy Blue’s Lepidopterarium, mixed media, 2021

Exhibition Case: Yemisi Wilson: ‘When will this end?’ 2–23 April 2021

Yemisi Wilson, When will this end (detail). Italian marble from Cava Cervaiole, Seravezza, 34 x 35 x 23 cm, 2016

Studio visit  –  Detroit Stockholm. 22 March and 8 April 2021

Zoom life model drawing. Thursday, 25 March 2021, 18-20

Exhibition Case: Alva Noreen – Unidentified Unknown Object. 5-26 March 2021

Studio visit  – Diana Agunbiade-Kolawole, Stockholm. 3 March 2021

Studio visit  – Sian Costello (online). 12 February 2021

Lamb Gift – Nicola Godman – Josefin Gäfvert. 5–21 February 2021

What a Waste – Heidi Edström (ingentinget). 22–29 January 2021

Studio visit – Johan Franzén, Stockholm. 19 January 2021

Studio visit – Heidi Edström, Stockholm. 29 October 2020

CLOSE DISTANCE – Audrey Hurd and Gabriella Novak. 23–25 October 2020

A conversation sequence, Gabriella Novak and Audrey Hurd, 2020

Studio visit – Martin Ålund, Stockholm. 2 October 2020

Open Call – The Exhibition Case

Walking with myself, walking with you – Exhibition by Alice Máselníková and Juanma González. AllArtNowLab meets Flat Octopus. 25 September – 11 October 2020

Curator Talk by Pam Grombacher (CA/DK). Malongen / NKF – Nordic Art Association Sweden. Friday, 18 September 2020, 19-21

AnnaLeena Prykäri – Harness – Superlocal 2020 – Stockholm Independent Art Fair.
3–6 September 2020

AnnaLeena Prykäri, ‘Fix Me?’, plaster, size and form variable, total amount of objects: 180–190, 2019

LIFE DRAWING IN CIRCLE / A CIRCULAR LIFE DRAWING
WEDNESDAY, 19 AUGUST 2020, 18-21

Anna Taina-Nielsen – The Non-Seen Stage
28 February – 1 March 2019

Matilda Lövgren – Tracing Points of Contact
17–19 January 2020

13 December: Croquis, julmarknad & fest

Book the date! Come life-draw, and then join us for a Christmas-infused market with live music and festivities. You can buy and/or bring & sell art, clothes, books, your famous chocolate cookies or whatever else tickles your fancy.

Jaana Sundström – Den här gången ska jag (be)hålla mig för mig själv. 15–17 November 2019

Jaana Sundström, Kruthålen igenom mors garderob fyllde skogen med lavendel och kortison, 2019.

Croquis / life model session & art chat with Flat Octopus on Friday, 4 October 2019.

Flat Octopus on Artist-Run Alliance

Flat Octopus now has its profile on Artist-Run Alliance, one of the largest online platforms that gathers artist-run initiatives from around the world and allows them to upload their events, open calls and other opportunities to share with peers and audiences around the globe.

2019-08-12

Flat Octopus launches its first exhibition with Danish artist Louise Sparre

2019-07-31

Our tentacles spread to Instagram

Did you know? Flat Octopus also skillfully tentacled its way to the mythic realms of Instagram. Follow us to get extra insights into an octopus life.

2019-07-08