Best Before Collective at Supermarket Art Fair 2023


This year will be the third time we participate at Supermarket Art Fair in Stockholm. To celebrate this occation we have invited none other than Iris Nelly Matilda Bengtsson with her performance and installation ”Next time we’ll meet on Broadway”.

Iris Nelly Matilda Bentsson











MAY will come to our gallery...


for this month we have invited Jessica Westerberg!


Read more about the exhibition here.







OPEN CALL
“FISH TANK”



GUIDELINES:

Date of group exhibition: July 2023

Material: Optional as long as it can be placed on the floor, hung on the wall or from the ceiling.

Gallery size: W: 250 cm H: 188 cm D: 82 cm.

Installation: You are responsible for transporting your work to Östermalmstorg subway during the day of installation on June 29 and to pick up your work when we close the exhibition at the end of July.
(You can find the gallery in the passage to the subway Östermalsmtorg, Birger Jarlsgatan).

Fine print: We can unfortunately not offer any compensation.

Submit a proposal with your idea, a picture of your work and the size: info@bestbeforecollective.se

Deadline: June 1 2023

More info: @bestbeforecollective & www.bestbeforecollective.se









BEST BEFORE COLLECTIVE will stay in our gallery at T-Östermalmstorg for another 6 months!



Come by our gallery window at 4/4 6-7pm to celabrate with us!
Read more info about the exhibition here.









Best Before Collective presents...

UÄÄÄH!


a performance festival at Fylkingen

The artist-driven collective Best Before Collective presents UÄÄÄH! A cross-border performance festival at Fylkingen in the Münchenbryggeriet. Artists, stage performers and musicians who experiment and play with sound in different ways meet here...


Tickets: https://billetto.se/e/uaaah-biljetter-798052

More info: http://www.uaaah.se/

About Fylkingen: https://www.fylkingen.se/

Facebook event: https://fb.me/e/3kOrhxBBx












March is coming!


Next artist to be prestented in our gallery window at T-Östermalmstorg will be Josefina Malmegård!!!

Opening 1/3 2023 kl.17:30-18:30
Exhibition is open until 30/3 2023

Read more about the exhibiton here.


You may visit our gallery in the pedestrian tunnel beneath Birger Jarlsgatan, Östermalmtorg metro station in Stockholm (SWE).










coming up...

~ charōn ~


A group exhibition with
Best Before Collective
24–26 February 2023
at Stadsgårdsterminalen



Friday 24/2 18:00-22:00;
19:00 ARNE (Artist-Run Network Europe)
presents ARRC (Artist-Run Resourse Center)

Exhibition is also open;
Saturday 25/2 & Sunday 26/2 13:00-17:00

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https://charon.persona.co

https://fb.me/e/2xD518Rz3

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PARTICIPATING ARTISTS:


Sara Arasteh
Malin Arnedotter Bengtsson
Linnéa Brisling
Alexander Bäckman
Gunilla Daga
Heidi Edström
Molnia Efremov
Hanna Havdell
Albin Josephson
Micael de Leeuw
Camila Manuelsdotter Pino
Belinda Morén
Rosita Ståhl
Jonathan Widegren
Anna-Kajsa Wikström

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Organised by Best Before Collective, Artist-Run Network Europe, Candyland and Supermarket – Stockholm Independent Art Fair.

Co-funded by the Creative Europe programme of the European Union, the Swedish Arts Council and City of Stockholm.

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Warm thanks to Lagunitas IPA!



Poster by Heidi Edström with photo by Roger McLassus - CC BY-SA 3.0.








BEST BEFORE COLLECTIVE INVITES...


Emelie Ivert & Erika Coleman

Konstfack alumner från kandidat programmet i textil respektive konst ställer ut ett samarbete. En triptyk-väv gjord i digital jacquard teknik - motivet är baserat på deras läsning av skapelseberättelsen i den Poetiska Eddan, Vǫluspá. Genom en serie översättningar – från text till teckning, från teckning till foto, från foto till väv – har dom skapat en personlig textil gestaltning av en tusenårig mytologisk sångsamling.

VERNISSAGE 05/02-2023 kl.18-19
ÖPPET 05-29/02 

Läs mer här

och här











Så...

FÅR DRÖMMAR PLATS?!


hos Best Before Collective?

Ny utställning under januari 2023!

  Läs mer om projektet här  


Best Before Collective & Sebastian Rudolf Jensen bjuder in till en happening och manifestation 14/1-23!


Vad?

Välkommen till en manifestation mot den försvinnande kulturen!
Tillsammans samlas vi för att resa ett monument i Best Before Collectives utställningsmonter (T-Östermalmstorg) över kulturella platser som hotas eller redan har försvunnit runt om i landet

När?

14 Januari 2023.

𝟏𝟐:𝟎𝟎 Ses vi på Glada Sprutan (Hägerstens allé 86c, Hägersten, Stockholm) för att tillsammans bygga och måla våra plakat och förbereda andra detaljer till monumentet (�t𝘢 𝘨ä𝘳𝘯𝘢 𝘮𝘦𝘥 𝘮𝘢𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘪𝘢𝘭 𝘰𝘤𝘩 𝘢𝘯𝘥𝘳𝘢 𝘣𝘪𝘥𝘳𝘢𝘨).

𝟏𝟒:𝟎𝟎 Tågar vi (via tunnelbanan) till 𝑩𝒆𝒔𝒕 𝑩𝒆𝒇𝒐𝒓𝒆 𝑪𝒐𝒍𝒍𝒆𝒄𝒕𝒊𝒗𝒆�s utställningsmonter i T-Östermalmstorg (uppgång mot Birger Jarlsgatan).

𝟏𝟓:𝟎𝟎-𝟏𝟔:𝟎𝟎 Samlas vi vid utställningsmontern för att gemensamt resa monumentet.

Hur?

Vi välkomnar alla att bidra med konstverk, sånger, tal och texter till monumentet och manifestationen. Vilka kulturplatser är du rädd ska gå förlorade?


 Länk till facebookevent här 










BEST BEFORE COLLECTIVE PRESENTS... 


TING WANG
and
ELLEN ADUOFUA BERNARDSSON
!!!


2/12 - 30/12 2022
Opening: 2/12-22 kl.17-18



Read more about our exhibitions here!





NEW EXHIBITION AT OUR GALLERY WINDOW


1/11 - 29/11 2022
Opening: 1/11-22 kl.17-18

We have the pleasure to present 𝙉𝙖𝙙𝙟𝙖 𝘼𝙠𝙗𝙖𝙧 & 𝙎𝙞𝙨𝙨𝙚𝙡𝙖 𝙉𝙤𝙧𝙙𝙡𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝘽𝙡𝙖𝙣𝙘𝙤! Read more bout them and our exhibitions here






AT LAST! OUR FIRST OPENING IS FINALLY HERE!!!


1/10-22

14:00-18:00
We will have our first opening. It will be a group show showcasing our brilliant members of Best Before Collective! Our gallery is situated in the pedestrian tunnel beneath Birger Jarlsgatan, Östermalmtorg metro station in Stockholm (SWE).

15:00
An inaguration speech by Alice Máselníková and Andreas Ribbung, who has been our mentors.

After 18:00
We are moving the party elsewhere... let us know if you want to join us!

The exhibition will be on until 30/10-22.

Read more about our exhibitions here.







Best Before Collective returns to Supermarket Airt Fair!


We are happy to annonce that Best Before Collective once again will be a part of Supermarket Art Fair, this year taking place at ’Leklandet’ in Skärholmen Centrum, twenty-minute away by metro from Slussen.

 Hilma Nordén 

This year, we invited Hilma Nordén to exhibit with us. Her practice explores cultural creations of nature, folklore and magic. She grew up in plantation forests, and feels a kinship with the trees of her childhood, who raised her yet silently disappear under the teeth of chainsaws. Nordén’s work acknowledges the forest beyond its timber, and investigates the constructed hierarchies and hybridities between human and nature.
 

Get to know more about Hilma Nordén here 

When?

26–29 May 2022
Thursday–Saturday 12.00–20.00
Sunday 12.00–18.00

Where?

Skärholmen Centrum.
Upon exiting the metro at Skärholmen you will see the SKHLM shopping mall straight ahead infront of you. Use Entrance 5. Take the escalator next to ICA Kvantum to the basement.

How?

Admission: 130 SEK
Catalogue/Art Magazine: 80 SEK
Admission incl Catalogue/Art Magazine: 165 SEK
Seniors and students admission incl Catalogue/Art Magazine: 130 SEK
4-day pass: 240 SEK
Free admission up to 16 years


Buy your tickets here  




SUPERMARKET – Stockholm Independent Art Fair is an international art fair for artist-run initiatives. Supermarket is dedicated to exhibiting artist-run spaces, artists’ collectives, nomadic spaces and independent artists’ initiatives of all shapes and from around the world. The key aim is to display unique projects, create opportunities for new local and international networks and share the strengths of the independent art world with a large audience. The art fair exhibition is accompanied by the public Talks and Performance programme with invited performance artists and speakers from Sweden and abroad. Supermarket takes place annually in Stockholm, Sweden.




Upcomming project
Supermarket Art Fair
- once again?


Hi best Best Before!
We have received an offer from Supermarket Art Fair to get an exhibition booth at the fair in exchange for some volunteer work, and so we are reaching out to you to ask who would like to be a part of this amazing opportunity.

Very low cost, such high fun!

 If you are interested - please anwser the form before Friday 8/3 

https://forms.gle/PVnFc5rFkRdn9PSZ7




There is a meeting this thursday 24/2-2022!


We’ll have a meeting for new members and people that are interested in joining our group 24/2-2022. Meetup point will be at Konstfack, the main entrance, 19:00. See you there!




What now? Best Before Collective is evolving!


We are growing in size and changing our concept. Maybe we’ll even have our own space soon?? Keep your eye out for updates and new exciting things.







We will be a part of
Supermarket Art Fair 2021!


During our first activity taking place at Supermarket 2021 – Stockholm Independent Art Fair, we intend to reach out to potential partners, galleries and art professionals that are interested in discussing temporality - please come and say hello if you do, or send us a email at collectivebestbefore@gmail.com!




 GREBNELLAW 

Populating the Planet

EXHIBITION / DAILY PERFORMANCES
OCTOBER 14 - OCTOBER 17, 2021
at Supermarket Art Fair 2021



Between the 14-17 of October, the artist Grebnellaw will take over the Best Before Collective’s stand at the Supermarket Art Fair 2021, using a red and white color code as metaphor for binary restrictions but also the concept of reduction as a vehicle for creativity. For this show the artist will continue to populate the world with their similarly titled imaginary population of fictional bodies and mutable hybrids. On display there will be a serie of digital portraits that will be translated daily into a performative happening through a personal genesis process that could be described as a continuous flow of music, form, ideas, interaction and movement.

 Get to know more about GREBNELLAW



When?

14-17 October 2021

Public vernissage evening:
Thursday 14 October, 18.00–22.00

Opening hours:
Thursday 11.00–22.00, Friday–Saturday 11.00–20.00, Sunday 11.00–18.00

Performance:
Thursday 14 October 20.00
Friday 15 October 17.00
Saturday 16 October 18.00
Sunday 17 October 16.00

Where?

Stadsgårdsterminalen
(The former Birka Cruises passenger terminal, Slussen)





SUPERMARKET – Stockholm Independent Art Fair is an international art fair for artist-run initiatives. Supermarket is dedicated to exhibiting artist-run spaces, artists’ collectives, nomadic spaces and independent artists’ initiatives of all shapes and from around the world. The key aim is to display unique projects, create opportunities for new local and international networks and share the strengths of the independent art world with a large audience. The art fair exhibition is accompanied by the public Talks and Performance programme with invited performance artists and speakers from Sweden and abroad. Supermarket takes place annually in Stockholm, Sweden.



Things will come...
to an end.