Parallel Collective – Journal https://parallelcollective.se/en/journal Residency life, exhibitions, process and open calls from Parallel Collective, Stockholm. en Sun, 05 Jul 2026 12:00:00 GMT Parallel Collective Two firsts: the residency from Tokyo to Stockholm https://parallelcollective.se/en/journal/residency-two-firsts https://parallelcollective.se/en/journal/residency-two-firsts Sho Asakawa arrived from Tokyo as the first international artist to stay with us; nine months later Andréa Spartà became the first Stockholm resident. The residency is no longer a promise. Sun, 05 Jul 2026 12:00:00 GMT Residency life Creators, performers and dreamers: the open calls https://parallelcollective.se/en/journal/creators-performers-dreamers https://parallelcollective.se/en/journal/creators-performers-dreamers Twice the programme has been handed to strangers: the call that filled Slask 2025 with four exhibitions, and the summer residency call that brought the first Stockholm resident. Sat, 06 Jun 2026 12:00:00 GMT Open calls Stille Post: what survives the whisper https://parallelcollective.se/en/journal/stille-post-stockholm https://parallelcollective.se/en/journal/stille-post-stockholm Karl Patric Näsman and Christoph Punzmann played the whispering game between Stockholm and Vienna, letting image, sound and material retell each other. Sat, 02 May 2026 12:00:00 GMT Process Enter Gut: six hours inside a living gallery https://parallelcollective.se/en/journal/enter-gut-kulturnatten-2026 https://parallelcollective.se/en/journal/enter-gut-kulturnatten-2026 For Kulturnatten 2026 we joined the official programme with Enter Gut: a six hour live performance exhibition where the gallery walls became a digesting organism. Mon, 20 Apr 2026 12:00:00 GMT Exhibitions Wires, looms and code: a year of electric art https://parallelcollective.se/en/journal/wires-looms-and-code https://parallelcollective.se/en/journal/wires-looms-and-code From a 500 meter copper coil to hand embroidered algorithms: four exhibitions with Roni Kaufman, Maria Euler and the collective re|thread turned code and current into material. Thu, 02 Apr 2026 12:00:00 GMT Process Blue light, a bench and a beer tap https://parallelcollective.se/en/journal/blue-light-bench-beer-tap https://parallelcollective.se/en/journal/blue-light-bench-beer-tap A logo in blue light, an artwork on the bench outside and a ceramic beer tap with free beer for life: the permanent collection our friends have built into the gallery. Mon, 23 Feb 2026 12:00:00 GMT The collective Home is where her horror is: Jenna Gillinger at Svartensgatan 10 https://parallelcollective.se/en/journal/home-is-where-her-horror-is https://parallelcollective.se/en/journal/home-is-where-her-horror-is Jenna Gillinger’s solo exhibition read the home as a structure of intimacy and control, and asked us all to spread awareness about violence in close relationships. Mon, 16 Feb 2026 12:00:00 GMT Exhibitions Slask: four weeks against the December dark https://parallelcollective.se/en/journal/slask-2025 https://parallelcollective.se/en/journal/slask-2025 Four exhibitions in four weeks, hosted with Ver Sacrum: how our December ritual filled the darkest month with a pleasure garden, an unfinished story, a last breath and four dinners. Mon, 12 Jan 2026 12:00:00 GMT Exhibitions Step inside the cocoon: Caterpillar Girl Diaries https://parallelcollective.se/en/journal/caterpillar-girl-diaries-2025 https://parallelcollective.se/en/journal/caterpillar-girl-diaries-2025 Linda Nurk opened Stockholm Craft Week 2025 at the gallery with silk, cocoons, drinks you could rest your nose on, and an artist talk delivered by her alter ego, the Mad Silk Worm Lady. Sat, 04 Oct 2025 12:00:00 GMT Exhibitions Parallel Dimensions: the month the gallery was also a shop https://parallelcollective.se/en/journal/parallel-dimensions-pop-up https://parallelcollective.se/en/journal/parallel-dimensions-pop-up In May 2025, Pompa Shop and Shapeshifter ran a curated pop-up of art, design and vintage at Svartensgatan 10, while the walls changed twice: paintings by Sofia Andersson, then textiles by Lovisa Axén. Sat, 24 May 2025 12:00:00 GMT The collective Pneuma: from jelly to midnight https://parallelcollective.se/en/journal/pneuma-2025 https://parallelcollective.se/en/journal/pneuma-2025 Josefin Eklund and Ingrid Arnsand Jonsson’s duo exhibition opened with jelly in April and closed at midnight during Kulturnatten Stockholm 2025, with the DJ collective Sonic Erection at the decks. Tue, 06 May 2025 12:00:00 GMT Exhibitions Happy Gut Feeling: glass that ferments https://parallelcollective.se/en/journal/happy-gut-feeling-2025 https://parallelcollective.se/en/journal/happy-gut-feeling-2025 Maria Pita Guerreiro’s exhibition ran on live cultures: handblown smiley bowls growing gelatinous films, scoby drinks at the vernissage, and a pun the captions never settled. Sun, 02 Mar 2025 12:00:00 GMT Exhibitions One work a day: What Now? Again! https://parallelcollective.se/en/journal/what-now-again-2024 https://parallelcollective.se/en/journal/what-now-again-2024 The SLASK 2024 group show opened on 27 November with seven artists, and through the first week of December we posted its labels one work a day: tyres, aluminium, stoneware, silver, clay and tape. Thu, 05 Dec 2024 12:00:00 GMT Exhibitions Where it started: Crashtoon Network, January 2023 https://parallelcollective.se/en/journal/crashtoon-network-2023 https://parallelcollective.se/en/journal/crashtoon-network-2023 Nine female creators, a pop-up at Sergelgatan 12, a party at Södra Teatern and, two days after closing, a new address: the January 2023 weeks that turned a project into a gallery. Wed, 01 Feb 2023 12:00:00 GMT The collective