Programme

We welcome artists Sasha Rotts, Pavel Rotts and curator Sona Stepanyan for a shorter research residency in August. Lucid Plexus is a study of forms of historical memory, through the lens of collective remembrance, personal testimony, and intergenerational narrative. Anchored in the experience of the Ingrian Finns — an ethnic minority inhabiting Russian territories since the 17th century — it traces a lineage shaped by displacement, captivity, war, and systemic scarcity.

We are happy to announce that UmArts Postdoc Daniel Shanken will exhibit his video installation “The Pit” as a finalist for the Re:Humanism Art Prize. The exhibition Timeline Shift, a group exhibition of the fourth edition of the Re:humanism Art Prize, curated by Daniela Cotimbo, will open on June 18th at Fondazione Pastificio Cerere in Rome.

Antidefuturing: Infrastructuring for Socio-Technical Sustainability

AGON-A is a gathering of designers, artists and activists to share knowledge and explore ways to build foundations for a future which leverages technology for better societies. Organised by Robert Collins as part of his Doctoral Research in Contestable Design at Umeå Institute of Design.

The UmArts Summer Exhibition 2025 celebrates our new Small Visionary Projects in art, architecture, design, sloyd and music. Researchers will present their practice-based work-in-progress investigating issues of sustainability and resilience at different scales.

Talk by Icelandic artist RÚRÍ, the first in a series of lectures organized by Umeå School of Architecture in the framework of EURAU 26.

Join us for the last Um…Crit of the semester. Postdoctoral Research Fellow Tarsh Bates will present their research project Scentsory Foraging – Exploring olfaction, environmental orientations and aesthetics.

Drop in to Michael Lukaszuk’s open studio session at UmArts. Mike is an electronic music composer, sound artist and UmArts Postdoc in New Media Art. His postdoctoral project explores generative music and improvisation with digital devices.

Ele Carpenter will present her Nuclear Culture fieldwork from the Northern Territory of Australia and the Joint Research Centre of the European Union, Ispra, Italy, carried out during 2024. This curatorial research into planetary nuclear aesthetics invites us to stay with the trouble of the Nuclear Anthropocene through a decolonial unravelling of the spatial and social aesthetics of nuclear technoscientific practices.

UmArts will live screen the online symposium Critical Art vs. Prank Politics organised by V2 in Rotterdam. The event is organised by Dani Ploeger featuring contributions by Aram Bartholl, Francis Hunger, Nora O’Murchú, Dani Ploeger, Hito Steyerl, Florian Weigl.

This talk, by YoungSuk Lee, UmArts WASP-HS Art and AI Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Umeå Institute of Design (UID), introduces a design experiment through four interactions that mirror and amplify biases in human relationships – dominance, exclusion, hostility, and fractured balance.