Preview of the autumn's exhibitions at Accelerator
Welcome to a preview of the autumn’s group exhibitions The Owl of Minerva and Aerpiemaahtoe. On Friday, 11 September, Accelerator is open exclusively to the university’s staff and students before the public opening of the exhibitions.
The curators, Richard Julin and Therese Kellner, will lead a guided tour of the exhibitions at 15:00.
Preview: Friday, 11 September, 11:00 – 17:00
Curator's tour: 15:00
Adress: Accelerator, Frescativägen 26A
Exhibition period: 12 September – 14 February 2027
About the exhibitions
The Owl of Minerva
Artists: Absalon, Stina Fors, Hassan Khan, NUG and Öberg/Arvefjord
Curators: Richard Julin and Therese Kellner
The exhibition presents works by five artists that explore ways knowledge can be conveyed through installation, performance, painting, sound, and video works. Visitors are met with various expressions of bodies in motion, voices and rhythms.
From its position within Stockholm University, Accelerator aims to draw attention to knowledge systems that have long been excluded from, or subordinated to, academic knowledge. Knowledge that is shaped by the body, everyday life, heritage and living conditions—lived and experience-based knowledge—is often marginalised, despite being fundamental to how people navigate the world.
Aerpiemaahtoe
Artists: Sissel M Bergh, Julia Rensberg, Elme Ämting and Avant Joik
Curators: Anneli Bäckman and Therese Kellner
Aerpiemaahtoe is Southern Sàmi and can be translated as ‘traditional knowledge’ or ‘ancestral knowledge’. The artists in the exhibition engage with Sámi knowledge traditions that historically have been marginalised and silenced. They explore how history writing has erased traces of Sámi life, address historical injustices, and ask whether, or how, reconciliation is possible within continued Nordic colonialism.
The exhibition coincides with the presentation of findings from the Truth Commission for the Sámi People, the governmental mandate of which has been to map and “increase the general public understanding of Sámi history and how historical injustices affect the conditions for Sámi people today.” The exhibition is presented by Accelerator and Gaaltije Saemien Museume in Staare [Östersund] in collaboration with Bildmuseet in Ubmeje [Umeå].