Queer Cohesion #3 Body

QUEER COHESION #3 Body
Konsthall C 8.-16.11.2025

Guided tour with the artists 8.11. at 13:00-14:00.
Guided tour and artists’ talk with Q&A’s 8.11. at 18:00-19:30.

Queer Cohesion started as a series of three exhibitions, now providing a platform for queer contemporary artists from the Nordic countries. The respective exhibitions carry the following thematics; Collectiveness, NormCriticality and Body. The project Queer Cohesion is initiated and curated by artists Hinni Huttunen (FI/SE) and AnnaLeena Prykäri (FI/SE). Queer Cohesion started in the year 2020. First exhibition with the theme of Collectiveness took place in 2021 as collectiveness is vital for the queer communities’ existence and survival. Followed by year 2023, the project continued with the theme of Norm-Criticality which is a tool for dismantling various social structures, constraining perspectives and highlighting power hierarchies. The exhibition series is finalized with the thematic of Body at Konsthall C. The Body is here seen as a psychical and mental state. For instance the Body can be a catalyst for movement or seen as a catalyst for dreams. The project is poised for expansion and new ideas, transitioning from an exhibition-focused context to diverse formats and existing in new spaces. Queer Cohesion stands for togetherness – solidarity – bonding and sticking together.

The exhibition is supported by Kulturfonden för Sverige och Finland and Helge Ax:son Johnsons foundation.

ARTISTS 2025
Stella Dieden Richter (SE)
Hinni Huttunen (FI/SE)
Victoria Verseau (SE)
Zafira Vrba Woodski (CZ/SE)

Konsthall C Cigarrvägen 14 Farsta
Contact Queer Cohesion queer.cohesion@gmail.com
073-714 92 66
www.queercohesion.org

Contact Konsthall C sander@konsthallc.se
08-604 77 08
www.konsthallc.se Opening hours Thursday - Sunday 12:00-17:00
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The artists:

Stella Dieden Richter (SE)
Rubber’s Sole 2.1 sound installation 2025

In the sound installation Rubber’s Sole, bodily hierarchies are explored and how they might be disrupted. The title refers to the rubber sole–the point where weight meets the ground and grip is achieved–yet the words themselves dissolve, opening up multiple meanings. Rubber and sole separate, just as the body’s grip shifts with the sound material. The sounds come from wet, heavy mud pressed into a mold, shaken out, and slowly released, hissing, bubbling, and splashing as it resists and yields. Shaping and release shift throughout the piece with an irregular rhythm. Sound, movement, and material interact in a play of interpretations, where shifts in tempo, thuds, and slides invite listeners to reconsider balance and motion.

Stella Dieden Richter (b.1992) is pursuing a Master’s degree at the Royal Institute of Art in Stockholm and works with performance, installation and sound. Her practice explores how the body resists, stretches and yields to infrastructures we ourselves have created.

stelladiedenrichter.com
@sdiedenrichter

Hinni Huttunen (FI/SE) Self-portrait (due-date)
Digital print on textile banner, 200 x 133 cm 2024 Double-portrait (nursing) Digital print on textile banner, 200 x 133 cm 2024

The two portraits depict a moment before a huge turn of events and the time after. The portraits are about waiting, strangerhood, being afraid and in love. The first self-portrait was taken on the baby’s due date and the second double portrait depicts mother and child during breastfeeding. Hinni Huttunen is a visual artist working with video and photography. She feels passionate about the neverending embarrassing emotions and about addressing matters of the heart.

Huttunen graduated as a Bachelor of Culture and Arts from Tampere University of Applied Sciences in 2014 and as a Master of Fine Arts from the Royal Institute of Art in Stockholm in 2018.

hinnihuttunen.com
@innih

Victoria Verseau (SE) Honest Sketches Drawing 1997-2025

Honest Sketches is a collection of drawings that were never originally meant for public view. They emerged in moments of solitude, as a private language where the unconscious could speak. Because of this, they carry a particular honesty – nothing is staged or embellished. The imagery is naivist, at times even comical, yet often imbued with weight and traces of life-altering experiences. The motifs revolve around identity, the body, memory, and spirituality: gender-affirming surgery, imagined depths and scar tissue in the newly created vagina and the lifelong act of dilation, sexual abuse, scattered dreams, the search for meaning, lost vitality, and memories of trans friends who are no longer here. Within them lie both vulnerability and rage, along with the shadows of transphobia and the ghosts that remain. To now bring these private sketches into the light is in itself a risk. “For some reason I feel ashamed of the sketches, but I believe that precisely in what feels embarrassing – what one hesitates to lift out of the secret – there lies a particular strength,” says the artist. By revealing what was once hidden, the sketches become both an act of resistance and an invitation to intimacy and recognition. This work has accompanied the artist throughout an entire life. The earliest drawing dates back to 1997, when she, as a nine-year-old boy with pencil and ink, attempted to imagine the woman she dreamed of becoming. In this way, Honest Sketches also becomes a time capsule, where every line testifies to both a personal journey and an existential struggle.

Victoria Verseau is a Swedish artist and filmmaker based in Gotland, with an MFA in Fine Art from the Royal Institute of Art. In her work, she explores themes such as the body, memory, identity, and the tension between a mystified past and a more demystified present. Her works often draw from her personal experiences of being trans and a new woman. Through her own story, she examines larger existential questions: who we are, how we exist, and who we aspire to be. Her works and films have been presented in group and solo exhibitions at art institutions such as Fondazione Prada in Milan, Hammer Museum in Los Angeles, Whitechapel Gallery in London, and Bonniers Konsthall in Stockholm.

victoriaverseau.com
@victoriaverseau

Zafira Vrba Woodski (CZ/SE) Blood Line Sculpture 2024

How can we remember things that the outside world tries to erase and forget? And who, if anyone, writes the queer history? These are questions that Zafira Vrba Woodski has been working on for a long time. Through contemporary archaeology, dreams and decolonizing rituals, Zafira challenges the narrative of linear time and weaves a history where queer experiences are at the center of both the past, present and future. At Konsthall C, they will show a series of memorials, a small world of monuments.

Zafira Vrba Woodski is a Swedish-Czech artist, death doula, writer and trans activist born in Växjö and based in Stockholm and Gothenburg. Zafira has moved freely between sculpture, textile, performance, photography, video and installations to depict queer lives and experiences for over 20 years. Their award-winning art book Transtillstånd was published in 2023 and is about contemporary trans history. In parallel with their artistic work, Zafira runs High Heel Funerals & Ceremonies, which supports queer and trans people with ceremonies, celebrations and spiritual counseling.

zafiravrbawoodski.com
highheelfunerals.com
@revzafira