Art Box portal // From 10 October 2025 to 1 November 2026, the Museum of Architecture and Design in Helsinki presents the exhibition Escape to Moominvalley, offering a unique exploration of the relationship between the celebrated Finnish artist and author Tove Jansson, her Moomins, and the worlds of architecture, the built environment, and design. The...
Art Box portal // From 5 June 2026 to 3 January 2027, the Museum of Architecture and Design in Helsinki presents the exhibition Aalto Design – Shapes of Wellbeing, inviting visitors to explore the architecture and design of Alvar, Aino and Elissa Aalto through the lens of wellbeing. Who was Alvar Henrik Aalto (1898–1976)? The...
By Ljiljana Maletin Vojvodić // I read Baumgartner, Paul Auster’s final novel, published in Serbian by Geopoetika in 2024 in Ivana Đurić Paunović’s translation, only after watching Sabine Lidl’s documentary Dance Around Self about Siri Hustvedt and reading her memoir Ghost Stories. In Auster’s novel, a man who has lost his wife tries to preserve...
Art Box portal // Long Live the Post Horn! (Leve posthornet!) by Norwegian writer Vigdis Hjorth is a novel about politics, work, language, individual responsibility, and the possibility of moving from passivity to social engagement. First published in Norway in 2012, it is also a sharp commentary on alienation under contemporary capitalism and the need...
Art Box portal // At the American Corner Novi Sad, on 25 September at 6 pm, writer and artist from Novi Sad, Ljiljana Maletin Vojvodić, presented Silent Reading, a participatory performative action based on the experience of reading together in silence. The format explores reading as an individual experience that, when moved into a public...
By Ljiljana Maletin Vojvodić // At the Röhsska Museum in Gothenburg, the exhibition We Will Survive: The Prepper Movement and Design opened on 7 February 2026 and will be on view until 4 October. The exhibition explores the prepper movement while also addressing the broader question of how we prepare for a future in which...
Art Box portal // As we read less and find it increasingly difficult to maintain our concentration, writer and artist Ljiljana Maletin Vojvodić invites visitors to join her at the American Corner on Friday, 25 September at 6 pm for half an hour of silent reading. Silent Reading, a programme accompanying the Nordic Frame exhibition,...
Art Box portal // In 1965, at the Helkama factory in the Finnish town of Hanko, a bicycle was made whose name carried the idea behind its design. Jopo comes from the Finnish JOkaisen POlkupyörä — “everyone’s bicycle”. It was more than a name. Jopo expressed a simple social idea: an everyday object should not...
Art Box portal // At a time when social crises and a growing sense of collective insecurity are increasingly framed as inevitable, contemporary feminist authors warn that the consequences of such processes do not affect everyone equally. Black women and women from other marginalized communities experience these conditions in particularly specific ways, as their position...