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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...

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 // 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...

By Ljiljana Maletin Vojvodić // I knew nothing about Siri Hustvedt until I came across her book Ghost Stories in Foyles, a London bookshop. It was not the title that caught my attention, but the author’s name. I assumed she was Norwegian. That was not entirely wrong: Siri Hustvedt is an American writer, born in...

Interview by Ljiljana Maletin Vojvodić // “Escape to Moominvalley”, the major exhibition at Helsinki’s Architecture & Design Museum (10 October 2025 – 6 January 2027), presented as part of the global celebrations marking the 80th anniversary of the Moomin stories, explores the relationship between Tove Jansson (1914–2001), the celebrated Finland-Swedish author, novelist, painter and illustrator...

Intervierer: Ljiljana Maletin Vojvodić // Finnish author Eeva Maria al-Khazaali explores the space between poetry, visual art, and performance. Her practice brings together the written word, video, live performance, and interdisciplinary artistic forms. For Art Box portal, we talk with Eeva Maria al-Khazaali about literature, video poetry, performance, feminism, and the ongoing need to rethink...

Art Box portal // As part of Konstepidemin fredag (Epidemifredag), writer and artist Ljiljana Maletin Vojvodić presented Silent Reading Workshop at Guest Studio 3 at Konstepidemin in Gothenburg. The participatory format was based on the experience of reading together in silence. The workshop brought together Swedish and American artists who live and work in Gothenburg,...