Southnord is an artist-run platform dedicated to the vast and varied artistic expressions, approaches and narratives the Afro-Nordic experience gives birth to.
Current and Upcoming
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Southnord x Kulturnatten
18 April 2026
We are excited to be collaborating with Kulturhuset Stadsteatern for Kulturnatten to bring you a screening of four shorts by Afro-Swedish filmmakers. The evenings screenings in Klara Biografen are curated by Marcia Harvey Isaksson and will start on the hour every hour from 18:00 until 21:00, free of charge.
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Durational Performance with Freddy Houndekindo
7 & 8 May 2026
Southnord invites you to an immersive performance dubbed Becoming Tree, which unfolds monthly throughout the entire duration of When We See Us: A Century of Black Figuration in Painting, at Liljevalchs.
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Earthscape: A Southnord Collections Exhibition
4 February 2026 – 29 May 2026
Join us for our second collections exhibition at Southnord. Opening on the 4 February, this exhibition brings together eight diverse artistic practices preoccupied with landscape identity; ancestral memory; intertwined geographies; the relationship between land and body; consumerism and imperial capitalism.
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Southnord Artfest 2026
14 October 2026 – 27 March 2027
We are excited to announce that the next edition of Southnord Artfest lands in Helsinki in 2026. While the full programme is still under development, plans are already underway for a headline exhibition and a dynamic series of events in collaboration with one of the city’s leading art institutions. More details to follow in the coming months.
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Library
Explore our growing directory of black and Afro-Nordic artists, literature, works and performances. This content is made available to inspire and enrich new works and research projects.