Photo credit: Henrik Zeitler
Nobody Forgets Nothing is an artistic research project exploring how sculpture and materiality can reveal hidden or repressed narratives in public space. The starting point is Lövholmen – Stockholm’s last remaining central industrial area – shaped by pigment production, textile mills, and cement factories. Carrying traces of both local working-class histories and global, colonial trade routes.
The project listens to the site's silent archive – pigments, ruins, material residues – that hold stories of labour, violence, resilience, and movement. Through sculptural interventions, it investigates how the past lingers in the city’s surfaces and structures, and how art can give form to what has been forgotten, erased, or pushed aside.
The project asks: How can materials themselves carry stories of colonialism, labour, and resistance? How do global historical traces colour our contemporary urban spaces? And how can art listen to what remains unsaid – to the repressed, the returning?
The doctoral education is funded by the Knowledge Foundation.
Runo Lagomarsino works with a range of materials and mediums, such as installation, sculpture, drawing, performance, and actions. Lagomarsino’s work points towards the gaps and cracks within our explanation models and truth claims, highlighting the precarious foundation of language. Themes of language, geography, and historiography are recurrent in Lagomarsino’s artistic practice, employing materials that often evoke memories or connections, only to prompt reflections on the conditions that enable them. Through precise and poetic displacements, he constructs frictions and fractures within blind spots from which to tell other stories.
Recent solo exhibitions have been held at Marabouparken, Stockholm (2024), Lunds konsthall (2021), Moderna Museet, Stockholm (2019), Dallas Museum of Art (2018), LaCriée centre d’Art contemporaine, Rennes and Malmö Konsthall (Carla Zaccagnini) (both2015). He has been featured in group exhibitions at Kiasma, Helsinki (2024); CRAC Alsace, Altkirch (2022); ARKEN Museum for Moderne Kunst, Copenhagen (2021); daadgalerie, Berlin (2019); LACMA, Los Angeles; Fondazione Trussadi, Milan; Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago (all 2017); The South London Gallery (2016); the Guggenheim Museum, New York and Museo Reina Sofia, Madrid (both 2014). He also participated in the Guangzhou Triennial and the Gwangju Biennial (both 2008); the Venice Biennale (2011 and 2015); the Istanbul Biennial (2011); the São Paulo Art Biennial (2012), Prospect New Orleans (2017), the Gothenburg Biennial (2015 and 2021) and the Ural Biennial (2021). In 2019 he was awarded the Friends of Moderna Museet Sculpture Prize and was DAAD artist-in-residence in Berlin.
Main supervisor: Jonas Dahlberg, Kungliga konsthögskolan
Admitted to: Konstfack, employed by Kungliga konsthögskolan
Project period: 2025-2029