With a future-forward perspective, The Space Craft welcomes you to its inaugural exhibition "Takeoff 2025". The Space Craft is a new platform dedicated to promoting craft artists who utilize innovation, technology and unique materials.
"Takeoff 2025" features works by five artists:
Anna Mlasowsky, Professor of Glass and Ceramics, Konstfack
Josefin Tingvall, alumni CRAFT! Textiles 2017, Konstfack
Lisa Hartwig Ericson, alumni CRAFT! Ceramics and Glass 2025, Konstfack
Petter Rhodiner, alumni CRAFT! Ceramics and Glass 2018, Konstfack
Paola Torres Núñez del Prado, PhD student, Stockholm University of the Arts
In the film "Chorus of One" by Anna Mlasowsky, a dancer performs in a costume made of glass scales; their body becomes the object of fragility as they move elegantly to activate this sharp, yet wearable object. The costume was made using Rhino Glass, a product developed by the Corning Laboratories as body armor material for the US military. This glass-ceramic hybrid is bullet proof and shatter resistant, which is the only reason it doesn’t break during the performance. The choreography is based on the defence mechanisms of armored animals.
Josefin Tingvall’s mixed-media installation "Bergrum" features two video screens and a central tapestry. Created by the artist during a 2025 residency at Riddergade AIR in Viborg, Denmark, the work blends weaving with 3D graphics. Rooted in childhood memories of forest landscapes and mountain rooms containing shelters in case of war, the piece reflects a quiet fear of hidden places, militarized landscapes, and an uncertain future. The digital environments are built from textures the artist has physically woven into the tapestry. While Bergrum connects to playing games in the digital realm, the work’s imaginative narrative seems eerily close to many of today’s realities.
The series of glass sculptures by Lisa Hartwig Ericson is an exploration of how technology influences the mind, body and senses in relation to traditions of glass blowing and working with the hands. The results are sculptures with organic glass forms that appear trapped in motion by harsh lines and cold dystopic notions.
Petter Rhodiner has created three new ceramic sculptures for the exhibition inspired by labyrinths and mathematical expressions of volume. Rhodiner’s visual language is very precise and strict; his sculptures are intricate in form and offer a puzzle for the mind’s eye to solve how he made them.
Painting and textiles intertwine with nature, technology and cultural heritage in the work "Signal@Forest" by Paola Torres Núñez del Prado. The artist seamlessly integrates paint strokes with the texture of the textile making it difficult to see where paint ends and where the textile starts. At the center of the work, the artist painted a visual glitch in the pattern; it is simultaneously an allusion to digital coding as well as the erasure of her own Andean ancestry.
"Takeoff 2025" is open to the public from 6 November – 5 December, Wednesday – Friday from 12:00 to 5:00 pm. The exhibition is at the entrance inside Kista Science Tower, Färögatan 33, 164 51 Kista.
For questions contact founder and creative director, Anne Klontz.
Graphics by Ella Bakhshi.
The exhibition is made possible with support from Region Stockholm.