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PULS 2025/26 is a one-year exchange program for emerging Nordic artists. The program includes two residency periods, a public exhibition, and a final publication. It is a collaboration between Centrum för Social Skulptur(SE), Museum of Impossible Forms (FI), Mirari Residency (AX), and Lámour Lamort (SE). Together, we will create a space for artistic exchange and critical dialogue centered around the act of collective eating. Through shared meals, rituals of gathering and practices of cooking, the program invites reflection on the cultural, political, and philosophical dimensions of food and hospitality.
Across the Nordic countries, traditional knowledge around seasonal eating, preservation and shared meals is being reactivated in response to climate change and shifting demographics. At the same time, migration, global food systems and cross-cultural exchange—are reshaping our relationship to food and eating. . As people move across borders, they bring with them not only new ingredients and recipes, but tasting tongues that carry stories of displacement, resilience, memory, and adaptation.
Part 1: In the belly of the dragon - Centrum för Social Skulptur - 28 July- 9th of August 2025
Eight young artists will be gathered for a two-week residency aboard the Sea Palace Restaurant, a former floating Chinese restaurant now moored on Högmarsö in the Stockholm Archipelago. Once a gleaming culinary spectacle, serving hundreds of guests yearly, the palace has since had many lives. Now, its faded grandeur sets the scene for In the belly of the dragon, a residency embracing the vessel’s layered history. Artists will live and work on board, joined by six workshop leaders from diverse fields. Together, they’ll explore how shared meals and decorative traditions hold memory, myth, and identity—focusing on material-based, physical works.
The residency will end with a tasting festival where the research and work that has been done is shared to the public.
Part 2: 1-7th of May 2026- Fermentations- Mirari Residency Program, Lámour La mort
We will bring together the 9 participating artists and four emerging writers for a week-long residency on Fåglö, in the Åland archipelago. This gathering will focus on text-based work and will be held in collaboration with the poetry magazine Lámour La mort. We will reflect on the experiences of the summer residency and together, develop g a publication that captures the insights, conversations, and creative outcomes of the project.
Part 3: 5-25 of June 2026 - Exhibition- Museum of Impossible Forms
Together with the artistic leader of Mif, the participants will curate a show with their work along with the works of four local artists in their exhibition space in the Kontula Shopping Center east of Helsinki.
