Collaboration between Max Liljefors and the Artistic Platform Gylleboverket

Gylleboverket, led by artists Jona Elfdahl and Etta Säfve, has received a major grant from Svenska Postkodlotteriets Stiftelse (Swedish Postcode Lottery Foundation) for their project Transition Laboratory, 2026–27. Transition Laboratory consists of an extensive series of workshop and seminar programs, called ’laboratories’, and curated by invited researchers and artists. The purpose is to explore different aspects and layers of what a radical transformation to a sustainable society can mean in practice and theory.

Max Liljefors, professor of art history and visual studies, Lund University, and researcher in the At the End of the World program, has been invited to curate one laboratory, which will focus on four critical questions regarding beliefs, affects, and experiences pertaining to the threat of a collapsing world. In this laboratory, intellectual and artistic forms of knowledge-seeking will intertwine co-creating a multilayered exploration of apocalyptic imaginaries. Preparations will run through 2026 and the laboratory will unfold during the spring of 2027 at one of Gylleboverket’s sites, an overgrown and repurposed scrapyard in the area of Österlen.

Gylleboverket: https://gylleboverket.se/
Gylleboverket’s Transition Lab: https://gylleboverket.se/omstallningslabbet/