As a pop-up exhibition presented by Galleri Duerr, 10. functions both as an experimental curatorial format and as a concentrated platform for the artists’ practices. The ambition is to create a memorable, tightly composed encounter that foregrounds the works, extends the gallery’s reach, and tests new ways of experiencing and presenting contemporary art within the city.
10. – A moment in Stockholm.
During Stockholm Creative Edition 2026, Galleri Duerr will present a pop-up exhibition hosted by SUITE Arkitekter and curated by Kipat Kahumbu. The ambition is to create a unique, interactive, and unexpected experience at the intersection of art and design.
Where.
SUITE studio, Skeppargatan 22, 114 52, Östermalm
When.
Friday, February 6: 15:00–20:00
Saturday, February 7: 12:00–17:00
Curatorial framework & exhibition concept
10. is a time-based, spatially structured exhibition presented as a pop-up experience during Stockholm Creative Edition 2026. The title does not describe the theme of the exhibition, but its conditions. The number 10 refers simultaneously to the duration of the experience (10 minutes), the maximum number of visitors allowed in the space at one time (10), and the number of zones or encounters within the exhibition (10). Together, these constraints define the exhibition as a controlled, finite encounter rather than an open-ended viewing. Visitors are informed only of these parameters in advance. No contextual text, artist names, or artwork descriptions are provided inside the space. Meaning is deferred. The exhibition is experienced as a short, guided sequence. Small groups enter, move through the zones, and exit. Only after leaving the space do visitors receive access — via a QR “token” — to the exhibition text, artist information, and works. The encounter itself remains uninterrupted by explanation, encouraging attention to perception, presence, and bodily awareness.
Underlying thematic framework
Beneath this structural framework, 10. explores the body through material conditions: how materials behave like bodies, and how bodies are translated into material logic. Rather than representing the body directly, the exhibition focuses on interfaces, tensions, fragments, and surfaces through which bodily experience is implied, displaced, or reconfigured. Across sculpture, photography, painting, and installation, the works engage the body indirectly — through proximity, scale, texture, pressure, repetition, and distance. Skin becomes surface, tendon becomes structure, gesturebecomes form, and intimacy is negotiated without direct contact.
The exhibition is loosely organised around bodily senses — sight, sound, smell, touch,and taste — not as literal modes of interaction, but as perceptual questions. The works do not need to activate a sense physically in order to engage it conceptually. Touch maybe evoked without being allowed, sound may be anticipated rather than heard, and sensory response may emerge through memory, association, or restraint. For example, a facial interface may address touch and sensitivity without requiring physical contact, activating questions of care, exposure, and surface through position alone. Elsewhere, structural tension, layering, or fragmentation may evoke bodily strain or vulnerability without figurative representation. The senses function as lenses rather than categories — ways of destabilising habitual perception.
Experience and intention
The decision to limit time, access, and information is central to the exhibition’s intention. By withholding context until after the experience, 10. prioritises embodied perception over interpretation. Visitors are asked to notice how they move, wait, listen, and orient themselves in relation to the works and to one another. This ephemerality — entering, witnessing, and exiting — mirrors the exhibition’s focus on fleeting bodily states and perceptual awareness. The experience ends before it can settle into familiarity.
As a pop-up exhibition presented by Galleri Duerr, 10. functions both as an experimental curatorial format and as a concentrated platform for the artists’ practices. The ambition is to create a memorable, tightly composed encounter that foregrounds the works, extends the gallery’s reach, and tests new ways of experiencing and presenting contemporary art within the city.
Stockholm Creative Edition is an independent design week showcasing some of the best in Nordic design, furniture, lighting, art, and crafts. Through a carefully curated programme of open showrooms, exhibitions and site-specific presentations, the initiative connects established & emerging brands, designers and artists with an international audience of press, curators and professionals.