Sara Andreasson
Videoartist and sculptor
03.12.2025 – 30.12.2025
“My work explores the inherent qualities of both 2- and 3-dimensional materiality, highlighting unexpected connections found in our daily environment. Most of my work is based on experiences collected during residencies, looking at landscape, history and folklore. Collected material are put together with association as a valuable tool, where new or skewed narratives are told through video and sculpture. I was born in 1992 on the outskirts of Gothenburg (SE) and I’m currently based in Malmö (SE).”
“I’ll work with two sites relating to time. One, is the Paris Observatory where my main interest is their atomic clock which measures seconds by using information provided by the oscillations of caesium atoms. X number of oscillations generated by the atom, equals exactly 1 second. The other is Parc Des Buttes Chaumont where there’s a manmade mountain, currently failing to mimic the qualities of eternity – the mixture of concrete and gypsum haven’t been able to sustain erosion caused by weather.”
Maria Brunskog
Conservator-restorer, post-retirement lecturer
03.12.2025 – 30.12.2025
“I studied arts, cabinetmaking, and conservation. Graduated (BA, PhD) in conservation. For decades, I was a museum restorer. Currently, self-employed. My research areas: material culture, history of decorative surfaces, partly together with Japanese scholars. I am affiliated with Uppsala Univ., after previously serving as program manager and director of studies. Pedagogical credentials include the development of courses etc., using a didactic model with an interaction between theory and practice.”
“I aim to trace the Swedish cabinetmaker of renown — Nils Dahlin. He was part of a group of foreign manufacturers in Paris in 1750-70, and seek to find documentary evidence in the national archives in Paris. Further, I will visit exhibitions and archives with collections related to furniture-manufacture during the same period and their French executors, with whom Dahlin might have been informed and guided.”
Marianne Goldman
Playwright and conversational therapist
03.12.2025 – 30.12.2025
“I am a well-known Swedish playwright with 20 different productions in Sweden and the Nordic countries.
In addition I wrote the script for the feature movie Freud Moves Away From Home, the first Swedish-Jewish film. My biggest theatre success was The Cancer Balcony. I have also written a novel, Don’t Say You Are Sorry, published by the same company that recently printed Nights with Family Cohen, a collection of all my Jewish plays. One of them will be produced in Stockholm during the fall.”
“I have begun to write a play about the fate of the German-Jewish artist Charlotte Salomon. During the war she hid in Nice, but was discovered and murdered in Auschwitz when she was 26 years old. In secret she completed an unique work of art called Life or Theater, 769 paintings telling the story of her life. They have been exhibited in Europe. France has been at the forefront, not least through the novel about Charlotte written by the French author David Foenkinos. We will meet in Paris.”
Anneli Jordahl
Author
03.12.2025 – 20.12.2025
“I´m a former literary critic working on my sixth novel Kallet (January 2026) . My previous novel The Bearhunter´s daughters was nominated for Augustpriset. It was translated into french by Anna Gibson. Les filles du chasseur d´ours was nominated for two french literary prizes. The novel is released in ten countries. Next year my debut novel will be republished. Jag skulle vara din hund (om jag bara finge vara i din närhet) is about the famous Swede Ellen Key.”
“I´m working on a short story collection. Some of them takes place in Paris. When my brother and his family lived in Paris my mother went to Paris for the first time. Her dream was to visit the Paris Opera. I follow in her footsteps.”
Kristina Lundblad
Senior lecturer in book history
03.12.2025 – 30.12.2025
“I’m a senior lecturer in book history at Lund University. Before I took an interest in books as objects, I worked as a literary critic for Swedish newspapers for about 20 years. And before that I went to art school. I’m currently running a research project called The Typography of Knowledge: Graphic Form and the Shaping of Disciplines, Academic Identities and Concepts of ‘Scientificality. With Jan Eric OlsĂ©n I recently edited an issue on the typewriting machine for the journal Biblis.”
“In Paris, I will be doing field studies for my project Where literature takes place. Digital technology is also taking hold in France, but it is still a reality that you see more people reading books in French public space than you see in Swedish public space. In addition, the physical bookstore is lively, books are everywhere. The study is about the meaning-making capacity of the book: what does the book do to society, culture and people through its mere presence in the public space?”
Sara Stridsberg
Writer
03.12.2025 – 30.12.2025
“Sara Stridsberg is an internationally acclaimed novellist and playwright whose work has been translated into more than 25 languages. She has been awarded the European Union Prize for Literature, the Dobloug Prize, De Nios Winter Prize, the Selma Lagerlöf Prize and has been nominated for the August Prize 5 times. Her new critically acclaimed novel, Farewell to Panic Beach, was published in Sweden in September 2024 and will be published in France by Grasset. Her novels are published in French by Stock and Gallimard and her theatre by l’Arche.”
“In Paris I will meet with theaters and publishers and try to see as much theater as I can. I always write wherever I am. I also have some places in and around Paris that I would like to visit for my writing.”