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SIMKA

Set Design

SIMKA is the project name for the visual artists Simon Häggblom’s and Karin Lind’s shared artistic activities. Through SIMKA they combine their knowledge and skills from visual art, set design and landscape architecture. The core of their work is the investigation and formation of different spaces and sites for human interaction. Informed by the tensions between urbanity and nature, as well as the fictional and the habitual world. The pieces are more or less permanent, located in the gaps, the solitary or disintegrated spaces of the public or private sphere.

SIMKA was formed in 2001, and has since then produced a number of large public commissions, among them: O-wall, Henriksdalshöjden’s pre school (Nacka Kultur), Wonderland, at the penitentiary institution Hall in Södertälje (Statens Konstråd), The song of the forest, Igelstaverket, Södertälje (Söderenergi Kraftvärme AB), and Les Trois Mages, outside Notre Dame in Reims for the festival Reims Scénes d’Europe, France.  They have created  set design and costumes for Tusen år hos Gud , choreography Margaretha Åsberg at The Royal Dramatic Theatre, Stockholm, Leonora Carrington, set design and art installation for theater Unga Klara, project for Orgeval / Foyer Remois & La Friché Artistique and Reims Scénés d’Europe in Reims, France, exhibitions at Körsbärsgården konsthall, Gotland, Luleå Konsthall and Baltic Sea, for European Capital of Culture in Umeå in collaboration with Norrlandsoperan, Sweden, at Gallery Noass in Riga, Latvia and Pori Art Museum in Pori, Finland.