Exhibition on Arctic climate challenges and resilience
April 24, 2025

Time & Place

What: Exhibition What Happens In the Arctic Does Not Stay In the Arctic
Where: Svenskt Tenn, Strandvägen 5
When: April 25 - May 4

Visit this year's project website to read more about each work here

Seven works that bring new perspectives to research

The exhibition What Happens In the Arctic Does Not Stay In the Arctic presents seven works that offer new perspectives on current research.

Temperatures in the Arctic are now rising three to four times faster than the global average and large ice masses are melting both on land and at sea. Climate change in the Arctic is not only affecting the global balance - it is also hitting ecosystems and local populations in the region hard. Many Arctic communities are already having to adapt to the rapid changes. Perhaps there are important lessons to be learned for humanity at large from the way they are tackling this new reality.

- What is happening in the Arctic right now is part of a larger, circular context. The consequences of our actions circulate back to us. Through the cycles of nature, our impact, and the Arctic Circle, we highlight how everything is connected and nothing exists in isolation. Phoebe Crooks, Molly Schedin and Olle Ljung, students.

- Working with the students has been an incredible learning experience. It's exciting to see how our research results inspire works of art that evoke the viewer's emotions. We researchers are very happy to be able to contribute to the great collaboration between Svenskt Tenn, Beckman College of Design, and the Beijer Institute," says Anne-Sophie Crépin, Deputy Director of the Beijer Institute.

About the collaboration between Beckmans, Svenskt Tenn and the Beijer Institute

Since 2017, students in the second-year Visual Communication program at Beckman College of Design have been collaborating with researchers at the Beijer Institute and its partners, and Svenskt Tenn. Students learn about the Beijer Institute's research and then, with the guidance of researchers, create a visual work that is shown in an exhibition at Svenskt Tenn. The collaboration aims to develop new ways of communicating research - to convey knowledge both rationally and emotionally in dialog. 

-Swedish Tenn's founder Estrid Ericson sold her life's work to the Kjell and Märta Beijer Foundation in 1975. Since then, all the profits generated by the company have been donated to charitable research. In order to draw attention to the world-leading research conducted at the Beijer Institute at the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, among others, the Beijer Foundation initiated a project. In 2017, Svenskt Tenn initiated a collaboration between Beckmans and the Beijer Institute. For us at the company, it represents an inspiring exhibition format, which over the years has also been disseminated in various contexts both in Sweden and internationally," concludes Thommy Bindefeld, senior advisor at Svenskt Tenn. 

Participating students, Beckmans

Albab Rahman, Edda Eliasson, Ella Farestam, Emmy Seeger, Hanna Hedberg, Ida Ädling, Linn Sehlstedt, Mika Hyvönen, Molly Schedin, Olle Ljung, Olle Svensson, Phoebe Crookes, Stephanie Holmén, Tyra Östlund, Wilma Reichardt, Wilmer Norrby

Exhibition concept, design and website

Molly Schedin, Olle Ljung, Phoebe Crookes

Participating researchers

Anne-Sophie Crépin - Beijer Institute
Juan C. Rocha - Stockholm Resilience Center, Stockholm University
Caroline Schill - Beijer Institute
Henrik Österblom - The Anthropocene Laboratory, Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences

Project management, Beijer Institute

Agneta Sundin

Course coordinator, Beckmans

Sophia Wood

Guest tutor

Helena Hammarskiöld, Johanna Burai, Samira Bouabana

Swedish Pewter

Thommy Bindefeld, Senior Advisor
Tora Grape, Marketing Manager
Åsa Brenner Toris, Curator
Lisa Nordlund, Press Officer
Lina Appelgren, Project Coordinator