Handels x Mejan 2025

Handels x Mejan celebrated its fifth edition in May 2025 with Sprawling, a student-curated exhibition featuring four artists from the Royal Institute of Art at the SSE campus.

Exhibition: May 2025
Location: SSE, Sveavägen 65
Artists: Christopher Robin Nordström, Simon Dahlgren Strååt, Lina Lundquist and Roda Abdalle
Curators: Pelle Avemo Hådell and Emelie Backman

Exhibition poster for the fifth Handels x Mejan, the 2025 edition at the SSE campus.

About the exhibition

Sprawling brought together painting, sculpture, coal-based works and robotics to explore expansion in physical, conceptual and emotional forms. Moving between organic and constructed materials, past and future, the exhibition invited visitors into a landscape where structures dissolve and form remains in transformation.

The fifth Handels x Mejan was organised by Art Division, the student organisation within the Student Association at SSE (SASSE), in collaboration with the Royal Institute of Art.

Find all previous editions of Handels x Mejan here.

Curators

Pelle Avemo Hådell and Emelie Backman, Heads of Exhibitions, curated Sprawling with support from Clara Prander and Elsa Saxon, Heads of Art Division.

Pelle Åvemo and Emelie Backman
Curators Pelle Avemo Hådell and Emelie Backman. Photo: Stina Stjernkvist, Art Division.
Clara Prander and Elsa Saxon
Elsa Saxon and Clara Prander, Heads of Art Division. Photo: Stina Stjernkvist, Art Division.

Opening of the exhibition, 12 May 2025

From left: artists Lina Lundquist & Christopher Robin Nordström together with Clara Prander, Head of Art Division, and Handels x Mejan curators Emelie Backman and Pelle Avemo Hådell
Exhibition view of Cicli Gabriel by Christopher Robin Nordström. Photo: Ninhursag Tadaros. In picture: Stina Stjernkvist.
Photo: Stina Stjernkvist.
Artist Simon Dahlgren Strååt together with SSE student curators Emelie Backman and Pelle Avemo Hådell after installation of his work Hunger (2025). Photo: Tinni Ernsjöö Rappe.

About the artists and artworks

Christopher Robin Nordström works across art, design and architecture. In Sprawling, he presented Cicli Gabriel.

Simon Dahlgren Strååt works with painting and narrative imagery. In Sprawling, he presented Hunger (2025).

Lina Lundquist works with sculpture and material experimentation, including glass, steel and found media.

Roda Abdalle works across installation, textiles, moving image and performance, exploring memory, displacement and belonging.