Best Before Collective Stockholm, Sweden

Best Before Collective, pop-up exhibition platform, Stockholm, Sweden collectivebestbefore@gmail.com | www.bestbeforecollective.se

Best Before Collective is a group of artists, curators, art enthusiasts and creators with different backgrounds and knowledge. We want to use this wide range of abilities and learn from each other as we produce artistic interventions aiming to highlight art and artists that might not be shown in established spaces.

This year we invited Hilma Nordén to exhibit with us. Her practice explores cultural creations from nature, folklore and magic. She grew up in plantation forests, and feels a kinship with the trees of her childhood, who raised her yet silently disappear under the teeth of chainsaws. Nordén’s work acknowledges the forest beyond its timber and investigates the constructed hierarchies and hybridities between human and nature.

Hilma Norden, ‘Elgen’, wool, 2021 Hilma Nordén, ‘Grävlingen’, wool, 2022 Hilma Nordén, ’Skogsro’, wool, 2021 Hilma Norden, ‘Rötter’, wool, 2021