Applicants who got selected can sign in and edit their catalogue text until 3 February.
This year's location: Erskinehuset, Slakthusområdet, Hallvägen 21, Stockholm
Applicants who got selected can sign in and edit their catalogue text until 3 February.
This year's location: Erskinehuset, Slakthusområdet, Hallvägen 21, Stockholm

Flat Octopus

Edsbruk, Sweden

c/o Alice Máselníková
Mellanvägen 5
59474 Edsbruk
Edsbruk, Sweden

flat.octopus@gmail.com

Flat Octopus is an international artist- and curator-run collective in Stockholm, Sweden, started in 2019. The organisation focuses on exhibitions in apartments and nontraditional venues, local and international collaboration, and supporting emerging artists. Flat Octopus also hosts an artist-in-residence programme in Edsbruk in the Swedish countryside.
At SUPERMARKET 2026 Moa-Matilda Nilsson presents a solo exhibition ‘Performative Masculinity’. In a site-specific installation featuring textile works and activated by performance, the artist examines the essence of masculinity and performative aspects of gender. In a room that is private yet sometimes exposed, masculinity emerges as something constructed, fragile, and in constant need of maintenance.
Moa-Matilda Nilsson (b. 1995, Umeå) is an artist based in Stockholm working with installation and performance. She holds a MFA in textile from Konstfack University of Arts, Crafts and Design, Sweden.

Moa-Matilda Nilsson, ‘Hantlar’, textile sculptures, 2026, photo: Karl-Johan Nilsson
Moa-Matilda Nilsson, ‘Quilt Eastwood’, quilted polyester, 100 x 100 cm, 2023, photo: Mattias Lindbäck
Moa-Matilda Nilsson, ‘Aggressive Textile’, mixed materials, 200 x 200 cm, 2022, photo: Anders Källén
Moa-Matilda Nilsson, ‘The Rites of Manhood’, mixed materials, 400 x 600 cm, 2024, photo: Karl-Johan Nilsson