Artists

Pontus Pettersson

Press release

Pontus Pettersson: AIR 19 February 2026–19 February 2027 Over the course of one full year, choreographer, artist, and curator Pontus Pettersson is artist-in-residence at Index—an unofficial/official residency that functions as both exhibition and performance—playing with the juxtaposed roles (or non-roles) of institutions and artists, exploring how these relationships can generate meaningful exchange or parasitic structures. AIR and Index serve as both a creative hub and an open invitation for dialogue and collaboration with other artists, curators, guests, and thinkers who pass through or by Index. The residency/exhibition offers Pontus Pettersson the frame to develop new works while experimenting with innovative modes of presentation and artistic processes, almost joining—or slightly shadowing—the Index team. AIR is part ghost, part immaterial, part shadow, part language: sometimes sneaking in, sometimes missing. AIR is both what it says it is—and what it is not. Pontus Pettersson (b. 1985, Sweden) works across performance, choreography, exhibition-making, and curated encounters. Drawing on materiality, language, poetics and philosophy, he investigates how objects, bodies, and social structures produce meaning, spaces for listening and intimacy.