CAPIm Research Annual 2025

The Centre for Art and the Political Imaginary in Gothenburg warmly welcomes you to the first annual symposium on the 28th and 29th of August 2025. Local, national, and international artists, researchers, and educators gather in Skeppet GBG and Bergsjön Kulturhuset to think together about ways in which art, politics, and imagination might shape the futures we want – or end up creating the ones that we fear.

Our focus is on how artists, in their work and reflections, explore the relationship between politics and imagination. What does such artistic exploration make possible, and what is the meaning of all of this for the wider community that art makers exist in? For whom, and by whom, are questions of political imagination raised in art? How can artistic research contribute in a meaningful way to the collective discussion of possible political futures?

We suggest that such an engagement not only contributes to the creation of possibilities but also comes with a number of limitations and risks. Together, both specialists and non-specialists, we want to reflect on the responsibilities that this turn towards the future means for the arts’ role in society today.

Amongst the many programs, Tania El Khoury participated in a Panel Discussion alongside her fellow CAPIm Advisory Board Members Jay Pather, Maria Hlavajova, and Stefan Jonsson.