Lundahl & Seitl
LUNDAHL & SEITL
Istanbul Modern welcomed artist duo Christer Lundahl and Martina Seitl during November-December, 2025, with the support of IASPIS, the Swedish Arts Grants Committee’s International Programme for Visual and Applied Arts. During their research in Istanbul, the artists are staying at the Swedish Research Institute in Istanbul with the support of the Consulate General of Sweden in Istanbul. Their research explored the city’s water resources and the cultures that have developed around them. Tracing Istanbul’s waterways through their new project, “Books of Salt,” the artists focus on the intersections of freshwater and saltwater, body and landscape. Their research and artistic production developed over the course of the project in Istanbul is presented in the exhibition “Flowing City” at Istanbul Modern.
About Lundahl & Seitl
Lundahl & Seitl is a Stockholm-based artist duo founded in 2003 by Christer Lundahl (b. 1978) and Martina Seitl (b. 1979). Working with choreography, sound, sculpture and glass, they treat virtual and augmented reality not as technologies but as capacities of the body: our ability to sense as real what isn't there. Their works don't build other worlds. They quietly change, from within, the relationships through which this one exists, including those with the other-than-human. Their long-term project "River Biographies" has taken them to Stockholm, Karachi and Shanghai.
IASPIS Istanbul Exchange Programme
The IASPIS Istanbul Exchange Programme aims to facilitate international exchange between Sweden-based visual artists and artistic practitioners working in architecture, urban practice, design and crafts, and artistic practitioners and representatives of organisations and institutions in Istanbul.
The programme consists of a two-week visit, including organised meetings, visits, excursions and participation in a public event. Visiting practitioners are accommodated and hosted by the Swedish Research Institute in Istanbul, in collaboration with the Consulate General of Sweden in Istanbul. The programme is organised in cooperation with a partner institution or organisation in Istanbul. In this case, the participating artists are Lundahl & Seitl, and the partner institution is Istanbul Modern.
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