Documentation video below each WALK/WALKING ARTIST.

WALKING WITH PASSION

AURIKE QUINTELIER

THE WALK: THE MURMURS FROM FUTURE
A team of archaeologists dig through layers of the Supermarket Art building and site. They make up stories, make an effort to stay close to possible realities of the past. True facts merge with fiction, the world of the examiner seeps into the findings of the site. The Art Fair is an archaeological event of the past, that once brought together artists, curators, collectives from around the world. 

 The public is given Virtual Reality headgear that immerses them in Supermarket Art 2025, a computer-generated environment with scenes that appear to be real appears before their eyes. Passed through their hands are objects from the past, remnants of works of art, parts of the ruin once building before them, tools used by artists in 2025. A guide gives a tour, sharing findings of the team of archaeologists.

Throughout Supermarket Art 2025, the architect, artist and teacher Aurike Quintelier will give guided tours from the perspective of a fictional future archaeologist, with a strong spatial and architectural focus. She shares stories from artists, curators and collectives, passes along works of art that seem to have disappeared. It is no longer clear what is fiction or what is real.”

Headgear and fictional artefacts designed by Aurike Quintelier

WALKING ARTIST:
Aurike Quintelier (1992) is an architect, artist, and teacher in Belgium. Her work consists of different media – architectural design, drawing, site-specific installation, research – with which she aims to uncover the existing symbiotic relations between people, and between people and places. In her ongoing research ‘Building Out Whispering’ she investigates how imagining and making space can play a role in personal and societal stories.

Aurike Quintelier

Above: Special Edit of Murmur from the Future
Below: Sequence of Murmur from the Future: The wooden Divice.

HEATHER (HeyThere) KAPPLOW (US)

THE WALK: TAKING DICTATION
Do you have a passion for rule-following? A deep-seated desire to please authority figures? If so, you’ll love Taking Dictation, a grownup, walking version of the kind of children’s games called “Simon Says” or “Follow the Leader” in the USA (and “Gör si, gör så” or “Följa John” in Sweden.) 

But this version has so much more complexity that it might be unrecognizable. Which means that if you hate rule-following and pleasing authority, but are gaga for entropy, then you’ll also love Taking Dictation.

The title is a play on words around the practice of transcribing speech, which is a practice that is meant to be faithful to exactly what is spoken, but often has unintended variability. In this case there is an effort to see how far variability can go, to the degree that the “taking” of dictation becomes potentially a taking away of dictatorial power.

Led by Heather (Hey There) Kapplow (USA), we will move together in a state that vacillates rapidly between obedience and disobedience, fairness and unfairness, freedom and restriction, order and chaos. The combination of movement, prompts, and sound will build simultaneous, contradictory routes through time and space as an experimental method for discovering previously unseen paths of resistance to the imposition of the ideas of others upon ourselves. 

The experience will take about 30-45 minutes with optional discussion afterwards.

WALKING ARTIST

Heather (HeyThere) Kapplow creates participatory art experiences that elicit unexpected intimacies using objects, alternative interpretations of existing environments, installation, performance, writing, audio and video. Kapplow has been awarded numerous grants and fellowships, and has had work commissioned for galleries, film and performance festivals within the USA and internationally

Heather (Hey There) Kapplow

Above: Special Edit of Taking Dictation
Below: Sequence of Taking Dictation: Blowhorn Emotion

JUANMA GONZÁLEZ (ES/SE)

THE WALK: SHOP-ART-WALK

This project aims to reimagine the public space within Skärholmen’s shopping mall by turning it into a playful setting where walking becomes a medium for exploration and discovery. Under the title Shop-Art-Walk, I seek to subvert the commercial functionality of the environment through participatory dynamics that encourage creative interaction with the space. Through walking in a different way—such as backwards, jumping, non-step-on-lines, non-linear routes—participants are invited to experience the space differently, breaking predefined structures and generating new collective narratives.

This project challenges the logic of consumption and transit in shopping malls, offering an experience that slows down the everyday pace, prioritizing contemplation and community connection. By decontextualizing the space and activating its public dimension, it opens a territory for imagination and interaction, demonstrating art’s potential to transform everyday environments into arenas for play and reflection. I want to create the shopping mall into a playground for the participants.

WALKING ARTIST
I am a Spanish artist who works and lives in Botkyrka. My work combines experimental and traditional practices—drawing, photography, site-specific installations—along with performance and artistic interventions. With a decade of experience developing walking projects and exhibiting my artwork in countries including Sweden, Norway, Finland, Spain, Estonia, and the US, I have explored diverse artistic approaches across different cultural contexts.

I studied historical photographic techniques at Universidad Europea in Madrid in 1999 and later earned a degree in Fine Arts from Complutense University, Madrid, in 2014. My education continued with an MFA from the Royal Institute of Art (KKH) in Stockholm in 2016, followed by postgraduate courses such as Research_LAB at KKH (2017), Sites and Situations at Konstfack (2018), Site and Participant at Dramatiska Högskolan (2020), and The Photographic Artist’s Book: Performing Sustainability at KKH (2022).

In addition to my artistic practice, I use walking as a teaching tool and have coordinated and led workshops for KKH students and faculty, including a workshop trip to Madrid in 2019 and a one-day workshop inspired by the Swedish studiecirkel model in 2020. I have also taught at the Art School of Murcia in Spain.

I am currently pursuing a PhD at Complutense University in Madrid and recently participated in two Land Art exhibitions in Karlstad, Sweden, and Dikemark, Norway, where I created site-specific labyrinth installations. My recent exhibitions and projects include Crosswalking in LA at Durden and Ray (2023, USA), Camiños Creativos at Museo Gaiás (2022, Spain), and Landscapes of Other Places at Supermarket Art Fair in Stockholm (2022). I am also a co-founder of the artist-run collective Flat Octopus in Stockholm.

Juanma González

Above: Special Edit of Shop-Art-Walk, Juanma González
Below: Sequence of Shop-Art-Walk: Hand-in-hand.

JOHN SCHUERMAN

As a curator he’s produced over 30 exhibitions across the Midwestern U.S. on topics that address current concerns in our collective psyche. Schuerman is also an environmental artist.  His artwork reflects his deep interest in nature both human and nonhuman. His aesthetic style and social consciousness formed as he grew up on a dairy farm in southern Wisconsin, U.S.. His primary art practices are Walking and Drawing, which he uses to examine his community’s physical, social, and psychic landscapes. Schuerman is based in Minneapolis, MS, US.

Curator’s Statement for Walking AS Passion for Supermarket 2025

Produced by the Walking As Practice Collective (WAPC)

There are two broad categories of walking-art events: active vs. passive engagement for participants. For the Walking As Passion events at Supermarket 2025, I selected two active engagement walks, i.e. where the art is realized through the movements of the participants, and one passive walk where the participants are guided through space and cued to use their imagination to realize the artwork. I like that there are choices for people. So, whether you like to be physically part of the performance or not, there is walking-art for you to participate in. 

Of course, both forms of walking events are artwork, and as such they are created to elicit emotional and intellectual responses.  This psychic movement is also part of why we love art. It is the chance to grow a little, as human beings and fee the joy of that! As artists often do, the WAP25 artists will challenge the norms for walking in public spaces and ask you to think about the space, place and your codified ‘rules’ for moving in society. Wherever your imagination takes you, or whatever responsive feelings or thoughts arise for you, these too, will be the art. 

John Schuerman

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BERG DUO

Ami Skånberg and Anna Viola Hallberg is Berg Duo. The joint focus is through artistic research and on walking as artform/walking as practice in addition to lens and embodied works at the cusp of screendance and video essays and video installations. Proximity, movement and space are recurring critical inquiries in their works. Becoming is central and the artistic research process touches up on care, proximity, and responsibility. They works at the intersection of walking, lens and embodied art practice and theoretical inquiry. BERG DUO are based out of Stockholm and Gothenburg, Sweden with a Fellowship studio at Björkö through BKN. 

Projects by BERG DUO

Berg Duo made a friendship walk as a spontaneous additional to the Walking With Passion Theme at Supermarket Independent Art Fair between the galleries KYOJIMA STATION (Tokyo)  and PASAJ (Istanbul) 

Tokyo – Istanbul a performative walk by Ami Skånberg and Canan Yücel Pekiçten at Supermarket 2025, Stockholm Independent Art Fair.  With gratitude to: KYOJIMA STATION (Tokyo)  and PASAJ (Istanbul) 

A WAP Collective initiative by Berg Duo.

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The program is an extension of BKN/Björkö Konstnod and in collaboration with Arbetarnas Bildningsförbund / ABF Norrtälje.

WALKING WITH
PASSION

We are passionate about walking as an art form and want to give you a chance to experience some walks by WAPC artists.
It is with great passion and compassion we invite you to walk with us in the
curated program “Walking With Passion” for Supermarket 2025 with artists/lead walkers: Aurike Quintellier, Heather (HeyThere) Kapplow and Juanma Gonzáles.

Artists will attend Supermarket preview and days of their respective walks. The orange WAP vests are on so easy to spot they have “Walking As Practice” on the back.

To join sign up at Supermarket front desk.

“Walking With Passion” curated by John Schuerman with Berg Duo.

Documentation will be added as walks are made.
Inquiries: wapc @ walkingaspractice.org
(pls remove gaps around at-sign)

Supermarket 2025 | 3–6 April 2025 | SKHLM Skärholmen Centrum
Stockholm, Sweden