Blue toned illustration of a figure counting coins at a deskBlue toned zoning plan drawing of a city district

Challenge how financial world-building pre-leases the future and empties out the present.

Selected projects
Group exhibition - seven local artists
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Blandstadens taktik

September - October 2022 · Norra Grängesbergsgatan 26, Sofielund, Malmö
Exhibition

Seven local artists, seven new readings of Sofielund's industrial area - on language, time, power and who gets to author the future city.

Blandstadens
Online archive and exhibition
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Atlas of Lost Doors / Levande bottenvåning

April - May 2021 · Galleri AGU, Kiviksgatan, Malmö
Archive

A photographic archive of a changing urban landscape: doors that have disappeared, shops turned into flats, entrances replaced by concrete.

Atlas of Lost Doors - 1
Atlas of Lost Doors - 2
Atlas of Lost Doors - 3
Atlas of Lost Doors - 4
Atlas of Lost Doors - 5
Atlas of Lost Doors - 6
Atlas of Lost Doors - 7
Process management and vision development
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Sämjan Invest

2019 - 2020 · Scenkonstkvarteret Sämjan, Malmö
Research

Participatory action research following a cultural quarter from acquisition to closure - either an obituary, or a manual for obstructing your own extinction.

Sämjan
About

CSAM challenges current modes of urban development and the narratives that support them - through community engagement and art as an investigative tool.

By engaging local artists and artisans to problematize the unjust allocation of urban resources, CSAM works to visualize the implications of big geopolitical shifts on local conditions in a local context.

CSAM in its current form was founded in 2019 by long-time partners Victoria Percovich Gutierrez (economist), Åsa Bjerndell (architect) and Karl Landin (urban planner). Our practice has developed through a combination of working as architects and community organizers, and curating talks, exhibitions and artistic interventions.

Awards & collections
  • 2026Nominated for Tänk-om-priset 2026 - CSAM Maintenance Awards, by ACAN Sverige
  • 2022Shortlisted - Swedish Architecture Foundation's Critics' Award
  • -Permanent collection - ArkDes, National Museum of Architecture and Design
  • -Permanent collection - Malmö Art Museum
Contact

An independent think tank, curating practice and gallery space in Malmö, working at the intersection of art, public policy and architecture.

Karlshamnsgatan 4 (shopfront)
Malmö, Sweden
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