| Rikke Bogetoft | /Emily Nausner |
Open Ends
4 - 19 March 2025
Galleri Résistance invites artists Emily Nausner and Rikke Bogetoft to inhabit the gallery as part of the residency program Open Ends. During March 2026 the gallery space will become an open studio, hosting two ongoing research-projects where process and collaboration will be visible and exposed to the public.
During Open Ends the two artists will work in parallel and in entangled structures, exploring the potentialities of radical imagination as a framework for alternative futures. Their two separate practices will intermingle within the contextual landscape of intersectional feminist critique, exploring the reimagination of temporary feminist public spaces, and the radical potential of magic as a form of queer resistance.
Nausner and Bogetoft invite guests to take part in the reimagination process: guests are highly encouraged to share their reflections and ideas as part of a collective reimagination process, during the open studio period March 6th - 15th 2026. The residency will end with a public moment on the 19th of March, where the collective knowledge will be presented and passed on into new hands.
feminist critical spatial practice → resistance through reimagination ← queer resistance magic
➳ Emily Nausner: Futures That Did Not Happen
Emily investigates feminist critical spatial practices, on how public space can be reclaimed and reimagined. Through textile-based models and “dirty materialism,” she shifts architectural authorship toward care/collaboration, and embodied histories.
➳ Rikke Bogetoft: Queer Dehumanization, Magic, and Alternative Tactics of Resistance
Rikke explores resistance as a political and magical practice. Through ritual, and performative experimentation, the project moves toward an artist book mapping collective knowledge on queer resistance.
Emily Nausner (b. 2001) is a spatial practitioner interested in materiality, interdisciplinarity and collaborative processes.
Nausner is currently studying at the Master of Architecture and Planning beyond Sustainability program at Chalmers University. I am currently developing my Architecture Master’s Thesis Futures that did not happen. A feminist public space is a movement, not a statement. In my thesis I am investigating methods of feminist critical spatial practices and testing them on an exploration site: the former House Idun, located on Storgatan 47, that was for 40 years owned by the women’s association Idun. My work aims to advocate for the necessity of a self- organized feminist public space and demonstrate how methods of feminist critical spatial practices contribute to the creation of sustainable and resilient spaces. In the next phase of my thesis project, I am addressing, what could a contemporary feminist public space in Gothenburg feel like?
Rikke Bogetoft (b. 1995) is a queerfeminist artist and researcher whose practice critically examines relationships between bodies and dimensions of power, with a current focus on the non-human, dehumanisation, and tactics of resistance. Bogetoft holds a Master of Fine Art from HDK-Valand at the University of Gothenburg and is currently based in Denmark.
This project investigates the radical potential of magic as a form of queer resistance. By mapping the contemporary folk magic of local queer artists, activists, and guests, Bogetoft seeks to collectively develop new insights into magic as a strategy for resistance. During Open Ends, guests are invited to share their own rituals for resistance or imagine new ones. This communal knowledge will be documented and become part of a new artist book inspired by spell-books and witches’ tomes — a collection of spells and rituals for queer resistance. The artist book will be disseminated among queer publics and guests on 19 March at Galleri Résistance.
The project forms part of a larger research initiative on the dehumanisation of queer publics, examining queer necropolitics while artistically activating alternative paradigms of queer resistance.