Stockholm Art Week event: Guided tour of the Mark Dion classroom
All Art Classrooms at the Stockholm School of Economics are permanent installations that function both as works of art and as active learning environments. The latest addition is a new classroom by the American artist Mark Dion (b. 1961), based in Copake, NY, USA, currently taking shape during the first week of April.
Throughout his practice, Mark Dion has examined how dominant ideologies and public institutions shape our understanding of history, knowledge, and the natural world. His work consistently interrogates how institutions—such as natural history museums, universities, and economic bodies—construct and legitimise knowledge. A classroom within an academic institution like SSE is precisely the kind of environment Dion places under scrutiny.
By appropriating methods from archaeology, field ecology, and other scientific disciplines—collecting, classifying, and exhibiting objects—Dion questions the assumed objectivity and authority of the scientific voice in contemporary society. His work traces how pseudo-science, social agendas, and ideology can permeate public discourse and knowledge production.
You are warmly invited to experience this new classroom together with Mark Dion’s gallerist in Stockholm, , and Tinni Ernsjöö Rappe from SSE Art Initiative.
Limited spots.
Previous Art Classrooms have been created by artists including Yinka Shonibare, Marie-Louise Ekman, Rana Begum, Jacob Dahlgren, Carl Hammoud and Thomas Broomé (more info here). With Mark Dion’s contribution, room 138 continues this evolving programme, positioning the classroom as a site for both education and critical reflection.