Power Ekroth (SWE/NO) works across exhibition-making, publishing, pedagogy, and curatorial infrastructures. Her practice is shaped by long-term collaborations and by hospitality as a working method.

She is an independent curator, critic, educator, and managing editor of SITE Zones, a platform for critical cultural discourse she co-founded in 2001. Her projects often develop over time rather than as singular events, unfolding through dialogue, research, and shared working conditions.

Recent exhibitions include Beyond the Safe Zone at Borås Konstmuseum and The Curse of an Unstoppable Appetite for the Greenlight Triennial in Skien and Porsgrunn, which addressed the capitaloscene and its consequences for collective life. Earlier, Six Impossible Things Before Breakfast for Momentum Biennial (2013) examined socio-economic frameworks shaping democratic systems.

Ekroth has worked over time in Cairo through recurring projects such as Off with Their Heads, Persistence through Joy, and No Problem: The People, building sustained exchanges between Egyptian and international practitioners.

Pedagogy forms part of her working method. She teaches art theory at Falkenberg Konstskola and previously initiated the Nordic region’s first low-residency MA program for artists at Novia University of Applied Sciences in Finland, working closely with two cohorts through teaching, mentorship, and collective travel across cities including Istanbul, Abu Dhabi, Dubai, Berlin, and Stockholm.

Alongside her curatorial work, she builds structures that support artistic mobility and exchange. She founded and directs CurExRes, a curator residency connecting international curators with art communities in Sweden, and is a co-founder of the Swedish Curators’ Association. From 2022 to 2024, she coordinated emergency placements between SWAN and Artists at Risk, helping secure shelter and working conditions for artists displaced by war and political repression.

Ekroth works with Stockholm Konst on public commissions and acquisitions. In 2026, she will undertake a residency at the International Studio & Curatorial Program in New York, awarded by the Office for Contemporary Art Norway.

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