Liesbet Bussche

Toxibilities
Steneby Konsthall, Dals Långed, Sweden
12 September 2026 - 1 November 2026

The exhibition Toxibilities at Steneby Konsthall explores the entanglements of toxicity, disrupted environments, and bodies within a more-than-human world. The title, a portmanteau of toxic and invisibilities-abilities, invites reflection on how harmful substances and systems can simultaneously destroy and transform, often operating unnoticed while actively shaping new realities, relationships, and futures.

The exhibition considers how we live with toxic conditions and how forms of becoming-with emerge within and beyond contaminated environments. Working across disciplinary boundaries, the participating artists, researchers, designers, and craft practitioners attend to the afterlives of extraction and industrial production. Their works engage with colonial histories, waste, environmental degradation, and possibilities for regeneration.

Toxibilities connects the local histories of the Dalsland region to broader geographies of pollution and resource extraction, tracing how these processes continue to unfold across time and place.

The exhibition is curated by Conversation Piece, a collaborative practice initiated in 2011 by Beatrice Brovia and Nicolas Cheng that can be intended as a hands-on study on interconnectedness and interdependency. An ongoing reflection on ’making-with’ through conversation, misunderstanding and friction, the practice considers the enfolding boundaries that connect materials, bodies, and technology in the complex timescapes of environmental change.

This exhibition was made possible with support from The Swedish Arts Council, and its related publication with support from Langmanska.