The Collective Embroidery Workshop is an open invitation to gather around crafting, conversation, and communal creativity. The event is hosted by artist Ebba Hägne and curated by Letian Ding, a student at the International Master’s Programme in Curating Art at Stockholm University.

What does solidarity mean in your life, your body, your memory? The Collective Embroidery Workshop invites participants to reflect on this question through the act of making. With needle and thread, everyone is welcome to contribute stitches to a shared embroidery cloth that grows throughout the afternoon into a collective artwork. No prior experience is needed; the workshop moves at its own pace, where conversation and making happen alongside each other. What remains at the end is both an artwork and a trace of everyone who passed through and left something of themselves behind.

The embroidering takes place on the stickstol (embroidery chair), which is crafted by Ebba Hägne as a contemporary reimagining of a traditional form once used in both Sweden and China. The workshop is situated in dialogue with the current exhibitions by Linnéa Sjöberg and Olof Marsja, both of which engage with craft, material memory, and the knowledge carried in the hand. Embroidery is precisely a knowledge of hands, historically practised outside the structures that define what counts as legitimate art or recognised expertise, and one that belongs as much to collective memory as to individual skill.

Sunday, 17 May 2026, 13:00–15:00
Location: Accelerator Café
The workshop will be held in English, with assistance available in Swedish and Chinese.
Participation is free, no registration needed

Welcome words by curator Letian Ding at 13:00 followed by an introduction and instruction by artist Ebba Hägne.

About the artist

Ebba Hägne is a Swedish-Chinese multidisciplinary illustrator, graphic designer, artist, and art teacher based in Stockholm. She graduated from Konstfack in 2025 with a Master’s degree in Fine Art, and her practice draws on family memories, diaspora identity, and the experience of living between China and Sweden. Her work holds traditional craft and contemporary expression in ongoing, productive tension, where the handmade and the designed, the inherited and the invented, sit close together.

Credits

Artist: Ebba Hägne
Curator: Letian Ding
Supervisors: Nina Øverli and Robin McGinley