Meanwhile

Meanwhile opens on Friday, October 17th. This is the first group exhibition under Fotografiska’s Emerging Artists initiative, which focuses on Swedish-based contemporary visual artists. The exhibition features works by Noah Agemo, Amanda Gylling, Andy Allen-Olivar, and Ailin Mirlashari – four new voices who, each in their own ways, push the boundaries of what photography can be. “We are thrilled to celebrate the power of the image with some of the rising stars of photography,” says Mohamed Mire, exhibition producer at Fotografiska Stockholm.

four artists expand the language of photography

This first group exhibition of Fotografiska’s Emerging Artists initiative is being shown in parallel with the anniversary exhibition 15 Fotografiska Years. Meanwhile brings together completely different artists – Noah Agemo, Amanda Gylling, Andy Allen-Olivar, and Ailin Mirlashari – to explore their respective themes, art forms, identities, and techniques. Meanwhile runs from October 17, 2025 to March 1, 2026.

“All four are very exciting and talented artists, who really expand the language of photography using different experimental techniques and themes. Their work feels poetic, current and forward-looking all at the same time. This is an exhibition that is both bold and experimental, highlighting the unexpected, the personal, and the progressive,” says Mohamed Mire, exhibition producer at Fotografiska Stockholm.

Noah Agemo

Noah Agemo (born 1993) is a multidisciplinary artist based in Stockholm. He works with photography, painting, sculpture, video, and installation focusing on analogue and experimental processes. Through a slow and instinctive approach, he examines how identity is shaped by heritage, identity, and memory. His works straddle the line between documentary and the staged, material and performative, and illuminate the impact of family ties, distance, and silence.

Amanda Gylling

Amanda Gylling (1993) is a photographer and director with a background in dance, which is reflected in her exploration of forms, movements, and playfulness. Gylling works with nostalgia, eccentricity, and magical realism in her art. Her photography also has a more documentary side with images from various trips, as traveling is an important part of her creative process. The works in the exhibition are from various projects over the past eight years, where the visual puzzle is at the center and the meaning emerges through contrast and rhythm.

Ailin Mirlashari

Ailin Mirlashari (born 1992) is an interdisciplinary artist who works with video, installation, photography, textiles, and social practice. Her work, seamlessly flowing between poetry and criticism, touches on such themes as cultural duality, collective memory, and universal storytelling. The Blombecknarna series depicts three flower sellers trying to get by in difficult times. The video work This Is How We Continue is an extension of the mural Större än vad ni tror created with over two hundred Husby residents. The series Hinner du andas mellan ruscherna? weaves together portraits of friends and places in Järva, northwest Stockholm.

Andy Allen-Olivar

Andy Allen-Olivar (born 1995) is a multimedia artist working with photography, film, installation, text, and performance. In the exhibition, Allen-Olivar returns to the mountains outside of Bogotá, Colombia, where he was born before unrest in the country forced him to leave. His works show his warm, if fragmented, sense of the place, a feeling shaped as much by its absence as by the stories that have kept it alive for him. Here we meet a grandfather who shaves every sunrise and sunset, police officers who take bribes of trout that are still flapping in their pockets, ghosts from drunken knife fights, and an aunt's town that has been wiped out by a volcano.

Meanwhile is the first group exhibition of Fotografiska’s Emerging Artists initiative, a platform for young, promising photographers based in Sweden who use unique imagery to show us their everyday lives. The goal of the series is to highlight rising artists and support an inspiring and local art scene.