New date! Aug. 30. Moving Landscapes/QUARTO (BR/SE)
Note!
Due to bad weather on friday, we have decided to move the performance of Moving Landscapes to Saturday 30 at 4pm–6pm
For six years, artist duo QUARTO has been transporting a huge metal cube through different landscapes all over the world. It has followed and framed the duo wherever it has moved. Now the cube will come to the quay outside Nationalmuseum. In a performance QUARTO seeks to weave a quiet bridge with some of the museum’s sculptures.
Saturday, August 30 at 4pm–6pm
Strömkajen, outside the National Museum.
Free admission
QUARTO, consisting of Leandro Zappala and Anna af Sillén de Mesquita, choose to perceive the Cube as a topos — a site for dwelling, for situating themselves within space. They do not perceive it as a symbol of solidity or permanence, but a vessel in flux, echoing the Brazilian favela: improvised, communal, endlessly shifting. What matters is not its monumentality, but its emptiness — an invisible invitation to move, to transform, to activate.
In this performance, on the quay outside Nationalmuseum, QUARTO seeks to weave a quiet bridge with some of the museum’s sculptures.
It is not a gesture of reactivating, representing, or translating these sculptures, rather approaching them as traces, as embodied memories that QUARTO can navigate and move through. An intimate and unresolved gesture that will unfold and be further developed 2026.
The performance is a collaboration between QUARTO, Weld and Nationalmuseum
Read more at nationalmuseum.se
Coreography, concept and performance: Leandro Zappala and Anna af Sillén de Mesquita
Sound design: Philippe Boix Vives
Technical coordinator: Tobias Hallgren (Lumination of Sweden)
Co-production by Weld
Developed under collaboration with/residence at: Nationalmuseum, Dansens Hus, MDT (Sweden), Serralves Museum (Portugal), Art Safiental Biennale (Switzerland), ZONA & Festival (Romania), Breaking Walls Festival Cairo (Egypt), Art Stations Foundation and Susch Museum (Switzerland).
Supported by The Swedish Arts Council and The Swedish Arts Grants Committee.
A big thank you to Ports of Stockholm
QUARTO
is an interdisciplinary artist duo founded in 2003 by the choreographers Anna af Sillén de Mesquita and Leandro Zappala. Their work is deeply rooted in the interplay between theory and practice, exploring the boundaries between body and object through radical, visual and physical experiences. Known for their immersive and thought-provoking nature, QUARTO’s works invite the audience to engage with social, political or existential issues through artistic interventions and innovations. QUARTO’s work has been shown in many relevant international museums, venues and festivals in over 25 countries. In 2018 QUARTO was awarded the Birgit Cullberg grant, in recognition of their significant contribution to the contemporary performing arts.
Weld is supported by Stockholms stad, the Swedish Arts Council and Region Stockholm