On March twenty ninth, the exhibition Sharp Feelers – Mushy Antennas with Wang & Söderström opens on the Röhsska Museum. Guests are invited to discover 3D printed sculptures, movies and interactive installations that interact a number of senses – and problem the boundaries between design and expertise.
Wang & Söderström, consisting of the artwork and design duo Anny Wang and Tim Söderström, navigate the intersection of speculative design, digital craft and artwork. Within the exhibition Sharp Feelers – Mushy Antennas, they discover what it signifies for our senses that we’re transferring in the direction of an more and more digital future. Can feelers, tentacles and antennas present us with clues to how we will relate to the digital utilizing our sensory organs?
– By means of our senses, we create an understanding of ourselves, different lives and the world round us. We dwell in a world the place the bodily and digital have merged, the place expertise will not be at odds with both people or nature. The exhibition explores what which means for our senses in a time when the digital permeates each a part of our lives, says Tim Söderström.
Sensuous Shapes and Playful Design
Wang & Söderström’s work is characterised by playful design and sensuous kinds. Of their items, the duo creates new artificial realities. It focuses on how the digital world impacts us people – and the way ecology, supplies and the senses are altering within the digital age.
– How can new applied sciences broaden our slim view of notion, and may we uncover new methods of sensing? Whether it is via our senses that we perceive the world round us, we have to sharpen them, says Anny Wang.
New Works Impressed by the Museum’s Assortment
The exhibition options each present and two brand-new items: Känselspröt (Feelers), a Jacquard tapestry, and 5+sinnen (5+senses): a folding display screen activated via augmented actuality. The newly commissioned works are based mostly on the Röhsska Museum’s collections from the seventeenth and 18th centuries, the place sensuousness and the techniques of nature are in focus. Earlier works embrace a reworked model of the interactive set up The Liminal Eatery, which is activated within the public programme when the viewers is invited to a tasting expertise with meals designer Josefin Vargö.
– Wang & Söderström’s apply is extremely related to the occasions we dwell in. Bridging historical past and modern design discourse, the exhibition provides guests a multi-sensory and digital expertise the place the Röhsska Museum’s collections are actualised via new commissions, says Nina Due, Museum Director.
Information and Press Preview
Sharp Feelers – Mushy Antennas is on show from March 29 – October 19, 2025, and is Wang & Söderström’s first giant solo exhibition at a museum in Sweden. The press preview is on March 27, and the digital press room at Mynewsdesk can be up to date with new pictures from the exhibition on the identical day. If you need to attend the press preview or request an interview with the artists, please contact Press Officer, karin.e.andersson@kultur.goteborg.se
About Wang & Söderström
Anny Wang and Tim Söderström are a Swedish artwork and design duo based mostly in Copenhagen. Wang & Söderström’s work has been proven internationally at venues together with Ars Electronica in Linz, the Design Museum in London, ArkDes in Stockholm and the Cooper Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum in New York. Their most up-to-date exhibition Techno Mythologies in Copenhagen was recognised as one of the extraordinary exhibitions of the 12 months in 2024 by the Danish Arts Basis. In 2023 they received the Lumen Artwork Prize and the Biennale Award of Crafts & Design, and in 2021 they acquired the Danish Arts Basis’s three-year working grant.
