Akay and Olabo (SE)

Akay and Olabo work under pseudonyms and navigate their surroundings with similar discretion. With an astute eye and resourceful spirit, they move around the city taking note of what is often bypassed by others. Discarded materials and abandoned spaces are utilized and revitalized through installations, spatial interventions, objects and films that deliver alternative takes on life and society as it stands. Their working approach is guided by a mischievous sense of humor and DIY-sensibility; the results encompass both pointed confrontation and poetic beauty.

Stockholm-based Akay and Olabo are frequent collaborators with each other and other like-minded individuals. Between them, with Akay being a real pioneer of the genre, they possess decades of influential documented artistic practice that has taken place mostly in the public sphere.