Of Public Interest (OPI) is a platform operating across art, architecture, and beyond, structured around two distinct components: OPI Lab, a research environment and advanced course at the Royal Institute of Art in Stockholm, and OPI x, a studio environment dedicated to initiating, supporting, and developing projects.
Central to OPI is an interest in our shared living environment and in navigating how to initiate and realize projects where imagination meets critical thought and a genuine interest in how one’s practice meets a place, its context, its histories, and publics.
What is Of Public Interest is not a specific agenda, but rather the insistence that our living environments are places where a polyphony of voices, and often conflicting interests, should be able to co-exist.
OPI was founded and is led by visual artist and professor Jonas Dahlberg, and is located in a storefront in the residential part of Gröndal in Stockholm. This neighborhood, together with a zoning plan aimed at transforming the industrial area on the nearby waterfront into new housing, forms a context where we work, but it also acts as a form of spatial publication – a public(loc)ation – for testing, developing, and experimenting with multifaceted artistic languages prototyped at scale 1:1. The neighborhood itself becomes our atelier; its publics, contexts, and actors our conversation partners.
This locality and its proximity to different public(s) form a foundation for developing methodologies and projects in relation to place – applicable to future projects beyond this specific location.
ContactOf Public Interest Gröndalsvägen 1 117 66 Stockholm Sweden
