VSG at Supermarket 2025 — Stockholm Independent Art Fair

April 3–6, 2025 | SKHLM, Skärholmen, Stockholm

In April 2025, Virtual Studio Groups (VSG) participated in SUPERMARKET – Stockholm Independent Art Fair, one of the leading international platforms for artist-run initiatives. The fair brings together independent, non-profit spaces from around the world, making it a natural fit for a community like VSG.

For a group that lives and works across borders and time zones, the question of how to exhibit was as much part of the concept as the works themselves. Rather than shipping original artworks across countries, the booth was built around prints — a practical and economical solution that also gave the presentation a unified quality. Within that framework, individual voices still came through. Several members sent gypsum casts of their hands, arranged on the table as a quiet, tactile installation — a trace of the body, distributed across geography. Gordana Zikic showed a headdress from one of her performances alongside her prints. Åsa Ekman and Kai Rennes each brought a sculpture, adding dimension and presence to the space.

Exhibiting members: Gordana Zikic · Boško Begović · Theresa Wilshusen · Ilija Dinčić · Rosie Hearne · River Reishi · Kai Rennes · Sabine Wedege · Cassandra Stubbington · Raymond Watson · Predrag Damjanović · Åsa Ekman

Alongside the booth, VSG hosted one of its regular community meetings — part of the ongoing series organized by Stuart Mayers — with an added dimension: guests from SUPERMARKET were invited to join in person and experience how the group actually works. Some VSG members were on-site in Stockholm (Gordana, Kai, Åsa, and Paula), while others connected from their studios around the world. It was a genuinely hybrid gathering, and a rare opportunity for the international art fair community to look inside a virtual artist community in action — not just the finished work on the walls, but the living conversation behind it.