Meeting — April 26, 2026: Supermarket Report & Kübra Köprülüoğlu Aşanlı
Live from Stockholm: Supermarket Art Fair
This week's session opened with a live report from Stockholm, where five VSG members — Ylva, Åsa, Sarah Jane, Stuart, Paula, and Kai — met at Supermarket Art Fair. Supermarket is a non-commercial art fair in Stockholm running annually, designed specifically for artist-run spaces. Its sister fair, Juxtapose, runs every two years and has recently dropped "art fair" from its name entirely — reflecting a shift toward positioning itself as an exhibition and networking space rather than a commercial event.
Ylva, Paula, and Sarah Jane met with organizers from Tryst Art Fair, a Los Angeles-based initiative that took direct inspiration from Supermarket. Ylva recorded part of their presentation; the transcript was shared with the group and gave a clearer picture of the LA fair's concept, venue (a large office building with proper rooms), and the organizers' approach.
The group agreed to begin planning for next year's cycle now: Supermarket applications open in autumn, and Juxtapose also opens for the following year. One proposal that gained traction was attending Supermarket without a booth — joining the session programme instead — which would reduce the logistical and financial load while still maintaining presence in the network.
Guest Presentation: Kübra Köprülüoğlu Aşanlı
Kübra, an artist based near Troy, Turkey, presented her practice. Kübra and her partner Melih lived off-grid in a forest for six years, built their own house, and ran ecological art workshops. Her current work focuses on two series of digital portraits: women artists overlooked by art history, and indigenous peoples from around the world. The works are made on iPad (Adobe Fresco), printed on archival paper, and exhibited internationally — in Korea, Japan, and Macedonia.
One idea that came up: Kübra's forest land and house could potentially become a residency space in the future, and VSG artists expressed interest in visiting if this happens.
The discussion that followed circled around the technical and conceptual questions raised by Kübra's practice. River, a digital artist who also works in Adobe Fresco, raised the difficulty of communicating the labour-intensive, entirely handmade nature of digital work in a cultural moment when "computer-generated" is conflated with AI. Kübra's solution — printing on textured archival paper — means that visitors encounter the work as painting before they learn it is digital.
The group also discussed the differences between Procreate and Adobe Fresco. River noted that Procreate can irreversibly compress files during resizing, while Fresco, as part of the Adobe ecosystem, offers more professional stability for archival and exhibition purposes.
Kübra's life in the woods: Watch on YouTube · Instagram: @noooneelsebutme
This summary was generated from a session transcript using AI. Some details of who said what may be inaccurate, as speaker attribution was not always clear from the transcript.