STOCKHOLM.- October marks 34 years since Ciléne Andréhn and Marina Schiptjenko opened their now legendary gallery on Kammakargatan in Stockholm in 1991. Since 2019, Andréhn-Schiptjenko has a second gallery in Paris and is now opening ASAP, Andréhn-Schiptjenko Archive & Projects, in the premises next door to the gallery at Linnégatan 31 in Stockholm.

ASAP is intended to function as both an archive and a project space, a place that highlights the gallery's roots in an analogue era when art and luxury were worlds apart and the term ‘the art industry’ had not yet been coined.

“We have realised that there are many people working in the art world who were in nursery school or not even born at the time, so for them and for those who have followed us over the years – and not least for our own sake – we think it is interesting to look back from time to time. At ASAP, we can present whatever comes to mind, individual works of art that have not been shown for a long time, but also books, flyers, photos, graphics, multiples and other objects that we have in our archives. We see it as a way of making our history and archives accessible and as a place open for conversation and meetings.” - Ciléne Andréhn and Marina Schiptjenko

Ahead of the opening on 13 September, MANIFESTO from 1994 has been installed. MANIFESTO was a poster exhibition that was shown at various locations in Stockholm during the autumn of 1994. The form of the exhibition, with anonymous posters without senders or signatures, displayed in urban spaces, enabled an ambiguity regarding the concept of art and an undefined boundary between private and public space as a source of information. The posters were put up several together or one by one, to blend in with advertisements for concerts or calls for demonstrations. Overall, it became an investigation into our collective consciousness of the public environment and the associative mechanisms that images produce.

The initiator of MANIFESTO was Benjamin Weil (now Director of CAM - Centro de Arte Moderna at Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, Lisbon), and the project had been shown in Cologne, Tokyo, Hamburg and Paris, among other places, before Andréhn-Schiptjenko brought it to Stockholm and invited Maria Lindberg to create a poster for the project. Participating artists were Henry Bond, Gavin Brown, Angela Bulloch, Laura Emrick, Sylvie Fleury, Liam Gillick, Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster, Happier Days, Maria Lindberg, Yasumasa Morimura, Julia Scher and Wolfgang Staehle.

ASAP opened to the public on Saturday 13 September between 12:00 - 16:00 at Linnégatan 31, Stockholm.