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NATURMINNE

Porcelain and stoneware.
2025



Piece made for the outdoor one-day exhibition Naturminne set at Pålsundsberget in Stockholm where 15 artists, designers and poets showed work that speaks of the spatial and existential questions often made in relation to ecology and materialism.

We constantly move through life in a stream of experiences. Within this exhibition we wanted to direct and focus our attention on this place, what lives and thrives here, what it reminds us of, something hidden in our minds, maybe a memory. The official name of this site when translated is Nature memory Pålsundsberget. A Nature memory is the name or classification of a place that should be protected for its unique plants and species. There are only two sites in Stockholm that are classified as Nature memories.

Where we direct our attention in the cityscape it is often influenced by commercial interest. Therefore creating an open social space where consumption isn't of interest is in itself a radical action. We want to observe the entire city, including areas that easily are forgotten; and within; that words and hands  species and materials come together and are joined in conversation. 

Organized by Eva Reichmann, Hannah Nittnaus and Marta Duarte da Veiga.


   

UTKIKEN

1.  /m2
    Soil and glazed stoneware.
    2025
  • 2.  Does it feel better now?
  •     Glazed stoneare and tin.
  •     2025




Utkiken is a group exhibition that unfolds as a form of spatial intervention —an act of squatting within the institutionalized landscape of contemporary art. Unlike the sterile neutrality of the white cube, this setting evokes a sense of domesticity, transience, and resistance. Taking place in Utkiken, Stockholm's oldest co-housing community, the exhibition inhabits fragmented, apartment-like rooms that challenge the traditional exhibition format. Co-housing itself, with its emphasis on shared space and collective living, mirrors the collaborative and communal nature of this artist-driven exhibition. 

Here, the exhibition space is not a passive container but an active participant, shaping and being shaped by the works within it. Featuring emerging artists from Stockholm, the exhibition brings fresh perspectives and challenges to conventional boundaries of both space and art.
Organized by MAD.


Photos by Cornelia Jönsson.
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SILVERFISK

Glazed stoneware and salt.
2024



Rice, bees, tulips and intestinal flora.

I’m encouraging you to shift your gaze down, and up, and sideways. You previously thought you were alone, but I beg you to pay more attention.

Who’s also crossing paths with us? There is a need for friction, for wholeness through otherness and it shouldn’t be hard to extend care through these layers of assumed hierarchy and switch to more ecocentric views. How can one depict a single organism at once when there are so many other species existing within and on top of each other?     

MOTHER

Multimedia installation for the Underverket Festival at Värmeverket.
2024



At the end of the UNMUTE residency at Värmeverket the artists Alexandra Moreno, Maria Pita Guerreiro and Marta Duarte da Veiga had the aim to highlight the symbiotic relationship between humans and the microorganisms that inhabit not only our surroundings but also our bodies. They built an immersive experience where visitors were invited to reflect on their own bodies and how they exist within a world built on multi-species relationships.

With a personal focus on fermentation, Veiga showed how fabric embedded with sourdough starter (as it used to be passed down through generations to bake bread) can convey the continuity of culture in every sense of the word.
Fermentation takes the idea of “sharing is caring” to another level. When we consume these foods, we quite literally become a part of our environment, connected to the world around us through the microorganisms we share, becoming a living archive of the space we inhabit.
These chains of fermented sourdough not only showcased the exponential reproductive growth of fermentation starters but also reminded us of the deep connections that bind us all, from the microscopic to the global.

To enhance this experience, visitors would be led through the installation with an audioguide, starting with an ingestion ritual designed by 
Moa Marklund.

WATCH VIDEO (produced and edited by Maria Pita Guerreiro).      

TWO THINGS CAN BE TRUE AT THE SAME TIME

Casted glass, wood and nickel chain.
Variable dimensions.
2024 










   

FUTURE FOSSILS OF THE SOCIAL LANDSCAPE

Glazed stoneware, casted glass, metal, rope and grass. 
Variable dimensions.
2023



When working consumes most of our lives and even our free time isn’t free from the pressure of being rationalised and directed towards some goal, play can act as a step against this need to always be productive and efficient. A reaction against the instrumentalised, deterministic thinking championed by postmodern culture.

Either a reminiscence of human traces and anatomy or ruins of a world yet to come, these objects await in anticipation of being touched, stacked up or laid down. With their symmetry, they contain this almost Rorschach test-like quality of being able to project innumerous layers of meaning. Perfectly poised between our world and another, these totemic figures have arrived to help us confront ourselves and the junk of our past and present.




Photos by Sanna Lindberg.

INSTANCES AMONG FRIENDS
1. INSTANCES AMONG FRIENDS I & III

  •    Glazed stoneware.
  •    45x30x15cm
  •    40x30x15cm
  •    2021
  • 2. INSTANCES AMONG FRIENDS IV 
  •    Glazed stoneware.
  •    45x30x30cm
  •    2022
  • 3. INSTANCES AMONG FRIENDS V
  •    Glazed stoneware.
  •    50x45x15cm
  •    2022


By questioning the role of the object as body and to explore the handleability and corporeal integration in the public space, we are seeing the spaces that are normally inhabited by people replaced by ceramic objects, which puts our presence in perspective but also our ability to easily attribute anthropomorphic qualities to inanimate things. With playfulness, there is an intention on setting to research how we relate to the space around us, both physical and social space. 

These ceramic creatures await in this antecipation to be stacked up or laid down, to be touched.

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HOW TO BE A STORYTELLER IN PEACE TIME


Glazed stoneware.
45x30x30cm
2021



	
		
		
	
	
		
			
				
					





This stoneware “chess” table stands above 40cm from the ground,
directing people to kneel or sit next to it. It is maybe not really a
chess game since its playing pieces are not representative of the ones
actually used in chess.



Instead, they have abstract shapes that can provoke some sense of
resemblance with anything the player has experienced, providing a chance
for people to tell stories to each other using these tools while at the
same time overcoming the feeling of uneasiness that the sound of
clanking ceramics provokes.


				
			
		
	

     
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Photo by Maria de la Croix.
      
            
ABOUT




	
		
		
	
	
		
			
				
					Marta Veiga (b. 1997 in Lisbon, PT) explores how we can relate play and
the public space. In a world tending towards optimization and
seriousness, play can be a way to take a step against the need to always
be productive and efficient.


				
			
		
	


Having recently graduated from a Masters in Craft at Konstfack, Veiga
uses ceramic and glass objects to question our physical presence but
also to shift our gaze from anthropocentric views.







EDUCATION



SEP 2021-JUN 2023   Konstfack - University of Arts, Crafts and Design, Stockholm

                    MFA in Craft - Specialization in Ceramics and Glass

JUN 2022-AUG 2022   KKH - Royal Institute of Art, Stockholm

                    Individual Artistic Project

SEP 2015-JUL 2022   FMVUL - Faculty of Veterinary Medicine of the University of Lisbon

                    Master in Veterinary Medicine 

SEP 2017-JUL 2021   FBAUL - Faculty of Fine Arts of the University of Lisbon

                    Bachelor in Drawing 



EXPERIENCE



JUN 2025      Naturminne - Pålsundsberget, Stockholm

              Collective Exhibition

APR 2025      UTKIKEN - Folkungagatan 154, Stockholm



	
		
		
	
	
		
			
				
					
						              Collective Exhibition

FEB 2025      Stockholm Furniture Fair with WAY Gallery,
Stockholm
              Collective Exhibition

NOV 2024      What Now? Again! - Parallel Collective Gallery,
Stockholm
              Collective Exhibition

OCT 2024
      What Now? - Betan Gallery, Stockholm

              Collective Exhibition

AGO 2024      MOTHER - Underverket Festival, Stockholm

              Collective Exhibition

JUN 2024      Limerence - Nord Books, Stockholm


						              Solo Exhibition

APR-JUN 2024  Vi Arbetar Här - Konsthall C, Stockholm


						              Collective Exhibition

JAN-APR 2024  Dream (is my) Reality - Crum Heaven, Stockholm


						              Collective Exhibition

OCT 2023      Fresh Brew - Kulturhuset Stadsteatern,
Stockholm
              Collective Exhibition

MAY 2023      Spring Exhibition - Konstfack, Stockholm


						              Graduation Show

MAR 2023      Exam Show CRAFT!M2 - Konstfack, Stockholm
         
     Collective Exhibition

SEP 2022      tell me how you really feel - StudioPANK,
Stockholm
              Solo Exhibition

JAN 2022      CRAFT BREW - Konstfack, Stockholm


						              Collective Exhibition


						DEC 2018      12x12 - Galeria Arte Graça, Lisbon


						              Collective Exhibition