SPARK is a collaborative platform located in Malmö, Sweden with the purpose of strengthening the interface between architecture, art, research, and societal advancement through exhibitions and lectures. The aim is to promote artistic processes in architecture and urban development by activating intersections between art, architecture, urban design, and landscape architecture.
SPARK aims at exhibiting works that provokes critical discourse in current city building through explorative, experimental, trans- and interdisciplinary practices. SPARK collaborates with Lund University Department of Architectrue and the Built Environment, Architects Sweden Skåne, and Molekyl Gallery.
Current exhibition
OFFICE Kersten Geers David Van Severen
Akane Moriyama Krupinski/Krupinska
"What Do You Want, Brick?"
10.10—23.11 2025
Opening October 10, 17—20
Båstadsgatan 4, Malmö
The exhibition presents the ongoing work on a new mobility hub in Hyllie, Malmö, designed by OFFICE Kersten Geers David Van Severen, Krupinski/Krupinska and artist Akane Moriyama.
Hyllie is located at the edge of Söderslätt, surrounded by Sweden's most fertile lands which have gradually woven together with the city. This soil, both rich and culturally significant, is a central starting point for the project. The building's facade consists of reclaimed brick whose variations in rhythm, scale and color reflect the layers embedded in the landscape. Up close, a tactile, patinated materiality emerges, while the whole at a distance takes on a more abstract, almost textile-like expression.
"What Do You Want, Brick?" examines this duality – between soil and city, between the concrete and the abstract.
Preview opening with the architects and artist present on October 9 at 17:00.
The exhibition is open between October 10 and November 23, 2025.
OFFICE is an architectural practice founded in Brussels in 2002 by Kersten Geers (1975) and David Van Severen (1978). OFFICE is renowned for its idiosyncratic architecture, in which realisations and theoretical projects stand side by side. The projects are direct, spatial and firmly rooted in architectural theory.
Akane Moriyama (b. 1983, Japan) is an artist/designer based in Stockholm. With a background in architecture and textiles, Moriyama intervenes architectural space with textiles. By combining different textile techniques such as dyeing, knitting, sewing, printing, and weaving, Moriyama creates textiles which transform the space and uncover its hidden qualities.
Krupinski/Krupinska is working with a broad range of projects within the field of architecture. The studio was founded by Konrad Krupinski and Katarina Krupinska in 2016 and combines many years of accumulated professional experience.
