In connection with the exhibition Zanele Muholi – Hasselblad Award 2026, the Hasselblad Foundation invites you to a conversation about queer history, visibility and representation.

Zanele Muholi’s photography explores questions of who gets to be seen, how people are represented and which stories are given a place in history.

Taking the exhibition as a starting point, Sam Hultin, Anna Linder and Samuel Girma come together for a conversation about queer history and how art, photography and culture can make experiences visible, preserve stories and shape the ways history is written and understood.

The conversation will be moderated by Louise Wolthers, Head of Research and Curator at the Hasselblad Foundation.

Time: Saturday, 21 November at 13.00
Place: Hasselblad Center
The conversation is included in the admission ticket and will be held in Swedish.

Sam Hultin
Sam Hultin is an artist based in Stockholm, Sweden. Their work is based on their interest in queer history, identity and community and explores connections between personal experiences and political and social structures. Through city walks, sing-alongs and anniversaries Sam often invites queer communities to activate parts of a queer history together with them. Sam‘s work is represented in the collections of Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Statens konstråd, Gothenburg Museum of Art and Malmö Art Museum.

Anna Linder
Anna Linder är konstnär med huvudsaklig inriktning mot rörliga bilder, installationer och performances. Särskilt experimentell och abstrakt konst, processer, kollektivitet, periferi, mellanmänskliga relationer, släkthistoria och handens arbete; särskilt då med textila material och tekniker. Verken bär spår av feministisk queer erfarenhet bortom en föregiven heteronormativ ordning och skildrar ofta familjegemenskaper. Verk att nämna är Colere som visats på Havremagasinet och Haninge konsthall. Det pågående projektet PAUS E om queera kroppar i hormon(o)balans och den äldre filmen Spermahoran som köptes in till Moderna Museets samling. Anna Linder verkar även som curator och kulturproducent. Verksam i Göteborg sedan 2015. Grundare och konstnärlig ledare för SAQMI – The Swedish Archive for Queer Moving Images sedan 2017.

Samuel Girma
Samuel Girma is a Stockholm-based writer, cultural producer, curator and activist. He has worked with, among others, CinemAfrica Film Festival and is a co-founder of Black Queer Sweden, an anti-racist, intersectional and feminist platform. His work moves across film, art, culture and community organising, with a particular focus on Blackness, queer experiences, representation, belonging and visibility.

Sam Hultin photo: Frida Borg
Samuel Girma photo: Kalle Jonsson
Anna Linder photo: Del LaGrace Volcano, from the ongoing project: Gender Optional: Profiles of Courage
Louise Wolthers photo: Elisabeth Toll