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PLX

2026

light, community, design

Festival visitors walk through an arch built from stacked wooden chairs, lit magenta against the night forest.

An art and music collective that builds festivals where there are none: an island in the Blekinge archipelago, an empty warehouse, a museum's old casino.

A tall sail of fabric stretched between poles in the dark, lit orange from below, with red light in the trees behind it.

PLX has been going since 2006, an association since 2014, working out of Blekinge, Malmö and Stockholm on festivals, exhibitions and performances made for the place they happen in. Since 2017 its centre has been PLX Tjärö, four days each August on a protected island in the archipelago: no cars, only boats, barefoot paths and cows. In 2025 that meant six stages, over sixty music acts and thirty exhibiting artists, a floating sauna and a popup cinema. More than 250 artists from over 25 countries have played there.

I have curated the art since 2021, and I lead Konst & Teknik, the team that plans the light and lays the power the island runs on: the cabling every artist plugs into, and the help they need once they are out on the rocks with a piece half-built. Choosing the work and making the work possible are the same job here.

A pale sculpture of coiled forms stands on a mossy granite outcrop under an oak, with a stage light at its foot.
Red arcs of light zigzag along the shoreline at dusk, doubled in the still water below.

I host the cinema: putting it up each year and helping curate what plays. Previews and works in progress from independent filmmakers, often in conversation with Folkets Bio, shown outdoors to whoever sits down.

On Klippan, the granite stage on a high outcrop over the sea, the cliff face itself is the screen. I lead the visuals there: booking the artists who play that rock after dark, and performing on it myself.

One person sits alone on a bench in front of the outdoor cinema screen at night, the ground lit yellow in front of it.
A truck parked among trees at night, its headlights and a blue-lit cabin glowing through the branches.

I draw the wristbands. For Tjärö 2025 that was orange roses on a thorned vine the length of a purple band, alongside the island's two maps.

The Tjärö 2025 wristband: orange roses on a green thorned vine across a purple band, with PLXX TJÄRÖ and a large 25 in magenta blackletter.
A close view of the Tjärö wristband: the thorned stem, an opened rose, and a medieval figure lifted from an illumination.

PLX turned twenty in 2026 and marked it with ODE JOY, two nights in the old casino at Malmö Konstmuseum in Kungsparken. A large scaffolding installation stood in the main room. I built the site as its double: a vine climbing a scaffold while you read the page.

The ground of the ODE JOY tower, rendered without its writing: stairs and platforms in terracotta and white, a stage cage around the lowest floors, a vine already climbing.
The middle of the tower, where the light turns lilac: stair runs doubling back on themselves, a stage cage pushed out on all four sides, artists' photographs hung on the panels.
The summit of the tower in pink light, the last cage at its foot and the stairs running up past the top of the frame.

The tower has four floors because the casino has four main areas, and the score climbs with you: strings on the ground, a hihat on the second, a beat and a whistle on the third, shakuhachi and steel pan at the summit. Six stems by Anton Ingvarsson, crossfading by camera height, and the tower loops, so the climb has no top.

Beams of light rake through haze across a draped backdrop, a figure silhouetted at the microphone in front of it.
Guests in hats and flowers sit at a long candlelit table under greenery and bunting, in front of tall windows.
A singer leans into the microphone, lit from the side in cyan and magenta that bleeds across the frame.

The wristbands took that scaffold with them: lime and violet on navy for both nights, orange and lime on oxblood for the Friday alone.

The ODE JOY two-night wristband: violet flowers climbing a pale lattice on navy, with PLX ODE JOY set in lime across the middle.
The ODE JOY Friday wristband: the same lattice and flowers in lime and orange on oxblood, with PLX ODE JOY in orange.
A close view of the wristband lattice: violet leaves and pale six-petalled flowers threaded through crossing struts.

Photographs from Tjärö and ODE JOY by Olle Enqvist, Djoana Gueorguieva, David Neman and Petter Nilsson.