Ekeby understands itself as a counter-model to the contemporary art system — and as its own ecosystem for withdrawal, becoming, and duration. A place to step out of visibility. Out of production. Out of coherence. Not to disappear, but to become attentive again. Ekeby offers protection for processes that require time, silence, and duration. No demand for output. No promise of completion. What matters is the process — its pace, its uncertainty, its own form of growth. The forest is part of this process. Those who come to Ekeby do not enter a programme, but a different state. A different sensitivity.
2026: One Question Retreat
At the centre is no project description. No finished concept. No expected outcome. But a question. A question as an entry. As a threshold. As a point of departure for one’s own process. The question does not need to be answered. It opens a space.
Forms
Entry
3–5 days
A first withdrawal. An approach to one’s own question.
Retreat
7 days
A focused time for deepening, development, and slow work.
Encounter
15 days
A longer stay for intensive processes, shared living, and possible encounter.
Within the Encounter format, the question can enter into resonance. A second person is invited — an artistic or research-based position engaging with a related question. Both follow their own process. Two perspectives. Two movements. Exchange emerges through proximity, difference, and time spent together.