For the artwork Tensta Light Art Installation, interviews have been made with the residents of Tensta Tower, and colours connected to each individual have been chosen for each home. The residents are invited to switch on and off a light with this colour according to the rhythms of their own daily lives. Together, this creates a series of portraits shown together in a shared cityscape.
The artwork is connected to My Name Is Red by author Orhan Pamuk, who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2006. His novel revolves around the intrigues within a community of sixteenth-century artists and is told through a multitude of voices. While Western art is often associated with a single creator, the opposite is true in Pamuk’s fictional world, where the story is woven together by people, animals, and objects, creating a picture larger than a single narrator can provide.
Like Pamuk’s novel, artist Anne Roininen’s installation in Tensta explores who really creates an image, and how many voices can be contained within a single work. Here, the residents of Tensta Tower, together with the building itself, tell a shared story.
Nobel Prize Facts
The Nobel Prize in Literature 2006 was awarded to Orhan Pamuk “who in the quest for the melancholic soul of his native city has discovered new symbols for the clash and interlacing of cultures”.
NOBEL WEEK LIGHTS
5–13 December 2026 | 16:00–22:00
Stockholm City and Tensta
Anne Roininen
Anne Roininen is a visual artist whose site-sensitive and process-based practice is grounded in conceptual and spatial thinking. Her methods range from sculptural elements to conversations and encounters with people.
She works internationally, particularly in the field of public art, and her work has been presented at museums, festivals and public spaces across Europe. She is currently developing a series of permanent public artworks commissioned by Helsinki Art Museum.
Roininen has received several awards, including the State Prize for Art and the Satakunta Arts Council Art Award.
NOBEL WEEK LIGHTS
A light art festival inspired by the Nobel Prize
5–13 December 2026 | Free admission