2026.02.03

In ‘Scrupulus’, the focus is on the smallest sculpture the artist duo has ever created.

The Roman philosopher Cicero was the first to use the word ‘scrupuli’ as a metaphor for worry, likening it to irritating stones in one’s shoe. The word unscrupulous later came to describe people without a conscience—a central theme of the exhibition, which oscillates between the sharp light of science and the smokescreens of climate denial.

Visitors can not only take a diamond home in their shoe, but also become part of the collected climate data from a permafrost area in Abisko. The show’s largest work is a curtain of glass beads where the image of a diagram emerges in real time. The data consists of CO2 measurements from Bigert & Bergström’s land art project ‘Sensing the Arctic’.

As visitors walk through the curtain, they encounter a large black sphere, ‘Denial Machine’. The sphere moves up and down in futile attempts to capture a pile of weather symbols.

In addition, the exhibition includes smaller sculptures and photographic works. With inventiveness and humour, Bigert & Bergström shine a light on one of humanity’s greatest challenges.