"Art is a sport of combat and endurance; I practice it every day", says the Algerian-born visual artist Amina Zoubir who recently presented a solo exhibition at Södertälje Konsthall.

"What is a glade of one's own?", asks Nikolina Ställborn in her new exhibition at AllArtNow in Stockholm which brings the notion of borders to the fore, while departing from a family narrative.

"A desire to be closer to nature and to find a different way to live and work as artists, to become more self-sufficient", say artists Jenny Carlsson and Kristoffer Grip about their motivation of leaving the big city.

Fatimah Hossaini shows a brighter side of Afghanistan than we see through Western media. Interviewed by Henrik Schedin, she talks about the opportunities and limitations of the art scene in the country.

When speaking to four artists about time after graduating from art school in Stockholm, C-print's Ella Saar learns that the most pivotal thing appears to be for artists to really find their own ways of making it all work.

Menstrual blood, psychadelic mushrooms and clandestine realities in Åsa Ersmark's exhibition 'Hekate'. "How far adrift from comfort will I be, writing this statement?", wonders Ashik Zaman.