Rikard Holmstedt

Temporary Sculptures

Juggling, sculpture, woodwork

Temporary Sculptures explores the meeting between kinetic sculptures and juggling. It welcomes the spectator into a world of plywood, counterweights and abstraction. A world between performance and installation. 

With wooden hands and mannequin heads, the moving sculptures highlight juggling movements by showing them outside the human body, investigating juggling not only as an act performed by humans, but rather as a system of rhythm and relationships between objects in space. A celebration of human ingenuity, and an homage to an era when technology could be understood by everyone.

Rikard Holmstedt is a juggler and circus artist based in Stockholm, Sweden. In 2026, he graduated from Stockholm University of the Arts with a bachelor’s degree in circus. Rikard’s main focus is ring juggling, which he approaches with attention to detail and with a curiosity towards composition. His juggling style is characterized by precision, repetition and a contrast between minimalistic movements and complex sequences.

For the last two years, he has shifted his attention towards woodworking, and has been designing and exploring kinetic sculptures within his juggling practice.