The Whale Choir

The Whale, a transnational choir of Swedish adoptees. Formed by Marie Bergqvist, the choir draws on its members’ diverse personal experiences, treating sound as a vessel for memory, dialogue, and connection across histories and geographies. The choir’s name traces back to a blue whale calf killed and taxidermied in 1865, to which the choir first performed at the Gothenburg Museum of Natural History in spring 2025, linking their own positions and stories to this embodiment of colonial displacement.