Flat Octopus is an international artist- and curator-run collective in Stockholm, Sweden, started in 2019. It consists of six people with different professional and cultural backgrounds. The title, Flat Octopus, points to the flat hierarchy structure of the collective and the main concept of apartment (flat) exhibitions. The octopus is a playful twist, as ‘octopus’ commonly refers to large scale business corporations, an opposite to the nature of the collective. Flat Octopus mainly works with apartment exhibitions. For each exhibition the members of Flat Octopus invite an artist or curator to take over one of their members’ or guest apartments where he/she stays for a period and produces an exhibition. Aside from this, the collective organises workshops and external projects and collaborations locally and internationally.