The orange facade of the museum building.

Moderna Museet Malmö. Photo: Åke E:son Lindman/Moderna Museet

KHMxMMM

Artist talks

Malmö

KHMxMMM is a series of lectures and artist talks created in collaboration between Malmö Art Academy and Moderna Museet Malmö.

KHMxMMM presents a broad program of internationally active artists, theorists, writers and curators connected to current themes and exhibitions. The program and the invited speakers are presented continuously.

4 December: Lina Selander – One is Equal to One

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Lina Selander, The Sun to Me Is Dark, 2024 In collaboration with Oscar Mangione
8 mm and DV transferred to HD video.

The lecture series KHM x MMM presents the artist Lina Selander, currently featured in a critically acclaimed exhibition at Marabouparken in Stockholm. In her presentation, Selander will focus on her artistic processes and talk about film as materiality and installation.

Lina Selander mixes her own footage with film fragments and stills from various sources. She processes the images to enhance their materiality and give them body. In the production of her new works, she has used older and defective recording and editing machines and has sought out the damaged and incomplete.

An essential idea is that both bodies and images break down, which is reflected in the installation where different film works interact as one whole, and transparent screens create visual duplications and connections between the works. Reflections on contemporary events interact with a broad spectrum of cultural-historical and media-technological references. For example, she highlights how “film” derives from the Old English word for membrane, “filmen”, which is related to the “scales” mentioned in the New Testament: “Then it was as if scales had fallen from Saul’s eyes, and he could see again.” (Acts 9:18).

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Lina Selander, 2025 Photo: Courtesy the artist

About Lina Selander

Lina Selander (b. 1973) is a professor of fine art at Konstfack – University of Arts, Crafts and Design in Stockholm, where she lives and works. Previous solo exhibitions include Kunst Haus Wien, Museum Hundertwasser; Argos – Centre for Art and Media, Brussels; Iniva (Institute of International Visual Arts), London; Moderna Museet, Stockholm; VOX – Centre de l’image contemporaine, Montréal. International group exhibitions include: The Fondazione Stelline, Milano; Venice Bienniale 2015; Kyiv Biennial; Seoul Media City Biennale; Manifesta in Genk, Belgium; Bucharest Bienniale and Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin.

Calendar events

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  • Lecture
  • In English

KHMxMMM: Lina Selander