Wolf in Scania Photo: Louise Gårdefalk/Länsstyrelsen Skåne

The Wolf – myth and reality

Lecture with County Administrative Board

15.5 2025

Malmö

The wolf is found as a motif in Kiki Smith’s visual world – a mythologised animal. Moderna Museet Malmö invites the County Administrative Board to share insights about the work with wolves in Skåne. Welcome to experience the exhibition – and get a lecture on the County Administrative Board’s work.

Date: 15 May

Time: at 17.00

Location: Floor 2

Language: Swedish

Ticket: Registration is required. Please send an email assistent.malmo@modernamuseet.se

Limited seats. The lecture is included in the admission fee. Free admission for those 25 and under.

Questions? Please send an email to Curator of Learning Susanne Lindblad

The artist Kiki Smith directs our attention to nature through her motifs. Intimate studies are blended with fairy-tale fantasies as weathered wolves, delicate butterflies, and dark bats take over her woven images.

In conjunction with her exhibition “Woven Worlds,” we invite you to a lecture focused on the wolf, a talked-about and mythologized animal, alongside the County Administrative Board, which will share insights into their work concerning wolves in Skåne. Please note that the lecture is not about being “for or against” wolves. The County Administrative Board has been invited to inform about their work with wolves.

We are a part of nature, and our identity is closely bound up with our relationship to our natural surroundings and to animals. I create images of things that deserve attention. I regard every life form, and nature itself, as a cosmic totality. Key motifs in my works include animals such as the eagle, the snake, the wolf, the fawn, the bat, and the moth, along with the human being – usually/primarily woman. (Kiki Smith)

naked woman stars birds with dark blue sky — Kiki Smith, Sky, 2012 Photo: Courtesy Magnolia Editions, Oakland, CA

About Kiki Smith

Kiki Smith, born in 1954 in Germany and raised in the USA, has repeatedly worked with the body and our inner world. In “Woven Worlds,” we encounter an artist who has turned her gaze outward, placing the relationship to animals and nature at the center.