photo of tires and rubbisch on ground — Marwa Arsanios, Falling Is Not Collapsing, Falling Is Extending, 2016 Photo: Video still Courtesy of the artist and Mor Charpentier

Land Marked

5.6 – 15.6 2025

Malmö

The group exhibition Land Marked brings together four internationally active artists from Lebanon, born in the 1970s and 1990s, three of whom are exhibiting in Sweden for the first time.

Date: Thursday 5 June – Sunday 15 June

Time: See program beneath

Location: Loading Dock and the Workshop

Language: Swedish, English and Arabic (on request)

Ticket: Included in the admission fee. Free admission for those 25 and under.

Contact: Joa Ljungberg, Curator Moderna Museet Malmö

Artists Marwa Asanios, Afram Chamoun, Nadim Choufi, and Dala Nasser engage in a dialogue with landscapes that have been shaped—and reshaped—by political, economic, and diplomatic forces. Through diverse artistic processes and expressions, they investigate sites marked by physical interventions, examining how these traces endure and erode over time.

The impact of capitalist and colonial infrastructures on land use, geopolitics, and war leaves profound marks on land, oceans, and living bodies—manifesting as displacement, grief, fragmented identities, and contested memories. The artists’ works draw attention to these traces, while also exploring the potential for renegotiating historical narratives.

Documentation and materiality are used to uncover embedded histories, reactivate memories, and at the same time, formulate something new. Land Marked looks to the past and gestures towards the future — critically reflecting on the abstraction of land, nature, and capital, and making visible the forces that continue to shape the ground beneath us.

Program in connection with “Land Marked”

Thursday 5 June

At 16.15 – 16.50 Lecture Performance “The View from Above Takes My Breath Away – Fully, 2023” with Nadim Choufi (in English)

At 17.00 Opening of the exhibition “Land Marked” at Lastkajen

At 17.10 Opening speech by curators Sara Rossling and Marie-Nour Hechaime
(in Swedish, English and Arabic on request)

At 19.00 The opening ends

At 19.00 – 20.00 The mingle continue at Kafé Sisko

Saturday 7 June

At 15.00 Curator’s tour of the exhibition “Land Marked” by the curators Marie-Nour Hechaime and Sara Rossling (in Swedish, English and Arabic on request)

Thursday 12 June

From 16.30 Curator Sara Rossling attends “Drink & Draw” and gives a short introduction to Afram Chamoun’s drawings and technique.

The exhibition is organized by Curage, a platform for contemporary and international exchange, with project support from the City of Malmö. Moderna Museet Malmö is generously hosting the exhibition, including the Lecture Performance with Nadim Choufi on June 5, supported by the Mondriaan Fund, the public fund for visual art and cultural heritage.

Curators: Marie-Nour Hechaime, Beirut and Sara Rossling, Malmö.

About the artists

Marwa Arsanios is an artist, filmmaker, and researcher living between Beirut and Berlin. Her work takes the form of installation, performance, and moving image. She reconsiders the political development of the second half of the twentieth century from a contemporary perspective, focusing on gender relations, collectivism, urbanism, and industrialization.

Afram Chamoun is a transdisciplinary artist working through drawing to document the horror concealed in fractured histories held within images and objects —found, made, or imagined. Their work traces the interplay between image and drawing as a form of recollection, split between conjuring and manifesting.

drawing with vague abstract forms — Afram Chamoun, Extraction/Spillage, 2025 Photo: Afram Chamoun

photo of astract sculpture — Nadim Choufi, On the Ground Negotiations, 2023 Photo: Courtesy of the artist

Nadim Choufi is an artist from Lebanon primarily working in sculpture and moving images. His work explores ideals of progress, how they manifest and seduce, and the price of such visions on the lives subjected to their realization. He draws on visual and literary practices and non-normative desires that complicate national and global narratives of progress.

photo of installation of cloths — Dala Nasser, Misk 1, 2023 Photo: Anna Shtraus

Dala Nasser is an artist living and working between Beirut and London. Her work has been shown internationally, including at the Renaissance Society, Chicago (2023); 2024 Whitney Biennial; Sharjah Biennial 15 (2023); 58th Carnegie International (2022); Kunstverein Koln, Cologne (2022); Centre Pompidou, Paris (2021). Upcoming shows include a commission for the upcoming Aichi Triennial and a solo show at Nottingham Contemporary in January 2026.

About the curators

Marie-Nour Hechaime is a curator, writer, and cultural practitioner based in Beirut. Her curatorial practice engages with the intersections of arts, politics, and environmental humanities, seeking to articulate points of interrelation between disciplines and to generate alternative forms of knowledge and collaboration. From 2020 to 2024, she served as Curator of Contemporary Art at the Sursock Museum. She is currently editing Flight of the Locust, a publication rethinking environmental histories and colonial legacies in the Levant.

Sara Rossling is a curator and writer living in Malmö. She is committed to experimental and dedicated art practices that build knowings and experiences of the world. Her curatorial practice is site-sensitive on the intersection of environmental inquiries, histories, futures, and power structures, and seeks connections across disciplines. In addition to her work with public art in Malmö and foremost in Lund, she runs Curage to stimulate collaborations in art, conversations, and international exchange.