photomontage with portraits of two women — Ikram Abdulkadir / Deborah Turbeville, Left: Salma Cadeey / Right: No title, from the series Maquillage, 2018, 1975 Left: © Ikram Abdulkadir / Right: © Deborah Turbeville/MUUS Collection , Courtesy of MUUS Collection, Bildupphovsrätt 2026

Opening – Deborah Turbeville & Ikram Abdulkadir

1.5 2026

Malmö

Welcome to the opening night of the exhibitions Ikram Abdulkadir – Soft Focus and Deborah Turbeville – Photocollage where we presents two parallel exhibitions. Installed side by side on Floor 2, the exhibitions each take fashion and portrait photography as their point of departure. In both artists’ practices, people are at the centre – in images marked by presence, atmosphere, and a sense of timelessness.

Date: Friday 1 May

Time: at 17.00 – 20.00 Opening of the exhibitions with DJ and bar at Kafé Verket

At 17.30 Welcome address by Director Gitte Ørskou followed by a short introduction by the curators Nathalie Herschdorfer, Photo Elysée, and Anna Tellgren, Moderna Museet.

Free admission.

DEBORAH TURBEVILLE – PHOTOCOLLAGE

The American photographer Deborah Turbeville (1932–2013) challenged and reshaped both fashion photography and the ways of working with the photographic image in an artistic context. She belonged to no particular school or movement, yet from the 1970s onwards developed a deeply personal visual language – characterised by a distinctive aesthetic in which timelessness, melancholy, and a sense of patina permeate her photographs. The exhibition “Photocollage” traces her artistic exploration over four decades – from fashion photography to more personal and experimental works.

IKRAM ABDULKADIR – SOFT FOCUS

Friendship and sisterhood are central themes in the work of Malmö-based photographer Ikram Abdulkadir (born 1995), in which she documents people and places that are important to her. For the exhibition “Soft Focus” at Moderna Museet Malmö, Ikram Abdulkadir has searched her immense archive of photographs, which today contains thousands of images, and picked both new and old works that juxtapose against each other and emphasize central themes in her art. Abdulkadir has had solo exhibitions in Malmö, Stockholm, Norrköping, and Copenhagen, and her work is represented in the Moderna Museet Collection.