photo of walking woman in red dress — Carla Zaccagnini Photo: Private

Artist on artist: Carla Zaccagnini on Edi Hila

Special guided tour with artist

22.1 2026

Malmö

In our recurring program series Artist on Artist, we this time meet the artist Carla Zaccagnini, who in a special guided tour shares her perspectives on Edi Hila’s artistic practice and draws parallels to her own work.

Date: 22 January

Time: at 17 – 17.45

Location: Floor 2

Language: English

Ticket: No pre-registration. Included in the admission fee. Free admission for those 26 and under.

Carla Zaccagnini is an artist and writer, sometimes curator, lately educator; born in Buenos Aires, raised in São Paulo, based in Malmö and working between Malmö and Copenhagen. This in-between position –both in terms of geographic (dis)placement and in relation to the fields of art making, writing, curating, and education – defines her vantage point, her way of seeing, and her (broken) language.

Zaccagnini’s conceptually driven practice is a continuous process of inquiry, which can solidify in a variety of material appearances, from printed text to film, from drawings to installations, from an exhibition to a reading group. Central to her investigation is an interest in how invisible power structures or struggles are made visible; what forms they assume when becoming visible; and how these forms are present in our daily lives and imagination. By recontextualizing existing objects, analysing recurrent images, and deconstructing persisting narratives, her work questions the limitations and bias of language and representation, and the fallibility and partiality of perception and understanding, challenging naturalized ways of thinking, telling, and depicting, thus proposing other ways of imagining and acting in the world.

About Carla Zaccagnini

Carla Zaccagnini has a BA in Art Education from Fundação Armando Álvares Penteado, São Paulo (1991-95) and a Master in Visual Poetics from the University of São Paulo (2001-04). She has been the Professor of the School of Conceptual and Contextual Practices, at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, since 2017. Zaccagnini has exhibited in institutions such as CRAC Alsace (Altkirch, 2022) and Kadist (San Francisco, 2021).

She has had solo shows at Krognohuset (Lund, 2024) and Amant (New York, 2022) among other institutions.

Zaccagnini’s work is represented by Galeria Vermelho, São Paulo, and 2112 Gallery, Copenhagen, and is featured in the collections of Moderna Museet (Stockholm), Malmö Konstmuseum, Tate Modern (London), Solomon Guggenheim Museum (New York), MUSAC (León, Spain), Pinacoteca de São Paulo, Museu de Arte Moderna de São Paulo, among others.

About Artist on Artist

Artist on Artist is a recurring concept where the museum invites artists to present a guided tour of an ongoing exhibition, offering their perspectives and insights based on their own creative practice.