Moderna Museet Malmö. Photo: Åke E:son Lindman/Moderna Museet
KHMxMMM
Artist talks
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.
2 October: Diego Marcon
Photo: Andrea Rossetti / Fondazione Nicola Trussardi
Date: 2 October
Time: 17.00
Location: Loading Dock
Language: English
Tickets: Included in the admission fee. Free admission for those 25 and under.
The lecture series KHMxMMM is pleased to present the Italy-based artist Diego Marcon for the season’s first lecture. Marcon’s subtle and meticulously executed work often oscillate between the absurd and the uncanny. As viewer, we are trapped in a loop of deep human emotions. In his talk, Marcon will introduce us to his recent works, as well as his thoughts on the exhibition as a medium.
Diego Marcon’s practice primarily focuses on moving image – spanning film, video and installation. Centered on the investigation of cinematic archetypes, Marcon’s process combines theoretical and structural approaches to filmmaking, with the sentimental attitudes of popular movie genres. His works often utilise a looped structure to articulate an emotional display that flirts with the pathetic aspects of popular entertainment, and simultaneously draws attention to the media itself. Throughout Marcon’s work, empathy and vulnerability are deployed with intentional ambiguity, such that the instrumental use of their forms and figures constitute a blurred morality. This ambiguity is viewed by Marcon first and foremost as a political weapon of defiance.
About Diego Marcon
Diego Marcon (b. 1985, Busto Arsizio, Italy) graduated from IUAV University of Arts of Venice (2012). Recent solo presentations include ToonsTunes (Four Pathetic Movements), The Shop at Sadie Coles HQ, London (2025); La Gola, Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna (2024); La Gola, Kunstverein in Hamburg (2024); Dolle, Sadie Coles HQ, London, and Galerie Buchholz, Berlin (2023); Have You Checked the Children, Kunsthalle Basel (2023); Glassa, Centro Pecci, Prato (2023); Dramoletti, Fondazione Nicola Trussardi, Teatro Gerolamo, Milan (2023); and Monelle, Sadie Coles HQ, London (2023).
Upcoming events 2025
13 November: Eva-Teréz Gölin
4 December: Lina Selander
Past events
22 May 2025: Henriette Heise – re:refrain
8 May 2025: Nina Beier – Half Time
28 February 2025: Tringa Gashi
16 May 2024: Natasha Marie Llorens
7 May 2024: Nikima Jagudajev
16 March 2023: Ângela Ferreira – The State of Things
17 December 2022: Marta Popivoda – Landscapes of Resistance
8 December 2022: Pedro Barateiros – The Artist as Spectator
22 November: Adam Khalil and Carola Grahn – film screening and conversation
8 November 2022: Brandon LaBelle – Listening, Community, Joy
12 maj 2022: Jonas Dahlberg – Of Public Interest
27 April 2022: Georgia Sagri – Stage of Recovery
12 April 2022: Tori Wrånes in a talk with Lilith Performance Studio
3 February 2022: Sidsel Meineche Hansen – Pharmacopornographer
28 October 2021: Lea Porsager
26 May 2021: The Otholit Group – Digital round-table discussion
13 April 2021: Why (Art)History Is a Western Invention: An Introduction to Self-Writing, digital lecture by Victor Wang (王宗孚)
6 April 2021: Digital screening and lecture with Cécile B.
30 March 2021: Jeppe Ugelvig – “Archives, Witch Hunts, and the Exhibition as Research”
10 September 2020: Kirsten Astrup & Maria Bordorff
6 February 2020: James Richards
5 December 2019: Post Brothers. In collaboration with Iaspis, the Swedish Arts Grants Committee’s International Programme for Visual and Applied Artists.
7 November 2019: Janice Kerbel
17 October 2019: Rachel Reupke
16 April 2019: Sonya Blesofsky “Monuments to Impermanence”. In collaboration with Iaspis, the Swedish Arts Grants Committee’s International Programme for Visual and Applied Artists.
4 April 2019: Lars Bang Larsen in conversation with Primer
14 March 2019: Kirsty Bell: “How to read a city: A prelude” (at Inter Arts Center)
12 December 2018: Lili Reynaud-Dewar
15 November 2018: Marianna Simnett
26 October 2018: Kira Nova. “Tips on Sexual Slapstick”
20 September 2018: They Are Here. In collaboration with Iaspis, the Swedish Arts Grants Committee’s International Programme for Visual and Applied Artists.
17 April 2018: Jonathan Allen
5 April 2018: Laure Prouvost
27 March 2018: Tori Wrånes. In collaboration with Iaspis, the Swedish Arts Grants Committee’s International Programme for Visual and Applied Artists.
14 March 2018: Sara Jordenö and Conny Karlsson Lundgren
8 December 2017: Sabeth Buchmann
24 March 2017: Robel Temesgen
16 May 2017: Alba Colomo and Runo Lagomarsino
3 March 2017: Sophie Jung
2 February 2017: Pablo Larios
8 December 2016: Ann Iren Buan
27 October 2016: Fikret Atay
21 October 2016: David Horvitz
21 April 2016: Assemble (at Inkonst)
15 April 2016: Auto Italia
31 March 2016: Ayesha Sultana, Iaspis grant holder
17 March 2016: Gonçalo Sena
4 March 2016: Marit Paasche (at Malmö Art Academy)
19 January 2016: Lina Selander
3 December 2015: Simon Starling
27 November 2015: Thomas Henriksson (at Malmö Art Academy)
20 November 2015: David Kasprzak (Malmö Art Academy in collaboration with Iaspis)
26 May 2015: Mark von Schlegell (Malmö City Library)
21 April 2015: Musa Pariadisiaca
4 March 2015: Sonja Nilsson (at Malmö Art Academy)
27 February 2015: Mimi Cabell (at Malmö Art Academy)
13 January 2015: Tris Vonna-Michell
About KHMxMMM
The lecture series KHMxMMM was initiated in January, 2015. The programme is planned in collaboration between the lecture committee of Malmö Art Academy and Moderna Museet Malmö. All lectures are open to the public and the language, unless otherwise stated, is English. Programme coordinator, Moderna Museet Malmö: Andreas Nilsson.
