painting with bird and flowers

Maria Prymachenko, A jackdaw is flying looking for its owner, but he isn’t anywhere, his body has flown all across Ukraine. Flowers will grow, children will pick them, they will braid wreaths, carry them to the graves, and my grave has flown into the sky, 1986 Photo: ©Maria Prymachenko Family Fundation. Courtesy The National Museum of Decorative Art of Ukraine

Peace Evening and Poetry Workshop

13.2 2025

Malmö

Moderna Museet Malmö presents in collaboration with artist Kalle Brolin, researcher Elsa Le Ber and Per Abrahamsson, The Swedish Peace and Arbitration Society an evening on the theme of peace with a poetry workshop.

For two years, Kalle Brolin has worked with the Baltic Art Center in an art project about and with the Gotland peace movement, and arranged there a series of Peace Talks involving local activists. In the exhibition “The Fantastic and Horrific – Maria Prymachenko and works from the Moderna Museet collection” a new version of such peace talks is made.

The evening begins with Per Abrahamsson giving a presentation on the work of the Swedish Peace and Arbitration Society in Skåne. This is followed by researcher Elsa Le Ber from Malmö University introducing a poetry workshop—a method in which participants create their own poetry based on prompts, i.e., keywords drawn from Prymachenko’s paintings and the Swedish Peace and Arbitration Society’s presentation.

The evening ends with a reading framed by Prymachenko’s exhibition, and is followed up with a compilation of the evening’s texts that is sent out to all interested parties.

About the participants

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Kalle Brolin, 2025 Photo: Private

Kalle Brolin

Kalle Brolin is an artist, based in Malmö. Brolin is involved in an ongoing multi-year project with the Baltic Art Center (BAC) in Visby, which includes portrayal of and activities together with the Gotland peace movement.

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Elsa Le Ber, 2025 Photo: Elsa Le Ber

Elsa Le Ber

Doctoral student at the Department of Urban Studies at the Faculty of Culture and Society at Malmö University. Elsa Le Ber works around the question of the reuse and transformation of buildings for cultural and/or creative purposes. Her sphere of interest includes, among other things, “Writing differently” – a method in feminist research and posthumanist literature.

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Per Abrahamsson, 2025 Photo: Privat

Per Abrahamsson

Per Abrahamsson is Techn. Lic. and Chairman of Swedish Peace, Skåne.
Likes sun, wind and water. Has been involved in the Environmental Party and the Nature Conservation Society in Höör. Has previously worked as a middle manager at some large industrial companies and as a teacher at Lund University of Technology and Malmö University.