picture sith spinner and blue and pink colours

Kiki Smith, Spinners, 2014 Photo: Courtesy Magnolia Editions, Oakland, CA

Vernissage: Kiki Smith – Woven Worlds

Join us for the opening!

25.4 2025

Malmö

Welcome to the opening and a preview of the exhibition Kiki Smith – Woven Worlds. The evening continues until late at Kafé Sisko as they celebrate one-year anniversary with DJ and party!

Program of the evening

At 17.30 Gitte Ørskou, Director of Moderna Museet, welcomes you, followed by a curator introduction by Elisabeth Millqvist, Director of Moderna Museet Malmö, and curator Jutta Mattern from Arp Museum.

at 20.00 – 24.00 Kafé Sisko celebrates its one-year anniversary!
Continue the evening with a party and DJ.

A warm welcome!

About Kiki Smith and the exhibition

“Woven Worlds” includes over 50 artworks by Kiki Smith, featuring both jacquard weavings and their originals, detailed drawings up to three meters high, and small sculptures. The presentation in Malmö features “Sperm piece” from 1991, which is part of the Moderna Museet’s collection. The work includes more than 700 glass pieces covering the floor.

Kiki Smith’s motifs direct our interest towards nature. Close studies are mixed with fairy-tale fantasies as threadbare wolves, fragile butterflies, and dark bats take centre stage in her tapestries. Kiki Smith, born in 1954 in Germany and raised in the USA, has repeatedly worked with the body and our inner selves. In “Woven Worlds,” we encounter an artist who has turned her gaze outward, placing the relationship with animals and nature at the forefront.

“Woven Worlds” is made in close collaboration with the artist and initiated by Arp Museum Bahnhof Rolandseck, Germany.