Kris Lemsalu & Johanna Ulfsak, Old Piano, Still from video, 2024 Photo: Johanna Ulfsak. Courtesy of the artists and Temnikova & Kasela
On the Absurd Drama That Is Also Life
26.10 2024 – 23.2 2025
Malmö
Here we meet artists that transport us to situations and states beyond sense and logic, and at the same time reflect our times. Together they draw attention to the theatre of life’s incomprehensibility on the stage of the everyday that surrounds it, and combine a subtle resistance with a quest for freedom.
Apart from newly produced and recent artworks by contemporary artists like Monster Chetwynd and Kris Lemsalu, the exhibition also includes artists from Moderna Museet’s collection, such as Francis Picabia, Ralph Eugene Meatyard and Greta Knutson-Tzara.
The exhibition thus presents a range of artistic media, techniques and periods, bringing together works that have a close kinship with theatre and drama. The artists share an approach and attitude in which humour, provocation, playfulness and seriousness are interwoven – spontaneously, intentionally or perhaps coincidentally.
The exhibition includes a number of scheduled performances. A publication will be available from the opening date.
Participating artists
Monster Chetwynd, Karl Dunér, Jenny Kalliokulju, Samson Kambalu, Laura Kaminskaitė, Pope.L, Kris Lemsalu & Johanna Ulfsak, Kira Nova & Ignas Krunglevičius, Filip Vest
From the Moderna Museets Collection
Eva Aeppli, Enrico Baj, Marcel Broodthaers, René Clair, Karl Dunér & Peder Freiij, Joan Jonas, Robert Gober, Sigurdur Gudmundsson, Greta Knutson-Tzara, Tetsumi Kudo, Kris Lemsalu, Ralph Eugene Meatyard, Francis Picabia, Man Ray, Marion Scemama, Dorothéa Tanning and documentation by Hugo Ball, Tetsumi Kudo, Sophie Taeuber-Arp
Curator: Andreas Nilsson
Exhibition Design: Laura Kaminskaitė
PROGRAM
Performances:
27.9 & 28.9 2024 Monster Chetwynd ”Evolution of Cat People”
25.10 (Vernissage) Kris Lemsalu. In collaboration with IASPIS, the Swedish Arts Grants Committee´s International Programme for Visual and Applied Arts. Kris Lemsalu is IASPIS Artist in residence in Malmö
7.11 Filip Vest ”Self Tape”
Theatre:
28.11 & 29.11 Karl Dunér ”PING och SKALLARNA”
Opera:
8.2 & 9.2 2025 Jenny Kalliokulju ”MAMAN, or THE TONGUE”
Supported by:
Längmanska kulturstiftelsen
OCA – Office for Contemporary Art Norway
In collaboration with The Lithuanian Cultural Attaché in Sweden, Finland, and Denmark, with support from the Lithuanian Culture Institute
The exhibition is shown in the Turbine Hall and on the Loading Dock.
