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
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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.
Artists
Monster Chetwynd (UK), Karl Dunér (SE), Jenny Kalliokulju (SE), Samson Kambalu (MW), Laura Kaminskaitė (LT), Pope.L (US), Kris Lemsalu & Johanna Ulfsak (EE), Kira Nova & Ignas Krunglevičius (LT), Filip Vest (DK)
From the Moderna Museets Collection
Eva Aeppli (CH), Marcel Broodthaers (BE), René Clair (FR), Karl Dunér & Peder Freiij (SE), Joan Jonas (US), Robert Gober (US), Sigurdur Gudmundsson (IS), Greta Knutson-Tzara (SE), Tetsumi Kudo (JP), Ralph Eugene Meatyard (US), Francis Picabia (FR), Man Ray (US), Marion Scemama (FR), Dorothéa Tanning (US)
Documentation
Hugo Ball (DE), Sophie Tauber-Arp (CH)
Curator: Andreas Nilsson, Moderna Museet Malmö.
Performances:
27.9 & 28.9 2024 Monster Chetwynd ”The Evolution of Catpeople”
7.11 2024 Filip Vest ”Self Tape”
8.2 & 9.2 2025 Jenny Kalliokulju ”MAMAN, or THE TONGUE”
Supported by:
Längmanska kulturstiftelsen
In collaboration with
The Lithuanian Cultural Attaché in Sweden, Finland, and Denmark, with support from the Lithuanian Culture Institute, OCA – Office for Contemporary Art Norway
The exhibition is shown in the Turbine Hall and on the Loading Dock
