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CURRENT PRESS MATERIAL
Used for "For Instants" a series of performances that Laurie Anderson began at the nonprofit alternative art center, The Kitchen, in 1974.
Laurie Anderson
Looking into a Mirror Sideways
Stockholm, 1.4 2023 – 3.9 2023
Artist, performer, composer, filmmaker and writer, Laurie Anderson’s boundary defying work has elevated her to legendary status among the pioneers of American avant-garde art, experimental music and independent culture. Storytelling, listening and language are at the very core of her art.In what is Anderson’s largest solo exhibition to date in Europe, visitors are treated to a narrative on the nature of time, space and existence. A representative selection of the artist’s works from the 1970s up to the present day is complemented with brand new, site-specific productions: conceptual art, performance, innovative musical instruments, compositions, stage shows, as well as activist art and political art. The exhibition serves as a forum for both physical materials and techniques – painting, sculpture, analogue photography, sound tapes and film strips – and new digital worlds, such as virtual reality.
Laurie Anderson, born in Glen Ellyn, a suburb of Chicago, in 1947 has Swedish ancestry on her father’s side. Her grandfather hailed from Dalsland.
Curator: Lena Essling
More pressimages and information will be available.
All the Things I Lost in the Flood. Essays on Pictures, Language and Code
(Laurie Anderson’s book, published in 2017. Available in the press room until 2 April. Then by request.)
Used for "For Instants" a series of performances that Laurie Anderson began at the nonprofit alternative art center, The Kitchen, in 1974.
Info: The Drum glasses amplified the sounds of Laurie Anderson striking her own skull.
Info: The concert film "Home of the Brave" (1986) filmed at the Park Theater in Union City, NJ, during the summer of 1985.
Info: Invented instrument. Made by the artist for the Nova Convention for William S. Burroughs. (A three day celebration of readings, screenings and performances on Burroughs’s work in New York 1978.)
Info: Invented instrument. Created by the artist in collaboration with Bob Bielecki. Instrument, magnetic tape, and magnetic tape playback head. Allowed Laurie to play audio palindromes, words and phrases pronounced both forward and backward.
Info: Invented instrument. From multimedia performance/concert "United States I–IV". 1982/1985
Info: Mud, clay and the ashes of the artist's dog Lolabelle.
Info: VR installation artwork created by artists Laurie Anderson and Hsin-Chien Huang. To the Moon uses images and tropes from Greek mythology, literature, science, space, sci-fi, and politics to create an imaginary and fabulous new moon. During the 15-minute VR experience, the viewer is shot out from earth, walks on the surface of the moon, glides through space debris, flies through DNA skeletons and is lifted up the side and then tossed off of a lunar mountain.
Info: VR installation artwork created by artists Laurie Anderson and Hsin-Chien Huang. To the Moon uses images and tropes from Greek mythology, literature, science, space, sci-fi, and politics to create an imaginary and fabulous new moon. During the 15-minute VR experience, the viewer is shot out from earth, walks on the surface of the moon, glides through space debris, flies through DNA skeletons and is lifted up the side and then tossed off of a lunar mountain.
Info: VR installation artwork created by artists Laurie Anderson and Hsin-Chien Huang. To the Moon uses images and tropes from Greek mythology, literature, science, space, sci-fi, and politics to create an imaginary and fabulous new moon. During the 15-minute VR experience, the viewer is shot out from earth, walks on the surface of the moon, glides through space debris, flies through DNA skeletons and is lifted up the side and then tossed off of a lunar mountain.
Info: VR installation artwork created by artists Laurie Anderson and Hsin-Chien Huang. To the Moon uses images and tropes from Greek mythology, literature, science, space, sci-fi, and politics to create an imaginary and fabulous new moon. During the 15-minute VR experience, the viewer is shot out from earth, walks on the surface of the moon, glides through space debris, flies through DNA skeletons and is lifted up the side and then tossed off of a lunar mountain.
Info: VR installation artwork created by artists Laurie Anderson and Hsin-Chien Huang. To the Moon uses images and tropes from Greek mythology, literature, science, space, sci-fi, and politics to create an imaginary and fabulous new moon. During the 15-minute VR experience, the viewer is shot out from earth, walks on the surface of the moon, glides through space debris, flies through DNA skeletons and is lifted up the side and then tossed off of a lunar mountain.
Info: VR installation artwork created by artists Laurie Anderson and Hsin-Chien Huang. To the Moon uses images and tropes from Greek mythology, literature, science, space, sci-fi, and politics to create an imaginary and fabulous new moon. During the 15-minute VR experience, the viewer is shot out from earth, walks on the surface of the moon, glides through space debris, flies through DNA skeletons and is lifted up the side and then tossed off of a lunar mountain.
Info: Centering on Anderson's beloved rat terrier Lolabelle, who died in 2011, the film Heart of a Dog is a personal essay that weaves together childhood memories, video diaries, philosophical musings on data collection, surveillance culture and the Buddhist conception of the afterlife, and heartfelt tributes to the artists, writers, musicians and thinkers who inspire her.
Info: Centering on Anderson's beloved rat terrier Lolabelle, who died in 2011, the film Heart of a Dog is a personal essay that weaves together childhood memories, video diaries, philosophical musings on data collection, surveillance culture and the Buddhist conception of the afterlife, and heartfelt tributes to the artists, writers, musicians and thinkers who inspire her.
Info: Centering on Anderson's beloved rat terrier Lolabelle, who died in 2011, the film Heart of a Dog is a personal essay that weaves together childhood memories, video diaries, philosophical musings on data collection, surveillance culture and the Buddhist conception of the afterlife, and heartfelt tributes to the artists, writers, musicians and thinkers who inspire her.
Repro: Albin Dahlström/Moderna Museet Info: Centering on Anderson's beloved rat terrier Lolabelle, who died in 2011, the film Heart of a Dog is a personal essay that weaves together childhood memories, video diaries, philosophical musings on data collection, surveillance culture and the Buddhist conception of the afterlife, and heartfelt tributes to the artists, writers, musicians and thinkers who inspire her.
Info: Centering on Anderson's beloved rat terrier Lolabelle, who died in 2011, the film Heart of a Dog is a personal essay that weaves together childhood memories, video diaries, philosophical musings on data collection, surveillance culture and the Buddhist conception of the afterlife, and heartfelt tributes to the artists, writers, musicians and thinkers who inspire her.
Info: Concert film of Laurie Anderson performing songs from her first three albums, selections from her four-night epic "United States Live," and several new songs, incorporating film, animation, dance, and electronics.
Info: Concert film of Laurie Anderson performing songs from her first three albums, selections from her four-night epic "United States Live," and several new songs, incorporating film, animation, dance, and electronics.
Info: Concert film of Laurie Anderson performing songs from her first three albums, selections from her four-night epic "United States Live," and several new songs, incorporating film, animation, dance, and electronics.
Info: Concert film of Laurie Anderson performing songs from her first three albums, selections from her four-night epic "United States Live," and several new songs, incorporating film, animation, dance, and electronics.
Info: From Home of the Brave, concert film of Laurie Anderson performing songs from her first three albums, selections from her four-night epic "United States Live," and several new songs, incorporating film, animation, dance, and electronics.
Info: From Home of the Brave, concert film of Laurie Anderson performing songs from her first three albums, selections from her four-night epic "United States Live," and several new songs, incorporating film, animation, dance, and electronics.
Info: From Home of the Brave, concert film of Laurie Anderson performing songs from her first three albums, selections from her four-night epic "United States Live," and several new songs, incorporating film, animation, dance, and electronics.
Info: From Home of the Brave, concert film of Laurie Anderson performing songs from her first three albums, selections from her four-night epic "United States Live," and several new songs, incorporating film, animation, dance, and electronics.
Info: Big Science is the debut studio album by Laurie Anderson. It is best known for the single "O Superman" (1981) , which unexpectedly became a hit song.
Jimmy Robert – Assymetrical Grammar
Malmö, 1.4 2023 – 3.9 2023
On April 1, Moderna Museet Malmö opens the exhibition “Jimmy Robert – Asymmetrical Grammar”. Robert works with staging art historical discussions and contemporary issues. His art, which often brings out a poetic dimension in everyday materials, breaks down the division between image and object. Robert examines the relationship between body and material and exposes art history to new interpretations in regards to representation and identity.Jimmy Robert
Asymmetrical Grammar
1.4 – 3.9 2023
Curator: Andreas Nilsson
New Gallery & Right Gallery (Floor 2)
Jimmy Robert’s work explores the political in observation, questioning established conceptions, and opens up for interpretation from multiple points of view. A recurring feature is how meaning is created in the relationship between place, body, and artwork, where all parts appear equally active. His work also poses questions about how a movement can be preserved and how it can be presented in an exhibition context.
– Jimmy Robert’s work makes visible, among other things, the interaction between the private and public body, and it raises questions about gaze and desire, says Andreas Nilsson, curator of the exhibition. Also central to his work are movement and presence as a concept, as we see manifested in the performance presented during the exhibition period.
A central work in the exhibition is the installation “Descendances du Nu” (2016). It includes objects, photographs, performances, sounds, and writing and is based on Marcel Duchamp’s painting “Nude Descending a Staircase” (1912). Robert’s work also ties in with artist colleagues such as Sturtevant and Sherrie Levine, who both have referred to Duchamp in their work. Further, the installation serves as a set for the performance that is part of the work.
Jimmy Robert raises questions in his art about representation, identity, and gender, often rooted in an art or museum context. The artist takes on these complex subjects through a formal language that is fragmented and open, infused with subtle humor, melancholy, and queerness. These works, in which the body in particular is used as a conceptual tool, are allowed to serve both as independent entities and as components of a wider historical network.
Jimmy Robert was born in 1975 in Guadeloupe. Currently he lives in Berlin, where he is a professor of sculpture and performance at the Universität der Künste. Robert has had recent solo exhibitions at institutions such as Künstlerhaus Bremen (2022), Museion in Bolzano (2021), and Nottingham Contemporary in Nottingham (2020). He has presented large-scale performances at the KW Institute for Contemporary Art in Berlin (2019), Performa 17 in New York (2017), and the Centre d’Art Contemporain in the Synagogue de Delme, France (2016).
The exhibition at Moderna Museet Malmö also comprises a selection of works from Moderna Museet’s collection.
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Courtesy of the artist, Stigter Van Doesburg, Amsterdam and Tanya Leighton, Berlin and Los Angeles.
Sleepless Nights
The 1980s in the Moderna Museet Collection
Stockholm, 28.2 2023 – 14.1 2024
In the contradictory 1980s, several remarkable women artists emerged in Sweden and the Nordic region. “Sleepless Nights” revolves around them. The name of this exhibition was inspired by Teresa Wennberg’s large video installation “Nuit Blanche” (1983), incorporating 25 TV screens, a work that epitomises how artists were exploring new media and materials.The art market was red-hot, the alternative art scene rebelled, the fear of HIV and AIDS was rampant, and the Cold War was coming to an end. This pivotal point between the politicised 1970s and the artistically terser 1990s left its mark on the Moderna Museet collection.
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Press release Sleepless Nights
Silver dye bleach print (Cibachrome), ink on paper
Silver dye bleach print (Cibachrome), ink on paper
Awning fabric mounted on wooden frames, studs
Oil on canvas
Dental stone, oil and acrylic on MDF and wood
Gelatin silver prints and thread
Painting: Oil, pigment and gold leaves on canvas.
Facing Cindy Sherman. On the left wall Ingrid Orfali's works.
Robert Mapplethorpe's works
Works of photographer Tuija Lindström.
Lars Englund – Under Construction
Malmö, 18.2 2023 – 3.9 2023
On February 18, Moderna Museet Malmö opens the exhibition “Lars Englund – Under Construction” and the installation and performance work “Statolit” by Adèle Essle Zeiss. A dialogue across generations is established in the museum between different artists with an interest in movement and balance.Lars Englund
Under Construction
18.2 – 3.9 2023
Curator: Elisabeth Millqvist
Left Gallery (Floor 2)
Lars Englund’s art is characterized by exploration of materials and shapes and could be described as “work in progress.” Englund both returns to and constantly changes his expressions. He has collaborated with cement and rubber factories, bases his work on machine parts and industrial materials, changes scale from model to monumental, and finds inspiration in subways and Baroque architecture alike. This exhibition spans from paintings Englund made in the early 1950s that have rarely been shown to sculptures from the 2000s.
– Visitors will recognize the materials Englund uses from building facades and workshops. His choices draw our attention to our everyday surroundings, elevating the commonplace to the extraordinary, says Elisabeth Millqvist, Museum Director and curator of the exhibition.
This presentation combines sculptures from the Moderna Museet collection with works on loan, mainly from the artist. The focus of Englund’s work is revealed in titles that convey his interest in form, such as “Volume”, “Sphere”, and “Pars Pro Toto” – part of a whole. The sculptures, which often hang from the ceiling, interact with one another and challenge the surrounding space. There is no clear reference point for these works; instead, we are invited to move around and in relation to their abstract and geometric forms. The artworks establish a dialogue with the building’s industrial history as an electrical power plant, designed by John Smedberg and constructed in 1901, but also with its present form as a work of architecture adapted by Tham & Videgård to be a museum, with its distinctive perforated orange metal facade—a material to which Englund makes reference.
Lars Englund was born in 1933 in Stockholm, and now lives in Jonstorp, Scania County. Englund was celebrated with a large solo show at Moderna Museet in Stockholm in 2005. Solo shows in Scania County include Dunkers kulturhus in Helsingborg (2003), Lunds konsthall (2002) and Krapperups konsthall in Höganäs (1998). Over the years, he has also shown at acclaimed international exhibitions in Venice, Warsaw, New York, and most recently in Paris at the Centre Pompidou’s 2021 exhibition [Aerodream].
The exhibition is presented in close collaboration with Yvonne Möller.
A PRESS CONFERENCE WILL TAKE PLACE AT MODERNA MUSEET MALMÖ ON THURSDAY FEBRUARY 16 AT 10 AM IN THE PRESENCE OF ELISABETH MILLQVIST AND ADÈLE ESSLE ZEISS.
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Adèle Essle Zeiss
Statolit
Malmö, 18.2 2023 – 3.9 2023
On February 18, Moderna Museet Malmö opens the exhibition “Lars Englund – Under Construction” and the installation and performance work “Statolit” by Adèle Essle Zeiss. A dialogue across generations is established in the museum between different artists with an interest in movement and balance.Adèle Essle Zeiss
Statolit
Installation and performance (performance dates to be communicated separately)
18.2 – 3.9 2023
Curator: Elisabeth Millqvist
Loading Dock
“Statolit” is an installation and performance for three dancers that will be performed several times throughout the exhibition period. “Statolit” is on view here as a counterpart to the exhibition on Lars Englund.
“Statolit” was first presented in 2018 at Galleri Mejan in Stockholm and is included in the collection of Moderna Museet. Adèle Essle Zeiss makes use of simple materials—three long wooden planks placed horizontally in the space, a sack of cement strapped to one end of each. At the other sits a dancer, whose body is balanced by the counterweight of the sack. Any little movement changes the elevation of the plank, setting it in motion. A documentation will complement the installation when the dancers are not present. Information on performance dates will be added.
– There are parallels between Essle Zeiss’s way of working with just a few everyday materials, which puts the focus on shifting movement, and Englund’s work. In one conversation with her, it came out that she had reached out to him regarding his sculptures. I’m looking forward to the meeting between these artists’ different expressions in the museum, says Elisabeth Millqvist, Museum Director and curator of the exhibition.
Adèle Essle Zeiss studied to be a dancer at the Royal Swedish Ballet School and has a master’s degree in fine art from the Royal Institute of Art in Stockholm. “Statolit” was included in the 2022 exhibition “Swedish Acquisitions: Matches” at Moderna Museet in Stockholm. In 2021, Accelerator, a Stockholm University exhibition space, showed the most comprehensive presentation to date of her performance art, and her work has also been featured by MDT, Haninge Konsthall, the Ulvhälls Hällar art park, and in Denmark at Den Frie/Dansehallerne. In April and May, Adèle Essle Zeiss will also be presented, with a different artwork, at Lilith Performance Studio in Malmö.
A PRESS CONFERENCE WILL TAKE PLACE AT MODERNA MUSEET MALMÖ ON THURSDAY FEBRUARY 16 AT 10 AM IN THE PRESENCE OF ELISABETH MILLQVIST AND ADÈLE ESSLE ZEISS.
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Exhibition programme 2023, Stockholm and Malmö
Stockholm Malmö, 1.1 2023 – 31.12 2023
Welcome to Moderna Museet in Stockholm and Malmö. Access the exhibition programme including one press image for each exhibition. In due time, every exhibition gets its own press release and selection of press images.Moderna Museet Exhibition programme 2023 Stockholm Malmö
Courtesy of the artist, Stigter Van Doesburg, Amsterdam and Tanya Leighton, Berlin and Los Angeles.
A new exhibition programme appearing in the collection galleries
Moderna Museet presents even more of its collection
Stockholm, 1.1 2023
In 2023, we will open three new exhibitions with works from the Moderna Museet collection, one of Europe’s finest selections of modern and contemporary art. This vast treasure is presented in thematical exhibitions that explore different narratives in art history, instead of sticking to the chronological format.Together, these presentations highlight art from the 20th century to today, reflecting the whole range of the collection. Classics, favourites and new acquisitions are the first thing visitors will see in the galleries, and in the Study Gallery downstairs everyone can choose what to see and request works from the collection.
To the press release Even more from the Moderna Museet Collection on display
Photo: Moderna Museet
Photo: Prallan Allsten/Moderna Museet
Twilight Land
Malmö, 29.10 2022 – 9.4 2023
Twilight Land is an international group exhibition featuring several large-scale new commissions. It explores the feeling of standing on the threshold of the unknown. Of realising that the world and our lives cannot continue in the same way, but not knowing what is to come. Through sculptural installation, film, and painting, the exhibition tries to portray this state of liminality – the twilight land.Twilight Land
29 October 2022 – 9 April 2023
Curator: Joa Ljunggren
Turbine hall, New and Right Galleries
Participating artists: Isabelle Andriessen, Alberta Whittle, Rose-Marie Huuva, Yael Bartana, Anna Ling, Aernout Mik, Sandra Mujinga, Stina Siljing, Ingrid Elsa Maria Ogenstedt, Ida Persson and Jonas Staal.
Twilight Land is Moderna Museet Malmö’s large-scale venture extending from autumn 2022 to spring 2023. It is presented in the Turbine Hall, and in the Right and New Gallery. The exhibition is realised within the framework of Moderna Museet’s focus on new artistic production and reduced transports in 2022.
Supported by the Mondriaan Fund, Netherlands.
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Gallery, Capitain Petzel and Cecilia Hillström Gallery
Korakrit Arunanondchai
From dying to living
Stockholm, 17.9 2022 – 9.4 2023
What brings us together and what divides us? Gatherings, both ritualistic and political, are at the core of Korakrit Arunanondchai’s work. In this exhibition the celebrated artist explores the threshold between life and death, as a space where new possibilities can be imagined, involving the individual and the collective. On show are a number of new works in immersive settings, by an artist who can rightly call himself a storyteller.Korakrit Arunanondchai was born in Bangkok in 1986, but after studying in the USA, he now divides his time between the city of his birth and New York. His distinctive combination of various mediums and techniques as well as his collaborative practice have attracted international attention during recent years.
Press release from Moderna Museet-Korakrit Arunanondchai
Elisabeth Millqvist the new head of Moderna Museet Malmö
Malmö, 25.3 2022
Elisabeth Millqvist has been working since 2011 as Co-director and Artistic Director for Wanås Konst. She will assume her position as Director for Moderna Museet Malmö on August 1, 2022.At Wanås Konst, Millqvist has worked with site-specific international contemporary art. Under Millqvist’s leadership, new works of art have been added to the sculpture park by artists such as Igshaan Adams, Nathalie Djurberg & Hans Berg, William Forsythe, Yoko Ono, and Rana Begum. The artistic program has also been expanded to include dance and performance. In addition to her extensive experience in the art world, Millqvist has a strong academic background in art history and leadership. She has been sharing the role as Museum Director at Wanås Konst with Mattias Givell.
Gitte Ørskou is the Director of Moderna Museet
2.9 2019
On June 13, Gitte Ørskou was appointed Director of Moderna Museet. She took up her position on September 2, 2019. Between 2009 and August 31 2019, Gitte Ørskou was the director of Kunsten Museum of Modern Art in Aalborg, Denmark. Before that, Ms Ørskou was curator and later head curator of ARoS Aarhus Art Museum. In addition to these roles, Gitte Ørskou has held several positions of trust, including chair of the Danish Arts Foundation.Photo: Åsa Lundén/Moderna Museet
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Published 22 October 2015 · Updated 11 January 2023