Edith Hammar and Nicole Eisenman — Edith Hammar Photo: Märta Thisner, Nicole Eisenman Photo: Brigitte Lacombe

Artist Talk: Nicole Eisenman and Edith Hammar

Conversation

20.9 2024

Stockholm

The exhibition “My Eyes Are Like Funnels, My Ass Is a Hand” brings together the works of Nicole Eisenman and Edith Hammar. The result is an installation that holds play, filth, intimacy, and vulnerability. Hear them in conversation with the exhibition’s curator, Asrin Haidari. Nicole Eisenman will participate via link from New York, while Edith Hammar and Asrin Haidari will be present at the Cinema.

Artist Talk: Nicole Eisenman and Edith Hammar

My Eyes Are Like Funnels, My Ass Is a Hand

Date

Friday 20 September 2024

Time

At 18–19.00

Location

The Cinema, floor 2

Language

Swedish and English

Price

Free admission, and no pre-registration required. Free admission to the museum on Fridays at 18–20.

Contact: Karin Malmquist

Edith Hammar (b. 1992, Gothenburg/Helsinki), has been invited to create a site-specific work on walls and floor in the exhibition “My Eyes Are Like Funnels, My Ass Is a Hand”. The drawing “Hot and Slutty Giants” (2024) is an enchanting utopian vision where gigantic characters lose themselves in desire and pleasure. The space is shared with “Maker’s Muck” (2022), a sculptural installation by Nicole Eisenman (b. 1965, New York) portraying the act of creating.

“My Eyes Are Like Funnels, My Ass Is A Hand” mirrors the artists’ personal and critical ways of relating to body and creative work, while also offering a peek into the artistic process.

NICOLE EISENMAN

Nicole Eisenman is a key figure in American art since the 1990s, critically examining contemporary life through expressive portraits and social scenes in painting, print-making, and sculpture. A member of American Academy of Arts and Letters since 2018, her works have been exhibited at venues like MoMA and the New Museum, as well as at the Venice Biennale and Whitney Biennial. Recently, “Maker’s Muck” was acquired to the Moderna Museet Collection.

EDITH HAMMAR

Edith Hammar’s drawings often portrays autobiographical and intimate situations, an everyday life where boundaries, definitions and norms are dissolved. Hammar’s imagery is characterized by a queer aesthetic, giving glimpses of subcultures made invisible. Hammar is the author of the graphic novels “Homo Line” (2020) and “Portal” (2023), winner of the inaugural Prisma Literary Award. Hammar holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Stockholm.