Diana Agunbiade-Kolawole, Honest Portrait #2, 2017 Photo: Albin Dahlström/Moderna Museet

Conversation in the Collection: Diana Agunbiade-Kolawole

The Art of Collecting

13.12 2025

Stockholm

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How do you preserve a photograph that is made to change? Join the artist Diana Agunbiade-Kolawole, Moderna Museet’s curator Anna Tellgren, and photography conservator Krista Lough for a conversation about materiality, processes of change, and the history of photography.

Conversation in the Collection: Diana Agunbiade-Kolawole

The Art of Collecting

Date

Saturday 13 December 2025

Time

14–15

Place

In the exhibition “The Art of Collecting – Expanding the Moderna Museet Collection“, floor 4

Language

English

Price

170 SEK, 140 SEK for students and seniors (entrance ticket included).
Free for those with an annual pass and other free categories

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The ticket is valid for the entire museum, except for the exhibition “Late Picasso”, which has timed entry slots. Access to “Late Picasso” is subject to availability.

Contact: Alexander Kateb, Moderna Museet

Everything has been carefully prepared. A sheet of photographic paper, the same size as a human body, has been laid out on the floor. During the performance that will result in an “Honest Portrait”, Diana Agunbiade-Kolawole is focused entirely on the sensations of her body. Her naked skin is covered in developing fluid. When she presses herself against the surface of the paper, an image appears, one that like our transient bodies, will age and change with time.

The season’s final Conversation in the Collection explores photography, focusing on Diana Agunbiade-Kolawole’s “Honest Portrait #2” (2017), part of the “Honest Portraits” series. How does the work engage in dialogue with other photographic pieces in the exhibition “The Art of Collecting – Expanding the Moderna Museet Collection“, and how does it relate to the history of photography?

Join Diana Agunbiade-Kolawole, Anna Tellgren and Krista Lough for a conversation about the work and the photographic medium from multiple perspectives, including conservation — what does it mean to preserve a photograph created with the intention of changing over time?

Diana Agunbiade-Kolawole

Diana Agunbiade-Kolawole (b. 1988) works with lens-based and non-lens-based photography, presented through installations, performances, and prints. At the core of her practice is an investigation into material processes that explore new forms within the framework of established techniques. Her works examine lived experience, aiming to distort or completely shatter “the decisive moment.” She has exhibited widely in Sweden and internationally.

Her works are represented in the collections of Moderna Museet, Göteborgs Konstmuseum and the Brucebo Foundation in Sweden, as well as the National Health Service, Barking & Dagenham Council and Kingston University in the UK, among others.