Kent Klich, Killing Time, 2011 Filmstill

The Mini Cinema

Killing Time by Kent Klich

Stockholm

The collection

Free Admission

“Killing Time” (2011) by Kent Klich is currently showing in the Mini cinema on floor 2. In the documentary film, Kent Klich has worked with material related to the 2008-2009 war in Gaza – personal cell phone footage collected from relatives of people who did not survive.

Killing Time (12 min, 2011)

By Kent Klich

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Place

Floor 2

Price

Free admission

For thirty years, Kent Klich (born 1952) has worked within a documentary tradition and is known for his photo books on Beth, the children of Nicolae Ceauseşcu’s Romania and El Niño. In 2001 he began travelling to Gaza, the conflict-ridden Palestinian territory occupied by Israel since 1967.

Through his work, Klich aims to raise awareness of the living conditions in the geopolitical area and the human rights violations taking place there. The project has also led to reflections on the difficulty of depicting human suffering and his own role as a photographer.

“Killing Time” (2011) adds perspective to the current humanitarian disaster in Gaza, where Israeli military action in response to the Islamist Hamas offensive in October 2023 has claimed the lives of tens of thousands of Palestinian civilians. With the fifth war in Gaza in 15 years, hopes for peace in the region are once again shattered.

Swedish acquisitions 2021

“Killing Time” is one of a total of 373 new acquisitions that constitute the museum’s extensive project “Swedish Acquisitions 2021”.

The major initiative “Swedish acquisitions 2021” was launched after the government allocated SEK 25 million to Moderna Museet to support the Swedish art sector in the wake of the covid-19 pandemic. The project led to the acquisition of 373 new works made in 1962–2021 by a total of 169 artists.