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contemporary art

Leif Holmstrand and Charlotte Walentin

Leif Holmstrand and Charlotte Walentin

Wednesday 11 December 2013
7pm

Ubu-Websday is a series of events where invited guests are asked to present a personal selection of material from one of the largest web-based archives, www.ubu.com. Our guests this evening are the artists »

NARROW-COLD LOVEL

NARROW-COLD LOVEL

David Douard

22 November 2013–9 February 2014
Opening Friday 22 November 7-9pm

A preface

In the opening scene of George Romero’s Land of the Dead the camera sweeps over what seems to be a desolate landscape. Maybe a park, maybe a fun fair. However,… »

On Translation

On Translation

Kristina Lee Podesva
Thursday 7 November 2013
7pm

The task of translation is not limited only to the process of inter-linguistic correspondence. For artists especially, this activity opens up the potential for inter-semiotic transmission and transmutation as well. And, through this type of… »

Is Representation the Answer?

Is Representation the Answer?

Mikela Lundahl
Wednesday 30 October 2013
7pm

Museum collections are created on assumptions that have seen their hay days. This is a fact that all museums are well aware of and they are looking for strategies to deal with their legacy in the… »

Malmö Gallery Night 2013

Malmö Gallery Night 2013

Saturday 28 September 2013
6pm−midnight

On view is the exhibition Reading: “The World in Which We Live” with works by Dan Graham, Camille Henrot and A-L. Löfberg.

Please note that we will be closed during the day, but open as usual on Sunday the… »

Reading "The World in Which We Live"

Reading “The World in Which We Live”

Dan Graham, Camille Henrot, and a herbarium by A-L. Löfberg

29 August–10 November 2013
Opening Thursday 29 August 7-9pm

Versatile, courageous, contrary, intuitive, unpredictable, impulsive, impatient, original. This could be the initial words of a horoscope, or the introduction to an exhibition that unfolds… »

Melanie Smith

Melanie Smith

Monday 17 June 2013
7pm

Melanie Smith´s work is informed by the legacy of modernist painting, but overlaps into photography, video, and installation. Since 1989 she has lived and worked in Mexico City, an experience that has enormously influenced her works ever since. Past… »

On Books and Things: Greece Gropers Foundation Speaks

On Books and Things: Greece Gropers Foundation Speaks

Wednesday 12 June 2013
7pm

Greece Gropers Foundation is a fictional institution and play authored by artists Jeuno JE Kim and Lasse Krog Møller. Greece Gropers, the fictive “founder” of the institution is an anagram of author Georges Perec, whose literary methods and games… »

The Last Angel of History

The Last Angel of History

by John Akomfrah
Duration: 45 minutes
Wednesday 22 May 2013
7pm

This cinematic essay posits science fiction (with tropes such as alien abduction, estrangement, and genetic engineering) as a metaphor for the Pan-African experience of forced displacement, cultural alienation, and otherness. Akomfrah’s… »

For heaven's sake, Monsieur, don't move your hands or you'll lose the pose!...

For heaven’s sake, Monsieur, don’t move your hands or you’ll lose the pose!…

Can the artist speak? – a pedagogical performance
Ana-Maria Hadji-Culea
Tuesday 14 May 2013
9pm

The evening is dedicated to difficulties of speech.

An artist at work with paintbrush and a palette on a portrait of the patron –… »