Exhibitions 2012-2004

 

 

2012

 

The Opposite of Me Is I. Miriam Bäckström

4 February – 25 March 2012

Miriam Bäckström (born 1967 in Stockholm) emerged as an artist in the late 1990s. The conceptual and visual precision of her photographic work soon gained wide international recognition, not least after Harald Szeemann included it in the Venice Biennale in 1999. She used the established approaches of documentary photography to expose and undo conventions of depiction and storytelling. Film sets, museum displays and apartments became “figures” speaking of the “diverse characters” that were as yet physically absent in the images.

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2011

 

Encounter with Hill. Selections from the Malmö Art Museum

Torsten Andersson, Helene Billgren, Johanna Billing, Carl Boutard, Ann Böttcher, Erik Dietman, Nathalie Djurberg, Cecilia Edefalk, Gardar Eide Einarsson, Olafur Eliasson, Elis Eriksson, Carl Fredrik Hill, Lisa Jeannin and Rolf Schuurmans, Lena Johansson, Runo Lagomarsino, Matts Leiderstam, Sivert Lindblom, Eva Löfdahl, Ann-Sofi Sidén, Annika Ström, Superflex, Astrid Svangren, Johan Tirén, Marianna Uutinen, Thale Vangen

12 November 2011 – 22 January 2012

Lunds konsthall is very pleased to be able to show a substantial selection of works from the outstanding collection of the Malmö Art Museum. The starting point is Carl Fredrik Hill, an artist from Lund whose death in 1911, exactly one hundred years ago, is now commemorated in a number of exhibitions. Malmö Art Museum has the largest collection of his work anywhere, mostly drawings from his period of mental illness.

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To See the Dimensions. Artists from Georgia

Thea Djordjadze, Mamuka Japharidze, David Kakabadze, Koka Ramishvili, Alexander Rekhviashvili, Wato Tsereteli, Guram Tsibakhashvili

3 September – 30 October 2011

An exhibition with artists from Georgia will inevitably have a political dimension. To a Western audience, Georgia is sufficiently unknown to provoke curiosity, but at the same time sufficiently known to be representable, imaginable. Georgia is associated with geopolitics on a grand scale: the Great Game that followed the collapse of the USSR twenty years ago. The short war between Georgia and Russia in August 2008 was just the best-publicised event in an continuous development that involves oil and hegemony, values and ambitions, Eurasia, the Middle East, the US and the EU. Yet an exhibition should not be a narrative that sticks to one topic, even if it is as complex as Georgia’s recent history. An exhibition should always be multi-dimensional.

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Poul Gernes. Retrospective
21 May – 21 August 2011

Poul Gernes (1925–1996) was born in Copenhagen and lived in southern Sweden for thirty years. Until now his art has not been comprehensively presented in Sweden, although he is considered to be one of Scandinavia’s most significant artists. Yet Gernes has had a posthumous international break-through in recent years, not least because of the generous selection of his works at documenta 12 in 2007.

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I, the Undersigned. Rabih Mroué
12 March – 8 May 2011

It is with particular joy that Lunds konsthall presents the exhibition I, the Undersigned. In these days of profound change and hopefulness in the Arab world we are very proud to be able to show the first-ever solo exhibition by the internationally renowned Lebanese theatre director, actor and artist Rabih Mroué.

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ESCAPE

Majd Abdel Hamid, Joanna Bini Eda, Caire de Santa Coloma, Miro Dorow, Karen Gimle, Til Heinicke, Leonie Hesse, Khaled Jarrar, Nina Jensen, Ingrid Koslung, Anne-Kathrin Loth, Henning Lundkvist, Tiago Mestre, Nikolaj Nekh, Olof Nimar, Lydia Paasche, Sofia Berti Rojas, Omaya Salman, Julian Stalbohm, Sarah Steiner, Maiken Stene, Lars-Andreas Tovey Kristiansen, André Trindade, Thale Vangen, Joen P Vedel, Martin Weiser, Constanze Wicke
29 January – 27 February 2011

Lunds konsthall is hosting the exhibition ESCAPE, which sums up an international collaboration project involving the Malmö Art Academy, the Braunschweig University of Art, Maumaus – Escola de Artes Visuais in Lisbon and International Art Academy – Palestine in Ramallah.

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2010

Lunds konsthall Presentation

Patrik Aarnivaara, Fredrik Auster, Elin Behrens, Ana Bezelga, Carl Boutard, Nanna Debois Buhl, Karolina Erlingsson, Tamar Guimarães, Hertha Hanson, Marie Kølbæk Iversen, José Luis Martinat, Viktor Rosdahl, Hans Scherer, Hanna Sjöstrand, Vladimir Tomi
27 November 2010 – 16 January 2011

Lunds konsthall Presentation is an exhibition of 15 younger artists. They come from different countries and cultural backgrounds and they work with different topics, means of expression and techniques. What unites them is that they have all graduated recently, between 2006 and 2010, from the two art academies in our region: the Malmö Art Academy, which is part of Lund University, and the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts in Copenhagen.

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Michel Auder. The World Out of My Hands
18 September – 14 November 2010.

Michel Auder was born in France in 1944, but he has been living and working in New York since the late 1960s. His oeuvre, both incisive and generous, is now assuming its rightful place in an updated overview of recent art history, thanks to a series of ambitious solo exhibitions and participations in biennials or other larger-scale events.

The World Out of My Hands is the title of a video installation from 2008, a torrent of vision and sound arranged as a non-linear narrative flow. It has been chosen as the title for Michel Auder’s substantial solo exhibition at Lunds konsthall, which comprises some 20 works from the period 1971–2010.

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Bruno Knutman. Wolf at the Door
29 May – 5 September 2010

Swedish painter Bruno Knutman (born 1930) is an artists’ artist, much respected by younger colleagues. But many others are also attracted by his visual individualism, by his career outside of current movements in art and his superior lack of interest in any conventional notion of quality. He knows how to discard all acquired knowledge to arrive where he must arrive with each new image – at a constantly new visual account of his own self.

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João Penalva
6 February – 4 April 2010

The exhibition includes, among other works, the slide and video installation Pavlina and the automated shadow theatre Petit Verre, both 2007. There is also a specially commissioned installation of ten loose-sheet picture books, individually titled and displayed on tables, and a series of seven large framed digital prints with accompanying short texts, also individually titled.

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Nasreen Mohamedi: Notes – Reflections on Indian Modernism
Rasheed Araeen: Structures, Chakras, Triangles 
Raqs Media Collective: Steps Away from Oblivion
Lunds konsthall and the Kino Cinema Theatre
28 November 2009 – 24 January 2010

Lunds konsthall is pleased to present three simultaneous exhibitions that offer distinct perspectives on the art and cinema of the Indian Subcontinent in recent history and today.

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2009

Omer Fast
19 September – 15 November 2009

A selection of works by Omer Fast, an artist who is attracting ever more attention on the international scene. He was born 1972 in Jerusalem and educated in the US. He now lives in Berlin. This is his first solo exhibition in Scandinavia.

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π and around
Works by Eva Löfdahl
30 May – 6 September 2009

Eva Löfdahl, born 1953, emerged in the early 1980s and is rightly regarded as one of Sweden’s most significant and innovative artists. She was always interested in how concepts are created and conveyed in art. Throughout the years she has worked in many different techniques and formats: painting, drawing, sculpture, text-based investigations, large-scale public art commissions for urban space and institutional settings.

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Modules. Sirous Namazi
11 April – 17 May 2009 
Lunds konsthall Production is a three-year project featuring younger artists from our own region. The basic idea is to offer them the possibility to produce and present new works. The exhibition Modules. Sirous Namazi is the second instalment of this series, inaugurated in the spring of 2008 with a presentation by the artist Luca Frei.

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The Immediate Future. Manon de Boer, Zilvinas Kempinas, Melvin Moti
31 January – 29 March 2009

The future has not happened yet. It never will have. We will never be able to gather the information about things to come that must be out there somewhere – just a few instances ahead of us in the case of the immediate future. Even this ‘light’ version of the future will always defy authoritative speech, mocking our belief that the future is more graspable when it is close at hand. But the future is forever unattainable, and therefore an unusually good example of beauty. The future remains an inexhaustible topic for art.

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2008

Ten Photograpers
15 November 2008 – 18 January 2009

Ten Photographers isan exhibition produced in collaboration with the Borås Art Museum. The group Ten Photographers was founded in 1958, and its first joint exhibition Photographic Art was shown at Lunds konsthall that same year.
The ten members of Ten Photographers are Sten Didrik Bellander (1921–2001), Harry Dittmer (1910–2000), Sven Gillsäter (1921–2001), Hans Hammarskiöld (born 1925), Rune Hassner (1928–2003), Tore Johnson (1928–80), Hans Malmberg (1927–77), Pål-Nils Nilsson (1929–2002), Georg Oddner (1923–2007) and Lennart Olson (born 1925).

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After Eisenstein. Olga Chernysheva, Boris Mikhailov
6 September – 2 November 2008
Kino Cinema Theatre: Sergei Eisenstein, Kira Muratova

It is no coincidence that Lunds konsthall begins the 2008 autumn season with a concentrated presentation of art and cinema from Sweden’s mighty eastern neighbour. Hardly anyone can have missed the return of Russia as a self-confident great power this summer.

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CECI. Cecilia Edefalk
24 May – 24 August 2008

Since the late 1980s Cecilia Edefalk has been one of the leading and most sought-after Swedish artists at home and abroad. Her production is substantial, but there have been relatively few comprehensive survey exhibitions of her paintings, sculptures, photographs and films. Lunds konsthall is now showing a concentrate of Cecilia Edefalk’s art from 2002 onwards, highlighting some works that rework and reinterpret the antique sculptural heritage.

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Luca Frei: studies / play
19 April – 11 May 2008

Lund Konsthall Production is a new programme, a series of works and presentations by younger artists from our own region that will be realised during three years. It is inaugurated by Luca Frei. His exhibition studies / play is staged around the building’s architecture.

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Ellipsis: Chantal Akerman, Lili Dujourie, Francesca Woodman
9 February – 13 April 2008

Organised by Museo Tamayo Are Contemporáneo, Instituto de Bellas Artes, Mexico City.
Ellipsis features photography, film and video from the 1970s and the early 1980s by Chantal Akerman (b. 1950), Lili Dujourie (b. 1941) and Francesca Woodman (1958–81). This is the first joint exhibition of their work, curated by Lynne Cooke, Chief Curator at Dia Center for the Arts in New York.

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2007

Time and Again. Fiona Tan
24 November 2007 − 27 January 2008

Lund Konsthall’s presentation of Fiona Tan’s art includes both newer and older work and is the largest to date in Sweden. The exhibition’s title speaks of difference and repetition, of the new and the recognizable.

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See Us Act
22 September – 11 November 2007

Films by Harun Farocki/Anderi Ujica, Melik Ohanian
Portraits of Nicolae Ceausescu from the National Museum of Contemporary Art in Bucharest

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I want to be able to see what it is. Mats Andersson, Alexander Gutke, Viktor Kopp, Runo Lagomarsino, Eva Larsson, Anna Ling, Sirous Namazi, Annika Ström, Astrid Svangren, Sophie Tottie
City of Lund Art Collection. New Acquisitions
2 June-9 September 2007

Lunds konsthalls sommarutställning 2007 presenterar nyförvärv till Lunds kommuns konstsamling, verk av företrädesvis yngre konstnärer med tydlig anknytning till Skåne. De är födda här, har studerat här eller verkar här.
Titeln Jag vill kunna se vad det är har lånats från ett textverk av en av deltagarna, Annika Ström. Frasen hänvisar till de förväntningar som människor ofta har inför mötet med konsten, men fungerar också som direkt referens till utställningens tillkomsthistoria.

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LUND KONSTHALL 50 YEARS
31 March – 20 May 2007

Lund Konsthall was inaugurated in 1957. The building, designed by the architect Klas Anshelm, was donated to the city by the Finn Savings Bank. It is still considered one of the foremost exhibition spaces in Sweden.
Lund Konsthall celebrates its 50-year jubilee with a comprehensive exhibition. Works by more than 50 artists have been borrowed from museums and private collections. The selection is subjective and reflects how the institution views its history today. The interests and preferences of the different directors are highlighted, as well as artists who have helped shape the image of Lund Konsthall. The fundamental idea is that works shown before at Lund Konsthall will revisit the exhibition space.

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Art Of The Possible. Miriam Bäckström, Ion Grigorescu, Arturas Raila, Raqs Media Collective: Jeebesh Bagchi, Moniva Narula, Shudhabrata Sengupta
20 January– 18 March 2007

The exhibiton shows different ways of approaching the notion of 'the possible' in art. According to the philosopher Henri Bergson (1859–1941) the possible is not a pre-formed category that precedes action. Our actions, Bergson says, are always free and unpredictable. Therefore they create the possible retroactively.

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2006

Electrohype 2006
9 December 2006 – 7 January 2007

The fourth biennial for computer based and technological art Electrohype 2006 is now realized in Lund Konsthall. The exhibition gives an updated view of the Nordic and Internationall scene for contemporary electronic art. Electrohype 2006 presents works by eight artists.

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Messages from the Unseen. Matthew Buckingham, Joachim Koester
30 September-26 November 2006

Matthew Buckingham (born 1963 in Iowa, USA) and Joachim Koester (born 1962 in Copenhagen, Denmark) are frequently seen on the international art scene. Lund Konsthall now offers audiences in Sweden a first comprehensive selection of their recent work.
Both artists allow themselves to become fascinated by history and literature. They have both worked with photography, film, video and text. They have a lively interest in the conceptual development of art. They pay much attention to visuality, but don't take anything for granted about how pictures tell stories.

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Malmö Art Academy
9 September – 17 September 2006

Sopawan Boonnimitra (Thailand): Lak-ka-pid-lak-ka-perd
Matts Leiderstam (Sweden): See and Seen
Miya Yoshida (Japan): Invisible Landscapes

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Gustav Metzger, verk
20 May - 27 August 2006

Gustav Metzger’s first Manifesto for an Auto-Destructive Art from 1959 proved directional for one of the most uncompromising artistic careers in our time. Auto-destructive art is made to be self-destroyed. The act of destruction is crucial to the work.

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Pia Rönicke
18 February – 30 April 2006

Lund Konsthall is pleased to present Danish artist Pia Rönicke’s first substantial solo exhibition. It makes full use of the kunsthalle and contains work produced between 1998 and 2006. A catalogue is published for the exhibition, with picture documentation and an essay by the kunsthalle’s new Acting Director Anders Kreuger.

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AKAD
21 January – 5 February 2006

AKAD (Academy for Art- and Practice-based Research in Architecture and Design) was founded in 2003 to provoke, promote and discuss critically experimental research by architecture and design. Within the framework of AKAD arrangements have been made of public seminar and exhibitions.

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2005

The light setup. Olafur Eliasson
10 September 2005 - 8 January 2006
Malmö Konsthall 10 September 2005 - 22 January 2006

The light setup, the autumn show at Lund Konsthall, will present a wide spectrum of works by Olafur Eliasson from the years 1997-2005. Some 40 pieces - light installations, objects, models and photographs - interact to create a strikingly intense atmosphere.
Throughout his artistic practice, Olafur Eliasson has worked with natural phenomena like light, water and temperature. By inserting these into artificial surroundings Eliasson challenges us to sharpen our senses and to reflect on our relationship with and our understanding of the physical environment that we occupy in our everyday lives.

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Public Act. Lara Almarcegui, Sean Snyder, Darius Ziura, Åsa Sonjasdotter
28 May - 21 August 2005
Curator: Mats Stjernstedt

The summer exhibition at Lund Konsthall shows items by four artists who work in a contemporary urban environment or in the media. The developed, modern society is fundamentally an urban society concerned with information. But it is also the sum of the people who inhabit it and the room for action which they are able to create for themselves.
The title of the exhibition, Offentlig handling (Public Act), alludes to a duality of meaning - on the one hand the act in the form of a private individual's action in the public domain on the other the document which is in the public domain and which, therefore, everyone has the right to consult. The concept carries within it the experience and dynamic between what a citizen wants and is allowed to do as opposed to the strategic value that means that access to other information can be limited by restrictions and laws.

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Archive Project
28 May – 21 August 2005

Archive Project a workshop by Dolores Zinny and Juan Maidagan
During a two week workshop with a group of students from the Konsthögskolan i Malmö we were dedicated to discuss and formalize a possible model for a specific archive for the Lund Konsthall.

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Isolarion. Sophie Tottie
26 February – 15 May 2005

Isolarion deals with disconnected matters, with what is sometimes shocking and hard to describe - facts that exist in a void between loud headlines and what is left unmentioned in the news reports, facts that are protested on banners but can not be couched in words and images. "Isolarion" is the term used for the 15th century maps that describe specific areas in detail, but that do not provide a clarifying overview of how these places are related to each other on the face of earth. Sophie Tottie uses the term as the title for a work in progress, shown for the first time at the Lund Konsthall. The exhibition presents a series of images that appear in isolation, as well as juxtaposed in a drawing reminiscent of a network. Consisting of text and image, the drawing intersects the room vertically and horizontally in accordance with an invisible positioning system.

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(rider): law and creativity. Liam Gillick & Philippe Parreno
27 november 2004 – 13 February 2005

Lund Konsthall is delighted to be able to present (rider): law & creativity, featuring artists Liam Gillick and Philippe Parreno.
The exhibition has been produced in connection with the interdisciplinary, Third Space Seminar: Examining the Law, a collaborative project involving the universities of Lund and Malmö as well Lund Konsthall. The seminar will be held during the opening weekend of the exhibition, 26-28 November 2004.

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2004

(Dys)Function. Attila Csörgó, Ceal Floyer, Alexander Gutke, Rivane Neuenschwander
4 September-14 November 2004
Curator Mats Stjernstedt & Åsa Nacking

Seeing, observing, is certainly something that is implicit in the whole experience of art. The exhibition (dys)function is addressed a to public that is prepared to see and at the same time dares to question its seeing.

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Counterclockwise Circumambulation. Sture Johannesson
29 May-22 August 2004

Counterclockwise Circumambulation is an installation with works by Sture Johannesson. The exhibition has its starting point in the discussion that came up in 1968 when Sture Johannesson's poster for the exhibition Underground were banned, which led to that the exhibition never opened, the then director had to leave and Lund Konsthall were closed for several months. The poster, which now goes under the name of "The Marihuana Girl", has after the incident become one of the most profiled and appreciated of our time.

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Semantic Gap. Dolores Zinny & Juan Maidagan
6 March- 16 may 2004

The opening exhibition of the new programme introduces the artists Dolores Zinny and Juan Maidagan from Rosario, Argentina, today based in New York and Berlin. They work with art that relates to design and architecture, and has a site-specific approach. With Semantic Gap, their investigation has originated from the characteristic building of Lund Konsthall. They have made research in the history of the building and the late, highly respected architect Klas Anshelm from Lund. In the exhibition, we will be able to share the artists’ visual comments and poetical associations, revealing both thought-provoking and unexpected connections.

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Future exhibitions