Malmö Konsthall

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Rawiya / She who tells a story

Rawiya / She who tells a story
Malmö Konsthall
5.9 – 17.11 2013
The photography collective Rawiya was founded in 2009 by a group of female photographers from the Middle East. Its members work on projects on the subject of human dignity and pay particular attention to the lives of women. Through in-depth photo-essays, they tell stories about human experiences and portray, for instance, the many consequences of war. Their images provide an insider’s view of a region in flux. They balance social contradictions while reflecting on social and political issues and stereotypes.

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Nathaniel Mellors

Nathaniel Mellors
Ourhouse, Episode 3 – The Cure of Folly
C-salen, MALMÖ KONSTHALL
15 November – 16 December 2012
Previously in Ourhouse…

A mysterious male form has appeared in the front room of the bohemian Maddox-Wilson family home. The imposing figure is a looming, white-haired man wearing a white tracksuit and trainers. It barely moves. The family does not recognise it as a human being. They refer to it as ‘The Object’ and struggle for words in its presence. The Object’s inanimate appearance is superficial; it is able to control language inside the house. At night The Object appears in the library where it begins to eat and regurgitate the family’s books. The specific pages The Object consumes affect the story; the family is forced to play out different episodes under the influence of the books The Object has been eating.

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Lisa Anne Auerbach

Lisa Anne Auerbach
Malmö Konsthall
10 November 2012 – 27 January 2013
Some would say that people’s persona or identity is mirrored in the clothes they wear. We show part of ourselves, who we are and how we live through what we wear. Having said that, it should also be stated that we seldom display direct social or political opinions, questions and/or commentary on our clothes.

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Liz Magic Laser

Liz Magic Laser – In Camera
Malmö Konsthall
4 October – 28 October 2012
In Camera is a performance-based video installation by American artist Liz Magic Laser. Laser’s project for Malmö Konsthall is part of a new body of work that focuses on the relationship between the news media and the public.

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Mike Nelson

MIKE NELSON – 408 tons of imperfect geometry
Malmö Konsthall
18 August – 21 October 2012
Mike Nelson (b. 1967) is one of the most appreciated artists of his generation. His work predominantly features sculpture and meticulously constructed, large-scale architectural installations. In this new work created for Malmö Konsthall, Nelson uses the institutional architecture as a backdrop for a massive concrete workshop. The exhibition space is divided by a glass wall into two spaces; a smaller production workshop and an exhibition space stripped back to its original configuration.

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Alexander Gutke

Alexander Gutke
Malmö Kunsthall
17 March – 10 June 2012
Alexander Gutke (born 1971) works within the conceptual and minimalist tradition. Cameras, film- and slide projectors are some of the main components in his art practice. Gutke uses them to explore space, light, shade, darkness and the infinity of the void. He investigates these technical apparatuses as objects and mechanical devices, and uses them as tools and objects in his works and narrative – creating a visual illusionism and a poetic and mystical materialism.

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Tauba Auerbach

Tauba Auerbach – Tetrachromat
Malmö Kunsthall
17 March – 10 June 2012
In Tauba Auerbach’s work traditional distinctions between image, dimensionality and content collapse. Surface, specifically the larger issues surrounding topo¬logy, has been a central concern in her recent paintings, drawings, photographs and artist’s books. Auerbach interweaves discordant positions such as disorder and order, readability and abstraction, permeability and solidity – phenomena that are usually viewed as incompatible – into unified surfaces and volumes.

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Francisco Goya

Francisco Goya: The Disasters of War
Malmö Konsthall
17.12 2011 – 26.2 2012
The best-known graphic work of Spanish artist Francisco Goya (1746–1828) is Los Desastres de la Guerra, known in English as The Disasters of War. Its message remains just as relevant today. Goya’s etchings depict for the first time war from the viewpoint of the civilian population’s suffering, without any attempt to soften the impact. We are ruthlessly presented with the brutality of war and the inhumanity of mankind. The etchings are an intense visual report of a barbaric behaviour that has since been repeated and is still continuing around the world today.

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Gerhard Nordström

Gerhard Nordström
Malmö Konsthall
17 December 2011 – 26 February 2012
Born in 1925, Gerhard Nordström has taken a clear stand for much of his career against the abuse of power and the destruction of the environment. In his art he depicts in a direct and unavoidable way social injustices and the consequences of consumer society. He made his big public breakthrough in the early 1970s with a suite of paintings entitled Sommaren 1970 (The Summer of 1970), which are now regarded as some of the most important examples of 20th-century Swedish art.

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Oskar Mörnerud, Malmö

Oskar Mörnerud: Panorama/Midbody
Moderna Museet Malmö
16.11 2011-22.1 2012
The Malmö-based artist Oskar Mörnerud is the first recipient of the newly established Fredrik Roos Art Prize – one of the largest stipends in Sweden in support of young artists’ further development. On November 16, Oskar Mörnerud, will receive the stipend and his exhibition Panorama/Midbody will open at Moderna Museet Malmö, where a completely new work will be featured.

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Chris Johanson at Malmö Konsthall

Chris Johanson
Alright Alright
Malmö Konsthall
10 September – 27 November 2011
The American artist Chris Johanson (born 1968) is a self-taught product of San Francisco’s skateboard and graffiti culture. In his playful and humorous works he comments on what it is like to be human and live in today’s society. He works in widely varying media such as painting, film, installation and music.

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Misaki Kawai at Malmö Konsthall

Misaki Kawai
Big Bubble
Malmö Konsthall
10 September – 27 November 2011
The Japanese artist Misaki Kawai (b. 1978) works with painting, drawing, sculpture, installations and artists’ books. Her works are filled with colourful characters, that appear to come from the dream world of film, music and comics.

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