The Cowgirl Gallery

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The Cowgirl Gallery

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a space (a new basement) for art exhibitions, film screenings, listening sessions, and literature in malmö

02/10/2026

Opening hours this weekend:
Saturday 12–16
Sunday 12 –16

Fruit of Debt by Afrang Nordlöf Malekian

For the exhibition at Cowgirl Gallery, presents new, site-specific works. Three brass sculptures in the form of jewellery trees rise from mounds of soil. Necklaces hang from their branches, falling towards the ground. One of them bears a gilded pomegranate. The starting point is a golden pomegranate necklace that the artist’s grandmother smuggled out of Iran in her bra as a wedding gift for Nordlöf Malekian’s mother.

The pomegranate is also the fruit that, in Greek mythology, bound Persephone to the underworld. The installation weaves myth and family history together through an exploration of the pomegranate as a gift, which in many stories deceive the receiver.

Alongside the sculptures, Cowgirl Gallery have produced a sound installation which echoes through the space. The composition is inspired by the greek avant garde composer Iannis Xenakis’s percussion piece Persephassa (1969), whose title is an ancient form of Persephone’s name. Its metallic strikes and rattling textures recall the sound of jewellery touching jewellery. As the sounds move around Nordlöf Malekian’s jewellery trees, they connect the composition to the myth, the necklaces and the gilded pomegranate they bear.

Afrang Nordlöf Malekian (b. 1995) is an Iranian-Swedish artist based in Berlin. Through installation, performance and storytelling, he explores how cultures of exile change and become hybridised in everyday life. His practice draws on mythology, archives and personal memories to listen closely to history’s silent actors, tracing how their stories and dreams can transform traditional modes of thought.

Curated by Selma Modéer Wiking

Video by Ren Azuma

Cowgirl Gallery
Karlshamnsgatan 4

24/09/2026

OPENING TONIGHT: The Fruit of Debt by Afrang Nordlöf Malekian.

For the exhibition at Cowgirl Gallery, presents new, site-specific works. Three brass sculptures in the form of jewellery trees rise from mounds of soil. Necklaces hang from their branches, falling towards the ground. One of them bears a gilded pomegranate. The starting point is a golden pomegranate necklace that the artist’s grandmother smuggled out of Iran in her bra as a wedding gift for Nordlöf Malekian’s mother.

The pomegranate is also the fruit that, in Greek mythology, bound Persephone to the underworld. The installation weaves myth and family history together through an exploration of the pomegranate as a gift, which in many stories deceive the receiver.

Alongside the sculptures, a sound installation echoes through the gallery. The composition is inspired by the greek avant garde composer Iannis Xenakis’s percussion piece Persephassa (1969), whose title is an ancient form of Persephone’s name. Its metallic strikes and rattling textures recall the sound of jewellery touching jewellery. As the sounds move around Nordlöf Malekian’s jewellery trees, they connect the composition to the myth, the necklaces and the gilded pomegranate they bear.

Afrang Nordlöf Malekian (b. 1995) is an Iranian-Swedish artist based in Berlin. Through installation, performance and storytelling, he explores how cultures of exile change and become hybridised in everyday life. His practice draws on mythology, archives and personal memories to listen closely to history’s silent actors, tracing how their stories and dreams can transform traditional modes of thought.

Curated by Selma Modéer Wiking

Cowgirl Gallery
Karlshamnsgatan 4
Malmö

Opening hours:
Thursday 24/9 17–20 (opening)
Friday 25/9 18–23
Saturday 26/9 12–18
Sunday 27/9 12–18

Photo: Clara Ketter

06/09/2026

Den 8–12 september 2026 besöker den amerikanske författaren David Fishkind Skandinavien i samband med släppet av sin debutroman, Don’t Step into My Office, publicerad av Arcade Publishing. Fishkind är mest känd för skandinaviska läsare genom sitt arbete som redaktör för konst- och litteraturtidskriften Logue. Genom tre omfattande nummer från 2013 till 2019 introducerade Fishkind skandinaviska läsare för ett urval av tongivande unga amerikanska författare: Tao Lin, Sheila Heti, Lucy Ives, Blake Butler, Mira Gonzalez och Darcie Wilder m.fl. Många av medarbetarna hade kopplingar till den litterära rörelsen alt-lit, och Fishkind har själv varit en av de centrala aktörerna i denna rörelse. Han har publicerat texter i nyckelpublikationer inom alt-lit som Tyrant Magazine, Forever Magazine och förlaget Muumuu House, men även i mer brett orienterade publikationer som The Believer och The Paris Review.

Don’t Step into My Office är en handlingsdriven, humoristisk och experimentell roman om dagdrivaren Jacob Garlicker som, efter att ha bevittnat ett mord några år tidigare och valt att inte anmäla det, på nytt måste hantera händelsen när det visar sig att hans frus rika familj kan ha på något invecklat vis kan ha varit inblandade, och hans eget liv är i fara. Junot Diaz har skrivit att boken är en "uppenbarelse [...] vi behöver fler deckare som denna och fler författare som Fishkind." Frederick Barthelme har kallat den en "imponerande och farlig" debutbok, medan Bruce Wagner beskrivit den som "noggrant konstruerad, unik och sprudlande rolig."

Fishkind besöker Møllegades Boghandel i Köpenhamn den 8 september, Cowgirl Gallery i Malmö den 9 september och Nord Books i Stockholm den 12 september. I Stockholm hålls en fest i L'Amour – La Morts lokaler senare på kvällen, och dagen därpå ett slutet symposium om alt-lits betydelse för nordisk litteratur. Evenemangen kommer att innehålla läsningar från Fishkind själv, samt amerikanskan Nora Obeid, aktuell med romanen Bester Wrook (Brazen Books, 2027), danske Caspar Eric, svenske Jonathan Brott, Elis Burrau och Henry Song, samt författarsamtal mellan Brott och Fishkind. Arrangerat av L'Amour - La Mort i samarbete med AFV PRESS.

25/08/2026

FILM SCREENING: D’Est (1993) by Chantal Akerman. Tonight, 19:00 at Hypnos Theatre

In collaboration with Hypnos Theatre in Malmö, we are presenting a screening of D’Est as part of Hanna Tordai’s current exhibition, Biljett, at Cowgirl Gallery. The film serves as a particularly important point of reference for the exhibition.

D’Est is a personal travelogue and documentary that moves through Eastern Europe during a period of change following the collapse of the Soviet bloc. Shot on 16 mm film, it follows Akerman’s gaze without conventional dialogue or narrative.

Book tickets at hypnostheatre.com

Hypnos Theatre: Norra Grängesbergsgatan 15, Malmö

Welcome!
Cowgirl Film Club

21/08/2026

OPENING TONIGHT of Hanna Tordai’s solo exhibition Biljett at Cowgirl Gallery, from 17:00-20:00 + with reading by translator Benjamin Wagner at 18:30.

Hanna Tordai’s paintings find a reflection in the poetic and restrained cinematic language of Belgian filmmaker Chantal Akerman. For Biljett at Cowgirl Gallery, Tordai presents a painting bearing the same title, created in dialogue with Akerman’s films. Among these, the 1993 documentary D’Est serves a particularly important point of reference for the exhibition.

During the opening, Tordai will be in conversation with translator Benjamin Wagner. Wagner recently translated Chantal Akerman’s book My Mothers Laughs into Swedish, published by Filmögon.

As part of the exhibition, a listening session inspired by D’Est en Musique and Tordai’s work will take place on Sunday 23/8, 12–16. This will be the first in a forthcoming series of curated listening events focusing on classical compositions presented on CD.

In collaboration with Hypnos Theatre in Malmö,
the film D’Est will be screened on Tuesday 25/8, 19:00.

The exhibition will also see the release of Cowgirl Conversation Series nr3.

Opening hours:
21/8 17-20 (opening + reading 18:30)
22/8 12-16
23/8 12-16 (+Listening session)
25/8 19:00 - Film screening of Chantal Akermans film D’est at Hypnos Theatre

Welcome!

Cowgirl Gallery
(In the basement)
Karlshamnsgatan 4
Malmö

Photo: Clara Ketter

12/08/2026

EXHIBITION OPENING: 21/8 at 17-20
Hanna Tordai in conversation with Benjamin Wagner on the work of Chantal Akerman.

Opening Hours
21/8 17-20 (opening night) + talk 18:00
22/8 12-16
23/8 12-16 (+ listening session)
+ Film Screening at Hypnos Theatre kl 19:30
Chantal Akermans, D'est / From the East

Cowgirl Gallery
Karlshamnsgatan 4
Malmö

19/04/2026

LAST DAY of 𝘈 𝘉𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘚𝘤𝘰𝘳𝘦 by Hugo Mugerwa Klockars. Welcome today 12-16.

Presenting works such as Kin of Skin, and a breathing pump organ soundscape, brings together cyanotype, photomontage, and sculpture, combining raw materials with archival material from Uganda. Working beyond photography, his practice reflects on identity and a sense of being in between, where stitching and assembled images become a means of processing and repair.

Hugo Mugerwa Klockars (b. 2003) is a Swedish artist currently studying at the Royal Institute of Art in Stockholm.

Icon, 2025
Inkjet print on rusted metal panel
14 x 41 cm

Cowgirl Gallery
Karlshamnsgatan 4, Malmö
(In the basement)

Photo: .ketter

18/04/2026

Thank you all for joining us at the opening of Hugo Mugerwa Klockars’s solo exhibition 𝘈 𝘉𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘚𝘤𝘰𝘳𝘦!

We are only open this weekend:
Saturday 18/4 12-16
Sunday 19/4 12-16
(or by appointment)

Presenting works such as Kin of Skin, and a pump organ soundscape, Hugo Mugerwa Klockars brings together cyanotype, photomontage, and sculpture, combining raw materials like metal and stone with family archival material from Uganda.
Working across photography and sculpture, his practice reflects on identity and a sense of being in between, where stitching and assembled images become a way of processing and repair.

Welcome!

Cowgirl Gallery
Karlshamnsgatan 4, Malmö
(In the basement)

Hugo Mugerwa Klockars:
Kin of skin, (2025)
Cyanotype, photopolymer, cotton paper collage, cotton thread, sisal ropes, rocks
247 x 123 cm

Photo: Clara Ketter

14/04/2026

Cowgirl Gallery presents: Hugo Mugerwa Klockars’s solo exhibition 𝘈 𝘉𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘚𝘤𝘰𝘳𝘦

Welcome to the exhibition opening this Friday, 17/4 17-20. The exhibition includes photography, sculpture, and a sound installation. At the opening, the artist will perform a work for pedal organ.

17/4 17-20 (opening + performance)
18/4 12-16
19/4 12-16

Address: Karlshamnsgatan 4, Malmö
(In the basement)

Welcome!

Cowgirl Gallery
Karlshamnsgatan 4

Adress

Karlshamnsgatan 4
Malmö
21435

Telefon

+46709368404

Webbplats

https://www.cowgirlgallery.com/, http://www.instagram.com/cowgirlgallery

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