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Tremble25.09–01.11 2026Alberta Whittle, Felix Gmelin, Frida OrupaboVernissage Friday 25 Sep, 18–23Artist Talk Saturday 2...
01/09/2026

Tremble
25.09–01.11 2026

Alberta Whittle, Felix Gmelin, Frida Orupabo

Vernissage Friday 25 Sep, 18–23
Artist Talk Saturday 26 Sep 14.00


Please join us for the opening of our autumn exhibition Tremble, in conjunction with Malmö Gallery Weekend!

‘The earth is trembling’, observed Martinique-born writer and thinker, Édouard Glissant. The exhibition takes off from here, presenting works by three artists, Alberta Whittle, Felix Gmelin, and Frida Orupabo. In this world of unrest and friction, it asks how resistance takes form, moves, and persists over time. Embracing a Glissantian approach it accepts the ongoing rumbling as a matter of fact, and presses on what it means to live, think, and act within it.

Frida Orupabo’s nine-channel video installation glares at the viewer in a constant loop. She reworks constructions of Black subjectivity through archival imagery, creating a universe of both discomfort and release. Alberta Whittle’s What Sound Does The Black Atlantic Make? (2019) unravels the colonial legacy of the North British Rubber Company, turning towards the ocean as a site of memory. At the heart of Felix Gmelin’s Farbtest, Die Rote Fahne II (2002) is the question: Can a political gesture be inherited? Gmelin uses reenactment to examine former political movements, particularly traces of 1960s radicalism.
Tremble tethers itself in anti-imperial thought, reaching for potentiality through artistic gesture.

Curator: Tawanda Appiah

Image: Frida Orupabo, Untitled, film still, 2018. Courtesy of the artist and Galerie Nordenhake Stockholm/Berlin/Mexico City.

Skånes konstförening is happy to announce that  Adrian-Alicia Bisell Gonzalez is this year’s recipient of the Sven and E...
20/08/2026

Skånes konstförening is happy to announce that Adrian-Alicia Bisell Gonzalez is this year’s recipient of the Sven and Ellida Hjort Exhibition Grant!

Beyond a stipend of SEK 25 000, the award includes an exhibition at Skånes konstförening opening in February 2027.

The jury’s statement:
Adrian-Alicia Bisell Gonzalez is awarded the Sven and Ellida Hjort Exhibition Grant for a practice that brings together material integrity and technical skill with conceptual precision. Their work pushes against, and literally pierces, the boundaries that define and restrict our physical spaces and immaterial existence. Though initially appearing menacing, the sculptures which balance on biomorphic joints and sharp spikes create a state of delicate suspension. Bisell Gonzalez's work puts the viewer in a state of caution and curiosity, existing in the tension between flexibility and force which allows it to puncture the softest parts of ourselves. Skånes konstförening looks forward with great anticipation to an exhibition where Bisell Gonzalez’s distinct and poetic material approach engages with local histories and myths.

About the artist:
Adrian-Alicia Bisell Gonzalez (b. 1998) works with sculpture and installation. Form-making is used as a method for turning towards and questioning the structures and institutions that surround the body. Material and architecture are understood as being in constant motion, while the frequently recurring steel carries histories of the past and of transformation. By working with what remains hidden, what lies beyond the gaze or behind one’s back, Bisell Gonzalez examines the boundaries that define our reality. Bisell Gonzalez is based in Malmö and holds a BFA from Malmö Art Academy. Previous exhibitions include Yield to Touch, Gerdman Gallery (SE); We Do Not Work Alone, Malmö Art Academy (SE); and Forårsudstillingen, Charlottenborg (DK).

Images: Levi Löfgren, Adrian-Alicia Bisell Gonzalez, Vigga Wærens

Please join us for a presentation and artist talk with Max Ockborn! Wednesday 19 August, 18.30–20.00Presented by KONSTIT...
12/08/2026

Please join us for a presentation and artist talk with Max Ockborn!
Wednesday 19 August, 18.30–20.00

Presented by KONSTITORI at Skånes konstförening.

18:30 Doors open, KONSTITORI serves carrot cake and coffee
18:45 Artist presentation by Max Ockborn
19.15 Conversation with the artist and KONSTITORI
20.00 The end

Language: Swedish

Max Ockborn (b.1983) has established himself as one of the most distinctive voices in contemporary Swedish sculpture. Through a slow, material-oriented process, he builds works from collected and found materials – wood, acrylic compound, silicone, glue, and more. These materials are gradually brought together to form sculptural works that exist somewhere between figures and objects, the human, the animal, and something less defined.

The artist talk is organised by KONSTITORI, a platform for public encounters with artists who use food and edible materials as a medium, material, or subject matter.

Image: Henrik Hellström

Thank you to everyone who joined us in June for Ville Laurinkiski's performance and talk: Les voyages et aventures extra...
04/08/2026

Thank you to everyone who joined us in June for Ville Laurinkiski's performance and talk: Les voyages et aventures extraordinaires du frère Angelo.

With the poignant musical in one act, Laurinkoski activated his installation, presented as part of the exhibition, Object of Devotion. The work comprised a series of grey locker-room benches alongside a sound piece in which the Finnish youth hymn Evankeliumi was looped relentlessly against live readings, confronting systemic clichés of salvation.

The performance title is borrowed from the novel of the same name by the late French writer, philosopher, and gay liberation theorist Guy Hocquenghem (1946–88). The novel allegorises the AIDS epidemic through Christian imagery.

Curator: Tawanda Appiah

Photo: Elísabet Anna Kristjánsdottir

Join us for the second workshop of the summer with artist Helena Olsson, at Seved’s Summer Festival! 🧽🫟July 30, 11-14at ...
28/07/2026

Join us for the second workshop of the summer with artist Helena Olsson, at Seved’s Summer Festival! 🧽🫟

July 30, 11-14
at Sevedsplan

Do you want to create, build and experiment with different materials? Come and join us for a creative workshop where we make art from dish brushes, sponges and other everyday objects. Together with the artist, we give the objects new meanings.

During the summer, Skånes konstförening presents a series of workshops at Sevedsplan Summer Square in connection with the Seved festival. In collaboration with Red Cross, Fryshuset and MKB with support from Malmö Stad. The summer square in Seved is installed from June to September.

Free admission
No sign-up required

Join us for a creative workshop with artist Helena Olsson during Seved’s Summer Festival!July 16, 11-14July 30, 11-14at ...
09/07/2026

Join us for a creative workshop with artist Helena Olsson during Seved’s Summer Festival!
July 16, 11-14
July 30, 11-14
at Sevedsplan

Do you want to create, build and experiment with different materials? Come and join us for a creative workshop where we make art from dish brushes, sponges and other everyday objects. Together with the artist, we give the objects new meanings.

During the summer, Skånes konstförening presents a series of workshops at Sevedsplan Summer Square in connection with the festival. In collaboration with Red Cross, Fryshuset and MKB with support from Malmö Stad. The summer square in Seved is installed from June to September.

Free admission
No sign-up required

Welcome to an artist talk and coversation with Max Ockborn!Presented by KONSTITORI at Skånes konstförening19 August, 18....
03/07/2026

Welcome to an artist talk and coversation with Max Ockborn!
Presented by KONSTITORI at Skånes konstförening
19 August, 18.30–21.00

Max Ockborn has established himself as one of the most distinctive voices in contemporary Swedish sculpture. Through a slow, material-oriented process, he builds works from collected and found materials – wood, acrylic compound, silicone, glue and others. These are gradually brought together into sculptural forms that come to life between figure and object, human, animal, and something less defined.

The artist talk is organised by KONSTITORI, a platform for public encounters with artists who use food and edible materials as a medium, material, or subject matter.

Max Ockborn (b. 1983) is a Malmö-based artist holding an MFA in Fine Arts as well as a Master's degree in Critical and Educational Studies from Malmö Art Academy. Although his practice is primarily sculptural, it also encompasses text, video, and sound.

KONSTITORI will serve carrot cake and coffee, on the house. Free admission.
The event will be held in Swedish.

Image: Morotskaka (Carrot Cake), Max Ockborn, 2026. Photo: LCB

Thank you to everyone who came to Matti Sumari's We can't sing but we do on May 29. We are thankful for your heartwarmin...
26/06/2026

Thank you to everyone who came to Matti Sumari's We can't sing but we do on May 29. We are thankful for your heartwarming performances, which we will forever cherish!

The event formed a part of the public programme for the exhibition Object of Devotion: Ville Laurinkoski, Matti Sumari (15.05–14.06.2026), curated by Tawanda Appiah.

Photo: Elísabet Anna Kristjánsdottir

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