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Bildmuseet nyheter ENhttps://www.umu.se/A RSS feed provided by Umeå Universityen-usSun, 26 Jul 2026 20:01:27 +0200https://www.umu.se/en/news/the-map-on-display-at-konsthall-c-art-gallery-in-stockholm_5837309/"The Map" on display at Konsthall C art gallery in Stockholm"The Map: Navigating the Present", produced by Umeå University’s Bildmuseet in partnership with Bucharest Biennale 3, is currently on display at Stockholm’s Konsthall C art gallery. The exhibition was earlier presented in Bucharest, Bulgaria and at Bildmuseet in Umeå.Wed, 20 Jun 2018 18:20:43 +0200The exhibition The Map: Navigating the Present features artists, who are especially interested in maps, and cartographers, geographers, linguists, photographers, philosophers and activists. The works and projects of close to 30 Swedish and international participants vividly portray numerous burning issues of our times. A wide variety of topics are presented with cartographic practice or an idea of mapping as the common denominator.A few of the artists who participate are Sabine Réthoré, Philippe Rekacewicz, Armin Linke, Katarina Pirak, Lia Perjovschi and Yoko Ono.On 24 April, The Map: Navigating the Present opened at <a href="http://www.konsthallc.se/SV/obj000001/default.aspx">Konsthall C </a>in Stockholm under presentation by Bildmuseet director Jan-Erik Lundström. The exhibition has been especially arranged for display at Konsthall C. It was shown in its first version in Bucharest during the summer of 2008 and at Bildmuseet in Umeå until February of 2009.<a href="http://www.info.umu.se/Nyheter/PressmeddelandeEng.aspx?id=3277" class="columnarrow">Read more about The Map</a>https://www.umu.se/en/news/the-map-on-display-at-konsthall-c-art-gallery-in-stockholm_5837309/https://www.umu.se/en/news/1.8-million-for-self-portrait-project_5831415/1.8 million for self-portrait projectBildmuseet, Umeå University, is one of the parties in "Contemporary Self-Portraits", an international art educational project that has obtained close to 1.8 million from EU's cultural foundation. Wed, 20 Jun 2018 17:53:33 +0200In the two-year project, art institutions from Sweden, Finland, Ireland, Estonia and Latvia collaborates to develop education methods for self-portraits, targeted at specific audiences.The project focuses on individuals, local communities and European regions ways to express their identities through self-portraits. Artists and art educators in the five countries will be working with specific audiences, such as occupational groups, age groups or other selected groups. The idea is partly that every individual should be seen and heard through her or his self-portrait, and partly to examine the local and regional identities through the self-portraits. The results will be presented in exhibitions in different countries, publications in printed and digital form and in an international and publicly final seminar at Bildmuseet in 2014.The project is led by the Turku Arts Academy (Finland), and apart from Bildmuseet (Sweden), also involves the National Academy of Arts and Design (Ireland), Estonian Academy of Arts (Estonia) and the International Summer School of Photography (Latvia). The parties have defined different target groups for their workshops, and will take on the project objectives based on their different activities. Artists, art educators, art students and teachers from the participating countries.<h3>Contact information</h3>Sofia Johansson, curator <a href="mailto:sofia.johansson@bildmuseet.umu.se">sofia.johansson@bildmuseet.umu.se</a> +46 90-786 93 53Editor: Helena Vejbrinkhttps://www.umu.se/en/news/1.8-million-for-self-portrait-project_5831415/https://www.umu.se/en/news/13--master-of-fine-arts-exhibition-2011_5844265/13 – Master of Fine Arts Exhibition 2011On Saturday, May 7, the Umeå Academy of Fine Arts opens two degree exhibitions at Bildmuseet. In the Master of Fine Arts exhibition of 2011, works by thirteen newly graduated artists are presented, covering various aspects of art and society in a multitude of contemporary medias.Wed, 20 Jun 2018 18:02:18 +0200Elin Bruun Nystedt, Elin Elfström, Tatyana Goryushina, Sana Ghobbeh, Helya Honar, Eskil Liepa, Vida Mehri, Karin Meissner, Sebastian Mügge, Thomas Olsson, Helena Piippo Larsson, Alexander Svartvatten, Rasmus WestBildmuseet May 7 – May 22, 2011 Press prewiew: Thursday May 5 10.00 Opening: Saturday May 7 13.00Every Sunday during the exhibition period some of the artists will give public presentations of the exhibition. The Master students have worked on their projects and the graduation show together with professor Elin Wikström, Umeå Academy of Fine Arts, and the invited curator, Celia Prado. She writes about the exhibition:"In a broken world’s dream, reality should not be a room for such as divine or pagan, but shared information, transitional melting enclaves, temporally incubation shelters for diversity, transitional clusters, sometimes momentarily more including and real than reinvented memories. The Umeå Academy of Fine Arts aims to include closer, free space and changing artistic diversity through an articulated series of activities such as tutorials, seminars and exhibitions, mapping some of the current international perspectives in the field of contemporary art. To define contemporary art is an ongoing, relevant question for many. Could it be a reflection about contemporariness? And what is that? Could it be the illustration of a highly private series of daily-life stories blended with personal memories, backgrounds and media information, conditioned by the normative patterns of society? Or primarily a matter of definition, as well as, several interpretations followed by diversified open questions principally exposed to the viewer to discuss? Or the urge to break, melt down old patterns into something new?If discussing the past, breaking it and discovering new futures are important ingredients in contemporary art, this year’s MA 13 exhibiting artists have the urge to map closer the fragile changing condition of the mutable human sense of space in a broken world’s reality approaching the subject from singular perspectives and diverse artistic disciplines, displaying a wide range of aesthetical and sociopolitical issues in a miscellaneous microcosm of broken experiences. Warmly welcome to 13!" Celia Prado, curatorIn parallel with the Master of Fine Arts exhibition, <a href="http://www.umu.se/english/about-umu/news-events/news/newsdetailpage/gallery-carlsson-svensson-opens-in-bildmuseet.cid159407">the Bachelor of Fine Arts graduate show</a> is also displayed at The Bildmuseet.<h3>Contact Information</h3>Celia Prado, curator Tel 070-336 56 07 <a href="mailto:celia.prado.sobral@gmail.com">celia.prado.sobral@gmail.com</a>Brita Täljedal, curator Bildmuseet Tel 090-786 77 14 <a href="mailto:brita.taljedal@bildmuseet.umu.se">brita.taljedal@bildmuseet.umu.se</a>Editor: Helena Vejbrinkhttps://www.umu.se/en/news/13--master-of-fine-arts-exhibition-2011_5844265/https://www.umu.se/en/news/agnes-varda-at-bildmuseet_5827526/Agnès Varda at BildmuseetOn Sunday June 2 at 14:00 Bildmuseet opens a major exhibition with the work by film director and artist Agnès Varda. The exhibition, which fills three museum's floors, shows the breadth of Varda's oeuvre in which both documentary films and installations are included.Wed, 20 Jun 2018 17:37:09 +0200Welcome to press preview on Thursday, May 30th at 10:00 am. On the same occasion there will also be a preview of Jacob Hashimoto’s large scale installation Superabundant Atmosphere.Agnès Varda (b. 1928) turns 85 two days prior to the exhibition opens at Bildmuseet. Behind her, she has a long and successful international career as filmmaker. Already with her first film she got established; La Pointe Courte from 1954 is considered the starting point of the French New Wave. In recent years, her work as visual artist has found new and experimental expressions and evolved into installations and thus gained new audiences.The exhibition, her first in Scandinavia, displays a selection of documentary projects from the 1960s and 1970's along with more recent developments in which Varda’s ways of working; between the movie theatre and the exhibition space, between photography and film, between the moving and stationary are apparent. Many of her films have political and feminist undertones and are often characterized by documentary and fiction overlapping.The documentary part shows the films Hi there Cubans (1962), Uncle Yanco (1967), Black Panther (1968) and Women Reply (1975). On another floor are the stills from Varda’s feature film Vagabond (1985) where frozen sequences of a violent scene, now shown in a new context, become a painterly gesture. A third part of the exhibition presents works where Varda explores video and photography. These more recent installations are combinations of moving and still images, of video and photography exploring new expressions. Several of these works is about the sea and about life on the island of Noirmoutier on the French Atlantic coast. Here is the video installation The Widows of Noirmoutier (2005) that tells the story of 14 women who live on the island and who all lost their husbands. The works Ulysses (1982) and The People on the Terrace (2007) are both presented with a still image and a video where the video tells the possible story about the event taking place in the photograph. The installation The Sea (2009) is a large wave that washes in over the viewer.The exhibition is produced by Bildmuseet and is on view from 2 June to 31 October 2013.Agnès Varda was born 1928 in Brussels but moved with her family to the south of France at the age of twelve. Since 1951 she lives in Paris. She has worked as an artist for over sixty years. From the beginning as still photographer in theatre but also as photojournalist covering China and Cuba, among other subjects. Agnès Varda has received numerous awards for her films including the Golden Lion 1985, the Legion of Honour 2009, César Award 2009, a lifetime award in conjunction with the Cannes Film Festival 2009 and a honourable mention at the University of Liege, Belgium. Her installations have been shown at, among others, the Biennale in Lyon and Venice, SMAK in Ghent, the Fondation Cartier in Paris and Centro Andaluz de Arte Contemporáneo, Seville. In autumn 2013, she will be presented in an exhibition at LACMA in Los Angeles.<h2 id="info0">Agnès Varda’s films to be shown in collaboration with Folkets Bio</h2>During the first week of the exhibition period, Bildmuseet collaborates with Folkets Bio in Umeå in order to present some of Varda’s feature films and a selection of shorts at the movie theatre on Gärdesvägen 6. Admission is free.31 May at 19:00: Cléo from 5 to 7 (1962) 1 June at 19:00: One sings, the other doesn’t (1976)  2 June at 19:00: Vagabond (1985)  3 June at 19:00: The Gleaners and I (2000)  4 June at 19:00: The Beaches of Agnès (2008)  5 June at 19:00: Short films Oh seasons, oh castles (1957), Opera-mouffe (1958), Pleasure of love in Iran (1976), The so-called Caryatids (1984) and Seven rooms, kitchen and bath (1984).<h3>For further information</h3>Cecilia Andersson, curator Bildmuseet <a href="mailto:cecilia.andersson@bildmuseet.umu.se">cecilia.andersson@bildmuseet.umu.se</a> 090-786 66 84Editor: Helena Vejbrinkhttps://www.umu.se/en/news/agnes-varda-at-bildmuseet_5827526/https://www.umu.se/en/news/ai-and-wicked-problems---symposium-on-difficult-dilemmas-of-ai_12000911/AI and Wicked Problems - Symposium on difficult dilemmas of AIOn October 17 and 18, TAIGA (Center for Transdisciplinary AI) at Umeå University held a symposium focused on "Wicked Problems and AI." Over two days, researchers from different fields and participants discussed how AI can both assist and hinder us in addressing some of the most complex problems we face as a society, particularly issues where reaching consensus seems near impossible.Tue, 05 Nov 2024 15:35:51 +0100<div class="mediaflowwrapper bildlink"><div class="bildImage"><picture><source srcset="/contentassets/81e73c8f43fd4280912272d27d157a53/galaxen-093.jpg?format=webp&mode=crop&width=640 640w, /contentassets/81e73c8f43fd4280912272d27d157a53/galaxen-093.jpg?format=webp&mode=crop&width=854 854w, /contentassets/81e73c8f43fd4280912272d27d157a53/galaxen-093.jpg?format=webp&mode=crop&width=1280 1280w" type="image/webp" sizes="(max-width: 639px) 640px, (max-width: 854px) 854px, 1280px"><source srcset="/contentassets/81e73c8f43fd4280912272d27d157a53/galaxen-093.jpg?mode=crop&width=640 640w, /contentassets/81e73c8f43fd4280912272d27d157a53/galaxen-093.jpg?mode=crop&width=854 854w, /contentassets/81e73c8f43fd4280912272d27d157a53/galaxen-093.jpg?mode=crop&width=1280 1280w" sizes="(max-width: 639px) 640px, (max-width: 854px) 854px, 1280px"></picture></div><div class="bildText">Johanna Lönngren, Associate Professor of Natural Sciences, gives a talk on wicked problems at the symposium at Umeå University.ImageHanna Nordin</div></div>– Wicked problems are dilemmas characterized by complexity and uncertainty. When we talk about these dilemmas, value and interest conflicts arise, making it impossible to achieve consensus on how the problems should be defined and what can be considered "good" actions to address them, explains Johanna Lönngren, associate professor of natural science, who opened the symposium.Examples of wicked problems include climate change, misinformation, and global inequality. The question is whether AI will exacerbate these issues, or if the technology can contribute to finding solutions. Markus Naarttijärvi, professor of law and interim director of TAIGA at Umeå University, explains that questions like these are at the core of TAIGA:s work. With the motto AI for the good of all the center strives to promote transdisciplinary collaboration and support research on how AI can be utilized to tackle difficult dilemmas, while also highlighting the challenges that the technology presents.– AI itself can be seen as a wicked problem, which by definition are problems that are so complex or intricate that they basically require transdisciplinary approaches to understand, which we as a transdisciplinary center want to work with, states Markus Naarttijärvi.<div class="mediaflowwrapper bildlink"><div class="bildImage"><picture><source srcset="/contentassets/81e73c8f43fd4280912272d27d157a53/galaxen-13.jpg?format=webp&mode=crop&width=640 640w, /contentassets/81e73c8f43fd4280912272d27d157a53/galaxen-13.jpg?format=webp&mode=crop&width=854 854w, /contentassets/81e73c8f43fd4280912272d27d157a53/galaxen-13.jpg?format=webp&mode=crop&width=1280 1280w" type="image/webp" sizes="(max-width: 639px) 640px, (max-width: 854px) 854px, 1280px"><source srcset="/contentassets/81e73c8f43fd4280912272d27d157a53/galaxen-13.jpg?mode=crop&width=640 640w, /contentassets/81e73c8f43fd4280912272d27d157a53/galaxen-13.jpg?mode=crop&width=854 854w, /contentassets/81e73c8f43fd4280912272d27d157a53/galaxen-13.jpg?mode=crop&width=1280 1280w" sizes="(max-width: 639px) 640px, (max-width: 854px) 854px, 1280px"></picture></div><div class="bildText">Interactive demonstration of three pepper robots having a discussion, by the <a href="~/link/7a19647588ad4bffbb0ee72b70ddb97d.aspx">Intelligent Robotics group</a> at Umeå UniversityImageHanna Nordin</div></div><div class="mediaflowwrapper bildlink"><div class="bildImage"><picture><source srcset="/contentassets/81e73c8f43fd4280912272d27d157a53/galaxen-152.jpg?format=webp&mode=crop&width=640 640w, /contentassets/81e73c8f43fd4280912272d27d157a53/galaxen-152.jpg?format=webp&mode=crop&width=854 854w, /contentassets/81e73c8f43fd4280912272d27d157a53/galaxen-152.jpg?format=webp&mode=crop&width=1280 1280w" type="image/webp" sizes="(max-width: 639px) 640px, (max-width: 854px) 854px, 1280px"><source srcset="/contentassets/81e73c8f43fd4280912272d27d157a53/galaxen-152.jpg?mode=crop&width=640 640w, /contentassets/81e73c8f43fd4280912272d27d157a53/galaxen-152.jpg?mode=crop&width=854 854w, /contentassets/81e73c8f43fd4280912272d27d157a53/galaxen-152.jpg?mode=crop&width=1280 1280w" sizes="(max-width: 639px) 640px, (max-width: 854px) 854px, 1280px"></picture></div><div class="bildText">Ylva Ferneus, Petter Ericson, Leila Methnani, Kalle Grill and Jannice Käll in a panel discussion on AI, moderated by Dimitri Coelho Mollo.ImageHanna Nordin</div></div> On Thursday, several presentations and interactive demonstrations led to a summarizing panel discussion. Jannice Käll, associate professor in sociology of law at Lund University, Nina Khairova, professor of computer science, and Kalle Grill, associate professor of philosophy at Umeå University, highlighted in their respective talks how AI impacts legislation, misinformation, and ethical dilemmas.Discussions centered around the potential of the technology to both support and challenge our values and priorities, as well as how future AI can be designed to address moral dilemmas in a respectful way. The importance of including diverse perspectives and experiences in the development process was emphasized to ensure that AI systems truly reflect society's diversity and ethical standards.<h3>Wicked problems, AI and art</h3>On Friday, participants gathered at the Arts Campus for talks and workshops in collaboration with UmArts and Bildmuseet. Sarah Cook, WASP-HS visiting professor at UmArts, presented wicked problems related to AI-generated art. In her presentation, she highlighted how generative AI is changing the creation of art and raising new questions about what creativity means in the age of AI.Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg, an artist exploring the human relationship with nature and technology, presented her current exhibition Machine Auguries at the Bildmuseet. By simulating natural sounds, the exhibition reflects on how we can use technology to manipulate, or even replace, elements in our natural ecosystems. This raises questions about where the boundary lies between the possibilities of technology and nature's own balance.<div class="mediaflowwrapper bildlink"><div class="bildImage"><picture><source srcset="/contentassets/81e73c8f43fd4280912272d27d157a53/curiosum-25.jpg?format=webp&mode=crop&width=640 640w, /contentassets/81e73c8f43fd4280912272d27d157a53/curiosum-25.jpg?format=webp&mode=crop&width=854 854w, /contentassets/81e73c8f43fd4280912272d27d157a53/curiosum-25.jpg?format=webp&mode=crop&width=1280 1280w" type="image/webp" sizes="(max-width: 639px) 640px, (max-width: 854px) 854px, 1280px"><source srcset="/contentassets/81e73c8f43fd4280912272d27d157a53/curiosum-25.jpg?mode=crop&width=640 640w, /contentassets/81e73c8f43fd4280912272d27d157a53/curiosum-25.jpg?mode=crop&width=854 854w, /contentassets/81e73c8f43fd4280912272d27d157a53/curiosum-25.jpg?mode=crop&width=1280 1280w" sizes="(max-width: 639px) 640px, (max-width: 854px) 854px, 1280px"></picture></div><div class="bildText">WASP-HS Professor Sarah Cook and artist Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg in a conversation about making art in the age of AI.ImageHanna Nordin</div></div><h3>The importance of transdisciplinary collaboration</h3>The symposium concluded with a call for continued interdisciplinary collaboration to address the ethical and societal challenges posed by AI. Markus Naarttijärvi also emphasized Umeå University's already strong tradition in this field.– Umeå has a robust interdisciplinary tradition. It was encouraging to see that the symposium quickly became fully booked and that interest has been so high. Moreover, discussions continued both during breaks and after the symposium concluded. This highlights the relevance of these issues and the value of coming together to discuss these broader questions that we cannot always address within our respective research fields, he concludes. <div data-classid="36f4349b-8093-492b-b616-05d8964e4c89" data-contentguid="808d2cd7-1ac8-4fe0-b9d0-01ba89e5836e" data-contentname="TAIGA info english">{}</div>https://www.umu.se/en/news/ai-and-wicked-problems---symposium-on-difficult-dilemmas-of-ai_12000911/https://www.umu.se/en/news/anders-sunna--area-infected_5823254/Anders Sunna / Area InfectedFor his painting, Anders Sunna gathers subject matter from history and his personal experience. Frequently, the subject is a lengthy conflict played out between the family, the Sami village and the county administration. At Bildmuseet, he presents Area Infected, a new painting that depicts a series of events arising from this long-running conflict.Wed, 20 Jun 2018 17:17:25 +0200Among other things, its subject is the forcible removal of their family and the reindeer and the practice of guerrilla reindeer herding as a survival strategy. Anders Sunna combines different materials and techniques; he places great emphasis on making the surface of the painting an expressive dimension.Anders Sunna underlines the power of the image. He believes that the image affects the spectator more directly than a text which, when all is said and done, you must choose to read and make an effort to understand. He also describes how his feelings of frustration and injustice demand an outlet and how he has found a way of channelling his anger through the visual arts. Through his paintings, he claims visual scope to be able to recount his family's story.Anders Sunna (born 1985) comes from Kieksiäisvaara, in the far north of Sweden, and is active in Jokkmokk. He studied at Konstfack (University College of Arts, Crafts and Design in Stockholm). Some of his most recent exhibitions have taken place at the Swedish Institute in Paris, France (2014); Korundi, Rovaniemi, Finland (2014); Gällivare museum (2014) and The Sami Artist Centre SDG, Karasjok, Norway (2013).The exhibition is produced by Bildmuseet, with support from Umeå2014 and Kulturkontakt Nord (Nordic Culture Point).Editor: Helena Vejbrinkhttps://www.umu.se/en/news/anders-sunna--area-infected_5823254/https://www.umu.se/en/news/andreas-johansson--place-position_5825608/Andreas Johansson / Place PositionTwo new exhibitions will open at Bildmuseet on Sunday January 19th at 14:00. One of them is Andreas Johansson / Place Position, a pop-up landscape in large scale that the artist has created especially for Bildmuseet. Wed, 20 Jun 2018 17:28:56 +0200Andreas Johansson's illusionary, three-dimensional landscapes depict dilapidated, abandoned areas. He employs a collage technique, using photographs of his immediate environment which he cuts up and re-arranges into new coherent entities. He thus creates fictitious locations which are pure constructions and yet relate to real events and activities in the past – inaccessible, mysterious environments between reality and the dream world. The artist has previously presented his landscapes in the form of pop-up books, where the motifs unfurl when the covers are opened. For Bildmuseet, he has created an entirely new work, a large-scale pop-up landscape. With the help of illusionary tricks and techniques that have existed in architecture and landscape gardening for thousands of years, he has manipulated perspectives and distorted proportions. The location is grandiose yet inaccessible. It exists only when seen from a certain angle. If we attempt to enter it or view it from another direction, it disappears.Recurring themes in Andreas Johansson's work are urban architecture and city planning, environment and capitalism. They portray escapist dreams, memories from youth of forgotten, mystical areas on the outskirts of the urban landscape.Andreas Johansson, born in 1977, lives and works in Malmö. Following studies at Malmö Art Academy, he has participated in exhibitions in Stockholm, Malmö, Copenhagen, Arles and Hannover.<h3>Further information, please contact</h3>Lisa Lundström, curator Bildmuseet E-mail<a href="mailto:lisa.lundstrom@bildmuseet.umu.se">: lisa.lundstrom@bildmuseet.umu.se</a> Phone: 090-786 7012Editor: Helena Vejbrinkhttps://www.umu.se/en/news/andreas-johansson--place-position_5825608/https://www.umu.se/en/news/ann-edholm--tongue-on-the-tip_8510631/Ann Edholm / Tongue on the TipBildmuseet is presenting parts of Ann Edholm’s series of paintings Tongue on the Tip, together with sketches and collages. With their defined geometric shapes, her large-scale paintings may seem completely abstract but the works include interpretations of art history and ancient legends, of Jewish deportations during the Nazi reign, and her mother’s memories of World War II Berlin.Fri, 25 Oct 2019 04:05:02 +0200Bildmuseet opens two new exhibitions in November; Ann Edholm’s solo exhibition Tongue on the Tip and the group exhibition Design Matters. We proudly welcome you to a press preview and presentation of both these exhibitions on Thursday, 14th of November between 10:00-12:00. (Link to the Design Matters press release)Ann Edholm wants her paintings to be experienced as an encounter with a human being, direct and physical. With their defined geometric shapes, they may at first glance seem completely abstract, but Edholm’s imagery is based on human experience and contains cultural and symbolic references. Using oil paint mixed with wax and applied in thin layer upon layer, she imbues her paintings with a physical, corporal materiality.Bildmuseet is presenting parts of Ann Edholm’s series of large-scale paintings Tongue on the Tip (2003–2011), together with sketches and collages. Some of the paintings are being publicly exhibited here for the first time. The works include interpretations of art history and ancient legends, of Jewish deportations during the Nazi reign, and her mother’s memories of World War II Berlin.Ann Edholm (b. 1953) lives and works in Nyköping. She was educated at Gerlesborgsskolan and the Royal Institute of Art in Stockholm. She has been professor of painting at the Royal Institute of Art and at the Valand Academy in Gothenburg, as well as visiting professor at the Academy of Fine Arts, Umeå University.Ann Edholm is represented at the Moderna Museet, the Gothenburg Museum of Art and the Public Art Agency Sweden. Since the 1980s, she has had a large number of exhibitions and public commissions. In 1998 she was commissioned by Statens konstråd to create the site-specific work Tango d’amour for Umeå University: five large paintings on canvas placed around the central atrium in the Teacher Education Building. In 2013, her winning proposal for a monumental curtain for one of the great halls of the United Nations Headquarters in New York was brought to life. Ann Edholm received the Swedish Arts Grants Committee's Grand Award 2018.Press preview: Thursday 14 November, 10:00-12:00 (RSVP) Welcome by Director Katarina Pierre, after which curators Brita Täljedal and Anders Jansson will introduce the exhibitions through conversations with the artist Ann Edholm, and the designers Jesper Eriksson, Jenny Nordberg, Maurizio Montalti and Aleksi Vesaluoma from Caracara.Press images: www.bildmuseet.umu.se/press-imagesPublic opening: Friday 15 November, 17:00-21:00 Ann Edholm will be present at the opening, as well as Jesper Eriksson, Jenny Nordberg, Maurizio Montalti and Aleksi Vesaluoma from Caracara representing the Design Matters exhibition. Talks and presentations 19:00, café/bar and guest DJ: Boys.For further information, please contact Brita Täljedal, museum curator Bildmuseet brita.taljedal@bildmuseet.umu.se, +46 90-786 7714https://www.umu.se/en/news/ann-edholm--tongue-on-the-tip_8510631/https://www.umu.se/en/news/anneli-furmark--mindmap_5834573/Anneli Furmark – MindmapA modest still life is often the starting point in Anneli Furmark’s watercolour paintings, but in combination with recurring images and notes from her personal sketchbook the motifs grows into imaginative and humorous worlds, where images and words merge into a poetic entity. The exhibition Mindmap at Bildmuseet exhibits a selection of Anneli Furmark’s watercolour paintings and drawings from 2008-2010.Wed, 20 Jun 2018 18:07:02 +0200Bildmuseet Nov 21, 2010 – Jan 30, 2011Press conference Friday, Nov 19th, 10 AM.Opening Sunday, Nov 21th, 2 PM. Artist talk Tuesday, Nov 30th, 6.30 PM.The exhibition Mindmap is about collecting, about sketches and notes which the artist Anneli Furmark have scribbled in sketchbooks alongside with her other work during a long period of time. Some words and images have kept coming back to her, time after time, and now she’s examining what they really want to say.The motifs often originate from still lifes, but grows into creative entities in juxtaposition with words and drawings from the artist’s sketchbooks, impressions from her surroundings, nature, music and encyclopedias. Words and images are equally important in Furmark’s work. Both the titles and some quotes from songs by Morrisey, PJ Harvey and Ron Sexsmith add meanings to the images, and reflect different states of mind.Above: Anneli Furmark, I normala fall, 2010.Anneli Furmark (b. 1962) grew up in Luleå and lives in Umeå. She graduated from Umeå Academy of Fine Arts in 1997 and she works with both painting and drawing, mostly watercolour, ink, pencil or crayon on paper. Anneli Furmark has published a number of critically acclaimed graphic novels, and her paintings and drawings have been exhibited in Finland, Germany, Iceland, Japan, South Korea, Poland, Scotland and Sweden. More information about the exhibitionSofia Johansson, curator Bildmuseetsofia.johansson@bildmuseet.umu.se, +46(0)90 786 93 53, +46(0)90 786 52 27Editor: Helena Vejbrinkhttps://www.umu.se/en/news/anneli-furmark--mindmap_5834573/https://www.umu.se/en/news/artists-from-four-nations-to-instruct-at-bildmuseet_5844222/Artists from four nations to instruct at BildmuseetThe exhibition titled "Spare Time" opened at Umeå University’s Bildmuseet museum to a large audience on Monday 6 June. The international project continues with art education workshops for pupils, teachers and artists. Wed, 20 Jun 2018 18:00:25 +0200The Spare Time project at Bildmuseet is part of an international project with participating institutions from Latvia, Czech Republic and Bulgaria. The project has been funded with support from the European commission and includes artist exchange, art education activities and exhibitions that explore different types of leisure activities that are generally not seen as productive or influential in society, but that will undoubtedly affect people's lives.Artists and educators will be collaborating at art education workshops that will take place in four nations. The first is currently on display in Umeå, and will run through the 15th of June. It is led by Iva Vladimirova from Bulgaria, Mark Divo from Czech Republic, Ilze Putnina and Ilze Breidaka from Latvia, Fanny Carinasdotter and Ida Hansson from Sweden. During weekdays from 12.00 to 14.00, students from three middle schools in Umeå (Carlshöjdsskolan, Hagaskolan and Midgårdsskolan) will be participating. On the weekend - 11th and 12th of June from 12.00 to 14.00 – workshops for educators and artists are offered.Spare Time was initiated by the National Museum in Prague, Czech Republic. The other partners are Bidmuseet (Sweden), National Museum in Riga (Latvia) and Cultural Horizon 2007 Association (Bulgaria).<a class="columnarrow" href="http://www.bildmuseet.umu.se/english/news//.cid160859 ">Read more about Spare Time</a><h2 id="info0">Exhibitions</h2>•Riga: 20 May– 26 June 2011 •Umeå: 6 June– 4 September 2011 •Sofia: 6 – 26 July 2011 •Prague: 6 September – 13 November 2011<h2 id="info1">Art education workshops</h2>•Riga: 19 - 29 May 2011 •Umeå: 7 - 15 June 2011 •Sofia: 23 June - 2 July 2011 •Prague: 5 - 15 September 2011<h2 id="info2">Contact information</h2>Sofia Johansson Bildmuseet Curator <a href="mailto:sofia.johansson@bildmuseet.umu.se">sofia.johansson@bildmuseet.umu.se</a> +46 (0)90-786 9353Editor: David Meyershttps://www.umu.se/en/news/artists-from-four-nations-to-instruct-at-bildmuseet_5844222/https://www.umu.se/en/news/artists-from-four-nations-to-instruct-at-bildmuseet2_5833152/Artists from four nations to instruct at BildmuseetThe exhibition titled "Spare Time" opened at Umeå University’s Bildmuseet to a large audience on Monday 6 June. The international project continues with educational workshops for pupils, teachers and artists.Wed, 20 Jun 2018 18:00:39 +0200The Spare Time project at Bildmuseet is part of an international project with participating institutions from Latvia, Czech Republic and Bulgaria. The project has been funded with support from the European commission and includes artist exchange, art education activities and exhibitions that explore different types of leisure activities that are generally not seen as productive or influential in society, but that will undoubtedly affect people's lives.Artists and educators will be collaborating at art education workshops that will take place in four nations. The first is currently on display in Umeå, and will run through the 15th of June. It is led by Iva Vladimirova from Bulgaria, Mark Divo from Czech Republic, Ilze Putnina and Ilze Breidaka from Latvia, Fanny Carinasdotter and Ida Hansson from Sweden. During weekdays from 12.00 to 14.00, students from three middle schools in Umeå (Carlshöjdsskolan, Hagaskolan and Midgårdsskolan) will be participating. On the weekend - 11th and 12th of June from 12.00 to 14.00 – workshops for educators and artists are offered.Spare Time was initiated by the National Museum in Prague, Czech Republic. The other partners are Bidmuseet (Sweden), National Museum in Riga (Latvia) and Cultural Horizon 2007 Association (Bulgaria).<a href="http://www.bildmuseet.umu.se/english/press/spare-time/" class="columnarrow">Read more about Spare Time</a><h3>Exhibitions</h3>• Riga: 20 May– 26 June 2011• Umeå: 6 June– 4 September 2011• Sofia: 6 – 26 July 2011 • Prague: 6 September – 13 November 2011<h3>Art education workshops</h3>• Riga: 19 - 29 May 2011• Umeå: 7 - 15 June 2011• Sofia: 23 June - 2 July 2011 • Prague: 5 - 15 September 2011<h3>Contact information</h3>Sofia JohanssonBildmuseet Curatorsofia.johansson@bildmuseet.umu.se +46 (0)90-786 9353Editor: Helena Vejbrinkhttps://www.umu.se/en/news/artists-from-four-nations-to-instruct-at-bildmuseet2_5833152/https://www.umu.se/en/news/arts-campus-hosts-artistic-research-from-around-the-world_12011729/Arts Campus hosts artistic research from around the worldA national symposium on artistic research will bring together over 200 researchers from 26 countries at the Arts Campus. The event is organised by the Swedish Research Council and co-organised by UmArts Research Center at Umeå University. The symposium is a platform for critical and creative dialogue on artistic research and all departments and organisations on the Arts Campus are involved in one way or another in the event, which runs between 4 and 6 December. Mon, 02 Dec 2024 19:08:30 +0100<div class="mediaflowwrapper bildlink halfwidthsquareright"><div class="bildImage"><picture><source srcset="/contentassets/0d468ca526414e5d93716cdcf8633a1f/carpenter_eleanor_3264_210920_mpn2.jpg?format=webp&mode=crop&width=640 640w, /contentassets/0d468ca526414e5d93716cdcf8633a1f/carpenter_eleanor_3264_210920_mpn2.jpg?format=webp&mode=crop&width=854 854w, /contentassets/0d468ca526414e5d93716cdcf8633a1f/carpenter_eleanor_3264_210920_mpn2.jpg?format=webp&mode=crop&width=1280 1280w" type="image/webp" sizes="(max-width: 639px) 640px, (max-width: 854px) 854px, 1280px"><source srcset="/contentassets/0d468ca526414e5d93716cdcf8633a1f/carpenter_eleanor_3264_210920_mpn2.jpg?mode=crop&width=640 640w, /contentassets/0d468ca526414e5d93716cdcf8633a1f/carpenter_eleanor_3264_210920_mpn2.jpg?mode=crop&width=854 854w, /contentassets/0d468ca526414e5d93716cdcf8633a1f/carpenter_eleanor_3264_210920_mpn2.jpg?mode=crop&width=1280 1280w" sizes="(max-width: 639px) 640px, (max-width: 854px) 854px, 1280px"></picture></div><div class="bildText">Ele Carpenter, Professor at Umeå School of Architecture and Director at UmArts. Photo: Mattias Pettersson.</div></div>“UmArts is the Research Centre for Art, Architecture and Design at Umeå University, established in 2021. We’re supporting interdisciplinary critically engaged practice -based research across: Umeå Academy of Fine Arts, Umeå Institute of Design, Umeå School of Architecture, and Bildmuseet. Now that we are up-and-running with a team of postdocs and Small Visionary Projects, we thought it would be good to invite people involved in artistic research to come and think about some important questions with us.”, says Ele Carpenter, Professor at Umeå School of Architecture and Director at UmArts.<div class="mediaflowwrapper bildlink halfwidthsquareright"><div class="bildImage"><picture><source srcset="/contentassets/0d468ca526414e5d93716cdcf8633a1f/vr_2022_maria_h2.jpg?format=webp&mode=crop&width=640 640w, /contentassets/0d468ca526414e5d93716cdcf8633a1f/vr_2022_maria_h2.jpg?format=webp&mode=crop&width=854 854w, /contentassets/0d468ca526414e5d93716cdcf8633a1f/vr_2022_maria_h2.jpg?format=webp&mode=crop&width=1280 1280w" type="image/webp" sizes="(max-width: 639px) 640px, (max-width: 854px) 854px, 1280px"><source srcset="/contentassets/0d468ca526414e5d93716cdcf8633a1f/vr_2022_maria_h2.jpg?mode=crop&width=640 640w, /contentassets/0d468ca526414e5d93716cdcf8633a1f/vr_2022_maria_h2.jpg?mode=crop&width=854 854w, /contentassets/0d468ca526414e5d93716cdcf8633a1f/vr_2022_maria_h2.jpg?mode=crop&width=1280 1280w" sizes="(max-width: 639px) 640px, (max-width: 854px) 854px, 1280px"></picture></div><div class="bildText">Maria Hellström Reimer, scientific adviser with special responsibility for artistic research at the Swedish Research Council. Photo: Swedish Research Council.</div></div>“When it comes to artistic research, Umeå and the artistic campus is a very exciting national environment. By co-organising the symposium, we can work together to strengthen curiosity-driven and method-developing research and make its diversity visible,” says Maria Hellström Reimer, scientific adviser with special responsibility for artistic research at the Swedish Research Council, which is responsible for the event.<h3>Hundreds of researchers from around the world</h3>The extensive programme is a mix of keynotes, panel debates and installations. The welcome address, keynotes and plenary sessions will be live streamed on the university website <a href="/live">www.umu.se/live</a>. “The large turnout is no coincidence.There is a lot of focused and passionate work behind it, especially in the development of an inclusive structure with room for many voices and many burning topics. UmArts has also succeeded in bringing together the artistically orientated forces within the university and in a short time managed to build a strong research environment and a great commitment to artistic basic research,” says Maria Hellström Reimer.<h3>Actual and metaphorical hurricanes</h3>The symposium explores the dynamic interplay between more-than-human forces and culturally resilient structures. The inspiration for the symposium's name - Hurricanes and Scaffolding - comes from American art critic, curator and writer Nora N. Khan's essay ‘Towards a Poetics of Artificial Super Intelligence’.“The theme of the symposium is hurricanes and scaffolding, exploring the dynamic interplay between more-than-human forces and culturally resilient structures. There are many hurricanes looming; actual and metaphorical; from Artificial Super Intelligence to tsunami’s, winds, fires and flooding; to the Atlantic meridional collapse of climate crisis; and the catastrophe of war and genocide;  and we need creative strategies and tactics for dealing with these increasingly commonplace challenges.”, explains Ele Carpenter.“Which brings us to the concept of scaffolding – improvising temporary structures and infrastructures for building resilience, building back better, creating the communities we want to live in, to support us to be good humans in a multispecies environment. Our scaffolding should be critical and creative, and open up new spaces for the political imaginary – to imagine things otherwise.”Hurricanes and Scaffolding - Symposium on Artistic Research 2024 takes place between 4 and 6 December and <a href="~/link/7543563ea2594cb18530be933146d268.aspx">here is the full programme</a>. The welcome address, keynotes and plenary sessions will be live streamed on the university website <a href="/live">www.umu.se/live</a>. <div class="mediaflowwrapper bildlink"><div class="bildImage"><picture><source srcset="/contentassets/0d468ca526414e5d93716cdcf8633a1f/umarts_1920x10804.png?format=webp&mode=crop&width=640 640w, /contentassets/0d468ca526414e5d93716cdcf8633a1f/umarts_1920x10804.png?format=webp&mode=crop&width=854 854w, /contentassets/0d468ca526414e5d93716cdcf8633a1f/umarts_1920x10804.png?format=webp&mode=crop&width=1280 1280w" type="image/webp" sizes="(max-width: 639px) 640px, (max-width: 854px) 854px, 1280px"><source srcset="/contentassets/0d468ca526414e5d93716cdcf8633a1f/umarts_1920x10804.png?mode=crop&width=640 640w, /contentassets/0d468ca526414e5d93716cdcf8633a1f/umarts_1920x10804.png?mode=crop&width=854 854w, /contentassets/0d468ca526414e5d93716cdcf8633a1f/umarts_1920x10804.png?mode=crop&width=1280 1280w" sizes="(max-width: 639px) 640px, (max-width: 854px) 854px, 1280px"></picture></div><div class="bildText">Illustration made for the symposium by Ida Åberg.</div></div>https://www.umu.se/en/news/arts-campus-hosts-artistic-research-from-around-the-world_12011729/https://www.umu.se/en/news/baby-theatre-and-painting-at-bildmuseet_5825336/Baby theatre and painting at BildmuseetTogether with Ögonblicksteatern, over the next few weeks Bildmuseet offers babies between 6 to 18 months, in company of a parent, a full experience of theatre and painting. Premiere February 17 at 13:00!Wed, 20 Jun 2018 17:27:51 +0200Ögonblicksteatern’s spectacle Here I am is inspired by completely new images for the youngest by Stina Wirsén. This is followed by an intrusive investigation of the colour palette when the babies are invited to paint with edible colours guided by Bildmuseet’s art educator.With self-portraits and identity as our themes, the babies explore their immediate world; themselves. Young children experience the world with all senses. Here I am presents the opportunity for an early meeting with art and to be inspired creatively. Cultural experiences are important for the development of the individual and empower the relationship between child and parent.During the afternoon on 10 February, preparations are in full swing and the set design is built in Bildmuseet’s workshop. On site are, Ögonblicksteatern’s director Johanna Salander, actors Maria Erickson and Ida Löfholm, production designer Sofia Stattin and costume designer Karin Ågren. Curator Lisa Lundström, responsible for Bildmuseet’s educational activities, and artist/arts educator Maria Sundström are also involved.Welcome between 13:00 and 15:00 for interviews and photography/filming of the ongoing work. Naturally, editors are also welcome to watch any of the already fully booked performances taking place on 17,18,19, 20, 24 and 25 of February. To avoid clashes we ask you to kindly notify press officer <a href="mailto:helena.vejbrink@bildmuseet.umu.se">Helena Vejbrink</a> what time you plan to show up.<h3>For further information please contact</h3>Lisa Lundström, curator of education, Bildmuseet 090-786 70 12, lisa.lundstrom@bildmuseet.umu.se,Johanna Salander, director, Ögonblicksteatern090-14 00 14, 0702-32 11 64 johanna@ogonblicksteatern.seEditor: Helena Vejbrinkhttps://www.umu.se/en/news/baby-theatre-and-painting-at-bildmuseet_5825336/https://www.umu.se/en/news/big-summer-opening-at-bildmuseet_5830535/Big summer opening at BildmuseetBildmuseet is opening four new temporary exhibitions throughout the new museum building and invites you to the big summer opening on June 20. For Press, contact Bildmuseet for further information and images.Wed, 20 Jun 2018 17:51:01 +0200<h2 id="info0">Mario Merz / What Is to Be Done?</h2>20 JUNE – 30 SEPTEMBER, 2012As one of the inaugural exhibitions at the new Bildmuseet we are presenting a large retrospective of the work of Mario Merz. This is the first comprehensive presentation by the Italian artist in Sweden for over 30 years.Mario Merz (1925-2003) was a key figure of the Arte Povera, during the 1960’s and 1970's questioning of modernist artistic conventions. His practice was devoted to the observation and commenting of his surrounding community, and the exhibition title refers to an overarching issue in his work: What is the artist's role in a momentous time with an uncertain future? This is a question that is as relevant today as it was then. Merz’ works are an important inspiration to contemporary artists and have been exhibited around the world. Read more…<h2 id="info1">Kirunatopia / In the Shadow of the Future</h2>20 JUNE – 28 OCTOBER, 2012The city of Kiruna lies atop one of the world's largest iron ore deposits. It was founded as a modern project at a time when the north of the country, with its natural resources, was called the “Future Land”. Today, deep cracks in the soil, caused by intense mining, are forcing the city to face a historic transformation: the town center will have to be moved.From 2010 to 2011, different residencies took place with artists Lara Almarcegui, Agneta Andersson, Geir Tore Holm, Dave Hull Fish Bailey, Lina Issa, Ingela Johansson, Søssa Jørgensen, Britta Marakatt-Labba, Boris Sieverts, Ingo Vetter and Florian Zeyfang stayed in Kiruna with a project initiated by the Goethe-Institut Schweden. The results of these investigations are shown for the first time in this exhibition, which also includes a contribution by artist and filmmaker Liselotte Wajstedt. Read more…<h2 id="info2">Disobedience Archive (The Parliament)</h2>20 JUNE – 2 SEPTEMBER, 2012 Disobedience Archive (The Parliament) is an exhibition project dedicated to the relationship between artistic and activist practices, a user’s guide to the geography of civil and social disobedience. Disobedience Archive is curated by Marco Scotini and displayed in The Parliament by Céline Condorelli. Disobedience Archive accommodates a variety of film material by artists, activists, filmmakers, philosophers and political groups, and is organised in eight chapters including: the 1977 demonstrations and riots in Italy, social changes around the Berlin Wall, the 2001 upheavals in Argentina, anti-globalization movement’ from 1994, experimental forms of education, community and urbanism, the Israel-Palestinian conflict, the former Eastern Bloc, the effects of 09/11 and a new section dealing with events surrounding what has come to be called the Arab spring. Read more…<h2>Björn Berg / Not a Day Without a Line</h2>20 JUNE – 2 SEPTEMBER, 2012 Björn Berg (1923-2008) is the artist behind some of our most famous and beloved children's book illustrations, such as Emil of Lönneberga and Mrs. Pepperpot. He also illustrated verse and history books by Alf Henrikson and was active for many years as a feature artist on Dagens Nyheter. The exhibition focuses on his fairytale world awash with goblins, princesses, cats, dogs, mice, little people, other shapes and squiggles -all seen from playful child's perspective. Read more...Editor: Helena Vejbrinkhttps://www.umu.se/en/news/big-summer-opening-at-bildmuseet_5830535/https://www.umu.se/en/news/bildmuseet-names-new-museum-director2_5844262/Bildmuseet names new museum directorKatarina Pierre has been selected to lead Bildmuseet – Umeå University’s contemporary art museum – in the ongoing large investment at Umeå Arts Campus. Bildmuseet and its new director are facing quite an exciting period ahead.Wed, 20 Jun 2018 18:02:13 +0200A fantastic museum building designed by Henning Larsen Architects is currently under construction by the banks of the Umeå River at Umeå University’s expanding Umeå Arts Campus."Bildmuseet is a unique art institution and it feels fantastically exiting - a privilege - to head the work leading up to the move and new investments at Umeå Art Campus," says Katarina Pierre.Katarina Pierre was born in 1962 and has a Master of Arts in Contemporary Art Theory from Goldsmith´s College in London, UK. Since 1995, she has worked at Bildmuseet as a curator, and most recently as temporary acting director."Bildmuseet and Umeå Arts Campus are very important for the future of the Faculty of Arts and Umeå University," says Britta Lundgren, dean of the Faculty of Arts. "With her experience and vision, Katarina Pierre will contribute towards an exciting and interesting development with the focus on art."Lena Gustafsson, Vice-Chancellor of Umeå University believes this is a new era for the museum."We are now in a tremendously exciting, important and dynamic phase in the history of Bildmuseet."She continues to say, "I am fully confident that Katarina, with her great expertise and extensive experience, will advance its development. We are striving towards the European Capital of Culture  in 2014, but development of Bildmuseet and Umeå Arts Campus is much more long-term."During her years working at Bildmuseet, Katarina Pierre has helped oversee a large number of international collaborations that have resulted in highly acclaimed exhibitions, including most recently, Walid Raad: Miraculous Beginnings, which ended last week. Sara Jordenö: Diamond People, Zineb Seidra: In the Sky and Over the Sea, Lost and Found: Queerying the Archive, Florian Zeyfang: Slow Narration Moving Still, Isaac Julien: True North are examples of other international and Swedish contemporary art exhibitions that she has produced.Among the art projects that Katarina Pierre has initiated and carried though are Visual Cultures in Dialogue, an exchange program with South African universities and cultural institutions, including South African National Gallery. Together with artist/architect Apolonija Sustersic, she worked on the project The Relational Museum with questions about the art museum as social and public space. She was also the project manager for Urban Concerns, a curator and artist exchange programme that was held in collaboration with the Johannesburg Art Gallery.Bildmuseet opened in 1981 and the museum is an affiliate of Umeå University<a class="columnarrow" href="http://www.bildmuseet.umu.se/">Bildmuseet homepage</a><a class="columnarrow" href="http://www.exigus.se/autologin/3013/c355185c45013a7c57fe731b8d96b17b">Press image of Katarina Pierre (click Aktuella pressbilder)</a><a class="columnarrow" href="http://www.exigus.se/autologin/3013/c355185c45013a7c57fe731b8d96b17b">Press image of the new Bildmuseet at Umeå Arts Campus</a><a class="columnarrow" href="http://www.umu.se/english/about-umu/our-campuses/umea-arts-campus">Read more about Umeå Arts Campus</a><h3>Contact information</h3>Katarina Pierre, newly appointed Director of Bildmuseet at Umeå University email: <a href="mailto:katarina.pierre@bildmuseet.umu.se">katarina.pierre@bildmuseet.umu.se</a> Mobile: +46 (0)70-643 33 72Editor: Helena Vejbrink / David Meyershttps://www.umu.se/en/news/bildmuseet-names-new-museum-director2_5844262/https://www.umu.se/en/news/bildmuseet-names-new-museum-director_5833514/Bildmuseet names new museum directorKatarina Pierre has been selected to lead Bildmuseet – Umeå University’s contemporary art museum – in the ongoing large investment at Umeå Arts Campus. Bildmuseet and its new director are facing quite an exciting period ahead.Wed, 20 Jun 2018 18:02:08 +0200A fantastic museum building designed by Henning Larsen Architects is currently under construction by the banks of the Umeå River at Umeå University’s expanding Umeå Arts Campus."Bildmuseet is a unique art institution and it feels fantastically exiting - a privilege - to head the work leading up to the move and new investments at Umeå Art Campus," says Katarina Pierre.Katarina Pierre was born in 1962 and has a Master of Arts in Contemporary Art Theory from Goldsmith´s College in London, UK. Since 1995, she has worked at Bildmuseet as a curator, and most recently as temporary acting director."Bildmuseet and Umeå Arts Campus are very important for the future of the Faculty of Arts and Umeå University," says Britta Lundgren, dean of the Faculty of Arts. "With her experience and vision, Katarina Pierre will contribute towards an exciting and interesting development with the focus on art."Lena Gustafsson, Vice-Chancellor of Umeå University believes this is a new era for the museum."We are now in a tremendously exciting, important and dynamic phase in the history of Bildmuseet."She continues to say, "I am fully confident that Katarina, with her great expertise and extensive experience, will advance its development. We are striving towards the European Capital of Culture in 2014, but development of Bildmuseet and Umeå Arts Campus is much more long-term."During her years working at Bildmuseet, Katarina Pierre has helped oversee a large number of international collaborations that have resulted in highly acclaimed exhibitions, including most recently, Walid Raad: Miraculous Beginnings, which ended last week. Sara Jordenö: Diamond People, Zineb Seidra: In the Sky and Over the Sea, Lost and Found: Queerying the Archive, Florian Zeyfang: Slow Narration Moving Still, Isaac Julien: True North are examples of other international and Swedish contemporary art exhibitions that she has produced.Among the art projects that Katarina Pierre has initiated and carried though are Visual Cultures in Dialogue, an exchange program with South African universities and cultural institutions, including South African National Gallery. Together with artist/architect Apolonija Sustersic, she worked on the project The Relational Museum with questions about the art museum as social and public space. She was also the project manager for Urban Concerns, a curator and artist exchange programme that was held in collaboration with the Johannesburg Art Gallery.Bildmuseet opened in 1981 and the museum is an affiliate of Umeå University<a class="columnarrow" href="http://www.bildmuseet.umu.se">Bildmuseet homepage</a><a class="columnarrow" href="http://www.exigus.se/autologin/3013/c355185c45013a7c57fe731b8d96b17b">Press image of Katarina Pierre (click Aktuella pressbilder)</a><a class="columnarrow" href="http://www.exigus.se/autologin/3013/c355185c45013a7c57fe731b8d96b17b">Press image of the new Bildmuseet at Umeå Arts Campus</a><a class="columnarrow" href="http://www.umu.se/english/about-umu/our-campuses/umea-arts-campus">Read more about Umeå Arts Campus</a><h2 id="info0">Contact information</h2>Katarina Pierre, newly appointed Director of Bildmuseet at Umeå University email: <a href="mailto:katarina.pierre@bildmuseet.umu.se">katarina.pierre@bildmuseet.umu.se</a> Mobile: +46 (0)70-643 33 72Editor: Helena Vejbrink / David Meyers https://www.umu.se/en/news/bildmuseet-names-new-museum-director_5833514/https://www.umu.se/en/news/bildmuseet-one-of-the-winners-of-the-european-museum-of-the-year-award-2014_5824358/Bildmuseet one of the winners of the European Museum of the Year Award 2014The winners of the European Museum of the Year Award 2014 were announced 18 May in Tallinn, Estonia. Bildmuseet, Umeå University, received a Special Commendation from the EMYA Judging Panel.Wed, 20 Jun 2018 17:22:30 +0200Bildmuseet received the Special Commendation "For creating a modern and innovative museum offering dynamic exhibition continuity and a permanent platform for the promotion of European and global cultural knowledge and multi-layered intercultural dialogue."The European Museum of the Year Award (EMYA), organised by the European Museum Forum (EMF), has been presented this year for the 37th time. Every year a Main award and Special Commenations are announced. The Main Award this year goes to Museum of Innocence, Istanbul, Turkey, founded of the author and nobel prize winner Orhan Pamuk, based on his novel with the same title.This is the first time in eight years that a Swedish museum receives an award from the EMYA Judging Panel. In 2006 Tom Tits Experiment in Södertälje, Sweden, was awarded the Micheletti Prize. This year there were two Swedish museums among the 38 nominees, besides Bildmuseet in Umeå also Spritmuseum in Stockholm.Image above: Director Katarina Pierre, Bildmuseet, was on site in Tallinn yesterday to receive the Special Commendation (center, next to Orhan Pamuk).<a class="columnarrow" href="http://www.europeanmuseumforum.info/">Pressrelease from the European Museum Forum</a><h3>For further information or an inteview with the Museum director, please contact</h3>Helena Vejbrink,Press and Communications Officer, Bildmuseet <a href="mailto:helena.vejbrink@bildmuseet.umu.se">helena.vejbrink@bildmuseet.umu.se</a> +46 90 7869073Editor: Helena Vejbrinkhttps://www.umu.se/en/news/bildmuseet-one-of-the-winners-of-the-european-museum-of-the-year-award-2014_5824358/https://www.umu.se/en/news/bildmuseet-walid-raad--miraculous-beginnings-_5834062/Bildmuseet: Walid Raad – Miraculous Beginnings On Saturday 19 February at 1 pm, Bildmuseet opens a major exhibition with one of the most important artists from the Middle East. New York-based artist Walid Raad considers the effects of conflict on body and mind, and on art itself. At the press preview and at the opening the artist will give a personal viewing of the exhibition.Wed, 20 Jun 2018 18:04:15 +0200Bildmuseet presents the first major Swedish exhibition of US-Lebanese artist, Walid Raad. One of the most important artists from the Middle East, Raad says his work ‘was in some ways made possible by the civil wars in Lebanon’. He playfully considers the effects of conflict not only on body and mind, but also on art itself. The exhibition Walid Raad: Miraculous Beginnings presents his most important works from the past 20 years.<h2 id="info0">Stories about the Lebanese wars of the past three decades</h2>Now living in the US, Raad’s work The Atlas Group (1989 – 2004) is rooted in his experiences as a teenager in Beirut during the Lebanese Civil Wars. His artworks, presented as documents and attributed to fictional as well as historical figures, narrate and visualise stories about the Lebanese wars of the past three decades. His images piece together a complex story of modern Lebanon with Raad’s exploration of photographic medium, its materials and conventions. Raad has said growing up in Beirut he wanted to be a war correspondent – ‘I didn’t have to go very far. It was right outside the house.’ Being in a city at war directly affected his work – rather than seeing photographs as impartial documents, Raad says ‘in a city that is divided, a photograph can generate all sorts of facts: some military; others cultural; and yet others aesthetic.’The exhibition begins with photography and videotapes by The Atlas Group where Raad queries conventional distinctions between fact and fiction and asks how history, in particular one characterised as traumatic, can be told and visually represented. Key works include the photographic series Secrets in the open sea (1994/2004); Civilizationally, we do not dig holes to bury ourselves (1993/2003); My neck Is thinner than a hair: Engines (2001/2003); We decided to let them say, “we are convinced,” twice (2002/2006); and Let’s be honest, the weather helped (1998/2006-7), and selected video works.Sweet Talk: Commissions (Beirut) (1987 – present) presents a series of photo assignments Raad gave himself about Beirut to capture the changing face of his home city.<h2 id="info1">The boom of contemporary art in the Middle East</h2>The final section, Scratching on Things I Could Disavow: A History of Art in the Arab World (2008 – present), looks at the boom of contemporary art in the Middle East and how this affects artists working in the region. The centre piece is a model of an imaginary gallery with scaled-down versions of The Atlas Group’s archives displayed on the walls. Originally shown at the Sfeir-Semler gallery in Beirut (the first ‘white cube’ gallery for contemporary art in Lebanon), Raad says, ‘My artworks, especially those from The Atlas Group, shrunk once they entered the Beirut gallery.’ The model is accompanied by large-scale almost monochromatic plates, whose colours are ‘borrowed’ from documents such as letter heads and exhibition catalogues in an attempt to connect with artworks and artists from the future and the past. The exhibition ends with a large-scale projection imagining views within museums currently under construction in the Arab world.<h2 id="info2">About the exhibition and catalogue</h2>Walid Raad: Miraculous Beginnings is accompanied by a fully illustrated catalogue co-published by Whitechapel Gallery and Festival D'Automne à Paris with contributions by Walid Raad, Achim Borchardt-Hume, Chief Curator, Whitechapel Gallery, Hélène Chouteau-Matikian, writer and curator, Alan Gilbert, writer and poet, and Blake Stimson, Professor of Art History at University of California.Walid Raad: Miraculous Beginnings is curated by Achim Borchardt-Hume, Chief Curator, Whitechapel Gallery. The exhibition is a collaboration between Whitechapel Gallery and Bildmuseet, Umeå University.<h2>Press preview and opening</h2>Press preview: Thursdag 17 February 10.00Opening: Saturday 19 February 13.00 The exhibition will run until April 25, 2011.<h3>For further information</h3>Curator and Acting Director Katarina Pierre+046 90-786 5227, 786 9632katarina.pierre@bildmuseet.umu.se <a class="columnarrow" href="http://www.bildmuseet.umu.se">www.bildmuseet.umu.se</a>Editor: Helena Vejbrinkhttps://www.umu.se/en/news/bildmuseet-walid-raad--miraculous-beginnings-_5834062/https://www.umu.se/en/news/bjorn-berg--not-a-day-without-a-line-drawn_5830381/Björn Berg / Not a Day Without a Line DrawnOn Wednesday 20 June at 17.00 Bildmuseet opens an exhibition with works by Björn Berg, the artist behind the illustrations in some of Sweden’s most loved children’s booksWed, 20 Jun 2018 17:50:23 +0200Björn Berg (1923-2008) made the well known illustration in Astrid Lindgrens Emil of Lönneberga and Alf Prøysens Mrs Pepperpot. He also illustrated poetry and history books by Alf Henrikson, and worked for many years as feature illustrator for Sweden’s major daily, Dagens Nyheter. The exhibition presents us with Björn Berg’s storybook world, full of trolls, princesses, cats, dogs, mice, little people and other creatures and doodles. All of it seen from the perspective of the playful child.In Lennart Rudström’s 2002 short film about Berg, Not a Day Without a Doodle (Inte en dag utan ett streck), we meet a man who is constantly creating, a man who always had pen and paper to hand. Björn Berg’s images are characterised by humour and a keen sense of observation. Each individual gets his or her own specific expression and style, even in a crowd of people. Sometimes the images are photographically precise in certain details and sometimes they are soft and indistinct, but just as often they are revealing and candid contemporary reflections or historical burlesques, e.g. of popes, queens and slaves. He adapted his style to every purpose, and yet we recognise his unerring pen strokes in each work.The exhibition was produced by Bildmuseet in collaboration with Björn Berg’s children, Maja and Torbjörn, who hold the collection of drawings, paintings and sculptures in trust together with their other siblings, Sven, Nils and Olle.Editor: Helena Vejbrinkhttps://www.umu.se/en/news/bjorn-berg--not-a-day-without-a-line-drawn_5830381/https://www.umu.se/en/news/c.r.e.a.m.---umea-academy-of-fine-arts_5811567/C.R.E.A.M. / Umeå Academy of Fine ArtsOn Friday 4 May, Bildmuseet opens the annual graduate exhibition by master’s students at the Umeå Academy of Fine Arts. C.R.E.A.M. is the culmination of five years of study in Fine Arts.Wed, 20 Jun 2018 15:59:20 +0200Welcome to a press preview on Thursday 3 May, at 10:00-12:00. The graduates will present their works together with their main tutor Christoph Draeger, artist and professor at the Academy of Fine Arts.The artists will of course also be present at the opening evening on Friday 4 May 17:00-21:00. Inauguration talk by Katrin Holmqvist-Sten, head of the Umeå Academy of Fine Arts, at 19:00. Christoph Draeger presents the exhibition.This year's exhibition by graduate students from the master's programme at the Academy of Fine Arts at Umeå University is entitled C.R.E.A.M. (Cash Rules Everything Around Me). The title refers to a critical questioning of societal values and the possibilities to challenge their definition through artistic expression.The exhibition presents works by Carolina Andreasson (b. 1991, Stockholm, Sweden), Emil Carlsiö (b. 1988, Gothenburg, Sweden), Micaela Cignozzi (b. 1982, Stockholm, Sweden), Laura Heuberger (b. 1993, Pisa, Italy), Jenny Käll (b. 1988, Kungsör, Sweden), Ariadna Mangrané (b. 1986, Amposta, Spain), Frederico Sjöstrand de Oliveira (b. 1991, Lisbon, Portugal) and Alexander Skats (b. 1986, Gothenburg, Sweden). Their main supervisor is artist Christoph Draeger, Professor at the Academy of Fine Arts.C.R.E.A.M. is the culmination of five years of study in Fine Arts and displays a wide range of ideas. Based on their specific interests and personalities, the students have developed independent ways of working.The master’s programme at Umeå Academy of Fine Arts is an international program that prepares students for professional art practice. Challenged to devise methods of experimentation and a significant understanding of historical and contemporary context, students develop an informed artistic practice, specific to their intentions and sensibilities. The students are working within and across the areas of various media and topics in a curriculum that is designed to promote the depth of individualistic artistic expression, as well as collaborative interdisciplinary thinking.C.R.E.A.M. runs 4-20 May 2018. A series of events in conjunction with the exhibition can be found <a href="http://www.bildmuseet.umu.se/en/exhibition/umeaa-konsthoegskola-2018/31566">here</a>.As the works are being finalized, press images will be found <a href="http://www.bildmuseet.umu.se/press-images">here</a>.<h3>Contact information</h3>On questions regarding the press preview, press images etc., please contact Helena Vejbrink, press contact at Bildmuseet <a href="mailto:helena.vejbrink@bildmuseet.umu.se">helena.vejbrink@bildmuseet.umu.se</a>, +46 90-7869073For further information on the exhibition, contact <a href="~/link/72051352e015447ea914ff4556c95953.aspx">Christoph Draeger</a>, main supervisor and professor at the Umeå Academy of Fine ArtsEditor: Helena Vejbrinkhttps://www.umu.se/en/news/c.r.e.a.m.---umea-academy-of-fine-arts_5811567/https://www.umu.se/en/news/campanas--woods_5823259/Campanas / WoodsThe Brazilian design duo Fernando and Humberto Campana is world famous for their colorful, individual and experimental furniture influenced by traditional crafts. Taking inspiration from nature, they created a site-specific installation exclusively for Bildmuseet.Wed, 20 Jun 2018 17:17:29 +0200The exhibition opens on Sunday, November 2 at 14:00. Welcome to the press preview at Bildmuseet on Thursday, October 30 at 10:00. Humberto Campana will be present and provide an introduction to the exhibition which is Campanas’ first in Sweden.For Bildmuseet, Campanas create a site-specific room installation titled Woods, inspired by nature and composed of flax and wood. – We found the inspiration in nature explains Humberto Campana. The message we wanted to generate was bringing nature indoors. The forest taking its place back and turning tables he says.In their furniture making Campanas uses everyday materials such as rope, cardboard, stuffed toy animals, blankets, bamboo and plastic tubes. Even in the creation process for the installation at Bildmuseet they approached different materials with the goal of utilizing them differently; this time sourcing material from the Swedish countryside. Their way of working is characterized by a free mindset, unconditional and without predetermined parameters. The results are proofs of this organic process.Fernando Campana (1961) and Humberto Campana (1953) live and work in São Paulo, Brazil. Among previous venues, their work has been shown at the Victoria & Albert Museum in London, the Milan Furniture Fair and during Beijing Design Week. Their furniture can be found in collections at the Museum of Modern Art in New York and the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris, among others. They also created the costumes for the National Ballet of Marseille and stage design at the Guggenheim in New York.The press event will also introduce the exhibitions Anders Sunna / Area Infected and Rafael Lozano-Hemmer / A Draft of Shadows. The artists will both be present.Campanas / Woods is produced by Bildmuseet and will be exhibited from 2 November 2014 until 8 February 2015. For access to press images, scheduling of interviews, etc., please contact the press coordinator <a href="mailto:helena.vejbrink@bildmuseet.umu.se">Helena Vejbrink</a>.<h3>For further information about the exhibition, please contact</h3>Cecilia Andersson, curator Bildmuseet <a href="mailto:cecilia.andersson@bildmuseet.umu.se">cecilia.andersson@bildmuseet.umu.se</a> 090-786 6684Editor: Helena Vejbrinkhttps://www.umu.se/en/news/campanas--woods_5823259/https://www.umu.se/en/news/carola-grahn--a-cry-from-the-expanses_5824399/Carola Grahn / A Cry from the ExpansesCarola Grahn’s site-specific sound installation Vidderna ropa [A cry from the expanses] marks the Sami presence in the landscape. It is inaugurated at Bildmuseet on Sunday 25 May at 14:00. Welcome to a press preview on Thursday 22 May at 10:00.Wed, 20 Jun 2018 17:22:45 +0200The title alludes to a conception of nature as our collective awareness, and an idea that when people do not speak about hard times, the expanses cry out their truths. This natural environment has taken over the terrace outside of Bildmuseet. There stands a dying pine, and from speakers a melancholy yoik, a thundering reindeer herd and the barking of dogs are heard. The visitor is invited to rest and contemplate the place’s history or the hidden deep of their own memories. The sound is a 7.44 minute-long loop. Yoik by Jörgen Stenberg.Carola Grahn (b. 1982) comes from Jokkmokk and lives and works in Stockholm. She works primarily with photography, sound and text and strong emotions are often the point of departure in her working process. Carola Grahn constructs and deconstructs social relations in an attempt to understand given roles, how they relate to the individual self-image and at the same time influence society. Her work has been exhibited at Centrum för Fotografi, Stockholm, 2013, Malmö Konsthall, Malmö, 2013 and Galleri Mejan, Stockholm, 2013. She also published the novel Lo & Professorn in 2013.The exhibition is produced by Bildmuseet with the support of Umeå2014 and Kulturkontakt Nord (Nordic Culture Point).Editor: Helena Vejbrinkhttps://www.umu.se/en/news/carola-grahn--a-cry-from-the-expanses_5824399/https://www.umu.se/en/news/collaboration-between-bildmuseet-and-the-swedish-institute-in-paris_5825327/Collaboration between Bildmuseet and the Swedish Institute in ParisOn Tuesday, February 11 the exhibition "Identity in transition - Five contemporary Sami votes" opens at the Swedish Institute in Paris.Wed, 20 Jun 2018 17:27:47 +0200Bildmuseet has been the Institute's advisor for the exhibition and presents works by four of the eight artists with Sami background which Bildmuseet presents in a series of exhibitions in 2014: Katarina Pirak Sikku, Liselotte Wajstedt, Anders Sunna and Joar Nango.- I am very pleased that these interesting artists are presented in Paris while Umeå is Capital of Culture, says Bildmuseet’s director Katarina Pierre, who will be present at the opening.In addition to the four artists included in Bildmuseet’s series of solo exhibitions, works by Silje Thoresen Figenschou will be shown in Paris. The exhibition raises questions about what it means to be a Sami today. How is heritage passed on from generation to generation within the context of a history of the Sami has long been denied?Transformation of identity. Five contemporary Sami voices is on display until 20 April and part of the project titled 66º North: L'attitude suédoise which include exhibitions, concerts, meetings, debates and conferences. The project is a collaboration between the Swedish Embassy, Swedish Institute, Visit Sweden, Business Sweden and Umeå2014.Learn more about Transformation of identity. Five contemporary Sami voices at the Swedish Institute's website. Bildmuseet’s exhibition program is presented on www.bildmuseet.umu.se/en.Editor: Helena Vejbrinkhttps://www.umu.se/en/news/collaboration-between-bildmuseet-and-the-swedish-institute-in-paris_5825327/https://www.umu.se/en/news/comics-of-the-north_5827706/Comics of the NorthAs part of the event 'Kulturnatta' in Umeå, Bildmuseet will celebrate one year at Umeå Arts Campus. We will inaugurate Comics of the North, an exhibition of original drawings, sketches and sections of comic strips by eight different comics artists.Wed, 20 Jun 2018 17:37:57 +0200Comics are a combination of visual art and literature. There are currently several different genres – autobiographical, documentary, journalistic and fictional stories in which the images are as important as the text.Comics of the North presents eight comics artists with different visual and narrative styles, who make comics for adults. They all have ties to the north of Sweden, and the region even features in some of the pieces in the exhibition.The participating comics artists are Max Andersson, Gerd Aurell, René Engström, Anneli Furmark, Armita Ghazinezam, Joanna Hellgren, Mats Jonsson and Sofia Karlström. While the exhibition is ongoing, Bildmuseet is offering workshops, lectures and educational activities to inspire visitors and school groups to create their own comic strip.Comics of the North is produced by Bildmuseet in collaboration with the Skellefteå Art Gallery and illustrator Jonas Lidström Isegrim.<h3>Press preview, Thursday 16 May 10:00</h3>Gerd Aurell, Anneli Furmark and Armita Ghazinezam will participate in the press viewing.<h3>Opening, Saturday 18 May 19:00</h3>Most of the comics artists will be present at the opening and will sign their books over the course of the evening. The artist Gerd Aurell, who is also participating in the exhibition, will perform Good Breathing, together with the flautist Karin Aurell.<h3>Parts of the exhibition will go on tour</h3>A smaller version of the exhibition Comics of the North will tour in Västerbotten County, starting in November 2013. The touring exhibition will also offer educational art activities and workshops.<h3>For further information</h3>Lisa Lundström, Curator Bildmuseetlisa.lundstrom@bildmuseet.umu.se +46 90 786 7012Editor: Helena Vejbrinkhttps://www.umu.se/en/news/comics-of-the-north_5827706/https://www.umu.se/en/news/communitas_5829391/CommunitasSunday 18 November at 14:00, Communitas will open at Bildmuseet. The exhibition include visionary ideas and methods formulated by artists and architects with the idea to create better future cities.Wed, 20 Jun 2018 17:45:36 +0200Welcome to the press preview on Thursday 15 November at 10am. The argentinian artist Mauricio Corbalan will be present. At the opening of the exhibition on Sunday 18 November at 2pm, artist Jordi Colomer and architect Kirstie Smeaton will also be present.Umeå is currently undergoing major changes. New buildings crop up and 2014 the city will host the European Capital of Culture. How can we relate to the changing city and how can we find the tools that make it ours? The exhibition Communitas opens the discussion about what kind of cities we want to live in.Communitas presents some of the ideas and methods that are being elaborated around the world in order to create better cities. The exhibition provides examples of artists and architects visionary ideas about possible urban futures. Included are experimental strategies, playful interactions along with an openness towards untried and innovative approaches formulated for the city and its inhabitants.The word Communitas is Latin and refers to a society where people are equal, or to the very spirit of community.The artists and architects involved in the exhibition are Baupiloten (Germany) Jimenez Lai (USA), Jordi Colomer (Spain), Listen to the City (Korea), Myvillages.org (Germany, Netherlands, UK), m7red (Argentina), Royce Ng (Australia), PKMN (Spain) and Rakett (Norway).Communitas stays open until 10 February 2013. During the exhibition a number of workshops and lectures related to the exhibitions’ theme will be organised. Please keep an eye on our website for further information.<h3>For further information, please contact</h3>Cecilia Andersson, curator Bildmuseet cecilia.andersson@bildmuseet.umu.se  090-786 6684, 072-223 8671Editor: Helena Vejbrinkhttps://www.umu.se/en/news/communitas_5829391/https://www.umu.se/en/news/conference-on-dance-body-and-learning_5824869/Conference on Dance, Body and LearningOn Saturday March 28, the Department of Creative Studies and Bildmuseet at Umeå University invites the public to a day of lectures and talks on dance and learning.Wed, 20 Jun 2018 17:25:29 +0200The talks at Bildmuseet is open to the public, and part of the two day conference Dance, body and mind.Bildmuseet, Flexhallen, 28 March, at 10:00 to 15:00: Lectures, discussions and a dance event. Free admission.Participants:• Lecturers from the Dance and Circus Academy, Stockholm• Annika Noter Hooshidar, lic student in dance education• Cecilia Roos, professor in dance interpretation • Rasmus Ölme, doctoral student in choreographyThe conference is concluded the same evening with a dance performance, Fictional copies choreographed by Björn Säfsten, at Norrlandsoperan with a subsequent discussion.Editor: Helena Vejbrinkhttps://www.umu.se/en/news/conference-on-dance-body-and-learning_5824869/https://www.umu.se/en/news/contemporary-art-conference-at-umea-arts-campus_5823447/Contemporary Art Conference at Umeå Arts CampusArt meets radioactive wast and particle research at Umeå Arts Campus 2-3 October. Contemporary art days, a collaboration between Riksutställningar och Bildmuseet, presents cross-disciplinary collaborations from the fields of visual art, science, architecture and performing arts. Wed, 20 Jun 2018 17:18:24 +0200How are these collaborations manifested within the arts, and how do they add to the steadily expanding vocabulary of expressions? By exploring the hybrid spaces created through collaborations, the conference aims to examine the creative potential and unexpected knowledge generated through cross-disciplinary initiatives.<h3>Among the participants:</h3>Ariane Koek (Collide@CERN Artists’ Residency Program, Geneva)Gediminas Urbonas (MIT Program in Art, Culture, and Technology, Boston)Ele Carpenter (Goldsmiths, University of London)Rob La Frenais (Arts Catalyst, London)Per Nilsson (Umeå Academy of Fine Arts, Umeå University)Björn Säfsten (Choreographer and dancer, Stockholm)Barbro Schultz (Journalist and documentary filmmaker, Paris) Sara Arrhenius (Bonniers konsthall, Stockholm)With a focus on process, the conference presents projects ranging from the 1960s to the present. The technologically evolving context of our time, when knowledge and experiences can be simultaneously shared across the globe to create new realities, faces us with such questions as: How can artists collaboratively interrogate this new reality? What happens when artistic practices meet other disciplines? What new knowledge is generated in these meetings? What new questions are posed?We welcome your participation at the conference where you will be able to meet artists, scientists, curators and other practitioners who have developed a critical investigative approach through collaboration across disciplinary boundaries.Fluid Encounters. Interdisciplinary collaborations between art, science and other disciplines, to be held at Bildmuseet in Umeå, Sweden on 2 – 3 October 2014, is organised by Bildmuseet and Riksutställningar/Swedish Exhibition Agency in collaboration with Humlab-X and Umeå Academy of Fine Arts, Umeå University.Editor: Helena Vejbrinkhttps://www.umu.se/en/news/contemporary-art-conference-at-umea-arts-campus_5823447/https://www.umu.se/en/news/daniel-canogar--quadratura-at-bildmuseet_5828734/Daniel Canogar / Quadratura at BildmuseetOn Sunday, January 27th Bildmuseet opens two new exhibitions. Welcome to the press preview on Thursday, January 24th at 10:00 am. Daniel Canogar will be present.Wed, 20 Jun 2018 17:42:38 +0200The exhibitions will be opened by museum director Katarina Pierre on Sunday, February 27 at 14:00. Daniel Canogar makes a presentation of his exhibition at 14:30. (The exhibition <a href="http://www.bildmuseet.umu.se/english/news//.cid206958 ">Soviet Mythology in Latvian Art</a> opens on the same day).The rapid technological development of the film medium is the inspiration for Spanish artist Daniel Canogar. The exhibition Quadratura, his first solo exhibition in Scandinavia, presents four multimedia installations where the artist recycles outdated technology: 35mm celluloid, VHS tapes, analogue television screens and soon to be outdated DVDs. The artist uses these materials as surfaces on which video animations are projected to instil ideas that the techniques are resurrected and given new life. Sikka Magnum, a new work produced especially for Bildmuseet, consists of well over three hundred DVDs. On their reflective surfaces films are projected and then reflected into the room like a mosaic.Daniel Canogar’s work can be described as a kind of media archaeology and it makes us ponder over our relationship with technological developments and how memory and identity are challenged by constant upgrades. He imagines that the dated media he uses in the exhibition represent some of these memories and identities. The exhibition title, Quadratura, refers to the Renaissance technique of creating three-dimensional effects on flat surfaces. The installations in the exhibition incorporate three-dimensional qualities of the image, in this case of the moving image.Daniel Canogar / Quadratura is on show at Bildmuseet until 21 april.<h2 id="info0">About Daniel Canogar</h2>Daniel Canogar (Madrid, 1964) works with photography, video, sculpture and installation. He holds a Master's degree in photography from New York University and the International Centre of Photography in New York. Canogar has exhibited at Museo de Reina Sofia in Madrid, Palacio Velázquez, Madrid, Max Estrella Gallery, Madrid, Filomena Soares Gallery, Lisbon; Guy Bärtschi Gallery, Geneva; Mimmo Scognamiglio Artecontemporanea, Milan; bitforms Gallery, New York; Santa Mónica Art Center, Barcelona, Alejandro Otero Museum, Caracas, Wexner Center for the Arts, Ohio; Offenes Kulturhaus Center for Contemporary Art, Linz; Kunstsammlung Nordrhein Westfalen, Dusseldorf; Hamburger Bahnhof Museum, Berlin; Borusan Contemporary Museum, Istanbul, the American Museum of Natural History, New York, the Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh and the Mattress Factory Museum, Pittsburgh, among others.His work has also recently been on show in conjunction with Nuit Blanche in New York, the Sundance Film Festival, Park City, Utah and at the European Commission in Brussels. Some of his public works are at Arensa train station in Naples and in the Manzanares River Park, Madrid.<h3>For further information, please contact</h3>Cecilia Andersson, curator Bildmuseet <a href="mailto:cecilia.andersson@bildmuseet.umu.se">cecilia.andersson@bildmuseet.umu.se</a> +46 90-786 6684Editor: Helena Vejbrinkhttps://www.umu.se/en/news/daniel-canogar--quadratura-at-bildmuseet_5828734/https://www.umu.se/en/news/dayanita-singh--adventures-of-a-photograper_5829803/Dayanita Singh / Adventures of a PhotograperDayanita Singh is one of India’s most influential photographers. Her magical visual essays are now presented in an extensive solo show at Bildmuseet, the first comprehensive presentation of her work in the Nordic countries.Wed, 20 Jun 2018 17:47:27 +0200The exhibition opens Sunday 14 October at 14:00 with the participation of the artist, and will run until 13 January 2013. Press prewiew Thursday 11 October at 10:00: Länk Experimental and interdisciplinary, Dayanita Singh moves between documentary photography and contemporary art in order to explore ideas on photography and narrating. Her work often takes a curious view of the seemingly everyday. Poetry and playfulness accompany a deep commitment, which characterize her visual storytelling. Adventures of a Photographer comprises works from the last twelve years: dreamlike landscapes, cityscapes and industrial nightscapes saturated with intense colour along with carefully executed black and white images of people and interiors such as her renowned portraits of Indian upper-middle-class families and her latest project, File Room. Dayanita Singh (b. 1961) is based in New Delhi. She has exhibited at the Serpentine Gallery in London, the Centre Pompidou in Paris and at the Venice Biennale and she has also published her images in a number of books. Together with Ai Weiwei, Romuald Karmakar and Santu Mofokeng she has recently been invited to represent Germany in the national pavilion at the Venice Biennale 2013. <h3>For further information</h3> Director Katarina Pierre katarina.pierre@bildmuseet.umu.se 070-6433372Editor: Helena Vejbrinkhttps://www.umu.se/en/news/dayanita-singh--adventures-of-a-photograper_5829803/https://www.umu.se/en/news/design-matters-at-bildmuseet_8510632/Design Matters at BildmuseetThe exhibition presents internationally established designers and design groups who challenge our expectations of consumer products, furniture and functions. Does our relationship to things change if the shoes we wear have been cultivated by us, or if the plate we eat from is a living organism? Can a cause of the climate catastrophe be transformed into something beautiful and worth preserving?Fri, 25 Oct 2019 04:24:30 +0200Bildmuseet opens two new exhibitions in November; Ann Edholm’s solo exhibition Tongue on the Tip and the group exhibition Design Matters. We proudly welcome you to a press preview and presentation of both these exhibitions on Thursday, 14th of November between 10:00-12:00. (Link to the Design Matters press release)Ann Edholm wants her paintings to be experienced as an encounter with a human being, direct and physical. With their defined geometric shapes, they may at first glance seem completely abstract, but Edholm’s imagery is based on human experience and contains cultural and symbolic references. Using oil paint mixed with wax and applied in thin layer upon layer, she imbues her paintings with a physical, corporal materiality.Bildmuseet is presenting parts of Ann Edholm’s series of large-scale paintings Tongue on the Tip (2003–2011), together with sketches and collages. Some of the paintings are being publicly exhibited here for the first time. The works include interpretations of art history and ancient legends, of Jewish deportations during the Nazi reign, and her mother’s memories of World War II Berlin.Ann Edholm (b. 1953) lives and works in Nyköping. She was educated at Gerlesborgsskolan and the Royal Institute of Art in Stockholm. She has been professor of painting at the Royal Institute of Art and at the Valand Academy in Gothenburg, as well as visiting professor at the Academy of Fine Arts, Umeå University.Ann Edholm is represented at the Moderna Museet, the Gothenburg Museum of Art and the Public Art Agency Sweden. Since the 1980s, she has had a large number of exhibitions and public commissions. In 1998 she was commissioned by Statens konstråd to create the site-specific work Tango d’amour for Umeå University: five large paintings on canvas placed around the central atrium in the Teacher Education Building. In 2013, her winning proposal for a monumental curtain for one of the great halls of the United Nations Headquarters in New York was brought to life. Ann Edholm received the Swedish Arts Grants Committee's Grand Award 2018.Press preview: Thursday 14 November, 10:00-12:00 (RSVP) Welcome by Director Katarina Pierre, after which curators Brita Täljedal and Anders Jansson will introduce the exhibitions through conversations with the artist Ann Edholm, and the designers Jesper Eriksson, Jenny Nordberg, Maurizio Montalti and Aleksi Vesaluoma from Caracara.Press images: www.bildmuseet.umu.se/press-imagesArt Friday and opening: Friday 15 November, 17:00-21:00 Ann Edholm will be present at the opening, as well as Jesper Eriksson, Jenny Nordberg, Maurizio Montalti and Aleksi Vesaluoma from Caracara representing the Design Matters exhibition. Talks and presentations 19:00, café/bar and guest DJ: Boys.For further information, please contact Brita Täljedal, museum curator Bildmuseet brita.taljedal@bildmuseet.umu.se, +46 90-786 7714https://www.umu.se/en/news/design-matters-at-bildmuseet_8510632/https://www.umu.se/en/news/disobedience-archive-the-parliament_5830388/Disobedience Archive (The Parliament)On Wednesday 20 June at 17.00 Bildmuseet opens Disobedience Archive (The Parliament) an exhibition project dedicated to the relationship between artistic and activist practices.Wed, 20 Jun 2018 17:50:30 +0200Disobedience Archive (The Parliament) is a user’s guide to the geography of civil disobedience, from Italy 1977’s social struggles to global protests, through to the current insurrections in the Middle East and the Arab world. Disobedience Archive is curated by Marco Scotini and displayed in The Parliament by Céline Condorelli. Disobedience Archive is an ongoing, itinerant atlas of the various contemporary resistance tactics: from direct action to counter-information, through constituent practices and forms of bio-disobedience. Disobedience Archive accommodates a variety of film material by artists, activists, filmmakers, philosophers and political groups. The selection of films is organised in eight chapters: the first is about the 1977 demonstrations and riots in Italy, followed by sections on social changes around the Berlin Wall, the social upheavals in Argentina in 2001, the anti-globalization movement’ developments from 1994 onwards, experimental forms of education, community and urbanism, the Israel-Palestinian conflict, political and activist work in the former Eastern Bloc, the effects of 09/11 and a new section dealing with events surrounding what has come to be called the Arab spring.Disobedience Archive is curated by Marco Scotini and for this iteration, the archive occupies The Parliament by Céline Condorelli, a structure hosting 24 monitors specially commissioned for the Flexihall on the ground floor of Bildmuseet. The archive includes material from 16 beaver, Atelier d'Architecture Autogérée (AAA), Mitra Azar, Gianfranco Baruchello, Bernardette Corporation, Black Audio Film Collective, Copenhagen Free University, Critical Art Ensemble, Dodo Brothers, Marcelo Expósito, Harun Farocki and Andrei Ujica, Rene Gabri and Ayreen Anastas, Grupo de Arte Callejero, Etcétera, Alberto Grifi, Ashley Hunt, Kanal B, Mosireen, Wael Noureddine, Margit Czencki / Park Fiction, Oliver Ressler and Zanny Begg, Joanne Richardson, Roy Samaha, Eyal Sivan, Hito Steyerl, The Department of Space and Land Reclamation, Mariette Schiltz and Bert Theis, Ultra-red, Nomeda & Gediminas Urbonas, Dmitry Vilensky and Chto Delat? and James Wentzy. Marco Scotini is a curator and director of the Visual Arts Department at the Nuova Accademia di Belle Arti (NABA) in Milan. Céline Condorelli is an artist based in London.Editor: Helena Vejbrinkhttps://www.umu.se/en/news/disobedience-archive-the-parliament_5830388/https://www.umu.se/en/news/edith-marie-pasquier-13-983-birds_5844248/Edith Marie Pasquier: 13 983 birdsLondon based artist Edith Marie Pasquier works with moving image, photography, sound and text installations. Wild birds and animals are her subject and she presents a philosophical and performative enquiry into our relationship with the wild and nature. In this, her first major solo show, she will include a number of new works produced in Sweden. Wed, 20 Jun 2018 18:01:25 +0200<a href="http://www.bildmuseet.umu.se">Bildmuseet</a> June 6  – September 4, 2011Press preview: Wed June 1, at 10 am Opening: Mon June 6, at 2 pm (Swedish National Day)Edith Marie Pasquier has developed a persistent body of work photographing and filming birds and other wild animals. Through her artistic practice Pasquier explores our relationship with animals – how animals are made to represent human myths and conditions – a complex relationship that is particularly pertinent with regards to global ecology and our impact on the environment.A number of works have been developed specifically for this exhibition such as Consider the Birds: On Intimacy, shot during the ringing of migrating birds in Falsterbo, Sweden, this past spring. “A wild bird or animal cannot be controlled, they allow you a moment, but it is always ephemeral - you blink and there is nothing”, Pasquier says commenting on her photographic practice. The title of the exhibition – 13 983 birds – is also the title of a specific work included in the show, a text installation which references a current Swedish court case, of a man obsessed with capturing and collecting wild birds. Pasquier considers the various levels of morality that exists in our dialogue around the animal and her work draws upon new research that overturns our historical understanding of their moral makeup.In the photographic series Conundrums: Study of a Howling Wolf she looks at the issue of re-wilding predators in the UK as wolves are due to be introduced back into the wild in Scotland. In these black and white photographs she is asking us to question our preconceptions of the wolf, portraying a pack of European Wolves in England awaiting transfer to Scotland.With a background in sound, performance and writing, Pasquier has developed a poetic visual language in her conceptual approach to photography. She is interested in the failure of vision, in its seeming transparency, as well as with the activity of looking.Edith Marie Pasquier graduated with an MA in Fine Art (Photography) at the Royal College of Art in 2008. Her interdisciplinary practice has included awards and commissions by The Serpentine Gallery, Film London, Artsadmin and Soho Theatre. She has also contributed as a writer and critic to art catalogues and magazines in America and in the UK to include amongst others Words Without Pictures (Los Angeles County Museum of Art), The Museum of Modern African Art (New York).<a class="columnarrow" href="http://www.edithmariepasquier.com">www.edithmariepasquier.com</a><h3>Contact information</h3>Katarina Pierre, museum director Bildmuseet katarina.pierre@bildmuseet.umu.se +46 (0)90 786 96 32Editor: Helena Vejbrinkhttps://www.umu.se/en/news/edith-marie-pasquier-13-983-birds_5844248/https://www.umu.se/en/news/embroidery-and-computer-code-at-bildmuseet-art-exhibition-_5837121/Embroidery and computer code at Bildmuseet art exhibition The development of open source software in the computer world has been incorporated into the language of cultural participation in the current exhibition at BildMuseet titled the Open Source Embroidery. It brings together works of artists, programmers and html users.Wed, 20 Jun 2018 18:19:38 +0200The Open Source Embroidery project includes workshops and exhibitions which investigate how the open source software development model has been incorporated into the language of cultural participation. This major exhibition at Bildmuseet – the museum of Umeå University - brings together individual and collectively made artworks by artists, makers, computer programmers and html users that explore the relationship between craft and code through social and digital networks. The works experiment with interdisciplinary approaches to modifying patterns, the DIY culture of hacking and sampling in sound, GPS and mobile technologies.The history of computing as craft began with the Jacquard loom (1801), the first programmed machine which used binary punch cards to design woven patterns. The loom inspired Charles Babbage in his design of the Analytical Engine, often described as the precursor to the modern computer. Flare Productions’ documentary film about Ada Byron Lovelace To Dream Tomorrow (2003) highlights the significance of her extensive notes about the Analytical Engine, and her insight into the potential of the machine to operate not just as a calculator of numbers but also as a computer of symbols and information. Richard Hamilton also featured Ada Lovelace in a poster campaign to save free public entry for the South Kensington Museums in London (1998). Issues of access to code and culture are still pertinent questions of our time. Using open source software Hamilton, Southern & St Amand are facilitating a new production of Running Stitch creating a map of Umeå. Visitors to the exhibition are invited to take a GPS walk around the city and sew their paths onto a giant canvas in the gallery. The activity will take place June 6 and 7 and every Sunday until September 6.Open Source Embroidery is curated by Ele Carpenter, HUMlab Research Fellow in partnership with BildMuseet. The exhibition has been developed by BildMuseet and the Museum of Craft and Folk Art, San Francisco, and supported by Arts Council England and Canada Council. INFORMATION | Ele Carpenter, Curator, 090-786 7407, <a href="mailto:elecarpenter@humlab.umu.se">elecarpenter@humlab.umu.se</a> Katarina Pierre, Curator; 090-786 96 32, 090-786 52 27, <a href="mailto:katarina.pierre@bildmuseet.umu.se">katarina.pierre@bildmuseet.umu.se</a> <a href="http://www.open-source-embroidery.org.uk">www.open-source-embroidery.org.uk</a> Exhibition Dates:BildMuseet, Umeå: 6 June – 6 September 2009Museum of Craft & Folk Art, San Francisco: 1 October 2009 – 24 January 2010 Bildmuseet Opening Times:Winter: 24 Aug – 16 June, Tues – Sun 12 – 4pm Summer: 17 June – 23 August, Wed – Sun 12 – 5pm (All Sundays open till 12 - 5pm)Editor: Helena Vejbrinkhttps://www.umu.se/en/news/embroidery-and-computer-code-at-bildmuseet-art-exhibition-_5837121/https://www.umu.se/en/news/eve-morgenstern--facades-of-crises_5829050/Eve Morgenstern / Facades of CrisesSunday December 16th Bildmuseet opens an exhibition with Eve Morgensterns photographic series Facades of Crises, portraits of abandoned homes in the wake of the U.S. foreclosure crises.Wed, 20 Jun 2018 17:43:46 +0200Over the past years photographer and filmmaker Eve Morgenstern has been working for the Federal Reserve and for various neighbourhood organizations to direct short videos about the housing crises.Eve Morgenstern was struck by how the signs of abandonment and foreclosure – plywood over windows and for sale signs – become instant catalysts for decline. These abandoned homes elicit feelings of fear and despair that ultimately affect the impetus to live and invest there. The facades also conjure up the tragic stories of residents who lived in these homes and what may have happened to them.In her project Facades of Crises Eve Morgenstern has portrayed these abandoned homes. They are also strong testimonies of today's financial crisis.The series Facades of Crises was produced while in residence with Workspace, a residency program of Lower Manhattan Cultural Council.<h3>For more information</h3>Sofia Johansson, Curator Bildmuseet+46 90-786 93 53 <a href="mailto:sofia.johansson@bildmuseet.umu.se">sofia.johansson@bildmuseet.umu.se</a>Editor: Helena Vejbrinkhttps://www.umu.se/en/news/eve-morgenstern--facades-of-crises_5829050/https://www.umu.se/en/news/exhibitions-by-umea-school-of-fine-arts-students-at-bildmuseet_5837337/Exhibitions by Umeå School of Fine Arts students at BildmuseetDuring 10-24 May, art exhibitions by graduating students at the Umeå School of Arts will be on display at Bildmuseet, Umeå University’s museum of contemporary art and visual culture. This year’s exhibitions have the themes of "It’s About Time" by students in the Master of Fine Arts programme and "Light Club" by students in the Bachelor of Fine Arts programme. Wed, 20 Jun 2018 18:20:52 +0200This year’s presentation by the eight graduating master programme students displays many of contemporary art forms – from painting, sketching and photography, via performance, installation to video and advanced robotic technology.Graduating MFA students: Magni Borgehed, Fanny Carinasdotter, Carl-Erik Enqvist, Mattias Ericsson, Jan Tore Jensen, Emma Pettersson, Stina Rosenberg, Mariel Rosendahl.The title, It’s About Time, aims to portray the feeling that it’s ”finally time” that the exhibition takes place after five years of studies in the MFA programme at the Umeå School of Fine Arts. The exhibition curator is Sofia Curman. The supervisor for the students has been Professor Elin Wikström.For more specific information, visit the <a href="http://www8.umu.se/art/MA/index.htm">Master of Fine Arts programme web page</a>.<a class="pdf" href="http://www.umu.se/digitalAssets/9/9418_itsabouttime-ma.pdf">Catalogue in pdf format </a> <a href="http://www.bildmuseet.umu.se/pressbild_konsthogskolan_2009.html">High resolution photos</a>The exhibition by the master’s graduates titled It’s About Time will be on display at <a href="http://www.bildmuseet.umu.se/">Bildmuseet</a> during 10-24 May. A smaller scaled version will open on 27 May at the Andersson/Sandström Gallery in Stockholm.Light Club: BFA programme exhibition at Gallery 60, BildmuseetThe 15 graduating students in the Bachelor of Fine Arts programme consists of: Sebastian Mügge, Thomas Olsson, Eskil Liepa, Ida Rödén, Helena Piippo Larsson, Linda Spjut, Karin Meissner, Malin Tivenius, Anders Johansson, Rikard Hultman, Rasmus West, Ylva Trapp, Anna Sörenson, Lina Palmqvist, Frida Krohn.The collective exhibition has light as its theme, or perhaps the absence of light. A theme that can relate to the clichés of blonde Scandinavians and our exotic climate with the midnight sun, or something as specific as we show in the exhibition’s lighting construction - winding wires on the floor, clutter, and finally the light in the middle of darkness. It may be a poetic allegory for three years at an art school, but is primarily the individual lights that show how the exhibition is linked. The supervisor of the BFA programme has been Professor Ingo Vetterhttps://www.umu.se/en/news/exhibitions-by-umea-school-of-fine-arts-students-at-bildmuseet_5837337/https://www.umu.se/en/news/felice-varini--nine-archs-dancing_5827727/Felice Varini / Nine Archs DancingFelice Varini has attracted international attention with his paintings in public places, including France, Japan, UK and USA. Now he presented for the first time in Sweden.Wed, 20 Jun 2018 17:38:06 +0200For Bildmuseet the artist has created Nine Arcs Dancing, a site-specific work on the entrance floor of the museum building. It consists of nine red arcs, each of which is based on and ties together points in the architecture. The work emphasises the movement, the activity, the variability and the variation of the light in the room.Welcome to the press preview Thursday 16 May at 10:00. Felice Varini / Nine Archs Dancing opens at Bildmuseet on Sunday 19 May at 14:00. The artist gives a presentation. Felice Varini considers architecture and space as the starting point for creating his site-specific paintings on walls, ceilings and façades. The motives are abstract geometrical shapes in large formats and bright colours, which initially may be difficult to discover. Unless viewed from a specific point, his work may appear as fragments, as broken fields of colour, difficult to interpret and seemingly scattered. But when moving about, surrounded by the fragments, suddenly the viewer can detect the specific point of view from where the painting is experienced as a coherent, freely floating form.At the moment when the connection is clear, one can experience this as the real meaning of the work, a meaning created by the viewer’s coordinating gaze. The artist himself emphasies however that the viewer’s discovery of precisely this connection does not exhaust the aesthetic significance of the work. On the contrary it may function as a point of departure for a new exploration of the different parts of the painting.Regardless how Felice Varini’s works are observed, they exist as entities – as coherent shapes as well as in fragments, viewed from any number of different angles.Felice Varini, born in 1952 in Locarno and living in Paris, has attracted international attention with his works in public spaces, e.g. in France, England, Japan and USA. He is now presented for the first time in Sweden. In May 2013 Felice Varini also inaugurated a new work for the King’s Cross area in London and another work for the town of Salon-de-Provence in Southern France.More examples of works by Felice Varini can be seen on his <a href="http://www.varini.org/02indc/indgen.html">website</a>.<h3>For further information</h3>Brita Täljedal, Curator Bildmuseetbrita.taljedal@bildmuseet.umu.se 090-786 77 14Editor: Helena Vejbrinkhttps://www.umu.se/en/news/felice-varini--nine-archs-dancing_5827727/https://www.umu.se/en/news/ffb--searching-for-smooth-space_5823724/FFB / Searching for Smooth SpaceBildmuseet has invited the Norwegian achitect colletive FFB. During two weeks they studied public spaces in Umeå and reflected on how they are used. An exhibition that documents the architects examinations will open at Bildmuseet on Sunday 7 September at 14:00. Wed, 20 Jun 2018 17:19:19 +0200The collective of architects FFB has studied public spaces in Umeå and reflected on how they are used. Applying careful investigation and spatial interventions as a tool for research, they explore how the spaces relate to the philosophical terms ”smooth space” and ”nomadism” by Deleuze and Guttari.Smooth spaces may be described as spaces characterized by creativity, heterogeneity and fluidity, a contrast to centralized urban planning. The architects ponder whether using the concept of smooth space may facilitate a broader and more diverse discussion about our public spaces.During their two-week stay in Umeå, the group has noticed the different critical voices discussing Umeå’s urban spaces. They claim that “Conflicts are beneficial for a democratic society” and emphasize that we need spaces where the discussions can take place. In addition to polarized discussions in the media there is also a need for arenas where eye-to-eye discussions may take place. For this purpose the group has started to build a Sámi tent according to traditional building techniques outside the old roundhouse at Haga. They invited citizens of Umeå to a seminar about the traditional building technique so that they can finish the tent and use it for their meetings.During the course of their stay they have also maintained a continuous dialogue with Erik Persson, Umeå, regarding three different themes that have emerged from their research: “Smooth space”, “The urban nomad” and “The perfect surface”. The exhibition features three poetic texts that summarize their discussions on these themes, all written by Erik Persson.The film that is screened in the exhibition [2:37 min] is an evocative depiction of the process of gathering materials for the tent, put together by the visual artist Matti Aikio. An important aspect of the group’s way of working is to apply a gentle collection method that does not leave wounds in the landscape. They carefully select trees and bark and “cull” them out. An important aspect of nomadic tradition is that building processes should not leave traces behind. Therefore, the tent is entirely built from biodegradable materials. Wooden pegs instead of nails and screws, and each building element is carefully selected to fulfil its function. For example, the bent birch trunk that is used for shaping the dome ceiling of tents.FFB (Felleskapsprosjektet å Fortette Byen) are three Norwegian architects based in Oslo and Tromsø: Håvard Arnhoff (f. 1979), Joar Nango (f. 1979) and Eystein Talleraas (f. 1980). The project Searching for Smooth Space at Bildmuseet is part of a series of investigations of public space, which the architect collective is performing in various geographical locations.The exhibition is produced by Bildmuseet with funding support from Umeå2014 and Kulturkontakt Nord (Nordic Culture Point).Editor: Helena Vejbrinkhttps://www.umu.se/en/news/ffb--searching-for-smooth-space_5823724/https://www.umu.se/en/news/final-for-international-collaboration-on-self-portraits_5824512/Final for international collaboration on self-portraitsTo make a self-portrait can be a way to get to know yourself. During two years, Bildmuseet in Sweden collaborated with art schools in Estonia, Finland, Ireland and Latvia to develop art educational methods involving the use of self-portraits.Wed, 20 Jun 2018 17:23:40 +0200Thursday, May 8 and Friday, May 9 we conclude and present the work in an exhibition and one day public symposium.Journalists are warmly welcome to join in at any time during these days. We look forward to hear from you and to know when you want to join. We also take requests to book for interviews, photo sessions and filming.<h3>Thursday, May 8 at 16:00: Opening</h3>The exhibition display photography, sculpture, collage and a slideshow from the workshops held in five different locations in Europe, including Umeå. With different artistic techniques and methods, people of different ages tell us about themselves. On Thursday afternoon at 16:00, some twenty representatives from the various countries will be present in the exhibition to tell you more. Welcome!<h3>Friday, May 9th 9:00 to 18:00: Seminar on self-portrait</h3>On Friday, some fifty educators, artists, photographers and other interested parties will be at Bildmuseet. They will get to know more and be inspired by the work with self-portraits for different target groups within the international project. Representatives from Turku, Tallinn, Riga, Dublin and Umeå will explain how the project took shape in the various locations. Artist Elina Brothérus from Finland presents her art along with the self-portrait workshop for artists she led in Riga. During the afternoon, participants make their own self-portraits under the guidance of artist Pia Bartsch and photographer Vesa Aaltonen.The two-year project Contemporary self-portraits is funded by the EU Culture Programme. The project participants are Bildmuseet, Sweden; Turku Arts Academy, Finland; Estonian Academy of Arts, Estonia; International Summer School of Photography, Latvia and the School of Art and Design, Ireland.Supporting the operation and arrangement in Umeå, Bildmuseet collaborated with local partners such as Region Västerbotten, Aesthetic subjects in teacher education at Umeå University as well as Idean and Cultural Centre for Children and Youth, Umeå Municipality. The project has largely been directed at pre-school teachers and children from kindergartens in Umeå and will conclude with a family celebration with self-portrait outside Bildmuseet during the Culture Night on Saturday, May 24.<h3>For further information, please contact</h3>Lisa Lundström, Curator of Educationlisa.lundstrom@bildmuseet.umu.se 090-786 7012Editor: Helena Vejbrinkhttps://www.umu.se/en/news/final-for-international-collaboration-on-self-portraits_5824512/https://www.umu.se/en/news/french-duo-to-lecture-at-bildmuseet-art-museum_5837791/French duo to lecture at Bildmuseet art museumOn Tuesday 3 February the Paris-based art duo Bureau d’études – currently portrayed in “The Map” exhibition - will be appearing at Umeå University’s Bildmuseet. They will give an open lecture at 6:30 pm and describe their social maps; tools to help us better understand ourselves. Wed, 20 Jun 2018 18:23:01 +0200Bureau d’études was formed by the artist-duo Léonore Bonaccini and Francois-Xavier Fourt. For the last several years, the French Group has been producing cartographies of contemporary political, social and economic systems. The visual analysis of transnational capitalism is based on extensive research and usually is presented in the form of large-sized murals.This mapping project by Bureau d’études makes it possible to create order in the social reality. The maps are lacking latitudes, longitudes and other symbols that are normally used in topography. Their compass image of social geography is instead based on symbolic or quasi-symbolic elements such as information, convention, and rules that govern social relations and separation of powers.We welcome you to attend and listen to a lecture by Bureau d’études on "Mapping the Laboratory Planet" at Bildmuseet on Tuesday 3 February at 6:30 pm. Free admission. Lecture will be given in English.<a href="http://www.bildmuseet.umu.se/exhibit09.html">Read more about The Map exhibition.</a>For further information, contact intendent Riikka Anttila, Bildmuseet Phone: + 46 (0)90 - 786 93 53 or <a href="mailto:riikka.anttila@bildmuseet.umu.se">e-mail</a> <a href="http://www.bildmuseet.umu.se/utsteng.html">www.bildmuseet.umu.se</a>https://www.umu.se/en/news/french-duo-to-lecture-at-bildmuseet-art-museum_5837791/https://www.umu.se/en/news/frida-hyvonen-at-bildmuseet_5825487/Frida Hyvönen at BildmuseetIn connection with the opening of two new exhibitions on Sunday, February 2, Frida Hyvönen will perform at Bildmuseet’s stage. Free admission but seating is limited.Wed, 20 Jun 2018 17:28:24 +0200Frida Hyvönen is known as a magical performer and comedian, a stormy pianist and brilliant lyricist, with a unique voice that speaks from a timeless inner space. Her latest album To The Soul is like the critically acclaimed Silence is Wild partly written in the singer's home in Paris and partly in the countryside outside of Umeå.<h3>Bildmuseet February 2 at 16:30. Free admission but limited seating.</h3>Editor: Helena Vejbrinkhttps://www.umu.se/en/news/frida-hyvonen-at-bildmuseet_5825487/https://www.umu.se/en/news/gallery-carlsson-svensson-opens-in-bildmuseet_5844268/Gallery Carlsson Svensson opens in BildmuseetFor two weeks in May, the Umeå Academy of Fine Arts will fill Bildmuseet with two degree exhibition shows. The bachelor students, graduating after three years of study, will open Gallery Carlsson Svensson Contemporary downstairs, with a special entrance from outside.Wed, 20 Jun 2018 18:02:22 +0200The exhibition Gallery Carlsson Svensson Contemporary: Grand Opening II is shown from 7 May to 22 May 2011. Please read the gallery's press release below. During the same period the master students will display their exhibition 13: Master of Fine Arts 2011 in the upper level of Bildmuseet.<a class="pdf" href="~/link/c4479d76b320413793852055cd6db4ac.aspx">Download and print the press release</a>Editor: Helena Vejbrinkhttps://www.umu.se/en/news/gallery-carlsson-svensson-opens-in-bildmuseet_5844268/https://www.umu.se/en/news/geir-tore-holm--fughetta_5823409/Geir Tore Holm / FughettaDuring the dark season in Umeå, Geir Tore Holm presents a work of light in the Bildmuseet entrance hall. He's interested in household management and sustainable lifestyles, and his work refers to two conditions that have been of great significance for humans' survival in the North - reindeer meat and light.Wed, 20 Jun 2018 17:18:10 +0200The newly-created work Fughetta is inspired by the Baroque and consists of five reindeer carcasses moulded from epoxy, merged together into a lighting fixture. The carcasses refer to the food still-lifes of the Baroque, and the title Fughetta refers to a little fugue, a composition technique which reached its peak during the same era.Geir Tore Holm (b. 1966) lives and works in Skiptvet, Norway. He works on socially involved art in a broad spectrum of media. He is also a fellow at the Oslo National Academy of the Arts.The exhibition is produced by Bildmuseet with support from Umeå 2014 and Nordic Culture Point.Editor: Helena Vejbrinkhttps://www.umu.se/en/news/geir-tore-holm--fughetta_5823409/https://www.umu.se/en/news/henning-larsen-architects_5829535/Henning Larsen ArchitectsOn Sunday, October 28 at 14:00 Bildmuseet opens an exhibition featuring Henning Larsen Architects, the internationally successful Danish architectural firm whose work with the new Bildmuseet and the School of Architecture at the Arts Campus has left its mark on Umeå.Wed, 20 Jun 2018 17:46:30 +0200You are warmly welcome on Sunday. The exhibition will be opened by curator Cecilia Andersson. Architects Per Ebbe Hansson and Louis Becker of Henning Larsen Architects are also present at the opening.Architecture affects the environment, the city or the countryside and the community that it is a part of. Also, the environment, the city, the landscape and the community in turn influence the architecture. Henning Larsen Architects has offices in several cities and is currently working on projects in some twenty locations around the world. How do they determine how a building should look? How does architecture relate to a specific location?The exhibition presents a selection of the architectural office’s methods and procedures. Models and texts answer questions about form and materials and presents insight into ways of relating to local culture and future prospects in a number of different countries.Besides the two Umeå projects is also an example from Iceland where Henning Larsen Architects has designed Harpa, a concert hall and conference centre in Reykjavík (see picture) and which now houses the Iceland Symphony Orchestra and The Islandske Opera. In collaboration with artist Olafur Eliasson, a kaleidoscopic colourful façade consisting of nearly 1,000 faceted glass elements was developed which now reflects the city and the surrounding landscape.The exhibition also presents models and an animated film about the enormous financial district now being built in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. King Abdullah Financial District will, when ready, accommodate 30 million square meters of construction and aim to pave the way for a new economy when the country's income from oil gradually reduces or ends. Here will be shops, homes and cultural institutions. One of these, the Children's Interactive Museum, is constructed based on Saudi Arabian children’s desires of what they want a museum to be, and contains both play and learning.The shape of the aquarium in Batumi on the Black Sea shore in Georgia is inspired by stones polished by the waves. The aquarium is divided into different sections where each stone-shaped housing body represents a marine habitat: the Mediterranean, the Aegean Sea, the Indian Ocean, the Black Sea and the Red Sea. Bildmuseet and the School of Architecture at Umeå Arts Campus, Umeå University, is designed by Henning Larsen Architects in cooperation with White Architects in Umeå.Henning Larsen Architects exhibition runs until November 25. The image above is photographed by © Nic Lehoux.<h3>Contact</h3>Cecilia Andersson, curator Bildmuseet090-786 66 84, 072-223 86 71 cecilia.andersson@bildmuseet.umu.seFor press images, please contactHelena Vejbrink, Communications manager090-786 9073, 073-801 9073 helena.vejbrink@bildmuseet.umu.seEditor: Helena Vejbrinkhttps://www.umu.se/en/news/henning-larsen-architects_5829535/https://www.umu.se/en/news/ingo-vetter--detroit-tree-of-heaven-woodshop--motor-show_5834567/Ingo Vetter & Detroit Tree of Heaven Woodshop – Motor ShowFor the last ten years Ingo Vetter has visited Detroit regularly for research, artistic production and to take extended photo series. Motor Show exhibition at Bildmuseet brings together a number of these series and assembles them around a central installation of car tires and ladders.Wed, 20 Jun 2018 18:06:53 +0200Bildmuseet Nov 21, 2010 – Jan 30, 2011Press conference Friday, Nov 19th, 10 AM.Opening Sunday, Nov 21th, 2 PM. Artist talk Tuesday, Dec 7th, 6.30 PM.Detroit is shaped by the automobile and its industry like no other city, it is the Motor City. The car has come to represent everything from progress and desire to climate change and urban collapse, an irrational and emotionally charged metaphor much like Detroit itself: Rock City, Murder City, Renaissance City, City of Tomorrow are only a few of the names given to the city over the past four decades.The latest eruption was the media coverage during the financial crisis, in which the fate of Detroit has been portrayed as synonymous with the whole of the United States. On the symbolic level, Detroit is a major concern, though few are interested in the actual situation of the city or its inhabitants.Detroit is a dynamic place and mobility seems to be the keyword for this city. Developments are not taking only one direction. In Detroit, things often simultaneously tend to get better and worse. What one builds up, the other takes down, and as a result, the city is always in motion. The car is omnipresent, but has lost its progressive potential. But there is a demand of new metaphors and Motor Show proposes mobility, symbolized by people overcoming obstacles.In 2005, Ingo Vetter, Annette Weisser and Mitch Cope founded the Detroit Tree of Heaven Woodshop. The Woodshop works exclusively with wood processed from the Tree of Heaven, a resource unfailing in Detroit. Also known as ghetto palm, this plant (Ailanthus altissima) populates abandoned lots and deserted factory sites all over Detroit. The wood is of poor quality by conventional standards, but the artists look at it as a post-industrial resource, and take advantage of its ubiquity. The Woodshop is set up as a loosely organized network of local specialists and develops art works and commissions for international museums and galleries. All frames, as well as other sculptural works in the exhibition, were specially produced by the Detroit Tree of Heaven Woodshop.Ingo Vetter lives and works in Stockholm and Umeå, Sweden. Professor at Academy of Fine Arts, Umeå University.The exhibition is realized in collaboration with Iaspis and Umeå Academy of Fine Arts. More information about the exhibitionBrita Täljedal, curator <a href="mailto:brita.taljedal@bildmuseet.umu.se">brita.taljedal@bildmuseet.umu.se</a>, +46 90 786 77 14Editor: Helena Vejbrinkhttps://www.umu.se/en/news/ingo-vetter--detroit-tree-of-heaven-woodshop--motor-show_5834567/https://www.umu.se/en/news/jacob-hashimoto--superabundant-atmosphere_5827523/Jacob Hashimoto / Superabundant AtmosphereOn Sunday 2 June at 14:00 Bildmuseet opens the exhibition Jacob Hashimoto / Superabundant Atmosphere. Welcome to the press preview Thursday 30 May at 10:00.Wed, 20 Jun 2018 17:37:14 +0200Jacob Hashimoto’s installations consist of several small objects made from bamboo and silk or paper, which are joined together in larger compositions. These works embody his long-time fascination with the intersections of painting and sculpture; abstraction and landscape.Bildmuseet presents Superabundant Atmosphere, which is an installation consisting of thousands of ellipses of bamboo and silk hanging from the ceiling by distinctly black threads. The installation fills the entire exhibition hall and creates a cloud-like formation that appears to permeate through the ceiling.Parts of another work, Infinite Expanse of Sky, are displayed in the exhibition hall’s north and west window niches. The installation is constructed of rectangular paper kites with a sky blue and white cloud print. The kites are also visible from the outside, through the museum windows.The American artist Jacob Hashimoto (b. 1973) lives and works in Brooklyn, New York. Bildmuseet’s exhibition is the first presentation of his work in Sweden.<h2 id="info0">For further information</h2>Sofia Johansson, Curator Bildmuseet <a href="mailto:sofia.johansson@bildmuseet.umu.se">sofia.johansson@bildmuseet.umu.se</a> +46 90 786 93 53Editor: Helena Vejbrinkhttps://www.umu.se/en/news/jacob-hashimoto--superabundant-atmosphere_5827523/https://www.umu.se/en/news/jochen-lempert--sudden-spring_5811255/Jochen Lempert / Sudden SpringSummer exhibition opening at Bildmuseet on Friday 15 June! Two exhibitions are to be inaugurated, one of them Jochen Lemperts solo exhibition Sudden Spring – the artists first exhibition in the Nordic region. Using an analogue 35-mm camera, Lempert records animals and nature, and he also finds his motifs in urban environments like his hometown of Hamburg.Wed, 20 Jun 2018 15:58:19 +0200Welcome to the press preview on Thursday 14 June at 10:00. Jochen Lempert will participate. (<a href="mailto:mailto:helena.vejbrink@bildmuseet.umu.se">RSVP</a>). At the same occation, there will also be a preview of the <a href="http://www.bildmuseet.umu.se/en/about/news/?link=http%3a%2f%2frss.kc.umu.se%2fViewPage.action%3fsiteNodeId%3d44338%26languageId%3d1%26contentId%3d292154">Eco-Visionaries</a> exhibition.Jochen Lempert is a trained biologist and has been working as an artist since the early 1990s, with black-and-white photography as his primary medium. Animals, plants and other natural phenomena are his main motifs, and he observes them with the gaze of both a researcher and an artist.Using an analogue 35-mm camera, he records flocks of birds, insects, ocean waves or the interplay of light and shadow on foliage. Sometimes, he places plant or animal matter directly onto photosensitive paper and then exposes it to light. He finds his subjects in the forest, out on the open sea but also in densely populated urban environments. Many of the images in the exhibition were taken in the artist’s hometown of Hamburg.In the exhibition space, Jochen Lempert displays his photographs without frames or other mountings. From a bit of a distance you may get the impression of a collection of uncomplicated representations of animals and nature, but on closer inspection, paradoxical and completely unexpected connections start to emerge between the photographs. By combining motifs and relationships in terms of form and visual characteristics, the artist opens up for new interpretations and associations. In the exhibition, he creates new image combinations where his earlier photographs are brought together with newly taken ones. He allows his subjects to initiate new, unexpected dialogues, and the perspective is not only poetic. There is also room for political interpretations.Jochen Lempert (b. 1958) is living and working in Hamburg, Germany. This is his first solo exhibition in the Nordic region. His works have been shown, for example, at Sprengel Museum, Hannover, Germany (2018); S.M.A.K., Ghent, Belgium (2017); Izu Photo Museum, Shizuoka, Japan (2017); Vancouver Contemporary Art Gallery, Canada (2016); Cincinnati Art Museum, USA (2015) and The Photographers’ Gallery, London, UK (2014). In 2017, Jochen Lempert received the prestigious Camera Austria Award for Contemporary Photography.>><a href="http://www.bildmuseet.umu.se/en/press/press-room/press-images-current/"> Press images</a><h3>For further information on the exhibition</h3>Brita TäljedalMuseum curator Bildmuseet <a href="mailto:brita.taljedal@bildmuseet.umu.se">brita.taljedal@bildmuseet.umu.se</a>, 090-786 77 14Editor: Helena Vejbrinkhttps://www.umu.se/en/news/jochen-lempert--sudden-spring_5811255/https://www.umu.se/en/news/john-akomfrah--purple_5811738/John Akomfrah / PurpleBildmuseet presents a new work by British artist and filmmaker John Akomfrah, his most ambitious project to date. Purple is an immersive six-channel video installation addressing man's relationship to nature and to the planet. The exhibition opens April 13 at 19:00 in the presence of the artist.Wed, 20 Jun 2018 16:00:29 +0200Press preview Thursday 12 April at 10:00-12:00, inc luding a preview of the 60 min film work. John Akomfrah will be present, as well as David Lawson and Lina Gopaul from Smoking Dogs Films. RSVP 11 April to <a href="mailto:helena.vejbrink@bildmuseet.umu.se">helena.vejbrink@bildmuseet.umu.se</a>.At a time when greenhouse gas emissions from human activities are at historically high levels and glaciers are melting, Purple poses the question of human responsibility.In this epic film work, John Akomfrah combines archival material with newly staged footage and a hypnotic sound score. The new film sequences were recorded in regions with particularly climate-sensitive ecosystems, such as Greenland, Alaska and the Marquesas Islands in French Polynesia and at various sites around the UK. Combined with images and film clips from the 1940s to the present day, they form a multi-layered montage of politics, history, and fiction.Parallel themes run through the hour-long work. In six monumental projections, these fragments are wowen into a whole, and open for a multitude of reflections on the delicate relationship between humans and the planet.Purple is a sequel to Vertigo Sea, which was shown at Bildmuseet in 2015. The museum was the first to exhibit the work following its premiere at the Venice Biennale that same year.John Akomfrah (b. 1957 in Accra, Ghana) lives and works in London. He was one of the founders of the Black Audio Film Collective, a group of artists and filmmakers dedicated to examining issues of Black British identity. In 1997 he co-founded Smoking Dogs Films with Lina Gopaul and David Lawson (previous members of BAFC), and has since pursued an individual and distinguished film practice. John Akomfrah’s work has been exhibited at Prospect New Orleans; Documenta, Kassel; the Centre Pompidou, Paris; the Venice Biennale; the Tate Britain, London; the Whitechapel Gallery, London; the Museum of Modern Art, New York, and film festivals in Cannes and Toronto, among others. In 2017 he received the prestigious Artes Mundi prize.Purple is a Smoking Dogs Films production, commissioned by the Barbican, London, in collaboration with Bildmuseet, Umeå; TBA21-Academy, Vienna; The Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, and Museu Coleção Berardo, Lisbon.Press images can be downloaded at <a href="http://www.bildmuseet.umu.se/press-images">www.bildmuseet.umu.se/press-images</a><h3>For further information, please contact</h3>Museum Curator Brita Täljedal <a href="mailto:brita.taljedal@bildmuseet.umu.se">brita.taljedal@bildmuseet.umu.se</a> +46 90 7867714Editor: Helena Vejbrinkhttps://www.umu.se/en/news/john-akomfrah--purple_5811738/https://www.umu.se/en/news/john-akomfrah--vertigo-sea_5820282/John Akomfrah / Vertigo SeaPress and journalists are welcome to the preview in connection to the Swedish premiere of John Akomfrahs new three-channel film installation Vertigo Sea, a meditation on man's relationship with the sea. As first touring venue after the 2015 Venice biennale, the film will have its Swedish premiere at Bildmuseet in cooperation with BAC–Baltic Art Center. In conjunction with the preview and subsequent artist talk, there will be opportunities for individual interviews.Wed, 20 Jun 2018 17:01:40 +0200Vertigo Sea is a narrative of man and nature, beauty, violence and the vulnerability of life. It addresses the role of the sea for migration, in war and conflict, for the history of slavery and colonization. Herman Melville's novel Moby Dick and Heathcote Williams Whale Nation are two of its literary points of reference.For thirty years, spanning cinema, television and gallery-based installations, Akomfrah has engaged with questions of memory and identity, creating works which give voice to the legacy of the African diaspora in Europe. His poetic films are sensual audio-visual experiences that stretch the boundaries of the documentary genre and the format of the film essay. The rich imagery in Vertigo Sea is sourced from historical archives, nature photography, news as well as newly staged footage.Vertigo Sea premiered at the 2015 Venice Biennale, All the World's Futures. As a first touring venue, the work is now presented at Bildmuseet in collaboration with BAC–Baltic Art Center.The preview takes place on Saturday 24 October at 12:00 in conjunction with an artist talk by John Akomfrah. Lina Gopaul and David Lawson of Smoking Dogs Films will also take part [<a href="http://www.bildmuseet.umu.se/en/events/events/#artist-talk-/-john-akomfrah-10800">programme</a>]. Pre-booking is required no later than Thursday 22 October. After the talks, journalists will have the opportunity for individual interviews. Book your time slot via <a href="mailto:helena.vejbrink@bildmuseet.umu.se">email</a> please.Opening on Sunday 25 October at 14:00 [<a href="http://www.bildmuseet.umu.se/en/events/events/#opening-john-akomfrah-/-vertigo-sea-10637">programme</a>]. John Akomfrah will make a presentation of Vertigo Sea, which will be screened continuously during Bildmuseet’s opening hours until 17 January 2016.John Akomfrah (b. 1957, Accra, Ghana) lives and works in London. He was one of the founders of the seminal Black Audio Film Collective together with, among others, David Lawson and Lina Gopaul with whom he still collaborates today. His work has been shown at the Liverpool Biennial, Documenta 11, De Balie in Amsterdam, Centre Pompidou in Paris, the Serpentine Gallery and Whitechapel Art Gallery in London, MoMA in New York and at the Cannes, Toronto and Sundance international film festivals, among others.Vertigo Sea is a Smoking Dogs Films production supported by Bildmuseet and BAC–Baltic Art Center, the Swedish Arts Council, Sharjah Art Foundation, BBC Natural History Unit, British Film Institute, Arts Council of England and Tyneside Cinema Gallery.<a href="http://www.bildmuseet.umu.se/sv/press/pressrum/">Press images</a> may be downloaded at Bildmuseet’s website.<h3>Contact information</h3>Further information on John Akomfrah/Vertigo Sea:Director Katarina Pierre, Bildmuseet katarina.pierre@bildmuseet.umu.se, +46 90-786 9632Questions about the preview, individual interviews or press images:Helena Vejbrink, press and communications officer helena.vejbrink@bildmuseet.umu.se, +46 90-786 9073Editor: Helena Vejbrinkhttps://www.umu.se/en/news/john-akomfrah--vertigo-sea_5820282/https://www.umu.se/en/news/katarina-pirak-sikku--nammalahpan_5825508/Katarina Pirak Sikku / NammaláhpánThe exhibition Katarina Pirak Sikku / Nammaláhpán opens at Bildmuseet on Sunday February 2, at 15:00, and runs thereafter until April 20. Welcome to a preview on Thursday January 30, at 10:00. The artist will give an introduction to her exhibition.Wed, 20 Jun 2018 17:28:39 +0200(The same dates for the preview and opening of the exhibition <a href="http://www.bildmuseet.umu.se/en/press/press-room/press-releases/?link=http%3a%2f%2frss.kc.umu.se%2fViewPage.action%3fsiteNodeId%3d44338%26languageId%3d1%26contentId%3d228934">Leonor Fini / Pourquoi pas?</a>)“Can sorrow be inherited?” asked the artist Katarina Pirak Sikku when she looked into the studies of Sami people conducted by the Institute for Race Biology during the first half of the 20th century. She wanted to find new ways to relate to these historical events that haunted her in the form of a dark inner sadness.She has examined archive material, but also interviewed individuals who were subjected to physical measurement and photographic registration in the lists at the State Institute for Race Biology in Uppsala – the institute that under the leadership of Herman Lundborg conducted a major study of the Sami people, whom they regarded as a “degenerate race”.Many people have studied race biology before, but Katarina Pirak Sikku has approached the subject with totally new questions and from a different perspective. She wonders how the Sami people who were subjected to the investigations perceived the situation. Was it abuse at that time, or is this a perception we have today? At Bildmuseet she presents her artistic configuration of this material in the form of drawings, photographs, paintings, installations and texts.The title Nammaláhpán refers to a Sami word denoting a reindeer. During the course of a reindeer’s life it is given a number of different names – descriptive names that indicate, among other things, age and gender. But as the reindeer ages it becomes a nammaláhpán – one that has lost its name. During her research project Katarina Pirak Sikku has attempted to identify some of the anonymous individuals and locations that she encountered in the Institute’s photograph albums, letters and archives. She recognised them herself, or met others who recognised both people and places. The photographs were not taken at anonymous research institutions, but in churches, schools and natural locations that are familiar to Katarina Pirak Sikku. The people turned out to be in her immediate proximity. People who have forgotten or suppressed finally start to talk, as the artist asks questions and shows them the photos she found. Katarina herself talks about her project on the following pages.Katarina Pirak Sikku (born 1965) was educated at Umeå Academy of Fine Arts and is now resident in Jokkmokk, Norrbotten in Sweden. Her work has been shown at Korundi, Rovaniemi in Finland 2012; Grafikens hus, Mariefred in Sweden, 2012; Museo de Arte Moderno de Medellín, Colombia, 2011; Árran lulesamisk senter, Drag, Norway, 2011.The exhibition is produced by Bildmuseet with funding support from Umeå2014 and Kulturkontakt Nord. It runs from January 31 until April 20, 2014.<h3>For further information, please contact</h3>Sofia Johansson, Curator BildmuseetPhone +46 90 786 93 53 E-mail sofia.johansson@bildmuseet.umu.se<h2 id="info0">Programs in conjuction with the exhibition</h2>Thursday January 30, at 10:00 Press preview, Katarina Pirak Sikku participatesSunday February 2, at 15:00 Opening, Katarina Pirak Sikku participatesTuesday February 4, at 18:30 The artist Katarina Pirak Sikku and Maja Hagerman, author and science journalist, in conversation about race biology and their different ways to approach the same source material.Tuesday February 25, at 18:30 The History of Race Biology. A lecture by the Author Ola Larsmo in conjuction with the exhibition Katarina Pirak Sikku / NammaláhpánTuesday March 4, at 18:30 Katarina Pirak Sikku gives a guided tour in her exhibition NammaláhpánTuesday March 18, at 18:30 About the Sami Rights to Land and Water. Patrik Lantto, Centre for Sami Research (Cesam – Vartoe), Umeå University, gives a lecture in Katarina Pirak Sikku / Nammaláhpán. In cooperation with Cesam – VartoeTuesday April 8, at 18:30 Curator Sofia Johansson gives a guided tour in the exhibition Katarina Pirak Sikku / NammaláhpánEditor: Helena Vejbrinkhttps://www.umu.se/en/news/katarina-pirak-sikku--nammalahpan_5825508/https://www.umu.se/en/news/kirunatopia--in-the-shadow-of-the-future_5830360/Kirunatopia / In the Shadow of the FutureOn Wednesday 20 June at 17.00 Bildmuseet opens an exhibition of twelve international and Swedish artists' works on a city in transition.Wed, 20 Jun 2018 17:50:13 +0200The town of Kiruna is situated on top of one of the largest iron ore deposits in the world. The town was founded as a modern project at a time when Norrland was named "Land of the Future" in view of its natural resources. Today the mining has caused cracks in the ground which make the town face a historical transformation – its center has to be moved. During 2010 and 2011, artists Lara Almarcegui (Rotterdam), Agneta Andersson (Kiruna), Geir Tore Holm (Skiptvet), Dave Hullfish Bailey (Los Angeles), Lina Issa (Amsterdam), Ingela Johansson (Stockholm), Søssa Jørgensen (Skiptvet), Britta Marakatt-Labba (Upper Soppero), Boris Sieverts (Cologne), Ingo Vetter (Bremen) och Florian Zeyfang (Berlin) were offered work- and research time in Kiruna in a project by Goethe-Institut Schweden. For the first time on display, Bildmuseet present the results of their investigations. The exhibition also features work by artist and filmmaker Liselotte Wajstedt. Her forthcoming documentary "Kiruna - Rymdvägen" will premiere during the exhibition period. The exhibition is installed around a copy of a wooden construction, built after a century-old photograph by Borg Mesch. The original probably served as a protection against the wind when balloons were launched to perform measurements of the ground. Here, in the exhibition, it symbolizes the modernization and colonization of the North. Kirunatopia / In the Shadow of the Future is curated by Kim Einarsson, Konsthall C and Brita Täljedal, Bildmuseet. The exhibition is a co-production between Bildmuseet, Goethe-Institut Schweden and Konsthall C, in cooperation with Kiruna City Council and Umeå Academy of Fine Arts, Umeå University.Editor: Helena Vejbrinkhttps://www.umu.se/en/news/kirunatopia--in-the-shadow-of-the-future_5830360/https://www.umu.se/en/news/lars-nittve---artistic-advisor-for-bildmuseet-at-umea-arts-campus--_5844387/Lars Nittve - artistic advisor for Bildmuseet at Umeå Arts Campus Lars Nittve, who is departing as the director of Moderna Museet (Museum of Modern Art) in Stockholm this autumn, begins as visiting professor and artistic advisor for Bildmuseet, the museum of Umeå University, on the first of July.Wed, 20 Jun 2018 18:09:37 +0200During the development of the new exhibition site at Umeå Arts Campus, Mr. Nittve will lead an Advisory Board and contribute with his experience and network in the artistic development and exhibition work."We are delighted that Lars Nittve is taking on this post. It is hard to find someone with equivalent experience and knowledge. Through the years he has also been involved in the development of both the Umeå Academy of Fine Arts and Bildmuseet at Umeå University, including other aspects of the city's artistic life. This commitment resulted in his appointment as an honorary doctorate from the Faculty of Arts last year," says Dean Britta Lundgren."The fundamentals for something extraordinary to occur from Umeå Arts Campus are incredibly strong. There is a pioneering spirit, ambition and plenty of resources. To be involved from the beginning feels incredibly exciting," says Lars Nittve.Umeå Arts Campus is intended to function as a hub for education, research and professional activities in architecture, design, art and new media. The campus area, which is located along the banks of the Umeå River, already includes Umeå Institute of Design and Umeå Academy of Arts. The new building for Umeå School of Architecture will be completed in the autumn. Construction work for the Academy of Arts’ new building has already begun, and an incubator for the creative industries will be built in the Academy’s old premises. A seven story exhibition building for Bildmuseet will be situated between Umeå School of Architecture and new Umeå Academy of Fine Arts."The vision of Umeå Arts Campus is to create a creative environment that echoes across the world," says Göran Sandberg, Vice-Chancellor of Umeå University.Umeå Arts Campus is expected to be complete in the early part of 2012.Lars Nittve has a direct connection to the development for Umeå Arts Campus. He was one of three experts behind the report, written on behalf of the Vice-Chancellor, on the developmental plans for Umeå Academy of Arts at Umeå University. Nittve also contributed with a visionary approach as to how the Academy could cultivate in the future Umeå Arts Campus.Investment in the Umeå Arts Campus comprises a total of SEK 350 million. Umeå Municipality and the real estate company Balticgruppen Design AB have previously decided to contribute funding for the new campus. Umeå Municipality has implied that the improvement of the exhibition activities at Umeå Arts Campus is included in the venture of being the European Capital of Culture for 2014,“I am proud and enthusiastic about Lars Nittve’s decision to want to participate in the work with Bildmuseet and Umeå Arts Campus,” says Marie-Louise Rönnmark, Municipal Commissioner (Social Democratic Party)."Umeå is now taking another step to further develop the conditions and visibility for the arts and culture. I am particularly pleased with Lars Nittve’s vision of the roll culture as provocateur and innovator. Umeå already has a prominent role in the culture of Sweden, and is now moving upward with acceleration," continues Rönnmark.For further information, please contact:Professor Britta Lundgren, Dean of the Faculty of Arts, Umeå University E-mail: <a href="mailto:britta.lundgren@kultmed.umu.se">britta.lundgren@kultmed.umu.se</a> Mobile: +46 (0)70-651 68 22Lars Nittve, Director of Moderna Museet E-mail: <a href="mailto:l.nittve@modernamuseet.se">l.nittve@modernamuseet.se</a> Phone: +46 (0)8-5195 6259Marie-Louise Rönnmark, Commissioner, Umeå Municipality Mobile: +46 (0)70-655 64 84<a class="columnarrow" href="http://www.umu.se/digitalAssets/46/46368_lars_nittve-051116.jpg">Press photo: Lars Nittve </a> <a class="columnarrow" href="http://www8.presskontakt.umu.se/pressbilder/Aktuella/Konstcampus.jpg">Image of the future Umeå Arts Campus </a> <a class="columnarrow" href="http://www.umu.se/english/about-umu/our-campuses/umea-arts-campus">Read more about Umeå Arts Campus</a>https://www.umu.se/en/news/lars-nittve---artistic-advisor-for-bildmuseet-at-umea-arts-campus--_5844387/https://www.umu.se/en/news/leonor-fini--pourquoi-pas_5825492/Leonor Fini / Pourquoi pas?The exhibition “Leonor Fini / Pourquoi pas?” will be inaugurated by the French Ambassador in Sweden, Jean-Pierre Lacroix, on Sunday 2 February at 15:00 and will run until 11 May, 2014. Welcome to a press preview on Thursday 30 January at 10:00.Wed, 20 Jun 2018 17:28:31 +0200(The same dates for preview and opening of the exhibition <a href="http://www.bildmuseet.umu.se/en/press/press-room/press-releases/?link=http%3a%2f%2frss.kc.umu.se%2fViewPage.action%3fsiteNodeId%3d44338%26languageId%3d1%26contentId%3d228833">Katarina Pirak Sikku / Nammaláhpán</a>)Leonor Fini (1907-1996) was a noted artist and personality in European cultural life in the mid-1900s. Her work challenged and questioned the boundaries between feminine and masculine, myth and reality, consciousness and the unconscious. The complexity of the relationship between the sexes is central to Leonor Fini who often depicts the interactions between a dominant woman and a more passive androgynous man. Several of her works also problematize the simplistic image of woman as muse and model in art.Fini went emphatically her own way and her work is characterized by a radical, consistent and individual approach. She moved in Surrealist circles and participated in the Surrealist exhibitions while, simultaneously, maintaining distance from the group's protagonist André Breton and his domineering attitude. Her contacts and collaborations with Jean Genet and Georges Bataille, among others, is reflected in her work. The relationship between the sexes is a central theme of the exhibition that includes works from 1930’s, 40’s and 50's.Surrealism is a cultural movement that emerged in Europe during the 1920s. It was of great significance for the development of art in the Western world during the first half of the 1900s and also came to influence political thought, social theory and philosophy. To deviate from routine, be spontaneous, inspired by dreams and the unconscious were particular traits among the Surrealists.The exhibition Leonor Fini / Pourquoi pas? highlights the diversity of Leonor Fini’s expression and presents paintings, drawings, objects, book illustrations, literature as well as costume design for theatre, ballet and opera. It also includes a selection of portrait photographs of Leonor Fini where she poses in various contexts, many of which are taken by and along with her fellow artists.The exhibitions’ subtitle Pourquoi pas? (Why not?) refers to a previously unpublished manuscript by Leonor Fini dated 1995, where she compiled short texts from different periods of her life under the title Pourquoi pas? Three of these texts has now been translated from French into English and Swedish and is included in the catalogue accompanying the exhibition.Despite Leonor Fini's importance as an artist and her status as cultural personality she has not, until today, been presented in Scandinavia. From an art historical perspective, her production is a point of reference and an exhibition of her accomplished artistic abilities is most appropriate. The works have been borrowed from private collectors and museums in Europe and the U.S. It is with great pleasure and enthusiasm that we present the works by Leonor Fini for the first time in Northern Europe.Parallel to the exhibition, an extensive program of activities with related guided presentations, film screenings, open workshops and educational programs will be arranged. The exhibition is also accompanied by a richly illustrated bilingual exhibition catalogue (English and Swedish) with previously unpublished texts by Leonor Fini alongside new texts by Lasse Söderberg, poet and author, Anna Rådström, art historian, Cecilia Andersson and Brita Täljedal, curators.The exhibition Leonor Fini / Pourquoi pas? is produced by Bildmuseet with the support of Umeå2014, a key stakeholder in the city's European Capital of Culture year. Curators: Brita Täljedal, Cecilia Andersson and Anna Rådström. Scenographer: Alexandre Früh, Atelier Caravane, Strasbourg.<h3 class="MsoNormal">For further information, please contact</h3>Brita Täljedal, Curator Bildmuseet Phone +46 90-786 7714 E-mail brita.taljedal@bildmuseet.umu.se<h2 class="MsoNormal">Programs in conjuction with the exhibition</h2>SUN 2/2 AT 15:00 Opening: Leonor Fini / Pourquoi pas?. Inauguration speech by Jean-Pierre Lacroix, French Ambassador in SwedenSUN 9/2 AT 14:00 Surrealism and sensuality. Author Jonas Ellerström and Professor Elisabeth Mansén Ellerström give a tour in Leonor Fini / Pourquoi pas?SUN 16/2 AT 14:00 Curator Brita Täljedal gives a tour in the exhibition Leonor Fini / Pourquoi pas?SUN 2/3 KL 14:00 Curator Cecilia Andersson gives a tour in the exhibition Leonor Fini / Pourquoi Pas?SUN 9/3 AT 14:00 Self-stagings. Andrea Kollnitz Assistant Professor at the Centre for Fashion Studies, Stockholm University, gives a tour in Leonor Fini / Pourquoi pas?THU 13/3 AT 16:00-22:00 Ceci n’est pas une soirée de surréalisme. An evening in the sign of surrealism, with poetry, film, art and celebration. In cooperation with Littfest – Umeå International Literature FestivalTHU 13/3 AT 16:00 Film: IMAGO: Meret Oppenheim. Director Pamela Robertson-Pearce gives an introduction to her and Anselm Spoerri’s poetic documentary. Language: English. In cooperation with LittfestTHU 13/3 AT 19:30 The Beautiful and the Obscene. Author Aase Berg and Professor Birgitta Holm in conversation about Rut Hillarp and the literary surrealism. Moderator: Anna Rådström. In cooperation with Umeå International Literature FestivalTHU 13/3 AT 21:00 Poetry bar with readings of Sjón, Helena Fagertun, Athena Farrokhzad, Aase Berg, Grace Nichols and Joh Tachibana. In cooperation with LittfestTUE 25/3 AT 18:30 Film: Gifted Beauties (54 min). Anne Kjersti Bjørns award-winning animated documentary about the women of surrealism. Language: EnglishSUN 13/4 AT 14:00 Director Daniel Birnbaum and Co-Director Ann-Sofi Noring, Moderna Museet, give a tour in Leonor Fini / Pourquoi pas?SUN 27/4 AT 14:00 Leonor Fini: An Independent Voice That Shaped Surrealist History. Whitney Chadwick, Author of the book Women Artists and the Surrealist Movement and Richard Overstreet, initiator and Director of the Leonor Fini Archive, give a tour in the exhibition Leonor Fini / Pourquoi pas?SUN 4/5 AT 14:00 Leonor Fini Meets Donna Haraway – a Feminist and Surrealistic Intertwining. Anna Croon Fors, Associate Professor and Head of Umeå Centre for Gender Studies at Umeå University, gives a tour in Leonor Fini / Pourquoi pas?Editor: Helena Vejbrinkhttps://www.umu.se/en/news/leonor-fini--pourquoi-pas_5825492/https://www.umu.se/en/news/liselotte-wajstedt--the-lost-one_5824402/Liselotte Wajstedt / The Lost OneIn the film installation The Lost One, which premieres at Bildmuseet on Sunday 25 May at 14:00, Liselotte Wajstedt creates a tender narrative about her grandmother. She examines a personal history and discovers connections to her own life. Wed, 20 Jun 2018 17:22:48 +0200The work also reflects several profoundly universal questions and ideas about life. The piece consists of a film, an oral narrative, a photograph and a kolt.The narrative tells the story of a beloved grandmother and her revolutionary life choices. Despite her Laestadianistic faith and the disapproval of her community, she left what appeared to be the perfect marriage to live with another man. Liselotte Wajstedt starts with her own recollections and contemplates them. As an adult she begins to understand connections she had never thought about before.The film weaves together family photographs and recent pictures. They are accompanied by a newly composed piece of music by Hanna Nutti, who has interpreted the story through text and music. In the film, Liselotte Wajstedt sews a white kolt for her grandmother using the sewing machine she inherited from her. Along the hem she has printed a row of images from th e grandmother’s life, which are then joined together, piece by piece.Elle Máret Valkeapää has created ornaments for the kolt that also contain photographs from the life of Liselotte Wajstedt’s grandmother. The kolt and the ornaments are shown in the exhibition together with a photograph of Liselotte Wajstedt wearing them. The photograph is taken by Lisa Kejonen.Liselotte Wajstedt (b. 1973) is an artist and filmmaker. She lives and works in Kiruna. Her films exist in the borderland between documentary and experimental arthouse movie. Her films include Jorindas resa, 2014; Kiruna - Rymdvägen, 2013; A Soul of a City, 2012; I am in Lavvu, 2011; Àrvas, music video, 2009; Faces, 2009; A sami in the city, 2007; The sami and her body, 2007 and A city sami in the woods, 2007.The exhibition is produced by Bildmuseet with funding support from Umeå2014 and Kulturkontakt Nord.Editor: Helena Vejbrinkhttps://www.umu.se/en/news/liselotte-wajstedt--the-lost-one_5824402/https://www.umu.se/en/news/lost-and-found-queerying-the-archive_5836241/Lost and Found: Queerying the ArchiveOn the 31st of January, Bildmuseet premieres the exhibition Lost and Found: Queerying the Archive.Wed, 20 Jun 2018 18:14:45 +0200Thirteen international artists examine issues of gender and sexuality that has been discarded or disregarded in the annals of history. Questions of memory and the writing of history is scrutinized from a queer perspective.The exhibition is produced in collaboration with Nikolaj, Copenhagen Contemporary Art Center and is shown in Umeå with the support of <a href="http://www.ucgs.umu.se/english/?languageId=1">Umeå Centre for Gender Studies</a>. The exhibition will be accompanied by a series of lectures and workshops by researchers and artists.<a class="columnarrow" href="http://www.bildmuseet.umu.se/enex.html">Bildmuseet website</a>Photo: Ingo Taubhorn: Untitled #21 (From the series Die Kleider Meiner Mutter 1993-2001)https://www.umu.se/en/news/lost-and-found-queerying-the-archive_5836241/https://www.umu.se/en/news/mario-merz--what-is-to-be-done_5830385/Mario Merz / What Is to Be Done?Wednesday 20 June at 17.00 Bildmuseet opens a major retrospective of 60s and 70s works by Mario Merz, a key figure of Arte Povera and renewer of sculpture.Wed, 20 Jun 2018 17:50:26 +0200Mario Merz (1925 – 2003) rethought the possibilities of sculpture by observing the world around him. The exhibition Mario Merz / What Is to Be Done? focuses on works produced between 1966 and 1977, exploring the Italian artist’s interest in process and proliferation. Here at Bildmuseet we present his igloo structures, his sculptures making use of ‘poor’, or ready-at-hand, materials, and works based on the Fibonacci sequence, a naturally occurring mathematical series first observed by Leonardo de Pisa in 1202. Merz was a key figure of Arte Povera, a loose grouping of artists working in post-war Italy during the 1960s and 1970s. This was a time of great social, political and artistic upheaval. The question that forms the title of this exhibition, What Is to be Done?, is central to Merz’s approach to art making. He was driven by asking what an artist can do in the face of a precarious future. This question is as relevant today as it was when these works were made. In the aftermath of what became known as the the Italian economical miracle, a dynamic and critical environment emerged in northern Italy, resulting in a creative revolution in the field of fine art, design, architecture and film. This was a time when the definitions of what art could be were challenged, a moment when new materials were explored together with new ideas, concepts and practices. Art could be made from anything: natural products, industrially produced materials, as well as immaterial substances such as sound and energy equally be expressed through performances and actions. The exhibition Mario Merz / What Is to Be Done? is the result of collaboration between Bildmuseet and the Henry Moore Institute in Leeds, a centre for the study of sculpture. Lisa Le Feuvre, Head of Sculpture Studies at the Institute, is the curator. This is an expanded version of the exhibition that premiered at the Institute in autumn of 2011, introducing a number of new key works. The exhibition has been made possible through the generous loans from a number of European museums and private collectors. A special thank you is extended to Fondazione Merz in Turin for invaluable support towards the realisation of this exhibition. The exhibition is accompanied by a fully illustrated catalogue in Swedish and English catalogue, available in the bookshop, featuring essays by Mario Boggia, Nicholas Cullinan, Lisa Le Feuvre and Katarina Pierre. Image: Mario Merz, Objet Cache-Toi (1968). © Mario Merz and Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg. Photo Helge Mundt.Editor: Helena Vejbrinkhttps://www.umu.se/en/news/mario-merz--what-is-to-be-done_5830385/https://www.umu.se/en/news/marja-helander--silence_5825301/Marja Helander / SilenceSnow-bedecked terrain, distant mountains on the horizon, vast expanses of bare ground, and natural and cultural landscapes. As part of a series of solo exhibitions by Scandinavian contemporary artists with a sami background, Bildmuseet presents photography and video by the Finnish artist Marja Helander.Wed, 20 Jun 2018 17:27:40 +0200Marja Helander’s evocative photographs focus on northern European landscapes and their special living conditions. At first glance, these scenes seem deserted, but people do live and work behind lit windows, artificially formed mining landscapes and smoking chimneys.The shifting nuances of light, the depth of darkness, and the solitary factory buildings convey a bewitching stillness, but also a sense of unease. There is a dystopic dimension in Helander’s beautiful but melancholic pictures. What will happen to these polluted environments, and how will their people fit in? The photographs are from Vardø, Norway, Kiruna, Sweden, Helsinki, Finland, and Murmansk, Nikel and Zapolyarny, Russia.The exhibition also features Marja Helander’s first video work, Trambo (2014). This video presents a performance that portrays the artist struggling through her snow-covered land.Marja Helander (born in 1965) lives and woks in Helsinki, Finland. The accent of her work is on her own identity in the borderland between Finnish and Sami culture and on the encounter between contemporary and traditional culture.The exhibition is produced by Bildmuseet with funding support from Umeå2014 and Kulturkontakt Nord.Editor: Helena Vejbrinkhttps://www.umu.se/en/news/marja-helander--silence_5825301/https://www.umu.se/en/news/nanna-johansson--comics-_5829797/Nanna Johansson / Comics Bildmuseet presents a selection of images from Nanna Johansson satirical comics, along with new materials especially produced for the exhibition.Wed, 20 Jun 2018 17:47:24 +0200The exhibition opens Sunday 14 October at 14:00 with participation of Nanna Johansson herself, and will run until 2 December. Press preview Thursday 11 October at 10:00: Länk Nanna Johansson (b. 1986) has over the past few years attracted attention for her satirical comics. In humorous images and texts she pokes fun at stereotypical gender roles and ideals depicted in popular culture and advertising. Her black humour shows the confusing world faced by a young person today. This year her third comic book Välkommen till min Psykos (Welcome to My Psychosis) was released. Nanna Johansson’s comics and illustrations have been published in, among others, ETC, Galago, Sydsvenskan, Bang, Verdens Gang, and at their own website, <a href="http://www.fulheten.com">www.fulheten.com</a>. Nanna Johansson also works with cultural journalism, for example in the satirical and humorously radio programs Pang Prego and Tankesmedjan. <h3>For further information</h3> Curator Lisa Lundström lisa.lundstrom@bildmuseet.umu.se 072-5224729Editor: Helena Vejbrinkhttps://www.umu.se/en/news/nanna-johansson--comics-_5829797/https://www.umu.se/en/news/new-book-on-art-and-physics-_8340866/New Book on Art and Physics Featuring works by contemporary international artists, essays about physics and art, as well as extracts from conversations between physicists and artists, the book Entangle: Physics and the Artistic Imagination is an introduction to how particle physics is inspiring the work and practice of contemporary artistsMon, 16 Sep 2019 10:15:23 +0200The new book, published by Bildmuseet Umeå University in collaboration with Hatje Cantz, makes the case that there is a growing body of important work by artists being influenced by physics and the way this fundamental science investigates and uncovers new knowledge about Nature and phenomena.The book features the works of fourteen international artists featured in the Entangle exhibition produced by and presented at Bildmuseet, Sweden, accompanied by essays about physics and imagination, physics in the arts/science movement, the theory of entanglement, and Surrealism and physics. It also encloses extracts from individual conversations with the artists and physicists talking about their different ways of looking at Gravity, Time, Space, Light, Matter, and Entropy. The book is edited by Ariane Koek, also the guest curator of Bildmuseet’s exhibition.Contributing writers: Philip Ball, Ariane Koek, Gavin Parkinson, Katarina Pierre, Carlo Rovelli, and Nicola Triscott.Contributing artists: Julius von Bismarck, Julian Charrière, Sou Fujimoto, Iris van Herpen, Ryoji Ikeda, William Kentridge, Rafael Lozano-Hemmer, Goshka Macuga, Davide Quayola, Solveig Settemsdal, Sarah Sze, Keith Tyson, Jorinde Voigt, and Carey Young.Contributing physicists: Michael Bradley, Bilge Demirköz, Michael Doser, John Ellis, Peter Galison, Cecilia Jarlskog, Subodh Patil, Hiranya Peiris, Carlo Rovelli, Kate Shaw, James Wells, and Peter West.For a review copy, please contact <a href="mailto:helena.vejbrink@bildmuseet.umu.se">Helena Vejbrink</a>, press contact Bildmuseet. To read about the Entangle exhibition, <a href="http://www.bildmuseet.umu.se/en/exhibition/entangle/31713">click here</a>.For further information, contact Director Katarina Pierre, Bildmuseet <a href="mailto:Katarina.pierre@bildmuseet.umu.se">Katarina.pierre@bildmuseet.umu.se</a>, +46 72-543 9632https://www.umu.se/en/news/new-book-on-art-and-physics-_8340866/https://www.umu.se/en/news/new-book-leonor-fini--pourquoi-pas_5823470/New book: Leonor Fini / Pourquoi pas?The versatile artist Leonor Fini was presented for the first time for a Swedish and Nordic audience at Bildmuseet during the spring 2014. We now launch the book titled Leonor Fini / Pourquoi pas? Which is richly illustrated with images from the exhibition and presenting previously unpublished texts by the artist Leonor Fini.Wed, 20 Jun 2018 17:18:31 +0200In addition, the book contains newly written contributions by poet and writer Lasse Söderberg, art historian and curator Anna Rådström and by curators Cecilia Andersson and Brita Täljedal, Bildmuseet.Leonor Fini / Pourquoi pas? will be launched during the Book Fair in Gothenburg as well as during an open evening at Bildmuseet on Tuesday, September 30 between 18:30 and 20:00. The three curators give a presentation of the book which will be on sale at a discounted price. Refreshments offered. Welcome!Leonor Fini (1907-1996) was an artist who challenged by questioning the boundaries between the feminine and masculine, myth and reality, the conscious and the unconscious. The relationship between the sexes is her central motif. Leonor Fini went demonstratively her own way and her work is characterized by a radical, consistent and individual approach. She moved in Surrealist circles and participated in surrealist exhibitions while marking distance to the group's leading figure Andre Breton and his dominant attitude.The book is published by Bildmuseet with support of Umeå 2014. It can be ordered via e-mail info@bildmuseet.umu.se.<h3>For further information, please contact</h3>Brita Täljedal, curator Bildmuseetbrita.taljedal@bildmuseet.umu.se 090-786 7714Editor: Helena Vejbrinkhttps://www.umu.se/en/news/new-book-leonor-fini--pourquoi-pas_5823470/https://www.umu.se/en/news/new-exhibitions-open-at-bildmuseet_5844239/New exhibitions open at BildmuseetOn Swedish National Day Bildmuseet opens three new exhibitions. You vill meet artworks concerning the impact of Spare Time on people’s lives and an enquiry into our relationship with the wild and nature. In addition, the result of collaboration between children, artists and a scientist.Wed, 20 Jun 2018 18:01:11 +0200<a href="http://www.bildmuseet.umu.se">Bildmuseet</a> June 6 - September 4, 2011Press preview: June 1, at 10 am Opening: June 6, at 2 pm (Swedish National Day)<h3>Spare Time</h3>The Spare Time exhibition explores the concept of spare time and the impact of recreational activities. What makes us experience well-being and satisfaction in our free time? How do we detach ourselves from work and our everyday responsibilities? The participating Swedish and international artists are: Gerd Aurell, Brice Bourdet, Christian Jankowski, Anna Lidberg, Roland Persson, Åsa Sonjasdotter, SpY and Helena Wikström. <a class="columnarrow" href="http://www.umu.se/english/about-umu/news-events/news/newsdetailpage/spare-time.cid160859">Read more...</a><h3>Edith Marie Pasquier: 13 983 birds</h3>13 983 birds is the title of British artist Edith Marie Pasquier’s exhibition at Bildmuseet this summer. Her poetic photographs, films and installations, represent Pasquier’s passionate interest in our relationship with birds and other wild animals. In this, her first major solo show, she presents a number of new works produced in Sweden, including an installation based on a current Swedish court case. <a class="columnarrow" href="http://www.umu.se/english/about-umu/news-events/news/newsdetailpage/edith-marie-pasquier-13-983-birds.cid161015">Read more...</a><h3>Everybody is Entitled to Security</h3>A Umeå University professor has told children of different ages about his research on brain tumours. With the help of the artists at Kulturverket, the children’s thoughts about the research have been transformed into art. The exhibition Alla har rätt till trygghet (Everybody is Entitled to Security) at Bildmuseet this summer contains film, music, pictures, dance and performance. <a class="columnarrow" href="http://www.umu.se/english/about-umu/news-events/news/newsdetailpage/everybody-is-entitled-to-security.cid160851">Read more...</a>Editor: Helena Vejbrinkhttps://www.umu.se/en/news/new-exhibitions-open-at-bildmuseet_5844239/https://www.umu.se/en/news/on-the-conditions-of-art-in-china_5823683/On the Conditions of Art in ChinaOn Saturday 13 September, Bildmuseet - Umeå’s contemporary art museum - is holding a conference in connection with its recent exhibition, Right is Wrong, an event which attracted great interest. Chinese artists and other movers and shakers in the Chinese art world will reflect on, and discuss, the conditions of art in China in relation to the country’s political situation.Wed, 20 Jun 2018 17:19:09 +0200One hundred or so people have already registered to attend the conference whose main speakers are Zhang Peili, Cao Fei and Liu Heung Shing, three Chinese artists from different generations and backgrounds. Lars Nittve, Executive Director of the new museum for visual culture M+ in Hong Kong, will hold a discussion with the art collector Uli Sigg, the man behind the world’s foremost collection of contemporary Chinese art. This will be followed by a panel discussion led by Pi Li, Senior Curator at M+ and Katarina Pierre, Director of Bildmuseet (Detailed programme).The artist Cao Fei (born 1978) is active in Beijing. She is known for her video and multimedia installations as well as her work staged on the Internet, all of which reflects the rapid and chaotic urbanisation of China. The exhibition Right is Wrong shows her video work “Whose Utopia?” which reflects on the dreams and actual experience of Chinese factory workers.The photographer Liu Heung Shing (born1951) works in Beijing too. He has previously worked as photo journalist for Time and AP, having been stationed in China, USA, India and the Soviet Union. He won the Pulitzer prize in 1992. In the exhibition Right is Wrong, his iconic series of photographs of the massacre on Tiananmen Square in 1989 are shown.Lars Nittve is Executive Director for the museum M+ in Hong Kong, a major venue for visual culture planned to open in Hong Kong during 2017. Previously he has been the Director of Moderna Museet in Stockholm and Tate Modern in London. Lars Nittve is one of the curators of the exhibition Right is Wrong which is produced by Bildmuseet and M+ in collaboration.Pi Li is the Senior Curator at M+ in Hong Kong. He has a background e.g. as independent curator and gallerist and has also been the head of department at the Central Academy of Fine Arts (CAFA) in Beijing. Pi Li is one of the three curators for the exhibition Right is Wrong, produced by Bildmuseet and M+ in collaboration.Katarina Pierre is museum director at Bildmuseet, Umeå University. It was at her instigation that the exhibition Right is Wrong came about. She has also curated the exhibition together with Pi Li and Lars Nittve from M+.Uli Sigg is the man behind the world’s foremost collections of contemporary Chinese art. This collection has now largely been donated to M+ in Hong Kong, from where Bildmuseet has loaned works for Right is Wrong. From the 1970’s and ever since, Ulf Sigg has been active in China as businessman, diplomat and art collector though he lives and works now in Switzerland.The artist Zhang Peili (born 1957) is active in Hangzhou, China. He was one of the founders of the Pond Society (group of Chinese artists) and played a leading role within Hangzhou’s avant-garde in the 1980’s. At present, Zhang is working mainly with video and photography. In Right is Wrong works are shown from his series of latex glove paintings as well as the video work Water (Standard Pronunciation Ci Hai – Sea of Words).Future programmes in connection with Right is Wrong include: 16/9, Bildmuseet is showing the documentary film Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry; 28/9, the China specialist Stig Valter Karlsson conducts a guest tour and gives his personal reflections; 5/10, Bildmuseet Director Katarina Pierre leads a curator’s tour of the exhibition; 7/10, the architect Ma Yansong lectures on new architecture in China.Right is Wrong is the result of collaboration between Bildmuseet Umeå University and M+, West Kowloon Cultural District, in Hong Kong. The exhibition had its premier during the European Capital of Culture Year in Umeå, 2014.<h3>For further information, please contact</h3>Katarina Pierre, Director of Bildmuseetkatarina.pierre@bildmuseet.umu.se 090-786 9632Editor: Helena Vejbrinkhttps://www.umu.se/en/news/on-the-conditions-of-art-in-china_5823683/https://www.umu.se/en/news/opening-at-bildmuseet-grada-kilomba--a-world-of-illusions_8381678/Opening at Bildmuseet: Grada Kilomba / A World of IllusionsBildmuseet presents Grada Kilomba’s first solo exhibition in Scandinavia; a trilogy of poetic film installations that use antique dramas to highlight postcolonial issues of racism, gender oppression and violence. Opening on Art Friday 11 October.Mon, 23 Sep 2019 09:29:04 +0200In Grada Kilomba’s Illusions trilogy, we find the familiar stories of Narcissus and Echo, Oedipeus and Antigone in new versions performed by mime artists. The exhibition at Bildmuseet is the premiere of the third chapter of the trilogy, and the three large scale video works are thereby being exhibited together for the very first time.You are invited to a press preview on Thursday 10 October at 10:00 (<a href="mailto:helena.vejbrink@bildmuseet.umu.se">RSVP</a>). Grada Kilomba will be present together with the actor and producer Moses Leo. The exhibition will be inaugurated in the evening of Friday 11 October with a conversation between the artist and Katarina Pierre, director and curator.In her poetic film installations, Grada Kilomba combines performance, theatre, choreography, and music. She reworks ancient Greek myths and stages them together with mime artists. Drawing inspiration from African oral traditions, she takes on the role of a contemporary Griot, a storyteller who lets the classic tales speak directly on the current political issues. The precision of the artistic expression combined with its urgent message make Kilomba one of today’s most interesting artists.Illusions Vol. III: Antigone (2019), is produced for and by Bildmuseet in collaboration with the Maxim Gorki Theatre in Berlin. This new commission is exhibited together with Illusions Vol. I, Narcissus and Echo, which was produced for the Bienal de São Paulo 2016, and Illusions Vol. II, Oedipus, which was co-produced by Bildmuseet for the Berlin Biennale in 2018.Grada Kilomba (b. 1968, Lisbon) is based in Berlin. Her work has been presented at Documenta 14, Kassel (2017); 10. Berlin Biennale (2018); 32. Bienal de São Paulo (2016); Rauma Biennal Balticum (2016); Pinacoteca de São Paulo;  The Power Plant, Toronto; MAAT – Museum of Art, Architecture and Technology, Lisbon; Kadist Art Foundation, Paris; e-flux, New York; WdW Center for Contemporary Art, Rotterdam; Secession Museum, Vienna; Calouste Gulbenkian Museum, Lissabon; PAC Milano; Bozar Museum, Brussels; SAVYY Contemporary, Berlin; Maxim Gorki Theatre in Berlin. Kilomba has a doctoral degree in philosophy and has taught at multiple universities, most recently at Humboldt University in Berlin. Her collection of short stories Plantation Memories: Episodes of Everyday Racism (2008) has been printed in 5 editions so far.The exhibition Grada Kilomba / A World of Illusions is produced by Bildmuseet and curated by director Katarina Pierre. In 2020, it will be supplemented with a publication on the Illusions trilogy, including the scripts of the three pieces, new texts by Paul Goodwin and Gabi Ngcobo and a conversation between Grada Kilomba and Katarina Pierre.Illusions Vol. III, Antigone (2019), is produced with support from Goethe-Institut Schweden and the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation.Press Preview | Thursday 10 October 10:00–12:00. RSVP.Exhibition Opening | Friday 11 October 17:00–21:00.Press images | <a href="http://www.bildmuseet.umu.se/press-images">www.bildmuseet.umu.se/press-images</a>For further information, please contact Katarina Pierre, museum director and curator <a href="mailto:katarina.pierre@bildmuseet.umu.se">katarina.pierre@bildmuseet.umu.se</a>, +46 90-786 96 32https://www.umu.se/en/news/opening-at-bildmuseet-grada-kilomba--a-world-of-illusions_8381678/https://www.umu.se/en/news/opening-of-summer-exhibitions-at-bildmuseet-_5835398/Opening of summer exhibitions at Bildmuseet On the 6th June, two new exhibitions will open at Bildmuseet, Umeå University’s museum of international contemporary. The large exhibition for the summer features the artist Pia Arke (1958-2007), a distinguished explorer of the Danish-Greenland colonial history and its aftermath. Additionally, “Everyone has rights - What is a good life?”, a question posed by Kulturverket to groups of Swedish and Italian children, will be on display.Wed, 20 Jun 2018 18:10:36 +0200A special exhibition for members of the media will take place on Thursday 3 June at 1:00 pm. A vernisage formal opening will be held on Sweden’s National Day, Sunday 6 June at 2:00 pm<h3>Tupilakosaurus </h3><h3>Pia Arke’s Issue with Art, Ethnicity and Colonialism, 1981-2006</h3>Through innovative methods, Pia Arke (1958-2007) explored the colonial history of Danish-Greenland, which she was direct product of, having a mother from Greenland and a Danish father. During her life, the Nordic countries seemed not prepared to discuss the colonial history Danish-Greenland, and her artistry did not receive the recognition and the attention it deserved. This is hoped to be resolved with the exhibition “Tupilakosaurus - Pia Arke’s Issue with Art, ethnicity and Colonialism, 1981-2006."The exhibition will be on display at Bildmuseet from the 6th of June to 5 September 2010.For further information about Pia Arke’s exhibition, contact:Brita Täljedal, Curator Bildmuseet <a href="mailto:brita.taljedal@bildmuseet.umu.se">brita.taljedal@bildmuseet.umu.se</a>, +46 (0)90-786 77 14<h3>Everyone has rights - What is a good life?</h3>What is important for a good life? Kulturverket in Umeå posed the question to Swedish and Italian children and they knew exactly how to answer it. Now the children's views become art in collaboration with the artistic director. Discussions about a good life, on children's rights, on the architecture and art will be the starting point, and the children have expressed themselves in words and pictures, stories, films, modeling and music. Kulturverket has worked on the basis of students' ideas and thus created works in the exhibition. The exhibition title is taken from the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights, Article 25, "Every person has right to a suitable standard of living."The exhibition opens on 6 June at Bildmuseet and runs until 5 September.For further information about Everyone has rights, contact: Margareta Ling, Kulturverket, <a href="mailto:margareta.ling@umea.se">margareta.ling@umea.se</a>, +46 (0)70 - 361 32 27 Sofia Johansson, Bildmuseet, +46 (0)90 - 786 93 53<a class="columnarrow" href="http://www.bildmuseet.umu.se/">Bildmuseet homepage</a>Editor: Helena Vejbrinkhttps://www.umu.se/en/news/opening-of-summer-exhibitions-at-bildmuseet-_5835398/https://www.umu.se/en/news/opening-of-the-new-bildmuseet-postponed_5831653/Opening of the new Bildmuseet postponedThe opening of the new Bildmuseet building on Umeå Arts Campus has been planned for 18 March, but delays in construction have caused museum director Katarina Pierre to reevaluate the date. The decision has been made to reschedule the opening to May.Wed, 20 Jun 2018 17:54:41 +0200"The new Bildmuseet is an extraordinary venue - a fantastic building - and it is also extraordinary in regards to the high level of security," says Katarina Pierre. "The complex security and climate systems, which make it possible for us to borrow and display artwork from museums from all over the world, take time to complete and fine tune."A museum building must maintain extremely high standards in security and indoor climate control. The facilities need a security system for the insurance policy to be valid, and also have to be easily evacuated in the event of a fire. A requirement in order to borrow artwork is a climate control system that regulates a certain level of humidity and temperature, in the summer and winter.It was only a few days until artwork on loan was to be collected from museums around Europe, but the construction delays have caused the premises to not meet the high standards required."It’s a colossal and complicated project to build an art museum,"explains Katarine Pierre. "Everyone involved has done their best but unfortunately it has taken longer than expected. We are renewing our efforts and assure ourselves and the residents of Umeå that once Bildmuseet is completed, it will have a standard that allows us to offer fantastic art in our future exhibitions."It has not been decided exactly when the doors will open for Bildmuseet, but it will coordinate with the grand opening of Umeå Arts Campus in May.<h3>Contact information:</h3>Katarina PierreMuseum Director, Bildmuseet <a href="mailto:katarina.pierre@bildmuseet.umu.se">katarina.pierre@bildmuseet.umu.se</a> +46 (0)70-643 3372Staffan Ling, Balticgruppen <a href="mailto:staffan.ling@balticgruppen.se">staffan.ling@balticgruppen.se</a> -46 (0)70-667 09 10Editor: Helena Vejbrinkhttps://www.umu.se/en/news/opening-of-the-new-bildmuseet-postponed_5831653/https://www.umu.se/en/news/owl-project-at-bildmuseet_5826986/Owl Project at BildmuseetOn Sunday Bildmuseet opens an exhibition with innovative and sculptural music objects made from wood by British artist collective Owl Project. The artists, Simon Blackmore, Anthony Hall and Steve Symons, will conduct a workshop on Saturday, before the opening. The participants will build their own "iLog Photosynthesisers". Wed, 20 Jun 2018 17:34:33 +0200Inspired by carpentry, hobby electronics and open source technology, Owl Project create innovative and sculptural musical objects. Combining digital technology and traditional craftsmanship, their instruments can be seen as a critique of throwaway technology as well as a comment on the interaction between humans and machines. They invoke nostalgia about crafts, and raise questions about our ever growing culture of consumption. The exhibition includes two new machines that examine the potential of creating sounds using a saw blade. BiSaw Synth is one of Owl projects inventions that plays a saw blade in a varied manner. The result is a machine that generates interesting sounds while simultaneously performing the task in a humorous manner. Treadle Synth provides both power and pace in order to create electronic music. It uses spinning saw blades to generate pulsed light and various sound frequencies. From each individual blade a new light and a new tone arise which to some extent resembles the classic Hammond organ. Based in Manchester, <a href="http://www.owlproject.com">Owl Project</a>consists of the artists Simon Blackmore, Anthony Hall and Steve Symons. In conjunction with the exhibition at Bildmuseet, they are conducting a workshop where participants can build their own digital music playing machines out of wood. <h2 id="info0">More information</h2> Cecilia Andersson, curator at Bildmuseet cecilia.andersson@bildmuseet.umu.se +46 90 786 6684 Editor: Helena Vejbrinkhttps://www.umu.se/en/news/owl-project-at-bildmuseet_5826986/https://www.umu.se/en/news/per-enoksson--the-forest-in-me_5824923/Per Enoksson / The Forest in MeSunday 30 March at 14:00 the installation Skogen i mig [The Forest in Me] by artist Per Enoksson will be inaugurated outside of Bildmuseet. Welcome to a press preview Thursday 27 March at 10:00. The artist will be present to talk about his work.Wed, 20 Jun 2018 17:25:44 +0200Our relationship to the forest is the theme of Per Enoksson’s art installation Skogen i mig [The Forest in Me] which is on display outside Bildmuseet. This remarkable work in wood and textile, that appears to grow out of the museum, reflects a longing for a simpler life closer to nature where everyday choices are reduced to the bare necessities. It evokes an ambivalent sense of being drawn to the diversity and choice of city life while also harbouring a longing for a return to nature, tranquillity and “the forest in me”. Outside, visitors can consider the outer shape and from Bildmuseet’s window peek into its interior.Per Enoksson (b. 1965) lives and works in Umeå. He created the installation Skogen i mig exclusively for the Bildmuseet exhibition. Previously in his career he has focused mainly on painting and has several large public commissions under his belt. Today he also works with design.Some of his latest solo exhibitions have been housed in Eskilstuna Art Museum, Sweden, 2012; Vetlanda Art Museum, Sweden, 2010; GAD, Oslo, Norway, 2009 and the Derek Eller Gallery, New York, USA, 2009.The exhibition was produced by Bildmuseet with funding from Umeå 2014 and Kulturkontakt Nord.Editor: Helena Vejbrinkhttps://www.umu.se/en/news/per-enoksson--the-forest-in-me_5824923/https://www.umu.se/en/news/photography-by-stephane-couturier-at-bildmuseet_5826130/Photography by Stéphane Couturier at BildmuseetOn Sunday November 24 at 14:00 Bildmuseet opens an exhibition with French photographer Stéphane Couturiers. His series Melting Point consists of sized photographs of architecture in Brasilia, Barcelona, Havanna and Chandigarh.Wed, 20 Jun 2018 17:30:57 +0200Welcome to a press preview of the exhibition on Thursday 21 at 10:00 and meet Stéphane Couturier. The artist will also be present at the opening.Stéphane Couturier has been photographing buildings in major cities since the early 1990s. The exhibition at Bildmuseet presents works from his latest series Melting Point; photographs from Chandigarh, Brasilia, Barcelona and Havanna where, through a precise procedure, two negatives have been merged to form one image. The result gives the illusion of entirely new and fantastic architectonic bodies and volumes.Stéphane Couturier (b. 1957) lives and works in Paris. His images have been exhibited worldwide, for instance at the International Center of Photography in New York, Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris, Tinglado 2 in Tarragona, Spain and Ursula Blickle Foundation in Kraichtal, Germany.<h3>For further information, please contact</h3>Cecilia Andersson, Curator Bildmuseetcecilia.andersson@bildmuseet.umu.seMobile phone +46 90 786 66 84 Editor: Helena Vejbrinkhttps://www.umu.se/en/news/photography-by-stephane-couturier-at-bildmuseet_5826130/https://www.umu.se/en/news/picture-book-of-the-year-exhibition-opens-at-bildmuseet_5811977/Picture Book of the Year exhibition opens at BildmuseetDuring Art Friday with Littfest 16 March, Bildmuseet opens the exhibition Swedish Picture Book of the Year / Fågeln i mig flyger vart den vill [The Bird Within Flies Wherever It Wants]. Author and artist Sara Lundberg will be present at the opening.Wed, 20 Jun 2018 16:01:41 +0200Press previews of the exhibition from Thursday 15 March according to agreement, as well as interviews with Sara Lundberg and museum curator Brita Lundberg, who is also a member of the prize jury. Opening on Friday 16 March at 19:00. Welcome!What do you do when you carry a longing for something that you can hardly put into words? The picture book Fågeln i mig flyger vart den vill [The Bird Within Flies Wherever It Wants] is inspired by paintings, letters and diaries by the artist Berta Hansson. It tells the story about an artist-to-be, and her youth in a small Jamtlandic village at the beginning of the 20th century. The book has been named the Swedish picture book of the year 2017 and was honoured with the national award Snöbollen [The Snowball]. Sara Lundberg, artist as well as author, receives the award in March 2018 during Littfest, Umeå International Literature Festival. Fågeln i mig flyger vart den vill also won the August Prize in 2017. Bildmuseet's exhibition will present the artist’s original paintings and preparatory sketches for the book.Sara Lundberg (b. 1971) is an illustrator and author, educated at McDaniel College, USA, and The Royal Institute of Art in Stockholm, living and working in Stockholm. She has illustrated more than 30 children's books has been awarded and nominated for several prestigious prizes. Vita streck [White Lines], 2009, was her debut as a writer, and she has since then written and illustrated four books of her own.The national picture book award Snöbollen aims at highlighting the picture book as an artistic medium and encouraging creators and publishers to push the artistic boundaries of the picture book, regarding both content and form. The initiative for the prize, this year given for the seventh time, was taken by the association Krumelur – Association for Young Words in the North, in cooperation with Umeå Kultur, Kulturföreningen Pilgatan, the county library of Västerbotten, Mittuniversitetet, Littfest, the Association of Swedish Illustrators and Graphic Designers, Littfest, and Bildmuseet, Umeå University.<a class="columnarrow" href="http://www.bildmuseet.umu.se/en/events/events/#art-friday-with-littfest!-18531">More about the Littfest evening at Bildmuseet Friday 16 March</a><h3>Contact Information</h3>To book a press preview and/or interview, please contactHelena Vejbrink, press contact helena.vejbrink@bildmuseet.umu.se, +46 90-7869073For further information about the exhibition and prize, please contactBrita Täljedal, museum curator Bildmuseet brita.taljedal@bildmuseet.umu.se, +46 90-786 7714Editor: Helena Vejbrinkhttps://www.umu.se/en/news/picture-book-of-the-year-exhibition-opens-at-bildmuseet_5811977/https://www.umu.se/en/news/poetic-conceptual-work-on-display-at-bildmuseet_5837124/Poetic conceptual work on display at BildmuseetBildmuseet at Umeå University is currently presenting a generous selection of works by Oscar Muñoz, one of the most promiment artists from Latin America.Wed, 20 Jun 2018 18:19:42 +0200Oscar Muñoz is internationally recognized and one of today’s most prominent artists from the Americas. Born 1951, he lives and works in Cali, Colombia. His poetically charged works, often approaching a kind of sensual or perceptual riddles or revelations, involves issues regarding the most fundamental existence and meaning of images in human culture – images and memory, images and identity, images and absence or death. Yet, the work of Oscar Muñoz is at the same time a consistent meditation over human vulnerability, over the history and presence and imminence of violence, in his native country Colombia and in human culture in general. Most often this is channelled through the portrait, and even the self-portrait, as a key motif in his oeuvre.Photography, video, screen prints, objects and installations are among the techniques and media employed in his wide-reaching production, which ranges from the 1980s till today. There is often a demanding or time-consuming and tedious process of production behind each work, where congenial or extra-ordinary solutions invent new methods of image creation. Works by Oscar Muñoz have been on exhibitions throughout the world over the past 15 years, including the Biennale of Thessaloniki, Prague, Venice and Helsinki. He has had solo exhibitions in London, Los Angeles, Bogota and Toronto. The exhibition at Bildmuseet is his most extensive in Europe.The exhibition at Bildmuseet – opening on the 6th of June, 2009 – offers a generous selection of works from the last 10 years. Several key works from his production from the last years such as Narcisos, Proyecto para un memorial, Linea del destino and Aliento are included in the exhibition.For further information about the Oscar Muñoz exhibition, please contact:Jan-Erik Lundström, Director of BildMuseetPhone: +46 (0)90 - 786 68 15 E-mail: <a href="mailto:jan-erik.lundstrom@bildmuseet.umu.se">jan-erik.lundstrom@bildmuseet.umu.se </a><a href="http://www.bildmuseet.umu.se/" class="columnarrow">Bildmuseet homepage</a>Editor: Helena Vejbrinkhttps://www.umu.se/en/news/poetic-conceptual-work-on-display-at-bildmuseet_5837124/https://www.umu.se/en/news/press-preview-at-new-bildmuseet_5831164/Press preview at new Bildmuseet Welcome to press preview at new Bildmuseet, Umeå Arts Campus on Tuesday, 24 April at 1pm.Wed, 20 Jun 2018 17:52:54 +0200Museum Director Katarina Pierre presents Bildmuseet’s activities. Architect Per Ebbe Hansson, Henning Larsen Architects, explains the thought process behind the museum’s architecture. Guided tour with photo opportunities and time for questions. Coffee and sandwiches served.Please confirm your presence to <a href="mailto:helena.vejbrink@bildmuseet.umu.se">helena.vejbrink@bildmuseet.umu.se</a> Additional press images will be available.Bildmuseet is preeminent on the scene of contemporary art and visual culture in Sweden. After 30 years of activities, the museum now moved to a new seven-story building signed by Henning Larsen Architects in collaboration with White. Property developer is Balticgruppen AB. On site at Umeå Arts Campus, situated along the Umeå river, Bildmuseet is neighbour with the Academy of Fine Arts, Institute of Design, the School of Architecture and Humlab-X.The new facade is made of larch and the museum building hosts three exhibition halls, a project room, a children’s workshop, a foldout presentation hall/ auditorium, reception area and museum shop. Bildmuseet’s location by the river near Umeå city centre offers a splendid view of the landscape and of the city.Following the press preview, installation of the first exhibitions will begin. On May 19 Bildmuseet opens to the public.Visting address: Bildmuseet, Konstnärligt campus, Östra Strandgatan 30 B, 903 33 Umeå. <a href="http://www.bildmuseet.umu.se/om/karta" class="columnarrow">Map</a>Editor: Helena Vejbrinkhttps://www.umu.se/en/news/press-preview-at-new-bildmuseet_5831164/https://www.umu.se/en/news/rafael-lozano-hemmer--a-draft-of-shadows_5823239/Rafael Lozano-Hemmer / A Draft of ShadowsHis installations have been shown in several of the world's leading art institutions and biennials. A Draft of Shadows at Bildmuseet is Rafael Lozano-Hemmers first solo exhibition in Scandinavia. Wed, 20 Jun 2018 17:17:15 +0200Artist Rafael Lozano-Hemmer works with robot-controlled light and sound, radio waves, motion sensors, film projections, animations in real time and location-specific sounds and voices. In his large-scale installations the virtual meets the real.As a visitor, you are invited to be a co-creator. With the help of your movements and heartbeats, the work takes on its own life outside of the artist's control. In Pulse Room, a sea of light bulbs blinks in concert with visitors' pulses. Frequency and Volume is a playful sound installation that visitors influence with their own shadows.Rafael Lozano-Hemmer (b. 1967, Mexico City) resides in Montreal, Canada. His installations have been shown in several of the world's leading art institutions and biennials. A Draft of Shadows at Bildmuseet is his first solo exhibition in Scandinavia. During the same period he is also participating in Digital Revolution, a group exhibition produced by Barbican Centre, London, now exhibited at Tekniska museet in Stockholm.Thanks to the Barbro Osher Pro Suecia Foundation and the Spanish Embassy in Stockholm.Editor: Helena Vejbrinkhttps://www.umu.se/en/news/rafael-lozano-hemmer--a-draft-of-shadows_5823239/https://www.umu.se/en/news/rawiya--she-who-tells-a-story_5828471/Rawiya / She Who Tells a StoryWelcome to a press preview Thursday 21 February at 10:00. Bildmuseet presents the photograph collective Rawiya in their first exhibition in Scandinavia, She Who Tells a Story.Wed, 20 Jun 2018 17:41:45 +0200The participating photographers Myriam Abdelaziz, Tamara Abdul Hadi, and Dalia Khamissy are present at the press preview. The exhibition is opened by director Katarina Pierre February 24 at 14:00. This is followed by a conversation between curator Cecilia Andersson and photographers Myriam Abdelaziz, Tamara Abdul Hadi, Laura Boushnak, Tanya Habjouqa, and Dalia Khamissy. 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, inter alia, the consequences of war and of the Egyptian revolution. 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. Rawiya, which means she who tells a story in Arabic, presents photography projects by Myriam Abdelaziz (born 1976, Egypt, based in New York/Cairo), Tamara Abdul Hadi (born 1980, Iraq/Canada, based in Beirut), Laura Boushnak (born 1976, Kuwait, based in Sarajevo), Tanya Habjouqa (born 1975, Jordan, based in Jerusalem), Dalia Khamissy (born 1973, Lebanon, based in Beirut) and Newsha Tavakolian (born 1981, Iran, based in Teheran). The day before the opening, Saturday 23 February, Rawiya give a workshop at Bildmuseet. <a href="http://www.bildmuseet.umu.se/english/events/displaypage/?eventId=4375">More information</a><a href="http://thenewartexchange.org.uk/realism-in-rawiya/" class="columnarrow">Realism in Rawiya at New Art Exchange, Nottingham</a> <h3>For more information, please contact</h3> Cecilia Andersson, intendent Bildmuseet cecilia.andersson@bildmuseet.umu.se 090-786 6684Editor: Helena Vejbrinkhttps://www.umu.se/en/news/rawiya--she-who-tells-a-story_5828471/https://www.umu.se/en/news/reynier-leyva-novo-exploring-cuban-history_5828468/Reynier Leyva Novo exploring Cuban historyThe Cuban artist Reynier Leyva Novo's work has attracted international attention, including at the Venice Biennale 2011. Bildmuseet now presents his first solo exhibition outside of Cuba. Welcome to the press preview Thursday, February 21 at 10:00. The artist will be present.Wed, 20 Jun 2018 17:41:41 +0200The exhibition is opened by director Katarina Pierre February 24 at 14:00. 14:30 Reynier Leyva Novo presents his exhibition (Curator Cecilia Andersson interprets). With a great interest in the history of his country, Reynier Leyva Novo explores, questions and stages different versions of Cuba’s past. He focuses in particular on the period around the liberation from Spain in 1898. The desire to die for others (El deseo de morir por otros) consists of casts of weapons used in various battles. Another art piece, The scent of war (Los olores de la guerra), consists of a number of perfumes named after generals and the places where they led their troops. These pieces of art can also be interpreted in relation to the current socialist society of Cuba and its strong nationalism. Reynier Leyva Novo (born 1983) lives and works in Havanna. He has participated in several exhibitions in Cuba as well as at the Venice Biennale (2011), the MARTE (Museum of Contemporary art) San Salvador, El Salvador (2011), the Liverpool biennial, UK (2010); A gentil carioca, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (2008). This is the artist’s first solo exhibition outside of Cuba. <h3>For more information, please contact</h3> Cecilia Andersson, intendent Bildmuseet cecilia.andersson@bildmuseet.umu.se 090-786 6684Editor: Helena Vejbrinkhttps://www.umu.se/en/news/reynier-leyva-novo-exploring-cuban-history_5828468/https://www.umu.se/en/news/right-is-wrong--four-decades-of-chinese-art-from-the-m-sigg-collection_5824277/Right is Wrong / Four Decades of Chinese Art from the M+ Sigg CollectionWelcome to a press preview Thursday 5 June at 10:00. The curators Pi Li, Sigg Senior Curator M+; Lars Nittve, Director M+; Katarina Pierre, Director Bildmuseet; and the artist Hu Xiaoyuan will participate.Wed, 20 Jun 2018 17:22:07 +0200Opening 8 June at 14:00. The exhibition runs until 12 October 2014.The exhibition Right is Wrong introduces art from four decades and presents the rapid emergence of contemporary art in China. Starting in the 1970s, we follow the development of contemporary art beginning with groups of artists such as the No Name Group and the Stars Group, via the events on Tiananmen Square in 1989, up to the incredibly vibrant art scene of today. Comprising almost 80 works of various formats and mediums: painting, photography, sculpture, video, installation and performance, Right is Wrong presents a selection of seminal pieces by key figures inof contemporary Chinese art history. The works are part of one of the world’s foremost collections of Chinese contemporary art; the M+ Sigg Collection from M+, the museum for visual culture in Hong Kong, presently under construction and due to open in 2017.Right is Wrong is an extremely concentrated contemporary art history narrated through a number of key works. It gives us the opportunity to look at the connections between art and society from the specificity of recent Chinese history by showing the development of the art scene in relation to the socio-political development in China. Right is Wrong raises questions about the relationship between art and contemporary life and contemporary history. It inquiresenquires about how art reflects or mirrors a society and simultaneously influences it, about how art not only reacts to and comments on events and incidents, but also is an agent shaping our future. This exhibition raises the question: what can art do? The relationship between art and society, art and ideology, art and politics, is the underlying theme which runs through Right is Wrong.Questions concerning the conditions for artistic practice, the freedom of expression, the freedom of art, its prerequisites and its limitations are foregrounded by Right is Wrong. Can art challenge existing structures of thought by asking the question: why not? Why not imagine another way of seeing the world – another way of being in the world? Art can offer a distorted mirror where things are turned upside down and set agreements are temporarily suspended; where right is wrong, and wrong is right; an alternative reality where hierarchies, systems of values and norms are turned to their opposites, if only for a moment. Right is Wrong proves arts’ ability to question, challenge and bring about change and how, in art and culture, we can articulate and express questions of urgency in our contemporary moment.Right is Wrong is organised as ain co-production between Bildmuseet Umeå University and M+, West Kowloon Cultural District, in Hong Kong, and the exhibition premieres during the European Capital of Culture Year in Umeå 2014. The exhibition is curated by Pi Li, Sigg Senior Curator M+ with; Lars Nittve, Director M+ and Katarina Pierre, Director Bildmuseet in collaboration with Uli Sigg. A catalogue accompanies the exhibition.<h3>Further information</h3>Director Katarina Pierre, Bildmuseet <a href="mailto:katarina.pierre@bildmuseet.umu.se">katarina.pierre@bildmuseet.umu.se</a> +46-90 786 9632For access to press images etc., please contactHelena Vejbrink, press and communications officer <a href="mailto:helena.vejbrink@bildmuseet.umu.se">helena.vejbrink@bildmuseet.umu.se</a> +46-90 786 9073Editor: Helena Vejbrinkhttps://www.umu.se/en/news/right-is-wrong--four-decades-of-chinese-art-from-the-m-sigg-collection_5824277/https://www.umu.se/en/news/sara-jordeno--diamond-people-instructions-for-a-film_5834570/Sara Jordenö – Diamond People: Instructions for a FilmDiamond People tells a story of three synthetic diamond factories in Sweden, South Africa and China. Artist Sara Jordenö uses photography, drawing and poetry to work her way through historical and contemporary narrations of Robertsfors, a small factory community in northern Sweden. The exhibition opens at Bildmuseet Sunday 21 November.Wed, 20 Jun 2018 18:06:58 +0200Bildmuseet Nov 21, 2010 – Jan 30, 2011Press conference Friday, Nov 19th, 10 am.Opening Sunday, Nov 21th, 2 pm. Artist talk Tuesday, Nov 23rd, 6.30 pm.Jordenö examines the small factory community's close relationship to – and, at the same time, great distance from – Kwa Thema, South Africa and Suzhou Industrial Park, China. What begins as an investigation of these interconnected 'diamond communities', soon becomes an inquiry into the processes of documentary writing and artistic practice informed by anthropological fieldwork.Above: Sara Jordenö, Diamond People (Kwa-Thema), C-print, 2007.Sara Jordenö’s recent body of work, Diamond People, traces the processes of globalization through a specific material: the synthetic diamond, a material that points to the contradictions that lie in the construction as well as abstraction of value. The project takes as it’s starting point Sara Jordenö’s first place of work, the synthetic diamond factory in Robertsfors. As a former factory employee and resident in the community, the artist is performing – and shifting between – the roles of the participant and the observer, insider and outsider. Rather than reaching a consensus, the project attempts to allow the tension between multiple viewpoints as well as between text and image. Diamond People reflects on the possibilities and limitations of artistic fieldwork and adopt a critical approach to documentary narration.The grounding element of Diamond People is the image of carbon, an element capable of producing both graphite, among the softest of materials, and diamond, the hardest on the planet. These elements take on allegorical relationships to the subject matter: diamonds come to represent the material conditions of labour, politics and reality at large, while graphite stands in for note-taking, writing and representation in general. But as the texts and images explore the progress of the diamonds, we are subtly reminded of the ways in which this element’s materials, which appear at first as stark contradictions, are in fact mutually constitutive. Representation and reality are as allotropic as graphite and diamond.Sara Jordenö (b. 1974 in Umeå) is based in New York. She talks about her work as ‘performative investigations’ and her research projects usually grow over extended periods of time and result in several works. Jordenö has a background in creative writing and text is a crucial part of her artistic practice. In her projects she often use methods borrowed from sociology and anthropology. She is continually exploring what it means – as an artists – to take the role of an observer, and how that type of action can be documented and presented in the context of cultural production.Taking their starting point from Jordenö's project, contributing writers in the complementing publication The Strange Case of Carbon (2011) Jill Magi, Johan Lundh, Steven Lam, Erin Lee and Katarina Pierre, allow their texts to unfold into directions at once personal and universal. Threading together writing, image-making and sound recording, we are brought to self-reflexive apertures looking at the constitution of these various fields.Diamond People: Instructions for a Film has been realized in collaboration with Film i Västerbotten, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, Konstnärsnämnden and Västerbottens museum.One version of Diamond People is presently part of the group exhibition The Crude and the Rare curated by Saskia Bos and Steven Lam at The Cooper Union Gallery in New York. Sara Jordenö is also represented in the Moderna Exhibition 2010, a mayor survey of Swedish art at Moderna museet in Stockholm.<h3>For more information please contact</h3>Acting Director Katarina Pierre, Bildmuseet,+46-90-786 5225, <a href="mailto:katarina.pierre@bildmuseet.umu.se">katarina.pierre@bildmuseet.umu.se</a>Editor: Helena Vejbrinkhttps://www.umu.se/en/news/sara-jordeno--diamond-people-instructions-for-a-film_5834570/https://www.umu.se/en/news/see-the-chemistry-at-bildmuseet_5834066/See the chemistry at BildmuseetOn 19 February, the Department of Chemistry at Umeå University inaugurates the International Year of Chemistry 2011 with an exhibition at Bildmuseet museum. The research is visualised with fascinating images of bacteria, snowflakes, proteins, and more. Wed, 20 Jun 2018 18:04:22 +0200Nature and life's smallest building blocks often form beautiful patterns. The images are also an important tool in chemical research to understand the world around us. The exhibition SE KEMI! (English: See chemistry!) shows current chemical research at Umeå University in a different way. The images illustrate new ways to disarm bacteria, how environmental toxins are transported in our nature, new materials with interesting properties and the small workhorses in our bodies – proteins. This knowledge gives us for example tools to eventually be able to treat diseases such as ALS, to find solutions for a cleaner environment and to produce many new products.The exhibition also shows a close up of a snowflake which opens our eyes to nature's regularity and beauty. The photographer is the American physicist Kenneth Libbrecht, who last year won the Lennart Nilsson Award - the world's most prestigious distinction in scientific and medical photography.The International Year of Chemistry 2011 is a worldwide celebration of the achievements of chemistry and its contributions to the well-being of humankind, initiated by the United Nations. In Umeå the International Year of Chemistry will be inaugurated with the exhibition SE KEMI! at Bildmuseet. This is one of several activities organised by the Department of Chemistry at Umeå University during the year.The exhibition will run from 19 February until 25 April, 2011. During the same period, Bildmuseet presents the exhibition <a href="http://www.humfak.umu.se/english/news//.cid151738 ">Miraculous Beginnings</a>, the first major Swedish exhibition of US-Lebanese artist, Walid Raad.<h2 id="info0">Press preview and opening</h2>Press preview: Thursday 17 February at 10.00Opening: Saturday 19 February at 13.00 The exhibition will run until 25 April 2011.<h2 id="info1">For further information, please contact:</h2>Åsa Nilsson Lindgren, project manager for The International Year of Chemistry 2011 at Umeå UniversityDepartment of Chemistry, Umeå UniversityPhone: +46 (0)90-786 99 39 Mobile phone: +46 (0)73-6205004 E-mail: <a href="mailto:ann@chem.umu.se">ann@chem.umu.se</a> <a href="http://www.chemistry.umu.se/kemins-ar-2011" class="columnarrow">www.chemistry.umu.se/kemins-ar-2011</a><a href="http://www.chemistry2011.org" class="columnarrow">http://www.chemistry2011.org</a>Brita Täljedal, BildmuseetPhone: +46 (0)90-786 77 14 E-mail: <a href="mailto:brita.taljedal bildmuseet.umu.se">brita.taljedal bildmuseet.umu.se</a> <a href="http://www.bildmuseet.umu.se">www.bildmuseet.umu.se</a>Editor: Karin Wikmanhttps://www.umu.se/en/news/see-the-chemistry-at-bildmuseet_5834066/https://www.umu.se/en/news/shahzia-sikander--parallax_5824925/Shahzia Sikander / ParallaxOn Sunday 30 March at 14:00 the exhibition "Shahzia Sikander / Parallax" will open to the public at the top floor of Bildmuseet. Welcome to a press preview at Thursday 27 March at 10:00.Wed, 20 Jun 2018 17:25:47 +0200Shahzia Sikander’s practice takes Indo-Persian miniature painting as a point of departure. She challenges the strict formal tropes of miniature painting as well as its medium-based restrictions by experimenting with scale and media, including video, animation, mural, and collaboration with other artists.Her recent video installation Parallax is comprised of hundreds of tiny drawings that have been digitally animated. The animation deals with the history of maritime trade in the Strait of Hormuz, particularly the fraught history of imperial control. The Strait of Hormuz connects the Persian Gulf, with Iran to the north and the United Arab Emirates to the south, with the Gulf of Oman and the Arabian Sea. Today, 35 % of the petroleum traded by sea passes through the strait, which says something of its immense importance. The animation is accompanied by a musical score composed by Du Yun and made in collaboration with local poets from Sharjah. The exhibition also includes original drawings that form the basis for the video work, as well as a selection of additional works. Here we see clear references to historical miniature painting, in which she is trained, and can observe its precision and richness of detail. Miniature painting is an art form governed by strict rules and regulations. While challenging the rules she has experi- mented with both scale and material, creating a groundbreaking and critically charged approach to this genre.Shahzia Sikander studied at the National College of Arts in Lahore (1991) and at the Rhode Island School of Design (1995). She has had solo exhibitions at the San Francisco Art Institute; The Museum of Modern Art, NY; Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum, NY; Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney; Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin; The Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington DC; The 13th Istanbul Biennial 2013; The Sharjah Biennal 11, 2013; La Biennale di Venezia, 2005; The Third Asia-Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art, 1999 and The Whitney Biennial Exhibition, 1997.Her work is represented in collections including the Museum of Modern Art, NY; the Whitney Museum of American Art, NY; MOT-Tokyo, MAXII, Rome; Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington DC; Kadist Art Foundation, Paris; the Pinault Collection, the Burger Collection among others. She has been the recipient of numerous awards, most recently the Inaugural Medal of Art by the US Secretary of State, Hilary Rodham Clinton (2012), the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Achievement ‘Genius’ award (2006-2011), The DAAD, (Berliner Künstlerprogramm, Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst) Berlin (2007-2008) Sikander lives and works in New York and Lahore.An illustrated catalogue produced by Bildmuseet with texts by Cecilia Andersson, Claire Brandon and John Zarobell accompanies the exhibition.Editor: Helena Vejbrinkhttps://www.umu.se/en/news/shahzia-sikander--parallax_5824925/https://www.umu.se/en/news/signs-of-conflict_5829041/Signs of ConflictBildmuseet presents a project by Zeina Maasri, an exhibition of political posters of the Lebanese civil war 1975-1990. It tells about the war and provides at the same time an insight into Arab visual culture.Wed, 20 Jun 2018 17:43:49 +0200Signs of Conflict traces the deployment of political discourse in visual culture characteristic of Lebanon's wartime conflict(s). The project examines the political posters that were produced by various factions, political parties and movements in Lebanon between 1975 and 1990. It is premised upon the idea that the posters unfold the narratives of the prevailing political conflicts while providing insights onto modern Arab visual culture. Lebanon's civil war is a complex case where local socio-economic and sectarian struggles, linked with regional politics, characterized political discourses and distinguished the numerous warring factions. That, in turn, materialized in the production of an equally complex plethora of political posters, with diverse iconography and conflicting significations, as well as distinct aesthetic practices.The poster-illustrated chart provides chronologies of the war from 1975 to 1990, supported with essential information on the major warring factions. The chart proceeds on two axes, horizontally with a year-by-year unfolding of benchmark events, and vertically across the various political parties. It thus produces a multi-layered chronology of the conflict showing political posters as symbolic sites of a complex discursive struggle.Signs of Conflict is based on a published study by Zeina Maasri titled Off the Wall. Political Posters of the Lebanese Civil War (London: I.B.Tauris, 2009).<h3>For more information</h3>Cecilia Andersson, Curator Bildmuseetcecilia.andersson@bildmuseet.umu.se +46 90 786 6684Editor: Helena Vejbrinkhttps://www.umu.se/en/news/signs-of-conflict_5829041/https://www.umu.se/en/news/soviet-mythology-in-latvian-art_5828749/Soviet Mythology in Latvian ArtSunday January 27 Bildmuseet opens two new exhibitions. Welcome to the press preview, Thursday January 24, at 10:00.Wed, 20 Jun 2018 17:42:48 +0200The exhibition is opened by Director Katarina Pierre on Sunday February 27, at 14:00. Curator Elita Ansone, Latvian National Museum of Art in Riga, gives a lecture at 15:00, Socialist Realism as Instrument for Constructing Communism. <a href="http://www.bildmuseet.umu.se/nyhet//.cid207026 " class="columnarrow">The exhibition Daniel Canogar / Quadratura opens the same day</a> Soviet Mythology in Latvian Art is an exhibition of paintings and sculptures from the period 1945-1985. It focuses on socialist realism as an art movement shaped by ideology and as a part of the Soviet political programme. Art was strictly regulated and the job of the artist was to articulate the ideals of communism. The myths that were formulated were about the happy Soviet society and the sense of duty, diligence and bravery of the Soviet people.The exhibition displays works by Vladimirs Andrijenko, Aleksandra Briede, Jānis Briedis, Aleksejs Fjodorovs, Sejmons Gelbergs, Tenis Grasis, Edgars Iltners, Eduards Kalniņš, Mihails Korņeckis, Emīls Melderis, Gunārs Mitrēvics, Anna Nollendorfa, Jānis Osis, Līvija Rezevska, Herberts Siliņš, Džemma Skulme, Aleksandrs Stankēvičs and Rita Valnere.Soviet Mythology in Latvian Art is produced by Bildmuseet in collaboration with the Latvian National Museum of Art in Riga, Latvia. Curated by Elita Ansone.<h2 id="info0">Program in connection with the exhibition</h2>SUN 27/1 AT 15:00 Socialist Realism as Instrument for Constructing Communism Lecture by Curator Elita Ansone, Latvian National Museum of ArtSUN 3/2 AT 14:00 The Ideological Significance of the Totalitarian AestheticsLecture by Lena Berggren, Historian at Umeå University. Language: SwedishSUN 3/3 AT 14:00 Soviet Period Modernists in Latvia. From Thaw to Perestroika Lecture by Curator Irēna Bužinska, Latvian National Museum of ArtSUN 24/3 AT 14:00 Art Criticism in Soviet Latvia Lecture by Stella Pelše, Senior Researcher, Institute of Art History at the Latvian Academy of ArtSUN 7/4 AT 14:00Guided tour by Sofia Johansson, Curator Bildmuseet Language: SwedishSUN 21/4 AT 14:00Guided tour by Brita Täljedal, Curator Bildmuseet Language: Swedish<h2 id="info1">For more information</h2>Sofia Johansson, Curator Bildmuseetsofia.johansson@bildmuseet.umu.se 090-786 9353Editor: Helena Vejbrinkhttps://www.umu.se/en/news/soviet-mythology-in-latvian-art_5828749/https://www.umu.se/en/news/spare-time_5844242/Spare TimeThe Spare Time exhibition explores the concept of spare time and the impact of recreational activities. Spare Time is one of three exhibitions that open in Bildmuseet on monday June 6th, the Swedish national day.Wed, 20 Jun 2018 18:01:16 +0200<a href="http://www.bildmuseet.umu.se">Bildmuseet</a> June 6 – September 4, 2011Press preview: June 1, at 10 am Opening: June 6, at 2 pm (Swedish National Day)What makes us experience well-being and satisfaction in our free time? How do we detach ourselves from work and our everyday responsibilities? The participating Swedish and international artists are: Gerd Aurell, Brice Bourdet, Christian Jankowski, Anna Lidberg, Roland Persson, Åsa Sonjasdotter, SpY and Helena Wikström.The exhibition includes photography, video, sculpture and installation, which in various ways make us reflect upon our relationship to spare time. Among other things the exhibition visitors will have the opportunity to hula hoop to the accompaniment of Chinese pop music; watch a potato field sprout and grow during the summer and climb into a bird watching tower to find out more about Swedish outdoor life.An illustrated catalogue accompanies the exhibition. Texts by Katarina Pierre, museum director, Sofia Johansson and Brita Täljedal, curators.Spare Time is part of an international project, and exhibitions on the same theme will be displayed in Latvia, Czech Republic and Bulgaria this year. The project has been funded with support from the European commission.<h3>Contact information</h3>Sofia Johansson, curator Bildmuseet sofia.johansson@bildmuseet.umu.se +46 (0)90 786 93 53Editor: Helena Vejbrinkhttps://www.umu.se/en/news/spare-time_5844242/https://www.umu.se/en/news/swedish-picture-book-of-the-year_5825227/Swedish Picture Book of the YearAnna Höglund’s "Om detta talar man endast med kaniner" (Topics of which you only speak with rabbits) is recognised as the Swedish Picture Book of the Year. In conjunction to the winner being announced at Littfest 2014, the original images to the book will be showcased in an exhibition at Bildmuseet.Wed, 20 Jun 2018 17:27:11 +0200Om detta talar man endast med kaniner is aimed at teenagers and adults and does not undervalue its readers. Images referencing to works by other artists give an extra dimension to this tale of alienation, high sensitivity and the actual conditions of growing.Anna Höglund’s recieves the award at Littfest 2014 – Umeå International Literature Festival. The exhibition opens at Bildmuseet March 16 at 14:00 and the author will be present to give a presentation of her book.The initiative for the prize has been taken by Krumelur – the organisation for young words in the north, together with Umeå2014, the Astrid Lindgren Foundation Solkatten, Kulturföreningen Pilgatan, County Libraries of Västerbotten and Västernorrland, Littfest and Bildmuseet. Editor: Helena Vejbrinkhttps://www.umu.se/en/news/swedish-picture-book-of-the-year_5825227/https://www.umu.se/en/news/swedish-picture-book-of-the-year_5825053/Swedish Picture Book of the YearOriginal illustrations from Anna Höglund's "Om detta talar man endast med kaniner", Swedish Picture Book of the Year, is showcased in an exhibition at Bildmuseet.Wed, 20 Jun 2018 17:26:46 +0200Om detta talar man endast med kaniner (Of which you only talk with rabbits) was named Swedish Picture Book of the Year, and awarded the national prize Snöbollen. Anna Höglund, who both illustrated and wrote the book, received the prize in March 2014 during Littfest - Umeå International Literature Festival.Om detta talar man endast med kaniner is aimed at teenagers and adults. It is a story of alienation, sensitivity and the dark thoughts that accompany growing up. Through poetic text and illustrations that combine collage techniques, photography and painting, Anna Höglund depicts a young person’s experience of being different and of not quite feeling comfortable with herself.The exhibition displays all of the original illustrations for the book, along with several of the original illustrations for Anna Höglund’s ABC och alla de andra gökarna (ABC and all those other Cuckoos) which was published in 2012.The jury’s motivation for Snöbollen – Swedish Picture Book of the Year 2013: “Anna Höglund has created a picture book story that does not underestimate its readers. Through poetic text and powerful images she draws us into a young person’s insecure existence. Images referencing works by other artists add dimension to this tale of alienation, extreme sensitivity and the reality of growing up. It is a magnificent and courageous work that demonstrates the capacity of the picture book to speak to readers of all ages and is, in all its formal aspects of design, paper and print, a truly aesthetic experience.”Read more about the award <a href="http://www.bilderbokspriset.se/">Snöbollen – The Swedish Picture Book of the Year</a>.Anna Höglund is one of the country’s foremost picture book artists who have published many books since her debut in 1982. She was born in 1958, and lives and works in Stockholm. She writes and illustrates her own books, makes animated films and writes dramas. She has also illustrated the texts of several other authors. Among her earlier titles are Först var det mörkt (First There was Darkness), Syborgs förbannelse (The Curse of Syborg), Vad säger klockorna? (What Does the Clock Say?) and the series about Mina and Kåge.She has received several awards for her work: The 1988 Elsa Beskow Plaque for Jaguaren (the Jaguar), the 1994 Deutscher Jugendlitteraturpreis (the German Children’s Literature Award) for Kan du vissla Johanna? (Can You Whistle Johanna?), the 1996 August Prize for Min syster är en ängel (My Sister is an Angel) - all three works were collaborations with Ulf Stark - and the 1997 Expressen “Heffaklump” Prize. In the spring of 2014, she received the prize Snöbollen – Swedish Picture Book of the Year for Om detta talar man endast med kaniner. Editor: Helena Vejbrinkhttps://www.umu.se/en/news/swedish-picture-book-of-the-year_5825053/https://www.umu.se/en/news/swedish-picture-book-of-the-year-at-bildmuseet_7637752/Swedish Picture Book of the Year at BildmuseetDuring Art Friday with Littfest on 15 March, Bildmuseet will open the Swedish Picture Book of the Year / Kom hem Laila [Come Home Laila] exhibition. Author and artist Eva Lindström will participate in the opening ceremony.Thu, 21 Feb 2019 16:48:12 +0100Press previews of the exhibition from Thursday 14 March, by arrangement, as well as interviews with Eva Lindström and museum curator Brita Täljedal, who is also a member of the awards jury. Opening talks are on Friday 15 March at 19.00. You are most welcome!Every spring, a jury selects the best Swedish picture book from amongst last year's publications. This year, the Snöbollen [Snowball] award goes to Eva Lindström's Kom hem Laila, a warm and playful story about adventure and longing. In the award jury's statement, the book is described as a narrative "capable of reducing text and image to a point where the mind can move freely". Text lines full of promise interact with images of both lightness and gravity.Eva Lindström will receive the award on Friday 15 March at Littfest, Umeå International Literature Festival. During our Art Friday with Littfest on the same evening and in the presence of the artist, Bildmuseet will open the Swedish Picture Book of the Year / Kom hem Laila exhibition, which will showcase the award-winning picture book.Eva Lindström (b. 1952, Västerås) is based in Stockholm and was educated at Västerås Art School and Konstfack University of Arts, Crafts and Design. She is the author of many acclaimed picture books and an inspiration and role model to many other picture book artists. Three of her books have been made into films. Among many other awards, Lindström has previously been awarded the Elsa Beskow Plaque, the Heffaklumpen Award for children's literature, En bok för alla's humour award and the August Prize – for which she has been nominated 12 times. This is the second time she has received the Snöbollen award for the best Swedish picture book of the year.<a href="http://www.bildmuseet.umu.se/press-room">Links to press images at Bildmuseet's press room</a> <a href="http://www.bildmuseet.umu.se/en/events/events/#artfridaywithlittfest-7536137">More about the Art Friday with Littfest on Friday 15 March </a><a href="http://http://www.bilderbokspriset.se/">The Snöbollen award website</a> (Swedish)<h3>Contact Information</h3>To book a press preview and/or an interview, please contact Helena Vejbrink, press contact Bildmuseet <a href="mailto:helena.vejbrink@bildmuseet.umu.se">helena.vejbrink@bildmuseet.umu.se</a>, +46 90-7869073For further information about the exhibition and award, please contact Brita Täljedal, museum curator at Bildmuseet and member of the awards jury <a href="mailto:brita.taljedal@bildmuseet.umu.se">brita.taljedal@bildmuseet.umu.se</a>, +46 90-786 7714 https://www.umu.se/en/news/swedish-picture-book-of-the-year-at-bildmuseet_7637752/https://www.umu.se/en/news/the-map-a-new-exhibition-at-bildmuseet_5838306/The Map, a new exhibition at BildmuseetThe exhibition The Map: Navigating the Present is a multi-faceted project of global contemporary culture. It takes a broad approach to maps and cartography of today; allowing for artistic, cultural, political and scientific practices to combine, meet and collide. Wed, 20 Jun 2018 18:25:36 +0200The Map: Navigating the Present is open at Bildmuseet, the museum of Umeå University from the 12th of October, 2008 to the 8th of February, 2009.In the exhibition The Map: Navigating the Present Contemporary art and visual culture will be engaged parallel with practices in cartography, cultural geography, political science, philosophy and linguistics. Altogether 36 projects address a wide variety of topics with a cartographic practice or an idea of mapping as the common denominator. The public will encounter both maps and the work of making maps as sophisticated tools for knowing the world, of accessing the real, but also maps as producers/generators of alternative realities.The Map: Navigating the Present is produced by Bildmuseet. The exhibition is a collaboration with Bucharest Biennale 3 and appeared in its first version in Bucharest, Romania in summer 2008. Other partners are the Romanian Cultural Institute and Umeå Capital of Culture 2014 campaign. The project is made possible through a special grant from the Foundation of for the Culture of the Future.<h3>Press Images</h3><a href="mailto:mattias.andersson@bildmuseet.umu.se">Contact for high-resolution images</a><h3>Vernissage (Exhibition Opening)</h3>Sunday 12 October at 2:00 p.m.<h3>More Information</h3>Intendent Brita Täljedal +46 (0)90-786 77 14 or Museum Director Jan-Erik Lundström +46 (0)90-786 52 27Editor: Helena Vejbrinkhttps://www.umu.se/en/news/the-map-a-new-exhibition-at-bildmuseet_5838306/https://www.umu.se/en/news/the-new-bildmuseet-at-umea-arts-campus2_5834273/The New Bildmuseet at Umeå Arts CampusIn the spring of 2012 Bildmuseet will move to a new building situated on Umeå Arts Campus by the Umeå river. The new Bildmuseet, a seven-story building, which is now under construction, is expected to be completed in December 2011. Architectural sketches, floor plans and a model of the new campus is presented in an exhibition at Bildmuseet.Wed, 20 Jun 2018 18:05:18 +0200The transformation of the area around Umeå Institute of Design and Umeå Academy of Fine Arts started in 2009. The first new building to be constructed was the Umeå School of Architecture, which opened in September 2010. The new Arts Campus will act as a cohesive platform for education, public exhibitions, research and professional activities in the fields of architecture, design, art and digital culture. The campus will also play an important role in Umeå’s European Capital of Culture 2014 venture.The new campus will provide a business incubator to help entrepreneurs in the creative industries and promote entrepreneurship by providing active and customized business support, office services, technical and commercial networks, and financial support.The Umeå Arts Campus is a result of the collaboration between Umeå University and the developer Balticgruppen Design AB. The new buildings are designed by Henning Larsen Architects, together with White Architects.Editor: Helena Vejbrinkhttps://www.umu.se/en/news/the-new-bildmuseet-at-umea-arts-campus2_5834273/https://www.umu.se/en/news/the-opening-weekend-at-bildmuseet_5825490/The opening weekend at BildmuseetUmeå will be the European Capital of Culture 2014 and the inauguration will take place Friday, January 31 to Sunday, February 2. During this weekend, Bildmuseet open its doors to a generous program and welcome visitors from Umeå and around the world.Wed, 20 Jun 2018 17:28:28 +0200Bildmuseet is filled with new exhibitions for the opening weekend. Guided tours are offered every hour, creative workshop for all ages and extended opening hours. Bildmuseet is open from 11:00-21:00 Friday, Saturday and Sunday. Free admission as usual.<h3>Sunday opening reception and Frida Hyvönen on stage</h3>On Sunday at 15:00 we invite you to the opening of the new exhibitions Leonor Fini / Pourquoi pas? and Katarina Pirak Sikku / Nammaláhpán. Presentations, artist talks and the mingle. Welcome greetings by museum director Katarina Pierre followed by speeches by Lena Gustafsson, Vice-Chancellor of Umeå University and Jean-Pierre Lacroix, France's ambassador to Sweden. Katarina Pirak Sikku talks about her exhibition.Opening festivities ends with a performance by Frida Hyvönen on Bildmuseet’s stage at 16:30. Please note – limited seats. Followed by mingle and exhibition visits until 21:00.The four new exhibitions at Bildmuseet are:<h2 id="info0">Leonor Fini / Pourquoi pas?</h2>Surrealist works from the 1930s, 40s and 50s by the French-Italian artist: paintings, drawings, objects, design, literature, film and photography. The exhibition is open all weekend, but do not miss the opening with the French Ambassador on Sunday at 15:00.<h2 id="info1">Katarina Pirak Sikku / Nammaláhpán</h2>Can sadness be inherited? Katarina Pirak-Sikku’s work engages with the racial studies carried out of the Sami population on behalf of the Swedish government in the early 1900s. The exhibition is open all weekend, but do not miss the opening event on Sunday at 15:00 when the artist herself is present.<h2 id="info2">Thilo Frank / The Phoenix is Closer than it Appears</h2>Poetic and playful installation that emphasizes our perception of light, space and movement. Among other things, a mirror installation that fills an entire exhibit.<h2>Andreas Johansson / Place Position</h2>Illusory three-dimensional collage of deserted landscapes and degraded areas. Photographs taken apart and merged to form new entities.Editor: Helena Vejbrinkhttps://www.umu.se/en/news/the-opening-weekend-at-bildmuseet_5825490/https://www.umu.se/en/news/theatrical-fields_5826752/Theatrical FieldsTheatrical Fields examines forms of artistic practice that make use of the theatrical in performance, film and video. The exhibition opens Sunday 29 September at 14:00 in the presence of artists Judith Barry, Stan Douglas, Isaac Julien, Constanze Ruhm and curator Ute Meta Bauer.Wed, 20 Jun 2018 17:33:48 +0200Developed as a research project by the curator Ute Meta Bauer, Theatrical Fields explores the analytical and political potential of theatricality through various manifestations ranging from an exhibition to public presentations, film programme to a live performance.The exhibition brings together major video installations: “Voice off” by Judith Barry (USA), “Suspiria” by Stan Douglas (Canada), “Sister Squares” by Marcel Dzama (Canada), “Lines in the Sand” by Joan Jonas (USA), “Vagabondia” by Isaac Julien (UK) and “ X Characters RE(hers)AL” by Constanze Ruhm (Austria). Situated in juxtaposition, the works generate temporal spaces for experimental action and create unfamiliar proximities and encounters.The exhibition also features a programme of films by Marie-Louise Ekman (Sweden), Eva Meyer/Eran Schaerf (Germany) and Ulrike Ottinger (Germany) screened on dedicated weekends and evenings in the presence of the artists. Related materials such as storyboards, sketchbooks, costumes, posters that constituted an important component in conception, production and dissemination of the films are presented in the exhibition. The video installations and selected films, introduce different methods and foreground various approaches, yet they all investigate the theatrical specific use of elements such as “character”, “voice”, “script”, “choreography” to deconstruct linear ascriptions and reconfigure them in nuanced positions of diversity.The use of theatricality in the exhibited works, their influence on contemporary art and its theoretical discourse will be explored during two whole-day events featuring presentations by the artists and invited researchers on September 28th and October 26th. Please visit <a href="http://www.bildmuseet.umu.se/eng/exhibitions/2013/theatrical-fields">Bildmuseet’s website</a> for conference programme and pre-registration.As part of the public programme for the exhibition, Joan Jonas will perform the piece “Reanimation” with live music by jazz pianist Jason Moran. Based on the novel “Under the Glacier” by the Icelandic Nobel prize awarded author Halldór Laxness, “Reanimation” plays with ideas of collages and animation. The piece is presented by Bildmuseet on October 25th in collaboration with Umeå Jazz Festival.Theatrical Fields is produced by Bildmuseet and curated by Ute Meta Bauer. Assistant curator: Anca Rujoiu<h3>For further information, please contact</h3>Katarina Pierre, Director Bildmuseet+46 907869632 <a href="mailto:katarina.pierre@bildmuseet.umu.se">katarina.pierre@bildmuseet.umu.se</a>Editor: Helena Vejbrinkhttps://www.umu.se/en/news/theatrical-fields_5826752/https://www.umu.se/en/news/thilo-frank--the-phoenix-is-closer-than-it-appears_5825605/Thilo Frank / The Phoenix is closer than it appearsOn Sunday January 19 at 14:00, two new exhibitions are opened at Bildmuseet. The Phoenix is closer than it appears, a large scale mirror installation by the Berlin based artist Thilo Frank, will fill an entire exhibition hall on the top floor. For the entrace floor he has created the site-specific work Circumpolar Lantern.Wed, 20 Jun 2018 17:28:50 +0200(The same day the exhibition Andreas Johansson / Place Position will also open)Thilo Frank's poetic and playful installations givs the viewer an opportunity to explore their experiences of light, space and movement. On Bildmuseets top floor the work The Phoenix is closer than it appears is presented, a room installation where the viewer is invited to participate. The artist has also created a site-specific work, Circumpolar Lantern, especially for Bildmuseet's entrace floor.The large mirror installation The Phoenix is closer than it appears occupies the exhibition space at the museum's top floor. The cube of mirror glass is a tangible object, yet almost invisible - just a reflection of the architecture. Inside, a boundless place of infinite reflections and in the middle a single swing. When one begins to swing, walls, ceilings and floors disappear in a centrifugal movement where the body seems to be thrown out in an endless space.The site-specific work, Circumpolar lantern is made by Thilo Frank for the large windows at the Bildmuseet entrance floor. This work, using light and form the change the viewer's experience of the site, is created based on a Voronoi diagram. The title refers to the objects in the sky that never sets below the horizon.Thilo Frank, born in 1978 , lives and works in Berlin. He studied at the Department of Intermedia Art , State Academy of Art and Design in Stuttgart, Germany. Thilo Frank has created permanent public works in Copenhagen and Hjallerup, Denmark and has exhibited at, among others, Treffpunkt Berlin, Arken, Denmark; Kunsthalle Wien; Future Gallery and Program, both in Berlin, FRAC Orléans and Atelier Calder Sache, France and at the biennial in Sharjah, United Arab Emirates.<h3 class="MsoNormal">For further information, please contact</h3>Cecilia Andersson, Curator Bildmuseet E-mail:<a href="mailto:cecilia.andersson@bildmuseet.umu.se"> cecilia.andersson@bildmuseet.umu.se</a> Phone: +46 90-786 6684Editor: Helena Vejbrinkhttps://www.umu.se/en/news/thilo-frank--the-phoenix-is-closer-than-it-appears_5825605/https://www.umu.se/en/news/three-new-exhibitions-at-bildmuseet_5834583/Three new exhibitions at BildmuseetMeet Ingo Vetter, Sara Jordenö och Anneli Furmark – On Sunday 21 November at 2:00 pm, Bildmuseet opens three new exhibitions. Journalists are welcome to attend the press conference on Friday 19 November at 10:00 am.Wed, 20 Jun 2018 18:07:06 +0200<h3>Ingo Vetter & Detroit Tree of Heaven Woodshop Motor Show</h3> For the last ten years Ingo Vetter has visited Detroit regularly for research, artistic production and to take extended photo series. Motor Show exhibition at Bildmuseet brings together a number of these series and assembles them around a central installation of car tires and ladders. <a class="columnarrow" href="http://www.humfak.umu.se/english/about/news/ingo-vetter/">Press release</a> <h3>Sara Jordenö – Diamond People: Instructions for a Film</h3> The diamond factory in Robertsfors is the starting point in Sara Jordenö's project Diamond People – Instructions for a Film, which will be on exhibition at Bildmuseet. In film, photography, drawings and poetry she presents the strong connections between this small town and diamond industries in South Africa and China. <a class="columnarrow" href="http://www.humfak.umu.se/english/about/news/sara-jordeno">Press release </a> <h3>Anneli Furmark – Mindmap</h3> A modest still life is often the starting point in Anneli Furmark’s watercolour paintings, but in combination with recurring images and notes from her personal sketchbook the motifs grows into imaginative and humorous worlds, where images and words merge into a poetic entity. The exhibition Mindmap at Bildmuseet exhibits a selection of Anneli Furmark’s watercolour paintings and drawings from 2008-2010. <a class="columnarrow" href="http://www.humfak.umu.se/english/about/news/anneli-furmark/">Press release</a><a class="columnarrow" href="http://www.bildmuseet.umu.se/">Bildmuseet webb</a> https://www.umu.se/en/news/three-new-exhibitions-at-bildmuseet_5834583/https://www.umu.se/en/news/uglycute--hamnmagasinet_5822926/Uglycute / HamnmagasinetDuring the autumn 2014, artists’ and architects’ collective Uglycute worked with a group of youths at Hamnmagasinet, a youth centre in Umeå. Together they developed ideas and created new furniture for activities at Hamnmagasinet. The result is now displayed in an exhibition at Bildmuseet.Wed, 20 Jun 2018 17:15:49 +0200The exhibition is installed on Thursday, November 20 and Friday, 21 November. Journalists are welcome to take part in the work process and to meet with Uglycute along with the young people involved. Please get in touch to find a suitable time.The art educational project Uglycute/Hamnmagasinet is a collaboration between the Bildmuseet and Modern Museet during the Capital of Culture year in Umeå. The goal is to accommodate and encourage young people's thoughts and ideas about contemporary art and the museum as a venue. The aim is also to provide knowledge about artistic processes and to discuss what art can be.Together with artist Jonas Nobel and architect Fredrik Stenberg from Uglycute, young people created a new stage and a back-drop to Hamnmagasinet’s café, the heart of the youth house. This is also where the new tables for creative activities will stand, like a piece of furniture for video games. The furniture reflects the many activities that young people engage in: music, poetry, circus and creative projects in various forms.Uglycute works across borders to challenge and expand the concept of design. They do this through their own production but also through writing, teaching and workshops. The results of their meetings with young people in Umeå are displayed in an exhibition opening at Bildmuseet on 22 November. Visitors can see and listen to various bands playing, dance groups and associations from Hamnmagasinet.The exhibition Uglycute / Hamnmagasinet is showing at Bildmuseet’s lower floor, in selected locations in the stairwell as well as in the museum shop until 7 December.The art educational collaboration between Bildmuseet and Modern Museeet during the Capital of Culture year are included in the Museum Museum project, a development project for art and learning. Thanks to the Academy of Fine Arts, Umeå University.<h3>For further information, please contact</h3>Lisa Lundström, curator of education at Bildmuseet 090-786 70 12, lisa.lundstrom@bildmuseet.umu.seEditor: Helena Vejbrinkhttps://www.umu.se/en/news/uglycute--hamnmagasinet_5822926/https://www.umu.se/en/news/umea-academy-of-fine-arts--cultural-capital_5824613/Umeå Academy of Fine Arts / Cultural CapitalCultural Capital, this year's Master of Fine Arts graduation exhibition from Umeå Academy of Fine Arts, showcases the individual works of 14 new artists as well as collective interventions connected to the public sphere and the city of Umeå as the European Capital of Culture.Wed, 20 Jun 2018 17:24:16 +0200Welcome to a press preview Wednesday April 30, at 10:00. The graduates will be present to give introductions to their works. Curator Viktor Neumann and the students supervisor professor Florian Zeyfang will also participate.Each year Bildmuseet hosts an exhibition of the graduating masters class from Umeå Academy of Fine Arts. This year's exhibition is titled Cultural Capital and shows the work of the fourteen Master of Fine Arts graduates under professor Florian Zeyfang: Lasse Brink, Mark Frygell, Jonas Gazell, Anna Johansson, Ingrid Klintskog, Wenche Crusell, Jens Lindqvist, Camilla Lundquist, Chris Magnusson, Ida Persson, Jaqueline Shabo, Madelaine Sillfors, Matti Sumari and Fabian Tholin. The exhibition is curated by Viktor Neumann, an independent curator based in Berlin.Cultural Capital will showcase the individual works of the graduates as well as their collective interventions in situations connected to the public sphere of the municipality of Umeå and it´s current state as the European Capital of Culture 2014. Cautious of their perceived cultural capital, these interventions are the result of the investigations and reflections on their role in the social field.Opening on Saturday May 3, at 14:00 – welcome! The students will present their exhibited work on Tuesday 6 May at 18:30, Sunday 11 May at 14:00 and Tuesday 13 May at 18:30.The exhibtion will be accompanied by a catalogue.With the support of Umeå2014, a second exhibition will take place from May 30th until June 5th at the Berlin institution ZK/U (Zentrum für Kunst und Urbanistik / Center for Art and Urbanistics).<h3>Further information, please contact</h3>Lisa Lundström, Curator Bildmuseet <a href="mailto: lisa.lundstrom@bildmuseet.umu.se">lisa.lundstrom@bildmuseet.umu.se</a> +46 90-786 7012Editor: Helena Vejbrinkhttps://www.umu.se/en/news/umea-academy-of-fine-arts--cultural-capital_5824613/https://www.umu.se/en/news/umea-academy-of-fine-arts--farewell-my-lovely_5827813/Umeå Academy of Fine Arts / Farewell, my lovelyOn Saturday 4 May at 14:00 Bildmuseet opens Farwell, my lovely, this year’s exhibition by the graduating students from the Master programme in Fine Arts at Umeå Academy of Fine Arts.Wed, 20 Jun 2018 17:38:48 +0200Welcome to a press preview on Thursday 2 May at 10:00. After a short introduction to the exhibition the students will present their works.The exhibition Farewell, my lovely presents fourteen graduate students who work in different media and with different artistic expressions: Josefin Bergman, Gabriel Bohm Calles, Arngrímur Borgþórsson, Jenny Carlsson, Kristoffer Grip, Andreas Knag-Danielsen, Caroline Ljuus, Elvine Lund, Anna Neander, Stina Persson, Tommy Persson, Julia Selin, Linus Svensson and Marte Edvarda Tidslewold.The common feature in the exhibition is a desire to explore the modern humanbeings relationship with nature and its own body.Farewell, my lovely is curated by Joakim Borda, Art critic and Curator based in Norway and Sweden. In the preface to the exhibition catalog, he writes:"Contemporary art is undoubtedly the most accurate pointer to understanding our own time, if one is capable of interpreting the signals. During the so-called »Boom years« many of the excesses of the time were reflected through art, resulting in a celebration of the spectacular and often involving costly productions. This was followed by a somewhat more sober Do-It-Yourself attitude centring on issues of ethics, sustainability and community – vital issues in a growingly pessimistic society where consumption and welfare cannot be taken for granted anymore. The dominating tendencies of the day, however, are not entirely certain. A sociologist might prove me right in thinking that we are experiencing an increasing search for moral compass and a turn towards inner values. Is it possible to create a strong community while retaining ones individuality? As a response to global ecological crisis, the fast consumer culture we are used to is being heavily questioned. The cultural effect so far seems to be a widespread nostalgia. Besides retro aesthetics and recycling trends, we can see a growing interest in locally produced goods and crafts. Working with the graduation show Farewell, my lovely, and this catalogue, has reminded me of some of these signs of the times, through the grounded qualities of many of the works. We are already used to the renewed relevance of painting, but an interesting aspect is the returning presence of the landscape motif. And yet, in spite of sharing sensibilities the fourteen graduates represented possess strong individual voices as artists." (Excerpt from the preface to the exhibition catalog by Curator Joakim Borda)Supervisors at the Master programme in Fine Arts is Florian Zeyfang and Julia Peirone.<h3>Programme</h3>Thu 2 May at 10:00 Press previewSat 4 May at 14:00 OpeningSun 5 May at 14:00 Guided tour by Curator Joakim BordaTue 7 May at 18:30 Guided tour by some of the exhibiting artists Sun 12 May at 14:00 Guided tour by some of the exhibiting artists<h3>Further information</h3>Lisa Lundström, Curator Bildmuseet <a href="mailto:lisa.lundstrom@bildmuseet.umu.se">lisa.lundstrom@bildmuseet.umu.se</a> +46 90-786 7012Editor: Helena Vejbrinkhttps://www.umu.se/en/news/umea-academy-of-fine-arts--farewell-my-lovely_5827813/https://www.umu.se/en/news/umea-academy-of-fine-arts-fills-bildmuseet_5835538/Umeå Academy of Fine Arts fills BildmuseetStarting on 8 May, exhibitions from graduating students at the Umeå Academy of Arts will be on display at Bildmuseet. This year's master’s exhibition features degree project artwork - painting, drawing, photography, performance, installation and video works. The bachelor's exhibition will be displayed simultaneously in Galleri 60.Wed, 20 Jun 2018 18:11:11 +0200<h3>Making Public Master’s Programme of Fine Arts, degree project exhibition 2010</h3>Featuring: Rasmus Albertsen, Tommy Andersson, Josef Daagarsson, Altansukh Demberel, Henrik Ekesiöö, Elisabeth Frieberg, Ida Hansson, Therese Johansson, Tina Lindberg, Fredrik Nyberg, Camilla Påhlsson, Nils Johan Sjöquist, Per-Arne Sträng, Ylva Westerhult and Martina Wolgast. Since September 2009, the master’s students have been working on their degree project exhibition under the guidance of curator Adnan Yıldız and professor Florian Zeyfang. Based on the French philosopher and sociologist Bruno Latour’s research and writings on the theme of "making things public", students have examined the artistic process, from creation in the studio for a presentation in the exhibition.When the exhibition opens on Saturday 8 May, Ida Hansson will perform “How Lovely to Be a Woman” at 1:30 pm in the Helena Elisabeth Church. Throughout the exhibition run, visitors will be able to reserve times for discussions with some of the artists, within the interactive nature of the project Art Dates.The exhibition runs between 8 and 23 May 2010. <a class="columnarrow" href="http://www.humfak.umu.se/english/about-the-faculty/news/making-public-2010/">Press release</a>For more information <a href="mailto:flamingokolu@gmail.com">Adnan Yıldız</a>, Curator <a href="mailto:florian.zeyfang@art.umu.se">Florian Zeyfang</a>, Supervisor and Professor at Umeå Academy of Fine Arts, +46 (0)90-786 7616 / 786 6864 <a href="mailto:mailto:brita.taljedal@bildmuseet.umu.se">Brita Täljedal</a>, Curator at Bildmuseet, +46 (0)90-786 77 14<h3>Bachelor of Fine Arts 2010 Bachelor’s Programme of Fine Arts, degree project exhibition 2010</h3>Featuring: Sara Alfredsson, Corazon Belen, Gabriel Bohm Calles, Lisa Jacobsson, Sofia Karlström, Erika Landström, Ingrid Ogenstedt, Bobi Prinz, Max Ronnersjö, Kim Rosendahl, Julia Selin, John Söderberg and Jenny Åkerlund.Bachelor's students will display their degree project works in Galleri 60, located one floor down in Bildmuseet. During the past year, the students have worked on their individual projects in a wide range of techniques and means of expression. Now they are presented in a collective exhibition. Together, the class has changed the architecture of the exhibition hall. Their supervisor has been Professor Ingo Vetter.When the exhibition opens on Saturday 8 May, Gabriel Bohm Calles will give a performance at 2:30 pm outside Bildmuseet.The exhibition runs between 8 and 23 May 2010. Experiences from BildMuseet will then be further developed and a second version will be on display. During 23-30 May, the exhibition will be go international and be on display at Projektraum Bethanien in Berlin, Germany.For more information <a href="mailto:juse0001@student.umu.se">Julia Selin</a>, third-year student at Umeå Academy of Fine Arts, +46 (0)73-4016323, <a href="mailto:ingo.vetter@art.umu.se">Ingo Vetter,</a> Supervisor and Professor at Umeå Academy of Fine Arts, 070-2293202 <a href="mailto:brita.taljedal@bildmuseet.umu.se">Brita Täljedal</a>, Curator at Bildmuseet, 090-786 77 14<a href="http://www8.umu.se/art/index_eng.html" class="columnarrow">Umeå Academy of Fine Arts</a><a href="http://www.bildmuseet.umu.se/" class="columnarrow">Bildmuseet</a>Editor: Helena Vejbrinkhttps://www.umu.se/en/news/umea-academy-of-fine-arts-fills-bildmuseet_5835538/https://www.umu.se/en/news/umea-universitys-bildmuseet-meets-the-world-_5838597/Umeå University’s Bildmuseet meets the world It’s not only new exhibitions that will be installed next week that display that Bildmuseet, the museum of Umeå University, is an international museum of class and esteem. Exhibitions produced by Bildmuseet will be simultaneously on display in Bucharest, Romania; Tromsö, Norway; and Thessaloniki, Greece. Wed, 20 Jun 2018 18:26:53 +0200This summer’s exhibitions at Bildmuseet will officially open on 8 June. It will feature a group exhibition with Mongolian and Swedish artists, a large solo exhibition by Jean-François Boclé from Martinique/France, and also an exhibition of Jewyo Rhii from South Korea in the project titled Urban Concerns.On Friday, 23 May, the exhibition titled "Being Here. Mapping the Contemporary" opens in five different museums and galleries in central Bucharest. "Being Here. Mapping the Contemporary" is the main exhibition at BB3, the third edition of the Bucharest Biennial for Contemporary Art, and is produced by Bildmuseet. The curators are Bildmuseet director Jan-Erik Lundström and intendent Johan Sjöström.The exhibition can be seen the entire summer in Bucharest. On 10 October, it will open in an updated and extended form at home location of Bildmuseet in Umeå, Sweden.Two additional Bildmuseet-produced exhibitions are also currently on display in Europe. "People of the north", Umea University’s 40th anniversary exhibition, which premiered at Bildmuseet in November 2006 and which has since been shown in Stockholm, Luleå, Kiruna, Härnösand, Iinari (Finland), was inaugurated on 20 April at Tromsö Museum in Norway. It will remain on display through 14 September.Susan Meisela’s “Re-Framing History", that premiered at Bildmuseet in February 2007, and also exhibited in Stockholm and in Arles, France, was recently opened on 18 April in Thessaloniki Museum of Photography in Thessaloniki, Greece. It will be on display until 20 June. <a class="columnarrow" href="http://www.bildmuseet.umu.se">www.bildmuseet.umu.se</a>For more information or an interview, please contact the museum director Jan-Erik Lundström.Editor: Helena Vejbrinkhttps://www.umu.se/en/news/umea-universitys-bildmuseet-meets-the-world-_5838597/https://www.umu.se/en/news/umeas-creative-heart-beats-extra-fast_12091604/Umeå's creative heart beats extra fastA sure sign of spring is that the Umeå University Arts Campus is coming alive with degree exhibitions and events at Umeå School of Architecture, Umeå Insitute of Design, Umeå Academy of Fine Arts, UmArts and Bildmuseet. Starting on 10 May, a mix of architecture, art and design is on offer with events and exhibitions. Most of them are open to the public, while some are aimed more at the industry, but what they all have in common is that they are of a high standard and well worth a visit.Mon, 12 May 2025 07:52:23 +0200<div class="mediaflowwrapper bildlink halfwidthsquareright"><div class="bildImage"><picture><source srcset="/contentassets/1eaf91d5fa97456181ee1a58982d5d66/holmberg-tora-5543-250403-mpn2.jpg?format=webp&mode=crop&width=640 640w, /contentassets/1eaf91d5fa97456181ee1a58982d5d66/holmberg-tora-5543-250403-mpn2.jpg?format=webp&mode=crop&width=854 854w, /contentassets/1eaf91d5fa97456181ee1a58982d5d66/holmberg-tora-5543-250403-mpn2.jpg?format=webp&mode=crop&width=1280 1280w" type="image/webp" sizes="(max-width: 639px) 640px, (max-width: 854px) 854px, 1280px"><source srcset="/contentassets/1eaf91d5fa97456181ee1a58982d5d66/holmberg-tora-5543-250403-mpn2.jpg?mode=crop&width=640 640w, /contentassets/1eaf91d5fa97456181ee1a58982d5d66/holmberg-tora-5543-250403-mpn2.jpg?mode=crop&width=854 854w, /contentassets/1eaf91d5fa97456181ee1a58982d5d66/holmberg-tora-5543-250403-mpn2.jpg?mode=crop&width=1280 1280w" sizes="(max-width: 639px) 640px, (max-width: 854px) 854px, 1280px"></picture></div><div class="bildText">Tora Holmberg, Vice-Chancellor of Umeå University. Photo: Mattias Pettersson.</div></div>"I look forward to attending as many exhibitions and events as I can and really encourage everyone to take part in as many as possible. I have always been fascinated by how the entire Arts Campus breathes creativity and artistry and since I took over as Vice-Chancellor, I have also realised that the programmes are of the highest quality, which is not least demonstrated by the School of Design, which year after year ends up at the top of the world rankings. Don't miss out on this," says Tora Holmberg, Vice-Chancellor of Umeå University.First up this year is the Bachelor of Fine Arts exhibition at Umeå Academy of Fine Arts, which opens on 10 May at 13.00 with Studentkören followed by performances by some of the students and works around the Arts Campus and inside UmArts. The Bachelor's exhibition is titled Reflektor and is open until 26 May. You can read more about it <a href="/en/umea-academy-of-fine-arts/exhibitions/bfa3-2025---reflektor/">here on the School's website</a>. Two of the students' works can be found at UmArts, which also has several events of its own in May and June, please <a href="https://www.umarts.se/programme/">check the UmArts website</a> for all the information.<h3>Infinite Proposals at Bildmuseet</h3>A definite artistic highlight is, of course, the exhibition of students from the two-year Master's programme - the highest level of education in fine art - at the Bildmuseet. The title of the exhibition, Infinite Proposals, refers to the artistic process, from idea to creation and placement in the world. Infinite Proposals presents works by more than a dozen students and is curated by artist Annika Eriksson, a professor at Umeå Academy of Fine Arts and the students’ principal supervisor. <a href="~/link/7c1cc8254b9742adb0b20e11e1e77906.aspx">Read more about the exhibition on Bildmuseet's website.</a>Infinite Proposals and the evocative exhibition on one of Cuba's most prominent and exciting artists Belkis Ayón (1967-1999) opens with a customary Art Friday on 23 May, <a href="https://www.bildmuseet.umu.se/en/events/art-friday-with-opening_12032572/">read more on Bildmuseet's website</a>.<div class="mediaflowwrapper bildlink halfwidthsquareright"><div class="bildImage"><picture><source srcset="/contentassets/1eaf91d5fa97456181ee1a58982d5d66/brita_taljedal2.jpg?format=webp&mode=crop&width=640 640w, /contentassets/1eaf91d5fa97456181ee1a58982d5d66/brita_taljedal2.jpg?format=webp&mode=crop&width=854 854w, /contentassets/1eaf91d5fa97456181ee1a58982d5d66/brita_taljedal2.jpg?format=webp&mode=crop&width=1280 1280w" type="image/webp" sizes="(max-width: 639px) 640px, (max-width: 854px) 854px, 1280px"><source srcset="/contentassets/1eaf91d5fa97456181ee1a58982d5d66/brita_taljedal2.jpg?mode=crop&width=640 640w, /contentassets/1eaf91d5fa97456181ee1a58982d5d66/brita_taljedal2.jpg?mode=crop&width=854 854w, /contentassets/1eaf91d5fa97456181ee1a58982d5d66/brita_taljedal2.jpg?mode=crop&width=1280 1280w" sizes="(max-width: 639px) 640px, (max-width: 854px) 854px, 1280px"></picture></div><div class="bildText">Brita Täljedal, museum curator at Bildmuseet. Photo: Polly Yassin, Bildmuseet.</div></div>"We are so proud to show Belkis Ayón's monumental works inspired by the Abakuá, a secret Afro-Cuban brotherhood that she explored throughout her artistic career. In her interpretations of their myths, she speaks of belonging, silence, power and resistance, and introduces ideas about the fusion of religions and belief systems. ‘Ayón's iconic works form their own universe of traditions, hierarchies and worldviews and we will offer several lectures around the exhibition later this year," says museum curator Brita Täljedal, one of three curators.Umeå School of Architecture and the Umeå Insitute of Design will open their final exhibitions to the public in early June. Umeå School of Architecture's final exhibition on 4-7 June will showcase the graduates' theses from the five-year architecture programme, as well as projects from other years in the School of Architecture's eight different design studios. The opening of the exhibition will take place on 4 June at 15:00, with presentations of a selection of the students' work. <a href="~/link/99f03d5db3994a458abd3156c3de0acd.aspx">Read more on the School of Architecture website.</a><h3>Degree Show live for everyone to watch</h3>Umeå Insitute of Design's Design Talks & Degree Show - UID25 is now an important institution in the global design industry and is broadcast live for those who are not specially invited. However, on 4 June between 13:00-17:00, the entire exhibition inside the Umeå Institute of Design will be open to the public. <a href="/en/umea-institute-of-design/uid25/">Visit Umeå Insitute of Design's collection page</a> and marvel at all the exciting student projects by students from all over the world and, as mentioned, feel free to take part in the open live broadcast of UID25.<div class="mediaflowwrapper bildlink halfwidthsquareright"><div class="bildImage"><picture><source srcset="/contentassets/1eaf91d5fa97456181ee1a58982d5d66/horst_demian_1687_220518_mpn2.jpg?format=webp&mode=crop&width=640 640w, /contentassets/1eaf91d5fa97456181ee1a58982d5d66/horst_demian_1687_220518_mpn2.jpg?format=webp&mode=crop&width=854 854w, /contentassets/1eaf91d5fa97456181ee1a58982d5d66/horst_demian_1687_220518_mpn2.jpg?format=webp&mode=crop&width=1280 1280w" type="image/webp" sizes="(max-width: 639px) 640px, (max-width: 854px) 854px, 1280px"><source srcset="/contentassets/1eaf91d5fa97456181ee1a58982d5d66/horst_demian_1687_220518_mpn2.jpg?mode=crop&width=640 640w, /contentassets/1eaf91d5fa97456181ee1a58982d5d66/horst_demian_1687_220518_mpn2.jpg?mode=crop&width=854 854w, /contentassets/1eaf91d5fa97456181ee1a58982d5d66/horst_demian_1687_220518_mpn2.jpg?mode=crop&width=1280 1280w" sizes="(max-width: 639px) 640px, (max-width: 854px) 854px, 1280px"></picture></div><div class="bildText">Demian Horst, Head of Umeå Institute of Design. Photo: Hans Karlsson.</div></div>"UID25 emphasises the strong values we have around collaboration, people and our planet. Visitors will have the chance to see our students' innovative work that pushes the boundaries of creativity and imagination. The event reflects our globally diverse student body and the school's commitment to creativity grounded in social responsibility," explains Demian Horst, Head of Umeå Institute of Design.https://www.umu.se/en/news/umeas-creative-heart-beats-extra-fast_12091604/https://www.umu.se/en/news/william-kentridge--the-refusal-of-time_6928321/New exhibition at Bildmuseet: William Kentridge / The Refusal of TimeCan we ever truly understand the passing of time in a world in a state of constant flux? As the first art institution in Sweden, Bildmuseet presents William Kentridge's The Refusal of Time. The large scale installation opens on Friday 12 October.Wed, 26 Sep 2018 10:48:52 +0200The Refusal of Time is an evocative meditation on the nature of time. With allusions to Einstein's theory of relativity, to space travel, Plato's Cave and silent movies, William Kentridge has created a touching and imaginative narrative on how we comprehend time.In the installation's five large projections, drawings, animations, photographs, films, poetry and performance are combined. A complex soundtrack from megaphones atop high stands floods the room while, in the middle of the space, a large mechanical construction inhales and exhales in regular, hypnotic breaths.The Refusal of Time grew out of conversations with Harvard physicist and science historian Peter Galison and encompasses Kentridge’s wide range of artistic practices and visual motifs. Music and soundscape: Philip Miller. Video editing: Catherine Meyburgh.William Kentridge (b. 1955, South Africa) is based in Johannesburg and is considered to be one of the world's most significant living artists. A scenographer and director of theatre and opera, he is predominantly known for his drawings and animated films. William Kentridge’s mythical and multidimensional works deal with existential, political, and aesthetical questions, often originating in the history of South Africa. Kentridge has exhibited at major international art museums and biennials the world over.This is the first time that The Refusal of Time has been presented in Sweden. At Bildmuseet, the installation represents a first part of the upcoming exhibition <a href="http://www.bildmuseet.umu.se/en/exhibition/entangle/31713">Entangle / Physics and the Artistic Imagination</a>, which opens on November 16.<h3>Opening on Friday, 12 October, at 5–9 pm</h3>In conjunction to the opening of William Kentridge / The Refusal of Time, there will be a conversation via Skype between Ariane Koek and Peter Galison, Harvard University, who collaborated with William Kentridge in developing the ideas behind the exhibition. The Refusal of Time runs until 17 March, 2019.<h3>For further information, please contact:</h3><div data-classid="36f4349b-8093-492b-b616-05d8964e4c89" data-contentguid="ffe78ede-8eae-44a5-a251-78f88307ac44" data-contentname="Contact: Brita Täljedal">{}</div>https://www.umu.se/en/news/william-kentridge--the-refusal-of-time_6928321/