Whither the Winds

The Malmö Art Academy, at the Occasion of Lund University’s 350th Jubilee

Lunds konsthall, 20 May – 17 September  2017
Opening Friday, 19 May at 6–8pm

6.30 pm
Åsa Nacking, director of Lunds konsthall gives a welcome
Göran Bexell, senior professor at Lund University, inaugurates the exhibition

Gertrud Sandqvist, professor of Malmö Art Academy gives an introduction to the exhibition

At the occasion of Lund University’s 350th jubilee, Lunds konsthall dedicates a substantial group exhibition to artists who have taught at the Malmö Art Academy. The Academy, which is part of Lund University, was founded in 1995, continuing some of the activities of the Forum schools of painting and printmaking in Malmö..

The exhibition ‘Whither the Winds’ presents a selection of the many accomplished artists who have been affiliated with the Malmö Art Academy throughout the years: as professors, lecturers and visiting tutors or in the doctoral programme. We get to see works by Rosa Barba, Charif Benhelima, Matthew Buckingham, Jimmie Durham, Maj Hasager, Olav Christopher Jenssen, Mary Kelly, Joachim Koester, Matts Leiderstam, Sharon Lockhart, Lars Nilsson, João Penalva, Nina Roos, Jim Shaw, Sophie Tottie, Emily Wardill and Haegue Yang. Without doubt a magnificent panorama of the many precise forms of expression and modes of storytelling that today’s art comprises.

In collaboration with the ‘Sommarlund’ festival, Lunds konsthall has built a stage in its inner courtyard and developed a programme titled ‘Lunds konsthall Outdoors’. For this we have invited three artists studying at or just graduated from the Malmö Art Academy − Axel Berger, Joanna Pereira and Ana Rebordão − to produce three new temporary works in response to the city of Lund and its communities, all meant to be shown in public space. We hope to be able to continue this new initiative also next summer.