THE MUSEUM FAUNA – Lost Tails and Unheard Stories of Resistance

EvaMarie Lindahl

June 5 – November 2, 2025

Welcome to the opening Thursday 5 june 17–20, inauguration at 18
Free admission

Artist and researcher EvaMarie Lindahl has examined the art collections of Skissernas Museum and Lund University. With an artist’s perspective and through methods from critical animal studies, Lindahl investigates which individuals are hiding in the collections and how their stories can be told. Over the past year Lindahl, examined more than 40,000 paintings, sketches, and models – first digitally, and then in the museum’s storages and archives.

In her art projects, Lindahl questions our human-centred art history by rewriting and imagining new (art) histories where animals play active roles. She challenges preconceived power relations between animals and humans, reflecting on humans’ habit of oppressing other animals. Not least by using them as resources and materials in art production.

The exhibition shows both new and older artworks by Lindahl. Her drawings, video works, textiles and texts correspond in different ways with selected paintings and sketches from the collections.

EvaMarie Lindahl (b. 1976) is a visual artist and works in Sweden. She has a master’s degree in fine arts from Malmö Academy of Fine Arts and a doctorate from Edge Hill University (UK) at The Centre for Human Animal Studies. Lindahl’s work has been exhibited at, among others, the Statens Museum for Kunst (DK), ARKEN Museum of Modern Art (DK), Museu de Arte de São Paulo (BR), The Warehouse (US), Bonniers Konsthall, Ystads Konstmuseum and Malmö Konsthall. She is represented in several private and public collections.

^{Collage: EvaMarie Lindahl, 2025. “Adriaan van der Hoop’s Trotter”, Anthony Oberman, 1828, (Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam), Still life, Harmen van Steenwyck, 1600-t, (Lund University Art Collection, “Ros” (Rose), Anna Munthe-Norstedt, 1902, (Lund University Art Collection), “Vägen till Orleans” (The road to Orleans), Nils Kreuger, 1886 (Lund University Art Collection), Still life, Abraham Hendricksz van Beyeren, 1600-t, (Lund University Art Collection).}