EvaMarie Lindahl

June 5 – November 2, 2025

Skissernas Museum has invited artist and researcher EvaMarie Lindahl for new readings and artistic investigations of the museum’s and Lund University’s art collections. Through the artist’s perspective and contemporary art as an entry point, Lindahl explores the history of collecting and the individuals and stories hidden within the collection. Her work is presented in a comprehensive exhibition at Skissernas Museum opening in June 2025. The exhibition features both newly produced and older works by Lindahl that correspond in various ways with selected works from the collections. A central piece in the exhibition is the extensive and large-scale installation Archive of Lost Tales, which is one of her ongoing artistic research projects.

Lindahl’s research-based art projects are situated at the intersection of critical animal studies and visual art. She has developed an art practice that encompasses large-scale pencil drawings as well as text-based performance works.
In her projects, Lindahl continually questions the writing of art history from an anthropocentric and patriarchal position by rewriting, reimagining, and envisioning new (art) histories. Recently, this has evolved into an art practice that can be called art history activism. In her ongoing work, she questions the human-animal dichotomy and discusses humans’ habit of oppressing other animals by using them as resources and materials in art production.

EvaMarie Lindahl (b. 1976) works as a visual artist and is based in Sweden. She holds a master’s degree in fine arts from Malmö Art Academy and a doctorate from Edge Hill University (UK) at The Centre for Human Animal Studies.
Her research project titled Resistance Within the Museum Fauna – Challenging Anthropocentrism through Counter Art Histories and Non-Human Narratives is a dissertation within artistic research and critical animal studies that employs anthropomorphism and empathy to write and perform art histories where non-human animals are central.

Lindahl’s works have been exhibited and performed at several institutions such as the National Gallery of Denmark (DK), ARKEN Museum of Modern Art (DK), Museu de Arte de São Paulo (BR), The Warehouse (US), Bonniers Konsthall, Ystad Art Museum, and Malmö Art Gallery. She is represented in several private and public collections.

^{Photo: Emma Krantz/Skissernas Museum}