SKISSERNAS NIGHT

Saturday 11 november 13–22

Free admission

 Welcome to this autumn’s big art party at Skissernas Museum! Skissernas Night offers art, music, talks, performances, and creative workshops – a whole day where art lovers of all ages can meet, be surprised, inspired, entertained and experience art in new ways. The restaurant will offer a special menu!

The museum opens at 13 this day!

^{Photo: Johan Persson}

Family Workshop: Colorful Windows

The windows in the museum’s entrance are temporarily transformed into a vibrant art installation! We will cut out geometric shapes from self-adhesive window film in various colors. Everyone’s pieces will come together to create a larger collaborative artwork that will evolve throughout the day.

Drop in at the museum’s foyer.

^{Installation of Sonia Delaunay, ‘Propeller’ (1937), in the International Gallery. Photo: Karin Hermeren/Skissernas Museum}

Art Stories – Amazing Acquisitions

Ever since the museum’s founding in 1934, artists have donated or sold their sketches to Skissernas Museum, and the collection continually grows with new acquisitions. But how does it actually work? Who takes the initiative? What do the agreements and expectations look like from each party’s perspective? What treasures have artists and museum staff discovered when searching in forgotten places? Welcome to a themed tour with the museum’s guide, Nilufar Salehi, and hear the best stories about the museum’s fantastic acquisitions!

^{Astrid Göransson Come as you are! (Kom som du är!), 2021. Photo: Skissernas Museum}

Artist Tours: Astrid Göransson, Linnéa Carlsson, Thale Vangen and Magnus Wallin

In this fall’s major temporary exhibition Come as You Are! …and Other New Acquisitions, the museum presents a selection of the hundreds of acquisitions the museum has made for its collection in recent years. Here, models and sketches for around fifty designs for schools, parks, squares, parking garages, sports facilities, subway stations, and various service facilities are displayed. The sketches provide fascinating insights into the artists’ working processes and how ideas evolve and take shape. Many of the sketches and models are preparatory work for recently completed projects, while others belong to older designs, and some ideas have never been realized. Four of the artists represented in the exhibition will be present during Skissernas Night to talk about their works.

Astrid Göransson presents models and sketches for the sculpture Come as You Are! which commemorates the centennial of democracy in Sweden in 2021.

Linnéa Carlsson showcases sketches and a model for the sculpture Elma Danielsson Agitates, the first sculpture of a named woman in public spaces in Malmö.

Thale Vangen exhibits models for Snabel, an artwork that is both a sculpture and a mask. The completed work is located at Backaskolan in Lund.

Magnus Wallin displays models for the sculpture ‘Guldslottet,’ one of six works created in the project Children’s Sculpture Park (2018-2020). It’s a collaboration between children and professional artists to create public art in the children’s local environment.

^{Sanna Samuelsson, photo: Märta Thisner. Merima Dizdarević, photo: David Möller.}

Talk and Readings: PAGE28 – Sanna Samuelsson and Merima Dizdarević

PAGE 28 is a non-profit organization that organizes various cultural events with a focus on LGBTQ+ issues and operates an LGBTQ+ bookstore in Malmö. Their ambition is to be a queer sanctuary for all LGBTQ+ individuals who love culture but are tired of heteronormative and cisnormative narratives. The talk is led by Sanna Samuelsson. Sanna Samuelsson, born in 1987, grew up outside Linköping and currently resides in Stockholm. She holds a master’s degree in literary composition from HDK-Valand, has previously served as an idea and critique editor at GP, and works as a cultural writer. She will read from her debut novel, “Mjölkat”.

Merima Dizdarević was born in 1983 in Yugoslavia (Bosnia and Herzegovina) and now lives in Malmö. Dizdarević works with a multidisciplinary and multilingual artistic practice and holds a master’s degree in literary composition from HDK Valand. Her poetry collection “långt från ögat långt från hjärtat” is her debut work for which she was nominated for the Katapult Prize in 2022. During the spring of 2023, she led the art criticism course “Skälens tunga” at the Göteborgs Konsthall.

^{Klara Kristalova i ateljén. Foto: Magnus Karlsson}

Talk: Artist Klara Kristalova

Klara Kristalova, b.1967 in Prague, lives and works outside of Norrtälje, Sweden. She studied painting at the Royal Institute of Art in Stockholm (1988-1993) but has perhaps become best known for her enigmatic sculptures in glazed porcelain, bronze, ceramics, plaster, and wood. Kristalova established herself with a number of exhibitions and public commissions in Sweden before her international recognition in the late 2000s. Since then, she has exhibited at galleries and museums around the world, and her artwork is represented in numerous public collections, including Skissernas Museum’s. In the exhibition Come as You Are! …and other acquisitions, you can see sketches and models for her large sculpture Sea witch (Sjöhäxa) in Le Havre, France.

Workshop: Create masks with the artist Astrid Göransson

In a workshop designed for both children and adults, you can create your own cardboard mask together with Astrid Göransson.

Astrid Göransson works inclusively, in close dialogue with those she engages in her artistic projects. She was born in 1956 and lives and works in Maglaby, Skåne. Astrid Göransson is educated at Konstfack in Stockholm, Malmö Konstskola Forum, and Konsthögskolan Valand in Gothenburg. In the museum’s major acquisitions exhibition, an entire room is dedicated to Astrid Göransson’s artwork ‘Come as You Are!’ which celebrates the centenary of democracy in Sweden (2021) by highlighting the first five women in the Swedish parliament.

^{Löfgren/Lindeberg Quartet}

Music: Löfgren/Lindeberg Quartet

Top-notch instrumental beat jazz with a focus on energy, groove, and blistering solos.

Music by Herbie Hancock, John Scofield, Eddie Harris, and more.

Magnus Lindeberg, guitar
Olof Löfgren, keyboard
Christian Lehnberg, bass
Frank Nilsson, drums

^{Jurena Munoz (aka Jumu Monster)}

Performance: Jurena Munoz (aka Jumu Monster)

Brought up in Hanover, with Peruvian-Chilean roots, Jurena Munoz now lives and works in Berlin as a freelance artist. The cult of shamanism and the connections between humanity, the spirit world and nature are perennial features of her work and serve as inspiration for her masks, canvases and murals. She uses whatever comes to hand in her works, creating a new, surreal world. Participants in the performance during Skissernas Night are dancer Michelle Felix and musician Andi Andean. Check out Jurena Munoz vibrant Instagram account!

Music: Malmö Indie Choir

^{Malmö Indiekör. Foto: David Eliasson}

For the past ten years, Malmö Indie Choir has been offering their own well-tuned versions of narrow rock, deep pop, and true indie hits. Over the years, the choir has sung everything from Familjen, Ebba Grön, and Frida Hyvönen to Kjell Höglund, Doktor Kosmos, and Glass Animals. Perhaps you’ll get to hear your favorite in a new version?

^{MELÉN. Foto: Simon Roth}

Music: MELÉN

MELÉN is an artist and producer based in Copenhagen and Malmö. Her vision is to create a soundscape that balances between the human and the mechanical. When MELÉN performs live, the music confidently shifts between melancholic indie pop and electronica, with clear influences from jazz and improvisational music. In a unique setup with vocal pedals, piano, and synth, she performs alongside musicians Albin Andersson (electric bass) and Martin Liljeroth (drum set and machines). Using programmed drums and loop pedals, they construct a sonic landscape that has been compared to international acts like Bon Iver, Björk, and James Blake. She released her debut EP “Mind/Math” in 2021 and followed up with “SHIFT/WHEN” in 2022. In the same year, she was nominated for “Newcomer of the Year” at the Swedish GAFFA Awards. Over the past year, she has opened for indie acts such as Esther, Girl Scout, and Klara Keller. She is currently working on her debut album with plans to release it in the fall of 2024.

Music: Five o’clock Traffic

Post-technopop, slow power synthetica, monotonous melody driven music in search for a sublime expedition into the heart of synthesizers and drum machines.

Skissernas Night is produced with support from Sparbanken Skåne’s foundation owner Sparbanksstiftelsen Finn.