Skissernas Night

The biggest art celebration of the year

16 May 15:00–23:00, the museum closes at 22:00 but the party continues in the park.
Free admission!

Skissernas Night is back! The entire museum and Sculpture Park are transformed into stages for the unexpected, filled with experiences you didn’t know you wanted. Discover a glittering rainbow of expressions, experimental music, international performances, and thoughtful conversations. You can also join workshops and interact with the art or simply relax with a cup of coffee in the park, grab something tasty on the restaurant terrace or from our food truck.

You choose your path through a feast of artistic expression!

More to come this spring – stay tuned!

PROGRAM

Music: Bilal Irshed Trio (PS/DK)

Music: Chirons Room (DK/SE)

Performance: Femmeboyant x Strange Fur (DE)

DJ: G.HO (DK)

Art & Culture Quiz: Hanna Lublin & Vilgot Paulsen (SE)

Music: Emelie Odelberg (SE)

Performance: Ragnhild May (DK)

Workshop: Paint on acrylic glass

Performance: Nordlys (DK)

Music: Romperayo (CO)

Talk: Emelie Sandström with Emil Nilsson (SE)

Music: Sanyu (NO)

Performance Croquis: Dj Slowz (VN/SE)

Music: Smuk/Zvuk (CZ/DK)

Installation: Freddy Wallin (SE)

Skissernas Night is produced with support from Sparbanken Skåne.
Thank you Heja Lund!

Music: Bilal Irshed Trio (PS/DK)

Bilal Irshed Trio creates a tapestry of sound where the floating tones of the Middle East meet jazz and Nordic folk music. Irshed takes the string instrument oud on a journey without limits of time and place. The dreamlike veils of Sufism gently settle over contemporary musical references. Together with Rasmus Møldrup on acoustic bass and Sal Dibba on percussion, the trio has been met with enthusiasm by both audiences and critics.

Musik: Chirons Room (DK/SE)

In CHIRONS ROOM, confessions are whispered of queer shame and strength; you hear songs about death, kindness, and the collective consciousness. With heavy autotune, synthesizers, drums, and manipulated woodwinds, CHIRONS ROOM explores the tenderness and rage that make up their living space. On stage are Johanna Stellfeld on flute, saxophone, and vocals, Albin Österblad on keyboards, and Ellen Mörck on drums.

Performance: Femmeboyant x Strange Fur (DE)

Mutations, death, and rebirth are themes in the transformations created by Femmeboyant (Gio Sordini) and Strange Fur (Adam Mandelman). Monstrous curiosity is expressed through inflatable creatures, with a flamboyant queer perspective on the body, place, and society. Nothing is too silly or too serious to fit within their performance. The everyday becomes strange and skewed in a perspective you are invited to share.

DJ: G.HO (DK)

The joy of life sparkles in DJ G.HO’s irresistible sonic world. Heavy grooves become the dance floor where funk and jazz let loose. Her genre-defying music selections create global stories that have set hips and feet in motion in cities like Paris and London as well as Roskilde and Copenhagen. With infectious energy, G.HO delivers vibrant rhythms and voices full of soul.

Art & Culture Quiz: Hanna Lublin & Vilgot Paulsen (SE)

What do you know about art, what have you forgotten, and do you want to learn more? Our art and culture quiz goes beyond what you’re used to, hosted by stand-up comedian Hanna Lublin Niklasson and actor Vilgot Paulsen. Hanna is well known not only from the country’s stand-up stages but also from podcasts, the daily press, and the popular quiz program På Spåret on national TV. Vilgot works, among other places, at Riksteatern and Uppsala stadsteater, as well as in film and TV productions.

Music: Emelie Odelberg (SE)

Emelie Odelberg’s music moves across boundaries, just like her new album is titled Liminal. Rooted in the organ and piano of church music, she has ventured into an experimental electronic sphere, where small changes carry her floating tones further. The music is meditative and slow, yet at the same time heavy and evocative.

Performance: Ragnhild May (DK)

Ragnhild May breaks down the boundaries between sculpture, installation, performance, and sound art. A polyrhythmic composition takes shape on stage as a large spatial wind instrument is assembled piece by piece. At the same time, the soundscape grows increasingly complex, with tones and sounds that usually are overlooked – and affecting us in unexpected ways.

Workshop: Paint on acrylic glass

Skissernas Night gives space for your own creativity and experimentation in visual art. In the park, you can reflect on the art, the people, and the events using coloured pencils on acrylic glass sheets. Your image also becomes a filter for the reality around you. If you prefer a more intimate format, you can sit down and paint portraits of people you meet on the other side of your table easel.

Performance: Nordlys (DK)

When did you last encounter unicorns? The performance Unicorns by Nordlys brings these mythical creatures into reality, interacting with museum visitors of all ages. They dance, gallop, and fill the rooms and the park with infectious magic. The Nordlys collective consists of Julie Rasmussen and My Grønholt. Their work is marked by the unexpected: a celebration of hope, freedom, and community.

Music: Romperayo

Romperayo plays as much for the soul and heart as for the hips and feet. Imagine a tropical night in Colombia, where local cumbia and other infectious dance rhythms are playfully filtered through psychedelia and contemporary electronica. This is feel-good in the best sense—a firework of sweaty dancing and musical humour. Let the euphoria open your senses, as it has already done at major festivals across Europe!

Talk: Emelie Sandström with Emil Nilsson (SE)

Emelie Sandström is a young sculptor who primarily works in wood and bronze. Her materials and forms are often connected to religion, folk art, and folklore. Using the wood lathe as her main tool, she pulls away the veil between reality and revelation. Emelie joins a conversation with Emil Nilsson, curator at Skissernas Museum, about an artistic practice that moves freely between nature, myth, fantasy, and science fiction.

Music: Sanyu (NO)

Sanyu challenges the genres of music industry. Yet her music and poetry have received praise and awards. In Sanyu’s practice, jazz, R&B, and soul collide with spoken word and heavy bass riffs. On stage, Sanyu performs together with Rino Sivathas on drums, the multi-instrumentalist Kristina Fransson, and Joachim Mørch Meyer on double bass. Just in time for Skissernas Night, Sanyu’s highly anticipated debut LP will be released.

Performance croquis: Dj Slowz (VN/SE)

Life drawing – drawing from a live model – is a well-established practice. In performance croquis, the subject is in constant motion, and the pace follows. Add DJ Slowz to the mix and the challenge is raised to another level. Known as a pioneer of the Vietnamese hip-hop scene, Slowz has won major international breakdance competitions. He is also a DJ and music producer, and has expanded his practice to include performance and theatre stages.

Music: Smuk/Zvuk (CZ/DK)

The rooms of Skissernas Museum are filled with dreamy tones from the Danish vibraphonist Viktoria Søndergaard, while the Czech Klára Pudláková explores a lower register on her double bass. Together, the two composers create musical spaces and landscapes where delicate threads are woven between artworks and the audience. Smuk Zvuk’s debut LP Call Me Princess has been met with critical acclaim.

Installation: Freddy Wallin (SE)

Animation in all its forms comes together in Freddy Wallin’s experimental films. Analog and digital techniques are combined, and with cut-out figures, clay animation, analog film, and digital methods, Wallin creates an expression that is as tactile and dynamic as it is unorthodox. You encounter his animations as a temporary installation on walls and ceilings in the Birgitta Rausing’s Hall.

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