Skissernas Night

The biggest art celebration of the year

Skissernas Night is back – bigger and bolder than ever! Expect more daring art, experimental music, international performances, engaging talks, and creative workshops. Immerse yourself in a vibrant atmosphere with DJs, delicious food, and refreshing drinks. This year, the line between indoors and outdoors blurs with a new music stage, a food truck, and a large workshop area in the Sculpture park.

Skissernas Night welcomes art lovers of all ages who want to be surprised, entertained, and experience art in new ways – from early day until long after sunset.

10 May 18:00–23:00, the museum closes at 22:00 but the party continues in the park.
Free admission!

Food & Drinks

På Skissernas will be grilling sausages in the park and serving light dishes in the restaurant and on the terrace. Flavour Boss offers Afro-Caribbean flavors from their food truck, and Fogarolli provides the evening’s finest coffee.

Skissernas Night is produced with support from Sparbanken Skåne

Thank you Heja Lund

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Performance Installation: Karoline H. Larsen – Collective Strings (DK)

In the performance installation Collective Strings, Danish artist Karoline H. Larsen invites collective artistic creation for a new temporary artwork. Using recycled cotton threads, a new space is woven into the Sculpture Park. Collective Strings has been installed in cities such as Rome, Copenhagen, Beijing, Helsinki, Cape Town, and New York.

Performance and music: Grebnellaw

GREBNELLAW is the cosmic seed sown early in spring, bringing life to new beings, forms, plants, animals, and humans. As a visual artist, performer, and musician, Stockholm-based Grebnellaw has showcased works everywhere from underground clubs and galleries to established institutions in Tokyo, Shanghai, Seoul, Paris, and New York.

DJ: Okine (DK)

Okine is a DJ, radio host, and musician from Copenhagen, driven by an infectious love of dance music. He moves seamlessly between genres, from highlife and old-school house to jazzy techno, futuristic broken beat, and warm, crackling disco.

Dance and Performance Croquis: Lukas Lubisia (DE)

Anam (Lukas Lubisia) is a Hamburg-based dancer and choreographer rooted in Hip Hop culture. With a background in freestyle and battles, his evolving movement language blends rhythm, emotion, and intention. His work explores openness and experimentation, always honoring the cultural roots of the dance.

Music: Folkdivizjon

Folkdivizjon – the high-energy klezmer and Balkan band from Malmö. In recent years, they’ve made their mark as a strong and unique voice on Sweden’s folk and world music scene. The band performs both original compositions and timeless traditional tunes, all in skillfully crafted arrangements that make it impossible to sit still. At Skissernas Night, expect a fiery mix of klezmer, Balkan, and jazz!

Talk: Artist Samaneh Reyhani

Malmö-based artist Samaneh Reyhani holds a master’s degree from Malmö Art Academy and a bachelor’s degree from the University of Art in Tehran, Iran. Her inspiration is deeply rooted in Eastern literature and philosophy. Using materials such as wood and stone, her sculptures transcend their inherent materiality—like visual poetry!

Quiz: Petrina Solange and Johannes Finnlaugsson

Let Petrina Solange and Johannes Finnlaugsson test your knowledge of art and culture! Petrina Solange is a multi-award-winning stand-up comedian from Skåne, known for her dark humor, always delivered with a twinkle in her eye. Johannes Finnlaugsson has been heard on radio and podcasts, written comedy for TV, run clubs, and created shows about everything from the murder of Olof Palme to his beloved hometown Malmö.

Music: The Carling Sisters

Dubbed “The traditional jazz Spice Girls,” their music is deeply rooted in the golden era of trad jazz from the 1920s and 30s. The quartet consists of Nanna Carling on soprano saxophone and vocals, Linnea Carling on banjo, Petronella Carling on trombone, and Sigrid Abrahamsson on double bass and keys. Besides acclaimed performances at numerous jazz festivals, they have also appeared on TV4’s talent show Talang.

Music: Pidgins (MX)

Pidgins is an experimental duo from Mexico City exploring rhythm as language. With percussionist Milo Tamez’s polyrhythmic drumming and electroacoustician Aaron With’s hypnotic vocal mantras, they create an intense, almost ceremonial soundscape that might put you in a trance.

Workshop: Glowing Threads

A luminous workshop where we collectively create an artwork using fluorescent-colored threads.

Music: Bella Leonette

Bella Leonette creates music rooted in soul but effortlessly moves between jazz, spoken word, and R’n’B. This brilliant songwriter, born and raised in Lund, has published her lyrics in book form and won Nöjesguiden’s Malmö Prize in the music category.

Talk: Actor and playwright Shima Niavarani

Actor and playwright Shima Niavarani is known for her versatility, expressive stage language, and deep engagement with both comedy and serious drama. She had her breakthrough at the age of 19 with the self-written and directed monologue Autodidakt i enmansakt (“Autodidact in a One-Person Act”), which toured for over a year and received several awards. Since then, over a 20-year career, she has appeared in around 70 productions across all genres—from musicals and TV comedies to intense dramas on the country’s major stages and niche art house films. The conversation is led by author Paula Pellettieri.

Music: BITOI

Malmö-based band BITOI (Bass Is The Original Instrument) consists of Swedish-Ethiopian bassist Cassius Lambert and vocalists Alexandra Shabo, Lise Kroner, and Anja Tietze Lahrmann. BITOI explores the boundaries of what is possible with voices, electronics, handclaps, and an electric bass. Their singing is based on phonetic pronunciations of bird calls. The result is innovative and entirely unique.

Music: Sven Atterton (UK)

Sven Atterton is a British-born multi-instrumentalist specializing in slap bass and piccolo bass guitar. His music embraces influences from the 1980s, featuring sweeping synth pads, dreamy keyboards, and bubbling synth bass, all held together by analog drum machines.

Music: Five o’clock Traffic

Five o’clock Traffic creates post-techno pop and slow-power synthetica. With synthesizers, drum machines, and evocative soundscapes, this Malmö-based musician has carved out a distinct style in the electronic music scene.

Performance: Poncili Creación (PR)

The Puerto Rican collective Poncili Creación combines radical puppetry, performance, and sculpture and has been showcased at art museums and festivals worldwide. Their vibrant creations are an energetic celebration of life, imagination, and absurdity.

Installation: Utskottet

We loved the interactive light installation Utskottet presented in the Sculpture Park during Kulturnatten. Now, they have free rein in Birgit Rausings Hall. Utskottet merges art and technology in public spaces. With shapes and colors, sensors and electronics, they create urban playgrounds.

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