In the City Grows a Field – the local and collaborative art scene at Malmö Konsthall

This fall, Malmö Konsthall opens one of its largest group exhibitions in later years, featuring Malmö-based artists and the city's dynamic art scene. The exhibition In the City Grows a Field contains works by 50 artists from different generations showcasing many artistic expressions. This teeming and rich presentation reflects art's tenacity and integrity and the collective forces that create unique conditions for artists to work in Malmö.

Exhibition: In the City Grows a Field – 50 Artists in Malmö
Exhibition Period: 1.10 2022 –15.1 2023
Press Opening: Thursday 29.9 2022 11am
Please RSVP to press contact before September 28 2022: Sofia Bertilsson, Art Insider PR, press@artinsiderpr.com
Additional press images and installation views (available September 29) in the pressroom on the website of Malmö Konsthall.
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- An art scene is a fragile ecosystem, and many factors must interact for it to flourish. If one component disappears, the whole can be disrupted. Something that takes time to build up can disappear very quickly. Therefore, care, appreciation, and attention to both what can be perceived as advantages and to what challenges may prevail are required. The art scene in Malmö is characterized by a great sense of determination and conviction, which is fantastically exciting to work with. The exhibition is a multi-faceted mixture of expressions, though the artists are united in an experimental desire and in artistic courage, says the group of curators, which includes Mats Stjernstedt, Director of Malmö Konsthall; Emily Fahlén from Mint, Stockholm; Asrin Haidari from Mint and Moderna Museet, Stockholm; and Elena Tzotzi from Signal, Malmö.

Credit line: Cia Kanthi, Blind Spot, I didn't know their stories, but we had the same eyes, 2019

The exhibition reflects the dynamic energy of the city, its attraction for artists to move to Malmö and stay there, the tenacity and integrity of art, and its network of alternative and artist-run exhibition spaces. The collective forces that create the conditions for artists to work in Malmö are highlighted: a unique collegial, artistic, and organizational situation that creates ripples on the water outside the city's borders and the established art institutions.

In the City Grows a Field is a teeming and rich presentation with artists from different generations, working in different media and with various artistic practices. It is a meeting place for the different alternative scenes and collectives that exist in the city and its audiences. The exhibition includes a multitude of techniques; painting, sculpture, and photography, installations and conceptual works, as well as political and social works.

The collective as an artistic practice is highlighted in the work ON-HOLD which includes about 20 artists in addition to the artist and initiator Johan Nahoj. With In the City Grows a Field, Malmö Konsthall takes a comprehensive approach to how to reflect the city's art scene as well as how to expand the format and practice of making an exhibition. The exhibition spans over time and generations and includes artists born in the 1940s as well as the 1990s.

Catalogue: I staden växer ett fält, 50 konstnärer i Malmö/ In the City Grows a Field, 50 Artists in Malmö. Malmö Konsthall 2022. Swedish/English. 148 p.

In the City Grows a Field – 50 artists in Malmö is shown at Malmö Konsthall from October 1, 2022 – January 15, 2023. The exhibition is carried out with support from the Swedish Arts Council and The Society for the Preservation of Cultural Heritage and Green Parks in Malmö.

Public Opening on September 30 at 7pm – 9pm

7.30pm : Speech by Pernilla Conde Hellman, Director of Culture, City of Malmö, followed by an introduction by Malmö Konsthall's Director Mats Stjernstedt and curators Asrin Haidari, Emily Fahlén, and Elena Tzotzi. The opening is hosted by the organization Helamalmö

Programme for fall 2022 by Moloid A... 

During fall and winter 2022 – 2023, the mole-like artist duo Moloid A... welcomes to a series of evening events in Malmö Konsthall's exhibition "In the city grows a field".

October 5, 2022. 6pm: In the Jungle There Is Much to Do / Saltomortal
The curators Maria Berrios och Jari Malta in conversation with reference to ghost languages and a special guest appearance by the Malmö based artist Bélgica Castro Fuentes.

More details TBA.

Special Program at Malmö Konsthall

October 8, 2022. 4pm – 5.30pm. In Solidarity with Ukraine: UNDER UKRAINAS ÖPPNA HIMMEL – röster ur ett krig
Book release: Readings, conversation with playwrights Natalka Blok and Andrij Bondarenko, film screening and concert with Insomnia Taxxi.With: Per Bergström, Anders Blentare, Natalka Blok, Andrij Bodarenko, Ida Börjel, Diana Dobrodi, Irina Novikova, Mikael Nydahl

An event in Solidarity with Ukraine in collaboration with Svenska PEN, Rikstolvan and Malmö Konsthall. More information on the website.