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  • Natalia Ikebara, graduating from the MFA Programme in Advanced Product Design, designed a holistic therapy concept for children with motor disabilities.

    Playful child therapies and honest AI vehicles at UID22

    And we’re back! For the first time since 2019, the real-life grad show is returning to Umeå Institute of Design. At UID22, the next generation of designers will uncover concepts covering a wide range of topics; from AI in autonomous vehicles, to playful therapies for children, to a device for managing your crypto assets.

  • Pija Lindenbaum’s Vitvivan och Gullsippan [Lilybell and Bluevalley] has been named the Swedish Picture Book of the Year 2021.

    Swedish Picture Book of the Year / Lilybell and Bluevalley

    Pija Lindenbaum’s "Vitvivan och Gullsippan" [Lilybell and Bluevalley] has been awarded the Snöbollen [Snowball] prize for Swedish Picture Book of the Year 2021. March 19, in conjunction with the award ceremony during Littfest, Bildmuseet opens an exhibition of original illustrations and sketches from the winning book.

  • Zanele Muholi's exhibition at Bildmuseet, Sweden, contains over one hundred photographs and series from the early 2000s until today. Exhibition photo: Mikael Lundgren.

    Bildmuseet presents Zanele Muholi

    Zanele Muholi is one of the most acclaimed photographers working today. The extensive exhibition at Bildmuseet presents their career as a photographer and visual activist from the early 2000s until today. Welcome to the press preview on Thursday 25 November at 10:00 (RSVP).

  • Iwo Myrin, The Forest by the Brook Kolbäcken / Moss, 1996-97/2021. © Iwo Myrin / Bildupphovsrätt 2021

    Iwo Myrin / Memories from the Taiga

    Iwo Myrin’s motifs are drawn from the taiga, the geographical zone of the northern hemisphere dominated by coniferous forest. In bronze casts and pinhole photographs of mushrooms, pine needles and moss, the taiga makes a direct impression in his exhibition at Bildmuseet. Welcome to the press preview on Thursday 25 November at 10:00 (RSVP).

  • Bouchra Khalili, The Tempest Society, 2017. Exhibition photo from documenta 14: Stathis Mamalakis. Courtesy of the artist and Mor Charpentier Gallery, Paris.

    Bouchra Khalili / Stories Within Stories

    On Saturday 16 October, Bildmuseet in Sweden will open a solo exhibition with French-Moroccan artist Bouchra Khalili. Media are welcome to a preview of "Stories Within Stories" on Thursday 14 October: digitally and on-site at Bildmuseet.

  • Zineb Sedira, Standing Here Wondering Which Way to Go, 2019. Courtesy of Jeu de Paume, Paris. Photo: Raphaël Chipault.

    Solo exhibition by Zineb Sedira at Bildmuseet

    Zineb Sedira will represent France at the Venice Biennale next year. However, those who want to experience her art already this Summer should go to Bildmuseet, Sweden. Sedira’s solo exhibition Standing Here Wondering Which Way to Go opens on Saturday, June 19.

  • Framlab, Glasir urban farming project, 2018–ongoing

    Opening at Bildmuseet: Architectures of Transition

    An upcoming exhibition brings together Nordic architects and projects that, in various ways, reveal a shift in contemporary architecture. Architectures of Transition opens at Bildmuseet, Sweden, on Saturday, June 19. Welcome to join a digital press preview on Thursday, June 17 at 10am and to experience the exhibition on-site from 11am the same day (RSVP).

  • Peter Öhrnell, En perfekt dag [A Perfect Day], 2020. Acrylic on canvas.

    Paintings by Peter Öhrnell at Bildmuseet

    On 24 April, Bildmuseet inaugurates an exhibition with paintings of Peter Öhrnell. The show includes about ten works from recent years, most of which are entirely new.

  • From the picture book Kom dagen, kom natten [Come Day, Come Night] by Åsa Lind and Emma Virke.

    New Exhibition at Bildmuseet – Swedish Picture Book of the Year

    Kom dagen, kom natten [Come Day, Come Night] by Åsa Lind and Emma Virke is named the best Swedish picture book in 2020 and honoured with the national award Snöbollen. In conjunction with the prize ceremony at Umeå International Literature Festival, Bildmuseet inaugurates an exhibition presenting the awarded book.

  • Naeem Mohaiemen, Jole Dobe Na (Those Who Do Not Drown), 2020. Still from the film

    Premiere in Europe for Naeem Mohaiemen’s new film about loss and care

    ​Naeem Mohaiemen’s film Jole Dobe Na (Those Wo Do Not Drown) was commissioned by the Yokohama Triennale and Bildmuseet, where it is now being shown for the first time following its premiere in Japan. In the exhibition at Bildmuseet, the new film is presented together with earlier works by the artist.

  • Mónica de Miranda, When Words Escape, Flowers Speak, 2017. Cortesy of the Artist.

    Ground Control – New Exhibition Opens at Bildmuseet

    Bildmuseet presents Ground Control, an exhibition with works by contemporary artists interested in plants and their political dimensions. Welcome to press previews – digital and on-site – on Thursday 24 September.

  • One of the new exhibtion is a Faith Ringgold retrospective with works from the 1960s to the 2000s. Photo: Mikael Lundgren.

    Bildmuseet reopens with Ringgold, Sansour and Cyrén

    Three new exhibitions are installed when Bildmuseet opens its doors: The first retrospective in the Nordics of the acclaimed artist and civil rights activist Faith Ringgold; Larissa Sansours evocative and thought-provoking Heirloom, Denmark's contribution to the Venice Biennale in 2019; and Swedish Picture Book of the Year / Marathon by Karin Cyrén.

  • Ann Edholm, Tounge on the Tip – Stans (detail), 2006. Courtesy of the artist.

    Ann Edholm / Tongue on the Tip

    Bildmuseet is presenting parts of Ann Edholm’s series of paintings Tongue on the Tip, together with sketches and collages. With their defined geometric shapes, her large-scale paintings may seem completely abstract but the works include interpretations of art history and ancient legends, of Jewish deportations during the Nazi reign, and her mother’s memories of World War II Berlin.

  • Officina Corpuscoli, The Growing Lab Mycelia, 2009–ongoing. Courtesy of Maurizio Montalti.

    Design Matters at Bildmuseet

    Design Matters presents internationally established designers and design groups who challenge our expectations of consumer products, furniture and functions. Does our relationship to things change if the shoes we wear have been cultivated by us, or if the plate we eat from is a living organism? Can a cause of the climate catastrophe be transformed into something beautiful and worth preserving?

  • Grada Kilomba, Illusions Vol. III, Antigone, 2019. Courtesy of the artist.

    Opening at Bildmuseet: Grada Kilomba / A World of Illusions

    Bildmuseet, Sweden, presents Grada Kilomba’s first solo exhibition in Scandinavia; a trilogy of poetic film installations that use antique dramas to highlight postcolonial issues of racism, gender oppression and violence. The exhibition is the premiere of the third chapter of the trilogy, and the large scale video works are thereby being exhibited together for the very first time.

  • New book about Physics and Art from Bildmuseet, Umeå University, Sweden.

    Physics and the Artistic Imagination – New book from Bildmuseet

    Featuring works by contemporary international artists, essays about physics and art, as well as extracts from conversations between physicists and artists, the book Entangle: Physics and the Artistic Imagination is an introduction to how particle physics is inspiring the work and practice of contemporary artists.

  • Pierre Huyghe, Untitled (Human Mask), 2014. Courtesy the Artist.

    Opening at Bildmuseet: Art Across Species and Beings

    The upcoming exhibition at Bildmuseet brings together an outstanding selection of artworks which invite the visitor to rethink the human position in the world. "Animalesque / Art Across Species and Beings" presents 17 artists from different countries, generations and backgrounds. Film and video, drawing and sculpture, installation and sound. Press preview 13 June, opening 14 June.

  • Laura Cemin, An Attempt at Exhausting  a Shape, 2019

    Umeå Academy of Fine Arts MFA degree show opens at Bildmuseet

    On Art Friday 3 May, Bildmuseet opens the annual MFA degree show from the Umeå Academy of Fine Arts. You are invited to meet a new generation of artists and a wide spectrum of ideas, materials and techniques. Press preview on Thursday 2 May at 10:00-12:00 (RSVP).

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