Malmö Art Academy 2017 – 2018 Malmö Art Academy 2017 – 2018 Faculty Staff Gertrud Sandqvist Professor of Art Theory and the History of Ideas; Gertrud Sandqvist Rector and Artistic Director Supervisor for the Doctoral Programme Silvana Hed Director Dr. Sarat Maharaj Professor of Visual Art and Knowledge Systems; Charlotte Marklund Departmental Secretary Supervisor for the Doctoral Programme Charlotta Österberg Financial Administrator Joachim Koester Professor of Fine Arts Evalena Tholin Administrator Dr. Matts Leiderstam Professor of Fine Arts Madeleine Bergquist Librarian Fredrik Værslev Professor of Fine Arts Ariel Alaniz Technician (metal, wood and sculpture workshops) Emily Wardill Professor of Fine Arts Olof Brostöm Technician (3D) Maj Hasager Programme Director of Critical & Pedagogical Sophie Ljungblom Technician (moving images) Studies (MFA); Senior Lecturer in Fine Arts Kristian Nordström Kimbré Technician (photography studio, janitor) Maria Hedlund Senior Lecturer in Fine Arts Håkan Nyqvist Technician (wood and sculpture workshops, Per Olof Persson Senior Lecturer in Fine Arts KHM galleries) Margot Edström Junior Lecturer in Fine Arts Joakim Sima Technician (IT, sound studio) Laura Hatfield Junior Lecturer in Fine Arts; Eva Lena Landgren Caretaker Programme Coordinator for Critical & Pedagogical Studies (MFA) Viktor Kopp Junior Lecturer in Fine Arts Charif Benhelima External Visiting Lecturer in Fine Arts Andreas Eriksson External Visiting Lecturer in Fine Arts Nathalie Melikian External Visiting Lecturer in Fine Arts João Penalva External Visiting Lecturer in Fine Arts Nina Roos External Visiting Lecturer in Fine Arts Christine Ödlund External Visiting Lecturer in Fine Arts Editor Marie Thams Translators John Krause (Swedish to English): Texts by Axel Burendahl and Jonna Hägg Dan Marmorstein (Danish to English): Texts by Frederikke Jul Vedelsby, Theis Madsen and Anna Skov Hassing Stig Oppedal (Norwegian to English): Text by Eli Maria Lundgaard and Martine Flor Jan Salomonsson (Swedish to English): Texts by Helen Haskakis, Nadja Ericsson, Oskar Persson, Daniel Fleur, Ellinor Lager, Joakim Sandqvist and Rasmus Ramö Streith, and foreword by Gertrud Sandqvist Copyeditor Jaclyn Arndt Proofreader Laura Hatfield Photographers Ursula Beck p. 456 Margot Edström pp. 459, 479 Laura Hatfield pp. 466–9 Alexandra Hunts p. 453 Rannveig Jónsdóttir pp. 454, 457 Kristian Nordström Kimbré pp. 472, 474–8 Joachim Koester pp. 460–1 Matts Leiderstam p. 455 Sophie Ljungblom pp. 470–1 Rune Elkjær Rasmusssen pp. 270–1 Johan Österholm pp. 158–60, 163–4, 169–72, 473 Photos on cover and section breaks by Kristian Nordström Kimbré All other images by Jenny Ekholm or courtesy of the artists Design Eller med a Printer Elanders Fälth & Hässler ISBN 978-91-979616-8-4 Publisher Malmö Art Academy Box 4035 SE – 203 11 Malmö www.khm.lu.se Publishing Supervisor Silvana Hed © 2018 Malmö Art Academy, the artists, authors, and photographers. 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Malmö Art Academy 2017–2018 Content 3 Foreword 7 Master of Fine Arts — Year 2 Sebastião Borges 13 Axel Burendahl 30 Nils Ekman 46 Daniel Fleur 62 Martine Flor 78 Anna Skov Hassing 94 Maxime Hourani 110 Alexandra Hunts 124 Jonna Hägg 142 Ellinor Lager 158 Eli Maria Lundgaard 174 Emil Palmsköld 190 Joana Pereira 206 Rasmus Ramö Streith 222 Joakim Sandqvist 238 Critical & Pedagogical Studies — MFA, Year 2 Karen Bohøj 257 Bachelor of Fine Arts — Year 3 Anna Andersson 285 Tine Maria Damgaard 293 Nadja Ericsson 302 Mads Kristian Frøslev 310 Helen Haskakis 320 Inka Hiltunen 330 Theis Madsen 340 Oskar Persson 349 Samaneh Roghani 358 Moa Sjöstrand 366 Albin Skaghammar 376 Frederikke Jul Vedelsby 386 PhD Candidates Rosa Barba 401 Alejandro Cesarco 409 Marion von Osten 412 Lea Porsager 423 Andrea Ray 428 Imogen Stidworthy 436 Content 5 Selected Activities Practise Practice at Skånes konstförening 453 Annual Study Trip, MFA1 458 Movement Workshop 460 Critical & Pedagogical Studies — Study Trip to Berlin 462 16mm Film—the Fundamentals 470 Photography—Creative Perspectives 472 Ceramics Course 4 74 Welding Course 475 Moulding Course: Bronze/Aluminium/Silicone 476 Plastic Course 478 Kinaesthetic Audio 479 Faculty Biographies 480 Selection of work 488 About Malmö Art Academy 500 Programme Descriptions 502 Course Descriptions 505 Foreword 7 A great deal of time and effort has been spent preparing Among all the other interesting and stimulating work- and decorating Malmö Art Academy’s new premises in shops given during the year by our own teachers as the old tram sheds on Förargatan, in Mazetti Culture well as by visiting artists, Simryn Gill’s workshop on House, and in the Dimman neighbourhood just across “material and materials to make substitutions / stand-ins / Bergsgatan in Malmö. The Academy moved into these facsimiles / records” is particularly worthy of mention. temporary premises on September 3, 2018, where it will Our students were also granted the privilege of taking be located until the new shared campus for the three part in a workshop entitled “The Aesthetics of Resist- arts academies in Malmö opens. Of course, everybody ance” given by Ulf Peter Hallberg and the legendary at the school has been involved in this move, but particu- artist and set designer Gunilla Palmstierna-Weiss. larly remarkable efforts have been made by Silvana Hed, Per Olof Persson, Sophie Ljungblom and Joakim Sima. Our external examiners this year were Belgian curator A special thanks to them! Heidi Ballet for the BFA programme, Portuguese cura- tor Rita Fabiani for the MFA programme, and Dean of The Academy recently appointed two new professors. the Oslo Academy of Fine Art Stine Hebert for the CPS Emily Wardill, who has worked as Associate Professor programme. at the school since 2014, has been awarded a profes- sorship in material-based film and narrative structures, And, of course, we extend a special thank you to our which began in November 2017. Fredrik Vaerslev has outstanding Yearbook editor, Marie Thams. been granted a professorship in conceptual painting, which he assumed this January. They are succeeding With the move, the Art Academy is entering a new Haegue Yang, now a professor at the Städelschule, and environ ment, and since the beginning of the year our Matts Leiderstam, who will continue teaching courses already operating galleries in Mazetti Culture House at the Academy in a new role as External Visiting have been offering new challenges and opportunities to Lecturer. our students. The two exhibition spaces have distinctly individual lighting and spatial qualities, which has been This year the Academy has awarded two new Doctor- highly stimulating to the students, whose graduation ates of Fine Arts: one to Andrea Ray in January, and the exhibitions form part of their degrees. other to Marion von Osten in May. Ray’s thesis is titled Sounding Elective Affinities: A Polytemporal Approach We continue to build on Malmö Art Academy’s well- to Reconceptualizing Egalitarian Social Rela tions. Her established modus operandi, with our focus on the dissertation opponent was Katy Deepwell and the individual student placed within an international flow of examination committee included Matts Leiderstam, thinking through art. Åsa Lundqvist, and Lycia Trouton. Von Osten’s opponent for her thesis, In the Making: Traversing the Project The results of these important efforts can be witnessed Exhibition In the Desert of Modernity. Colonial Planning in the pages of this Yearbook. and After, was Lucy Cotter. Her examination committee consisted of Charlotte Bydler, Frans Jacobi, and Lucy — Gertrud Sandqvist Steeds. Rector Matts Leiderstam and Maj Hasager ran an extensive MFA-level project as part of the Academy’s Critical & Pedagogical Studies (CPS) programme. “Practise Practice” arranged for the students unique (and most gene rous) access to the premises of Skånes konst- förening, and the participants produced an exhibition with experimental aspects that changed as the project proceeded. The course was both analytical and crea- tive, and as such offered significant practice for future research. Master of Fine Arts Year 2 Sebastião Borges Axel Burendahl Nils Ekman Daniel Fleur Martine Flor Anna Skov Hassing Maxime Hourani Alexandra Hunts Jonna Hägg Ellinor Lager Eli Maria Lundgaard Emil Palmsköld Joana Pereira Rasmus Ramö Streith Joakim Sandqvist MFA2 Sebastião Borges 13 Foreground: Familiar objects, 2018. Digital print on cotton, 240 x 180 cm. Background: From Black to Blue and Back Again (VI–XV), 2018. Oil on canvas, 240 x 180 cm. Installation view, MFA exhibition, KHM1 Gallery, Malmö, 2018. Sebastião Borges 14 Familiar objects, 2018. Digital print on cotton, 240 x 180 cm. Installation view, MFA exhibition, KHM1 Gallery, Malmö, 2018. Sebastião Borges MFA2 Sebastião Borges 15 Cadernos do M.A.L [Notes on M.A.L] Note on “Notes on M.A.L.” I have decided to compose this text from a collection [I] no longer know if I’m reinventing myself in this of notes I have been gathering since I arrived. In a text or if I’m reinventing my work as I write. collage exercise the text has grown and acquired new — 26 March 2018 forms. Until now, the writing process would result for me, in a private moment, as an extension of my If my practice is entirely dependent on production thoughts. […] [But by] assuming the texts would lose in the studio, not everything is solved here; on the their private character, the written production over contrary, there is a permanent battle for the survival time lost its impetus and spontaneity, to acquire more and validation of thoughts. This reflection is made conscious characteristics. essential by writing; it happens not for the production — 27 December 2017 of content per se, but it rather works, in the loneliness that the studio’s practice allows, as one of the few Not pretending to theorise what I do as an artist or to ways that I have to relate my experiences, ideas, fit myself into a category of thought, this text is only notions, and references.