Opening at Bildmuseet: Art Across Species and Beings

The upcoming exhibition at Bildmuseet brings together an outstanding selection of artworks that invite museum visitors to rethink the human position in the world, its relationship to all other life forms and to the various complex ecologies that bond beings together.

Animalesque / Art Across Species and Beings presents 17 artists from different countries, generations and backgrounds whose work ranges across various media, including film and video, drawing and sculpture, installation and sound.

Welcome to the press preview of the exhibition on Thursday 13 June at 10:00 (RSVP) and to the opening on the Friday evening at 17:00–21:00. Participating on both occasions are director Katarina Pierre, curator Filipa Ramos, assisting curator Anders Jansson and artists Luca Frei, Annika Larsson and Paloma Varga Weisz.

A growing awareness of living in an environmentally fragile planet has led artists to reconsider the role of art in responding to current challenges. Many artists have been rethinking the relationship between humans and nature, the effects of changes to the earth’s climate and the ways in which all species are caught together within complex causes and effects.

Participating in the exhibition are Allora & Calzadilla (USA/Cuba), Pia Arke (Greenland), David Claerbout (Belgium), Marcus Coates (UK), Mary Beth Edelson (USA), Simone Forti (USA), Luca Frei (Switzerland/Sweden), Pierre Huyghe (France), Carsten Höller (Germany/Sweden), Joan Jonas (USA), Annika Larsson (Sweden), Louise Lawler (USA), Britta Marakatt-Labba (Sweden), Amalia Pica (Argentina), Ho Tzu Nyen (Singapore) and Paloma Varga Weisz (Germany).

In tandem with the exhibition and throughout its duration there will be a programme of live events featuring talks with artists and various experts, as well as film screenings and discussions that further expand and develop the topics of the show.

Animalesque / Art Across Species and Beings runs June 14–October 20, 2019. The exhibition has been produced by Bildmuseet and is curated by London-based writer Filipa Ramos. Interested in the intersection of art, cinema and animal studies, Ramos is the Editor in chief of art-agenda and co-curator of Vdrome. She is a lecturer at Kingston University and Central Saint Martins, London, and at Institut Kunst, Basel.

Assisting curator Anders Jansson, Bildmuseet.

Press preview | Thursday 13 June 10–12 am. RSVP.

Opening | Friday 14 June 5–9 pm.

Press images | www.bildmuseet.umu.se/press-images

For further information, please contact
Museum curator Anders Jansson, Bildmuseet
anders.jansson@umu.se, 072-083 66 16

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Bildmuseet exhibits contemporary international art, photography, architecture, design and other forms of visual culture. Existential, political and philosophical issues are key to the programme. Bildmuseet received a Special Commendation from the European Museum of the Year jury, and has been one of the top candidates för the Swedish Museum of the Year Award as well as for the Council of Europe Museum Prize.

Housed in an acclaimed building at the Umeå Arts Campus, right next to the Umeå Academy of Fine Arts, Umeå Institute of Design and Umeå School of Architecture, Bildmuseet is a part of Umeå University – a multifaced university where studies and research within the creative realm make up an important part of the universty's cornerstone. It is one of Sweden's largest institutions of higher learning with over 32,000 students and 4,200 employees.

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Umeå University is a comprehensive university and one of Sweden’s largest higher education institutions with around 38,000 students and 4,600 staff. We have a diverse range of high-quality educational programmes and research within all disciplinary domains and the arts. Umeå University is also where the groundbreaking CRISPR-Cas9 gene-editing tool was discovered, starting a revolution in genetic engineering that led to the Nobel Prize in Chemistry.

The University has an international atmosphere and centres its work around core academic values. Our tightly knit campus makes it easy to meet, collaborate and share knowledge, something that encourages a dynamic and open culture where we celebrate each other’s successes. Umeå University prides itself in offering a world-class educational and research environment and expanding knowledge of global significance, where the sustainable development goals of Agenda 2030 inspire and motivate. We have creative and innovative research environments that offer the best potential for taking on the challenges facing society. Through long-term collaborations with organisations, industry and other higher education institutions, the University is helping northern Sweden become a knowledge region. The societal transformation and the massive investments currently occurring in northern Sweden create complex challenges but also opportunities. Umeå University is focused on conducting research about and within a society in transition and continuing to offer academic programmes for regions that need to expand quickly and sustainably.

Campus Umeå and the Umeå Arts Campus are close to the city centre and next to one of Sweden’s largest and most renown university hospitals. Education is also provided in several other towns, including Skellefteå, Örnsköldsvik, Lycksele and Kiruna. Umeå University is home to the highly ranked Umeå Institute of Design, the environmentally certified School of Business, Economics and Law, and the School of Architecture, the only one in Sweden with an artistic profile. Next door is Bildmuseet, which is Umeå’s contemporary art museum, and Curiosum, Umeå’s science centre. Umeå University is one of Sweden’s five national sports universities, has an internationally leading Arctic Research Centre, and has Várdduo, which is Sweden’s only research unit for Sámi research and indigenous research.

Opening at Bildmuseet: Art Across Species and Beings

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