Malmö Art Academy Malmö Art Academy 2016 – 2017 2016 – 2017

600 Pages·2017·42.83 MB·English

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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; Charlotta Österberg Financial Administrator
Supervisor for the Doctoral Programme
Charlotte Marklund Departmental Secretary
Dr. Matts Leiderstam Professor of Fine Arts
Madeleine Bergquist Librarian
Haegue Yang Professor of Fine Arts
Laura Hatfield Programme Coordinator for
Joachim Koester Professor of Fine Arts Critical & Pedagogical Studies (MFA)
Emily Wardill Professor of Fine Arts Håkan Nyqvist Technician (wood and sculpture workshops,
Maj Hasager Programme Director of Critical & Pedagogical KHM gallery)
Studies (MFA); Senior Lecturer in Fine Arts Ariel Alaniz Technician (metal, wood and sculpture
Maria Hedlund Senior Lecturer in Fine Arts workshops)
Per Olof Persson Senior Lecturer in Fine Arts Joakim Sima Technician (IT, sound studio)
Viktor Kopp Junior Lecturer in Fine Arts Sophie Ljungblom Technician (moving images)
Margot Edström Junior Lecturer in Fine Arts Kristian Nordström Kimbré Technician (photography studio, janitor)
Hans Carlsson Interim Project Coordinator of Critical Olof Brostöm Technician (3D)
& Pedagogical Studies (MFA) Evalena Tholin Administrator
Laura Hatfield Teacher at Critical & Pedagogical Studies (MFA) Eva Lena Landgren Caretaker
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
Charif Benhelima External Visiting Lecturer in Fine Arts
Andreas Eriksson External Visiting Lecturer in Fine Arts
Editor Marie Thams
Translators Gabriella Berggren (Swedish to English): Texts by Cecilia Kanthi Jonsson, Ernst Skoog and Elisabeth Östin
Mike Garner (Swedish to English): Texts by Nicklas Randau and Max Ockborn
Dan Marmorstein (Danish to English): Texts by Julie Falk, Mads Juel and Stephan Møller
Stig Oppedal (Norwegian to English): Text by Carl Østberg
Jan Salomonsson (Swedish to English): Texts by John Alberts, Sergio Alvear, Axel Berger, Andreas Franzén,
Carl-Oskar Jonsson, Gabriel Karlsson, Viktor Landström, Carolina Sandvik, and Foreword
by Gertrud Sandqvist
Copyeditor Jaclyn Arndt
Proofreaders Margot Edström, Laura Hatfield
Photographers Nora Swantje Almes p. 343 (bottom) Åsa Lundén p. 563
Galo Moncayo Asan pp. 246 – 247 Kristine Mengel pp. 506, 508 – 514
Charlotte Carlberg Bärg pp. 543, 548 Arthur Pequin pp. 489 – 490
Lena Bergendahl pp. 252–253, 280, 283 Samaneh Reyhani pp. 186–188, 190, 194–195, 198,
Karen Bohøj pp. 342, 343 (top) 200, 203 (top)
Sebastião Borges pp. 272 (bottom), 274 Charles Roussel p. 499
Simen Godtfredsen pp. 219, 224, 307–308, Joakim Sandqvist pp. 54–56, 60–64, 66–67, 387–388,
311, 313, 318–319, 323–324 402–404, 407– 408, 535, 538, 541, 545
Kristofer Henriksson pp. 299, 302 – 303, 305 Elena Strempek pp. 349, 351, 355, 358, 361
Mads Juel pp. 26 – 28, 31– 32, 34 – 35, 37 – 39 Mizuki Tachibana pp. 494 – 495
Lunds Konsthall pp. 556, 558–561 Helene Toresdotter pp. 492 – 493, 496 – 497
Paula Ludusan / Lunds Konsthall p. 562
All other images by Jenny Ekholm or courtesy of the artists
Design Eller med a
Printer Elanders Fälth & Hässler
ISBN 978–91–979616–7–7
Publisher Malmö Art Academy
Box 4035
SE – 203 11 Malmö
www.khm.lu.se
Publishing Supervisor Silvana Hed
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Content 3
Foreword 7
Masters of Fine Arts — Year 2 John Alberts 13
Julie Falk 26
Andreas Franzén 40
Simen Godtfredsen 54
Lavinia Jannesson 70
Mads Juel 85
Tina Kryhlmann 100
Viktor Landström 114
Marcus Matt 128
Nicklas Randau 142
Samaneh Reyhani 156
Selma Sjöstedt 172
Georgina Sleap 186
Critical & Pedagogical Studies — MFA, Year 2 Francis Patrick Brady 209
Angel Nuñez Pombo 235
Max Ockborn 252
Kezia Pritchard 290
Lucy Smalley 307
Elena Strempek 329
ieke Trinks 345
Bachelor of Fine Arts — Year 3 Sergio Alvear 373
Andreas Amble 383
Axel Berger 393
Carl-Oskar Jonsson 402
Cecilia Kanthi Jonsson 411
Gabriel Karlsson 421
Stephan Møller 430
Carolina Sandvik 441
Ernst Skoog 450
Øystein Sølberg 458
Carl Østberg 467
Elisabeth Östin 476
PhD Candidates Rosa Barba 489
Alejandro Cesarco 500
Marion von Osten 502
Lea Porsager 506
Andrea Ray 516
Imogen Stidsworthy 522

Content 5
Selected Activities The World Turned Upside Down: 533
Art and Ethics in the Rise of the
‘Stone Age South’
Dit Vindarna Bär / Whither the Winds, 556
Lunds Konsthall, on the Occasion
of Lund University’s 350th Anniversary
Mary Kelly, New Honorary Doctor 562
at Lund University
Museet / The Museum /فحتملا 564
Critical & Pedagogical Studies 570
Exam Projects 2017
Moulding Course: 574
Bronze/Aluminium/Silicone
Plastic Course 576
Welding Course 577
Faculty Biographies 578
About Malmö Art Academy 586
Programme Descriptions 588
Course Descriptions 590

Foreword
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There was an emergency message at the back of our staff, the library, a lecture room, and a teaching room.
Yearbook for 2015 – 16: We will be one floor below the Inter Arts Center, a con-
nection of which we hope to make fruitful use. Across
Save Malmö Art Academy — Open House the street, we’ll have another floor with a few studios,
The school year ended with uncertainty about the teachers’ offices, a video-editing room, and a computer
future location of the Academy. In June, the Malmö room.
City Council announced that it wanted to use the
current building, Mellersta Förstadsskolan, as an Despite these challenges involving our facilities, they
elementary school. The Academy’s students organ- have in no way affected the school’s internal opera-
ised an online petition and open house so people tions, and all classes, meetings, studio visits, work ses-
could see the importance of the facilities and how sions, and parties were carried out as planned. You can
they have been used by art students over the years. find course descriptions for the year’s activities at the
The petition quickly gathered 6,000 signatures and back of this Yearbook.
an outpouring of support for the Academy. Though
Lund University intends to build a new campus for The spring of 2017 was dominated by one of the largest
the schools within the Faculty of Fine and Perform- projects ever at the school: Professor Sarat Maharaj’s
ing Arts in the future, it remained uncertain where course “The World Turned Upside Down: Art and Ethics
the Academy will be housed in the coming years. in the Rise of the ‘Stone Age South,’” which we organ-
ised in collaboration with Maumaus in Lisbon. The
This meant that the academic year of 2016–17 began centre piece of the course was a reconstruction of the
with a certain amount of drama. Thanks to the extra- room where Professor Maharaj studied art history at
ordinary efforts and unity displayed by everybody at University of South Africa, University College in Durban
Malmö Art Academy — including students, teachers, for Blacks of Indian Origin in apartheid-era South Africa.
and other staff — we managed to collaborate e ffectively Working from a blurry archival copy of a black-and-white
and intensely with Malmö City and Lund University to photograph, students Sebastião Borges, Ellinor Lager,
find a good temporary solution to our lack of facilities Max Ockborn, Joana Pereira, and Joakim Sandqvist re-
while we wait for our new campus. The resolution was constructed the room with its blend of an evolution-
made public in March 2017. On June 30, 2018, the Art ary perspective on art under white European domi-
Academy will be moving to new facilities in the old nance and a more global perspective, as evidenced by
tram sheds on Industrigatan, Mazetti Culture House the various artefacts we see in the room: beside the
on Friisgatan, and another property on Bergsgatan in compulsory copy of an ancient bust, there was also a
Malmö. Being spread out over several buildings is less Buddha’s head, I slamic tiling, a quote from the Indian
than ideal, but this arrangement means we will remain theosophist Rukmini Devi, a rug made by the Zulu peo-
able to offer first-rate art education. After being fully ple, and sculptures hailing from a large number of dif-
renovated, the old tram sheds will house almost all stu- ferent African traditions. This reconstructed room, with
dios; a student kitchen; workshops for metalwork, cast- all of its desks and used couches, radiated an almost
ing, ceramics, plastic, and wood; a photography studio homey intimacy and served as the stage for lectures
and a darkroom; and a projects room. The Mazetti build- and seminars on the seven nodes touched upon by the
ing will house our gallery, as well as rooms for Critical project: migration, from 40,000 years into the past until
& Pedagogical Studies, offices for our administrative today; pre-historic art; the colonialisation of knowledge;
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the actual situation in South Africa during apartheid Lund University celebrates its 350th anniversary in
and its consequences; local efforts against the apart- 2017. The Art Academy acknowledged this in an exhibi-
heid regime in Malmö and Lund; how black women tion shown at Lunds Konsthall called Dit Vindarna Bär /
in South Africa are “forgotten” as the history of the Whither the Winds, May 19–September 17, 2017. This
struggle against apartheid is being written; and how we exhibition featured works by some of the many interna-
can work to decolonialise knowledge. To quote Profes- tional and Scandinavian artists who have worked or still
sor Maharaj: “Alongside, a point to mull: how to deal work at the Art Academy as teachers, mentors, guest
with the ‘decolonialisation of knowledge’ in an all-en- lecturers, and doctoral candidates. We are grateful
compassing knowledge society — a pansophic world? for the generous contributions of the Lund University
What mileage for the idea of art practice not as hard- Anniversary Fund and the Birgit och Sven Håkan
nosed ‘knowledge production’ but its opposite — as Ohlssons Fund, which made this exhibition possible,
‘knowledgeable ignorance,’ as the mode of ‘Ignorantitis and for the use of Lunds Konsthall’s space.
sapiens’?”
The Art Academy is also delighted to note that femi-
Also in the spring, Professor Franco Farinelli gave a nist pioneer, artist, and Professor Mary Kelly has been
lecture titled “The Nature of Mapping,” Associate Pro- awarded an honorary doctorate by Lund University.
fessor Jan Apel spoke on “The Scandinavian Pioneer Kelly has taught at the Art Academy several times and
Settlements,” and Professor Tom Higham presented continues to play a highly significant role as a source of
on prehuman species like the Neanderthal and the inspiration for the Academy’s programme. In a seminar
Denisovan based on his own DNA research. We were held by Malmö Konsthall, Malmö Konstmuseum, and
also enlightened by the lectures “A Proper Name for Fas- Malmö Art Academy, the people of Malmö and Lund
cism: Torture, Humanism and the Challenge of I nimba” were given the opportunity to experience her artistic
by Professor Paul Gilroy; “Unsettling White Temporali- production. We thank the Barbro Osher Pro Suecia
ties” by Julia Willén; “The World Upside Down: A View Foundation for their generous contributions.
from the South” by Dr. Betty Govinden, which touched
on how black women are written into — and out of — I would also like to thank all the external examiners of
history; and “Decolonising Minds? The Global Politics the various programmes at the school during 2016 – 17:
of Knowledge” by Professor Arathi Sriprakash. Activists senior research curator Marianne Torp from the Nation-
from Afrikagrupperna and SAFRAN told us about their al Gallery of Denmark, author Oscar van den Boogaard,
involvement in the struggle against apartheid back in director Jürgen Bock from Maumaus in Lisbon, and
the ’60s and ’70s, Jürgen Bock from Maumaus pre- cura tor Barbara Mahlknecht from Vienna.
sented African film by artists like Manthia Diawara, and
artist Angela Ferreira told us about her background as — Gertrud Sandqvist
a Portuguese artist from Mozambique who studied at Rector
a white South African art school in the ’70s, and how
this shaped her need for a politically meaningful artis-
tic practice. In Manuela Ribiero Sanches’s seminar, the
students read about Aimé Cesaire and Frantz Fanon and
their struggles against French colonial politics in Africa.