(ART) HISTORIES OF THE MUSEUM FAUNA
(Art) Histories of the Museum Fauna (2025) is a series of text- and sound-based artworks installed alongside selected artworks from the collections of Skissernas Museum and Lund University where non-human animals are portrayed. The text- and sound works corresponds to, and offer, alternative (art) histories told from the perspectives of the visible and invisible animals on display. A horse tells of ›››
The Animal Lover (2025) is a video work filmed at the French animal painter Rosa Bonheur’s former chateau and studio, now turned museum, where her winter and summer studio is kept intact. Bonheur was described by herself and others as a great animal lover. At the same time, her artistic working method was violent and often had fatal consequences for those depicted. At her studio ›››
Archive of Lost Tails (2025) is an ongoing art project that investigates how the painful tradition of tail docking horses can be traced through art history. The project started from a detail found in Rosa Bonheur’s painting The Horse Fair (1852), where two of the horses are depicted with strangely tied tails. This observation led to a wider inquiry into ›››
The Boulevard of Men (2023) is a video work about the horses at the horse market in Paris and how the French animal painter Rosa Bonheur portrays them in the painting The Horse Fair (1852–1855). The video imagines the experiences of the horses sold and slaughtered but also the ordeal and realities of the artist when portraying them ›››
The Tyrant and the Muse (2023) is an art project and an exhibition that evolves around Rosa Bonheur and the non-human animals that surrounds her and her art practice. The artworks, such as large scale graphite drawings, video and sculpture, were developed for an exhibition at ›››
MULTISPECIES DISHARMONY IN THE LANDSCAPES OF THE WALKER ART GALLERY
Multispecies Disharmony in the Landscapes of the Walker Art Gallery (2022) is a text based artwork written to be performed as a guided tour. It was commissioned for the Animals and Landscapes Symposium organized by Edge Hill University and the Centre for Human Animal Studies. ›››
The Artist Named Me Nero (2020) is a video work about the lion Nero, caged by the French animal painter Rosa Bonheur at her castle in Fountainebleau and portrayed in several of her paintings. The video tells of an alternative history of the paintings of Nero, from the perspective and life of Nero. ›››
On the Back of a Huntsman (2019) is a text based artwork written to be performed as a guided tour. It was written for The Timeline exhibition of Nationalmuseum and evolves around the experiences of the non-human animals inhabiting five of the paintings that can be seen in the exhibition. The text was ›››
Green Feathers (2018) is a text based artwork written to be performed as a guided tour. It was written for the exhibition Danish and Nordic Art 1750–1900 at the National Gallery of Denmark and evolves around the experiences of the non-human animals inhabiting six of the paintings that can be ›››
AFTER ISAAC VAN AMBURGH AND HIS ANIMALS
After Isaac van Amburgh and his Animals (2017) is an exhibition consisting of three elements that together examine the oil painting Isaac van Amburgh and his Animals by Edwin Henry Landseer. The first is a large scale graphite re-drawing titled After Edwin Henry Landseer, Isaac van Amburgh and ›››
After Lion (The Look Out) and Lion at Rest by Rosa Bonheur is a work about the lion Nero held by painter Rosa Bonheur (1822–1899) in her menagerie at her castle in Fountainbleu in France. The work consists of 100 portraits in graphite of Nero drawn from the painting Lion at Rest by Bonheur. ›››
Slit, Scratch, Stuff, Stitch is an exhibition, and part of the larger project How Do You See?, that emanates from a series of scientific expeditions, which during the 1920s and 1930s went from Sweden to Mount Elgon, a mountain on the border of Kenya and Uganda. Afterwards one ›››
WE ARE REFLECTED IN GAZES OF GLASS
We Are Reflected In Gazes Of Glass is a site-specific exhibition, and part of the larger project How Do You See?, focusing on five stuffed individuals on display at Malmö Castle. Through site-specific periscopes, built so that the visitors can see what the stuffed animals see, the exhibition is investigating ›››
GIRAFFOPERISCOPIC INVESTIGATIONS
Giraffoperiscopic Investigations is a series of workshops held in relation to the exhibition We Are Reflected In Gazes Of Glass at Malmö Castle and is a part of the larger project How Do You See?. During the workshop children build periscopes through which they can experience the stuffed ›››
About: The Blank Pages is an installation that consists of almost 200 different books. The first 97 are published by Taschen in their series Basic Art, the following hundred are printed by Ejlerskov and Lindahl and are mimicking the look of Taschen’s books. They all look similar on the ›››
A REVELATION THAT MUST BE HEARD
A Revelation That Must Be Heard was a meeting initiated by Lisa Nyberg and EvaMarie Lindahl. The meeting was held at Moderna Museet Malmö on September 21, 2014, the first Sunday after the Swedish election for parliament. The aim was to bring together artists and activists to discuss ›››
Welcome to view the untamed files of The Unbroken Archive. These files should be seen as the secretions* of an artistic practice. The archive was started because of the need to work with all of the images that is stumbled upon, created and imagined throughout the research. ›››
The Human Exhibit is a project that investigates the history of exhibited humans at zoos and the connection to our present time. The project consists of three works and are all a combination of images and text in graphite. The texts are original newspaper articles and letters that are ›››
On Stage is a project that consists of eight graphite drawings, an object and a printed matter. Together they are investigating the expectations the audience (the visitors at London Zoo) have on the characters (the gorilla in their compound) when they are on stage (the cage). ›››
The Violence And The Scenery is a project based on visits to some of the oldest zoos in Europe: Berlin, Vienna, Paris, London, Amsterdam, Antwerpen and Copenhagen. The drawings and sculptures shown are influenced by art and ornaments found inside the walls of the different ›››
THE BARBED WIRE IDENTIFICATION ENCYCLOPEDIA
The Barbed Wire Identification Encyclopedia is a project that attempts to understand the history of the barbed wire and the role it has played in the occupation and control of both land and human and non-human animals. The project includes a total of 657 graphite ›››
The Drapes And The Drama Act I–VIII is a visual investigation of the drapings in a few canonical paintings in western art history, mostly from the 17th century. The series contains a total of 8 graphite drawings in various sizes from 10 × 17 cm to 50 × 30 cm. The investigation ›››
David and his Golden Key is a work consisting of seven graphite and crayon drawings that serve as a re-drawing, translation and re-grouping of two of David Teniers the Younger’s paintings. The two paintings depict rooms with walls covered of art presented by the principles of the ›››
Johann, David and I is a project that consists of three works, made during my last semester at the Art Academy in Malmö, where I investigate different artist personas. I am the artisan, the one who wants to behave as objective and correctly towards the image as possible, the one ›››
Language As Agitator is an ongoing investigation concerning the use of words as a way of devaluation someone, often by comparing humans with non-humans or weeds. It is a technique that is problematic not only for humans but also for non-human animals. What does ›››