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Two years ago I started to search my way through t

Two years ago I started to search my way through the Lund University Art Collection. 44.000 artworks, sketches and sculptures later my exhibition The Museum Fauna - Lost Tails and Unheard Stories of Resistance opens tomorrow. You are most welcome to join!

17-20 opening
18.00 inauguration
17-23 the bar and restaurant is open

Snippets and snapshots from the first week of inst

Snippets and snapshots from the first week of installation. Please do feel welcome to the opening on June 5th at @skissernasmuseum.

The museum is open between 17 and 20, inauguration at 18, the bar and restaurant is open much longer. Let’s hope for a beautiful sunset in the park.

THE MUSEUM FAUNA - lost tails and unheard stories of resistance
@skissernasmuseum
Opening June 5th

I am looking forward to welcome you on the opening

I am looking forward to welcome you on the opening night on June 5th at @skissernasmuseum. To be able to share this labour of love, that I have been working on for two years now, is both very exciting and a bit scary.

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Welcome to the opening
Thursday 5 june 5–8 pm, inauguration at 6 pm
Free admission

Artist and researcher EvaMarie Lindahl has examined the art collections of Skissernas Museum and Lund University. With an artist’s perspective and through methods from critical animal studies, Lindahl investigates which individuals are hiding in the collections and how their stories can be told.

In her art projects, Lindahl questions our human-centred art history by rewriting and imagining new (art) histories where animals play active roles. She challenges preconceived power relations between animals and humans, reflecting on humans’ habit of oppressing other animals. Not least by using them as resources and materials in art production.

The exhibition shows both new and older artworks by Lindahl. Her drawings, video works, textiles and texts correspond in different ways with selected paintings and sketches from the collections.

Inauguration at 6 pm
Museum Director Annie Lindberg and Curator Malin Enarsson welcome you to the opening, in the presence of the artist. Bar and mingling in Birgit Rausing’s Hall all evening.

The exhibition The Museum Fauna – Lost Tails and Unheard Stories of Resistance is shown at Skissernas Museum from June 5 to November 2, 2025.

Some final decision making, painting and planning

Some final decision making, painting and planning is going on. Next week the installation starts at @skissernasmuseum but before that packing and shipping. Everything seems to be falling into place.
Opening on June 5th

Research joy! I am completely blown away by the wo

Research joy! I am completely blown away by the work of Swedish sculptor Asmund Arle and his emotional connection to the horses he portrayed. Going through letters written by Arle and documentation of his studio brings me so much joy. Asmund ❤️.

The second slide is of a life size sculpture of a horse rolling in the grass made for Helsingborg and the residential area of Fredriksdal. First placed on a square, but after complaints about the “nakedness” of the horse it was moved in between the houses onto a lawn. Trying to figure out if the horse is still there, frolicking in the grass.

As part of the exhibition at Skissernas Museum I will show sketches in graphite and plaster by Asmund Arle.

#sketches #graphite #plaster #sculpture #publicsculpture #horse #asmundarle #evamarielindahl #skissernasmuseum

Bye for now! The sculptures are coming down from t

Bye for now! The sculptures are coming down from the shelves to be installed again in the exhibition space in May. Opening June 5th.

#sketches #plaster #clay #museum fauna #evamarielindahl #museumofsketches

I’m in the final phase of this large scale 2x2 m

I’m in the final phase of this large scale 2x2 meters graphite drawing I’ve been working on for the last six months. Soon the practice of rubbing graphite into paper, for that specific metallic surface I’m obsessed with, will be over for this time, and as much as I’m longing for a break I will miss this weird and brain numbing process as soon as it’s over. If you want to see the drawing irl come to Lund and visit @skissernasmuseum between June and November.
#graphite #evamarielindahl #drawing #graphitedrawing

The animals are finally coming out of the digital

The animals are finally coming out of the digital and physical archives and the exhibition is drawing near, opening at @skissernasmuseum June 5th!

A day in February on the Bjäre Peninsula.

A day in February on the Bjäre Peninsula.

It’s been a couple of years since I did a large

It’s been a couple of years since I did a large scale graphite drawing and the size of 2x2 meters makes this process one of both struggle and joy. Hopefully it will be finished and ready for the opening on June 5th at @skissernasmuseum #graphite #graphitedrawing #evamarielindahl

COMET FRENZY! Still time to see A3 from the Northe

COMET FRENZY! Still time to see A3 from the Northern Hemisphere.

#a3 #comet #atlas #tsuchinshanatlas #c2023a3 #nightsky

PRUNE THE TAIL AS A ROSE BUSH - It’s been an int

PRUNE THE TAIL AS A ROSE BUSH - It’s been an intense and interesting week at @umarts.research in Umeå. Thanks for having me and providing the time and space to figure some things out and dream about the future.

I’ve met some new thinkers, and fellow artists in residence @nisrine_boukhari @zeno.gries and @shankends, hopefully we’ll meet again somewhere in the future! 🐎🌹

#horse #horsetail #prune #rose #rosebush #rosepruning #umarts #evamarielindahl #docking #taildocking #air #artistinresidence

Repost from @umarts.research This Friday, 13th o

Repost from @umarts.research

This Friday, 13th of September, 15.00-17.00 we invite you to Um…Crits led by Guest Artist and Researcher EvaMarie Lindahl.

For this session we will dig into ways of working with the history of your field. How do you use the architecture/design/craft or art history in your own research and production?

EvaMarie Lindahl, PhD, is a visual artist and researcher based in Sweden. Her research-driven art projects are situated in the intersection of Critical Animal Studies, the visual arts and activism. Lindahl has developed an art practice that encompasses large-scale graphite drawings as well as text-based performance work and collective self-organisation. Through her projects, Lindahl is questioning the writing of art history from an anthropocentric and patriarchal position by correcting, re-writing and imagining new (art) histories. This has developed into an art practice that could be called art history activism. In her current work, she is questioning the human-animal dichotomy and addressing the human habit of oppressing other animals by using them as resource and material in art production.

During her 1 week residency at UmArts, Lindahl will explore the painful practice of tail docking in horses, examining how this distressing tradition can be traced throughout paintings in art history.

Bring something you are working on, an essay, an application, finished piece, a project proposal, or art piece in progress. Anything that would be useful to have feedback on and we’ll provide the conversation. Together we will untangle threads and question marks and provide new perspectives.

Bring a book to school/work/dinner! Now as the end

Bring a book to school/work/dinner! Now as the end of summer is approaching order a book for your school library or lunch room that is filled with Palestinian poetry and poets in solidarity with Palestine. Read a poem to your students and colleagues, speak about violence, peace, longing and hope through poetry.
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En viktlös skärva av tid i Gaza (in Swedish) can be ordered through @askaforlag and you can find more information about the book in the links in my bio. All the earnings go to Palestinian healthcare.
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I’m happy to officially announce that Skissernas

I’m happy to officially announce that Skissernas Museum has invited me to exhibit in their major gallery for the summer/autumn of 2025. During this spring I’ve started off with diving into the art collection of Lund University while searching to find portrayed non-human animals. My finding spans from the etchings of horses by Albrecht Dürer to a drawing of a dog by Bianca Maria Barmen. I’m still in the beginning of this process but I can tell you two things: There will be horses; Rosa Bonheur will have a central part. Mark your calendars.

From the website of @skissernasmuseum
“Skissernas Museum has invited artist and researcher EvaMarie Lindahl for new readings and artistic investigations of the museum’s and Lund University’s art collections. Through the artist’s perspective and contemporary art as an entry point, Lindahl explores the history of collecting and the individuals and stories hidden within the collection. Her work is presented in a comprehensive exhibition at Skissernas Museum opening in June 2025. The exhibition features both newly produced and older works by Lindahl that correspond in various ways with selected works from the collections. A central piece in the exhibition is the extensive and large-scale installation Archive of Lost Tales, which is one of her ongoing artistic research projects.

Lindahl’s research-based art projects are situated at the intersection of critical animal studies and visual art. She has developed an art practice that encompasses large-scale pencil drawings as well as text-based performance works. In her projects, Lindahl continually questions the writing of art history from an anthropocentric and patriarchal position by rewriting, reimagining, and envisioning new (art) histories. Recently, this has evolved into an art practice that can be called art history activism. In her ongoing work, she questions the human-animal dichotomy and discusses humans’ habit of oppressing other animals by using them as resources and materials in art production.”

#museumfauna #evamarielindahl #skissernasmuseum #rosabonheur #archiveoflosttails #lunduniversity #biancamariabarmen #albrechtdurer #graphitedrawing

Now you can find information about The Boulevard o

Now you can find information about The Boulevard of Men on my website!
The Boulevard of men 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 and the ordeal and realities of Bonheur when portraying them. What have the non-human animals that Bonheur portrays in common with the artist? What are their shared experiences of not being in power?
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If you want to see the video in full you need a specific link. Write me a message and I’ll send it to you.
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Thank you @crack_jens for helping out with the editing.
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#rosabonheur #evamarielindahl #theboulevardofmen #resistancewithinthemuseumfauna #horsefair #horse #horses #arthistory

A few inspirational findings from today in Magasin

A few inspirational findings from today in Magasin ll and Magasin lll at @skissernasmuseum. The exhibition is slowly taking form.
1. Axel Poulsen
2. Toad roadkill by Nils G Stenqvist
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4. “When our time is unbearable - immerse yourself with geology” Nils G Stenqvist
5. The budgie Cleo drawn by Nils G Stenqvist
6. Fish by Nils G Stenqvist
7. A crab by Nils G Stenqvist
8. A print block of a Pica Pica maybe?
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#picapica #skissernasmuseum #axelpoulsen #toad #nilsgstenqvist #snail #crab #budgie

Wow! Thank you @warehousedallas, @lefeuvrelisa and

Wow! Thank you @warehousedallas, @lefeuvrelisa and @tfeulmer for producing such an amazing catalogue in collaboration with @phaidonpress and @monacellipress for the exhibition For What It’s Worth: Value Systems in Art since 1960. So much to read! I especially appreciate the interviews with and texts by artists, that are incorporated as a reader in the last chapter of the book.
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From the Phaidon website:
A collection of work by 80 artists who explore the contemporary art world’s fundamental concerns of value, markets, and the business of art.
Grounded in the global, conceptual art tendencies that began in the 1960s, For What It’s Worth looks at artists who generate, question, and infect value systems through their work. These works address issues vital to the art world connected to systems of exchange, social structures, or metacritiques of the market – and all stops in between.
A companion to the 2024 exhibition at The Warehouse, the dedicated exhibition space for The Rachofsky Collection in Dallas, Texas, this book includes a dedicated section, The Value Systems Reader, which comprises an anthology of texts selected by the living artists featured in the Warehouse exhibition, elaborating their positions in the ongoing exploration of questions of value in art.
Drawn from dozens of key modern and contemporary artists, For What It’s Worth explores the themes and strategies that continue to reverberate through art and the world today.
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#evamarielindahl #ditteejlerskov #abouttheblankpages #warehousedallas #books #catalogue #phaidon #monacelli

The last day of working together with students fro

The last day of working together with students from the 24/25 class of @konstskolanmunka. The intent of the day was to evaluate the year through philosophy, music, cake, sports and a flag.
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We’ll meet again!

Some images from my last stay in Umeå and the dra

Some images from my last stay in Umeå and the drawing workshop “Imagine Stories Through Drawing” at the Umeå Academy of Fine Arts. The students who participated were absolutely amazing. They were all so dedicated, enthusiastic, and eager to learn new techniques and ways. The nights were bright and the river and views as beautiful as always.
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1. View from the painter studio
2. First day introductions
3. Midnight hotel view with moon
4. Trying out crayons and charcoal
6. No mine in Gallok
7. Hotel selfie
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#umeåartacademy #drawing #drawingworkshop #charcoal #graphite #crayon #frottage

(2/2) Spending the afternoon with Clara from @umar

(2/2) Spending the afternoon with Clara from @umarts.research and Suzanne from @vasterbottensmuseum for a quick tour of some of the exciting things that can be found in the archives of Västerbottens museum. Here a few of the fantastic wood carvings of William Evensen and photographs by Sune Jonsson. In September I’ll return for a shorter residency.

#portrait #woodcarving #woodsculpture #slaughter #museumfauna #hunting #fish #cow #reindeer #williamevensen #sunejonsson

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