Malmö Gallery Weekend 2025: Open house at IAC

The IAC is no ordinary exhibition space but a place for artistic experimentation and exchange of ideas. It brings together artists in a cross-disciplinary environment with a focus on artistic research and technical exploration.

To celebrate its 15th anniversary during Malmö Gallery Weekend, IAC presents an exhibition with artists who have returned to IAC over the years to develop artistic projects and explore new forms of collaboration. The works range from drawings and conceptual investigations to video works and staged environments and were mainly created by former students from Malmö Art Academy (Frederikke Jul Vedelsby, Mariella Otto, Ana Rebordão) and the Malmö Theatre Academy (Hungry Eyes: Dina Viksten Abrahamson, Ida Østman, Mie Kristensen, Olivia Klang).

Opening Hours:
Gallery Weekend, 26–28 September
Fri 18:00–23:00, Sat–Sun 13:00–17:00

Special Events:

Friday, at 15:00–16:00 – Diviner [A] + [B] by Mariella Otto & Gabriele de Seta.
Screening (ca. 20 min), followed by an artist talk, Q&A and book launch.

Friday, at 16:00 – Join us in the café for cake as we celebrate 15 years of IAC!

Friday, at 19:00 – Performance HUNGRY EYES I KOR, I KÖR by Hungry Eyes 

Participants: Frederikke Jul Vedelsby / Hungry Eyes / Kent Olofsson / Mariella Otto & Gabriele de Seta / Ana Rebordão

Frederikke Jul Vedelsby is a visual artist working with drawing, text, and time-based media. In the work I must see more of you or I will be quite sad, a blind singer, a retired childcare worker, and a poet organizing flea markets appear among drawings made with oil, beeswax, and pigment. In her intuitive, material-based approach, presence and relationships are central. Her drawings function as visual scripts, inspired by the bodies and gestures that populate her films. Care and absurdity are interwoven in works that move close to something known, yet invite new ways of seeing.

Hungry Eyes is a Danish–Swedish performance collective founded by Theatre Academy alumni Dina Viksten Abrahamson, Ida Østman, Mie Kristensen and Olivia Klang. At IAC, they present their second work HUNGRY EYES I KOR, I KÖR – a conceptual exploration of the choir as form and method. A choir without choral singing, an essayistic, hopeful and physical choir, an orchestra that spills out piece after piece. With voice, body, text and rhythm, the group shapes a collective expression that blurs the line between performance, concert and ritual.

”ZONA – Music at the Threshold” is a one-hour suite of 12 pieces of electroacoustic music by Kent Olofsson, presented as a binaural listening experience. The work was developed and composed within the framework of the artistic project ”Zonen” 2021-24, a large-scale project led and developed by artist, director and writer Nina Jeppsson and composer Kent Olofsson, resulting in a feature film, musical works, and stage performance. 

Mariella Otto (visual artist) and Gabriele de Seta (researcher) present Diviner [B], a collaborative video project which elaborate on the black-and-white image as a visual model of code and binary systems. Drawing connections between religious, scientific and technological narratives, by working with a breed of speckled hens [manipulated] and the generated image, they explore parallels between artificial intelligence and divination – mirroring human desires of control and their interplay with chance. The accompanying book [A], serves both a prompt for the audio-visual, and a documentation of the project.

Ana Rebordão creates staged environments in which she always plays the central figure, shifting between roles. Her latest piece, Sometimes it ends with a kiss, reflects on power relations within family structures. Through absurd, enigmatic performances, she evokes a sense of trauma and gives a sharp voice to silent female characters. The work shows women speaking to themselves beyond the noise of the world, as a game screen interrupts the stillness. Since 2016, Rebordão has collaborated regularly with composer and researcher Kent Olofsson at IAC.