Vernissage

Welcome to the opening!
Scanian landscape painting meets contemporary works when the art museums in Malmö and Ystad open a joint exhibition.

The exhibition Gränstrakt is based on Malmö Art Museum and Ystad Art Museum's extensive collections of Scanian landscape paintings from the period 1850–1950. In both museums, older paintings are shown in dialogue with contemporary works. Gränstrakt is thus an exhibition that is shown in two places.

With landscape painting as a lens, we get a view of our relationship with nature and ourselves through the ages. Today, issues of national identity and belonging in relation to art and culture have once again been brought up in Swedish politics. The exhibition Gränstrakt problematizes the role of landscape painting in relation to notions of a culturally homogeneous and original place in the past and how artistic representations have been used to create feelings of belonging.

Vernissage at Ystad's art museum Saturday 18 May at 12–16. Opening speech at 2 p.m.

Ýrr Jónasdóttir, director of Ystad Art Museum, and Kirse Junge-Stevnsborg, director of Malmö Art Museum, welcome.
The exhibition was opened by Anna Lyrevik, head of Region Skåne's cultural administration.
Curators Julia Björnberg, Anna Johansson and Ellen Klintenberg introduce the exhibition.