Malmö Gallery Weekend 2025: Open house at IAC

To mark its 15th anniversary, during Malmö Gallery Weekend, IAC presents an exhibition by artists who, over time, have returned to IAC to pursue artistic projects and experiment with new modes of collaboration, supported by IAC’s focus on interdisciplinary research and technological exploration. Many of them are former students from the Malmö Art Academy and the Malmö Theatre Academy.

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!

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 – a conceptual exploration of the choir as form and method. This is a choir without singing: an essayistic, embodied choir, where voice, rhythm and movement channel a shared sense of political and social frustration. An orchestra of urgency, piece after piece.

”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.