Malmö Gallery Weekend 2026: Open house at IAC

IAC is no ordinary exhibition space, but a venue for artistic experimentation and the exchange of ideas. Here, artists come together in a cross-disciplinary environment to engage in artistic research and technical exploration. During Malmö Gallery Weekend 2026, IAC will present an exhibition that shifts the boundaries between inside and outside, between scientific and artistic processes, and between the everyday and the symbolically charged. 

Participants include the multidisciplinary artist Juju Bento, Malmö-based artist Rasmus Ramö Streith, the artist, filmmaker and artist-in-residence at MAX IV Jennifer Rainsford, IASPIS fellow Ian Waelder, cellist and performer Elide Sulsenti, and playwright and art researcher Vanja Hamdi Isacsson, who will present their ArtCollab project together with Associate Professor of Psychology Sima Nurali Wolgast.

Opening Hours: 25–27 September 2026
Fri 18:00–23:00, Sat–Sun 13:00–17:00

Participating artists and researchers: Juju Bento / Rasmus Ramö Streith / Jennifer Rainsford / Ian Waelder / Elide Sulsenti / Vanja Hamdi Isacsson & Sima Nurali Wolgast

Visit the project page for more details.

Juju Bento lives in an international landscape while working with spatiality. Born in the traditional Portuguese countryside in an engineer's family, her work explores installation. Based on phenomenology and perception, bodily archives are translated into atmospheres through sculpture, sound, and performance. Active in the scene presents herself recently in multiple solo and group exhibitions, including at Krognoshuset in Sweden, FOLIO Festival in Portugal, and Fabrikken in Denmark. She holds an MFA from Malmö Art Academy (2024). She has received grants and been awarded by the Swedish Arts Grants Committee, the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, the Danish Arts Foundation, and the Millennium Foundation.

Visit Juju Bento’s artist page - jujubento.com

Rasmus Ramö Streith (*1985, based in Malmö) works with film, sculpture and installation. He graduated from Malmö Art Academy (2013–2018). His work has been exhibited at venues including Kunsthal Charlottenborg (2026), Südtiroler Künstlerbund in Bolzano (2025), Kohta Konsthall in Helsinki (2024), Minor Attractions in London (2024) and Malmö Konsthall (2022). The video work The Un dead (2018) is part of the Moderna Museet collection.

Visit Rasmus Ramö Streith's artist page - rasmus-r-streith.com

Jennifer Rainsford is a Stockholm based artist whose artistic practice engages with the interface between art, film and science, through film, installation and interdisciplinary collaborations with researchers and activists. Her work explores the relationships between humans, technology and nature. She has conducted long-term collaborations with researchers such as Michalis Averof (regenerative biology, CNRS/ENS Lyon) as well as projects at Tohoku University, the International Pacific Research Center, and astronaut physicians at the European Space Agency.

She currently teaches at the Royal Institute of Art in Stockholm in film, where she works with the Center for Art and Digitality exploring expanding formats and new technologies. In 2026, she is an artist-in-residence at MAX IV in Lund and the Inter Arts Center.

Learn more about Jennifer Rainsford - raij.cargo.site 

Ian Waelder (*1993, Madrid) lives and works in Frankfurt am Main and Mallorca. Waelder’s practice explores memory and trace by isolating archival histories and language in relation to his biography, working through the poetics of the accident and the repurposing of the discarded. Recent solo exhibitions include: GAK–Gesellschaft für Aktuelle Kunst, Bremen; LAURENZ, Vienna; Kestner Gesellschaft, Hannover; carlier | gebauer, Berlin; diez at Liste Art Fair, Basel; and Es Baluard Museu d'Art Contemporani, Palma. His work has been included in group shows at diez, Amsterdam; NS-Dokumentationszentrum München; ifa-Galerie, Berlin; Kunsthalle Wien; Callirrhoë, Athens; Petrine, Paris; Fundació Antoni Tàpies, Barcelona; and Delfina Foundation, London. Waelder has been a resident of the Laurenz-Haus Foundation in Basel between 2025 and 2026. In the coming months, his work will be on view at Haus am Waldsee, Berlin; Modern Art, London; and diez, Amsterdam. 

Visit Ian Waelder's artist page – ianwaelder.info

Elide Sulsenti is a cellist and performer passionate about experimentation and innovation. Her classical training, which includes studies at the Conservatorio della Svizzera Italiana in Enrico Dindo’s class and the Hochschule of Lucerne, along with experiences at institutions such as the Ferenc Liszt Academy in Budapest, has led her to focus on contemporary music and the exploration of new sonic potentials. With an interdisciplinary approach, Elide integrates technology, augmented instruments, and performative practices in unconventional contexts. Her performances, ranging from classical to contemporary music, have been recognized with distinctions such as the Fritz Gerber Award (2023) and the Valentino Bucchi Prize (2024). Combining artistic research and experimentation, she enhances the interaction between space, sound, and audience, a theme that is currently central to her doctoral project at the Conservatorio di Ferrara. 

Visit Elide Sulsenti's artist page – elide.it

Vanja Hamidi Isacson is a Swedish Finnish playwright and artistic researcher based in Malmö, Sweden. She is an affiliated guest researcher at Malmö Theatre Academy, Lund University. In 2022, she earned her doctorate from Stockholm University of the Arts with a thesis titled “The Potential of Multilingualism in Dramatic Works”. Project leader of several multilingual projects within the performing arts in the Nordics. Hamidi Isacson was also a co-founder of the multilingual theatre company Teater JaLaDa in Malmö. 

Visit Vanja Hamidi Isacson's artist page - vanjahamidiisacson.se

Sima Nurali Wolgast is an Associate Professor of Psychology and a licensed psychologist and psychotherapist. She is involved in several ongoing artistic projects and research initiatives. In addition to her work in the artistic field, she teaches social psychology and psychotherapy, areas in which she is also conducting research. Her scholarly work focuses on developing methodological approaches that integrate psychological and psychotherapeutic knowledge across diverse contexts, including the performing arts. In recent years, she has created several artistic works, some of which have also served as research projects. In 2025, she contributed to Vanja Hamidi’s artistic project, acting as the facilitator of the dialogic processes that shaped the work.

Visit Sima Nurali Wolgast's research page - humanrights.lu.se/sima-wolgast

Read more about the ArtCollab “Voices Between Bodies” project here.