GROUP SHOW "SUSTAINABLE SOCIETIES FOR THE FUTURE" 📷

Monday, February 1, 2021 10:00 AM 10:00
Sunday, May 23, 2021 5:00 PM 17:00

Malmö Konstmuseum, Malmö Malmöhusvägen 6 Malmö, Skåne län, 211 18 Sweden (map)

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Sustainable Societies for the Future. Photo: Malmö Konstmuseum.

Press release, January 2021

How can we generate new ideas and actions for a sustainable world? How can art act as stimulant for a more sustainable way of living? Sustainable Societies for the Future springs from one of the most complex and urgent challenges of our day: how to create safe, inclusive, and sustainable societies. 20 artists and artist groups are contributing works to the exhibition, that in different ways encourage dialogue and engagement with sustainability issues of local and global urgency.

Sustainable Societies for the Future highlights three dimensions of sustainability—the ecological, the social, and the economic perspectives. The exhibition aims to demonstrate how these different aspects interact with one another. How do we treat our ecosystems with proper attention and long-sightedness? How can we create a society in which human rights are respected? And how do we satisfy humanity’s fundamental needs, given the earth’s limited resources, without negative consequences for people, plants, animals, or the planet? The artists are from the Nordic countries and the US. From photo and video to performances and installations, they create a dialogue reflecting how art can inspire social engagement, leading to a better common future by creating new ways of seeing, thinking, believing, and acting.

Amanda Williams (USA).jpg — Sustainable Societies for the Future. Photo: Malmö Konstmuseum.

Participating artists: Catrin Andersson, Christian Falsnaes, Tue Greenfort, Max Guy, Ilkka Halso, Minna Henriksson, Ane Hjort Guttu, Hesselholdt & Mejlvang, Ingela Ihrman, Toril Johannessen & Marjolijn Dijkman, Mary Mattingly, Floating Museum, (P)Art of the Biomass, Cheryl Pope, Sean Raspet, Michael x. Ryan, Nilsmagnus Sköld, Sophie Tottie, Wang & Söderström and Amanda Williams.

Sustainable Societies for the Future is an extensive collaboration between Malmö Art Museum and Expo Chicago in the United States. The exhibition is a part of Art 2030, an international organization that unites art with the UN’s 2030 Agenda for Sustainability and its seventeen Global Goals. The project includes exhibitions held during the year in Malmö and Chicago, several performances and digital activities, the seminar Museums as Catalysts for Change, organized by Malmö Art Museum, and the parallel seminar Alternate Assembly: Environmental Impact in the Era of Pandemic, organized by EXPO Chicago. In collaboration with MOTTO Books and THE SEEN, a publication that documents the project in its entirety will also be published. The project Sustainable Societies for the Future is curated by Stephanie Cristello, Kirse Junge-Stevnsborg and Anne Thomasen.

Exhibition period: February 1 - May 23, 2021.
Opening hours: Monday-Sunday: 10am-5pm
More info: malmo.se/konstmuseum