Woven Worlds includes over 50 artworks by Kiki Smith, featuring both jacquard weavings and their originals, detailed drawings up to three meters high, and small sculptures. The presentation in Malmö features Sperm Piece from 1991, which is part of the Moderna Museet’s collection. The work includes more than 700 glass pieces covering the floor.
Kiki Smith’s motifs direct our interest towards nature. Close studies are mixed with fairy-tale fantasies as threadbare wolves, fragile butterflies, and dark bats take centre stage in her tapestries.
Kiki Smith, born in 1954 in Germany and raised in the USA, has repeatedly worked with the body and our inner selves. In “Woven Worlds,” we encounter an artist who has turned her gaze outward, placing the relationship with animals and nature at the forefront.
Kiki Smith constantly experiments with new techniques, with a particular interest in printmaking. Since the 1970s, her work has been extensively exhibited at institutions including the Whitney Museum in New York, Whitechapel Gallery in London, Seoul Museum for Art, and Haus der Kunst in Munich. The exhibition was created in close collaboration with the artist at the initiative of the Arp Museum Bahnhof Rolandseck in Germany and curator Jutta Mattern. It will also be presented at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Montenegro.
Curator: Elisabeth Millqvist
Souce: Moderna Museet Malmö