In the exhibition at Krognoshuset, Kalle Brolin and Kristina Müntzing take their point of departure in how different forms of economic transactions control historical events.
In the new installation Don't quit your dayjob GAN, Kristina Müntzing creates a room based on art history and family history, and gives shape to a moment when they both intertwined in Lund in the 1930s. The artist GAN* (Gösta Adrian Nilsson) buys tailor-made suits from Kristina's grandfather Carl Åkesson, who runs Tailor tailoring at Lundagård. GAN pays with his own paintings.
Kalle Brolin's ten-year investigation of the connections between coal mines and sugar mills in Skåne seeks new paths and expressions. Kalle Brolin shows a newly produced two-channel video installation about the history of sugar. In Saint Bridget's visions, we see and hear how the saint Brigid and the voodoo goddess Maman Brigitte start a slave revolt in the West Indies, the consequences of which lead to the introduction of sugar beet cultivation in Europe. In the basement, a video work combining chiaroscuro** with loop is shown; here, child laborers are lowered into a bottomless mine shaft.
Kristina Müntzing, born in 1973, lives and works in Malmö. Müntzing's artistic practice creates a visual language for radical political movements. By cutting and weaving together images from different times and geographies, works are formed that are as much patterns as maps and archives.
Müntzing is educated at Goldsmiths College, University of London and Valand Academy of Art, Gothenburg. She has participated in both national and international exhibitions, including at the Swedish Institute in Paris, Kiasma in Helsinki and Kunst Werke Berlin.
website www.kristinamuntzing.com
Kalle Brolin is an artist and writer, born in 1968. He works with video installation and performance, in large-scale and research-heavy projects. A series of works deals with the effect of two industries, coal mining and sugar factories, on both the inner and outer landscape of Scania. These works have been shown at institutions such as Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Malmö Art Museum and Röda Sten Art Gallery, Gothenburg. Kalle Brolin has studied at Valand School of Art, Gothenburg and Umeå School of Art. He has participated in both national and international exhibitions and biennials. Brolin, who is now based in Malmö, has previously lived and worked in cities such as Buenos Aires, Istanbul, London, Berlin, Stockholm, Copenhagen, Tallinn and Gdancek.
website www.kallebrolin.com
instagram @kalle_brolin
*Lunda-born artist GAN, Gösta Adrian Nilsso exhibited at Krognoshuset in 1930.
** Chiaroscuro is an Italian term that literally means "light-dark", in painting it refers to the use of light and shadow in a painting.
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Krognoshuset is run with support from Lund Municipality and the Culture Council