The degree show at Bildmuseet is the culmination of a period of intensive work, research, and discussion.
The annual Swedish Picture Book of the Year exhibition at Bildmuseet.
Drawing inspiration from historical panorama painting and 360-degree storytelling.
New performances created by artists from the north of Sweden exclusively for Bildmuseet.
Communication between people, migration, feminism, and art's ability to bridge cultural boundaries.
Exhibition of the best Swedish picture book of 2022: Såret [The Wound] by Emma AdBåge.
The degree show at Bildmuseet is the culmination of five years of study in fine art.
Down North / Contemporary Art in the Arctic presents a cross-section of contemporary art in the Arctic area.
Artists and writers have created works inspired by children's programs between 1965 and 1985.
Bildmuseet presents a weekend with performance art inside, outside, and around Bildmuseet.
Inside Outside is the most ambitious presentation ever of Holt´s multifaceted artistic oeuvre.
Mats Jonsson compiles the traces of Sápmi and places them side by side with his own drawings at Bildmuseet.
The exhibition marks the end of five years of studies in Fine Arts and a period of intense research and work.
Empathy and the ability to put oneself in the situation of others is the theme of Eva Koťátková's exhibition.
Original illustrations for Pija Lindenbaum's Vitvivan och Gullsippan – Swedish Picture Book of the Year 2021.
Zanele Muholi (b. 1972, Durban, Sydafrika) is one of the most acclaimed photographers working today.
Iwo Myrin’s motifs are drawn from the taiga, the geographical zone dominated by coniferous forest.
Bouchra Khalili's works contain stories about citizenship, colonialism, racism, vulnerability and resistance.
The exhibition presents Nordic architects and projects that represent a shift in contemporary architecture.
Zineb Sedira's solo exhibition at Bildmuseet talks about culture and resistance; time, place and identity.
The Academy of Fine Arts' degree exhibition at Bildmuseet marks the end of five years of studies in Fine Arts.
Motifs at the interface between nature and culture, the zone in which the human habitat is shaped.
"Kom dagen, kom natten" has been named Swedish Picture Book of the Year. Exhibition at Bildmuseet.
Naeem Mohaiemen’s film Jole Dobe Na (Those Who Do Not Drown) is a dreamlike story of loss and care.
In the video work Two Meetings and a Funeral, Naeem Mohaiemen takes us back to the global political events...
The exhibition Ground Control explores connections between plants, politics and history.
Throughout her artistic life, Faith Ringgold has been inspired by the civil rights movement and feminism.
Marathon has been named the Swedish picture book of the year 2019 and will be honoured with the national...
Larissa Sansour takes us to a dystopic future where the Earth has undergone an ecological collapse.
Tools for the Future was planned to mark the end of five years of studies in free art and a period...
Design Matters presents objects and technologies that may soon become part of our everyday lives.
Ann Edholm wants her paintings to be experienced as an encounter with a human being, direct and physical.
In Grada Kilomba’s film trilogy Illusions we encounter the well-known fables of Narcissus and Echo.
The exhibition brings together an outstanding selection of artworks - film and video, drawing.
The Academy of Fine Arts Master exhibition is the final exhibition of a two-year long process of intensive...
Innovative, provocative and brilliantly versatile.
In springtime every year, a jury selects the best Swedish picture book amongst last year's releases...
Black holes, dark matter, gravity, space, time and motion – these are phenomena that fascinate scientists...
Artist Ângela Ferreira (b. 1958 i Maputo/Mozambique and now based in Lisbon) focuses on traces...
The Refusal of Time is an evocative meditation on the nature of time. With allusions to Einstein's...
Over an intense weekend at Bildmuseet and Norrlandsoperan, we fill our rooms with tought-provoking...
Jochen Lempert (f. 1958, Germany) is a trained biologist and has been working as an artist since...
The works in Eco-Visionaries present alternative approaches to, and ideas about the relationship...
This year’s exhibition by graduate students from the master’s programme at the Academy of Fine...
British artist and filmmaker John Akomfrah creates his most ambitious piece to date – an immersive...
Fågeln i mig flyger vart den vill [The Bird Within Flies Wherever It Wants] by Sara Lundberg is named...
Dada is Dada presents paintings, drawings, documents, photography, collages, objects, sound recordings...
Artist Do Ho Suh investigates architecture as both physical and psychological rooms. In the large...
In The Sovereign Forest, artist and film maker Amar Kanwar tells a story of exploitation and its...
Blood, fire, earth, water and her own body - Ana Mendieta's poetic and striking works from the 1970s...
In a certain sense, Roger Metto is a landscape painter. His imagery, however, has both representative...
Inspired by Palestinian folklore, Jumana Emil Abboud (b. 1971, Galilee) imparts new interpretations...
This year’s exhibition by graduate students from the master’s programme at the Umeå Academy...
The picture book Djur som ingen sett utom vi [Animals No One Has Seen Except Us] by illustrator...
An extensive exhibition of contemporary art in the nuclear anthropocene exploring the complexity...
In collaboration with Vita Kuben, Bildmuseet invites to a rich programme of performance art. It offers...
In the video installation Le plus beau jour [The Greatest Day], photographer and film-maker Fouad...
Life and death, blooming and withering, attraction and repulsion challenge each other in Saara Ekström's...
This year’s exhibition by the graduate students from the master programme at Umeå Academy of...
Charles and Ray Eames are among the most influential designers of the 20th century. Together they...
The picture book "Småkrypsboll" [Bugball] by Tove Pierrou and Joanna Hellgren is recognised as...
Nisrine Boukhari’s art is inspired by psychogeography: theories about how geographical Environments...
Julio Le Parc experiments with the experience of art and its environment. Using simple, reflective...
The world was flat, now it's round, and it will be a hologram. The exhibition The World was Flat shows...
John Akomfrah's new three-screen film installation Vertigo Sea forms a meditation on man’s relationship...
The group exhibition Mien Meo Mieng presents video, painting, sculpture and installations by 14...
The annual graduation exhibition of the students from Umeå Academy of Fine Arts. After five years...
The award for the best Swedish picture book of the year recognises the picture book as an artistic...
The Spaces Between addresses the social and economic reality that has taken shape in Cuba in recent...
During autumn 2014, the artists and architects collective Uglycute worked together with a group...
The Brazilian design duo Fernando and Humberto Campana are known for their colourful, wilful...
For his painting, Anders Sunna gathers subject matter from history and his personal experience...
Artist Rafael Lozano-Hemmer works with robot-controlled light and sound, radio waves, motion...
During the dark season, Geir Tore Holm presents a work of light in the Bildmuseet entrance hall...
The Norwegian architect collective Felleskapsprosjektet å Fortette Byen works on location-specific...
The exhibition Right is Wrong / Four Decades of Chinese Art from the M+ Sigg Collection presents...
This natural environment has taken over the terrace outside of Bildmuseet. There stands a dying pine...
In the installation The Lost One, Liselotte Wajstedt creates a tender narrative about her grandmother...
Over a period of two years Bildmuseet has collaborated with Colleges of Art in Estonia, Finland, Ireland...
Bildmuseet has a long tradition of hosting the exhibition of the graduating master class from Umeå Academy...
Per Enoksson artistry includes both figurative and non-figurative art, and he is also working to develop...
Bildmuseet is proud to present the first solo exhibition of Shahzia Sikander’s work in Scandinavia...
Anna Höglund's Om detta talar man endast med kaniner (Topics of which you only speak with rabbits) ...
Marja Helander's works often revolve around her own identity in the borderland between Finnish...
Can sorrow be inherited? This is the question that artist Katarina Pirak Sikku asks in her Project...
Leonor Fini began her career in 1930s Paris, where she was part of the circle of the surrealists and...
Andreas Johansson's images of desolate, abandoned places, environments that we all feel that we recognize...
Thilo Frank's poetic and playful installations givs the viewer an opportunity to explore their experiences...
Since the early 1990s, Stéphane Couturier has photographed buildings in large cities. He sees the...
Theatrical Fields explores theatricality in performance, film and video. The exhibition presents video...
Inspired by woodwork, hobby electronics and open source technology Owl Project creates innovative...
Jacob Hashimoto’s artwork embodies his fascination with the intersections of painting and sculpture...
Already with her first film, Agnès Varda (b. 1928) established herself as an important figure in French...
Felice Varini uses architecture and the space he is in as a starting point when creating his site-specific...
Comic books are an independent artistic expression that combines literature, art and visual storytelling….
Bildmuseet has a long tradition of arranging an annual exhibition for the graduating class from the...
Klara Persson’s Molly & Sus has been named the best Swedish picture book of 2012...
With a great interest in the history of his country, Reynier Leyva Novo explores, questions and stages...
Rawiya is a group of female photographers from the Middle East that work on the subject of human...
Soviet Mythology in Latvian Art is an exhibition of paintings and sculptures from the period 1945-1985....
The rapid technical development of the film medium is an inspiration for the Spanish artist Daniel Canogar...
The exhibition Signs of Conflict displays political posters that were produced by the various factions...
Threads / A Mobile Sewing Circle is an exhibition and workshop created by its participants. The exhibition...
Over the past two years photographer and filmmaker Eve Morgenstern has been working for the...
Communitas provides examples of artists’ and architects’ visionary ideas about possible future cities...
Spectaculum Spectatorisis the archive of Italian artist Fracesco Jodices of today’s museum visitors...
Danish Henning Larsen Architects has offices in several cities and projects in over twenty locations..
Dayanita Singh is one of India’s most influential photographers. Her magical visual essays are now...
In her satirical images and texts Nanna Johansson pokes fun at stereotypical gender roles and ideals...
Disobedience Archive (The Parliament) is a user’s guide to the geography of civil disobedience, from...
Björn Berg (1923-2008) is the artist behind some of Sweden's best known and most beloved book...
A group exhibition of artworks emerging from the diverse and transforming location of Kiruna, the...
Mario Merz was associated with Arte Povera, a group of Italian artists in the 1960s who turned away...
Umeå Institute of Design's exhibition What if ... is about collaboration, innovation, user-centered...
In the exhibition Work in Progress, Umeå School of Architecture gives an insight into how structure...
Eva Lindström’s Apan och jag [Monkey and Me] received the honorable mention as best Swedish...
Twenty Twelve (As We Know It) is the title of Umeå Academy of Fine Arts’ graduation exhibition 2012....
For 30 years Bildmuseet has produced and shown lots of big, small, wonderful, challenging and high...
Waiting for God is the South African artist's first large scale solo exhibition with a selection of works...
The Spare Time exhibition explores the concept of spare time and the impact of recreational activities…
London based artist Edith Marie Pasquier works with moving image, photography, sound and text...
The exhibition is the result of the second year of the Kulturverket project Where's the Art in Research?
Once again the Umeå Academy of Fine Arts fills Bildmuseet with two degree exhibition shows. In...
Nature and life's smallest building blocks often form beautiful patterns. The images are also an important...
Bildmuseet presents the first major Swedish exhibition of US-Lebanese artist, Walid Raad. One of...
In the spring of 2012 Bildmuseet will move to a new building situated on Umeå Arts Campus by the Umeå river...
For the last ten years Ingo Vetter has visited Detroit regularly for research, artistic production...
A modest still life is often the starting point in Anneli Furmark’s watercolour paintings...
The diamond factory in Robertsfors is the starting point in Sara Jordenö's project Diamond People...
Dreamlike imagery and elaborate soundscapes characterize the work visual artist Zineb Sedira...
The exhibition eNORMt is the result of an educational project that has been going on during the spring...
What’s important for your life to be a good life? Kulturverket asked children in Sweden and Italy and...
With the premature death of Greenlandic-Danish artist Pia Arke (1958-2007), the Nordic region lost...
The Master’s Programme of Fine Arts exhibition Making Public presents the works of the newly...
Árvas - A woman finds colourful companionship on her drive through the bleak and magical landscape...
How can we create an archive of the private memories of gender, love and sexuality that have been...
This autumn Bildmuseet is offering a large-scale presentation of the work of Maria Miesenberger...
The Open Source Embroidery exhibition presents artworks that use embroidery and code as a tool...
Oscar Muñoz is internationally recognized and one of today’s most prominent artists from the Americas...
Once again, Umeå Academy of Fine Arts fills Bildmuseet with two graduation exhibitions: the Master’s...
Artist and illustrator Magnus Bard, well known from his pointed and thought-provoking political satires...
An extensive engagement with experimental film and video characterizes the work of German artist...
Bildmuseet presents Britta Marakatt-Labba in the most ambitious exhibition, Cosmos, to date with...
The Map / Navigating the Present is a genuinely trans-disciplinary and intercultural event engaging...
Artist and designer Amy Franceschini is presenting Nearest Nature, a workshop and an exhibition exploring...
The first more comprehensive European survey presentation of the oeuvre of Jean-François Boclé….
Modern notions of nomadic cultures unite the works of 18 artists that are shown in the exhibition...
South-Korean artist Jewyo Rhii allows us to meet the people of the city Seoul moving around the river Han...
As of this year, Umeå Academy of Fine Arts will present two graduating classes each year, and hence two...
An exhibition from South African artist Anthea Moys, who through performance works raises questions...
An exhibition by the Dutch-Indonesian artist Mella Jaarsma who explores questions concerning cultural ident...
Berlin based artist Joachim Schmid does not photograph himself. Nevertheless, few people have...
The short film Outwardly from Earth’s Center by the German-Italian filmmaker and artist, Rosa Barba...
In connection with the exhibition Game Art a group of students at the Academy of Fine Arts in Umeå...
Ursula Biemann, an artist, theorist and curator, has in recent years produced a considerable body...
Computer games are one of the leading popular culture products of our time. Once a marginal part of the toy...
In this exhibition, VIETPRINTS, works in various graphic techniques, by five Vietnamese artists...
With drawing and sculpture as instruments, the Dutch artist Anneke Eussen creates and explores...
Association-rich sculptures of everyday materials in monumental formats characterise Veronica Brovall’s...
Isaac Julien’s video art combines astute political practice with sensual richness and poetic complexity.
Since 2002, Paola Yacoub Michel Lasserre’s work in progress Newsletter examines and comments...
Skate Culture is a major exhibition about one of the most high-profile subcultures of our time...
Photographer Jens Assur spent a few weeks during the past year living in student housing in Umeå...
In the photography exhibition As Serious as Your Life, three young photographers based in London...
Under the title Project ‘07”: The exhibition the works of 15 newly graduated artists from their five years...
The exhibition USSR in Construction / Graphic form in the early Soviet Union takes a closer look at Russian...
In One Step Beyond – The Mine Revisited, Lukas Einsele examines the worldwide phenomenon of the landmine...
Iraq is in focus at Bildmuseet. In November, part 3 of Contemporary Arab Representations will be presented...
Scientists claim that we have discovered more about the human brain during the last ten years...
Processes of identification, identities and their dissolution are examinated in the art of Anneè Olofsson.
Mats Caldeborg likes to link his objects and sculptures to nature. The objects are created from found...
Tattoo art in Japan has a long tradition. Increasingly popular both here and Asia, it links art history...
Experimental work by 13- and 14-year-olds from primary and lower-secondary schools in Umeå is presented...
Välimaa experiments with a variety of textile techniques and materials, but often returns to embroidery...
YOUMEÅ is the title of this year’s graduation exhibition at Umeå Academy of Fine Arts...
What happened to the idea of the welfare state in Sweden? Do people still believe in the values of the com...
Two of Finland's leading photographers are exhibiting at Bildmuseet. Nanna Hänninen and Pertti Kekarainen.
With a sense of the present and a slowed-down pace, Nathalie Latham follows sleeping commuters...
The two photographic projects by photographer Susan Meiselas and by the Swedish artist Cecilia Parsberg...
The Carrizo Quartet is the video portion of a multimedia project by Christina McPhee, Carrizo Parkfield...
The Ego Project is the first major art project in Umeå to involve school pupils from preschool to upper...
The exhibition, and its accompanying publication, People of the North examines the conquest and...
One of South Africa’s most interesting contemporary artists is presented for the first time...
Football’s transnationality is celebrated in an exhibition of 50 photographs taken by many...
New industrial designers from around the world showcase their projects. The exhibition...
Conceptions of the world, life destinies, stories and memories are explored in Veli Granö's and Tuovi...
Can you paint yourself healthy? In the Body and the Self exhibition, researchers and practising therapists...
Rock carvings, language and environment is a pioneering project in which, aided by new technology...
Dispatched is the title of the 2005 graduation exhibition from Umeå Academy of Fine Arts at Umeå University...
During the renovation of Stockholm’s Thiel Gallery, significant parts of the unique collection...
In her work Half Being, Half Flow, artist Elin Wikström has reflected on the global market and the...
Unstable presents a survey of contemporary Swedish photography from the late 1990s to the present...
It is Hard to Touch the Real is a comprehensive compilation of contemporary video art...
Green Light is based on works by the artists Fia-Stina Sandlund, Gisela Schink and Petra Trygg...
A girl with a bow in her hair, walking through a threatening landscape. White water lilies in a murky...
Arne Isacsson has helped to renew interest in watercolour painting in the Nordic region...
Camille Norment (USA) and Knut Åsdam (Norway) both work at the intersection between film, sound...
Rune Hassner was a leading opinion maker for Swedish photography, and his ideas have influenced...
The Umeå Institute of Design Degree Exhibition opens, this year for the first time at Bildmuseet.
Bildmuseet is exhibiting a selection of paintings and drawings by Hilma af Klint from 1906 to 1933.
The twin sisters Jane and Louise Wilson work with video installations and photography.
The Divan installation comprises a room furnished only with a divan - a reconstruction of a classical...
After five years of art studies, thirteen newly graduated artists are presented at Bildmuseet. Umeå!
In their installations and objects Dolores Zinny and Juan Maidagan deal with the perception and experience...
Three resourceful and inventive artistic practices – Marja Helander, Geir Tore Holm, Lena Stenberg...
Join us for the second part of Contemporary Arab Representations. Now with destination Cairo.
Aernout Mik (born 1962) is one of the leading artists of our time – an innovator in video art...
Advertising photographer Emil Heilborn’s images are characterised by a high degree of artistic integrity...
As craftsman and artist Lars Pirak receives his honorary doctorate at Umeå University’s Annual Celebration...
Dynamism, quality and creative ideas characterise Finnish painting around the turn of the last century...
Fall season's first exhibit is a video trilogy by Swedish artist Mats Hjelm, born 1959. Having already...
Bildmuseet is pleased to present a comprehensive exhibition with important works from the collection...
The exhibition, Moderna Museet c/o BildMuseet / Dada and Surrealism, is comprised of about fifty Swedish...
A group of experienced graffiti artists from across Sweden – Ruskig, Daniel Diaz, Hotel, Plåster, Ångest...
Graduating students at the Academy of Fine Arts in Umeå exhibit their degree projects after five years...
Bildmuseet presents an exhibition of contemporary Vietnamese painting by twelve artists active in Hanoi.
A comprehensive presentation of the Sami artist Nils Nilsson Skum (1872-1951) with drawings and paintings...
Contemporary Arab Representations unites a selection of artists, writers, film-makers and architects...
The exhibition onlyyou provides a broad perspective of Carlos Capelán’s work.
About the book Runmarö, which is a unique and close collaboration between Jan Persson and Tomas Tranströmer.
The exhibition focuses on the mentality involved with building artistic platforms.
An exhibition about words and things for children and everyone else. By Magnus Lönn.
Bildmuseet presents the group exhibition Trippy with Oskar Korsàr, Jonas Nobel and Fredrik Söderberg.
In her will, the artist Anna Sjödahl (1934-2001) bequeathed Bildmuseet, as one of four beneficiaries
After several years' of immersion in issues of femininity Marita Liulia have turned her gaze towards MEN.
Bildmuseet presents two new video installations by Annika Larsson.
Photographer Emil Ragnar Borg Mesch (1869-1956) is best known for his series of pictures which depict...
The Finnish artist, Marita Liulia, has every right to be called a digital art pioneer
The video installation Where She is at along with a presentation of Make it happen – on tour are Johanna...
Bildmuseet is pleased to present the artist Ghada Amer to the Swedish public for the first time...
Marjaana Kella (born in 1961) is now working in Helsinki and is one of a new generation of Finnish...
The Image of Research is an exhibition project by museology students at Umeå University, and is the result...
The 2002 graduation exhibition is called Kraftverk [Power works or Powerplant], and is no modest event...
The exhibition Safe & Sexy / Personas and Codes of Public Space, documents women in the public space...
Imaging the landscape is a particularly incisive and charged practice within contemporary photographically...
During the darkest period of the year, 25 November – 24 February, one of Bildmuseet's exhibition halls...
Expressions of exile have traditionally focussed the lost homeland; the disorientation, the ennui, even...
Zoo is a solo exhibition with the young British photographer Dominic Davies, one of the most consistently...
The Swedish writer Pernilla Stalfelt puts her interest in childrens thoughts and reactions on taboo...
The Film Art of Isaac Julien is the most substantial to date devoted exhibition to the work of Isaac Julien...
In summer 2000, artist Annie Ahl travelled to Hungary. In the town of Pécs, she found an iron fence...
Boris Mikhailov (born 1938) has over the last decade built a strong international following through many...
Johan Celsing is an acknowledged Swedish architect. In 1999 he received the Kasper Sahlin Award for the new...
Dick Bengtsson (1936-1989) is one of the more influential artists in Sweden during the previous century.
This year's exhibition with the School of Art's graduating students is presented by the curators Carl...
Cecilia Parsberg has chosen action as her method and her means of expression. In her artistic practice...
Albanian artist Adrian Paci’s films and sculptures are deeply personal testimonies to topical and burning...
A unique exhibition where Bildmuseet as first museum ever outside South Africa can present a generous...
Dreamworld takes a look at the media landscape, television and TV advertising in the early 2000s...
A map of the world is an abstraction. The Earth is a sphere, and a sphere cannot be rendered accurately...
The artist Andreas Gedin has curated a show where works by other artists confront and interpret...
Moving images have left their mark in our time more strongly than any other cultural phenomena...
The Chilean artist Alfredo Jaar presents an installation in Umeå Stadsbibliotek downtown. A large pool...
This exhibition is a specific project of objects and sculptures. Endresen's works are exact, almost...
Beautiful and extraordinary photographs exposed directly on photopaper without any use of a camera...
Cristián Silva comes from Chile and shows two of his works. Chavo Tent is a cap big as a tent...
The artist Adriana Varejão comes from Brazil. Her expressive paintings has their origin in the colonial...
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An exhibition of the artist's complete graphics and multiples. Fahlström is probably the most internationally
One of the most important Swedish landscape painters from the end of the 19th centery.
Karlström investigates the image repertoire of the trade and industry using both photography...
Against Time is based on the American photographer Walker Evans' photographs...
Mirror's Edge is a large thematic group exhibition with 25 participating artists. Curator is Okwui Enwezor...
In Inferno & Paradiso Alfredo Jaar has conceived and realized an exhibition of photographs...
Movie-, theatre- and music-stars from the Umeå Film-club archive...
Drawings and paintings by the well known Swedish children-books illustrator
The versatile artists Leif Elggren and Thomas Liljenberg have for a few years written letters to people...
In the exhibition Xets Kofta (Xet's Cardigan), a selection from Umeå municipality's art purchases...
Privat Samling (Private Collection) is a large photo historical exhibition including over 250 photographs...
A cd-rom library consisting of Art-cd-roms organised by Karl Holmqvist...
Sätt att se (Ways to Look) is a project by school students from China, Sweden and the USA.
Information is coming soon.
The American artist Hannah Wilke (1940-1993) is dedicated here to her first major presentation in Sweden...
The exhibition Unprivileged Spaces shows painting and sculpture by four young artists, active in New York...
50 works of art from the Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst (S.M.A.K) in Ghent, Belgium are on display...
original works by the artist, writer and member of the Swedish Academy, Albert Engström (1869 -1940)...
Anders Krüger has been a professor at the Umeå Academy of Fine Arts here in Umeå for a year now...
Annika von Hausswolff is a young Swedish artist (b. 1967) who has already received...
District Six was once a thriving multicultural neighborhood in central Cape Town. The area was known...
Ever since her debut at Galleri Karlsson in Stockholm in 1967, Marie-Louise Ekman (b. 1944) has been a...
Project by ABF konstskola, Barn och Ungdom. In collaboration with Riksutställningar.
Carin Ellberg could be described as a contemporary surrealist. Subjectmatter as well as materials...
Information is coming soon.
About youth, identity and alienation. Production: Mångkulturellt centrum.
Three photographic series from Iceland: Broken rocks, Islands and Landscapes. An artist's book was...
About the desire to make knowledge visible, About the world explained in pictures. Produced by Bildmuseet...
