The exhibition marks the end of five years of studies in Fine Arts and a period of intense research and work.
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, Carl Johan De Geer has worked as a visual artist...
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...
Umeå Academy of Fine Arts opens two degree exhibitions at Bildmuseet: It's About Time...
Artist and illustrator Magnus Bard, wellknown 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...
This spring, the Academy of Fine Arts is offering two degree exhibitions for the first time...
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 today's leading popular cultural product. The exhibition Game Art shows...
In this exhibition, VIETPRINTS, works in various graphic techniques, by five Vietnamese artists...
Association-rich sculptures of everyday materials in monumental formats characterise Veronica Brovall’s...
With drawing and sculpture as instruments, the Dutch artist Anneke Eussen creates and explores...
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...
