Utmärkt Malmö 1
Moki Cherry, D.C. (cropped), 1981 Photo: Prallan
Allsten/Moderna Museet Bildupphovsrätt 2023 Exhibitiions Moki Cherry - A Journey Eternal “The stage is home, and the home is a stage” is how Moki Cherry herself characterized this boundary-defying art. Colourful art that unites painting, sculpture, textiles, fashion, and set design. Everyday life and art are linked together: a musical instrument case provides the substrate for a painting, travel bags are reworked to become textile collages, and drawings formulate a world view with nature at the core. The Moki Cherry - A Journey Eternal exhibition that opens at Moderna Museet Malmö at the end of September is the largest exhibition of Moki Cherry’s, or Monika Marianne Karlsson’s, art. Her works could be incorporated into concerts in Paris, Copenhagen, or the Scandinavian countryside. By showing her work outside of art galleries and dramatic theaters, and even in her own home, she dissolved the hierarchies that separate public from private and actors from audience. Children—her own as well as others’—served as both audience and collaborative partners. On display between 23 September and March 2024. Ingela Ihrman Ingela Ihrman’s artistic approach is driven by curiosity and a desire to understand, where scientific facts and field studies may function as points of departure. She works with sculpture, performance, video and text, and often uses familiar and fragile everyday materials. In her work she questions how we systematically categorise and exploit nature – that we ourselves are a part of – while at 40 the same time we wistfully elevate it as something untouched and primordial. More than anything, Ingela Ihrman’s work explores, in a playful way, what it means to be human. With humour and sincerity, she lifts questions concerning identity and belonging by looking at different life forms and how we relate to one another. She focuses on strong emotions connected to everyday life, such as lust, longing and loneliness. The exhibition at Malmö Konsthall will be the largest presentation of Ingela Ihrman’s work to date. On display between 30 September and 14 January.