Skånes konstförening

13/06/2026

Due to unforeseen circumstances, the gallery will be closed today. We apologise for any inconvenience caused and thank you for your understanding.

Last chance to see Object of Devotion, this week.
The exhibition features work by Ville Laurinkoski and Matti Sumari.
Welcome!

Open:
Wed–Fri 13–17
Sat–Sun 12–16

Curator: Tawanda Appiah
Photo: LCB

10/06/2026

Last chance to see Object of Devotion, this week.
The exhibition features work by Ville Laurinkoski and Matti Sumari.
Welcome!

Open:
Wed–Fri 13–17
Sat–Sun 12–16

Curator: Tawanda Appiah
Photo: LCB

10/06/2026

This is the final Weekend of our spring exhibition Object of Devotion: Ville Laurinkoski, Matti Sumari.

rusty metal, radiant magenta shelves,
1980s gay p**n, towering sculptures scraping the heavens,
urinal dividers,
textured ambient soundscapes,
soft sinking mattresses

Object of Devotion gathers a delicious mix of sculpture, sound, installation, and performance. The exhibition lingers on two artistic practices that are charged with material intensity, affect, and critical force.

Curator: Tawanda Appiah
Photo: LCB

10/06/2026

See the work of Matti Sumari in Object of Devotion, until June 14. Open Wed–Sun.
Sumari repurposes materials to create sculptures that ornament and merge into the built or natural environment. In a way, his works are never devoid of history; they carry traces of prior existence.

As the body has its bodily functions, so does the architectural form of a structure or building. Absorbing heat during the day, pumping air, water and various other necessities through its systems. Our modern comfort systems, meant to be toiling away underneath us, while simultaneously trying to act invisible as ventilation channels or water piping and somehow hiding in plain sight.

Curator: Tawanda Appiah
Photo: LCB

09/06/2026

See the work of Ville Laurinkoski in Object of Devotion, until June 14. A 1980s travel journal by Guy Hocquenghem, on the globalisation of gay culture, functions as a point of departure for the series Le Gay Voyage (2024–ongoing). As written by Fafaya Mogensen, “…objects mediate our sense of self, drifting between personal history and collective imagination, between commodity and memory, between possession and loss.” The work interrogates the centrality of material objects in the creation and mediation of identity.

Curator: Tawanda Appiah
Photo: LCB

08/06/2026

Today marks the last week of Object of Devotion.
The exhibition lingers on two artistic practices; Ville Laurinkoski and Matti Sumari. Their work is charged with material intensity, affect, and critical force. Here, matter is unravelled: how it behaves, what it signifies, and how it structures perception.
Across the exhibition, an object of devotion is that which holds attention with an almost sacred intensity. It can be a gesture, a voice, a forgotten text, a piece of abandoned scrap, or an artistic method that gathers force through return. Devotion is not fixed. It is a process, a sustained recurrence, an orientation towards something that never resolves, but continues to hold.

Curator: Tawanda Appiah
Photo: LCB

06/06/2026

Join us tonight as, Ville Laurinkoski activates his installation with the performance 'Les voyages et aventures extraordinaires du frère Angelo'.

Doors: 18.30
Performance: 19.00
Lecture + Q&A: 19.20
Drinks and mingling: 20.30

Object of Devotion: Ville Laurinkoski, Matti Sumari is open this weekend Sat–Sun, 13–17.
Curator: Tawanda Appiah
Photo: LCB

05/06/2026

Ville Laurinkoski’s contribution to the exhibition at Skånes is an amalgamation of a series of works presented onsite as Le Gay Voyage, Frère Angelo (2026). In its entirety the ensemble revisits the past and present of gay and LGBTQ+ culture and its affective landscapes.

As part of the work at Skånes, Laurinkoski has gathered manuscripts, essays and translations of the novels by late French writer and gay liberation theorist Guy Hocquenghem (1946–88), in an edition of 20 books exhibited alongside the installation.

On Saturday 6 June at 18:30, Laurinkoski will activate the installation with a performance and give a lecture based on his unpublished essay Le Gay Voyage, expanding on his practice and longstanding engagement with the work of Hocquenghem. Both Le Gay Voyage, and the performance manuscript are found in the book.

Curator: Tawanda Appiah
Photo: LCB

03/06/2026

Object of Devotion: Ville Laurinkoski, Matti Sumari is open this week Wed–Fri 13–17
Sat–Sun 12–16.

On Saturday 6 June 18.30–21.00, Ville Laurinkoski will activate his installation with 'Les voyages et aventures extraordinaires du frère Angelo'.
Performance and lecture.

Photo: LCB