Welcome to “Pissig Kapitalism” a shop where you can buy all kinds of shit with your peeWho: A trade- and toilet -installation by Ulla Hvejsel, with participation from artist Mie Frederikke Fischer Christensen and advisor and expert in ecological sanitation, Arne Backlund. The exhibition is curated by liveart.dk
Where: (P)KIPI-Konsthall, Lodgatan 4, Malmø
When: May 9th June 6th - 2026/// Opening: May 9th, 4-8 pm /// after that the shop is open for business, with performances and events, every saturday from 1-5 pm (scroll down for the programme)
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If you feel like you “don’t have a pot to piss in” you should swing by the exhibition “Pissig Kapitalism” at Kipi Konsthall. Here, the artist offers you a pot to piss in—as well as a good deal—in a shop where you can pay with your pee.
Among the items for sale are “pee-shirts,” that have been dyed (or at least attempted dyed) using old techniques involving urine; a newly developed board game designed to help us talk about all the shit we have to deal with, a pee fertilizer with lactobacillus developed in collaboration with expert in ecological sanitation Arne Backlund, a type of urine pregnancy test dating all the way back to ancient Egypt; and much more.
There’s also the option to “exchange currency” by taking a drink in the exhibition and then wait for it to pass through your system. It’s a slightly slower transaction than at your average bank, but while you wait, you can browse the goods and soak up the exhibition’s free stories about piss, crap, and value—across culture, history, past, present, and future.
Because even though we normally just flush it down the drain, our pee is, in fact, valuable. Throughout history, it has been used and traded as detergent, gunpowder, fertilizer, and more. Today, the combined sludge is even used to produce fertilizer, gas and electricity at many treatment plants. The large windows of the exhibition space will be decorated with texts explaining some of these historical and contemporary values.
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Programme:
Events:
May 9th 4–8 PM: Opening reception—featuring presentations of all the shit you can buy for you pee.
May 16, 1–5 PM: The shop is open for business.
May 23rd 1–5 PM: The shop is open for business —and at 3 PM, we will playfully make all the shit were dealing with move smoothly through the digestive system in a newly developed boardgame.The game is called “Talking Shit” and the winner gets to keep all the pee collected during the game—and spend it in the shop.
May 30th 1–5 PM: The shop is open for business—and at 3 PM, Ulla Hvejsel and Mie Frederikke Fischer Christensen will show the performance :“Let It Go”. This performance deals with birth, family, writing your name in the snow with pee, bodily meltdown, injustices in the bathroom, letting go and bouncing on a trampoline until you wet your pants.
June 6th 1–5 PM: The shop is open—and at 3 PM, the artist will present a newly developed performance in which she will be airing her dirty laundry while taking the audience on a journey through archaeological and apocryphal tales about the use of urine for everything from detergent to teeth-whitening and beyond.
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Event Venue
Lodgatan 4, SE-211 24 Malmö, Sverige, Lodgatan 4, SE-211 24 Malmö, Sverige, Malmö, Sweden
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