Name: Vernissage & Performance: Marianne Heier – Negative Space
Start: 2026-06-04T17:00:00+02:00
End: 2026-06-04T20:00:00+02:00
Location: Drottninggatan 6C, 21211 Malmö, Sweden

$Vernissage & Performance: Marianne Heier \u2013 Negative Space$

Marianne Heier — Negative Space
Vernissage 4 June 17:00—20:00, which will include the performance La Passione by Heier at 19:00.
Exhibition period: 4 June–13 June + 13 August–5 September
It is with great joy that skēnē welcomes you to Negative Space, an exhibition by Marianne Heier. Expanding from Heier’s multi-year research project La Passione, the exhibition centers the visual, political, and bodily legacies of Italian radical feminism, thus bridging these archives and interventions within a Nordic context.
Against a backdrop of resurging fascisms, Negative Space becomes a site for collective counter-narratives and urgent structural resistance. Here, further voices are drawn into the space, encompassing works by Bingöl Elmas and Stephanie Oursler, alongside a dedicated tribute to Gina Pane. Joining them as a tactile counterpart is Aristotle’s Masterpiece – a centuries-old, subversive book using a patriarch's name as a camouflage to preserve the autonomous bodily knowledge of midwives and healers.

Marianne Heier (b. 1969) is a visual artist based in Oslo, Norway, educated at the Fine Art Academies in Milan and Oslo. Utilizing methodologies borrowed from activism, theater, and anthropology, Heier explores the distribution of resources, power dynamics, and the political potential of generosity and exchange. Her work is manifested through performance, text, installation, objects, photography, video, and architectural interventions.
Marianne Heier has exhibited extensively at institutions including the National Museum (Oslo), Munch Museum, Kunstnernes Hus, Henie Onstad Art Center, Malmö Konstmuseum, and CAPC Bordeaux. She has also produced prominent public art commissions for KORO and the Norwegian Scenic Routes. In 2012, she was the featured artist for the Bergen International Festival Exhibition, and in 2013, she was awarded the Lorck Schive Art Prize.
Negative Space is supported by OCA, Kulturrådet, Malmö Stad and Region Skåne.