Name: Vernissage: Object of Devotion: Ville Laurinkoski, Matti Sumari
Start: 2026-05-15T18:00:00+02:00
End: 2026-05-15T21:00:00+02:00
Location: Bragegatan 15, 214 30 Malmö, Sweden

Vernissage: Object of Devotion: Ville Laurinkoski, Matti Sumari

𝗢𝗯𝗷𝗲𝗰𝘁 𝗼𝗳 𝗗𝗲𝘃𝗼𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻
𝗩𝗶𝗹𝗹𝗲 𝗟𝗮𝘂𝗿𝗶𝗻𝗸𝗼𝘀𝗸𝗶, 𝗠𝗮𝘁𝘁𝗶 𝗦𝘂𝗺𝗮𝗿𝗶
𝟭𝟱.𝟬𝟱 – 𝟭𝟰.𝟬𝟲 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟲
𝗩𝗲𝗿𝗻𝗶𝘀𝘀𝗮𝗴𝗲: Friday, 15 May, 18.00–21.00
Join us for the opening of our spring exhibition Object of Devotion, featuring works by Ville Laurinkoski and Matti Sumari.
𝘳𝘶𝘴𝘵𝘺 𝘴𝘵𝘦𝘦𝘭, 𝘳𝘢𝘥𝘪𝘢𝘯𝘵 𝘮𝘢𝘨𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘢 𝘴𝘩𝘦𝘭𝘷𝘦𝘴,
1980𝘴 𝘨𝘢𝘺 𝘱𝘰𝘳𝘯, 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.
Sculpture is approached as a vessel of time, repetition, and touch. The works carry traces of labour and use – fingerprints, lumpy glue, grease, blue-green patina. Each element is part of a ritual of discipline and experimentation, testing the limits of the medium, returning to it again and again, and refusing closure. The work does not settle; it accumulates. It persists.
Across the exhibition, an object of devotion is that which holds attention with an almost sacred intensity. Devotion is not fixed. It is a process, a sustained recurrence, an orientation towards something that never resolves, but continues to hold.
Read more: skaneskonst.se
Curator: Tawanda Appiah
Technicians: Jenny Berg, Linus Svensson
Skånes konstförening is supported by Malmö City, Region Skåne and the Swedish Arts Council.