Skissernas Museum – Museum of Artistic Process and Public Art – will present a solo exhibition by Fredrik Strid in the spring and summer of 2024. The starting point for the exhibition Making Nature is the process-based sculpture project Alla fåglar i Sverige (All Birds of Sweden). The project, which the artist has been working on since 2018, will be shown here in its entirety for the first time. The extensive installation consists of 257 bird species found in Sweden, which have been modelled at full scale in clay and then cast to create candles in white stearin (candle wax). The stearin birds are presented using a specially made shelf system that takes up a large part of the exhibition space. The work becomes a kind of natural history collection. All the birds have a label showing the species name and are arranged in a way that brings to mind the presentation of animals in old natural history museums. The fragile stearin birds create a materiality that leads to reflections on impermanence.
A book with the same title as the work, Alla fåglar i Sverige, was published in 2022. The authors, Leif Holmstrand, Jonas Örtemark and Lars-Erik Hjertström Lappalainen, and photographer Mattias Lindbäck have followed the artist’s process and they share their thoughts in the book on the nature and theme of the project.
The exhibition also presents the sculpture Eko (Echo), which corresponds with Alla fåglar i Sverige and awakens questions concerning museums’ collections, classifications and historiography. Eko has been produced specifically for the exhibition at Skissernas Museum.
Strid has been incorporating nature in his art for quite some time. Through sculptures and installations, he explores his relationship with nature romanticism, nature in museums, natural science and history, and his own experience of actual nature. His works often create a subtle growing tension between the evident and the concealed.
Museum of Artistic Process and Public Art now welcomes all employees at Lund University to the first couple of guided lunch tours about the exhibition.
Lunch showings (approx. 30 minutes)
- Tuesday April 16th at 12:00 in Swedish
- Thursday April 18th at 12:00 in English
- Friday April 19th at 12:00 in Swedish
Limited numbers of seats. Free admission upon presentation of LU card. The guided tour starts at the set time. Remember to arrive in time to register and find the right gallery.
Feel free to combine your visit with a lunch at the Museum’s restaurant På Skissernas. We recommend that you book a table.
The exhibition runs until February 18th. Read more about the exhibition on the Museum’