Skissernas Museum presents the first major presentation of A Kassen’s art to a Swedish audience. The exhibition Public Domain provides a retrospective survey where the art group’s significant public artworks are presented. In parallel, a large newly created installation is shown where pieces and fragments of the urban space enter the museum’s exhibition halls.
The art group A Kassen formed in Copenhagen in 2004. They like to start from given circumstances that already exist in the place where the art is created. A Kassen often uses strategies of sabotage or altering details in public spaces, on buildings or in the functional infrastructure of architecture. Many works are based on repetition, reflection, displacement or change of scale. These discreet but tangible interventions in everyday life can sometimes go unnoticed.
The viewer plays a crucial role in A Kassen’s artworks, especially in public environments, where encounters with art often happen unplanned. Their choice of materials and method can vary from one artwork to another, depending on the circumstances. At times they create spatial installations or interventions in landscapes, sometimes they work with photography or sculpture.
For Skissernas Museum, A Kassen has created a series of portraits in which pixels become mosaics, revealing anonymised faces taken from digital map services. By placing these in an exhibition environment, disjointed parts of the city’s street life are portioned out into the controlled rooms. Together with actual objects from street environments such as lampposts, trash cans and bollards, a fragmented city walk is created.
A Kassen consists of Christian Bretton-Meyer, Morten Steen Hebsgaard, Søren Petersen and Tommy Petersen.
Skissernas Museum – Museum of Artistic Process and Public Art are happy to welcome all employees at Lund University to join a guided tour (approx. 30 minutes) through the exhibition.
Tuesday 20 October at 12:30 – Swedish
Wednesday 21 October at 12:30 – English
Friday 23 October at 12:30 – Swedish
Preregistration required: Book your free ticket at Billetto
The guided tour starts in the exhibition on floor 2 at the set time. Please arrive in time to register and find the right gallery.
Feel free to combine your visit with a lunch at the Museum’s popular restaurant, På Skissernas. We recommend booking a table in advance.
As an employee of Lund University, you are always entitled to free admission to Skissernas Museum upon presentation of your LU card.
Public Domain is shown at Skissernas Museum 11th of June - 25th of December 2026.