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Umeå University is a comprehensive university and one of Sweden’s largest higher education institutions with around 41,500 students and 4,600 staff. We have a diverse range of high-quality educational programmes and research within all disciplinary domains and the arts. Umeå University is also where the groundbreaking CRISPR-Cas9 gene-editing tool was discovered, starting a revolution in genetic engineering that led to the Nobel Prize in Chemistry.

Campus Umeå and the Umeå Arts Campus are close to the city centre and next to one of Sweden’s largest and most renown university hospitals. Education is also provided in several other towns, including Skellefteå, Örnsköldsvik, Lycksele and Kiruna. Umeå University is home to the highly ranked Umeå Institute of Design, the environmentally certified School of Business, Economics and Law, and the School of Architecture, the only one in Sweden with an artistic profile. Next door is Bildmuseet, which is Umeå’s contemporary art museum, and Curiosum, Umeå’s science centre. Umeå University is one of Sweden’s five national sports universities, has an internationally leading Arctic Research Centre, and has Várdduo, which is Sweden’s only research unit for Sámi research and indigenous research.

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Thyroid gland new possible target for prostate cancer treatment14.11.2025 10:01:20 CET | Press Release

A hormone produced in the thyroid gland can play a key role in the development of prostate cancer. This is shown in a new study by an international research group led by Umeå University, Sweden, and the Medical University of Vienna, Austria. By blocking a receptor for the hormone, the growth of tumour cells in the prostate was inhibited. In the long term, the discovery may open up a new way of attacking certain types of aggressive prostate cancer.

Bildmuseet: MFA exhibition from Umeå Academy of Fine Arts30.4.2025 09:13:21 CEST | Press Release

Infinite Proposals is the title of this year’s Master’s exhibition from Umeå Academy of Fine Arts at Umeå University. It will be unveiled with an Art Friday at Bildmuseet on 23 May. A media preview will be held on Wednesday 21 May at 10:00–11:00 ( RSVP). The newly graduated artists will be there to talk about their work. The exhibition presents works by Kalliopi Akonidou, Maja F. Eriksson, Adam Gidlund, Jonna Iversen, Johanna Löwenhamn, Miranda Monauti, Senja Penttilä Sollén, Jordan Shakes Pålerfält, Josefin Selander, Alva Sjöstedt, Martin Wallén, Erik Olof Wiklund and Malin Östberg, all of whom are graduating from the Master’s Programme in Fine Arts at Umeå University’s Umeå Academy of Fine Arts. The curator is artist Annika Eriksson, a professor at Umeå Academy of Fine Arts and the students’ principal supervisor. The title of the exhibition, Infinite Proposals, refers to the artistic process, from the initial idea to creating and sending the work out into the world, Annika Eriksson e

Bildmuseet: Belkis Ayón / Mythologies30.4.2025 05:00:00 CEST | Press Release

Belkis Ayón (1967–1999) is one of Cuba’s most prominent artists. In the first Nordic presentation of the artist’s work, Bildmuseet presents creative highlights from her brief but intense career, from the mid-1980s to the late 1990s. The exhibition will be previewed to the media by arrangement from Monday 19 May. Please contact us with your requests. The figures, symbols and rituals that feature in Belkis Ayón’s monumental works are drawn from the Abakuá, a secretive Afro-Cuban brotherhood that she explored throughout her artistic career. Her interpretations of their myths speak of belonging, silence, power and resistance, introducing ideas about the amalgamation of religions and belief systems. Ayón’s iconic works create their own universe of traditions, hierarchies and worldviews. In particular, she focused on the female character Sikán, who – despite her central role in Abakuá mythology – had been excluded from religious practice. By giving a voice to Sikán and other silenced figures

Bildmuseet: Swedish Picture Book of the Year / The Excursion20.2.2025 15:03:11 CET | Press Release

Anders Holmer’s Utflykt [The Excursion] has been named the Swedish Picture Book of the Year 2024. On March 14, in conjunction with the award ceremony at Littfest, Bildmuseet opens an exhibition of the original illustrations from the winning book. Press are welcome to request previews of the exhibition by appointment. Swedish Picture Book of the Year / The Excursion presents all the original paintings and visitors can listen to Anders Holmer describing how the book came about. Two friends – one with a tail and one with a trunk – make their way through mysterious, imaginative landscapes. They travel over deep precipices and flaming volcanoes, across stormy seas and through prickly rose hip thickets. The story – which can be read on multiple levels – depicts their meandering through the world and pays tribute to children’s unique ability to make sense of existence through hopeful playfulness. From the jury’s citation: With humour and empathy, Holmer portrays the essential elements of the

Bildmuseet: Shubigi Rao / Pulp I–IV20.2.2025 10:23:18 CET | Press Release

Shubigi Rao / Pulp I–IV is the first comprehensive survey of the artist’s decade-long project so far about censorship, destruction of books, assaults on literacy and libraries, erasure of women’s voices, and loss of languages. The exhibition opens at Bildmuseet on 14 March during Art Friday in collaboration with Littfest – Umeå International Literature Festival. Press are welcome to request previews by appointment. With her conviction that “paper will trump rock”, Shubigi Rao examines the history of cultural obliteration while also sharing strategies of survival and resistance through her books, films, drawings, and photography. Rao has filmed and written about public and private libraries, as well as pirate and anarchist libraries in numerous countries across the world, with particular focus on regions that have suffered historical or contemporary conflict, from Bosnia-Herzegovina and Armenia to the Philippines. We encounter librarians, researchers, and activists who hide books, rescu

Bildmuseet: Northern dawn chorus in Machine Auguries by Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg18.12.2024 12:42:34 CET | Press Release

Bildmuseet unveils a new site-specific iteration of Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg’s sound and light installation Machine Auguries, this time set in Umeå in northern Sweden. Premiere on 12 January – Welcome! Presented alongside the previous iterations from London and Toledo, these three artificial dawn choruses from different parts of the world invite the museum visitor to reflect on our relationship with nature. With AI-generated birdsong heard under an artificial dawn sky, Machine Auguries warns of our infatuation with technology at the expense of nature. Using thousands of field recordings of birds, Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg has trained a pair of neural networks to develop their synthetic birdsong in dialogue. In her immersive artwork, a real dawn chorus is slowly taken over by artificial song. As human actions decimate bird populations, the artist offers a false copy of the dawn. For the first time, Bildmuseet brings together three choruses of Machine Auguries, each simulating the experie

Bildmuseet: Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg / Machine Auguries5.10.2024 05:00:00 CEST | Press Release

With AI-generated birdsong under an artificial dawn sky, Machine Auguries warns of our infatuation with technology at the expense of nature. In Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg’s immersive sound and light installation, which opens at Bildmuseet on 18 October, the dawn chorus is slowly taken over by synthetic birdsong. The exhibition will be available for media previews by appointment from Monday, 14 October. Welcome to submit your request. As human actions decimate bird populations, artist Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg offers an imperfect replica of the dawn. The artist collated thousands of field recordings of bird species iconic to specific locations. These were used to train two neural networks working in a call-and-response process, a type of artificial intelligence called a Generative Adversarial Network, or GAN. Reflecting on how birds develop their song from listening to one another, each cycle or “epoch” of the machine’s learning is revealed as the GAN veers towards fidelity. As the dawn ch

Bildmuseet: Aseel AlYaqoub / The View from Above5.10.2024 05:00:00 CEST | Press Release

Always imagined or invented, nations are anything but a given. Military ceremonies, postage imagery, maps, and heritage sites that shape national identity and imbue it with meaning are the subject of Aseel AlYaqoub’s solo exhibition The View from Above, opening at Bildmuseet on 18 October. The exhibition will be available for media previews by appointment from Monday, 14 October. Welcome to submit your request. The view from above is a key method in Aseel AlYaqoub’s work, which she uses to offer insights into the mechanisms of statecraft. The exhibition marks the first survey of the artist’s decade of archival research and interdisciplinary practice into symbols and narratives connected to Kuwaiti nationhood and Arab identity from postcolonial time into the present. State-building in Kuwait emerged at the intersection of urban modernisation fed by oil revenues and independence from the British protectorate. AlYaqoub is part of a young generation of artists who take a critical stance on

Bildmuseet: After Tomorrow at Sunrise / Umeå Academy of Fine Arts7.5.2024 05:00:00 CEST | Press Release

This year's master's degree exhibition from the Academy of Fine Arts at Umeå University opens at Bildmuseet on 24 May. After Tomorrow at Sunrise features paintings, sculptures, installations, performance, photography, and film by eleven artists. Press preview on Wednesday, 22 May at 10:00 am ( RSVP). Welcome! After Tomorrow at Sunrise presents works by Ángela Abuja Miranda, Ida Boman, Josefine Borgström, Simon H Danielsson, Maja Gregor, Juni Liv Uma (Maria Bengtsson), Beatriz Martins, Laoise Ní Ghríofa, Janina Renström, Raphael Vargas and Ágnes Vokatá, all of whom are graduating from the master’s programme at the Umeå Academy of Fine Arts. Principal supervisor and curator is artist Annika Eriksson, a professor at the academy. In addition to their individual works, this year's master's students have created a collective work with Annika Eriksson, a sculpture garden on the riverbank outside Bildmuseet. The inspiration comes from the British artist, filmmaker and gardener Derek Jarman (19

Bildmuseet: Swedish Picture Book of the Year / Everybody Eats Everybody26.2.2024 12:47:13 CET | Press Release

On 15 March, an exhibition opens with Aron Landahl’s original paintings for Alla äter alla [Everybody Eats Everybody], selected as the year’s best Swedish picture book. The opening will take place during Bildmuseet’s Art Friday with Littfest – Umeå International Literature Festival. Press preview of the exhibition is available by appointment from Wednesday 13 March, as well as interview opportunities with Aron Landahl and Brita Täljedal, museum curator and jury member. Please email your request. At the opening on 15 March at 5:00 pm, the artist will present his exhibition in conversation with Brita Täljedal. A blood-filled mosquito is swallowed by a dragonfly, which is eaten by a toad, which is eaten by a snake, which is swallowed by a gull, which is taken by a seal... Alla äter alla [Everybody Eats Everybody] has been named the best Swedish picture book of 2023 and honoured with the national award Snöbollen [The Snowball] at Littfest 2024. Bildmuseet’s exhibition presents all original

Bildmuseet: Elias Crespin / Chronomorphosis26.2.2024 12:43:09 CET | Press Release

Elias Crespin's mobile sculptures move slowly and gracefully in intricate, precise formations, seemingly floating freely in the air in a mesmerising exhibition on Bildmuseet’s top floor. Chronomorphosis opens at Bildmuseet on 15 March during Art Friday with Littfest – Umeå International Literature Festival. Press preview on Wednesday, 13 March at 10 am (RSVP). Museum curator Brita Täljedal presents Elias Crespin / Chronomorphosis in conversation with the artist. On the same occasion, we will also present the group exhibition Eight Degrees / Contemporary Art on the Forest ( press release). Circles, squares, lines, and triangles in metal or acrylic, suspended by barely noticeable nylon threads, create geometric choreographies based on mathematical algorithms. Bildmuseet now presents Elias Crespin's work for the first time in the Nordic countries. Through continuous motion, seemingly endless variations emerge. Shapes expand and fragment, only to glide together into coherent figures; chaos

Bildmuseet: Eight Degrees / Contemporary Art on the Forest26.2.2024 12:37:27 CET | Press Release

Featuring photography, film, sculpture, drawing, textiles, sound and installations, including new commissions, the group show Eight Degrees opens on 15 March at Bildmuseet's Art Friday with Littfest – Umeå International Literature Festival. Press preview Wednesday 13 March at 10 am (RSVP). Curator Sofia Johansson presents Eight Degrees / Contemporary Art on the Forest in conversation with artist Elia Nurvista and architect Toms Kokins. On the same occasion, we will also present Elias Crespin / Chronomorphosis ( press release) Matti Aikio, Malin Arnell & Åsa Elzén, Gerd Aurell & Micael Norberg, Toms Kokins, Norrakollektivet (Anja Örn, Fanny Carinasdotter, Tomas Örn), Elia Nurvista, Uriel Orlow, Edith Marie Pasquier, Jörgen Stenberg and Lena Ylipää. The Eight Degrees exhibition brings together contemporary art exploring our complex relationships with the forest, ranging from the concept of a living existence with intrinsic value and a right to life, to the idea of the forest as a resourc

Bildmuseet nominated to Swedish Museum of the Year16.2.2024 09:00:00 CET | Press Release

Every year, the prestigious award Swedish Museum of the Year is presented. This year the prize could go to Bildmuseet, which is one of three nominated finalists. The award is given to the museum that has demonstrated courage, creativity, and excellence. The purpose of the award is to highlight exemplary museum work and to inspire other museums to innovative activities of the highest quality. "We are incredibly proud and delighted to be nominated for Museum of the Year, and grateful that our work is being recognised," says museum director Katarina Pierre. "The nomination is proof that what we do makes an impact throughout the country. Hopefully, it can lead to even more people taking notice of us and visiting us here in Umeå." The jury's motivation for Bildmuseet's nomination reads: At the intersection between international contemporary art, academia, and public education, Bildmuseet offers an operation that is as inspiring as it is engaging, with high artistic quality and, at the same

Bildmuseet: Loulou Cherinet / State Design28.9.2023 05:00:00 CEST | Press Release

On Friday, October 13th, Bildmuseet opens an exhibition by the artist Loulou Cherinet. For Bildmuseet, she has created a site-specific room installation inspired by early panorama painting and 19th-century cycloramas. Around forty, four-meter-high paintings come together to envelop the museum visitor in the illusion of an urban environment. Join us for a press preview of the exhibition on Wednesday, October 11th, at 10:00 AM (RSVP). The artist will be present to introduce her exhibition in a conversation with museum curator Anders Jansson. During the major societal transformations of the 19th century, there was a growing need for images to comprehend the world. People gathered in panorama buildings to experience circular paintings—some over 100 meters in circumference—that depicted historical events, landscapes, or distant countries. The 360-degree paintings gave an illusion of being in the depicted location. In a similar manner, Loulou Cherinet uses the circular form to create spatial

Performance Autumn at Bildmuseet21.9.2023 13:00:00 CEST | Press Release

This autumn, Bildmuseet presents a series of new performance works created by artists from northern Sweden. The works will premiere at various times between September 30 and November 19. Free admission. The Performance Autumn at Bildmuseet offers expressions at the intersection of art, music, sound, and dance, taking place in various locations within the museum building: exhibition halls and stairwells, open spaces, and enclosed rooms. Museum visitors are invited to partake in art experiences that may last a few minutes or extend for several hours. In December of last year, funding was announced to develop five new performance works as part of Networking North, Bildmuseet's initiative to promote the development and internationalization of the visual arts scene in northern Sweden. The invitation was extended to professional artists from the country's four northernmost counties: Norrbotten, Västerbotten, Västernorrland, and Jämtland. The five selected proposals will premiere at Bildmusee

Anca Rujoiu appointed Curator at Bildmuseet20.9.2023 05:00:00 CEST | Press Release

Bildmuseet expands its team and welcomes Anca Rujoiu as Curator of Exhibitions from March 2024. –With more than fourteen years of experience working in the field of contemporary art in Europe and the Asia-Pacific region, she will be strengthening Bildmuseet’s position as one of Sweden’s foremost venues for international contemporary art, says director Katarina Pierre. Anca Rujoiu, currently co-curator of the 2024 Diriyah Contemporary Art Biennale, has extensive curatorial, institution-building and publishing experience. She was a member of the founding team of the NTU Centre for Contemporary Art Singapore (2013–18), first as Curator for Exhibitions and later as Head of Publications. At NTU CCA Singapore, she co-curated numerous solo and group exhibitions, commissions, projects, and public programmes. She held a position at the Royal College of Art London and led the Outset Visual Cultures Programme (2012-2013). As a member of the curatorial initiative FormContent (2011–13) in London, s
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Umeå University is a comprehensive university and one of Sweden’s largest higher education institutions with around 41,500 students and 4,600 staff. We have a diverse range of high-quality educational programmes and research within all disciplinary domains and the arts. Umeå University is also where the groundbreaking CRISPR-Cas9 gene-editing tool was discovered, starting a revolution in genetic engineering that led to the Nobel Prize in Chemistry.

Campus Umeå and the Umeå Arts Campus are close to the city centre and next to one of Sweden’s largest and most renown university hospitals. Education is also provided in several other towns, including Skellefteå, Örnsköldsvik, Lycksele and Kiruna. Umeå University is home to the highly ranked Umeå Institute of Design, the environmentally certified School of Business, Economics and Law, and the School of Architecture, the only one in Sweden with an artistic profile. Next door is Bildmuseet, which is Umeå’s contemporary art museum, and Curiosum, Umeå’s science centre. Umeå University is one of Sweden’s five national sports universities, has an internationally leading Arctic Research Centre, and has Várdduo, which is Sweden’s only research unit for Sámi research and indigenous research.

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