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Tremble: Alberta Whittle, Felix Gmelin, Frida Orupabo is open Wed–Fri 13–17, Sat–Sun 12–16.Frida Orupabo’s nine-channel ...
29/09/2026

Tremble: Alberta Whittle, Felix Gmelin, Frida Orupabo is open Wed–Fri 13–17, Sat–Sun 12–16.

Frida Orupabo’s nine-channel video installation glares at the viewer in a constant loop. Disarming still and moving images sourced from various archives by the artist flash in a choreographed cacophony.

In one clip, we hear the words, ‘somebody almost walked off wid alla my stuff… stealing my stuff from me don't make it yours, it makes it stolen’. The words delivered by Alfre Woodard in Ntozake Shange’s choreopoem, For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Su***de/ When the Rainbow Is Enuf.

In another, “i am tired of god,” scribbled in jarring, childlike handwriting in red ink, flickers and disappears.

Curator: Tawanda Appiah




Image: Frida Orupabo, Untitled, film still, 2018. Courtesy of the artist and Galerie Nordenhake Stockholm/Berlin/Mexico City.

Join us tonight for the opening of Tremble: Alberta Whittle, Felix Gemlin, Frida Orupabo.Vernissage 18–23, in conjunctio...
25/09/2026

Join us tonight for the opening of Tremble: Alberta Whittle, Felix Gemlin, Frida Orupabo.

Vernissage 18–23, in conjunction with Malmö Gallery Weekend.

‘The earth is trembling’, observed Martinique-born writer and thinker Édouard Glissant. ‘Today, the world is unpredictable and in such a world, utopia is necessary’, he continued.

In this world of unrest and friction, it asks how resistance takes form, moves, and persists over time. Embracing a Glissantian approach it accepts the ongoing rumbling as a matter of fact, and presses on what it means to live, think, and act within it.

Curator: Tawanda Appiah

What Sound Does The Black Atlantic Make?, 2019 (Film still). Video (Original shooting format: HD, 4k, 2K, mobile phone footage). 12 mins 30 secs. Courtesy of the Artist and The Modern Institute/ Toby Webster Ltd., Glasgow
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Tremble opens tomorrow, Friday 25.09, 18–23!Artist talk Saturday 26.09, 14–16.The exhibition presents works by Alberta W...
24/09/2026

Tremble opens tomorrow, Friday 25.09, 18–23!
Artist talk Saturday 26.09, 14–16.

The exhibition presents works by Alberta Whittle, Felix Gmelin and Frida Orupabo.

Édouard Glissant’s trembling thinking runs through the exhibition as a way of facing systems of terror. To tremble is not to remain still, but to move, to respond, to act, and to open toward what might be possible.

The exhibition follows this movement tethering itself in anti-imperial thought and reaching for potentiality through artistic gesture.

Curator: Tawanda Appiah

Image: Felix Gmelin, Farbtest, Die Rote Fahne II, 2002, 12min. Courtesy of Filmform.
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Welcome to the opening of Tremble: Alberta Whittle, Felix Gmelin, Frida Orupabo.Friday 25 September 18–23.“The earth is ...
23/09/2026

Welcome to the opening of Tremble: Alberta Whittle, Felix Gmelin, Frida Orupabo.
Friday 25 September 18–23.

“The earth is trembling”, observed Martinique-born writer and thinker, Édouard Glissant.

In this world of unrest and friction, it asks how resistance takes form, moves, and persists over time.

Embracing a Glissantian approach it accepts the ongoing rumbling as a matter of fact, and presses on what it means to live, think, and act within it.

Tremble tethers itself in anti-imperial thought, reaching for potentiality through artistic gesture.

Curator: Tawanda Appiah




Image: Frida Orupabo, Untitled, film still, 2018. Courtesy of the artist and Galerie Nordenhake Stockholm/Berlin/Mexico City.

Tremble opens this Friday 25 September, 18–23.Meet the artists Alberta Whittle and Felix Gmelin Saturday 26 September, 1...
21/09/2026

Tremble opens this Friday 25 September, 18–23.

Meet the artists Alberta Whittle and Felix Gmelin Saturday 26 September, 14–16.

The presentations depart from their respective works on display at Skånes konstförening and expand outwards into their wider artistic practices.

Alberta Whittle’s 'What Sound Does The Black Atlantic Make?' (2019) unravels the colonial legacy of the North British Rubber Company, turning towards the ocean as a site of memory.

The exhibition Tremble, curated by Tawanda Appiah, presents works by Alberta Whittle, Felix Gmelin, and Frida Orupabo. In this world of unrest and friction, it asks how resistance takes form, moves, and persists over time.

Embracing Édouard Glissant’s approach to tremblement it accepts the ongoing rumbling as a matter of fact, and presses on what it means to live, think, and act within it.
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Curator: Tawanda Appiah

Image: Alberta Whittle, What Sound Does The Black Atlantic Make?, 2019 (Film still). Video (Original shooting format: HD, 4k, 2K, mobile phone footage). 12 mins 30 secs.
Courtesy of the Artist and The Modern Institute/ Toby Webster Ltd., Glasgow

Join us next Friday for the opening of Tremble!Friday 25 September, 18.00–23.00Artist talk: Alberta Whittle and Felix Gm...
18/09/2026

Join us next Friday for the opening of Tremble!
Friday 25 September, 18.00–23.00

Artist talk: Alberta Whittle and Felix Gmelin
Saturday 26 September, 14.00–16.00.

‘The earth is trembling’, observed Martinique-born writer and thinker, Édouard Glissant. The exhibition takes off from here, presenting works by three artists, Alberta Whittle, Felix Gmelin, and Frida Orupabo.

At the heart of Felix Gmelin’s ‘Farbtest, Die Rote Fahne II‘ (2002) is the question: Can a political gesture be inherited? Gmelin uses reenactment to examine former political movements, particularly traces of 1960s radicalism.

Gmelin will participate in the public programme on Saturday 26 September, giving a lecture that expands on his work ‘Farbtest, Die Rote Fahne II’ (2002), as well as his current research, and practice.

Curator: Tawanda Appiah

Image: Felix Gmelin, Farbtest, Die Rote Fahne II, 2002, 12min. Courtesy of Filmform.

Welcome to the opening of Tremble: Alberta Whittle, Felix Gmelin and Frida Orupabo.Friday 25 September 18–23.Felix Gmeli...
16/09/2026

Welcome to the opening of Tremble: Alberta Whittle, Felix Gmelin and Frida Orupabo.
Friday 25 September 18–23.

Felix Gmelin will also participate in the public programme on Saturday 26 September, giving a lecture that expands on his work ‘Farbtest, Die Rote Fahne II’ (2002), as well as his current research, and practice.

FELIX GMELIN (b. 1962, Heidelberg), received his BA and MFA in painting from the Royal Institute of Art, Stockholm.

What does it mean to teach anyone anything? For Gmelin this question is both the subject and the topos—the conceptual space—in which his work operates. In a twofold sense, many of his pieces are exercises in pedagogy: they foreground the act itself without necessarily endorsing its ideological intent, testing the limits of materialisation, and, when the test fails, exposing the act to mockery that can reveal unexpected meanings.

Gmelin is based in Trondheim, where he is a Professor of Painting and Beyond at the Trondheim Academy of Fine Art. Since 1992 Gmelin has taught at a broad range of international art schools, including Konstfack University College of Arts, Crafts and Design, Stockholm, Staatliche Städelschule, Frankfurt am Main, De Ateliers, Amsterdam, International Academy of Art Palestine, Ramallah and the Royal Institute of Art, Stockholm.

His teaching practice mirrors the central concerns of his artistic production: pedagogy, repetition, and the critical examination of action.

Gmelin’s work is held in collections, including: Moderna Museet Stockholm; Kadist Art Foundation Paris / San Francisco; B.P.S. 22 Charleroi, Belgium; Frac Nord-Pas de Calais, France and Van Abbemuseum Eindhoven, Netherlands.




Curator: Tawanda Appiah

Image: Felix Gmelin by Christian Tviberg. Courtesy of the artist and Filmform.
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Tremble: Alberta Whittle, Felix Gmelin, Frida Orupabo25.09–01.11The exhibition opens on Friday 25 September, 18.00–23.00...
14/09/2026

Tremble: Alberta Whittle, Felix Gmelin, Frida Orupabo
25.09–01.11

The exhibition opens on Friday 25 September, 18.00–23.00
Artist talk: Saturday 26 September, 14.00.

In this world of unrest and friction, Tremble asks how resistance takes form, moves, and persists over time.

Frida Orupabo’s nine-channel video installation glares at the viewer in a constant loop. She reworks constructions of Black subjectivity through archival imagery, creating a universe of both discomfort and release.




Curator: Tawanda Appiah

Image: Frida Orupabo, Untitled, film still, 2018.
Courtesy of the artist and Galerie Nordenhake
Stockholm/Berlin/Mexico City.

Tremble opens at Skånes konstförening Friday 25 September 18–23. The exhibition features works by Alberta Whittle, Felix...
10/09/2026

Tremble opens at Skånes konstförening Friday 25 September 18–23.
The exhibition features works by Alberta Whittle, Felix Gmelin and Frida Orupabo.

FRIDA ORUPABO was born 1986 in Sarpsborg, Norway. She lives and works in Oslo.

Orupabo will present two solo exhibitions in 2026, at the Museum of Contemporary Art – MAC/CCB, Lisbon, and Kunsten, Museum of Modern Art Aalborg. Recent solo shows include Sprengel Museum, Hanover and Astrup Fearnley Museet, Oslo (both 2025); Bonniers Konsthall, Stockholm (2024); Fotomuseum Winterthur (2022); Museu Afro Brasil, São Paulo (2021); Kunsthall Trondheim (2021); Huis Marseille, Amsterdam (2020); Portikus, Frankfurt am Main and Kunstnernes Hus, Oslo (both 2019).

Orupabo participated in the MOMENTA Biennale d'art contemporain x VOX, centre de l'image contemporaine in Montréal (2025); the 15th Gwangju Biennale (2024); the Okayama Art Summit (2022); the 34th São Paulo Biennial (2021) as well as the 58th Venice Biennale (2018).

In 2025, Orupabo received the SPECTRUM Internationaler Preis für Fotografie for her photographic and collage‑based practice.




Curator: Tawanda Appiah

Image: Frida Orupabo by Pirje Mykkänen. Courtesy of the artists and Galerie Nordenhake.

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