Melanie Kitti
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I boiled my roots in an old pot (102)About the artist
Melanie Kitti (b. 1986 in Sweden) lives and works in Malmø, Sweden. Kitti is a visual artist, poet and community organizer. Erupting in colour, sensations and tactility both Kitti’s visual arts practice and writing works with liminal states. Dreams, childhood memories, family history and human relationships with organic and inorganic matter forms revealing, morbid and sometimes sordid narratives traverings between realms and states of being. Merging prose and poetry, sculpture and painting, applied and visual arts Kitti forms fragmentary systemic disruptions to instigate new worlds, formed in community, to initiate both the breaking and creation of lineages. A pivotal part of her practice centers resistance and equity work challenging social discourse through communal organizing, gathering and fundraising events like the Benefits Art Sale at Overgaden. Additionally, she is the co-founder and curator of the artist-run space Destiny's in Oslo, as well as the co-founder and editor of Abhivyakti, an interdisciplinary art magazine with BIPOC contributors only.
Her work has been widely covered by international media including Art Notes, Klassekampen, Politiken, Art Matter, Kunstkritikk 2022, Information september 2022, Information december 2022, Politiken 2022 and Kunstkritikk, 2023.
Education
2019-2021
The Academy of Creative Writing in Copenhagen, DK
2017-2018
The school for conceptual and contextual practices, The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, School of visual arts, Copenhagen, DK
2017-2019
Master in fine art, Oslo National Academy of The Arts, Oslo, NO
2013-2016
Bachelor in medium and materialbased art. Dept. of textile, Oslo National Academy of The Arts, Oslo, NO
Solo and duo exhibitions
2025
Reverse Cry, Damien & the Love Guru, Zürich, CH
eggs rolls upwards, Skall Contemporary, DK
2024
(inside) a wave, a cocoon, with Majd Abdel Hamid, Signal Konsthall, Malmö, SE
Just os (who are apart), with Mickael Marman, Damien & The Love Guru, Brussels, BE
Jag har skalat av mig, Carl Eldhs Ateljemuséum, Stockholm, SE
I boiled my roots in an old pot, Andersens Contemporary, Copenhagen, DK
2023
Lumps, lumps, lumps becomes bumps on my tounge, O-Overgaden, Copenhagen, DK
Fake children with Vilde Tuv, Stormen kunst/dájdda, Bodø, NO
2022
Eple i øye, with Anna Sofia Mathiasen, Elephant Kunsthall, Lillehammer, NO
Dear, my dear, Hoydølum sanatorium, Faroe Islands
Kippar efter vinden. (ledsen och klumpig), Rønnebæksholm, Næstved, DK
Ariel is searching for her habits everywhere, Ariel feminisms, Copenhagen, DK
Jag snubblar på en jättestor tår, Art hub, Copenhagen, DK
Fake children, with Vilde Tuv, Tag team, Bergen, NO
2021
Album / Volum, Norsk Billedhoggerforening, Oslo, NO
Bawl screen; A topography, Salon 75, Copenhagen, DK
2019
The intern ship, Galleri Slursula, S
Selected group exhibitions
2025
Summer Art Prize Exhibition, Sandefjord Kunstforening, Sandefjord, NO
Playa!, Bonniers Konsthall, Stockholm, SE
2024
Gazing Bodies, CFHILL, Stockholm, SE
Chicken Wings, Femidomen, Nesodden, NO
Hesten og magten, Rønnebæksholm Kunsthal, Næstved, DK
Hard Scent Salon, Copenhagen, DK
gos earát ledje duolbman lei mearka mis/der andre hadde tråkket var det avtrykk i oss/where others had stepped, there were traces in us, with Elina Waage Mikalsen, Oslo Kunstforening, Oslo, NO
2023
Systema Plus, Marseille, FR
2022
Textile memories, Heirloom, Copenhagen, DK
Dangerous when wet, curated by Mette Woller, Copenhagen Contemporary, DK
Jeg kaller det kunst, Nasjonalmuséet, Oslo, NO
Crunchy spores, hydropoly, Vermilion Sands, Copenhagen, DK
2019
Stone Roses, Die Brücke Museum, Berlin, DE
Publications
2023
borte, published by Laboratory for Aesthetics and Ecology, Copenhagen, DK
Halvt urne, halvt gral, published by Gyldendal, Copenhagen, DK
2022
Hjertet er en fold med heste, published by Amulet Forlag, Copenhagen, DK
Wed-Fri: 10:00 – 17:00
Sat: 11:00 – 15:00
Sun-Tue: Closed