Melanie Kitti in conversation with Johanne Lykke Naderehvandi
Saturday 17 May 2025, 13.00–14.30

This event is part of the public programme for our current exhibition, You could cut it with a knife: Hanni Kamaly, Melanie Kitti. It will be held in Swedish.

A conversation about the archaeology of the personal: About digging up memories and restoring them in order to display them, as in a museum. About telling the same story in various ways, using different materials—for what distinguishes a narrative told in a poem from one conveyed through a fresco?

A conversation about spells: Can one use spells as an artistic/literary method to evoke images of a better world, where there are no hierarchies? And what does it mean to write in codes?


Melanie Kitti (b. 1986, Sweden) is an artist, author, and community organiser educated at the Academy of Creative Writing, the Royal Danish Art Academy, and the Academy of Fine Arts in Oslo. She co-launched Destiny’s, a gallery in Oslo (2016), and co-founded the multidisciplinary magazine Abhivyakti (2021). Her writing appears in the acclaimed anthology Hjertet er en fold med heste (2022), and her authorial debut Halvt urne, halvt gral (2022) was followed by borte / borta (2023). Kitti’s work has been widely shown in solo and group exhibitions, including at Carl Eldhs Ateljémuseum, O-Overgaden, Nasjonalmuseet, and ARIEL.

Johanne Lykke Naderehvandi (b. 1987, Copenhagen) is a writer and translator. She debuted in 2017 with Natten som foregick denna dag and her latest novel Röd sol was published in 2023. The novel Strega from 2020 was nominated for the Nordic Council Literature Prize and the Premio Strega Europeo, among others. Her books have been translated into a wide range of languages.