We can’t sing but we do — a karaoke party
with Matti Sumari
Friday 29 May, 19.00–22.00

We can’t sing but we do

Join us for a night of karaoke with an open stage where you can sing your heart out — the sad, sweet, bad or longing-filled songs you feel like expressing. Or simply come and listen: Matti Sumari will perform Finnish classic ballads in minor keys about broken dreams and forbidden love.

The event forms part of the public programme for our current exhibition Object of Devotion: Ville Laurinkoski, Matti Sumari (15.05–14.06.2026), curated by Tawanda Appiah.

Object of Devotion gathers a delicious mix of sculpture, sound, installation, and performance. It lingers on two artistic practices that are charged with material intensity, affect, and critical force. Here, matter is unravelled: how it behaves, what it signifies, and how it structures perception. The artists move in varying conceptual directions, generating productive dissonance.

In Object of Devotion Sumari presents We can’t sing but we do (2026), a sculptural installation with anthropomorphic characters that are imbued with agency. The inanimate objects sing their hearts out – vibrating and echoing the physical histories embedded within them.

About the artist: 

Matti Sumari (b. 1987, Finland), lives and works in Malmö, Sweden, and graduated with an MFA from Umeå Academy of Fine Arts in 2014. He is a co-founder of Alta Art Space, an artist-run exhibition space in Malmö founded in 2015.

Skånes konstförening is supported by Malmö City, Region Skåne and the Swedish Arts Council.