House of Nisaba

Contemporary allegorical paintings

House of Nisaba signals a return to figurative painting in contemporary art, through the lens of allegory. The exhibition highlights 29 international artists, of whom 25 are commissioned to make a new painting especially for this occasion. What does painting look like and mean today as knowledge transforms, information accelerates and societies splinter?

Moderna Museet exhibition catalogue no. 435

We were commissioned by Moderna Museet to design the main catalogue for the exhibition. With the spatial and material concept already established by Formafantasma, our approach took its cues from the architecture of the show — raw cardboard as the foundational texture, honest and warm. Inspired by a work by Kevin Quashie — a text that physically wraps the entire exhibition space — we set the title in a repeating sequence that circles the cover continuously, closing on itself perfectly.

Team

• Hendrik FolkertsEditor
• Teresa HahrManaging editor
• Eva Bergman, Tas SkorupaCopy editors
• Emma WhelanPicture editor
• Mathias Dag Lindahl, Tilda RagnartzDesign and art direction

List of participating artists

The exhibition highlights 29 international artists, of whom 25 were commissioned to make a new painting especially for the House of Nisaba exhibition.

Abdellah Taïa Matthew Lutz-Kinoy Nicole Eisenman Mounira Al Solh Mohammed Sami Agnes Scherer Leidy Churchman Jill Mulleady Felipe Baeza Naudline Pierre Salman Toor Cinga Samson Kevin Beasley Mikołaj Sobczak Gordon Hookey Soufiane Ababri Alex Červený Agata Słowak Hortensia Mi Kafchin Michael Armitage Martin Gustavsson Melanie Kitti Evelyn Taocheng Wang Hamishi Farah Wangechi Mutu Selma Selman Cornel Brudascu Sanya Kantarovsky