NINA ERIKSSON: mmmbrace
EXHIBITION
23.04.2026 - 30.05.2026
Opening: 23.04.2026 KL 17:00
Live reading and publication launch: 10.05.26 KL 15:00
The show mmmbrace comes out of Nina Eriksson’s research into material and conceptual frameworks for investigating queer materiality, physicality, and imagination. The project pairs leather and latex: sister materials in association, yet entirely different in character. In mmmbrace, these two materials take and question their positions as they are formed into physical presences that long, warp, hold, and watch. The sculptural works in the show hint at a different world, gesture at hidden functions, and flirt with the line between what the body holds and what it is held by.
“The materials are fetishistic, and the way I work with leather and latex is fetishistic: I am devoted and curious in search of poetic and erotic potential. Through my sculptural and textual work I reflect on use and pleasure, and how a queer, flirtatious approach can provide new representations of desire, identity and future.”
In addition to the exhibition, Eriksson has produced the publication mmmbrace, which launches during the exhibition period. It contains an experimental essay about the time, texts and themes that have gone into the show, as well as a text work made for live reading. This text work will be performed at the launch of the publication on May 10th at 15.00 - more information to come.
Nina Eriksson (1997, SE) is an artist and writer working and living in Bergen. She graduated with an MFA from Bergen Art Academy in 2025. Recently, her work has been shown at Gyldenpris Kunsthall, Recover Laboratory in Helsinki, and Nonneseter Kapell. She is currently showing work in Homografiska Museets (SE) acquisition exhibition for 2026, and is part of Conditions Studio (UK) Online Programme’s 2025/6 cycle.
photography: @joeycbravo
This exhibition and Kioskens program is kindly supported by Bergen Kommune, @vestlandfylke, Kulturdirektoratet @kulturradet, @norskekunsthandverkere and Kunstsentrene i Norge