Britas salon: Melanie Kitti, Johanne Lykke Naderehvandi and Anna Rieder

For the opening of the exhibition Jag har skalat av mig with the artist Melanie Kitti, we invite you to this spring’s first literature salon. Kitti’s artistry intertwines visual arts with language, where text and painting produce fragmentary images from a landscape of dissolved bodies, divisions and memories. In dialogue with the exhibition, Melanie Kitti and the invited authors Johanne Lykke Naderehvandi and Anna Rieder read from both newly written and earlier texts.

A limited number of tickets can be pre-booked for this evening. Ticket price SEK 120 includes entrance to the museum. The doors open at 18.30 when the museum offers refreshments outside on the loggia. Readings start at 19.00, after which it is possible to see the exhibition that opened earlier the same day.

Brita’s salon is arranged with the support of Region Stockholm.

Warmly welcome!

About the participants

Melanie Kitti (b. 1986, Sweden) is an artist and writer educated at Forfatterskolen in Copenhagen as well as the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts in Copenhagen and Kunsthøgskolen in Oslo. In 2022, her critically acclaimed debut book Halv Urne, Halv Gral was published by Gyldendal. Kitti has co-founded Abhivyakti, a non-profit magazine with only BIPOC contributors, and has co-organized the exhibition space Destiny’s in Oslo (2016-22). Kitti’s work has been exhibited in solo and group exhibitions at, among others, Overgaden Copenhagen (2023), Rønnebæksholm, Næstved (2022–23), Nasjonalmuseet, Oslo (2022) and ARIEL, Copenhagen (2022).

Johanne Lykke Naderehvandi (formerly Lykke Holm), born in 1987, lives in Malmö. She is also active as a translator, and has, among other things, translated Josefine Klougart and Yahya Hassan from Danish to Swedish. Johanne Lykke Naderehvandi debuted in 2017 with Natten som föregick denna dag. In 2020, the novel Strega was published, and was nominated for Svenska Dagbladet’s literature prize and the Nordic Council’s prize. In 2023 she was nominated for the prestigious Italian prize Premio Strega Europeo. Her latest novel, Röd sol, was published in 2023.

Anna Rieder, born in 1993, graduated from Forfatterskolen and debuted with the poetry collection Hindebæger in 2020. Together with Sidsel Ana Welden, she is behind a number of pamphlets for therapists and doctors in psychiatry as well as the anthology Hjertet er en fold med heste (2022) written by people with connections to psychiatry. The anthology was awarded Politiken’s Frit Flet prize in 2022.