Vernissage: Remnants

Welcome to the opening of Remnants! Friday 11

17.30 Introduction by curators Tawanda Appiah, Cecilia Widenheim and the artists. We'll treat you to a welcome drink, and you can buy Emma's vegetarian afrotacos in the café!

The exhibition Remnants takes as its starting point the meeting between the American jazz trumpeter Don Cherry and the South African bassist Johnny Dyani in Sweden in 1969. In the wake of the1960s American civil rights movement, the wave of African independence and growing pan-African solidarity, Cherry and Dyani are brought together through music. Their collaboration is one of many encounters that would come to shape Black historyin Scandinavia.

Remnants begins here. What lingers in the archive? What breaths of Black life persist in its folds? What are the aural, visual, and tactile traces that hold both beauty and tension? Remnants pulls together a poetic constellation of gestures by living and departed artists, where pasts and presents meet in chorus. In the exhibition, we encounter works that resonate with historical memory, resistance, improvisation, and the lived experiences of diaspora and exile. Together, they unfold through the rhythm and sound of jazz music.

Participating artists: Ikram Abdulkadir, Simnikiwe Buhlungu, Don Cherry, Kudzanai Chiurai, Nina Cramer and Ellen Nyman, Doug Crutchfield, Salad Hilowle, Ernest Mancoba and Wonga Mancoba The exhibition runs until 10 January 2027. Remnants is curated by Tawanda Appiah and Cecilia Widenheim. The exhibition had its first iteration in 2025 at HEIRLOOM – center for art and archives in Copenhagen.

The exhibition is a part of SEPTEMBER SESSIONS – A Contemporary Art Festival 2026.