Magnet

Elisa Florimond

Magnet is Elisa Florimond’s first international solo exhibition. The exhibition is the result of a collaboration between Röda Sten Konsthall and Frac Bretagne, the museum of contemporary art in Rennes. The artist was awarded Le Prix du Frac Bretagne–Art Norac in autumn 2025, and the exhibition, opening on 13 June, forms part of the prize.

Florimond’s exhibition explores how museums shape, present and classify objects, with a particular focus on the archaeological and natural history collections that emerged during the 18th and early 19th centuries. Drawing on research conducted in various museums and archives, the artist incorporates motifs from, among others, the Gothenburg Natural History Museum.

In Magnet , archival material and facsimiles meet moving images, film stills and miniature sculptures made of soap. This interplay between different forms of expression and materials is also reflected in the exhibition furniture, which functions as artworks in their own right.

In Florimond’s practice, everything is an artwork, while at the same time nothing becomes an artwork without a given context; the exhibition. It´s within the exhibition where new relationships and meanings emerge in what the artist describes as an associative magnetic field – the Magnet.

Magnet opened on 13 June, alongside Mischief by aghili/karlsson and Edith Hammar, which occupies the Konsthall’s Cathedral space on the second floor as well as the fourth floor.

Both exhibitions are curated by Amila Puzić.