Meriç Algün

Lunds Konsthall | Sweden

SAHA supports Meriç Algün within the scope of her solo exhibition The Patient Cries at Lunds Konsthall between 14 September – 1 December 2024.

Meriç Algün explores the world around her and her own inner world through her writing, and shows her discoveries in a new solo exhibition, The Patient Cries, at Lunds konsthall. The exhibition centres around one of Algün’s literary works, which addresses the role of the stepmother, mental health, and caring for others. Visitors will take on different roles in the exhibition’s installation, which consists of a full-scale replica of the artist’s own home. In this time, when political and social discourse is increasingly focusing on the issues of women’s reproductive rights and fertility, Meriç Algün’s deeply personal works are particularly relevant and incisive. Alongside the exhibition, a series of talks and readings will be organised in collaboration with Lund’s Public Library.

Meriç Algün (1983, İstanbul) has been living and working in Stockholm, Sweden, for many years. Her work is based on thorough and meticulous research, and explorations of the various topics and issues that interest her: identity, love, bureaucracy, language, literature, gender, politics, motherhood, and so on. She’s fascinated with language and definitions. In her work, she often refers back to her own experiences as an immigrant with a fluid identity, living in the crossroads between two countries, two cultures, and two languages.

About Lunds Konsthall

Lunds konsthall was opened to the public in 1957, one year before Moderna Museet in Stockholm and the Louisiana art museum in Humlebæk, Denmark.Ever since the inaugural exhibition, titled ‘Swedish Contemporary Art’, Lunds konsthall has focused on presenting and mediating contemporary art. Its exhibitions have always been internationally oriented but at the same time rooted in local sensitivities, just like the university city of Lund itself. Offering free entrance and being centrally located at Mårtenstorget, one of the city’s main squares, Lunds konsthall attracts some 70,000 visitors every year.