A Kassen brings public-space interventions into Skissernas Museum in ‘Public Domain’

The Danish artist group A Kassen is presenting its first larger exhibition for a Swedish audience at Skissernas Museum in Lund. Titled ‘Public Domain’, the exhibition combines a retrospective survey of the group’s significant public artworks with a newly created installation built from fragments of the urban environment. It runs at the museum from 11 June to 25 October 2026.

Founded in Copenhagen in 2004, A Kassen comprises Christian Bretton-Meyer, Morten Steen Hebsgaard, Søren Petersen and Tommy Petersen. The group works from circumstances already present at a site, often altering details of public spaces, buildings or functional architectural infrastructure. Its interventions may involve repetition, mirroring, shifts in scale or changes to an object’s usual position and purpose.

For Skissernas Museum, the group has assembled what the institution describes as a fragmented walk through a city. The installation incorporates real objects from street environments, including lamp posts, litter bins and traffic bollards, bringing elements normally encountered outdoors into the museum’s exhibition rooms. The presentation also includes ‘Unplaced (KG Bejemark)’, which contains K. G. Bejemark’s sculpture ‘Form i former’ from 1975, as well as works titled ‘Unplaced (Litter)’ and ‘Clock’.

The exhibition extends A Kassen’s interest in the relationship between artworks, public space and the people who encounter them. The museum describes the viewer as having a decisive role, particularly when the group’s work is encountered unexpectedly in an urban setting. The artists’ materials and methods vary according to the conditions of each project, ranging from spatial installations and landscape interventions to photography and sculpture.

A series created specifically for the exhibition uses pixels as a mosaic-like structure to reveal anonymised faces drawn from digital mapping services. Displayed inside the museum, these images place disjointed pieces of street life within controlled, white-painted galleries. Together with the displaced street furniture and infrastructure, they connect the museum’s interior to Lund’s streets while examining how urban images are recorded and presented.

The exhibition was also reviewed for the Swedish newspaper Sydsvenskan by its critic Carolina Söderholm, who saw it in early summer.

‘Public Domain’ is supported by the Ny Carlsberg Foundation and the Danish Arts Foundation. Skissernas Museum is located at Finngatan 2 in Lund, and the exhibition remains on view through 25 October 2026.