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Viva Frida Kahlo in Malmö
VIVA FRIDA KAHLO is the immersive presentation of the world-famous works of the legendary Mexican artist and icon Frida Kahlo. A truly sensory experience, an explosion of colors and pure vitality! After successful exhibitions in Zurich, Brussels, Munich, Berlin, Hamburg, and Vienna, with over 500,000 visitors, Viva Frida Kahlo will be presented in Scandinavia for the first time, from February 1 to May 18, 2025, at Amiralen in Malmö.
Förlängt till 15 juni 2025
På grund av stor efterfrågan förlängs utställningen på Amiralen i Malmö till den 15 juni!
Amiralen
Amiralsgatan 35, 214 37 Malmö
Time slots
Tickets can be booked for a 30-minute entry time slot, after which the visit duration is unlimited.
We recommend purchasing tickets online to secure your spot and avoid unnecessary waiting time.
If a time slot is sold out online, unfortunately, no tickets will be available on-site for that time either.
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Utöver den storslagna utställningen Viva Frida Kahlo – Immersive Experience erbjuder vi en rad unika specialevent där du kan fördjupa dig i Fridas konstnärliga universum.
Lördag 7 juni
kl 14.00-15.00
Söndag 8 juni
kl 11.00-13.30
The experience brings the art to life
Viva Frida Kahlo is an experience for everyone: visitors are drawn directly into Frida Kahlo's world. The 360-degree experience transports visitors to Mexico, to the Casa Azul in Coyoacán, where the young Frida Kahlo, bedridden after a severe accident, began to paint.
You experience the 1920s to the 1940s and immerse yourself in the colorful paintings and self-portraits that testify to a life full of grace, pain, and an unbroken will to live. You move freely within the exhibition space, with elaborate all-around projections creating exotic color worlds full of emotion, allowing Frida Kahlo's works to be experienced in a way never seen before.
The visitor is encouraged to reflect
High-performance projectors bring Kahlo's paintings, which are almost tiny in their original form, to life, projecting them onto walls up to 10 meters long and 5.5 meters high, as well as onto the floor of the exhibition hall. For a fully immersive sensory experience, a narrator in the role of the artist guides visitors through the emotional world of the already emancipated painter, using original quotes. A specially composed soundtrack acoustically enhances the immersive presentation.
Viva Frida Kahlo also includes elements of VR that allow you to step into some of the artist's most famous and beloved works. The inner courtyard of Casa Azul, Frida Kahlo's home, which is now a museum, is also recreated in VR. This newly created environment invites the visitor to reflect on the artist's outstanding contribution to both art and women's rights.
An immersive experience
All of this, combined with projected artworks, stories, carefully selected soundscapes, and rhythmic music pieces, creates a total experience that brings the art to life. It is a breathtaking experience, not only for Frida Kahlo fans but for anyone who wants to be inspired by art in this new multimedia format, interact with it, and be swept away from everyday life.
“I am not sick, I am broken. But as long as I can paint, I am happy to be alive.”
Frida Kahlo
A life in pictures
Frida Kahlo Frida Kahlo is by far the most famous painter in Mexico, if not all of Latin America. Her haunting small-format paintings articulate Frida Kahlo's physical and emotional suffering, her sorrow, and her tragedy. Her self-portraits are the most honest and true expression of what she felt, she wrote in 1939.
Artistic inspiration for Frida Kahlo, besides herself, came from Mexican folklore with its inexhaustible world of colors, as well as elements of nature. With this, Frida Kahlo created herself as an icon—the traditional Mexican Tehuana costume became her trademark, and Frida Kahlo herself became a symbol of her time.
An icon of the women´s movement
Due to her political beliefs, her fight for women, Indigenous people, and the underprivileged, her tenacity, and her indomitable will not to be crushed by the machismo-dominated society, Frida Kahlo has been celebrated as a icon of the Mexican women´s movementThe Hollywood film adaptation of her life in 2002, starring Salma Hayek, also contributed to her posthumous worldwide popularity.
Frida Kahlo´s work today
Frida Kahlo's paintings fetch high prices; the painting Raices (Roots) was auctioned in 2006 for 5.5 million dollars. There are rumors that the anonymous buyer was pop icon Madonna, who already owns two other Kahlo works. However, the paintings that remain in Frida Kahlo's homeland are, according to a decree by her heir Diego Rivera, not allowed to leave Mexico.
“They thought I was a Surrealist, but I wasn't. I never painted dreams. I painted my own reality.”
Frida Kahlo
Frida Kahlo Biography (1907-1954)
Frida Kahlo became famous for her expressive and often surreal self-portraits. Her art was characterized by struggle and pain, inspired by her Mexican cultural heritage and personal experiences. At the age of 18, she was severely injured in a traffic accident, which led to chronic pain and many hospitalizations—something that was often reflected in her work.
Despite this, she continued to paint, and her artistic career developed into one of the most personal and iconic of the 20th century. Kahlo was married to the prominent Mexican muralist Diego Rivera. Their relationship was both passionate and tumultuous; while they inspired each other artistically, their relationship was also marked by infidelity and drama.
During a period, Kahlo and Rivera hosted the Russian revolutionary Leon Trotsky, who had gone into exile in Mexico. Kahlo and Trotsky began a brief but highly publicized affair.
After Frida Kahlo's death, her art has been globally celebrated and is now considered a symbol of resilience, self-love, and authenticity. Her works highlight a deep sense of identity and pain and have inspired generations around the world.
