Bildmuseet in Umeå is one of Sweden's foremost art galleries for international contemporary art and visual culture. It is part of Umeå University and constitutes the public heart of the Arts Campus.
Metápolis – Malmö Konsthall 1986 Between August 30 and October 12, 1986, Malmö Konsthall was filled with Metápolis, a large and unusual group exhibition where sculpture, architecture, and urban planning merged. Among the participating artists were Sivert Lindblom, along with Dick Bengtsson, Lars Englund, Eberhard Höll, Lars Kleen, Joakim Pirinen, and Christer Strömholm.
"Metápolis represented a city – but not a city to live in. It was rather a city to think with, an imaginary place built of dreams, memories, and contradictions. The theme revolved around the city as both betrayal and promise, form and utopia.
Sivert thrived in the borderland between sculpture and architecture. He was curious about what happens to a form when it is given a space around it, but also about how the space itself changes when a sculpture moves in. That question followed him throughout his artistic career. In Metápolis, he got to work right in the midst of this – in an imagined city where the sculptures not only stood next to each other, but together created a new kind of place.
It is close to Sivert's way of thinking that the city does not need to be finished, practical, or even possible to build. It can just as well be an idea, an investigation into how we humans arrange our surroundings and how our perceptions of the city affect us. Sivert's own works often carried this duality: they were concrete and meticulously executed, but at the same time opened up to something more elusive.
In Metápolis, Sivert's sculpture became part of a larger narrative. His presence there therefore feels not like a temporary encounter, but as a natural step in his long-standing investigation of form, space, and architecture. Here he got to participate in building a city that would not be populated or function – but rather awaken thoughts, associations, and questions in those who wandered through it." /JÖ