Espoo Museum of Modern Art

Klara Lidén, The Myth of Progress (Moonwalk), 2008. Video still. Saastamoinen Foundation Art Collection © Klara Lidén. Courtesy the artist and Sadie Coles, London.
Klara Lidén, The Myth of Progress (Moonwalk), 2008. Video still. Saastamoinen Foundation Art Collection © Klara Lidén. Courtesy the artist and Sadie Coles, London.

14.08.2024 - 12.01.2025

Klara Lidén: The Myth of Progress (Moonwalk)

The Swedish artist Klara Lidén (b. 1979) takes the urban space as her stage, where she carves out subtle moments of intimacy and subversion. The Myth of Progress (Moonwalk) (2008) portrays Lidén herself performing the iconic dance move, the moonwalk. Creating a continuous, looping movement across interstitial, nondescript urban spaces, Lidén’s moonwalk remains an ambiguous and mundane gesture.

  • 14.08.2024 - 12.01.2025
  • 2nd floor

  • 20€ / Adults over 29

    10€ / Discounted admission

    0€ / Under 18s

    0€ / Museum Card

Saastamoinen Foundation

The Saastamoinen Foundation’s new media art acquisitions are presented in EMMA’s media space as part of the collection exhibition. An ensemble of three works curated by artist Jani Ruscica will be unveiled in 2024.

All three works make use of video as an agile, malleable and instantaneous medium with an innate ability to dismantle conventional hierarchies of value.  

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