Hanna Lidén, Ian Cheng, Klara Lidén, Mark Leckey, Michael E. Smith“I Am Only What You Made Me”* 5—20.9.2025
opening: Thursday 4th September 6 PM
screening program: September 5—20, 2025 (5—6,11—13,18—20)
Skala is pleased to announce “I Am Only What You Made Me,” a nine-day screening program featuring works by Ian Cheng, Mark Leckey, Hanna Lidén, Klara Lidén, and Michael E. Smith. The gallery will transform into a cinema–concert hall, evoking two parallel experiences separated by more than a century: one at Manhattan’s Grand Opera House—often cited as an early proto–music-video encounter—and the other in countless teenage rooms, where shared sessions unfolded before a computer screen, hypnotised by the interplay of sound and image.
*Leckey, Mark. Quoted in Neil Mulholland, “The Apostle of Terror: Mark Leckey as Saint-Just.” Edinburg University Social Theory Blog, August 17, 2003. https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/neil-mulholland-edx/the-apostle-of-terror-mark-leckey-as-saint-just/. Note: This quote originates from Leckey’s performance script for his work ‘drinnen und draussen’
Many thanks to: Ian Cheng, Mark Leckey, Hanna Lidén, Klara Lidén, and Michael E. Smith; Cabinet, London; Andrew Kreps Gallery, New York; ZERO…, Milan; Nero Editions, Rome; Pilar Corrias, London; Sadie Coles HQ, London.
Bibliography:
Making Tracks | BY MARK BEASLEY IN FRIEZE | 09 SEP 02
A quasi-holy experience with Mark Leckey | Words Joe Bobowicz | Plaster magazine
OPENINGS: MARK LECKEY By Matthew Higgs | Artforum
Mark Leckey BY DALE MCFARLAND IN REVIEWS | 03 MAR 04 | Frieze
Klara Lidén | Anarchic urbanism; pigeons, song and dance | BY SAM THORNE IN FEATURES | 06 JUN 08 | Frieze
IN MEMORY OF STATIC: THE ART OF KLARA LIDÉN By Helen Molesworth | Artforum
Welcome to the Jungle: Klara Liden by Massimiliano Gioni | Mousse Magazine
HANNA LIDEN “A Different Type of Anthropology” Text by Amanda Parmer | Metal Magazine
HANNA LIDEN “Hanna Liden” By Nate Lowman Interview Magazine
HANNA LIDEN “Studio Visit: Hanna Liden” By Christopher Bollen Interview, February 2010
HANNA LIDEN By David Rimanelli | Artforum
Co-financed by the Department of Culture of the City of Poznań and the Department of Culture of the Marshal’s Office of the Greater Poland Voivodeship in Poznań.