Welcome to an evening where theatre maker and actor Iggy Malmborg from Malmö will share the ins and outs of his practice.

He will walk through his artistic biography, untangling some pieces in particular and give insight to his strategies and methods in the horror of making work for stage.

Iggy Malmborg’s main artistic interest is to use the performance event as a model onto which the pieces discourse directly can be applied. Though a formation in traditional acting (the Theatre academy of Malmö) his pieces span over a wide range of aesthetics and styles. By using strategies that can be compared to minimalism, he sheds light on the politics of theatre and read it as a hierarchical machine with (unconscious) patterns of inclusion and exclusion.

Since 2014 he is producing a longer cycle of works which is diving into the theatrical machine, taking it apart and analyses each element separately, often informed by the psychoanalytic school of thought. Each piece in the series focuses on one specific element of theatre : b o n e r (2014) on objects, Physics and Phantasma (2017) on phantasy, Things in my mouth (2019) on the voice, Iris, pupil, retina, etc. (2021) on seeing and SATAN (2023) on illusion. In 2026 he premieres the concluding piece of the cycle entitled Sortiestycken, a work on endings.

2009-16 he was also one part of the theatre-duo White on White. Over the years Malmborgs works has gained international recognition and been celebrated for presenting a complex intellectual discourse in a concrete way, filled with humor and warmth. In 2023 he made his first work in Swedish, the series Försök #1-3 [essays/attempts] for Gothenburg City Theatre and in 2025 he premiered Mot Slutet his first work directed to children.

The lecture is held in English

This lecture is part of the a series arranged by Skogen and the Contemporary Performative Arts Master Gothenburg University.

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After the performance, we will serve dinner. Please feel free to stay and dine with us and Iggy!

//Photo credits: Satan Reykjavik_photo Karim Iliya, exit LD_photo Johanna Malm