© Lena Amuat and Zoë Meyer
Location: Renaissance Garden, Tycho Brahe Museum, Ven. Opening hours: 1 May – 31 August, 09:30–16:00, 19 June (Midsummer’s Eve): Closed. September: Saturdays and Sundays, 09:30–14:00 Admission fees: Children up to 12 years: Free. Youth 13–19 years: SEK 60. Adults: SEK 120
Students/Seniors (ID required): SEK 80. The exhibition is part of Landskrona Foto Festival 2026 and is included in the festival ticket from 4–20 September.
In the Renaissance garden at the Tycho Brahe Museum, where the Danish astronomer and mathematician in the 16th century devoted himself
to measuring celestial bodies in one of history’s first purpose-built observatories, objects once tied to specific systems of knowledge are given new life in the photographic work of Lena Amuat and Zoë Meyer.
For their ongoing series Mathematical Models, Amuat & Meyer travel to scientific collections, university archives, and museums across Europe to unearth historical mathematical teaching models long retired from use. These objects – concrete visualisations of abstract formulae and systems of thought – are often found packed away and forgotten, replaced by digital representations and at risk of disappearing.
Working with a mobile analogue studio, the artists photograph each model using 35 mm negative film, staged against vivid or neutral backdrops that strip them of functional context and open new visual readings. Once instruments of knowledge, the objects become enigmatic forms: precise, tactile, and charged with layered histories.
Through this process, Amuat & Meyer question how scientific models shape our understanding of the world, revealing both the beauty and the ambiguity embedded in systems of representation.
Lena Amuat (b. 1977) and Zoë Meyer (b. 1975) are a Swiss artist duo working between Zurich and Berlin. Both studied photography at the Zürcher Hochschule der Künste, where they later completed a joint MA in Fine Arts in 2013. They have collaborated closely since 2008. Through research and analogue photography, Amuat & Meyer ex-plore scientific models, archival systems, and the material culture of knowledge. Their work has been exhibited extensively across Europe and published in six artist books. They are represented by the Robert Morat Gallery.
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