Iris, pupil, retina, etc. Photo: Alette Schei Rørvik
Iggy Malmborg is a performance artist and actor based in Malmö. Although trained in traditional acting, his works span a wide range of aesthetics and styles – both in solo and collaborative work. Iggy Malmborg’s greatest artistic interest is to use performance as a model on which the discourse of the plays can be applied directly. Using strategies comparable to minimalism, he sheds light on the politics of theatre, as a hierarchical machine with (unconscious) patterns of inclusion and exclusion. Over the years, Malmborg’s works have gained international recognition and have been hailed for presenting a complex intellectual discourse in a concrete way, filled with humor and warmth.
In a longer cycle of works Malmborg has dived into the the theatrical machine, taken it apart and analyzed each part separately; their function and possible echoing or manifestation of similar mechanisms outside the theatre venue. 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. His coming work might be the closure of this cycle. Or perhaps the series has already reached an end (with a sudden plot-twist in SATAN) and this will mark the beginning of a new cycle, one that might lead all the way up to the final, inevitable end. And ending is the very focus of Sortistycken. The Premiere takes place at Residenz Schauspiel Leipzig 19 June 2026.
Sortistycken Photo: Johanna Malm
SATAN Photo: Rolf Arnold
Malmborg's solo performance SATAN is currently on tour. Performing dates and venues are announced continuously.
SATAN is the story of a hero who tries to become a villain, but fails. Following along on a bumpy road from a deeply Christian family in the Swedish countryside, through friendships, sins, and homelessness, to theatre stages and venues all around Europe. An homage to the ancient form of oral storytelling that brings the audience to far away places.
"Malmborg’s performance is outstanding. Every hesitation, every gesture seems as if the memory spontaneously brings back feelings that are difficult to control.” Dimo Rieß, Leipziger Volkszeitung
Physics and Phantasma Photo: Renee Altrov