Since childhood, Johan Thurfjell has been fascinated by monster myths and mythologies. After letting it lie dormant for many years he let the fascination surface when he started to take an interest in the myth about Big Foot – an […]

Kalmar konstmuseum wants to celebrate that the renowned film director Ingmar Bergman would have turned 100 years old in July 2018, by showing Ove Wallin’s images from the set of Ingmar Bergman’s Jungfrukällan. The pictures disappeared into the archives of memory, […]

Andrei´s Maria is an artistic film essay about Andrei Tarkovsky’s film The Sacrifice (1986) which was produced in Sweden and filmed on Närsholmen, Gotland. In Andrei’s Maria, the Icelandic actress Guðrún Gísladóttir returns to the location, thirty years later, together with her […]

A sign of spring is Ölands Konstskola II returning to Kalmar konstmuseum. This year’s exhibition will introduce twelve exciting artists, using a variety of different techniques , materials and angles.  

Since her breakthrough in the early 2000s, the photo artist Julia Peirone has received attention both in Sweden and abroad. She works with questions around identity, often focussing on young women in series which reflect aspects of vulnerability, shame and […]

Markus Åkesson created headlines in 2017 when his painting Sleeping Beauty was removed from the entrance of the school that had commissioned the work. The debate that followed highlighted art’s power in society and how much public artworks can affect us. […]

It’s been said that children speak the truth. Yet we may ask where this blind belief in the truth they supposedly provide us with originates from? Is it perhaps from the metaphysical aether of ideas? Is it from the Sirens in the seas […]

Through several exhibitions, such as The last Öland horse and You have two cows, Kalmar konstmuseum has worked with art collections in relation to contemporary art and our times. We now try a different approach by asking Markus Åkesson, one […]

Det spirar, det gäller livet (It’s budding – a matter of life) is the title of a work by Gunilla Skyttla – an embroidered heart. It has also become the name of our retrospective exhibition of Raine Navin and Gunilla […]

We all know what a cow is. She functions as a bridge. There is a similarity between agricultural farms and museums. Both can at times create a feeling of insecurity for those who have not visited a similar place before. […]

Every year, Designarkivet in Pukeberg, Nybro presents a smaller exhibition at Kalmar konstmuseum where materials by one of the many designers in the archive are displayed. This year, the exhibition will instead highlight Designarkivet’s full collection so that everyone with […]

Every day’s light, an exhibitions in the museum library, shows a series of photographs by Andreas Rothstein. The pictures and the title want to capture the documentary, poetical and existential sides of photography. Andreas Rothstein works with photographic film and […]

Electric Boogie – time travel to the early 80’s, tells the story of how Hip Hop reached Sweden, but also about what can be seen as Swedish cultural heritage. The exhibition consists of framed photographs and articles and has been […]

Annica Wiegert started working as a supply teacher at Lärcentrum, which works as a distance learning centre for adults at the local prison in Kalmar. There was a desire among the inmates to be allowed to express themselves through some […]

It’s been six years since Sydosten (“the south-east”) was last shown at Kalmar konstmuseum. It’s now back, focussing on design and crafts. The museum received some 350 applications, most of them in the craft category, where textiles were the largest […]

The largest area of connected deciduous forest in Sweden and northern Europe can be found in the middle of Öland. It is called the Midland forest, but also simply the Midland. It is a territory rich in forest but that […]

Why is there so little African visual representation in the European public sphere while European culture is so present on the African continent? The work leading up to Deep Memory stems from a number of artistic manifestations by artist Breeze […]

Spring is here again and with it comes the exciting annual graduation exhibition by students from Ölands konstskola II. This year’s exhibition, Live Stream | inom räckhåll, aims to materialize the virtual, bringing it back to physical presence and emphasising […]

Leaving is different for everyone. There are times when we can plan carefully and bring the things we need for the journey, and times when we just have to run, leaving everything behind. Muhammad Ali is an artist from Syria. […]

The Last Öland Horse – featuring New Horse Cultures takes its departure from a now extinct horse breed on the rural island of Öland. The exhibition uses the popular motif of the horse as a vehicle for discussing aspects of […]