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Making of the art work "Sea Painting" by Jessica Warboys

Fieldwork

12/09 - 29/11 2020

Fieldwork brings together artists who all share a particular relationship to nature, by working on site, in direct relation to it. Whether it is on the seashore of Dunwich, England, on the chalky cliffs of Öland, in the southern Polish […]

A file from Kalmar Art Society's collection

Esteemed Brother

Collections and collecting

30/09 - 22/11 2020

The exhibition Esteemed Brother is the starting point and the first part of the project Collections and collecting – work that we envisage will continue for some time. The origin is Kalmar konstmuseum’s collection, consisting of 3 368 registered works of […]

People protesting in Algiers, Algeria

The Algerian Novel

Katia Kameli

13/05 - 13/09 2020

In the exhibition The Algerian Novel we show the film project Le Roman Algérien (Chapitre un, deux, trois) in three parts by the French-Algerian artist Katia Kameli. The relationship between France and Algeria is a reoccurring theme in Katia Kameli’s art. […]

2,2km long knitted scarf hanging in the stairway at Kalmar konstmuseum

Knit activism

Skeins against gender-based violence

20/04 - 05/09 2020

Since 2014 the Basque organisation Harituz has worked with the project Madejas contra la violencia sexista – Skeins against gender-related violence. Its artistic symbol – a giant and constantly growing scarf – travels around the world with the aim of one […]

A blue glass sculpture by Hanna Hansdotter

Rabbit hole

Hanna Hansdotter

17/06 - 23/08 2020

How can an industrial technique, built on repetition, be developed to create unique works of art that at the same time contain an interpretation of the industrial tradition? It might seem contradictory – but that is what Hanna Hansdotter achieves […]

Holding image, A table of content

A table of content

Åsa Norberg & Jennie Sundén

29/02 - 16/08 2020

The exhibition A Table of Content places the history of local craft manufacturing within a global context and investigates the created item from a sketch to the finished product as a work of art or an everyday object. Thoughts are […]

Artwork from Öland Konstskola's exhibition 2020

Kick with the sole, back of the hand facing up

Ölands Konstskola II

29/04 - 17/05 2020

A sure sign of spring is Ölands Konstskola II (Öland Art School) returning to Kalmar konstmuseum. Welcome to this year’s graduation exhibition, which will introduce new and exciting artists and present a number of different techniques, materials and perspectives. The […]

Still from Vivian's Garden

Vivian’s Garden

Rosalind Nashashibi

29/02 - 26/04 2020

In the lead up to Documenta14 the British artist Rosalind Nashashibi was commissioned to make a portrait of the artists Vivian Suter and Elisabeth Wild and their secluded life in the jungle outside the city of Panajachel in Guatemala. The […]

Interior Ambush vinjettbild, the percussionist

Interior Ambush

Sara-Vide Ericson

05/02 - 19/04 2020

In Interior Ambush the artist Sara-Vide Ericson exhibits a series of new, large paintings that examine our relationship to artifacts, rituals and places. The artist’s own, personal history, her body and the landscape that has surrounded her since childhood, become tools […]

The family and the slaves, exhibition photo

Släkten och slavarna

Carl Johan De Geer

05/10 - 09/02 2020

“I was completely taken aback when Antonio, a Brazilian man, told me that he was the descendant of a slave that Louis De Geer had had transported by slave ship to Brazil in the 17th century. And that it had […]

Sydosten United 2019 exhibition picture

Sydosten 2019

Craft, design and a new ambition to facilitate collaboration and build networks

26/10 - 19/01 2020

Almost 200 people applied to this year’s exhibition, which as usual has been open to everyone, professionals and amateurs, with a connection to the three countries in the south east: Småland, Blekinge and Öland. A total of 67 artworks have […]

Monument

The Opening

Anna Ekman and Cecilia Järdemar, Freddy Tsimba

15/06 - 06/10 2019

The project les archives suédoises was initiated by the artists Anna Ekman and Cecilia Järdemar around an archive of glass negatives from Swedish missions in what was the Belgian Congo 1890 – 1930. Together with the Congolese sculptor Freddy Tsimba they […]

Lupines, Lela Pierce

Invasive Species: Lupines

Lela Pierce

15/06 - 29/09 2019

Lela Pierce has been investigating invasive plant species in her artistic work for the past five years. She is interested in the language and actions that people take to control differing populations and how these stories relate directly to power, […]

Detail from Sommaridyll, Lotte Laserstein

Småland – idyll and roads astray

09/03 - 15/09 2019

Starting from the premise of using that which is close at hand, Kalmar konstmuseum takes on that which is closest to us, and explores art, artefacts and tales with a connection to the geographical sphere that makes up the county […]

Moon Root

Root

Peder Nabo

04/05 - 09/06 2019

Photography has been a strong interest ever since I nicked my father’s camera as a boy and took intuitively to the camera’s functionality. Peder Nabo is a composer, musician and photographer, raised in Ljungbyholm, Småland. He studied at Konstfack, Stockholm […]

dear stök bästa turmoil

Dear stök bästa turmoil

Ölands Konstskola II

08/05 - 22/05 2019

A sure sign of spring is Ölands Konstskola II returning to Kalmar konstmuseum. Come and experience this year’s exhibition, introducing new and exciting artist and a variety of different techniques, materials and angles of inspiration.

Balthazar

Professor Balthazar and The Monument to The Invisible Citizen

Behzad Khosravi Noori

16/02 - 28/04 2019

“I have become a queer mixture of the East and the West, out of place everywhere, at home nowhere”. – Jawaharlal Nehru Behzad Khosravi Noori is an artist and researcher based in Stockholm. In the exhibition Professor Balthazar and the Monument […]

Drawing, Anna-Lena Emdén

Who are you? Fashion and Poetry

Designarkivet

24/11 - 17/02 2019

Clothes are markers of identity and in fashion sketches we often recognise ourselves, both as we were and as we are. Designarkivet has a collection of fashion sketches that are being shown in this exhibition next to poetry. Why? In […]

Kudzanai Chiurai, Genesis

Madness and Civilization

Kudzanai Chiurai

20/10 - 03/02 2019

Madness and Civilization is a solo exhibition by Kudzanai Chiurai (born 1981, Zimbabwe) featuring mixed media works on paper, photographs, film, and installation. The exhibition reflects on Chiurai’s politically-driven research and creative projects over the past three years. Taking its […]

Sydosten

Sydosten

Visual Arts

27/10 - 06/01 2019

In the autumn of 2017, Sydosten returned to Kalmar konstmuseum and was very warmly received by the public. This year, Sydosten makes another appearance, dedicated to the visual arts – that is, everything from painting, graphics, drawing, sculpture and photography to […]

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