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 […]

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 […]

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.

“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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

Exploring society and art using the body as a starting point is a frequently used method within feminist performance tradition. Ever since her years at preparatory art school, Ingela Ihrman has created plant and animal costumes that she has then […]

This summer’s exhibition at Kalmar konstmuseum will explore Christianity’s roots in alchemy and architecture. The artist Cecilia Ömalm has taken a closer look at buildings of cultural significance in Småland and on Öland and created a new artwork specifically for […]

Can fashion and art respond to current social, economic, cultural and environmental urgencies and shape new paradigmatic positions? Transfashional explores the intersection of art and fashion and the ways in which artists and fashion designers are engaging and contributing to […]

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. […]