What would you store in a root cellar? Potatoes, pumpkins, cauliflower – or perhaps memories and knowledge? In troubled times, the root cellar’s function as a place for storage and protection has gained renewed relevance. The group exhibition Survival Kit […]

Sentences are becoming harsher and the Swedish prison system is expanding at record speed, but what is life like on the inside? American artist and activist Jesse Krimes, Petronella Petander and Isaac Grünewald meet Magnus Bärtås and six anonymous inmates […]

Where are we really going? In the exhibition Terminal, Niki Lindroth von Bahr depicts the repetitive existence of an airport, inspired by Greek mythology and Dante Alighieri’s medieval epic The Divine Comedy. Through cinematic loops and sculptural installations, she analyzes […]

Melting Barricades is a Greenlandic art project by artists Inuk Silis Høegh and Asmund Havsteen-Mikkelsen, in the form of a recruitment campaign for a fictional Greenlandic army. The project ran from 2004 to 2007, but has now been re-actualized in […]

What are parents allowed to do to their children? In an extensive solo exhibition at Kalmar konstmuseum, Anna Odell presents a brand new work in which she asks uncomfortable questions about parents’ power over their children.  In the new film […]

Monumental paper sculptures, endless lines and traces of something that was once the seabed. In Between Drawing, Kalmar konstmuseum shows three artists who all in different ways provide abstract and challenging approaches to what drawing can be. The exhibition Between […]

In the exhibition, PG Thelander’s absurd graphic work Jordgubbsråtta from 1971 leads us into the spirit of the 1970s and a period-typical artistic medium. The exhibition Jordgubbsråtta shows a selection of graphics from the 1970’s from the Kalmar konstmuseum’s collection. […]

Dance Now Think Later transforms Kalmar art museum into a vibrant dance arena, challenging the museum’s traditional choreography by building a dance floor surrounded by film screens featuring international artists. The exhibition is based on dance as an expression of […]

Based on the work Container, the exhibition with the same name embodies a rich dialogue between Päivi Ernkvist and Pontus Lindvall. In the gallery, we can follow how a dynamic and multifaceted unfolds in various directions. There are poetic creations, […]

From the bottom of the forest I rise. It dawns between the trees. It rains over my roofs. I am a gutter for impressions. From “Through the forest” in The halfmade sky, Tomas Tranströmer, Bonniers förlag, 1962 In the exhibition […]

The exhibition Thomas Tempte: A University of One’s Own is a form of homecoming. Master carpenter and artist Thomas Tempte (1942–2016) grew up in Kalmar and took the long way from woodworking apprentice to master and eventually became a visual […]

Olivia Plender is an artist based in Stockholm and London. Her work is based on historical research that analyses pedagogical methods and revolutionary social, political, and educational movements mainly of the 19th and 20th centuries. She finds her sources in […]

How do you paint a secret? And who can decipher it? In his paintings, Martin Gustavsson takes an interest in looking lustfully, which is why some artworks appeal to him more than others. A painting which isn’t necessarily perceived as […]

On 27th May, the group exhibition Örat mot marken och blicken utåt (An ear to the ground, gazing outwards) opened at Kalmar konstmuseum. The exhibition is part of the first instance of the Småland triennial which takes place during the summer […]

Get to know the acclaimed children’s book illustrator Beatrice Alemagna in a combined exhibition and workshop where we dive deep into her world of images based on the book Let’s go to the park (Vi går till parken). Experience the […]

92 Events presents works spanning six decades by American born Fluxus artist Ken Friedman who since 2014 lives and works in Kalmar. Friedman produces conceptual, action-oriented, language-based works that attach themselves to daily life and challenge the idea of an […]

The climate crisis is a complex challenge of pressing urgency. It is about facts, reports, numbers and diagrams, but also about emotions, existential angst and loss. The climate debate is ever intensifying, alarming reports and climate conferences following one after […]

A man trying to control a tornado, Miss Universe singing in the Stockholm subway and the fate of a glitter factory are some of the stories in the film program Art on Screen. Like so much contemporary art, the works […]

The photographer Rolf Lind is known for his empathetic portraits and at the same time has contributed important time documents from environments in Kalmar that do not get the opportunity to take part in the exhibition The Pictures Tell. A […]

Sydosten United returns to the Kalmar art museum in a new, exciting format and with heightened ambitions. The investment in Sydosten United is part of developing the jury-judged salon, which for many years has been a valued part of Kalmar […]