A film by Johanna Billing with Mix Dancers For almost three years, the artist Johanna Billing has been collaborating with the dance group Mix Dancers from Råslätt, Jönköping. In the meeting between the dancers and her artistic practice, the film […]

Åke Hodell (1919–2000) was the fighter pilot who became a political rebell and a linguistic innovator in the service of resistance and the anti war movement. Artistically he inhabited the intersection of satire, the poetry of sound and social criticism. […]

Despite the fact that impressions and research for artistic production is often taken from the world around us, the making, touch of the hand and interest is first and foremost personal. Attending art school is thus similar to finding a […]

With tired backs and hearts with room for more takes its starting point from the collectively made newspaper – Vård och Värde (Care and Value). The newspaper, made by cultural and care workers, focuses on the working conditions and experiences […]

Like many of her female contemporaries, the artist Lilian Lindblad Domec (1922–2017) has largely slipped under the radar. But through both her life and her work she has important things to convey about the meaning and predicaments of art. Rather […]

In the autumn of 2020 we launched the project Collections and collecting with the exhibition Esteemed Brother – a review of the history of Kalmar konstmuseum and how its collection was initiated. All Aboard continues that exploration through new and […]

Susanna Jablonski works with sculpture, moving images and spatial installations. Her works, which are an interplay between material, image and language, simultaneously express the most monumental and the everyday. In tactile, sculptural scenes, the artist takes on questions of time […]

In the artificial world of his cities and towns, he often forgets the true nature of his planet and the long vistas of its history, in which the existence of the race of men has occupied a mere moment of […]

The exhibition Transitions is a room for reflection about our time and the transient value of labour. It portrays the meeting between industry and craft, between analogue and digital and also between geographically separated parts of the world – interconnected through […]

You think that because of your writing you are the author of the world, but you’re wrong. You were just an accident like the rest of us, floating in the sea of time. History According to Cattle  Since 2012 the […]

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 […]

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 […]

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. […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

“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 […]