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Paddan

the Toad

Ingela Ihrman

15/09 - 04/11 2018

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 […]

Strip Laboratory

As Above So Below

Lisa Jeannin & Rolf Schuurmans and Cecilia Ömalm

16/05 - 14/10 2018

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 […]

Anna-Sophie Berger, She Vanished I, 2015, silk thread water

Transfashional

Experimental fashion in the context of contemporary art

26/05 - 30/09 2018

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 […]

Beast

The Beast

Johan Thurfjell

16/06 - 09/09 2018

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 […]

Ove Wallin

Waiting for the light

Ove Wallin

16/05 - 12/08 2018

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, […]

Andreis Maria

Andrei’s Maria

Ingela Johansson

16/05 - 13/06 2018

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 […]

Ölands Konstskola II 2018

Our place is balanced on the edge

Ölands Konstskola II

12/05 - 27/05 2018

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.  

Ocean Dream, Julia Peirone

Girls, girls, girls

Julia Peirone

29/03 - 13/05 2018

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 […]

The room of life and death, Markus Åkesson, 2014, oil on canvas

Sleeping Beauty

Markus Åkesson

10/02 - 29/04 2018

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. […]

Saarikko Lullabies

Lullabies

Petrik Saarikko

17/02 - 28/03 2018

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 […]

Markus Åkesson, portrait

With invited guests

Markus Åkesson and art collections

27/01 - 18/03 2018

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

Gunilla och Raine

22/11 - 14/02 2018

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 […]

Two Cows

You have two cows

02/12 - 28/01 2018

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. […]

Sketches from the Design Archive

Designarkivet A-Ö

28/06 - 07/01 2018

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 […]

Varje dags ljus

Every day’s light

Photographs by Andreas Rothstein

13/12 - 07/01 2018

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 […]

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Electric Boogie

Time travel to the early 80's

03/11 - 03/12 2017

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 […]

Vi bredvid

Us beside

Thoughts from the inside

08/11 - 26/11 2017

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 […]

Sydosten

Sydosten 2017

Design and crafts

28/10 - 19/11 2017

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 […]

H Kvamme utställningsbild

The middle of the Midland forest

A house of culture intersected

14/10 - 12/11 2017

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 […]

Figures 1856, Webb o Affisch

Deep memory

Curators; Joanna Sandell & Breeze Yoko

05/04 - 08/10 2017

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 […]

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