For almost a century, Kalmar Art Society has been collecting works of art, mainly from artists either born or working in the region, but also objects from neighbouring areas across the Baltic sea. This collection has now found a permanent […]

“I speak to maps. And sometimes they say something back to me. This is not as strange as it sounds, nor is it an unheard of thing. Before maps the world was limitless. It was maps that gave it shape […]

Art has a unique ability of reaching the inner self of us. The art project Kännbart explores the experiences of art and communication without hearing or vision. Vision represents 80% of our senses. Hearing represents 10 – 15%. How can […]

In 1964, in the very first class admitting women to the Royal Swedish Academy of Art, there was a 26 year old student from Kalmar. Already a trained artist, she would later move to Düsseldorf and Paris, where she would […]

Moving Mass is carried out as an artistic enquiry with a point of departure in the concept of The Kingdom of Crystal and the material glass as well as in dialogue with that which is currently going on in the region, […]

Boogie Woogie Wonderland is a visual and musical art project comprising of multi screen and sound installations at Kalmar konstmuseum. The exhibition is made of re-mixes of fragments of information from various collaborative works developed by *Candy Factory Projects. The […]

It is a unique world of imagery that Erla S. Haraldsdóttir has created, in which she combines figurative motifs with painterly quality and humour. It is accomplished through paintings in large format based on the freedom that lies in self-imposed […]

Designers: Kosmos Project, Petra Lilja Design Curators: Magdalena Popławska, Ewa Bochen i Maciej Jelski (Kosmos Project), Petra Lilja When we study traces of the history, the borders of different cultures are overlapping on each other, revealing the world as a […]

What about our emotions and relationships to urban birds? They are visitors from the nature, who live their lives in parallel with ours. Pigeons, crows and gulls stir up bad blood when they scream and litter, but we feel for […]

Together with artists and educators, visitors can create a space for active participation in the artistic process. The process is ongoing throughout the summer, highlighting both the creative power and the role of the museum as a public space in […]

The exhibition doesn’t have any real concept, however a slogan as title, taken from the works of Andreas Meinich. But above all, it has a feeling in which a number of recurring concepts are tied together, a slight summery feeling […]

It’s that time of year again! Emerging artists from Ölands konstkola II present their annual graduation exhibition, featuring new approaches to video, performance, sculpture and painting. In this year’s exhibition, Interlude, students have examined art’s role in society and its […]

Without regarding themselves as a group, the three artists have chosen to start a joint artistic process, based on their curiosity about each other’s way of thinking and relating to a series of questions. Their conversations, wanderings and joint activities […]

For the first time Kalmar konstmuseum can present Eva Larsson’s work in the very region in Sweden she comes from. Since long her art is based on a wide-eyed interest in the boundary between the decorative and the meaningful configuration. Between […]

Kalmar Konstmuseum is pleased to present a solo exhibition by artist Johanna Karlin. Karlin is a Swedish artist, educator, consultant and curator currently living and working between Öland, Stockholm and Berlin. The exhibition, Unobstructed Lines of Vision, brings together found […]

Representations of the Baltic cities – Tallinn, Riga and Vilnius – have in the recent past concentrated on their post-socialist transformations: overcoming Soviet heritage and negotiating changes of the new capitalist modernity. Now, twenty years after the arrival of independence, […]

The abbreviations in the title is a formula that describes the link between humans, atoms, internet, social media, bombs, mobile and radio. Ariel Diaz Garcia sees that everything fits together like a chain. Some people have the power to control […]

Kalmar Konstmuseum presents, in collaboration with Kunsthall Trondheim, the first major exhibition with artist Lina Selander, who will also represent Sweden at the Venice Biennale in 2015. The exhibition includes four film installations (2007 – 2014) and an archive for further […]

During a Purity Ball young girls promise to “live pure lives before God” and to remain virgins until marriage. In return, their fathers sign a commitment promising to protect their daughters’ chastity. Sometimes rings are exchanged as a symbol of […]