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. […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

Spring is here again and with it comes the exciting annual graduation exhibition by students from Ölands konstskola II. This year’s exhibition, Live Stream | inom räckhåll, aims to materialize the virtual, bringing it back to physical presence and emphasising […]

Leaving is different for everyone. There are times when we can plan carefully and bring the things we need for the journey, and times when we just have to run, leaving everything behind. Muhammad Ali is an artist from Syria. […]

The Last Öland Horse – featuring New Horse Cultures takes its departure from a now extinct horse breed on the rural island of Öland. The exhibition uses the popular motif of the horse as a vehicle for discussing aspects of […]

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, […]