Since far back in history, people, goods and ideas have been transported to and from Halland. On view in the exhibition Over the Seas are older and contemporary artists’ interpretations that bring those journeys, those ships and the sea to life for us. It also includes objects whose histories extend far beyond Halland’s boundaries.
What will happen to Tjolöholm’s historical public gardens if their irrigation water dries up? In conjunction with the restoration of the kitchen garden, and with experience of the effects of extreme weather caused by climate change, the need to become self-sufficient in water usage is in focus once again. What did the old pond systems… Läs mer »Without Water, No Life and No History
Sweden’s west coast, with its distinctive light and landscape, has made an impression on the work of many painters. In the exhibition Coast, Sea & Water: The Halmstad Group and Friends, we encounter the coastal landscape as interpreted by a number of artists from the 1910s to the 1950s.
Society’s relationship to water is becoming increasingly fraught, with rising sea levels and growing risk of draught and flooding, even in Sweden. In this exhibition we present proposals for a better interaction with water, with projects in the fields of design, architecture and urban planning. A collaboration with the Form/Design Center in Malmö.
The Museum of Drawings and Laholm is hosting Art Inside Out with an exhibition that emerged from its artist-in-residence programme. The works, which are all based on the specific natural environment of Laholm and the Lagan River, examine what it means to listen to nature's own voice. What sounds, choruses, tones, wills and stories emerge… Läs mer »Listeners
Rethinking the Little Mermaid is Kolbrún Inga Söring’s first solo exhibition in Sweden. Söring’s art explores body modification, desire and self-representation outside of cis-heteronormativity. Through their reinterpretation of H. C. Andersen’s fairy tale The Little Mermaid, the artist takes a broader view that includes multiple perspectives.
Lennart Alves is a photographer with a particular interest in how the human world meets the sea. He weaves for us a story in which the unwanted becomes sublime, the sea becomes a stage, and mankind’s traces become subjects of their own.
