In Tobias Dahlin’s films and still photos of Halland’s sea and lakes, an unexplored, beautiful and enchanted underwater world opens up in fantastical colours. In the depths lurk traces of… Läs mer »Fish & Ships – A Cultural Historical Deep Dive in Halland Waters
Beneath the surface lurks the unseen and the hidden, something latent waiting and biding its time – under the surface both of the water and of the human mind. Through… Läs mer »Beneath the Surface
In the exhibition From a Distance, artist Behjat Omer Abdulla depicts how war can be experienced from various perspectives. Through his drawings and videos, he creates and shares visual worlds… Läs mer »Behjat Omer Abdulla: From a Distance
The group exhibition Seaweed Stories explores the vegetation beneath the water’s surface. Several artists take on algae and seaweed, examining human and more-than-human perspectives on existence in this world. In… Läs mer »Seaweed Stories
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… Läs mer »Over the Seas
Hand-drawn nautical charts offer a glimpse of the hidden world beneath the surface and show us the way across the seas. This exhibition introduces us to navigation, telling stories of… Läs mer »At Sea – Nautical Charts, Navigation and Adventure
In the exhibition We Swim in One Water, Anastasia Savinova focuses on cohesiveness through water on multiple levels. She finds and weaves together industrial and natural artefacts such as boats,… Läs mer »Anastasia Savinova, We Swim in One Water / act XXII.
Here viewers find paintings of a world in the distant future, after the end of the human era, where everything has started over again. Unfamiliar landscapes, ecosystems and biotypes take… Läs mer »Ann-Louise Sandahl: Unknown Sea/Unknown Land
The artist group SUPERFLEX has been invited by Halmstad municipality to explore how rising sea levels impact urban space. That project will lead to the exhibition All is Water at… Läs mer »SUPERFLEX: All is water
The installation Cut Tongue addresses a scarred and neglected water landscape: the mouth of the Viskan River in the Kloster Fjord. It recreates the memory of the place while simultaneously… Läs mer »Isak Eldh och Thomas Laurien: Cut Tongue Henning Rehnström Ring: Now My Sails are on Fire
Pearls and seashells were once an obvious choice for materials to satisfy our desire for self-adornment. For today’s jewellery artists, the different forms that water takes on can be an… Läs mer »Underwater Finds – with Smyckoteket
Here, the role of water in the dream of emigration to America is highlighted, both as a barrier and a pre-condition for finding a better life. We get to follow… Läs mer »The Blue Thread – To America
Expedition Art is a group exhibition that shows works by artists who all took part in the Swedish Polar Secretariat’s art programme, among them Lars Lerin, Efva Lilja, Ida Rödén… Läs mer »Expedition Art
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… 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… Läs mer »Coast, Sea & Water: The Halmstad Group and Friends
In Tori Wrånes’ installation BIG WATER, we find fur-clad underwater creatures as they move to the rhythm of the sea. These creatures have fled from the exploitation of our consumer… Läs mer »Tori Wrånes: BIG WATER
A beach is a world of its own, a transitional zone between sea and land. With its own rules and norms, it exists in parallel to but separately from other… Läs mer »Malin Griffiths: The Beach
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… Läs mer »Water Balance
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… 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.… Läs mer »Kolbrún Inga Söring: Rethinking the Little Mermaid
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… Läs mer »Lennart Alves: Wavelengths
