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LIV no 8, Smålandstriennalen
13/6-27/9 2026
Opening ceremonies 16.00

Welcome to the opening of the temporary installation ”Oro för Liv” on the landart sculpture "LIV no 8" in Algutsrum on Öland!
Speech by Anneli Berglund, business developer within art Region Blekinge, and performance of Aurea Romero Alvarez, dancer.

Part of Smålandstriennalen, organizer Konstfrämjandet Småland. Read more at Smålandstriennalen

With support from Ölandsklubben, Mörbylånga kommun, Trioplast and Mittlandsgården.

UNDANTAGET & STALLET, KLÄPPINGE 1:18
Open weekends at 14.00-16.00 24/8-29/9 2024

Continuation on Johanna Karlin's and Anne Hamrin Simonsson's collaboration in the exhibition
"An Ear to the Ground, Gazing Outwards" (Örat mot marken och blicken utåt) on Kalmar konstmuseum 2023
as part of Smålandstriennalen.

With support from Smålandstriennalen, Konstfrämjandet Småland and Kalmar konstmuseum.

Kalmar konstmuseum, Smålandstriennalen
27/5-1/10 2023
Opening ceremonies 14.00

Group exhibition Johanna Karlin, Anne Hamrin Simonsson, Amanda Selinder and Jan Carleklev.

Head organizer Konstfrämjandet Småland with support from the Swedish Arts Council, Postkodstiftelsen and the County Council of Jönköping, Kalmar and Kronoberg.

Exhibition catalog

Read more at Kalmar Konstmuseum

Perth, Australia/online
Voices from the Edge: Negotiating the Local in the Global
16-18/6 2021

Participation with film: Mapping From The Edges – Voicing Inner and Outer Landscapes

In association with:
Patricia McKenna, artist (IRL), Déirdre Carr, artist (IRL), Hans Gurstad-Nilsson, composer (SWE), Bodil Petersson, professor of Archeology Linnaeus University

With support from Linnaeus University (SWE).
Organizer The University of Western Australia.

Ölands Museum Himmelsberga panel call Memory Portals
13.00-15.00 25/10

Art critic and journalist Gunilla Petri together with historian/cultural heritage researcher professor Peter Aronsson leading a discussion in dialogue with exhibitors from Experimental Heritage.

Online exhibition
Experimental Heritage - Memory Portals
13/7-31/12 2020
Opening 19.00

Visit the Experimental Heritage online exhibition

Web Graphic Designer Anne Hamrin Simonsson
Web Developer Adrian Gill

Thanks to the municipality of Mörbylånga, County council of Kalmar, Linnaeus University, Creative Ireland through the project Karum-Creevagh Swedish-Irish Explorations, Ölands Museum Himmelsberga and Hainska Foundation for support, economic and in kind.

Black Silo Studios Öland residency
23-26/9 2019

Read more about the Black Silo Studios residency

Collaboration with the Irish multimedia artist
Patricia McKenna.

Ireland exchange visit
10-15/6 2019
Karum Creevagh Swedish-Irish Experimental Heritage Explorations

Visit the Experimental Heritage website

Financed by the Swedish Riksbankens Jubileumsfond.

Kalmar konstmuseum book release

Kon: Samtidskonst och kulturarv på landsbygden (The Cow: Contemporary Art and Rural Cultural Heritage)
13.00 4/5 2019

Read more about the book release

Panel call with Joanna Sandell editor, Anne Hamrin Simonsson artist, Mathieu Vrijman artist and Anneli Berglund project leader.

With support from The Swedish Arts Council and Kalmar County Council.

Konst i Kalmar län/Kalmar konstmuseum
"artists of the month" in may 2019

Visit the Konst i Kalmar län website

Lore Nynnell, Lars Isacson, Anabelí Díaz,
Magnus Gustavsson, Anne Hamrin Simonsson.

Linnaeus University lecture Experimental Heritage
10.00 13/4 2019

Anne Hamrin Simonsson and Bodil Magnusson share from their projects.

Organizer Lena Richert Department of Music and Art Faculty of Arts and Humanities.

Pukeberg Project room
7-28/3 2019

Anne Hamrin Simonsson artist
Other members: Helle Kvamme artist, Bodil Petersson archaeologist, Kristina Kvamme environmental consultant, Maria Kerin artist/choreographer/curator, Frances Gill composer and music archaeologist.

Karum Creevagh Swedish-Irish Experimental Heritage Explorations

Research project started with artists and archaeologists who are exploring new ways of combining art, archaeology and heritage.

Visit the Experimental Heritage website

Kamerala villan Mörbylånga
Experimentellt kulturarv - avslut en ny början
27/10-11/11 2018
Vernissage 19.30

Exhibition leaders Anne Hamrin Simonsson artist.
Organizer Experimentellt kulturarv Öland II with support from the municipality of Mörbylånga and Borgholm, Kalmar County Council and Linnaeus University

If you want to see LIV no 8 (LIFE no 8) from above
go to the link below:
View the project from above on Google Earth

Ireland at the Burren exchange visit
5-10/3 2018

Organizer outrider artist Maria Kerin, Ireland, and Helle Kvamme artist together with Bodil Petersson
fil dr, docent in archeology, the Linnaéus university, from Experimentellt kulturarv/Kulturell tankesmedja Sweden.

Kalmar konstmuseum Du har 2 kor (You have two cows)
2/12-28/1 2018
Vernissage 14.00

Read more about the exhibition at Kalmar konstmuseum

Curators Joanna Sandell museum director of Kalmar konstmuseum and Mathieu Vrijman artist.

Samtidskonstdagarna
5-6/10 2017
10.45-12.00 6/10

Read more about Samtidskonstdagarna at Kalmar konstmuseum

Presentation LIV no 8 (LIFE no 8)
Ölands Museum Himmelsberga and Algutsrum.
Organizer Konstfrämjandet and Kalmar konstmuseum.

Ölands Museum Himmelsberga Skissande rum
15-27/8 2017

How to sketch the future?
11.00-16.00 22/8

Cornelius Holtorf professor in archeology, Bodil Petersson archaeologist, Anne Hamrin Simonsson artist, Bodil Magnusson artist.

Organizer Forsknings- och samverkansprojektet Experimentellt kulturarv.

Algutsrum LIV no 8 (LIFE no 8)
17.00 21/7 2017

Anne Hamrin Simonsson shows her installation and tells about the process under the world heritage week.
Organizer Experimentellt kulturarv in association with Kulturell tankesmedja.

Näsby Kulturarv - Källa Lecture Källa - Liv - Död
15.00 16/7 2017

Stories, poems and flute playing
Anne Hamrin Simonsson, Anita Andersson, Frances Gill and Walle Dickson.

Organizer Kulturföreningen Karneval.

Art trip from Kalmar Konstmuseum

• Kalmar Konstmuseum
• Algutsrum LIV no 8 installation Anne Hamrin Simonsson
• Sjukällorna Anita Andersson m.fl
• Ismantorps borg Filtprojektet Sisters of Sättra

12.00 1/7 - bus departs from Kalmar konstmuseum

Report your interest by info@kalmarkonstmuseum.se

Organizer Forskningsprojektet Experimentellt kulturarv and entreprenörskap in association with Kulturell tankesmedja and Kalmar Konstmuseum.

Näsby Kulturarv - Källa
24/6-19/7 2017
Vernissage 15.00

Organizer Kulturföreningen Karneval.

Algutsrum LIV no 8 (LIFE no 8)
18.00 14/6 2017

Welcome to opening ceremonies!
The artist Anne Hamrin Simonsson welcomes
Joanna Sandell museum director of Kalmar konstmuseum
is making an opening speech

Bodil Petersson archeologist reflects over experimental heritage on Öland

Performance of Aurea Romero Alvarez dancer
Organizer Experimentellt kulturarv in association with Kulturell tankesmedja.

Algutsrum LIV no 8 (LIFE no 8)
20/3 2017 ongoing

Installation with wheat from Öland and soil
The project is a part of "experimental heritage and entrepreneurship" which is funded by Kamprads Stiftelse.

Yellow Box "Experimental heritage and entrepreneurship"
seminar and workshop
5-6/10 2016

Kick-off for the project "Experimentellt kulturarv och entreprenörskap – utveckling av kulturarv och konstnärlig utövning i samverkan mellan forskare, kulturentreprenörer och studenter".

The project is funded by Familjen Kamprads Stiftelse.

Näsby Flätverk Workshop LIFE - DEATH
13.00-16.00 ca 22/7 2016

Med världsarvet södra Ölands odlingslandskap som källa
hålles en workshop med tema LIV - DÖD, ”från sträng till säd del 2”. Processen i växandet och livet i stort både historiskt och i nutid lyfts fram med inspiration av seder/traditioner och symboler.

Organizer Kulturföreningen Karneval.

Näsby Flätverk
9/7-14/8 2016

Experimental heritage.

Organizer Kulturföreningen Karneval.

IOGT-NTO Kalmar Konst åt alla
31/5-4/6 2016

Organizer Riksföreningen Våra Gårdar, Bygdegårdarnas Riksförbund samt Folkets Hus och Parker.

Ölands folkhögskola "Experimental heritage"
seminar and workshop LIFE - DEATH
3-4/12 2015

Organizer Kulturell tankesmedja/Kulturföreningen Karneval, the Linnaeus University Kalmar, Ölands folkhögskola and the municipality of Mörbylånga.

Ölands Museum Himmelsberga Vårsalongen
9/5-7/6 2015

Curator Marlene Lindmark artist.

Jury Karin Lundh director of Vandalorum, Nicolas Hansson director of Växjö Konsthall och Leif Gerhardsson Chairman of the Committee on Culture and Leisure in the municipality of Borgholm.

Ölands folkhögskola "Experimental heritage"
seminar and workshop with exhibition
23-24/4 2015

Organizer Kulturell tankesmedja/Kulturföreningen Karneval and Bodil Petersson Linnaeus University with support from the Linnaeus University Kalmar, the municipality of Mörbylånga and Borgholm and the regional federation in Kalmar County.

Sketch commission in an ongoing project "Kulturell tankesmedja" organized by Kulturföreningen Karneval with support from the Linnaeus University Kalmar, the municipality of Mörbylånga and Borgholm and the regional federation in Kalmar County.

Ölands Museum Himmelsberga Vårsalongen
10/5-8/6 2014

Curator Marlene Lindmark artist.

Jury Stina Siljing artist and coordinator at Konstnärscentrum Syd, Markus Åkesson artist and Maria Södergren artistic advisors in the municipality of Mörbylånga.

Örebro Konsthall OpenART
11/6-11/9 2011

Read more at OpenART 2011

Watch the OpenART video on YouTube

Article from Knytpunkt Örebro

Curator Mats Nilsson the director of Örebro art gallery.
Jury Anna Wignell artist (SE), Jukka Vikberg artist (SF) and Michael O`Donell professor Oslo National University College of Fine Arts(NO).

Ölands Museum Himmelsberga
Jordbruket i konsten - Konsten i jordbruket
25/6-2/10 2011

Curator Kristina Jeppson intendent.