15 Juni • WorkshopSkapande sommarlov is for children ages 7–13. In Monday’s workshop, we’ll explore darkness as a medium together with sound artist Jan Carleklev. 50 SEK per day/activity, including a snack Register at studio@vandalorum.se Please include your name, age, and any allergies or dietary restrictions in your registration.

23 Juni • WorkshopThis year’s Art Camp at Vandalorum is aimed at young people ages 11–16 who are interested in experimenting with different techniques and materials in their creative work. During Tuesday’s activity, we’ll meet designer and craft artist Alice Kettle and make “Cones of Curiosity” together. The art camp is led by Vandalorum’s art and design educators Ida Olsson and Lovisa Smedjebäck Youngström. The art camp runs from 10:00 AM to 3:00 PM for three days, June 23–25 350 SEK, including materials and...

27 Juni – 27 Juni • WorkshopThe workshop is aimed at those who have some experience with knitting and who can knit and purl stitches. During the workshop you will receive an introduction to pattern knitting and how you can create your own motifs in knitting. We will go through how to use graph paper to sketch out a pattern, how a motif is translated into stitches and rows, and how to read and interpret a simple knitting diagram. You will try to sketch your own motif and start knitting patterns based on your sketch. The...

28 Juni • WorkshopWe invite you to a Sunday afternoon full of activities for the whole family! All activities are FREE. The day offers a multitude of fun activities for children and their famelies, including a workshop with textile artis Karolina Stenström.

30 Juni • ConversationArtist talk during the opening reception with Won Jy, at 5:30 p.m. Won Jy (b. 1990 in South Korea, living in Nîmes, France) has been invited by the Theatre Gallery to the gallery's first international residency. Jy will work in a studio at Ateljéhuset Pukeberg and site-specifically in Kalmar during May and June. The residency will conclude with a solo exhibition at the Theatre Gallery in Kalmar.

02 Juli • ConversationWon Jy (b. 1990 in South Korea, based in Nîmes, France) has been invited by Teatergalleriet to participate in the gallery’s first international residency. Jy will work in a studio at Ateljéhuset Pukeberg and on site-specific projects in Kalmar during May and June. He will conclude the residency with the solo exhibition “About Warding” at Teatergalleriet in Kalmar.

03 Juli – 04 Juli • PerformanceObygden Circus Festival is a festival for everyone who wants to experience the unexpected, wonderfully strange, wild and indescribable. To the 60s paradise of Tyrol, between colored lamps and hand-painted celebrity caricatures, we invite you once again to two days of circus, live music, performance and DJs. The program consists of fantastic performances and solo acts with professional circus artists from all over the world. A mix of high-flying acrobats, spinning cyrweel, daring balancing...

04 Juli • InaugurationAs part of the traditional Rural Day celebrations, we are inaugurating Älghult Konsthall with great fanfare and pomp. Opening remarks by Jonas Holmberg, Director of the Kalmar Art Museum. Opening reception for Rebecka Bebben Andersson’s solo exhibition. Networking, champagne, music, and festivities. You are warmly invited!

17 Juli • InaugurationA small but very worried collective exhibition by Patrik Hörberg (drawing/painting), Karolina Lilliequist (collage) and Åskar Lilja (photo).

24 Juli – 25 Juli • WorkshopKarolina Stenström is bringing her fabric sculpture Önskeväven to the Emmabodakalaset and everyone is welcome to fill it with rags, yarn, trash, plants or whatever you feel like. Anyone who wants to can weave a wish into the fabric! Everyone is welcome to try, regardless of experience! All materials are provided on site. About the workshop leader Karolina Stenström is a musician, textile artist and writer living in Hultsfred. She makes music under the names Steso Songs and Hultsfreds...

15 Aug • InaugurationCompost is a prerequisite for life. An enabler for roots to take root. Compost is transformation, transformation, magic, alchemy. Expose your leftovers, transform your anger into power. Rotten tomatoes, premiere, crystal receivers, plant powers, sound installations, maybe some fermented drink.

21 Aug – 21 Aug • WorkshopWelcome to a workshop where we, together with the artist Hedda Hultman, create our own sculpture or object. Using wood or other found/recycled materials, we depict a feeling or a story. It can be a personal story or a made-up one. We start by writing down a short story. Then we try to find the most important feelings that the story wants to convey and depict them as sculptures or objects. If there is time, all participants can then present their small scenes/stories to each other. The...

22 Aug • InaugurationWelcome to the village of Kläppinge on the eastern side of Öland, near Kapelludden. Here, Johanna Karlin will carry out a temporary intervention combining a cottage and sheet metal—a work created as part of her project Kläppinge 1:18 (the property designation) and inspired by the estate of the former owner, Gustav Olsson. The work will be visible from the courtyard. The installation “När blicken tvekar” constitutes a standalone continuation of the ongoing work on the Kläppinge 1:18 project.

17 Okt – 18 Okt • Film screeningAs part of Smålandstriennalen, the short film “Death of a fantastic machine” will be shown at Vinden Smedjegatan 6 in Skillingaryd. Screenings will take place during the Vaggeryd municipality’s art and culture weekend on October 17-18. The film was created by Axel Danielson and Maximilien Van Aertryck from Plattform Produktion and is a short depiction of the history of the camera and photography from the 19th century to today’s image society. The film examines how algorithms determine what we...

25 Apr • InaugurationThe inauguration will take place on 25/4. At 2:00 PM, Herrstorpet, Hultsfred. The inauguration speaker will be the author Tomas Bannerhed. The food organ will consist of approximately twenty metal tubes filled with birdseed. The tubes will have holes with a stick underneath where the birds can sit and access the food. The work will consist of three different sections, a large middle section with sunflower seeds which are a preference for finches, nuthatches and teals. The left section will be...

20 Maj • ConversationConference on Artistic Practice, Research, Activism and Public Life — in Response to Climate Anxiety, Geopolitical Instability, and Shifting Social Landscape.

21 Maj • WorkshopMADAM Carpentry and Restoration celebrates the wood that industry rejects and finds beauty in stains, holes and deformities. In 2022, they were artists in residence at Linnaeus University while working on the project Thank You Forest! 2.0, in collaboration with Virserums konsthall and Lära om arkivet.

29 Maj • InaugurationOn May 29 at 5:00 PM, the Småland Triennial 2026 will be inaugurated with a festive opening evening at Österängens Konsthall. The evening marks the start of this year's triennial and brings together artists, audiences and partners around the theme of Worry – art, preparedness, resistance.

30 Maj – 30 Maj • InaugurationThe Unspeakable is a photography exhibition by Johannes Stjärne Nilsson at Motiv in Markaryd Sometimes language eludes us: Moments when the world suddenly appears larger and stranger than we want to admit. When people are faced with something that really cannot be reduced to a photograph. If you are curious and attentive, you can see it: The Unspeakable. In Johannes Stjärne Nilsson's photographs, we encounter the strange theater of humanity: searching, waiting, doubting, playing. The images...

30 Maj • WorkshopPop-up workshop with Virserums konsthall at Födoorgeln – Herrstorpet, Hultsfred Saturday 30th May 12-2pm Come and listen to the birds, put your hands in the soil, and shape seed bombs! A seed bomb is a mixture of clay, soil and flower seeds that are pressed together into balls or small sculptures. You can take your seed bomb home with you, and throw it out in a place that you think lacks flowers. The bees will be happy about that!

30 Maj • ConversationOn Saturday, May 30, 2026, Team TEJA and the Smålandstriennale invite you to a vernissage at Tabergsådalens Kulturhus on the old mill site in Norrahammar, Jönköping. During the day, the film Leaving the Factory will be premiered, followed by a panel discussion on how artistic processes can contribute to urban development and community planning.

30 Maj • Other12 timmar (12 Hours) is a one-day exhibition, mini festival, fika gathering, publication release, a radio channel for worry, a collective sauna ceremony, dinner and more – exploring what is not always visible or openly spoken about: sound, memories, folklore, rumors, non-human life, and other ways of knowing.

04 Juni • PerformanceMeet Anna Gavanas, Onkar Singh Kular, Brandon LaBelle. Please join us for an evening of performative presentations that give narrative to transformative listening experiences and how they’ve shaped life-long journeys in sound and music. Developed in the context of the creative research project Aural Histories, personal stories emerge as a lens through which to gauge the greater movements of cultural histories and social worlds. At its center, is a passionate recognition as to sound and music’s...

06 Juni – 06 Juni • PerformanceHundred Buckets of Peace is a ceremony to activate the solo, One Bucket of Peace that MOA Kompani created in 2020. A commission from then dance developer Camilla Eskel, Jönköping region in collaboration with cultural director Lars Alkner, Värnamo municipality. One Bucket of Peace is part of Dansbänkar (dance benches) . There are dance benches along various walks through with several dance films. They can be experienced 24/7 at several locations in the region, through your own mobile phone and a...

07 Juni – 07 Juni • InaugurationBranislav Nikolić is an artist whose work explores the social dimension of sculpture through the use of recycled materials. Acting as an “archaeologist” of contemporary society, he collects discarded wooden elements—such as window frames, doors, and panels—and transforms them into layered reliefs that reflect the environments they come from. ”One large-scale piece in the center of the gallery. Two weeks in a new environment, far from my studio and without my usual tools and materials. I seek...

13 Juni – 14 Juni • Film screeningBetween 2025 and 2026, the Japanese artist Takako Takeuchi visited places in Småland's nature where she experienced a sense of holiness or special presence. In these places, she created temporary installations with shide – a symbolic element in Shintoism – and documented them through film. The recorded images, from summer to winter, quietly depict the boundary between nature and man, between the visible and the invisible. The music was created in collaboration with Mattias Hållsten, musician...

13 Juni • InaugurationA warm welcome to the opening of the temporary installation “Oro för Liv” at the land art sculpture LIV no. 8 in Algutsrum on Öland!

14 Juni • WorkshopIn conjunction with the screening of the video work, the artist will hold a workshop where participants will learn how to make their own so-called purification wands in the Shide technique, which is used in Shinto rituals in Japan. Shide is a technique where paper is folded in a traditional way to symbolize lightning and sacred presence. These are then placed on sacred tree branches and used to purify places that have a strong energy and that mean a lot to the individual.