Program
Småland Triennale 2026 – Worry: Art, Preparedness, Resistance
20 Maj • ConversationConference on Artistic Practice, Research, Activism and Public Life — in Response to Climate Anxiety, Geopolitical Instability, and Shifting Social Landscape.
Furniture manufacturing with MADAM
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.
Opening of Smålandstriennalen 2026 at Österängens konsthall
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.
Leaving the Factory premiere screening and panel discussion
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.
Hundred Buckets of Peace
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...
Över gränsen – Ett tillfälligt rum
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...
Creative Workshop with Takako Takeuchi
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.
Workshop Omställningsjuntan: Knitting patterns
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...
Sunday afternoon for all children
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.
Won Jy Artist talk
30 Juni • ConversationWon 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. Won Jy works primarily with ready-mades, such as dumped objects, which are considered by others as waste or nuisances, and installations. He returns to questions...
Obygdens Cirkusfestival
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...
Önskeväven – workshop in weaving
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...
Anger as compost
15 Aug • InaugurationWorld premiere of embroidered score Sound work Compost toilet Compost performance
Workshop Omställningsjuntan: Say it with Wood!
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...
Film screening: Death of a fantastic machine
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...