Workshops
Light lab @ Landskrona Museum
During Bästa Biennalen 2021 in the South of Sweden, I was hosting light laborations for mainly young people at Landskrona Museum although persons of all ages participated. There was recycled everyday material to make objects with in one room and a darker area with mini torches to experiment with the results and light in another. During the evening of “Kulturnatten” on the 5th of November 6-8 pm, I presented some of my own light installations which were also on display during the week of the workshops as inspiration.
Public art work Stråk @ Källdalsskolan in Uddevalla
In 2019, I got the commission to print a pattern on the large glass entrance of the recreational building at Källdalsskolan in Uddevalla which was inaugurated in September 2020.
One part of the commission contained working with pupils, and re-use their material in the finished work. The pupils got the task to write down what they really like doing in their free time, except for anything related to a screen. Their contributions were inserted as elements in the pattern of the local map, forming my public art work Stråk. The pupils’ own favourite spare time actions are now imprinted into the building of the recreational centre, where many of them will spend some of their spare time.
Recycling workshop @ Klippans konsthall
During Bästa Biennalen 2017, I had a workshop with recycled material with class IM Språk N1c at Åbyskolan in Klippan, along with my exhibition at Klippans konsthall. For two days, the teenagers experimented with crocheted cloths, CD:s, plastic bottles and other materials found in a household. We then went into a dark space and lit it with an electric torch to create various effects.
“Art in the School” @ Färsingaskolan in Sjöbo
In 2014, the class 6:2 at Färsingaskolan in Sjöbo participated in Konst i skolan (Art in the School) with me as the tutoring artist. Konstfrämjandet Skåne was the initiator of the art course. The theme was Sustainable Development and the materials were trash found on the beach, old CD:s and LP:s, old paper rolls and plastic bottles, and a bunch of other objects that the pupils would find in their homes in the trash bins. The materials were then recycled into art works, together with discussions of how to title an art work, how to price it and how to show it to an audience. There were exhibitions both at the school with all art works and at Konstfrämjandet Skåne in Malmö with the pupils’ selected ones.
In the photos Victor, Mateusz, Ayub and their friend are making “Gubben” (The Old Man) out of boxes of cardboard and an old styrofoam buoy. Sanna, Hedda and Linn are making a lamp – “Lampexoz” – out of pieces of CD:s and a half melted LP-disc.
Artotekare @ Region Skåne
During 2013, I was in charge of the project Artotekare for Region Skåne (the municipality of Skane) which included activating the lending of art works in the various art libraries – Artoteken – to the separate hospital rooms for children and youngsters. The activity took place in the children’s and youth wards at the University Hospitals in Helsingborg, Kristianstad, Lund and Malmö within the Region Skåne in the South of Sweden.
The project also included creative workshops with the patients and their families. In these workshops, my art piece “Vessel of Reflection” – part of Artoteket – was shown as inspiration for the patients to make their own mobiles out of CD:s.
“Art in the School” @ Högastensskolan in Helsingborg
During week 9 in 2012, all the pupils in grade 7 at Högastensskolan in Helsingborg participated in a crash course in contemporary art: Konst i skolan (Art in the School). The pupils were drawing and painting according to their own interests and their works were exhibited on the 14th of April in Malmö at Konstfrämjandet Skåne, who were also the initiators of the art course with me as the tutoring artist. The art week also consisted of an artist talk, painting with UV-sensitive colour and discussions about art in general and their art works in particular, as well as democracy and critical thinking along with comradeship.
Konstagent 008 @ Malmö Konsthall
Secret Art Agent 008
The goal of Konstagent 008 / Secret Art Agent 008 was to create a positive meeting place for all generations, where art and the connection between image and language were at the centre. The project focused on the participation and creativity of the children. Secret Art Agent 008 was realised during the autumn of 2008 at Malmö Konsthall together with two artists, Madelene Oldeman and Joanna Thede. Three schools from three different parts of the city took part by sending one class from year 1-6 each. The chosen schools, the Kulladal School, the Gullvik School and the Värner Rydén School had rarely or never paid a visit with pupils to the Malmö Konsthall. In Secret Art Agent 008 the children solved cases which didn’t have a given solution. The project started in the school and then spread outside the school area. Already at the first meeting, each pupil was given a Secret Art Agent notebook, in which they could draw and make notes during the duration of the project. The children developed by exploring, thinking and drawing conclusions themselves. They were secret art agents who created, discussed and solved cases. The long-term goal of the project was to involve the whole family, and let the secret art agents become the link. Secret Art Agent 008 consisted of three steps:
1. Art raid in the classroom – an insight into what forms contemporary art can take.
2. Visit to the Malmö Konsthall – to experience the current exhibition and to try out what it’s like to work as an artist.
3. Family evening at the Malmö Konsthall – for invited family members with workshop and opening of the children’s art exhibition, among others.
Secret Art Agent 008 wanted to raise questions. How do we create new and positive meeting places between schools and the art world? For the family and the art world? How can the creativity of the pupils be encouraged and become a natural part of the learning experience? Can art become a catalyst to develop critical and creative thinking?
