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Carried by rivers, held by lands a group exhibition at Remai modern that gathers a set of artist projects developed through exchanges, gatherings, and site-responsive processes that continue beyond the gallery. Moving between river and oceanic contexts, the works...

Felt notes Opening of Fire, We Gather Round by Hosting Lands. Felt Notes is a mobile meeting space developed by the artist duo Kultivator together with their more-than-human collaborators: hazel trees, sheep, and horses living and working on their farm. Based on the...

Nettle technology in U’kwanalis/ Kingcome inlet. Together with our friends of Dzawada’enuxw we are continuing the conversation on community, memory, and living with the land, now and for future generations. The net is slowly growing, fiber by fiber, knot by...

Hope studio An artwork created for the “Hope Making” research project at Linnaeus University. A piece of furniture made of split ash and oak, featuring inlaid mother-of-pearl fish filled with various seeds and books, and inviting the public to write down what gives...

Carried by rivers, held by land. The project Carried by rivers, held by land, which began in 2023 and is slated to conclude in late 2026 or early 2027, is a collaborative effort curated by Aileen Burns, Johan Lundh and Tarah Hogue at the Remai Modern museum in...

Collective work session in theTell it to the field research.From the first collective work session in the Tell it to the field research. In collaboration with Jelmer Verhagen and with amazing guest researchers @konstettan! In one week (with plenty of preparation,) we...

Other hydro powersLekgruset, AmmerånLekgrus i Ammerån, a part of the project Other hydro powers, supported by Swedish arts grants committee. The project connect several rivers and their nearby peoples in Sweden and Canada.In collaboration with Eco streams for life,...

New commons, Guest habitatNew Commons (Skogen, Kultivator, Ställbergs Gruva/Folkets Hus) In the New Commons project, concrete examples and suggestions are implemented, built and organized on how cultural actors can develop new commons, organize resource sharing and...

Letters to the Future GrasslandsWith some of the collected droppings from the horses taking part in the interventions with the artwork during the summer, the artists will prepare a paper pulp. In this, the collected seeds for the future grasslands will be mixed. In...

Commoning days in Denmarks HeathlandsMeeting the living practice of shepherding of Berit Killerich as part of the project Hosting Lands, we have been most generously hosted in the landscape of sheep, wild horses, wind and and clay. And had so much fun making the...

Research for the project Other hydro powers Field meeting with Ammerån and the inspiring restauration project Eco streams of life. Here kilometers of waterways and hundreds of spawning grounds for fish is being restored, creating long term improvement for all life in...

Guerilla gardening Råneå centrumA piece of Pine time for the Biodiversity action for Råneåbiennalen

Future grasslandsKultivator – proposal for HEST!  For the exhibition HEST! at Ronnebaeksholm konsthall, Kultivator proposes an intervention experimenting with interspecies collaboration and exchange of knowledge. The artwork in three parts encompasses and invites...

River community research in Turkey

The Observatory: Art and Life in the Critical ZoneKin Museum of Contemporary Art 

Wayward art initiatives Istanbul, Turkey The Değişken İnisiyatifler / Wayward Initiatives symposium brought together peripheral art initiatives from Türkiye and Sweden in order to open up a common discussion about methodologies, formats and cultural resilience. Held...

Konstens kraft i folk & markLansering av Konstfrämjandet Gotland

Residens Symbiotiska kopplingar i och med Rogsån, FalunFrom two residence periods in the summer of 2023 in and with the small river “Rogsån”, Kultivator invited to a gathering In Österå village community building, previous village school. Malin Lindmark Vrjman and...

THE OBSERVATORY: ART AND LIFE IN THE CRITICAL ZONE revolves around the intricate relationships among humans, animals, plants, earth material, and other forms of life. The exhibition brings together a collection of new and existing artworks by twenty-six artists who,...

Residence by Hosting lands at PadenandensideAs a part of the project Hosting Lands, Kultivator did field work at Padenandenside (PDAS) and was invited to join in the design and construction of a water collector for the common field, many inspiring conversations on...

The choir of the sheepA work in collaboration between the artists Marlene Lindmark and Anna Lindvall. In her contribution to “a part of the Landscape”, Marlene Lindmark has chosen to go deep under the vegetation and humus layers of the Midland forest, to the locations...

Hjemmefra ResidencyThe residence hjemmefra by the union Oslo, filled with mushrooms, water, new friends and warmest super power hospitality. Thank you Martinka, Oscar and Alejandra for the very productive non - productivity!

FattmiSara Ajnnak, together with her husband Jon Andersson, is active in reindeer husbandry and they have developed a lifestyle that is guided by the annual cycle of the reindeer and the changes of the seasons. Jon Andersson is a skilled craftsman with extensive...

Dear MånaIn their work for the Solarpunk arts festival of 2023 in Rjukan, the group Kultivator has focused theirinterest on the river Måna and her history and possible future together with the multi-speciescommunities she runs through. From her past of connecting...

Woods co-lab, finding new relationsMathieu Vrijman is the founder of Kultivator, and since 2005 has worked with experimental encounters between humans and ecosystems, both as an artistic practice and as an organizer and curator in a series of national and...

En del av LandskapetA part of the LandscapeIs a series of artistic interventions in Öland Mittlands unique, multifunctional culture and naturalenvironment, where five different artists are invited to make and present site-specific works in theforest pasture, each with...

Vi är vilda binKultivatorBamboo, recycled tin, recycled brick, ash trunk and linseed oil fired iron, 2022on behalf of the city of Helsingborg Public commission, Villa Canzonetta preschool in Helsingborg. We have chosen to highlight the wild bee, a key figure in the...

K:Ö:K visiting Kultivatork.ö.k (Kvinnor önskar kollektivitet – Women Desire Collectivity) is a feminist platform that experiments with ways to build a feminist institution from the existing experiences, location and context of the community of The Women’s Centre in...

GöhsirA public art piece at Nynäs Slott curated by Artlab Gnesta. Vid den gamla almen intill Nynäs köksträdgård har konstnärerna i Kultivator tillsammans med elever från Öknaskolans naturbruksgymnasium byggt, flätat och vävt fram ett slott för biologisk mångfald. Nu...

Dyestad bygata spirarAlla vi djur och människor på Dyestad bygata hälsar er välkomna till öppna ateljéer, hästtaxi, god mat, servering, hantverk, loppis, brukskeramik, filmpub och växtförsäljning mm här hos oss.

Jorddyrkare Principle 7: Design from patterns to detailsWorkshop at Österängens konsthallListen to the podd by Johanna Linder

LandskapetThe Landscape is a link between Moderna Museet and Kultivator, where the latter undertakes to increase biodiversity on a piece of leased land on Öland. There are two copies of the contract. One copy, “attested” by a piece of soil from the leased land, is...

On the shores of nowA walking-in-time performance with donkeys from Kultivator’s farm and donkeys from the Rural Alchemy Workshop (RAW) in Oregon, US, over shared planetary horizons, as the sun sets and rises at the same time. The donkeys from each art collective walk...

Explorations of Now | Walk in art, with nature | 12-15 & 19-22 augustiExperience dance performances, art installations, and performance art with rock faces, fields, moss, trees, and water as co-creators. Explorations of Now is a unique collaboration where art,...

Soil symposiumThe Soil Symposium is a cross disciplinary meeting place for artists and researchers to discuss the matter, memories and futures of soil.The focus of the seminar will be the work of Swedish art and agriculture group Kultivator, who will share their...

Soil FacultyInstallation view from the exhibition “The Experimental Field” at Accelerator 2021. 

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M/Other FuturesWorkshop M/other futures at Kultivator, part of the project m/other becomings,  a collaboration between Laboratory for Aesthetics and Ecology (DK), The Association for Arts and Mental Health (DK), Kultivator (SE), Art Lab Gnesta (SE) and Bioart Society...

The leaking monumentThe leaking monument is a part of Statens konstråds kunskapssatsning “Lokala konstprojekt“Kultivator, Öland. Artists: Signe Johannessen, Erik Rören, Mathieu Vrijman and Trish Roan.See the website: https://theleakingmonument.se/

Explorations of now, workshops at Kultivator Explorations of Now is an artistic and scientific research process inviting a new way of collaboration between the fields of visual arts, performing arts and scientific and philosophical research. The research process will...