Woods co-lab, finding new relations

Mathieu 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 international projects. In the Woods co – lab, Mathieu Vrijman has created a place for listening to the forest through investigations of the materials it provides and has given us humans throughout the ages. Bendable hazel, split ash trunks, linden’s inner bark, limestone and charcoal create a place and a space for meetings between the forest ecosystem and human creativity. The work consists of a long house, woven into the growing hazels of the Forest Pasture, a fireplace, as well as tools and examples that invite more people to continue working together both with the Forest’s materials, and with new visions for the landscape of the future.
With support from KULTURRÅDET
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En del av Landskapet

A part of the Landscape
Is a series of artistic interventions in Öland Mittlands unique, multifunctional culture and natural
environment, where five different artists are invited to make and present site-specific works in the
forest pasture, each with their own perspective, and with an invited guest who has special
knowledge of the site. Here a format for conversation is created in and with a place, where a more
than a thousand-year collaboration between humans, domestic animals, plants and microorganisms
takes place. What is our common future? And how do we relate to the conflicts between species and
lifestyles that are becoming increasingly critical in a time of mass extinction and climate change?

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Vi är vilda bin

Kultivator
Bamboo, recycled tin, recycled brick, ash trunk and linseed oil fired iron, 2022
on 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 ecosystems around us, and a species that is grateful to start from when you want to talk, play and create sustainability together with children. The shape of the wings is taken from the beautiful and endangered small Golden sand bee, and the material is sink plate, recycled from demolitions in the area. The bodies are bamboo bundles, which bees and other wild insects can use as nests. Under the trees is a large bee, the body is the trunk of an ash that stood in the area before, and the wings are made of recycled bricks, also from demolitions in the area

K:Ö:K visiting Kultivator

k.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 Tensta Hjulsta.

Göhsir

A 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 inviger vi äntligen det nya slottet under festliga former!

Ur gammal sly och ved reser sig nu ett nytt slott i skuggan av det gamla. Här kan bland annat harar, fåglar och småkryp söka sin tillflykt. Den biologiska mångfalden är oerhört viktig för naturens grundläggande funktioner, som pollinering och rening av luft och vatten. 

Dyestad bygata spirar

Alla 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.