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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. 

On the shores of now, preview

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...

The end of all evil

VILLAGE DRAWING TABLE 20/20 – 20 år och 20 konstnärer, http://www.virserumskonsthall.com/  

VILLAGE DRAWING TABLE 20/20 – 20 år och 20 konstnärer, http://www.virserumskonsthall.com/  

‘The Land We Live In - The Land We Left Behind’ Hauser & Wirth Somerset, Bruton, UK https://www.hauserwirth.com/hauser-wirth-exhibitions/6232-the-land-we-live-in-the-land-we-left-behind

Snart nog: konst och handling på Tensta konsthall   http://www.tenstakonsthall.se/?snart-nog-konst-och-handling

YOU HAVE TWO COWS co curated with Joanna Sandell for Kalmar konstmuseum READ MORE

CONTEMPORARY ART DAYS

UNKNOWN PLANET Public assignment from municipality of Eskilstuna, as part of a programme to activate recreation area of Vilsta, and to engage with children from nearby housing areas. READ MORE 

POPUP FOLKHÖGSKOLA On invitation from Kalmar artmuseum, Kultivator opened a pop-up folk high school as an interactive sculpture/happening at the "Ljus på Kultur" Festival. Read more...

THE EPICENTRE OF EVERYTHING Move through the forest with a horse. Participating at Galleri Syster See the exhibition magazine

NEW HORSE CULTURES Konstfrämjandet Öland-Kalmars project "New horse cultures" READ MORE 

NEW HORSE CULTURES, STUDY CIRCLE The project investigates the horse, as well in integration work as in feminist studies of power and ethnicity. Participants of the study circle are refugee woman, with an interest for, or knowledge of horses. In the study circle of New...

TABLE OF PLENTY A part of the alternative education programme “Everything Under The Sun”, that merges the fields of food and art under the issues of climate change through an interdisciplinary, experimental approach. Curated by Ece Pazarbasi and  Caique Tizzi in the...

Kitchen table activism with Eva Bakkeslett Two workshops by Eva Bakkeslett, http://www.evabakkeslett.com Through Konstfrämjandet Öland Kalmar, Kultivator invites Eva Bakkeslett to collaborate with newly arrived around baking as a common cultural activity, and bread as...

Presenting at Y Gallery Y Gallery, Minsk, Belarus http://en.ygallery.by updating…

Farmfest, 10 years Kultivator

Building up the barn party

Oscar Guermouche, Tredje generationenSite-specific installation at Kultivator, 2015

Ernest Truely and Nastja Säde Rönkkö in residence

Monument of migration

UR dokumentär: KultivatorSee the film here. Konstnärs- och jordbrukskollektivet Kultivator bjuder in till en middag med kor. I tio år har Malin, Mathieu och Henric tillsammans med flera andra konstnärer och jordbrukare arbetat med konst för att skapa en bättre värld....

Dinner with cows 2

Feeding the backyardFeeding the backyard, people and creatures.Kultivator and students at ANA, May 2015Kultivator and a group of students from Ölands folkhögskola enter the atelier and backyard of Astrid Noack, Norrebro, Copenhagen. During one week, they activate the...

Jag och DjuretOne week workshop with art and filmstudents from Ölands Folkhögskola collaborating with the animals: Bea, Barney, Micko, Räkan, Cow crew, birds of the forest, Rabbit kids, Sheep crew and flies.Assignment: Make a piece of work – in collaboration with an...

Geophagia. Cake and debate with Sweden´s minister of cultureGeophagia,the deliberate consumption of earth, soil, or clay All the concepts of geophagia—as psychiatric disorder, culturally sanctioned practice or sequel to famine—fall short of a satisfying explanation...

Castelvenere – a nicer version of homeResidence at Castelvenere.Organised by Strade di Vini, curated by Leandro Pisano.We travelled by car from our rural home in Dyestad, Sweden crossing Europe to the rural place Castelvenere. For 5 days we worked here wih a group of...

Return TicketFor the Creative Time Summit we supplied some of the ingredients, like milk for cheese and kalvdans (dessert), beans, onion, pumpkin, hard bread and sea Buckthorn (berries), for the dinner at the the Moderna Museet, StockholmDuring the dinner we offered...

Can a toilet become a humus kitchen?For the New biennale of art and architecture, Botkyrka konsthal, Fittja, Swedish art and agriculture collective Kultivator together with Stuart Wright, South Africa and Adam Nyandikila Nkelanza, Tanzania, gave a Humus kitchen...

URBAN HORSE SOIL ACTION, Riot Re-framedKultivator build a warm-compost adjacent to the art institution ANA in Nørrebro,Copenhagen. The compost was designed as a possible meeting place for people living and working in thebackyard, but also to be a destination for...

Soil site plan  The Soil site plan for residencys in Fittja and Redhill is a sketch made by art and farming collective Kultivator, visualizing a future infrastructure of small independent but connected residencys situated in respective community. The residencys will...

Retopia and ReadingKultivators un-plugged camp Retopia, and the presentation and reading of the author and midwife Ruth Ehrhardt, South Africa, from her book The little green statue.

Land Reform

Dream animal workshopIn the Informal settlement Red Hill, Cape Town.We did a workshop with kids from the area, asking them to imagine and draw animals from their dreams.Installation of the Dream animals at Zeekoevlei nature reserve, Cape town.In cooperation with the...

Chicken coop intervention at !Khwa ttuKultivator works one day at!Khwa ttu, the San Education and Culture Centre, 70 km north-west of Cape Town

Context in Flux: workshopContext in flux symposium 2 VisbyThe Swedish Exhibition Agency, Baltic Art Center, Nida Art Colony and Art Lab Gnestacollaborate to produce the second symposium for invited participants. Galleri Syster, Kultivator, GKU, Livia Pancu.The aim is...

Urban Horse Soil Action step 1Kultivator  at  a residence atAstrid Noacks atelier:http://astrid-noack.dk/english. In April 2014, Kultivator wants to build a warm-compost adjacent to the ANA in Copenhagen. The compost will be designed as a possible meeting place for...

Workshops with Ölands Folk Highschool  

Yak YakYak Yak is a curatorial project that features newly commissioned and existing works by artists whose practices address rural contexts as particular sites for art making and cultural production. Artists and art/farming/architecture assemblages and collectives...

Guerilla Composting Ny OrkCurated by Eva Bakkeslet New Ork is an arena to get inspired by sustainability and green thinking and practice initiatiated by Osebakken Green Neighborhood in Porsgrunn in collaboration with Grenland Artgallery (Norway). The goal is to see...

GlupskWe exhibited at Glupsk på Dalsland at Not Quite.And tried to make an apple press with Karl Hallberg.

In residence: Ernest Truely

Cows Art and  rock 'n' rollA building site is something that would engage our surrounding (and ourselves) and give direct opportunity for exchange of knowledge. People would come and say;" no, dont do it like that, or use this material, etc… This happened, and via...

Elder’s HillElder’s Hill is a collaborative project by M12 (USA) and Kultivator (SE), made site-specifically inÖland Sweden. This work is emblematic of M12 and Kultivator’s artistic practice, based largely aroundcultural exchange in a rural context and in the case of...

Digital culture/Friendfarm workshopDigital Culture can be regarded as a praxis of communicative interactions between people on line. We do what we always have done, sharing knowledge, bending reality, but the speed has increased and distances have shortened.From...

Gran’s University with M12A cooperation with M12 (http://m12studio.org/)Last Chance, Colorado and Dyestad, Sweden Gran’s University is an artwork inspired by Mrs. Vendana Shiva who in 2003 started the Grandmothers University in Navdanya, North India. The aim of the...

Composted mindJana Fröberg has spent this spring with Kultivator, working out compost and cultivation plans. She has studied art as well as gardening. In a close collaboration between human and microorganisms, materials can slowly be processed into something very...

FriendFarm public brainstorm  Kulturhuset, Stockholm

FriendfarmFriend connections between farms.micro-cooperations for the global cultural future of the rural! Friendfarm is a pilotproject supported by Swedish national funds “Kulturbryggan”Friendfarm wants to develop ways for rural communities in different parts of the...

Guerilla composting, Feed-back BelgradeBelgrade Artfair On the stone planet Earth, a layer has been added since the beginning of life, 3.9 billion years ago: our  between 5 and 20 cm thick layer of top-soil. In this thin layer, the major part of all biological...

Urban chicken coopFittja Open , Sep 22 –  Oct 21, 2012, Botkyrka konsthall Kultivator for Fittja Open; Top soil take twoNurturing the soil; gardens – cafe – gardens – cafe…etc Some composting plans from KultivatorFor the café/restaurant at the residency, we would like...

Guerilla composting, Feed-back BerlinKunstraum Kreuzberg/BethanienHungry City. Agriculture in contemporary art On the stone planet Earth, a layer has been added since the beginning of life, 3.9 billion years ago: our  between 5 and 20 cm thick layer of top-soil. In...

Time banking at ANAKultivator  at  a residence at ANA, Astrid Noacks atelier: http://astrid-noack.dk/english.In this time we will present and perform time banking, a form of alternative economy.We hereby invite all who would like to work/exchange time to improve the...

GnestopiaFuture Policy “Gnestopia” A policy is a governing document with the overall intentions for the area the policy covers. The review provides guidelines to facilitate development.Kultivator has in spring 2012 worked in a creative school project with children in...

Top SoilTop-soil tombola on the stone planet.Life makes soil and the soil makes life.On the stone planet Earth, a layer has been added since the beginning of life, 3.9 billion years ago: our  between 5 and 20 cm thick layer of topsoil. In this thin layer, the major...

Gran’s University # 1Cirkulationscentralen, Malmö “Gran´s University, ornaments of knowledge” The inspiration for Grans´ University, comes from the initiative of Mrs Vendana Shiva, India, that started up her Grandmothers university in Navdanya, North India, in 2003....

Tribute toiletTribute toilet1 and 2 For Artlab Gnesta We decorated the toilet of the artbuilding in honour of Dr. Bindeshwar Pathak, founder of the many times awarded Sulabh Sanitation Movement in India. His work is an example of a single individual’s initiative that...

Barents Cross-Cultural Coffee CheeseBarents spektakel 2012, Kirkenes feb 8-12,organised by: Pikene på Broen For Barents Spektakel the Swedish group Kultivator  will try to process a cheesewith mixed milk from the four countries of the Barents Region.To develop the...

post (r)evolutionary exercisesThe post (r)evolutionary exercises are the outcome of a meeting/friendship/project that started in summer 2010, when we took part in "Goings on" seminar in Beirut, Lebanon. In this seminar, curated by Cecilia Andersson, Scandinavian and...

Lunch with cows28th August in Tammenpää milk far in western coast of Finland. The framework of the event is Halikonlahti Green Art -project, an initiative of artist and curator Tuula Nikulainen and Sunny Future association. The exhibition, called Food Chains,will be...

The CampA cross cultural workshop in rum46 with the artist groups from the first Goings On– a seminar organized by Cecilia Andersson that took place in 98weeks project space in Beirut Lebanonfrom the 24-27 June 2010.Goings On participants were: Cecilia Andersson /...

m.a.r.i.nWe hosted part of Camp 5 organised by M.A.R.I.N.: http://marin.cc/facilitates research and collaboration between arts and sciences with a focus on environmental computing and marine ecologies. m.a.r.i.n blog: http://camp.marin.cc/

Imagine FarmÅrhus kunstbygning. Imagine farm – ground for cultivating thoughts exhibition concept for summer exhibition at Århus Kunstbygning by Kultivator Much of today’s focus is laying on what kind of future we don’t want, or are afraid of… On what we must not do,...

Crosscultural Nomadic Cheese nr 2Supermarket artfair 2011, Kulturhuset, Stockholm A Cross cultural Nomadic Cheese in our boot at Supermarket. 10 litre of milk will be brought from Kultivators farm om Öland, and during the art fair it will be processed into à cheese....

Processing manifestAn opinionresearch. This installation examines the popularity of statements from the manifest of the European Arts and Agriculture network, agri-culture.eu. This network was established in connection to Kultivators “Wedding between Art and...

Crosscultural Nomadic Cheese nr 1Kultivator residency in Rum 46 Århus, Denmark 18th of October until 31st of October 2010 Most authorities consider that cheese was first made in the Middle East. The earliest type was a form of sour milk which came into being when it...

Harvestfeast 2010

Ditch itThe International Gallery18 September – 2 October Liverpool Biennial 2010 Curated by James Brady and Janette Porter (http://www.hightideuk.org/) Ditch it Environmental activism by play, art, and small and large animals, coordinated by Swedish art and...

The wedding between art and agricultureThe Wedding Between Art & Agriculture, 2011. (Full version, 39 min). By Thomas Gunnar Bagge A documentary about KULTIVATOR, an experimental cooperation of organic farming and visual art practice, situated in rural village...

Goings On BeirutWerk in collaboration with 98weeks Project Space presents Goings On A meeting of international independent art spaces taking place in Beirut. Goings On is a temporary platform that encourages creative exchange between independent practitioners. The aim...

Herbologies/Foraging NetworksInitiators/Organisers: Andrew Gryf Paterson (SCO/FI), Ulla Taipale / Capsula (FI/ES) and Signe Pucena / SERDE(LV). expedition to rural Kurzeme, Western Latvia The Herbologies/Foraging Networks programme of events, focused in Helsinki...

Herbologies/Foraging NetworksInitiators/Organisers: Andrew Gryf Paterson (SCO/FI), Ulla Taipale / Capsula (FI/ES) and Signe Pucena / SERDE(LV). expedition to rural Kurzeme, Western Latvia The Herbologies/Foraging Networks programme of events, focused in Helsinki...

Wedding cake of no returnSupermarket Artfair 2010, Kulturhuset, Stockholm. We made a wedding cake, announcing the wedding between art and agriculture, for visitors to eat

Organized NetworksOrganisers: RIXC, the Center for New Media Culture in cooperation with Association for Contemporary Culture NGOs (Latvia) and international partners.

Cowdown – Seed upFor European union agricultural minister meeting in Växjö, Sweden invitation by Växjö arthall Seed up ! Is a campaign to support the Belgian project seeds for food, initiated by prof. Willem van Cotthem. The project objective is to collect seeds for...

Glocal guideGo to Glocal guide website See the map Glocal guide is an ongoing Kultivator project. Sustainability using open source / information approaches: in art and grassroots culture, ecology, architecture and environmental design Sustainability using Open source...

Art and Renewable TechnologiesSymposium is organised by RIXC, The center for new media culture with the support of Nordic Culture Fund, and Nordic Culture Point ABOUT SYMPOSIUM The 4-day symposium gathering together artists, activists, technologists, scientists and...

InterfacesLand, art in the Zeeland Wilhelminapolder presents an exhibition in art station Hongersdijk focussing on man in relation to the surrounding landscape. The occasion for the exhibition is the 200th anniversary of the Royal Wilhelmina Polder Society (De KMWP)....

Beyond organicSupermarket 2009 artfair where we showed artist Nick May and Farmer Oloph Fritzén

Open SaucesParticipation.Synaesthetic dinner over the future of food.Foam, Brussels, Belgiumdownload the electronic edition of the "Open Sauces" cookbook in pdf format.

Kultivars Beyond Land Artartist as farmers, and artists’ cultivation projects.Residency and conference at The Elterwater Merz Barn by foundation Littoral, UK.

The Groeneveld forumLinking Culture and agriculture as a strategy for a meaningful countryside.Kasteel Groeneveld

ChickenhouseBuilding a chickencoop with students at Öland folkhögskola 

Harvestfeast 2008

Sentimentala kärl, post peak oil productionMalin Lindmark Vrijman Ett experiment att framställa brukskärl genom odling. Genom frön, mylla, sol, vatten och tid kan kärl tillverkas till mycket låg energi kostnad. För att återknyta till historien och göra kärlen...

Mobile ChickencoopÖlands folkhögskola, form and design students make a mobile chickenhouse

Rapeseed oil pressCollection of the Verbeke Foundation

Right to farm the landRight to farm the landCooperation between Plan3/Octava, Kultivator and Public globality gardens, with land from Råbelövs gods. In Swedish language, the expression ”farm the land” can be read both as the right to actually farm, thus grow crops in...

Law of conservation of energyFilm/Installation for the group exhibition ±Plus/Minus by SKART at our dear friends place “Yellow Box”.We cut trees, chopped wood from our local forest and placed the wood in the living room of Yellow Box. Projecting at the same time a...