Exhibitions at Capella
Meadow Time – this year's exhibition during Öland's harvest festival
There will be a textile theme in Norrlängan this year's harvest festival. Both textile 1 and textile 2 participate in the workshop with Alice Kettle, which is then shown in the exhibition. Alice Kettle is a trained product designer who works with a reflective and critical approach to products and experiences to provide a wider understanding of both our immediate surroundings and our larger environment. She wants both theoretically and practically, i.a. examine what role design can have in the challenge of our environmental changes.
Exhibition opening hours:
Thu 26 Sep, 10am–5pm
Fri 27 Sep, 10am-10pm
Sat 28 Sep, 10am-6pm
Sun 29 Sep, 10am-4pm
Warm welcome!
Arr: Capellagården friends and Capellagården
Capellagården's summer exhibition 2024
The summer exhibition at Capellagården is the definitive starting point for spring to turn into summer. Our students have worked hard to finish their objects and project groups responsible for different parts of the exhibition have finally finished their assignment. From Capellagården's side, project manager Olof Svensson has held the various parts together and laid out the direction. But the great work of incorporating all the objects to be presented at the exhibition into a coherent idea and design has this year been done by Helena Bratt, artist, craftsman and cultural painter. Helena is educated at Capellagården, among other things, and among her more noted projects are the template barns. We have been happy to have Helena back at Capellagården during the work weeks with the summer exhibition!
Exhibition opening hours:
Vernissage Friday 31 May, 2–5 pm
Weekends 1–23 June, 10–16
Every day 24 June to 11 August, at 10-17.
Welcome!
This year's poster is designed by Sarah Borg
Previous exhibitions
August with friends – Three projects in ceramics and wood
Shown in Norrlängan during Öland Spirar 9–12 May 2024. For a week, August Sörenson, Yvonne Quirk and Hannes Rydell lived at Kennet Williamsson's house and worked together in the workshop. “A flow of thoughts, conversations, meals and work in silence occupied us during this time. The dialogue of the hands with the clay was recreated in our conversations and led us back into the workshop and further into the work," says August Sörenson
The work resulted in three projects:
August Sorenson – Ceramicist and artist and teacher of ceramics at Capellagården. With the "Patterns" project, I wanted to return to what inspired me when I once studied at Capellagården. I wanted to immerse myself in the twisted form and its decor and therefore turned to Kennet Williamsson. Kennet was my teacher then and was an important role model for choosing a life as a ceramicist.
Yvonne Quirk – I started ceramics for the second time in my life in 2017, with Kennet Williamsson as a mentor. Completely engrossed in the craft, I now run a ceramics workshop with courses and a shop in Gränna. After years of tinkering, in this project I wanted to learn how to build large pots. The larger volume is challenging and fun to work with while continuing in the East Asian tradition where I find my inspiration.
Hannes Rydell – Multitasker in visual culture, crafts, pedagogy and writing. Incessantly fascinated by simple things of use and low technology as a basis for aesthetic, philosophical and professional reflection. Formerly active in Stockholm, now in Tärnsjö. Educated at the School of Graphics, Art Department Graphic Form and Linnaeus University.
Kenneth Williamson – Ceramicist, artist and teacher who dedicated his life to clay and ceramics. Kennet's importance to Swedish ceramics is hard to underestimate, as a teacher he has inspired several generations of ceramicists and as an artist he has stimulated and developed the scene for ceramics.
Welcome!
Here you can see pictures from the work in Kennet's workshop
Liselotte & Vidar Malmsten
Artist couple with a wide palette
This year, in addition to the traditional summer exhibition at Capellagården, there is also a unique exhibition with a selection of Liselotte and Vidar Malmsten's works.
The Book House at Capellagården opposite the Mangårdsbygden.
The exhibition is open every day from June 26 to August 13, at 10-17.
Guiding by Bodil Anjar:
Thursday, July 13, at 1 p.m
Thursday, July 20, at 1 p.m
Thursday, July 27, at 1 p.m
The guide is free of charge.
Entrance to Capellagården's exhibitions SEK 50.
Vidar Malmsten (1924–1969) was the only one of Siv and Carl Malmsten's five children who followed in his father's footsteps. As a furniture designer, interior architect and craftsman. In 1947 he met Liselotte Bourcart, later Malmsten (1922–2021), who had come to Sweden from Switzerland to learn more about the Scandinavian interior design ideals. Vidar produced a series of interiors, on his own or together with his father, and he designed furniture, always with "very human and quiet charm in design and function", as the critic and designer Lena Larsson wrote in a memorial text. Some are still in production, such as the stackable chair Kaj. Other things appear at the auction houses. Liselotte was trained as an interior designer, but it was mainly in textiles that her artistry developed. For many years, she worked designing furniture fabrics, curtains, carpets as well as coloring and artistically painting furniture for Carl Malmsten AB. In parallel with design assignments, she worked with her own artistry.
The exhibition is produced by the Foundation Siv & Carl Malmstens Minne Formgiven and curated by Linda Zetterman & Johan Ekelund The texts are written by Dan Gordan The carpentry work carried out by Henrik Johansson, Viola Ferby, Alexander Olin and Pontus Järnemar
Capellagården's summer exhibition 2023
We are very happy to have Tina Hellberg as curator for this year's exhibition. Here you can read her foreword to the exhibition catalogue:
"The drive to create is evident in the work and stories of Capellagården's students, craftspeople from different walks of life and with different paths that have led them to Siv and Carl Malmsten's visionary school, which has remained relevant since its founding in 1960 and perhaps even more so today. What you will see in the exhibition is the work of more than 50 people in woodwork, ceramics, textiles, building conservation and garden. My aim was to create a good flow and to place works next to each other that reinforce and communicate with each other, there is also an advantage in finding opposites that attract or rebel. When I think of one of the founders, Carl Malmsten, I would say that he was a bit of a rebel himself, always following and finding his own way, with Siv Malmsten by his side since their marriage in 1917, she the educator and teacher , who I am sure had more influence than what you can read in the many sources of information about her husband, They created the school that is Capellagården, a place where people of different ages could come together and share the same interests, get the chance to try out materials and create in workshops that were always available, share meals, grow food in the surrounding garden and have nature close by as a constant source of inspiration.
For me as a curator and interior designer, this is like a dream place where all the good values come together. Where both individual expression and a sense of community are at their best. Enjoy!”
A favorite quote of Carl Malmsten
"The main thing is that you are excited about life. Seized by the desire to create, the possibilities you have and can realize. To work and get into the present and everything that is so good and wonderful. Doing things that are shaped by your will, thoughts and feelings.”
Tina Hellberg
The exhibition is open every day from June 26 to August 13, at 10-17. Welcome!
This year's poster is designed by Stina Norberg
Here you can read the exhibition catalog as a pdf: