Aaron C. Carter lives and works in Naarm, Melbourne, Australia.

aghili/karlsson participates in the Småland Biennial with the project Kojan, where artists and designers have been invited by Österängens konsthall to explore the theme of “spontaneous play” together with various child groups. The artist duo aghili/karlsson and their fellow artists from the preschool HallonEtt in Huskvarna have developed the installation pari\*porten, which is a three-part work aimed at children and fairies. The work consists of a blooming meadow, an interactive gate that...

Agnes Mohlin works with sculpture, often in figurative reliefs and assemblages.

Ailin Mirlashari is an artist and works socio-culturally and anthropologically with her own background environment through, among other things, calligraphy, collage, and video in an intimate relation to the in-betweenness that can be experienced where a person's background, self-understanding, and lived culture do not reflect each other.

Alexander Rynéus presents the new film "The Story Machine" (2023), which revolves around storytelling, boundaries, sorting, and preservation through encounters with various people across Hylte municipality. An ethereal film that, through small incidents and moments in life, highlights the role of storytelling in a place with a factory that produces paper for newspapers and their stories worldwide.

Amanda Cardell (1972) was born in Ljungby, residing in Stockholm and Hälsingland. Educated at artistic higher education institutions in Sweden, Norway, and Belgium. She works as a freelance visual artist and has been particularly engaged in the conditions of art in Småland for the past five years. Through collaborations, residencies, dialog processes, and conversations, her commitment has developed into cultural projects, site-specific works, and exhibitions, such as a solo exhibition at...

Amanda Selinder, born 1990, is a bioart/textile artist based and active in Uppsala. She explores how humans are a part of nature and makes visible biological processes that we typically cannot see with the naked eye. For example, she uses mushroom mycelium, algae, and bacteria to dye textiles. In a new work for the exhibition, she draws inspiration from the cells in the eye, how cells break down, and how they are constantly in motion. During the spring, Amanda Selinder is an artist in residence...

Anna Kinbom works with songs and lyrics that form a foundation for her performances. In 2022, she published a collection of texts and song lyrics (Cuestión Editora, Buenos Aires) as part of a residency with the Curatorial Program for Research.

Anna Nordström is a photographer based in Växjö.

Anne Hamrin Simonsson, born 1967, is an artist living in Färjestaden on Öland.

Annika Rixen (born in Solingen, lives in Melzow, Brandenburg) creates installations made from site-specific, large-format cyanotype prints on textile.

Konstkiosk is an art project that aims to discuss the role of art and architecture in society, connected to citizen participation and to highlight the conditions available for using our public spaces in various ways.

Åsa Jungnelius is interested in monumental expressions and the socially and structurally constructed spaces they occupy. Through objects and materials that serve as value-bearing representations of identity and projection surfaces for the corporeal, she investigates the relationship between matter and humanity and the shifting scale of positioning that is constantly renegotiated and recreated throughout history.

Ava Valsten is an artist and lives in Burseryd.

Camilla Lundqvist is interested in our relationship with that which is intangible. The unique dialogue between ourselves and that which is absent.

Christel Lundberg, artist and producer, operations manager at ÖSKG/Tjörnedala Art Hall, works with process-oriented art projects in public spaces as well as exhibitions nationally and internationally. Member of the artist-run Gallery Rostrum, Malmö.

Kulturvagnen is a project initiated by Tony Blomdahl and Kerstin Björk. Kulturvagnen is a converted caravan and serves as a mobile stage for various cultural expressions. We primarily operate in the rural areas of Småland and aim to reduce distances and increase accessibility to contemporary cultural offerings.

Dages Juvelier Keates is an artist born in Chicago in 1980. Working with and through the materiality of their body as a somatic space for holding paradox, their transdisciplinary praxis spans performance, dramaturgy, writing, and pedagogy.

Daisy Madden-Wells is a multidisciplinary artist and musician from South London.

Danae Valenza's practice unites sound and image, and often responds to linguistic, social or cultural references embedded in sites and materials. A common thread through her works is the sense of fluidity, connectedness and attachment between bodies. The position of the audience is considered through gestures that rearrange active and passive dynamics of 'performer' and 'listener', creating space for momentary encounters between private and public realms. Valenza’s works reveal the inherent...

David Torstensson (b. 1987) is an artist trained at the National Academy of Fine Arts, Konstfack, and the Malmö Art Academy who works with film and social art. For the Småland Biennial, he presents the essay film Att ha rätt and is involved in educational processes as part of the production for its sister film Läsesällskapet. The work will be summarized in September through a presentation and a group discussion.

Elin Sundström, artist, holds an MFA from Konstfack. With clay as her primary medium, she often works site-specifically, in close dialogue with the landscape. Her practice encompasses Land Art, sculpture, installations, and performance. Many of her projects focus on water, such as the book River-and-I (2021), a collection of photos and texts from interventions along a river aimed at getting close to and understanding the significance and nature of the watercourse. She has participated in...

Ella Tillema (born 1983 in Stockholm) is an artist based in Diö. Tillema founded Diö Art Hall, which is part of the Småland Biennale. She studied at Malmö Art Academy from 2005 to 2010 and has since held solo exhibitions at Ystad Art Museum, Gävleborg County Museum, Passagen Linköping Art Hall, Galleri Verkligheten in Umeå, and Ljungberg Museum. She was awarded the Lengertz Art Prize in 2012 and the Ljungberg Museum Scholarship in 2014, and in 2020 she received LO's Culture Prize.

Florence Wild (1987) lives in Stockholm.

The art group Ful consists of Nasim Aghili, Malin Holgersson, Hanne Lindberg, and Rani Nair, as well as all the collaborations that occur between its members and other artists interested in decolonial and queer practices.

Dr. Leila Papoli-Yazdi and Dr. Omran Garazhian are the founders of GARBONOMIX AB.

Gunilla Lundahl participates in a panel discussion about the project “Kojan” at Österängens konsthall. Gunilla Lundahl is an author and journalist and was the project leader for Moderna Museet's acclaimed exhibition “Modellen” in 1968. For much of the 1970s, she served as editor for Arkitekttidningen, and in 1995, the book Houses and Rooms for Small Children was published.

Hampus Forss is an artist who lives and works in Växjö.

Hillevi Cecilia Högström participates in the Småland Biennial with the solo exhibition “Balancing on Wild Apples with a Toolbox” and in the project Kojan, where four artists/artists' groups have been invited to explore the theme “spontaneous play” together with different groups of children.

Ida Lehtonen is an artist working with image, sculpture, text, and space. In her practice, she explores the spatial and material possibilities of the image. Karl-Magnus Johansson is an archivist and researches microhistory and archive theory. Both live in Gothenburg but have a summer house in Ramkvilla, where Karl-Magnus originates from. For Ida Lehtonen and Karl-Magnus Johansson, it is important to investigate how an interdisciplinary approach, where the microhistorical tradition meets an...

Ingela Ihrman was born in Kalmar and studied from 2004 to 2005 at Steneby School in Dals Långed, from 2005 to 2007 at Gerlesborg School in Hamburgsund, and from 2007 to 2012 at Konstfack in Stockholm. In her art, she often explores the relationship between humans and nature, and her installations frequently incorporate elements of performance.

Ingela Johansson, artist. Her work has often explored individual and collective experiences of historiography in relation to larger power structures. In recent years, she has become interested in care issues, the role of aesthetics and the artist within care environments. Ingela enjoys working in various collaborations and uses different media in her expressive work, such as textiles, video, installation, and painting. In recent years, her works have been exhibited at, among others, Bröhan...

Ingrid Furre was born in Stavanger in 1983. She lives and works in Malmö and Finnøy.

Isadora Vaughan is an Australian artist. Her work explores the material and social possibilities of sculpture in innovative and surprising ways.

Jan Carleklev, born 1972, is an artist residing in Braås near Växjö. In his projects, he often returns to the fascinating diversity of nature. A diversity that humanity, in its quest for constant growth, often overlooks. He aims to create conditions, through the use of sound and listening, for the voices and sounds that are not always heard or acknowledged. Jan Carleklev's works and process-based creations primarily emerge from encounters with people, nature, and places.

Jeanette Wåhlstrand is an artist residing on Öland and works in Kalmar as an art teacher at Jenny Nyströmsskolan. In Jeanette Wåhlstrand's art, the starting point is almost always the human figure, with a main focus on bodies and faces. Wåhlstrand primarily works with ceramic sculpture. Her artistic universe often draws inspiration from societal debates, literature, art history, and contemporary art. She combines playfulness with humor and an energetic working method. Most things that cross the...

JEKS (b. 1976) has organized graffiti festivals such as Northern Light, Back To Graffiti, and Gåsebäck Graffiti over the past 10 years. His style is known for being technically skilled, and he constantly works with several different styles in a playful and experimental manner. Website: www.stick-up-kids.de/jeks

Jens Lindqvist primarily works with installations and sculptures where multiple crafts, material experiments, expressions, and mediums are in conversation with one another. The works often adopt various temporarily fixed beliefs, states, and identity placements in a theatrical scenography where the spaces breathe a hint of new "paths."

Joana Pereira lives and works in Malmö and Lisbon.

Johanna Karlin, b. 1964, is an artist who divides her time between Berlin and Kläppinge in Öland. The farm in Kläppinge has become both a home, a production site, and a exhibition space. In her works and installations, she primarily draws from everyday recycled materials. One of her recurring methods is to identify and highlight contexts and objects from both a historical and contemporary perspective. In her ongoing investigations, she approaches a different form of architecture by alternating...

John Sunderland is an Irish-based visual artist and archaeologist.

Josefin Jussi Andersson, born and raised in Svenarum, Jönköping County, educated at the Kunsthøgskolen in Oslo and at Konstfack in Stockholm. Experiences of changes in the urban landscape have led me to focus on value in relation to place, earth, cycles, and time. In repeated attempts to link the processes of change in the city to a more existential dimension of the people or places affected by it. When land, often of an industrial nature in the city’s near periphery, is transformed into tall,...

Juan Carlos Peirone, artist and architect, runs an international art project that has created public artworks, as well as art projects and exhibitions nationally and internationally. Member of the artist-driven Aura, which operates Krognoshuset in Lund.

Kah Bee Chow is an artist who lives and works in Malmö.

Kalle Brolin is an artist based in Skåne, his art has recently been exhibited at the Moderna Museet in Stockholm, and he has become known for his humorous and political essay films. At The Mirror Institution, Kalle Brolin introduces a variety of down-to-earth themes through film, focusing on coal and sugar production in Skåne. The audience will receive an artistic deep dive into how film can be used to approach a place, its history, and perhaps also its future?

Karl Magnus Petersson is an artist and artistic initiator of the project. The performance has been developed in collaboration with Joakim Engstrand, director and producer, Ida Idée Olsson, songwriter and artist, Peder Nabo, musician, Daniel Brandt, musician, and Kompani Error.

Karolina Stenström is an artist living in Hultsfred. Stenström creates textile art, music under the name Steso Songs, and writes fiction, where she more or less explicitly comments on contemporary issues as a way to cope with them. In her art, Stenström can fantasize and joke, even though she may not be able to fantasize and joke. She keeps her raven eyes wide open, notes everything, and broods over revenge, which can manifest as spending 100 hours knitting something in soft wool. She...

Kate Moss, born in Mullewa on Yamatji (Wajarri) country, Australia and is based in Gässemåla, Sweden.

In Kerstin Björk's work, embroidery emerges without predetermined goals, through a partially automatic approach. With the thread, she attempts to capture thoughts and mysteries while simultaneously creating her own. It is about exploring and shaping nature and nature magic, and also about an underlying awareness of the prevailing climate changes. It reflects humanity's ability to exploit rather than to become a part of the Earth's resources.

Kristoffer Palmgren was born in Jät and now resides in Stockholm. He works as an artist, musician, and runs a biotech company focused on bioremediation.

Laura Piasta is an artist whose practice explores the agency of objects through a conceptually driven exploration of materials.

Lekkontoret participates in the Småland Biennale with the project Kojan, where artists and designers have been invited by Österängens konsthall to explore the theme "spontaneous play" together with various groups of children. Lekkontoret's idea is to create a movable hut that the children can set up themselves and that adapts to the conditions present at the location, such as existing climbing frames. The work is centered around the hut building as a concept and its temporary...

The Värmland duo Lerin/Hystad consists of Simon Torssell Lerin and Bettina Hvidevold Hystad, both educated at Konstfack and the Royal Institute of Art in Stockholm, as well as at the Art Academy in Bergen, Norway. The duo has participated in a number of solo and group exhibitions both in Sweden and abroad. Lerin/Hystad are also active as musicians and have toured in Europe, China, and Japan. https://www.lerinhystad.com

Dr. Liam Sprod is an author, editor, and photographer.

As an artist, Linda Persson primarily works through sculptural and filmic processes that address the contexts surrounding colonial interventions in landscape, body, and language. Her work process has often involved long-term residencies or assignments over several years in places such as the Eastern Goldfields desert in Western Australia, where she, together with Wongatha women, explored the effects of extreme excavation, language oppression, and water toxins.

Louise Hammer (1993) graduated with an MFA from Malmö Art Academy in 2021 and is a recipient of the Edstrandska Foundation Scholarship.

The Memor July 13-16 Lundahl & Seitl is an artist duo consisting of Christer Lundahl and Martina Seitl. They are active in Sweden but internationally recognized for their all-encompassing installations.

Magni Moss, founder and initiator of the Gässemåla residency. Moss has been active in the international art scene as well as back home in Sweden. In 2014, he established the Sikås Art Center in Jämtland, where they have since conducted residencies, exhibitions, symposia, and other projects with artists from all over the world. The visiting artists have been at the beginning of their careers, and now, several years later, we see how many of them have become significant artists on the...

Mai Keldsen holds an MFA from The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts (2020) and studied at Maumaus Escola des Artes Visuais in 2016.

Maria Hammarsten holds a Licentiate degree and is a university lecturer at the Jönköping University School of Education and Communication. She has been a research fellow for the Österängen Art Hall project "The Hut." Hammarsten's Licentiate thesis; Forest Garden Stays from Children's Perspectives – Reflected through Conversation Walks focuses on children's development of ecological literacy, prevention of plant blindness, and experiences offered by a forest garden. Hammarsten will present her...

Meghan Judge holds a PhD in art from Witswatersrand University in South Africa. Inside Flashing Eyes is a performance where listening brings us closer to our planet. The artwork is rooted in Meghan Judge's research on barn swallows that navigate along the 18th longitude between South Africa and Sweden. The birds teach us to perceive things that we do not see ourselves and become a form of guides through the epoch that has come to be known as the "Anthropocene," a time when humans impact the...

Mikael Ellingsen is an artist and lives in Timmernabben. He enjoys working with an expression that approaches the poetic or narrative.

Mim is a versatile artist based in Gothenburg, with a diverse educational background and a passion for exploring various artistic expressions. After studying ceramics at Capellagården as well as completing a master's degree in political science and a bachelor's degree in global studies from the University of Gothenburg, Mim has a broad knowledge base. Mim often draws inspiration from ideas and depictions relating to the rise and fall of different worlds, objects, and beings. By experimenting...

An artistic practice that originates from choreography and writing as interrelated practices, with a particular interest in voice as performative material and expression. In both performance and text works, Franzén works to practice and destabilize trust and resistance. Language, both physical, written, and sounded, constitutes the center from which her works often emerge.

Monika Kalin (Kalinauskaitė) is a writer and curator based in Vilnius, Lithuania.

Muhammad Ali was born in Syria and is based and active in Stockholm. In 2017, Muhammad Ali showcased a notable exhibition at Kalmar Art Museum, and his art has been exhibited in various countries around the world, most recently in Algeria. In Öland, Muhammad Ali and curator Abir Boukhari will explore what land art means today, as concepts like virtual reality can take us around the world and deep within ourselves with the help of a pair of advanced glasses.

Nicholas Hartman, Architect. Degree in Architecture from Lund University (LTH). Works as a design and execution architect at SADAR+VUGA, Slovenia.

Oscar Perry is a painter who extends the expressive potential of abstraction (including sculpture, text, spoken word, and found images) to incorporate social, historical, and cultural dimensions. Social contexts around art making and art exhibitions are central to his practice. Perry has initiated a number of curatorial projects including Beach Marvin III, Crazy Arms Hotel, Melbourne (2018), Coq au Vin, an exhibition space with an internationally focused program in an outdoor chicken coop in...

Oskar Gustafsson is a designer and artist driven by his interest in the meeting between humans and material.

Peter Dacke, artist and lecturer at SLU in Alnarp, acquired by the Swedish Arts Council, has created several public decorations, including the Dental Care University in Malmö, Maria Magdalena Church in Lund, and Lund Technical University in Helsingborg, and is represented in institutions such as the Moderna Museet in Stockholm, Malmö Museums, and Helsingborg Museum.

Petra Lindholm's art project will be based on a divining rod made from a flexible wooden fork. Her grandmother was a skilled dowser and was hired when water had to be drilled; she always found the strongest water vein with the help of her divining rod. A divining rod can also be used to locate other energy fields in the ground. Lindholm will examine the soil around the flagpole and expand her investigation into the village of Diö. She is interested in energy fields and frequencies and has used...

Petter Dahlström Persson is an artist based in Malmö. He is interested in how we as humans encounter the world. He often works specifically with a place and history to capture what he has around him. Dahlström Persson uses the exhibition format to create larger installations with his sculptures, where he explores the relationships between the sculptures and their relationship to us and to reality. Surfaces, textures, and the act of making are prominent in his practice, which often consists of...

Petter Dahlström Persson (b. 1988) is an artist based in Malmö. He was born in Östersund during his mother's 40th birthday party.

As part of the Småland Biennial, the Vandalorum art and design museum in Värnamo will launch the Grassroots Movement this summer, an educational project linked to the ongoing establishment of the monumental artwork by the Dutch garden designer Piet Oudolf on the museum's grounds. The purpose of the Grassroots Movement is to highlight the garden as a democratic art form and experimental space, as well as to promote awareness of its significance for biodiversity, dynamic social interaction, and...

Robin Tidblom, Ruben Wätte & Sofia Priftis are participating in the Småland Biennial with the project Kojan, where artists and designers have been invited by Österängens Kunsthall to explore the theme of “spontaneous play” together with various children's groups. Birkabyn is a type of public pleasure house, open to everyone but designed and built in collaboration with a group of middle school children from Birkagården in Österängen. Kojan is situated on a hill overlooking a popular walking...

Sigrid Holmwood's work is based on extensive research on the production of colors from plants and their colonial histories.

Skize (b. 1970) is based in Helsingborg and has organized the Gåsebäck Graffiti festival in recent years. His image texts are full of new creative solutions and exhibit high technical precision. The figures were originally unique and gradually developed to become more colorful, imaginative, and surreal.

Sletz (b. 1983) debuted on the graffiti scene in the early '90s and is now regarded as one of Gothenburg's leading graffiti artists. He has become particularly well-known for his paintings where letters and figures are confidently woven together in vibrant and thought-provoking compositions.

Ljudskolan is an artist group shaped in the environment surrounding the collective project house Siggalycke Folkskola, Siggahult, and works with sound art, collectivity, and pedagogy. Currently, the group consists of Hannah Anbert, Mia Edelgart, Anne Louise Fink, Eva La Cour, Katrine Langkilde Gjerding, Kirs Nordentoft, Mo Moesgaard, Hannah Lutz, Ylva Rancken-Lutz, Misja Thirslund Krenchel, and David Torstensson. For Smålandstriennalen, they are conducting a workshop on research-based theater...

Timo Menke is active as an artist, director, and writer, and is based in Stockholm.

Tor Lindstrand is a practicing architect and lecturer in interior design at Konstfack in Stockholm. In 2013, Tor Lindstrand created the concept of The Mirror Institution, which was further developed by Joanna Sandell and Steuart Wright in 2018 when the association of the same name was established in Öland. At The Mirror Institution, Tor Lindstrand will present the exhibition Proposal for a New City Hall 2023, which explores the latest in artificial intelligence and image creation.