The Weaving Lab – Lecture by Marianne Fairbanks
How to invent new ideas about the ancient craft of weaving? The Röhsska Museum welcomes you to a unique opportunity to hear American textile artist Marianne Fairbanks tell about her project the WeavingLab. The artist Marianne Fairbanks opens her first…
DESIGN EXCAVATIONS: SUNDAY
The exhibition MAOW 2019 / DESIGN EXCAVATIONS is hosting an ongoing and extensive program of different set-ups and activations that will constantly rearrange the space over the course of five days. This is the schedule for Sunday 13th: 10:00-18:00…
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In the most northern part of Dalsland, in and between the small villages of Dals Långed and Fengersfors, culture production is one of the most prominent forces for shaping and developing the two communities, suggesting another take on contemporary life…
Opening party: Ung Svensk Form
Opening of the exhibition Ung Svensk Form hosted by Svensk Form väst. During the evening 3 to 5 designers from the exhibition present their work followed by a discussion moderated by Anna Elzer Oscarsson. Snacks and drinks will be served.
Human Prints
"Human Prints" is a series of posters that collects objects, behaviours, needs and other aspects that influence, and has influenced, humanity throughout history. The exhibition entices reflection and highlights current subjects such as environment, appearance, violence etcetera. Ouch is a…
Folded mountains/Veckberg
Folded mountains/Veckberg is a concept within geology that describes a fold-shaped nature of mountains. Folds, which most of all belong to the soft, and mountains that, unlike the soft, are grinded for thousands of years. In the concept of Weekend Residency,…
UNG SVENSK FORM – Exhibition in Nordstan
The exhibition Ung Svensk Form is a unique arena for young design and blooming design practitioners. The project was created with the aim of increasing the knowledge and widening the scope of new, innovative Swedish design; helping it engage with…
CROSSROADS
Objects from the past meets contemporary craft Seven artists who recently got their degree from the Master’s programme in Crafts at HDK exhibit at Göteborgs Auktionsverk. Open October 9 – October 19. Monday-Friday 13:00-17:00 Saturday 11:00-15:00 Opening Wednesday…
GROWING (A TABLE) TOGETHER
This activity explores how design based on an artistic foundation can help strengthen the relationships between different community actors by creating a growing table together. We believe that cooperation is the key to achieving sustainable development, but our experience is…
To slaughter a tree
To slaughter a tree is a performance where a tree will be sacrificed. The craftsman meets the tree in a poetic and respectful way when he slaughter it into pieces. How will our experience of the tree as material change…
Box Summer Studio Festival
Like a festival within a festival Box Summer Studio stages an intimate performance for two days in the courtyard of the Röhsska Museum. The studio moves in the interface between design, art, dance and architecture. Box Summer Studio Festival takes…
Symposium: The Weaving Workshop Revisited
Welcome to a two-day symposium presented by the Röhsska Museum and students of HDK - Academy of Design and Crafts. The symposium will be focused on practice-based research on occasion of the 100-year anniversary of the Bauhaus school. In the…
Xiaodai Huang
Xiaodai Huang covers industrial objects with colourful decorations, combines graphical stylizations of of wings, stones and flowers with new organic shapes. But what is it that causes the mutations? Is it radioactivity and pollution or is it an evolution leading…
DESIGN EXCAVATIONS: THURSDAY
The exhibition MAOW 2019 / DESIGN EXCAVATIONS is hosting an ongoing and extensive program of different set-ups and activations that will constantly rearrange the space over the course of five days. This is the schedule for Thursday 10th: …
Design Saloon
N.B. The BA design saloon is unfortunately canceled. The BA exhibition is open from 12.00 to 18.00. Welcome to a Sunday afternoon together with graduate students from HDK's Bachelor's Program in Design. While the students' graduation exhibition at HDK is…
DESIGN EXCAVATIONS: FRIDAY
The exhibition MAOW 2019 / DESIGN EXCAVATIONS is hosting an ongoing and extensive program of different set-ups and activations that will constantly rearrange the space over the course of five days. This is the schedule for Friday 11th: 8:00-20:00…
