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Syntropia Art Space at Smedjegatan 5 is run and curated by Anna Maria Hedman
Opening hours during current exhibition:
Wednesday, Thursday, Friday: 11-18
Saturday: 12-16
unless otherwise stated.
To arrange a visit at another day or time contact us by email art@syntropia.space
Ongoing
8/11-29/11 KRAFTEN/ the FORCE - a group exhibition showing twentyseven artists selceted from an open call. It's Baluns 2.0 Co-curating with FLICK (part of Gibca Extended programme 2025)
In a time when much is pulling us apart, we gather around what holds us together — the power that resides in creation, in resistance, and in artistic integrity. KRAFTEN explores how this inner and collective energy manifests through contemporary artistic expression.
Anna Hulth, Eva Kitok, Amanda Karlsson, Matilda Söderling, Darja Nordberg, Mikael Jonsson, Viktor Moen, Therese Vinterbarn Ekström, Karin Gyllerfelt, Lena Birgitsdotter, Elin Flognman, Mim Westberg-Johannesson, Camilla Fredin, Anna Maria Hedman, Mika Svedby, Ellinor Augustini, Sandra Österling, Lisa Andersson Andersson, Erika Lindblom, Annika Andersson, Sofia Brolin , Sanna Wallgren, Elina Säfsten, Camilla Johansson Bäcklund, Jessica Johannesson, Vivianne E Rosqvist, Anders Tolergård
Upcoming
11th-18th December Longest Night exhibition and event
19th-20th Christmas fêtê with a selection of Syntropia art space favourites, in colloboration with Longest Night
22/8 -13/9 - Thorns 19/9-11/10 - Even the flies fell aslepp on the wall by London based painter Sophie Baker & animator Sam Steer. Inspired from the fairytale Thornrose, the British painter Baker, has turned the gallery into towering brambles where the visitors become small lika children, only curiosity and keen eyes can discover the insects caught under waterdrops resting on the branches. The precise drawings by animator Steer are open but seems hidden by the pattern of the billboard-like painting covering the walls from ceiling to the floor. Sophie Baker and animator Sam Steer colloborates with this installation that began with a childhood memory.
13-17/8 - Collaboration with NBV Kultur Ung showing MeatJuice, Viktoria Ottosson, Ivan Morén, Emelie Andreassen and Nemo Dahlén
31st-15th June - Mikael Dalnäs and Ellen Macke Alström. (*Macabre, bah! Colorful and many many kinds of faces. Warning for falling bird / a songbird). Opening performance by mezzo soprano Keiti Strömqvist.
8th-11th of May - Nordiska Bildskolan group show
12th-18th of May - KV Konstskola group show
1st of May- 4th of May -Korsfest / Fest of the cross - Simon Axelsson and Max Meyer at Syntropia Art Space. Opening performance 'Glory Hole Tattooing'
3-13th of April - Ett år av apokalyptiskt tänkande / A Year of Apocalyptic Thinking book release and exhibition by the exceptional life expert Linda Spåman. A Year of Apocalyptic Thinking published by Galago, is a dark comedy, a tragicomic feel-good bool that uses expressive images to talk about death, life, love and painful relationships. But above all, it is about choosing how life should end.
Opening April 3rd 4:00 PM-10:00 PM - finishing Saturday 12th of April noon - 4 pm
21-30th of Mars - VEV - 'a psyche of bearable lightness exhibition with Viktor Moen, Emma Lindström and Viktor Jusi Palm. Three artists who touch on the subject of consciousness in their work, symbolism, energy/matter and identity that revolve around what is called the psyche. Opening march 21st at 6-9pm Program: Floating atmospheric music from the psyche of Relaxel by Axel Fredlund. Finnisage 29th music performance by Kedric with his accordian at 7 p.m. Co-curated with Ellinor Augustini
31 January-2 february Pop up Tankfilm event with hologram boxes and short films by Maria Vatne Jansson, Erika Berg, Matilda Wikingson, Eyal Shachar, Ilona Huss Walin and Ambjörn Göransson
1 february - Conversations with filmdirectors, writers, maskdesigners and artist moderated by Åsa Lantz and Sophia Häggström. Find Första lördagen's schedule during Gothenburg Filmfestival in our gallery
2025
16th-17th of January - PICNIC of DIRECTIONS. Students in their third year at HDK-Valand's artistic bachelor's program in design show a selection of their exploratory preparations for the spring thesis and the process behind the presention of the degree exhibitions in the spring. The exhibition is made in collaboration between HDK-Valand and Svensk Form Väst
4th January - New times ahead a fortuneteller performance - curated together with Linda Spåman
2024
December - Exhibition Episodisk Baluns. Curated with Flick. Artists; Ellinor Augustini, Lisa Andersson Andersson, Sandra Österling, Sofi Svensson, Johanna Adebäck, Kerstin Björk, Linda Spåman, Fanny Jigman, Tina Hultsborn, Charlotta Eidenskog, Elin Flognman, Sara Enquist, Mim Westberg-Johannesson, Anne-Marie Dehon, Väzn, Anna Maria Hedman, Emma Rissanen, Siri Jaffe, Josefin Carli, Sofie Antonsson, Petra Bagge, Emma Borgvall, Hanna Klasson, Wendela Ek, Elenore Lindström, Johanna Björklund Sjöstrand, Augusta Chavarria Persson, Helena Wiberg, Kara Ghasemiani, Ellen Macke Alström, Nike Kero
November - Perverkskroki 'In salute to Horror' with Linda Spåman, Jeanette Månsson and other artists
October - Pop up shop with Pass It On - sustainable vintage and second hand collective
October - Exhibition AIRC - Olivia by AIRC (Anti-Individualist Reading Club) by Pablo Encinas Alonso and Yana Deliyska
September - Performance Perverskroki 'I skuggan av Bokmässan' by Linda Spåman, Jeanette Månsson with guest artists
September - Pop up shop weekend by Silverfabriken och Pap Made in Sweden
August - Exhibtion 'Linda Spåman's Cabinet of Curiosities' where Spåman showcased ten years of immense work
July - Exhibition with Alice Jordebo
June - Exhibition 'Offbeat Ouvre' curated by Adrian Hobnik and David Boman showing work with Mar Coll, Carl Wahlin, Marcus Sandberg, Abdirahman Botan, J. Kim, Jan Burzynski, Philip Demenfors
June - Exhibition 'Venus Transit' with Tilda Ottosson
June - Workshop Yoga/Somatics/Self-dearmoring and healing with Emma Andrea
May - Performance 'Gigas Futursim' an interdisciplinary project with designer Samuel Dal Norlind, musician Anton Örarbäck, and actresses Livia Hiselius and Maria Strand Renberg
May - Exhibition 'Inbetween Konst/Design' by KV-konstskola
Maj - Exhibition by Klara Collin
April - Graduation exhibition 'Mudfields' with Karin Lindgren with a collaborate performance featuring CULT (Gbg's power drag collective)
April - Seed Swaps with Garden loops
April - Lecture on Forest Garden by Stefan Fogelqvist, Freja Food Forest and Katarina Svanegård, Odlarbyrån supported by Stadsnära Odling and U-garden.
April - Lecture and workshop by Peter Albreecht, 'Veganträdgård' on the basics on biocyclic cultivation
April - Lecture by Joseph Winter of syntropic agriculture
Mars - Workshop with Lisa Palm, Fermenteringshantverk
Mars - Workshop on eateable acorns with Ola Schubert
Mars - Exhibition by 'Mothers in Residence' with reason of the Internationel Womens day, curated by Anna Maria Hedman
Mars - Lecture with Ola Schubert in collaboration with Stadsnära Odling, U-garden, Odlarbyrån, and Odlingsbolaget Svalan
February - April HDK-Valands residency on relations 1:1 'Designing-in-the-inbetween' which resulted in students/space relations, guest residencies, logo workshops and involved coworking with Skogen Grafiska
February - Photo exhibition by La Mer Nordique
February - Woodwork workshop by 'Snedskuret'
January - Introduction to syntropia.space with Joel Albertsson and Anna Maria Hedman to the students of HDK-Valand's mastercourse in interior and architectural design visit to the space pre-residency
2023
December - Christmas fête by Mothers in Residence
December - Workshop with Fermenteringshantverk
December - Release party for Viic Woods 'The Water Between Us' with support from visual and sound artist Henrik Steltzer
December - 'Running Underground' an open conversation started by Angela Melito, gallery owner at Detriti Gallery and Anna Maria Hedman, curator at syntropia(art)space on the need for artist and impromptu run galleries - none established networks.
October - Zelous Group exhibition by Statira Jazayeri, Gülbin Kulbay, Alqumit, Susanne Sadri
October - Workshop with Värt (sustainable food lab) and Odlingsbolaget Svalan
Autumn tear down (refurbishement)
July - Mural paiting by Jonathan Josefsson 'Ollio'
June - Exhibition with photographer Lily Ray
