Art trip through Bohuslän
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Join us on a bus trip filled with art, Bohus romanticism and unexpected experiences!
From Gothenburg we travel through the beautiful landscape of Southern Bohuslän and visit a wide variety of places where art is at the centre. We discover everything from newly produced exhibitions to murals in the countryside, meet artists and end with a performance in a culturally historical environment. In total, we make no less than eight stops during the day. The places we visit are run by the independent art scene, under municipal administration or as independent institutions – a breadth that testifies to all the expressions that can be found in the area. A perfect day for those curious or interested in art and culture!
The price includes:
- Bus trip from Gothenburg through Southern Bohuslän and back
- Visit and guided tour at Konsthallen Bohusläns museum in Uddevalla
- Exploration of murals on the island of Orust
- Visit to AiC on Orust, with open studio and presentation of ongoing residency work
- Exhibition opening and trade-in day at Nordiska Akvarellmuseet on Tjörn
- Exhibition and artist presentation at Stenungsunds konsthall
- The performance Ett sömnspel at Stationen in Svenshögen
- Opportunity to end the day at Stenungsund Culture Night or return to Gothenburg
Welcome to experience, discover, and be inspired. All information about the day’s itinerary, the places we visit, and practical details can be found further down this page.
Price:
225 SEK
Booking:
The bus is fully booked
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Please bring packed lunch and coffee to have on the bus. Several of the sites have a café and/or restaurant, but no specific time is allocated for eating at the stops.
(The minimum number of booked participants for the trip to take place is 25. If this number is not reached by September 29, the trip may be canceled. In this case, the organisers will contact all registered participants).
itinerary
(Times are approximate)
Departure Gothenburg: 10.00 am
Return: 8.30 pm
10.00 am
Departure from Götaplatsen in Gothenburg. Please arrive in good time!
11.15 am–12.15 pm
Visit to Konsthallen Bohuslän museum, where we are invited to a guided tour and conversation in the exhibition As Dreamers Do.
12.15–1.15 pm
The bus continues towards Orust. During the trip, project managers Kia Nordqvist and Anna Ostrowski talk about the MUMA art project and we look at two murals that are part of the project.
1.15–2.15 pm
Visit to AiC (Artists in Coexistence) Orust, where we get a presentation of the project and the site, followed by an open studio with a display of the ongoing residency and a conversation with designer and artist Christoph Matt.
2.15–3.00 pm
We head towards Tjörn and on the way we are presented with another mural in the MUMA project.
3.00–4.00 pm
Visit to Nordiska Akvarellmuseet (The Nordic Watercolour Museum), where the opening of the autumn exhibition This Garden and its Spirits with Christine Ödlund will be held. On the same day, a trade-in day is also organised at the museum, for those who want to bring things from home to swap with others.
4.00–5.30 pm
The bus continues to Stenungsunds konsthall. Once there, we visit the current exhibition with Onofrio Chillemi and are invited to a tour with the artist himself on site.
5.30–7.30 pm
We move on to Svenshögen and Kulturföreningen Stationen. At 6.00 pm, the performance Ett sömnspel by musician and composer Anna Gustavsson and poet Lina Ekdahl begins.
7.30 pm
The bus will head back to Gothenburg. There will be an option to get off in Stenungsund to continue the evening at Stenungsund Culture Night and take the train back to Gothenburg. Alternatively, you can extend your evening at Stationen in Svenshögen with an overnight stay.
8.30 pm
Return to Götaplatsen in Gothenburg.
See more information about each location below.
Uddevalla
Konsthallen Bohuslän Museum
The current exhibition at Konsthallen at Bohusläns museum is titled "As Dreamers Do" and presents fifteen participating artists. The title of the exhibition refers to the artist's role as dreamer, observer and co-creator in a complex contemporary world. In the exhibition, several themes meet, on gender, identity, but also on abstraction, dream and surrealism.
Read more about the exhibition
Orust
orustKONST / MUMA
orustKonst presents the art project MUMA – Mural Modern Art. MUMA has invited six contemporary, urban, female artists, with different expressions and origins, to portray women's history in the countryside. Through mural painting, the project makes visible hidden and forgotten stories and people from our history, people and stories that often have not been given space – the ones of women.
Read more about the projectOrust
AiC (Artist in Coexistence)
AiC (Artist in Coexistence) on the island of Orust is a platform and a residency for artistic exploration of relationships and coexistence between all living beings from a post-humanist perspective. The current artist in residence Christoph Matt is an Austrian eco-social designer based in Reykjavik and Vienna. In his ongoing project he wants to bring together individuals from near and far in site-specific artistic and scientific explorations, where the participants themselves can become active, reflect individually and in groups on nature–human relations and jointly understand larger ecological contexts on Orust and in Bohuslän.
Read more about AiC
Tjörn
Nordiska Akvarellmuseet
In the autumn of 2024, Nordiska Akvarellmuseet will open an extensive solo exhibition featuring Christine Ödlund, titled “This Garden and its Spirits”. A large part of Ödlund's art has its roots in an allotment garden. A green laboratory, not only for plants but also for ideas. The pigments in her watercolours, which often blossom into very large formats, frequently come directly from plants in the allotment. With a soft, earthy colour palette, where blacks and metallic tones serve as accents, Ödlund creates fascinating compositions where the figurative and abstract meet. On the same day as the exhibition opening (on 12th October), one of the museum's popular trade-in days will be held – bring items you no longer use and exchange them for something someone else has brought!
Read more about the opening
Stenungsund
Stenungsund konsthall
The current exhibition at Stenungsunds konsthall presents the Italian artist Onofrio Chillemi (1974). Over the past ten years, Chillemi has created a series of works that he calls Indefinite Architecture. The series includes everything from murals, drawings and objects to installations. The works interplay geometric forms, organic lines and recycled materials. They give life to what can be described as abstract architectural structures. The exhibition runs from October 5 to November 16.
Read more about the exhibition
Svenshögen
Stationen
Stationen in Svenshögen is a non-profit organisation that since 2019 produces, arranges and presents contemporary art and culture, based in a renovated railway station building. The performance "Ett Sömnspel" premiered in 2021 at Atalante in Gothenburg. Now, musician and composer Anna Gustavsson and poet Lina Ekdahl are doing a version as a duo. Sleep, insomnia and the state in between. Every day there comes a time when you go to bed, when you should sleep. If you are lucky, sleep will come. The deep, dreamless one. If not, where are we? When thoughts spin, distort and magnify. When everything is turned on its head. When life's existential questions arise. When sheep are counted, pills are eaten, restlessness rages and anxiety grows. Or the waking nights, when rest, silence and the moon make us gently bide our time.
Read more about the performance
Contact
Simone Frankel, Nordiska Akvarellmuseet, simone.frankel@akvarellmuseet.org / Camilla Johansson Bäcklund, Stationen, camilla@stationen.org