in 2025 Syntropia Art Space at Smedjegatan 5 is curated by Anna Maria Hedman, Linda Spåman and Richard Simonson
Upcoming
2025
16th-17th of January - PICNIC of DIRECTIONS
Students in their third year at GDK-Valand's artistic bachelor's program in design show a selection of their exploratory preparations for the spring thesis. The exhibition offers a unique opportunity for your visitors to see the process behind part of what will be shown in the spring when the design programs at HDK-Valand present their degree exhibitions. The exhibition is made in collaboration between HDK-Valand and Svensk Form Väst
2025
4th January - New times ahead a fortuneteller performance
2024
December - Exhibition Episodisk Baluns. Curated by 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