Art Inside Out 2026

The turn of the year is fast approaching and it is high time to present Art Inside Out’s program for 2026! This spring we are pleased to welcome Åsa Dybwad Norman and Valeria Montti Colque to our artistic residencies. Next year is special as it marks a full decade since Art Inside Out was started. With that, we would like to take the opportunity to highlight some of the fantastic residencies and artworks that have been created during this time, with the exhibition Vägmärken – 10 years of Art Inside Out, at Halland Art Museum.

AIO CoLab 2026 with Åsa Dybwad Norman

First in 2026 we welcome Åsa Dybwad Norman to Art Inside Out’s residency AIO CoLab in Falkenberg.

In 2025 we launched AIO CoLab. A new artistic residency that explores new artistic methods through collective work processes and co-creation. It functions as a laboratory that offers artists the opportunity to try new methods in a context where shared thoughts, stories and experiences become a creative driving force.

For AIO CoLab 2026, textile artist Åsa Dybwad Norman takes as a starting point the women’s history of the dairy in a collaboration with Årstad’s very temporary art gallery in the 100-year-old dairy building in the village of Årstad outside Falkenberg. The residency runs during the spring and culminates in three weeks of joint work together with a group of young people in June and July. During the spring we are recruiting participants for the project, so if you are looking for an exciting summer job, keep an eye out!

Åsa Dybwad Norman is a textile artist and lecturer in textile art at HDK-Valand, University of Gothenburg. Based in Arvika, she explores how the knowledge of the hand and body takes place in today’s society, often by investigating historical spaces and events through archival work, interviews and design processes. Dybwad Norman’s artistry is characterized by an interest in the movement of textile materials through time and place, with a focus on their subversive potential. She often works in collective forms, such as in the ongoing research project The Strong Will Textile Workers. There, she and the craftswoman Frida Hållander look at the historical and global effects of the Swedish textile industry. Dybwad Norman has exhibited at, among others, Norrköpings Konstmuseum, Art Lab Gnesta, and Eskilstuna Konstmuseum. In 2025, she participated in Göteborgs Konsthall’s project Field Studies. She has also participated in artistic residencies at IASPIS and the Workers’ Movement Archives and Library, and her works are in collections at the Folkets hus och parker, the Swedish Arts Council and the Swedish Arts Promotion Agency.

Årstad’s very temporary art gallery is an artist- and project-driven, independent operation that started in the summer of 2018. The art gallery is run by Leif Haglund and Ulla Sundin Beck, who put Årstad on the map through exhibitions that activate the place, artists and visitors.

The Place That Holds its Breath, with Valeria Montti Colque

In this year’s second residency, we are proud to present the artist Valeria Montti Colque who during the spring and summer will participate in The Place That Holds its Breath connected to Unnaryd’s Bonadsmuseum in Hylte municipality, which is the world’s only museum dedicated to southern Swedish tapestry painting. Valeria Montti Colque will work with new site-specific works that explore the meeting between traditional tapestry painting and Colque’s own distinctive and bustling universe. The works will be shown in an exhibition at the Bonadsmuseet that opens on Swedish National Day, June 6, 2026, and will run until the end of August.

Valeria Montti Colque has roots in Chile. Her work emerges in collage form – where drawing, watercolor, textile, ceramics and recycled materials are intertwined into stories of transformation and belonging. In layers, each piece bears traces of time and care. Through large-scale installations, paintings and performances, Montti Colque creates worlds where the spiritual meets the rebellious, playful and poetic. She often returns to her works and allows them to change, grow, take new forms and be retold.

Valeria Montti Colque’s work has been exhibited in Sweden and internationally and is part of the Moderna Museet collection. In 2024, she represented Chile at the Venice Biennale with the project Cosmonación, curated by Andrea Pacheco González, and in 2025 presented a new version at Bonniers Konsthall in Stockholm. The work is now on display at the Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes in Santiago de Chile. In the same year, she received the City of Stockholm’s Honorary Prize in Art. In 2025, Valeria Montti Colque also received the Sculpture Prize – K.A. Lind’s Honorary Prize from Moderna Museet in Stockholm.

Vägmärken – 10 years of Art Inside Out, at Halland Art Museum

The highlight of autumn 2026 is the exhibition Vägmärken – 10 years of Art Inside Out, which will take place at Halland Art Museum from October 17, 2026 to January 17, 2027. The exhibition brings together around twenty of the over eighty artists who have visited Art Inside Out since 2016. These are works that were born from various forms of site investigations and together form an associative journey through the Halland landscape – through cities, villages, countryside, cultural and natural environments. Through artistic methods and critical perspectives, the exhibition raises questions about urban development, tourism, cultural heritage and the role of art in creating the common. Together with the exhibition, we are publishing an anthology based on Art Inside Out’s first decade as a nomadic and experimental platform for contemporary art, with Nätverkstan as publisher and Anders Teglund as editor.

Åsa Dybwad Norman in front of Årstad’s very temporary art gallery, Photo: Stina Edblom (AIO)

Factory girls, the strong-willed textile workers. Åsa Dybwad Norman together with Frida Hållander. Photo: Johan Österholm

Valeria Montti Colque outside the Bonadsmuseet in Unnaryd. Photo: Fann Xu (AIO)

Mamita Montaña (2024) Chilean Pavilion, 60th Venice Biennale – Pabellón de Chile / Cosmonación. Curator: Andrea Pacheco González. Co-produced by Bonniers Konsthall, Stockholm. Photo: Ricard Estay

Halland Art Museum. Photo: Halland Art Museum