Upcoming: Provisions

4 juli 2026 - 2 augusti 2026

In the summer of 2026, Art Inside Out, Årstad’s Very Temporary Art Gallery, will be visiting the village of Årstad outside Falkenberg. The exhibition Food will feature new works by artist-in-residence Åsa Dybwad Norman, which she is working on in a co-creative artistic process with a group of young people working during their summerjobs.

During the spring, Åsa has been working on preparations for three intensive work weeks that will come up in June/July, where she and the participating young people will take over Årstad’s (very closed) school and together create works in textile, collage, sculpture, installation and video. Through dialogue, experimentation and shared processes and visions.

In Livsmedel, new works by Åsa Dybwad Norman are shown, such as textiles, collage, sculpture, installation and video, which she has developed in a co-creative artistic process with a group of young people working on vacation.

The exhibition is based on the dairy’s historical legacy of workers and women and the traces left by the development and dismantling of industrialization. What stories are hidden in the walls of a disused dairy?

Sannarps Mejeri in Årstad, which was eventually converted into a warehouse for cheese production, is not just a physical place. It is also an important cultural heritage that has left its mark on our time. Around the turn of the last century, there were over forty active dairies in the municipality of Falkenberg. Today, almost all of these farm dairies have been closed down, merged and centralized into large groups. Milking and dairying were traditionally women’s occupations for much of history. During industrialization in the 20th century, work became more mechanized and formalized. Many tasks previously performed by women then became a male and mechanical domain. Even today, we are facing major changes in production and work patterns that reflect contemporary power hierarchies and socio-political trends. What happens when the embodied knowledge in food production disappears? How can collective artistic processes bring to life the memories and experiences that are woven into our historical spaces? Can it be reborn in artistic expression?

Åsa Dybwad Norman participates in the residency AIO CoLab – a laboratory that offers artists the opportunity to try out new methods for collective and co-creative artistic processes where shared thoughts, stories and experiences become a creative driving force.

Årstad’s very temporary art gallery is run by Leif Haglund and Ulla Sundin Beck and is based in the 100-year-old dairy building Sannarps Mejeri in Årstad, with impacts all over the Halland countryside. Here, for almost a decade, they have invited artists and art to occupy new spaces and activate both the village and its inhabitants.