During The Skeppsholmen Day, we open our doors and welcome everyone to experience art from our collection. The new autumn exhibition is inaugurated and celebrated with a creative birch-bark workshop and live performances with poetry, music and performance.
Welcome to the opening of the new exhibition this autumn, Wood Speaks – an exhibition with wood as a material, motif and method, which highlights around fifty works from our collection. The selected works are made of wood or depict, use and allude to wood. Join us on a guided tour of the exhibition! The exhibition is inaugurated under the sign of the forest and ecology. Johannes Heldén performs with music and poetry, and in Ingela Ihrman’s performance When the inland ice retreated from Sweden, the spruce migrated from the north, you can see a wandering spruce cone dropping its seeds. In the afternoon, there will be a workshop in birch-bark origami with the artist Emma Dahlqvist. Try folding and shaping birch-bark – a natural material that has been used by humans for thousands of years.
Open to everyone from 11:00–16:00. Admission free.
Programme
11.15
Guided tour at the exhibition
45 min
Starts on floor 5
"Wood Speaks – an exhibition with wood as a material, motif and method"
12.30
Opening with curator’s speech
Studio on the entrance floor
Curator Annika Enqvist inaugurates the exhibition Wood Speaks.
12.45
Music and poetry by Johannes Heldén
Studio på entréplan
A performance with reading – a movement through vegetation and more-than-human fragments, weather systems and care trees.
13.30
Performance: "When the inland ice retreated from Sweden"
Performance by Ingela Ihrman. Dressed in a self-made spruce cone costume, Ingela Ihrman walks from north to south, while seeds made of thin brown paper fall to the ground along her path. Popular science literature tells how the spruce migrated in from the north when the inland ice retreated from the Nordic countries 10,000 years ago.
13.00
–15.00
Workshop – Birch-bark and origami with Emma Dahlqvist
2 Hours
Inner courtyard of the Public Art Agency.
a workshop where you get to try folding and shaping birch-bark – a natural material that has been used by humans for thousands of years. When heated with hot water, it becomes soft and pliable to work with. During the day we will fold small boxes/cases in birch-bark, and if you want you can also try more advanced techniques where we combine birch-bark and origami to, for example, create your own jewellery. Suitable for children and young people from 7 years old, drop-in, max. 20 participants.
14.30
Guided tour at the exhibition
45 min
Starts on floor 5
"Wood Speaks – an exhibition with wood as a material, motif and method"
Participating artists
Johannes Heldén
Visual artist, writer and musician
Music and poetry by Johannes Heldén, 12:45.Johannes Heldén’s work is about poetry, ecology, the future and narrative structures.
Photo: Martin Vallin
Ingela Ihrman
Artist
Performance: When the inland ice retreated from Sweden, the spruce migrated from the north, 13:30.Ingela Ihrman constantly looks at the life forms and landscapes we call Nature in a desire to understand, question or express different aspects of being alive, social and human.
Foto: Helene Toresdotter
Emma Dahlqvist
Designer and artist
Workshop: Birch-bark and origami with Emma Dahlqvist, 13:00–15:00Emma Dahlqvist works with crafts and natural materials, especially birch-bark. For over ten years she has explored how birch-bark can be used in new ways – including with the help of laser cutting and origami.
Photo: Emma Dahlqvist
Time and place
When: 14 September 2025, 11:00–16:00
Where: Public Art Agency, Svensksundsvägen 11A
Registration: Admission free, no pre-registration