Carl Eldhs Ateljémuseum

Stockholm Culture Night: Spending Time with Ghosts - Ida-Johanna Lundqvist
2023-04-22 18:00 - 2023-04-23 00:00 UTC
During Stockholm Culture Night 2023, we present the exhibition Spending Time with Ghosts by artist Ida-Johanna Lundqvist.
In the archive of hundreds of white plaster sculptures that make up Carl Eldh’s old studio, Ida-Johanna Lundqvist’s new sculptures are presented. Here, among the phantoms that have been models for sculptures in other materials in completely different places, a snail suddenly seems to stretch its way in an unclear direction. From the ceiling hangs transparent balls with encapsulated, whitish mushrooms. A pheasant decorated with fruits meets the eye. All of them more or less transparent, several of them clear symbols of the transition to the other side.
The exhibition touches upon the approach to the inevitable end, and the symbols, rituals and practices that surrounded death historically. With a tangible accuracy, the sculptures have been chiseled out and then cast in materials such as silicone and epoxy. In the more than a hundred-year-old studio where time seems to have stood still, the artworks vibrate and summon those who are missing, and the time that has passed.
Free entrance during Stockholm Culture Night 2023. The exhibition is part of the project Brita’s Salon with the support of Kulturrådet.
Welcome!
About the artist
Ida-Johanna Lundqvist is an artist and sculptor and graduated from the Royal Stockholm University of the Arts in 2018. She works with artistic research around themes such as history, medicine, the body, culture and loss, with a process that results in physical sculptures and installations. Among others, she has exhibited at the Nitja Senter for Contemporary Art in Oslo, C4 Projects in Copenhagen and the Art Academy in Stockholm. Ida-Johanna was awarded the Bernadotte scholarship in 2021.

Ingela Ihrman - Miss Brunnsviken
2023-05-11 - 2023-10-01
Carl Eldhs Ateljémuseum is pleased to present the artist Ingela Ihrman, internationally recognized for her large-scale sculptures and unconventional, humorous works. In the exhibition Miss Brunnsviken we are presented to a collection of queens, or at least traces of them, in an exploration with ideas about beauty and the body. In Ihrman’s art, the supposedly beautiful is often put against something violent, disgusting or upsetting.
– The title is a way of naming the beauty that hits me in the face every time I visit Carl Eldh Studio Museum. I wanted to explore what it is like to stare at something beautiful – what happens to the viewer and the one being watched? says Ingela Ihrman.
In conjunction with the exhibition, a catalog will be published with in-depth conversations between the artist and curator Caroline Malmström, followed by an artist talk on Thursday June 1st, when the poet Marie Silkeberg will also participate. During the late summer, Ingela Ihrman returns to treat visitors to the performance piece Ett fikon on Thursday, August 24th.
The exhibition is curated by Joanna Nordin and Caroline Malmström.
The Carl Eldh Studio Museum would like to thank the Swedish Arts Council and the City of Stockholm for their invaluable support to the arts, as well as Pontus Bonnier, The Barbro Osher Pro Suecia Foundation and Anne-Marie Lembcke – The ad infinitum foundation for their generous donations to the museum and the exhibition.

About the artist
Ingela Ihrman (b. 1985 in Kalmar) is based in Malmö. During the winter and spring of 2023 she was a residency artist at Iaspis Konstnärsnämnden and worked in a studio on Maria Skolgata in Stockholm. With a disarming humor and playfulness, Ingela Ihrman’s art has for the past decade responded to a need to think about questions concerning the future of humanity on earth. Through the work of the hand and the presence of time-consuming techniques, new meaning is created from often recycled and everyday materials.
Ingela Ihrman represented Sweden in the Nordic Pavilion at the Venice Biennale in 2019. In 2023, she is also presenting the solo exhibition Nocturne at Gasworks in London and will open a retrospective at Malmö Konsthall in September.

Britas salon: Various Artists
2023-06-21 17:30 - 19:00 (Europe/Helsinki)
In the more than a hundred-year-old studio, the band, consisting of performance artist Fatima Moallim, the composer and voice artist Sofia Jernberg and the arranger and music journalist Elena Wolay, offers a site-specific performance with drawing, voice, pre-recorded sound images and violin. For this occasion, Various Artists is guested by artist Ida Idaida.

About Various Artists
Since its inception, Various Artists was intended to be in constant flux, with lineups that change from occasion to occasion. The project moves in the borderland between art and music, and the emphasis is on improvisation. The artists let the spontaneously created music and art lead them into the unknown without the security that comes with predetermined plans. A performance can include elements as disparate as drawing both visually and the sound of pencils on paper, poetry and voice art.

The project was born when existential anxiety and stage fright hit Fatima Moallim just before an art performance. Then Jernberg and Wolay decided to join her on stage in an act of solidarity. There they improvised an ad hoc, multidisciplinary performance around Fatima’s work. The concept proved to be a success and now it has been given new life in the guise of Various Artists. The name fits both in the literal sense – the members are all active in the Swedish art scene – and in the practical sense that the term is used on generic credits on music collections, to denote that it is a collective of individual artists rather than a clearly defined unit.

The salon is part of the project Brita’s salon with the support of the Swedish Arts Council.

Britas salon: A fig by Ingela Ihrman
2023-08-24 16:00 - 17:00 (Europe/Helsinki)
Welcome to take part of Ingela Ihrman’s performance A fig – a silent performance in one act, at the same time both a creation and a disintegration. The fig is a drama queen of sorts, hoping to perhaps also gain praise for its beautiful flesh.
In the exhibition Miss Brunnsviken we are met by a collection of queens, or at least the traces of them, in a play with ideas on beauty and the body. In Ihrman’s art, the supposedly beautiful is often pitted against something violent, disgusting or upsetting.
This performative work is included in the museum’s regular entrance fee on this day. The performance is part of the project Brita’s salon with the support of the Swedish Arts Council.
Warmly welcome!

Bird, Fish or somewhere in between - workshop
2023-10-28 12:00 - 16:00 (Europe/Helsinki)
Among hundreds of sculptures, animals play hide and seek as part of the works of art. To find them, look high as for flying birds, low as for swimming fish and everywhere in between.
When the sculptor Carl Eldh (1873-1954) worked in the studio during the first half of the 20th century, Stockholm was different in many ways. Horses, transporting goods and people, were for a long time more common than motor vehicles on the city streets. In the Bellevue Park area surrounding the studio there were, then as well as now, wild animals as hares, birds and squirrels. You can easily imagine they were a source of inspiration for some of the works by Carl Eldh. Can you find any of the mentioned animals among the sculptures? You can also look for more exotic animals such as lions and hippos.
Borrow a picture overview for clues about what animals could be found. When finished looking for animals you are welcome to the workshop. With guidance you will sculpt your own animal in clay. The clay work can be painted and decorated before it accompany you home.
A warm welcome to all creative-loving 6–11-year-olds in the company of an adult.

Celebration of the light in dark November
2023-11-05 16:00 - 19:00 (Europe/Helsinki)
With autumn comes darkness but during this perticular evening the Brunnsviken area is lit with hundreds of lights to help spread joy, light and warmth. In the studio garden, lights are lit and in the studio a warm glow embrace the sculptures.
There are no guided tours on this evening, but the museum’s educators are happy to answer questions about Carl Eldh and the sculptures as well as the studio building designed by the architect Ragnar Östberg.
A warm welcome to a fantastic cultural and natural area in the immediate vicinity of the big city.

Britas salon: Shida Shahabi
2023-11-16 17:30 - 19:00 (Europe/Stockholm)
Carl Eldhs Studio Museum invites you to a musical salon with the composer and pianist Shida Shahabi, together with Gerda Holmquist on cello. Among the hundreds of sculptures in the studio from 1919, the musical salon is an homage to the cultural salons previously arranged by the museum’s founder Brita Eldh (Carl and Elise Eldh’s daughter).
Born in the Swedish capital in 1989, composer Shida Shahabi’s home was filled with both ‘70s Persian pop and long-established classical works, but, she insists, “it was the environment –my parents finding joy in listening and singing –that shaped my long-term relationship tomusic, not the genres or my family’s CD collection.” She was eleven when she first started experimenting with her own compositions, and in 2009, when she began studying at Stockholm’s Royal Institute of Art, she chose to integrate this creative urge with another, her passion for art. By the time she left, she was already freelancing as a musician with countless local artists and bands, and she soon found herself writing for dance, cinema, theatre and fine art contexts
In 2023, Shahabi released her second album, Living Circle, a carefully calibrated blend of classical and electronic elements. Combining ambient and drone techniques with traditional structures, its emotional resonance floats elusively within profoundly atmospheric, uncluttered compositions rich in textural detail and pervaded by a low-end warmth. An unusually immersive style, this provides a refuge which invites a reaction as cerebral as it is sentimental. In fact, according to Shahabi, “I don’t see any necessity in making a distinction. We need both to experience art.”
The concert is part of the project Britas salon and is supported by the Swedish Culture Council.

Winter weekend in the studio
2023-12-02 - 2023-12-03
This winter weekend, the museum opens up for visits to the studio, which is otherwise closed for the season.
We offer a guided tour in English at 1.30 pm.
In the workshop you can create Christmas ornaments, an activity that suits all ages. For younger children, there is a special Christmas trail as a way to discover the museum.
The museum shop provides gift ideas as hand-cast candles, honey, plaster figurines and craft materials.
Outdoors traditional non-alcoholic mulled wine is served.
Warmly welcome!

Britas salon: Stella Explorer
2023-12-20 08:00 - 17:00 (Europe/Stockholm)
During one of the darkest days of the year and on the eve of the midwinter solstice, Carl Eldh’s Studio Museum invites you to a musical salon with the renowned musician and singer Stella Explorer and harpist Pauline Burke Clason. Among hundreds of sculptures in the studio built in 1919, synth, harp and voice meet in a rebirth of the cultural salons that were previously arranged by the museum’s founder Brita Eldh (Carl and Elise Eldh’s daughter).
Descendant of a long line of musicians, stretching back to the underground concert halls of apartheid South Africa, Stella Explorer draws from her background and fills her twilight songs with rhythms and arrangements inspired by jazz music, pop and South African beats.
Only 25 tickets are available for this concert. Ticket price SEK 120 includes entrance to the museum. The doors open at 17.30 when the museum offers refreshments outside on the loggia. The concert starts at 18:00. We recommend dressing warmly as the studio is slightly cooler this time of year.
Brita’s salon is implemented with the support of Region Stockholm.
Welcome!

Jag har skalat av mig - Melanie Kitti
2024-04-06 - 2024-04-28
Among hundreds of sculptures left behind in Carl Eldh’s (1873-1954) old studio, plaster sculptures and fresco paintings by the artist Melanie Kitti (b. 1986) are exhibited. For Carl Eldh’s Studio Museum, the artist has produced a new series of artworks that are now presented in her first exhibition in Sweden.
The bumpy surfaces of the shapeless plaster sculptures are covered by colorful paintings, executed on damp lime plaster. A bit of Hessian cloth sticks out of the plaster; the material choices reflect the materials already present in the studio since Eldh’s time. Resting atop sparsely distributed white podiums, the arrangement is reminiscent of what it might look like in a classical sculpture museum. But beneath all the layers of paint, plaster and plaster, there is an excavation of deeply personal events in a kind of art historical showdown.
Kitti’s artistry intertwines the visual arts with language, where text and painting produce fragmentary images from a landscape of dissolved bodies, divisions and memories. In contrast to Eldh’s sculptures, her work is often based on subjective experiences of grief and vulnerability, through a kind of constant, border-crossing becoming.
About the artist
Melanie Kitti (b. 1986, Sweden) is an artist and writer educated at Forfatterskolen in Copenhagen as well as the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts in Copenhagen and Kunsthøgskolen in Oslo. In 2022, her critically acclaimed debut book Halv Urne, Halv Gral was published by Gyldendal. Kitti has co-founded Abhivyakti, a non-profit magazine with only BIPOC contributors, and has co-organized the exhibition space Destiny’s in Oslo (2016-22). Kitti’s work has been exhibited in solo and group exhibitions at, among others, Overgaden Copenhagen (2023), Rønnebæksholm, Næstved (2022–23), Nasjonalmuseet, Oslo (2022) and ARIEL, Copenhagen (2022).
The exhibition is curated by Caroline Malmström and Sara Bourke.

Britas salon: Melanie Kitti, Johanne Lykke Naderehvandi and Anna Rieder
2024-04-06 08:00 - 17:00 (Europe/Stockholm)
For the opening of the exhibition Jag har skalat av mig with the artist Melanie Kitti, we invite you to this spring’s first literature salon. Kitti’s artistry intertwines visual arts with language, where text and painting produce fragmentary images from a landscape of dissolved bodies, divisions and memories. In dialogue with the exhibition, Melanie Kitti and the invited authors Johanne Lykke Naderehvandi and Anna Rieder read from both newly written and earlier texts.
A limited number of tickets can be pre-booked for this evening. Ticket price SEK 120 includes entrance to the museum. The doors open at 18.30 when the museum offers refreshments outside on the loggia. Readings start at 19.00, after which it is possible to see the exhibition that opened earlier the same day.
Brita’s salon is arranged with the support of Region Stockholm.
Warmly welcome!

About the participants
Melanie Kitti (b. 1986, Sweden) is an artist and writer educated at Forfatterskolen in Copenhagen as well as the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts in Copenhagen and Kunsthøgskolen in Oslo. In 2022, her critically acclaimed debut book Halv Urne, Halv Gral was published by Gyldendal. Kitti has co-founded Abhivyakti, a non-profit magazine with only BIPOC contributors, and has co-organized the exhibition space Destiny’s in Oslo (2016-22). Kitti’s work has been exhibited in solo and group exhibitions at, among others, Overgaden Copenhagen (2023), Rønnebæksholm, Næstved (2022–23), Nasjonalmuseet, Oslo (2022) and ARIEL, Copenhagen (2022).
Johanne Lykke Naderehvandi (formerly Lykke Holm), born in 1987, lives in Malmö. She is also active as a translator, and has, among other things, translated Josefine Klougart and Yahya Hassan from Danish to Swedish. Johanne Lykke Naderehvandi debuted in 2017 with Natten som föregick denna dag. In 2020, the novel Strega was published, and was nominated for Svenska Dagbladet’s literature prize and the Nordic Council’s prize. In 2023 she was nominated for the prestigious Italian prize Premio Strega Europeo. Her latest novel, Röd sol, was published in 2023.
Anna Rieder, born in 1993, graduated from Forfatterskolen and debuted with the poetry collection Hindebæger in 2020. Together with Sidsel Ana Welden, she is behind a number of pamphlets for therapists and doctors in psychiatry as well as the anthology Hjertet er en fold med heste (2022) written by people with connections to psychiatry. The anthology was awarded Politiken’s Frit Flet prize in 2022.

Summer exhibition by Malin Gabriella Nordin
2024-05-16 - 2024-09-29
Carl Eldh Studio Museum is glad to present the artist Malin Gabriella Nordin (b.1988), renowned for her colorful abstract paintings and organic compositions. With a highly personal style, Nordin’s artistry moves between drawing, painting and collage to small and large-scale sculptures. An intuitive and transcendental painting practice that, at Carl Eldh’s, evolve into new sculptural forms. The summer exhibition mainly presents new and site-specific works and by opening the studio in new ways, our visitors will get a unique insight into the artist’s process.
A catalog is published in conjunction with the exhibition, with an in-depth essay by author Zara Kjellner and photos by photographer Märta Thisner, who has followed the artist for the past 10 years.
Carl Eldhs Studio Museum would like to extend a warm thank you to the museum and exhibition’s generous supporters Pontus Bonnier, Barbro Osher Pro Suecia Foundation and Anne-Marie Lembcke – The Ad Infinitum Foundation as well as the City of Stockholm, the Culture Council and Region Stockholm for significant cultural support.
About the artist
Malin received her bachelor’s degree in liberal arts from Bergen Academy of Fine Arts and has been educated at Pernby’s painting school in Stockholm. Since then, she has been noticed through numerous solo and group exhibitions both in Sweden and internationally. Represented by Gallery Steinsland Berliner. Selected exhibitions: Järtecken, Kristianstads konsthall, Sweden 2020, Vanadis at Mini Galerie in Amsterdam, Netherlands 2019, Bloom Head at Galleri Golsa in Oslo, Norway 2018, VOLTA14 with Gallery Steinsland Berliner, Basel, Schweiz 2018, Floating from Within at Gallery Steinsland Berliner, Stockholm, Sweden 2017, As Above~So Below with Gallery Steinsland Berliner, Market Art Fair, Stockholm, Sweden 2016.

Britas salon: El Perro Del Mar
2024-12-19 17:30 - 19:00 (Europe/Stockholm)
For nearly twenty years, El Perro Del Mar has been one of Swedish pop music’s most distinctive artists. Now the internationally recognized singer and composer is coming to Carl Eldh’s Studio Museum for an intimate performance with music from her latest album “Big anonymous”, a mourning play about death. Among Eldh’s left plaster sculptures, one can listen to El Perro Del Mar’s artistic encounter between grandiose blackness and gothic melancholy echoes.
The concert is part of the project Brita’s salon, where the museum’s founder Brita Eldh’s initiative to organize cultural salons is revived together with invited artists, writers and musicians.
A limited number of tickets can be pre-booked for this evening. Ticket price SEK 200 includes entrance to the museum. The doors open at 18.00 when the museum offers refreshments outside on the loggia. The concert starts at 18.30, after which it is possible to see the collection and the ongoing exhibition Jag har skalat av mig by Melanie Kitti.
Brita’s salon is arranged with the support of Region Stockholm.
Warmly welcome!

Exhibition: Theresa Traore Dahlberg
2025-03-21 - 2025-09-28
15 maj – 28 September
Carl Eldhs Ateljémuseum is proud to present the internationally acclaimed artist Theresa Traore Dahlberg (b. 1983), renowned for her monumental sculptures and poetic films.
Ahead of this summer’s major solo exhibition at Carl Eldhs Ateljémuseum, Traore Dahlberg has worked primarily with new and site-specific works. Here we encounter sculptures in melted bronze, copper, hand-blown glass and yarn – materials that carry their own memories.
I have approached the studio through never-before-seen archive material and the tactile tenderness that I experience in several of Carl Eldh’s sculptures. In my exhibition, I want to explore the garden as a place and figure, as a border phenomenon that raises questions about the tension between chance and control in play and nature. A state that invites imaginary worlds and hidden tales, says Theresa Traore Dahlberg.
In dialogue with the studio and the surrounding garden, the museum’s inherent history is also brought to life. The story of Elise and Brita Eldh, their close relationship, between a mother and daughter, is put in a new light. Through Theresa’s gaze, we see for the first time a composite selection of visuals from the family’s time in Los Angeles during the early 20th century. Dreamy, playful and sometimes suggestive images, which in their documentary form works as a capsule of a bygone era.

In late summer, the museum, together with Filmform, invites audiences to a film screening in the sculpture garden. A selection of films that the artist herself has curated will be shown to illuminate the exhibition’s themes in new ways. The exhibition at Carl Eldhs Ateljémuseum will be Traore Dahlberg’s first major solo museum exhibition in Stockholm.
In conjunction with the exhibition, a catalogue will be published with in-depth texts that stem from conversations between the artist and invited authors, poets and researchers. Artist Martina Hoogland Ivanow has been invited to interpret Traore Dahlberg’s artistry in a series of analogue images. The catalogue’s graphic design was developed by art director Maja Kölqvist.

About the artist
Theresa Traore Dahlberg grew up between Öland, Sweden and Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso. She has studied 16 mm experimental film at the New School in New York and at the Stockholm School of Drama. In 2017 she received a master’s degree in Fine Arts from the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Stockholm. Most recently, her work was shown in the exhibition Senapsträdet och himlens alla fåglar at Rikstolvan, in dialogue with works by Siri Derkert, Simrishamn, Sweden (2024) and Black archives. She also participated in the group exhibition Rock my Soul II, curated by Isaac Julien, Stockholm, Sweden (2022). Traore Dahlberg has also had several solo exhibitions, including one at Kalmar Art Museum, Sweden (2021), Institut Suédois, Paris, France (2019) and Musée National du Burkina Faso, Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso (2019). In 2025, she is also showing at Helsinki Biennal, CHART Art Fair in Copenhagen and in a group exhibition at Sven-Harrys Konstmuseum, Stockholm, Sweden. Traore Dahlberg has been awarded the Tempo Documentary Short Award for her film The Ambassador’s Wife (2018), which has also been screened at the Toronto International Film Festival, Berlin Critics’ Week, Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival and Telluride Film Festival. Theresa Traore Dahlberg is represented by Andréhn-Schiptjenko in Stockholm and Paris.
Carl Eldh’s Studio Museum would like to express warm thanks to Pontus Bonnier, Barbro Osher Pro Suecia Foundation and Anne-Marie Lembcke – The Ad Infinitum Foundation for generous donations, as well as to the Swedish Arts Council, the City of Stockholm and the Stockholm Region for significant cultural support.
Photo: Martina Hoogland Ivanow

Easter holiday workshop with spring theme
2025-04-12 12:00 - 16:00 (Europe/Stockholm)
At this time of year animals and nature wake up after the winter slumber. In the museum’s collection of sculptures you will find both motifs, so look for inspiration among the sculptures before you come to the workshop to create. The museum teacher will guide how to shape the clay into lovely pendants that can be varied endlessly. You will also get advise on how to paint and decorate your creations. Suitable for ages 5–12.
Drop-in, admission, children up to 15 years old free admission, free workshop. (öppnas i en

Stockholm Culture Night: One collection – many stories
2025-04-26 18:00 - 23:59 (Europe/Stockholm)
A hundred years ago, the Eldh family traveled to USA. Now, for the first time, documents, letters and photos from the time around the trip are on display. The museum, located in the studio of Ragnar Östberg, contains this and many other stories as well as Carl Eldh’s entire oeuvre.
Free admission during Stockholm Culture Night.
Warm welcome!

Autumn Holiday workshop for kids: Clay animals
2025-10-25 - 2025-10-26
Among the small and large sculptures in the studio, animals play hide and seek. Sometimes they are part of a work of art, sometimes they are the work of art itself. To find them, you have to look high as for flying birds and low as for swimming fish. Borrow an overview with pictures of animals that are available to search for. When you have finished searching, you are welcome to the workshop to sculpt animals in clay.

The workshop is free, regular entrance fee to the museum, children up to 15 years free admission in the company of an adult. Drop-in subject to availability, no pre-booking. We offer all children hot chocolate with marshmallows in the museum’s garden. Welcome all creative 6–12-year-olds in the company of an adult.

Open 12-16 Saturday 25 and Sunday 26 of October

2 November: The Festival of Lights
2025-11-02 16:00 - 19:00 (Europe/Stockholm)
The museum is open 4-7 pm during The Festival of Lights at Brunnsviken. Drop-in subject to availability, regular entrance fee. Warm welcome!

Winter open weekend
2025-11-29 - 2025-11-30
Welcome to visit when the studio museum opens up from winter slumber during the first Sunday of Advent weekend. Interactive christmas ornament workshop available and included in the entrance fee. Warm beverage served outdoors. Open 12–16 Saturday and Sunday.

Easter holiday workshop: Spring birds
2026-04-12 12:00 - 16:00 (Europe/Stockholm)
Greet spring with birds in all shapes – colourful, fun, imaginative, realistic. With your hands and various tools your shape the soft clay into a bird sculpture. The museum’s educators will guide and give helpful tips.
What could birds look like in sculpture? Borrow Find the animals and go on a search in the studio rooms. Among small and large sculptures, the animals play hide and seek. Do you find any birds? To find them, you have to look high and low.
A warm welcome to all creative 6–12-year-olds in the company of an adult. The workshop is free, regular entrance fee, children up to 15 years free admission in the company of an adult. Drop-in subject to availability, no pre-booking. For the children there will be free hot chocolate with marshmallows in the museum’s garden.

Culture Night Saturday April 18th 18.00–24.00
2026-04-18
The sculptor’s oeuvre
Step into the artist’s studio and meet a collection that spans six decades. Carl Eldh (1873–1954) assembled his maquettes and full-scale models, even for works never executed, in the studio he worked in between 1919 and 1953. In the studio rooms early wood works, sculptures expressing strong emotions executed during studies in Paris, Strindberg’s interpretations, the City Hall sculptures of the 1920s and countless portraits coexist. Carl Eldh worked in clay and plaster. Finished models were later cast in bronze at an Art foundry or carved in stone at a stonemasonry. Since 1963 the museum has been open to the public, inviting visitors to take part of a magic display in a unique building by the City Hall architect Ragnar Östberg.
Drop-in subject to availability for security reasons. The art educators are happy to answer questions about Carl Eldh, the art and the building but to minimize the risk of long queues there are no fixed tours. Big bags are not allowed in.
Free admission 18.00–24.00. during Culture Night

Exhibition: Samaneh Reyhani
2026-05-21 - 2026-09-27
Carl Eldh Studio Museum is pleased to present this year’s invited artist for the summer exhibition 2026 – the sculptor Samaneh Reyhani (b. 1990, Tehran, Iran).
Samaneh Reyhani is a Swedish-Iranian artist whose practice moves between the tangible and the poetic, with Persian cultural heritage forming a constant underlying current. Through sculpture and spatial compositions, she creates tactile, immersive environments in which historical references and contemporary experiences are interwoven.
In this summer’s exhibition, Reyhani presents a cohesive body of new and earlier works, with an emphasis on large-scale installations and monumental sculptures. Themes of longing, illumination and rebirth take shape as a continuation of an ongoing narrative, rooted in texts by Persian philosophers, poets and mystics.
– Entering Carl Eldhs studio, I heard a song. The song didn’t leave me. I could do nothing but follow it, says Samaneh Reyhani. She continues with an excerpt from the philosopher and mystic Shahab al-Din Suhrawardi’s text ‘The Song of Gabriel’s Wing’.
“… they asked him, why the Wearers of Blue (Kaboud) call certain sounds the ‘song of Gabriel’s wing.’ He replied, ‘Most of the things your senses perceive come from the song of Gabriel’s wing.’ And to the one who had asked the question he said, ‘You are one of the songs of Gabriel’s wing.’”
Reyhani’s work in wood, stone and bronze meets Carl Eldh’s craft-based sculptural tradition, and a clear affinity emerges. In this encounter, the material’s own voice comes to the fore – both carrying and shaping the sculptural expression.

About the artist
Samaneh Reyhani, born in 1990 in Tehran, Iran, is based in Malmö. After studying film at Soore University in Tehran, she continued her education at the University of Art in Tehran, where she received her BA in Sculpture in 2014. In the same year, she moved to Sweden and, between 2015 and 2017, completed an MFA in Fine Art at the Malmö Art Academy.
Reyhani has gained recognition through several solo exhibitions, including Bagh-e man (Cecilia Hillström Gallery, Stockholm, 2024), Boostan (Gävle Konstcentrum, 2023), Kaboud (Cecilia Hillström Gallery, Stockholm, 2021), and has participated in significant group exhibitions such as Som här (Trelleborg Museum, 2024), Uppsala Art Museum, Malmö Art Museum and Skissernas Museum.
Reyhani has also carried out public commissions, including Cheshmeh for Eleonoraskolan in Stockholm (2025), Gowhar for Uppsala City Hall (2021) and Shams for MKB in Malmö (2020). Her works are held in collections including Public Art Agency Sweden, the Ståhl Collection, as well as Malmö Art Museum, Gävle Konstcentrum and Uppsala Art Museum. She has received grants and awards from, among others, the Swedish Arts Grants Committee, the Royal Swedish Academy of Fine Arts, the Edstrand Foundation, and the Aase and Richard Björklund Foundation. Reyhani is represented by Cecilia Hillström Gallery.
Carl Eldh’s Studio Museum would like to express warm thanks to Pontus Bonnier, Barbro Osher Pro Suecia Foundation and Anne-Marie Lembcke – The Ad Infinitum Foundation for generous donations, as well as to the Swedish Arts Council, the City of Stockholm and the Stockholm Region for significant cultural support.
Photo: Marcus Matt
