What are the common perceptions of an artist’s life in the countryside? How do established art and cultural institutions in the city view activities operating in rural areas?

Are rural artists perhaps people who move out to the countryside to fulfill their dreams in the true colonial spirit of a neo-ruralism art movement? In the countryside, maybe they can combine ecological farming with carefree studio work in workshops that simply exist for free next door? Oceans of time beyond the noise of urbanity.

Or is it actually about people who have chosen to stay in a specific place? Who have chosen to combine education with job opportunities, commuting, personal and professional contexts, loans and debts. People who love their place and want to share it. To make the society we live in a little nicer.

On the mantelpiece in the living room, there are souvenirs from London, New York and Paris, but how can the achieved dream of the rural sensation be displayed? In the shop in Glasrummet at Konstepidemin, we explore and play with various ideas about the countryside, rural areas, and the city. Here, you can purchase a unique memento from Svenshögen, the centrally peripheral home of Stationen.

Stationen Visits Glasrummet

This exhibition is part of a series where galleries from around Västra Götaland are invited to Glasrummet. Stationen in Svenshögen is a non-profit organization that produces, organizes, and presents contemporary art and culture. They are based in the station house in Svenshögen, 60 kilometers north of Gothenburg, along the Bohus Line.