Art Inside Out is soon opening this summer’s exhibition IN THE WAKE at the World Heritage Grimeton Radio Station, which celebrates its 100th anniversary this year. During the spring, internationally recognized artists Einat Amir, Eric Magassa, and Emanuel Cederqvist participated in an artistic residency at Grimeton. In their encounter with the site, they delved into the archives, filmed, photographed, recorded sounds, and collected materials from old telegrams and photo albums, creating new artworks that will be displayed in and around the radio station throughout the summer.
Over the hundred years since Grimeton Radio Station established Sweden’s first wireless communication channel across the Atlantic, the flow of information and people has exploded. Today, we live in a globalized era where exchanges are an integral part of our daily lives and the larger geopolitical landscape.
But what happens when communication, personal and political experiences, and cultural identities are transferred from one context to another? What emerges and what is lost when boundaries are crossed? What negotiations, movements, and transformations occur? These are some of the questions the artists have based their work on.
– We inaugurate this year’s summer exhibition at the World Heritage Grimeton Radio Station with great joy! Art Inside Out moves around all of Halland and invites contemporary artists from around the world to stay here and create new artworks in relation to entirely new places and environments for art, both in cities and in rural areas. In meeting the place, Grimeton’s local community, the rich history of the radio station, and the world we live in today with polarization and conflicts, the resident artists have developed strong works that encompass both quiet reflections and politically sharp questions about exile, resistance, and diversity, says Stina Edblom, artistic director of Art Inside Out.
Einat Amir
Einat Amir’s video work Some Day My Work Will Return to You, Even If I Myself Cannot Return is inspired by author Thomas Mann’s radio broadcasts from his exile in the USA during World War II and connects them with recorded conversations with contemporary cultural workers from Russia, Israel, Hungary, Turkey, and Iran who, like Einat herself, today live in exile around the world. They share the experience of having left their home countries due to deep moral and political disagreements with their domestic regimes.
The work is presented in a bunker on Grimeton’s grounds that was built during World War II and is a powerful commentary on issues of censorship, identity, and resistance. Einat Amir resides in Helsinki and has exhibited at venues such as MOMA PS1; PERFORMA 13 in New York and at Palais de Tokyo in Paris.
Stena Olsson’s Cultural Scholarship 2022. Eric Magassa, artist. Photo: Peter Claesson
Eric Magassa
Eric Magassa’s work No Signal, Still Speaking is a large-scale sound, video, and collage installation presented in the middle of the large Transmitter Hall at Grimeton. Here, past and present meet in a spatial collage where voices, rhythms, and fragments of moving images leak out – sounds that have carried both resistance and dreams, from nightly broadcasts to songs of freedom, echoes of voices and rhythms that refuse to be silenced. Eric Magassa has exhibited in recent years at venues such as Moderna Museet, Gothenburg Art Museum, Malmö Konsthall, and in biennials such as GIBCA and Borås Art Biennial.
On July 2, Grimeton Radio Station celebrates its 100th anniversary with a grand celebration, and we take the opportunity to open a second part of the exhibition with photography by Emanuel Cederqvist. In the newly built visitor center, we get to experience Emanuel Cederqvist’s photographic series The Place’s Noise, which depicts the area in and around Grimeton Radio Station where history and the present are intertwined.
During the summer, Varberg-based artist Ana Carolina Fleming is invited to create a collaborative artwork with visitors to the World Heritage Grimeton Radio Station in the form of a collage with painting and mixed materials. On a long outdoor wall, the artwork grows throughout the summer and will be completed in August.
Exhibition: In the Wake June 14 – August 24, 2025
Vernissage Einat Amir and Eric Magassa, June 14, at 13-16
Vernissage Emanuel Cederqvist, July 2, at 15-16.30
(on this day, Anniversary Day #100yearsofcommunication for Grimeton Radio Station is organized all day)
If you want to book a viewing of the exhibition or a meeting with the artists in connection with the vernissage, contact artistic director Stina Edblom, Art Inside Out.
Art Inside Out
Art Inside Out is a nomadic art institution that invites nationally and internationally active artists to Halland. With the entire region as its arena, Art Inside Out occupies new and unexpected places for art; both in cities and in rural areas. Art Inside Out is run by Region Halland together with Halland’s six municipalities; Kungsbacka, Varberg, Falkenberg, Hylte, Halmstad, and Laholm. www.artinsideout.se
