Official visitors guide
Jönköping | Huskvarna
Gränna | Visingsö
Official visitors guide
Jönköping | Huskvarna
Gränna | Visingsö
Dark Flora / Темна флора tackles the increasingly critical ecological and cultural darkness in the wake of the war in Ukraine, the climate crisis and ecocide from a Swedish-Ukrainian perspective. While the Russian full-scale invasion in Ukraine has destroyed entire ecosystems and led to large-scale environmental destruction, a silent but systematic depletion and extinction of species is taking place in Swedish forests, waterways and wetlands.
Despite geopolitical and botanical differences between Sweden and Ukraine, Dark Flora / Темна флора focuses on the similarities in how we perceive, care for and mourn the threatened or already extinct plant nature, as well as the void left behind. The flora we cannot save in nature, can we preserve and remember it with art? Can art become a haven for a more-than-biological resilience – in war as in peace? In Dark Flora / Темна флора we get a glimpse of a nature that is at once vulnerable and resilient, where traumatic history and the emerging future meet.
Dark Flora / Темна флора connects places, practices and people in Sweden and Ukraine and fosters an ecosystem of perspectives and experiences. The following artists, researchers and activists participate in the exhibition:
Flora of Ukraine, Darya Tsymbalyuk, Anna Zvyagintseva, Katya Buchatska, Hagrenbela, Ove Imland, Gränna skogsgrupp, Lerin/Hystad, Anaïs Tondeur + Michael Marder, Yana Kononova and Timo Menke.
OPENING: SATURDAY APRIL 5TH 13.00