The art project Land Art Live

Water is a matter of the future. An increasingly warmer climate results in growing problems with storms, floods and droughts. In the art project Land Art Live, ARNA invited eight artists to create art processes at Vombsjön, out in the water or on the beach, to interpret our relationship with water in the age of climate change. With the place as a stage, the artists have worked in an encounter with the water, the wind and the weather. The result was six temporary land art works that were developed in harmony with the sensitivity of the site as a nature reserve. The art processes led to many conversations together with visitors of Land Art Live about water, weather and future during the Biosphere Festival in September 2024.

In the same week, the rain of weather fenomen Boris created catastrophic floods in Central Europe, while Portugal, after a long drought, asked EU for help to fight 44 forest fires. Water, weather and climate issues are connected and we need new ways to relate to water for the future, as the artists expressed in Land Art Live.

The ARNA-project was developed in Storkriket, an area that works for sustainable development within UNESCO's program for biosphere reserves and where Lake Vombsjön is an important drinking water resource. In addition to the art processes during the Biosphere Festival, the project has also worked with workshops and exhibitions. 

Art processes during the Biosphere Festival

The following artists participated in Land Art Live: Anastasia Savinova, Ida Bentinger, Jasmine Cederqvist, Markus Vallien, MASU - Mattias Gunnarsson och Susanne Westerberg, Roger Rigorth och Tomas Frankenstein Auran. Read more about their art processes

Fotografer i bildspelet: Johan Lindberg, Kerstin Jakobsson och Nille Leander.

Project activities - workshops for different target groups

Families on the beach

Families by the beach participated in creating the work Invisible Water together with the artists Ida Bentinger and Jasmine Cederqvist.

Preschool teachers

The artist and biologist Jasmine Cederqvist held a workshop on the beach about how land art can be used in outdoor pedagogy at preschools.

School students

Students in Year 8 at Färsinga School had a workshop at Åsumsån together with ExperimentExpressen from Vattenhallen in Lund.

Video and exhibitions

Video

Short film about Land Art Live was made before the Biosphere Festival. The film is available on ARNA's YouTube channel along with many other films from ARNA projects.

Student exhibition about the Åsum River

During the Biosphere Festival, an exhibition about how Åsumsån is doing was shown. The material was produced by high school students in the Färsinga School in Sjöbo after their workshops together with the Experiment Express from Lund University.

Photo exhibition

Photos from Land Art Live will hang in 2024-2025 in the Green Outhouse, which is a rest area on the west shore of Vombsjön in the Klingavälsån nature reserve.

Lake Vombsjön in Storkriket provides drinking water to 400,000 people in Skåne and is important for both food production and recreation. Read more here.

Land Art Live is developed at Vombsjön's swimming area, which is part of the Övedskloster nature reserve. Read more here

Storkriket has designated culture as a support process for innovative work within sustainable development.  Read more here

Thanks to everyone who made Land Art Live a fantastic project!

The ARNA-team

Kerstin Jakobsson - project management     
Jasmine Cederqvist - processledare
Johan Lindberg - photo and graphics
Nille Leander and Tom Pihl - photo and film
Henrik Rogowski - social medias



Production collaborations

ExperimentExpressen at Vattenhallen Science Center, University of Lund
Students in Year 8 at Färsingaskolan in Sjöbo.
Per Thuresson - sound
Nina Norén - reading of texts
Add Film & Media Ab - drone video
Thomas Lind - photo

With the location in focus

Biosfärkultur i Storkriket where four projects exchanged experiences on sustainable site development through culture. Thanks to the Environmental Protection Unit at the County Administrative Board Skåne and Övedskloster's estate who gave Land Art Live permission to develop on the beach at Vombsjön.