Exhibitions & Installations
During the 2026 season, art, nature, and imagination meet in the gardens of Norrviken. Here, exhibitions and installations invite reflection, curiosity, and experiences for all the senses.
We aim to create more than just a place to pass through. Here, the garden becomes a space for presence, where visitors can slow down and experience nature with all their senses.
In a time often defined by pace and constant connectivity, we want to offer an environment where stillness, reflection, and curiosity are given room to grow. Art, design, and sensory installations are woven into the landscape, creating new perspectives on the place. Nature’s rhythm – from the first stirrings of spring to the quiet rest of autumn – is part of the story and shapes the experience throughout the year. Here, there is space for both wonder and contemplation. Norrviken is a place where the power of nature can inspire, restore, and spark new thoughts.
Moss People
20 March – 1 November
Location: The forest along Abelin’s Path
Installation
Two monumental figures from the world of artist Kim Simonsson have found their home at Norrviken. In the woodland landscape along Rudolf Abelin’s walking trail, visitors encounter Nest and Thinker – two moss-covered figures that seem to have emerged from nature itself.
The sculptures were created in 2022 for the international art biennial Lille3000 and are part of Simonsson’s acclaimed series Moss People. In this imaginative world, a Nordic fairytale sensibility meets contemporary sculpture. The figures move in the borderland between children and mythical beings, carrying stories of community, care, and reflection.
In the forest of Norrviken, they blend into the landscape and become part of nature’s own stage design. Here, the boundary between art and surroundings fades – as if they had always been there.
The Garden for the Senses
20 March – 1 November
Location: Erikshus
Exhibition
The Garden for the Senses is an experience where nature, knowledge, and curiosity come together. In Erikshus, visitors are invited to slow down, engage their senses, and discover how nature can offer both restoration and new perspectives.
Here, sounds, scents, materials, and light meet in an environment that encourages stillness and exploration. Through a series of stations, visitors can listen, touch, smell, and reflect on the ways nature influences our wellbeing. Research shows that even a short time spent in nature can reduce stress levels and improve concentration.
The exhibition evolves throughout the year, reflecting the rhythm of the garden across the seasons. It is initiated and created by Norrviken’s own team and forms part of our ongoing work to highlight the garden as a place for wellbeing and meaningful human encounters.
Seasons
20 March – 30 May
Location: Kamellia, Villa Abelin
Photography Exhibition
In the photography exhibition Seasons, photographer Louise Dock follows the shifting character of Norrviken throughout an entire year. Through intimate and detailed images, she captures the rhythm of the garden – from emerging life to rest and transformation.
Her photographs move between intensity and stillness, between flourishing and fading. Within what withers lies the preparation for new life, and in nature’s cycles a story of change and renewal unfolds. Louise Dock works closely with her subjects, allowing details and unexpected perspectives to emerge.
The result is a poetic visual world where even the fragile, the quiet, and the unfinished hold their own beauty.
Up & Down
1 June – 30 September
Location: Kamellia, Villa Abelin
Art Exhibition
In the exhibition Ups and Downs, artist Henrik Wahlström explores the contrasts of life – between light and darkness, strength and vulnerability. In dialogue with the lush greenery of Norrviken, the works become a reminder of nature’s power to create stillness, perspective, and hope.
Through colour, form, and expression, Wahlström portrays emotional movements that many people carry within them but rarely speak about openly. His art moves between anxiety and recovery, between chaos and calm. Within the setting of Norrviken, the works enter into conversation with the surrounding landscape, creating an experience where art and nature amplify one another.
The exhibition is also part of Norrviken’s work with social sustainability, where the garden becomes a place for conversation, community, and wellbeing.
Wedding in bloom
1 May – 27 September
Wedding & Inspiration
A place filled with inspiration, craftsmanship, and love. Experience the magic of the Wedding Pavilions, where floral splendour and shimmering details create a dreamlike atmosphere, inviting visitors to dream, be inspired, and plan life’s great moments.
At the heart of the exhibition is Norrviken’s own wedding dress, created by fashion designer Linnéa Samia Khalil using upcycled materials – a symbol of timeless beauty and sustainability. The dress brings together fragments from the work Rosa, shown at Norrviken in 2025, drapery made from surplus fabric from Dior, lace from her grandmother’s archive, and preserved flowers from earlier projects.
The piece is titled Saba – morning breeze – and stands as a quiet symbol of transformation and new beginnings.
The Garderner's World
20 mar - 2 nov
Exhibition
Welcome to a world of garden art, history, and passion in Halmhuset. Here, the story of Rudolf Abelin and the unique period gardens is told, along with the cycles of cultivation and nature throughout the year. Get to know plant hunter Tor Nitzelius, uncover hidden treasures, and be inspired by the work of the gardeners – a journey through the soul of Norrviken begins here.
Gate (2009)
Installation
The monumental sculpture GATE by Gustav Kraitz marks the transition between the formal garden and the surrounding woodland landscape. The work functions both as a gateway and as a piece of art, creating a clear spatial threshold within the garden’s architecture.
Its branch-like forms echo the organic structures of nature, and within the details small bronze birds are hidden. The powerful red colour, characteristic of Kraitz’s artistic expression, gives the sculpture a strong presence in the landscape.
The sculpture is part of the legacy of one of Sweden’s most distinctive sculptors and strengthens the dialogue between art and nature in the gardens of Norrviken.
Norrviken Design Scholarship
As a scholarship partner of Ung Svensk Form, Norrviken Gardens aims to highlight the next generation of designers and explore the relationship between people, place, and form. The scholarship is part of our work with social sustainability and our ambition to strengthen the garden as a place for wellbeing, reflection, and the healing power of nature.
Through the scholarship, a young designer is invited to create a design for a quiet space in our Baroque Garden – a place for presence and contemplation in dialogue with the surrounding landscape. This year’s recipient is Love Persson from Beckmans College of Design with the project Heaven and Earth, where personal experiences take physical form through design.
The work brings together contrasts – stability and unease, warmth and cold, softness and hardness – in a design language that balances emotion and function.
It is an approach to form that resonates with our own garden philosophy, where nature’s contrasts together create harmony and depth. During the spring, the collaboration begins as Love starts developing the installation in dialogue with the site.