Kalmar konstmuseum is devoting one of its summer exhibitions to Liv Strömquist’s first presentation in the role of visual artist. Where Is My Mind?, on view from 23 May to 20 September 2026, examines how digital life, social media and accelerated information flows affect attention, perception and mental life. The museum presents the project as a new body of work by one of Sweden’s best-known cultural figures, now showing in a gallery context for the first time as a visual artist.
The exhibition is framed around a central condition of contemporary life: the sense that it is increasingly difficult to concentrate. According to the museum, Strömquist’s project opens “a door right into the late modern human mind” and asks what happens to our ability to understand the world when digital image cultures and constant speed shape everyday experience. The exhibition title appears as a pointed inquiry rather than a slogan, tying together the exhibition’s concern with thought, overload and disorientation.
Strömquist has long been widely recognised for her comics, plays and podcasts, but Kalmar konstmuseum emphasizes that Where Is My Mind? marks her first exhibition in the capacity of bildkonstnär, or visual artist. For the museum, that makes the project notable not just as a popular cultural event, but as a crossing of disciplinary boundaries from literary and satirical practice into exhibition-making. The institution presents the work as part of its broader commitment to contemporary art that engages urgently with present-day social conditions.
The show features newly created works in multiple media, including drawing, animation, sculpture, film and textiles. The museum says Strömquist has used antiques amphorae, oversized keys and “thinking furniture” to explore how time, concentration and perception are changing. That range of materials suggests an installation-based exhibition rather than a single medium-specific statement, and it places the body, the object and the digital sphere in direct conversation.
Kalmar konstmuseum has also positioned the exhibition within a wider summer programme of talks and tours. On 8 August, Strömquist is scheduled to appear in conversation with writer and cultural journalist Saga Cavallin in Stadsparken, with the discussion taking up desire, alienation and life in an age that is described by the museum as “chronically online.” A curator’s tour led by museum director Jonas Holmberg is set for 9 July, and the museum has also programmed lunch and morning viewings, as well as guided visits for the wider summer season.
The exhibition matters beyond the museum because it joins a broader institutional turn toward art that addresses digital fatigue, information pressure and the emotional costs of online life. By inviting a figure known for sharp social analysis into a visual-art setting, Kalmar konstmuseum is also testing how contemporary museums can frame urgent public questions through exhibition form. In that sense, Where Is My Mind? is both a debut and a sign of how museums are increasingly treating media saturation and attention as subjects for serious artistic inquiry.
