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In the middle of the intersection of sea and mountain, the artists’ collective workshop is Bohuslän, one of Sweden’s 26 public workshops and one of four with national interest. We are, as it seems, in the middle of nature - but in fact we are one of several hubs in a culture-rich environment. We mainly exist to give professional artists professionally equipped workshops for different techniques and materials, but also be a place for stimulating, developing and exciting meetings in the art and culture’s characters.
Our location in northern Bohuslän, in the middle of the kingdom of granite and stonework, naturally gives us our specialty: artistic processing of stone. Our stone workshop is Sweden’s largest for artists, with equipment and space for both small precise works and large public decorations. It is unique also in a European perspective and every year, both Swedish and international artists come here to work with the material stone, especially the bohus granite, and meet colleagues. The proximity to several quarries, experienced craftsmen, tool specialists and stone transporters makes the work here practical and easy to handle all the way from raw materials to finished works.
Every year KKV-B distributes a scholarship, the Stenstipendiet, to a prominent foreign sculptor.
KKV-B is part of a long stonework history in Bohuslän. We have now existed for 31 years, but stonemasons and the stone industry have been around here since the mid-1800s and are still a very vital nutrition in our country side. Read more about our history here!
In addition to the stone workshop, we have professionally equipped workshops for analog photo, graphics (our large format press is one of Europe’s largest), ceramics, screen printing / textile, wood, forge / metal, and studios with good lighting conditions for painting, drawing and other work.
that are made on KKV-B are available all over Sweden and also across Europe. On the map below, we have begun to include some of all the works created here. Click on the small markers to get more information about the work and the artist who did it.