This autumn, a smaller exhibition of Mona Wallström’s jewelry from the museum’s collection will be on view in the Torsten and Wanja Söderberg Hall. Wallström’s studio is located at Konstepidemin in Gothenburg, and the pieces on display are all connected to this place in different ways.
For more than twenty years, jewelry artist Mona Wallström has looked toward House 10 from her studio at Konstepidemin in Gothenburg. This former hospital, with its strong presence and history, became the starting point for the project now on display; Regarding House No. 10.
The epidemic hospital held both suffering and care. Wallström drew inspiration from medical instrument cases, where function and form were equally valued, and from the shifting appearances of bacteria.
All the works are necklaces. Through interconnected parts, movement and transformation emerge – from representation to something wearable.
The necklace “Glänta” by Mona Wallström is on display in the exhibition.
As part of the project Regarding House No. 10, the piece Glänta is also presented, in which the building’s surroundings are incorporated. Glänta draws on a nearby oak grove where, in 2015, Wallström placed gold rings on the trees – a poetic gesture uniting memories of her father, forestry work and the passage of time.
The third part of the project is Epidemi III, which takes its starting point in the history of the building, the hospital’s waiting rooms, and the bacterial strains that cause scarlet fever, a disease that afflicted many children before penicillin transformed healthcare.
In 2024, several of the pieces were acquired by the Röhsska Museum through a donation from the Torsten Söderberg Foundation in memory of Dr. h.c. Tomas Söderberg. In 2025, Mona Wallström complemented the donation with an additional four pieces.
The jewelry will be on display in the Torsten and Wanja Söderberg Hall on the 30th of September – the 2nd of October.
Don’t miss the conversation with Mona Wallström during Röhsska’s Architecture Days on 4 October (in Swedish).
Top image: Entrance Regarding House No. 10, photo Kristin Lidell