To build a temple
About intuition, material and creation as a spiritual act.
Christian Håkansson · Munken
Södra Munksjön · Jönköping01Artist
Christian HåkanssonChristian Håkansson, artist
02Like a Moth to a Flame
Sculptural installation · 2025
Like a Moth to a Flame
Konstnärshuset Svavel
Desire, attraction and the quiet violence of being drawn toward something irresistible.
Glazed stoneware · chrome surfaces · charred wood · seven partsReview · Jönköpings-Posten · 2025
03Munken & Munkens vän
Permanent public works · 2024Munken and Munkens vän
About the work+
Fifty concrete sculptures made to be touched, used, inhabited and encountered as part of everyday life.
Skeppsbron · Södra Munksjön · JönköpingView on ArtPlatformArticle · Jönköpings-Posten · 202404Subterranea — Atlantis
Site-specific installation · Taberg mine · 2023Subterranea — Atlantis
Catalogue
Christian Håkansson · Artist profile · Subterranea 4.0 · Open full resolution
05Memoria
Grez-sur-Loing · Hôtel Chevillon · 2025
Residency project · 2025
What does a place remember?
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A discarded cement ring found beside the Loing became a sculpture — until the material revealed something that changed the work completely. Memoria begins with that encounter: a place, a body and what is carried home.
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Book a lecture06Earlier works
The Altar · The Gate · To build a templeEarlier works — three linked installations
01 / 03
07Lectures
Available for invitations
Lecture · 60 minutes · Available for invitations
How do you become an artist?
A personal, visual lecture about paths, choices and direction — and about building an artistic life without pretending there is one correct way to do it.
For art schools, museums, cultural venues, creative programmes and young audiences.
The format and emphasis can be adapted to the place and its audience.
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Listen
Lyssna
Long
Längta
Seek
Sök
Ask
Fråga
Build
Bygg
Let loose
Släpp lös
Begin again
Börja omThe answer is not a formula. It is a movement.
Available online and in person
Book a lecture08Workshops
Art as a shared structureWorkshops by Christian Håkansson and Studio Mirage
Original course material · Five-part course and exhibition · 2025
The obstacle course
An artistic journey from prehistory to the future, created for people with intellectual disabilities. The course makes room for different ways of solving, expressing and building together.
With support from Region Jönköpings län · Tabergsådalens Kulturhus.Workshop and exhibition · Jönköping Culture Festival · 2025
A sculpture experience
A two-day sculptural environment where visitors made individual forms and gradually built a shared clay landscape. Musician Per Dahl created a soundscape drawn from the nearby industrial area and the surrounding nature.
Culture for Life · National programme · 2025–26
To build a temple: Kalmar Prison
A process-led ceramics course in which material, intuition and collective making open new creative possibilities and new ways of seeing oneself. Part of Culture for Life, Skådebanan Riks’ nationwide programme within the Swedish Prison and Probation Service and SiS, carried out here with Skådebanan Småland.
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Enquire about a workshopWays to work together
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