Om RAVINEN
RAVINEN is a vibrant and dynamic meeting place for art, music, experiences and design on the Bjäre Peninsula in Scania. RAVINEN is located just outside Norrviken’s Gardens in Båstad, next to the stream ravine that gave the art centre its name. The building is 1500 square meters and designed by Möller Arkitekter AB. RAVINEN is open all year round and houses three exhibition halls, a concert hall with seating for 210 people, educational activities, design shop and Café & Bistro. A sculpture park will be created on the slope towards the sea.
The founders of RAVINEN are Ulla Kraitz (1936- ) and Gustav Kraitz (1926-2026), who worked actively for three decades to make the vision of a cultural centre on the Bjäre Peninsula a reality. RAVINEN is located in a place with an endless view of sky and sea. The meeting between different elements is a central part of the soul of the business. Between the constant and the changing, between nature and culture, between the traditional and the experimental, between expression and impression, between activity and pause.
Based on the Bjäre Peninsula, Ulla and Gustav Kraitz have established a strong international reputation with commissions for works in New York, San Francisco as well as in Stockholm and Båstad. As the heart of RAVINEN is the Kraitz Hall, where we are showing an exhibition of Ulla and Gustav Kraitz's art. RAVINEN is created with the hope of being able to contribute to the cultural life of future generations on the Bjäre Peninsula.
Since June 1, 2022, RAVINEN has been part of Norrviken Utveckling AB, and is owned by Backahill AB.
The opening of RAVINEN on 1 October 2021 consisted of six acts over as many days. During the first day of the inauguration week, Olle Wästberg, former consul general in NYC, gave a beautiful inauguration speech that described the journey Ulla and Gustav Kraitz made to realise the dream that has now become reality – a cultural centre on the Bjäre Peninsula.
Birgit Nilsson-salen
A performance space and a common room for various forms of scenic creation such as chamber music and jazz concerts, theater, opera and dance performances, film screenings, symposia, lectures, literary events and more. The range of events and programs should correspond to the high artistic level that applies to RAVINEN, but should also provide space for experimentation and play. A unique, flexible, aesthetic and imaginative room with a new Steinway C-grand piano and 210 audience seats.
The Birgit Nilsson hall is carefully designed so that the acoustics will optimally suit the activities described above, and the room is characterized to a great extent by the wall elements on the side walls, which have been designed by Anna Kraitz and Gustav Kraitz in consultation with the acoustician Jan-Inge Gustafsson. The wall elements work diffusively and are central to the sound character of the room. Otherwise, the walls are equipped with ribbed panelling, which also has a sound-diffusing effect, albeit at higher frequencies. In the ceiling there is a suspended ceiling consisting of six large reflectors, all of which function as both reflecting and diffusing elements. The hall is equipped with theatre technical equipment, such as stage lighting placed on wire-drawn pipes, a high-quality speaker system and a projector for showing pictures and films.
If you have thoughts and ideas about stage activities that can develop RAVINEN into a national and international cultural center – please contact Stefan Klaverdal, music and performing arts program manager, sk@ravinenkultur.se or Charlotta Jönsson, operations manager/intendent, cj@ravinenkultur.se.
