Music and glass are both lifelong loves for artist and designer Kjell Engman. When Kjell unites these elements in his mythical glass orchestra, it is a dream come to fruition – a resonant, whimsical, joyful consequence of his 45-year career as a glass artist with Kosta Boda. His incredible orchestra has roots dating back to when Kjell was fourteen years old and started his first dixie band, with a homemade double bass, banjo and washboard. The banjo and washboard are both included as reminders of these origins.

The exhibition includes around eighty glass sculptures and other objects – instruments from around the world, such as trumpets, guitars, lute, African calabash, violin, an assortment of imaginary instruments, a drum set, and a large singer on a stage. The glass orchestra is accompanied by two monumental paintings, a six-meter-wide projection with a “glass wave” and intricate lighting. As usual, Kjell Engman wants to offer a triggering multiple senses.

So indeed, it is beautiful that with Tracks of Music, Kjell Engman has shouldered yet another new role in his fantastic dream world in glass, color and form – not just as a director, but as an orchestral leader, a conductor, an impresario of glass. With his ensemble of unique glass instruments, made in partnership with master-blowers and the other craftspeople in the studio in Kosta, Kjell invites the viewer’s imagination to dance.