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14 May—27 September
All days 9:00—19:00
(September 10:00—17:00)

From Bronze Age to contemporary art

Skulptur i Pilane 2021

Pilane, med sin spännande historia, ett stort välbevarat gravfält från järnåldern, fornborgar i närheten och en omväxlande, vacker topografi, är en av de mest unika platserna i Sverige, där natur och kultur samverkar. Här sammansmälter naturens rum och konstens rum i ett och samma öde.

Pilane är en plats för utsikt och insikt. Under ett tyngdlöst ögonblick befinner vi oss i en liten Arcadia fylld av möjligheter.

Tony Cragg

SCULPTURAL LANDSCAPE

In summer 2026, a generous selection of twelve sculptures by the British/German artist Tony Cragg can be seen at Pilane.

The rich and unpredictable quality of Tony Cragg’s aesthetic ideas is as astounding as the diversity of nature itself. And nature has been a constant source of inspiration for Cragg, who as a boy spend memorable years on his grandfather’s farm in southern England. The organic and the geometrical merge seamlessly in his evocative works.

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Eric Langert & Per Petersson

MORNINGSTAR

A new star, Morningstar, twinkles above the cliffs of Pilane. Eric Langert and Per Petersson have together created a spherical celestial body that captivates us with its shimmering colours and play of light. Prisms fragment the light and invite us to dance. Beautiful and innocent, at first glance. Quirky and deceptive, on closer inspection. A morning star — the shape of this hovering object — is a mediaeval club-like weapon with a spiked iron ball. Used in close combat became common in the 14th century and was made to crush armour and shields.

INFINITY

Right next to the enigmatic Morningstar is an entrance to … that’s right! To what? An air raid shelter? A storage cellar? A secret meeting place? If you’ve been to Pilane before, you might be searching your memory. Did I miss it last time? Was that entrance straight into the rock always there?

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Berit Lindfeldt

EARTH THORN

Earth Thorn stands among the boulders in a thicket at Pilane, as though it had sprouted from the memory of the ground. Berit Lindfeldt has wound black rubber thread round and round its conical metal base, like a dark weave of time. The interruptions, flaws and knotted sections are like scars, year rings or signs of lives that have been broken and patched up. Rising with a solemn clarity towards something undefined, the shape is breathtaking in its minimalistic beauty and laden with symbolic meaning.

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Per Svensson

SOUNDING FLOWERS I-III

Three cobalt-blue steel sculptures with built-in speakers are placed by a small pond in Pilane. They look like mysterious flowers in quiet conversation with the landscape. Their shapes resemble giant waterlilies — blue lotuses (Nymphaea caerulea) — or harebells blossoming in metal. When visitors approach, the works respond with sound, powered by sunlight through solar panels and batteries, as if the day itself gave them a voice. The sound composition moves from flower to flower. The moving sound almost feels like the plants are speaking an inner, ancient language. Sometimes, we hear rare water birds, or human voices.

Occasionally, the sound of the bells of Notre Dame in Paris is carried across the water, like a distant memory or an echo from another world.

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Ingela Palmertz

FIGURES IN SPACE

An airy tower stands tall on a cliff at Pilane. In four similar-sized modules, four smaller elements seem to hover freely, framed by a silvery main structure. The abstract shapes are seemingly simple. Our eyes, which are accustomed to looking for something recognisable, eventually spot the stylised figures. A slumped body on a chair. A back with splayed legs … A visual echo of an inverted reality, shaped with the industrial precision of minimalism and a concretist striving for autonomous form and pure colour.

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Ann Wolff

JACKDAW

A giant western jackdaw has landed at Pilane. In Nordic and European folklore, the jackdaw symbolises wisdom, intelligence and community. It has also been seen as a sign of change, and large flocks of jackdaws were said to be harbingers of hard times. But they have also been perceived as good omens and knowledge.

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Göran Hägg

BUTTERFLY

A gigantic, bright-yellow butterfly has settled among the rocks at Pilane. This sculpture Butterfly by Göran Hägg is a larger-than-life version of a monarch. Like a surviving species from the past, the butterfly stands more than two metres tall and appears both mighty and fragile.

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Jaume Plensa

ANNA

On the tallest hill stands Anna, whose immense yet meditatively serene appearance seems to exist away from the harsh light of reality. Just here, the line between material and spiritual worlds is erased.

Anna's exquisite, contemplative face with eyes closed conveys a sense of concentration and exalted peacefulness. It is as if she had come down to us from a timeless dimension. The dreamy mood sends a message of hope and unlimited possibilities.

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Pilane 20 år!

SENTIMENTAL
JOURNEY

I år firar Skulptur i Pilane 20-årsjubileum. Det gör vi genom att titta både bakåt och framåt. Har vi vårdat det 2000-åriga kulturlandskapet på ett bra sätt? Har vi förmått visa bra och spännande konst? Vad kan vi göra bättre de kommande 20 åren?

Skriv gärna till oss och berätta vad du tycker. Som hjälp på traven har vi satt samman en ”sentimental journey” där du kan göra en digital resa i kulturlandskapet bland de konstverk vi visat under årens lopp.

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