Summertime and Sculpture at Pilane 2010!


200.000 visitors since the grand opening in 2007. Sculpture at Pilane- animals, nature and sculptures in an ancient setting- has become a must-see for everyone, old as well as young. This year the exhibition area has expanded considerably and we have new exciting art from all over the world. As always, there are beautiful Pilane-sheep grazing freely amongst several thousand year old ancient remains in the Swedish countryside. And as always you can walk up to the viewing points on the mountains and admire the open sea to the west, from Paster Noster in the south to Måsekär in the north.

This year we can show a fantastic piece by the world artist Tony Cragg: “Points of View”. It is reaching almost six meters above the ground and has been exhibited in several places around the world, but never in an environment quite like this - a big open room, created naturally in the middle of the inaccessible hill. The installation has been a major work in itself and the piece should be in place by mid August.

Nina's Photoblog. 12-year-old Nina came to Pilane.

Ninas Photoblogg
The Icelandic artist Steinunn Thorarinsdottir is showing “Borders”- an installation of fourteen human figures in cast-iron and aluminum occupying the area around the old burial grounds. British Laura Ford is contributing with “Lion” and “Weeping Girls”- three furiously mad, inconsolably sad or maybe just charmingly dramatic girls.

Sculpture made of dinosaur bones. The Indian artist Jitish Kallat has made a 30 meters long art piece consisting of prehistoric bones, forming a question to the people of today: “When will you be happy.” Swedish Jonas Holmquist has left a mysterious black cube in the middle of the exhibition area, “Svart konstruktion“. If you want to know what it contains you just have to open the door and step inside.

Gothenburg-artist Nils Ramhöj has created a beautiful installation of birches called “Rekonstruktion”. It should be admired from the top of Pilane’s mountain. Back for the second year in a row is American Ursula von Rydingsvard with “Damski Czepek” and Swedish Leo Petterson with “Ur” and “Sprung”.