WILDLIFE
NATURE
SCULPTURE
PILANE 2025
May 17 — September 28
Daily 9.00 — 19.00
(September 10:00 — 17:00)
ARTISTS 2025
UGO RONDINONE
MOA ISRAELSSON
JAY GARD
GÖRAN HÄGG
TONY CRAGG
SOFIA OLOFSSON
JAUME PLENSA
From Bronze Age to contemporary art
MAY 17 — SEPTEMBER 28
Pilane is one of Sweden’s most unique places, with a fascinating history, a large and well-preserved Iron-Age burial ground, nearby ancient fortifications and beautiful, varied topography. Here, nature and culture are in harmony, and landscape and art are joined in a common destiny.
UGO
RONDINONE
PRIMORDIAL
"PRIMORDIAL connects us
with our sources in the natural world;
its beauties and terrors and mysteries
and consolations”
Ugo Rondinone the modern
At Pilane, you can enjoy nature and art at the same time. In summer 2025, we will host Primordial, a solo exhibition of the New York-based Swiss artist Ugo Rondinone. It features five monumental stone sculptures with individual titles: the dedicated, the eloquent, the youthful, the angelic, and the modern, all made in 2024. The presentation also includes the bronze sculpture the sun (2022).
Ugo Rondinone the dedicated
Like visitors from the primordial past, these behemoths stand nearly five metres tall along the pathway through the Pilane Sculpture Park. Seemingly similar, these giants each have their distinct personalities, as their names suggest.
Ugo Rondinone the eloquent
Ugo Rondinone works in stone in the most archetypical way. He refrains from classical figure modelling and trusts the clarity of archaic forms. At first glance, his imagery is rough-hewn and unsentimental. Gradually, however, the truculent material reveals an astounding sensitivity and beauty, in the volumes that Rondinone chisels out of them. Some parts absorb light, while others reflect it. The veins and natural colouring of the stone surfaces resemble skin tones on these colossuses.
Ugo Rondinone the angelic
Ugo Rondinone’s mighty figures combine the robust with the simple, and the jagged with the fragile. Their presence in the verdure and crags near the ancient burial site is so natural that they seem like a homecoming rather than a visit.
Ugo Rondinone the sun
At the top of one of Pilanes mountain peaks, Rondinones beautiful the sun is shimmering over the North Sea, the iconic lighthouse Pater Noster and a large part of the West Sweden archipelago.
Furthermore Pilane is proud to present the following artists 2025: Jay Gard, Göran Hägg, Moa Israelsson, Tony Cragg, Jaume Plensa and Sofia Olofsson.
Jay Gard Baroque Schnörkel
Göran Hägg Utopia
Moa Israelsson Go Gone
Tony Cragg Pool
Jaume Plensa Anna
Sofia Olofsson Hortus Conclusus
Pilane burial field
The Pilane gravesite is one of the largest in Sweden set in a stunning landscape. Read about the history of Pilane. The site is also well-known for its unique flora and fauna stemming from ancient times.
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PILANE HERITAGE MUSEUM
Zygaena filipendulae
Ajuga pyramidalis
