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Individuals Joakim Hedin and Paul Frankenius donated very generously to Borås City / Borås Art Museum. Previously, they had donated important works to Borås City and, as in previous ones, were made by internationally renowned and well-established artists.
The donation concerns a marble sculpture named Alhambra by artist Pae White and the Powerless Sculpture sculpture of the artists Elmgreen & Dragset duo. The sculptures will be placed in the new congress center in Borås, which will open in November.
For Paul Frankenius and Joakim Hedin, it is important that the art contributes to the new Borås congress center. Kongresshuset represents a major investment in the development of Borås as a meeting and conference center. Many people are expected to attend different types of meetings. Hedin and Frankenius also wish to contribute to strengthening Borås as a city of art.
Eva Eriksdotter, head of the Borås Art Museum, is extremely pleased with the donation. Boasting internationally renowned artists, Borås presents itself as a city of art and is also not a major asset for the public art of the city.
Pae White (born 1963 in Pasadena, California) is famous for her large-scale space installations where she mixes different techniques. She makes marble sculptures out of ordinary things. It may be ordinary food products whose shape was created by chance as it grows to become elegant biological works of art. The Alhambra sculpture represents an expanded popcorn.
Pae White has exhibited all the famous museums and biennials around the world and is represented in museums such as Tate Modern, London, Moma, New York and others. In 2009, she participated in the Venice Biennale with a large space installation. She has done many public works, including the curtain of the great stage of Oslo Opera House. White also did the artistic design of the new Berlin airport. Flughafen Berlin Brandenburg The painting "Magic Carpet" is hanging on the roof of the terminal. It represents the red carpet that will symbolize the connection between the ground and the air.
Elmgreen & Dragset – The duo of Danish-Norwegian artists, composed of Michael Elmgreen (born in 1961 in Copenhagen) and Ingar Dragset (born in 1969 in Trondheim), has been active on the international art scene since 1995 They live in Berlin but work around the world as artists and as curators.
In 2009, Elmgreen & Dragset represented Denmark and Norway at the Venice Biennale with the exhibition The Collectors in the Danish and Nordic pavilions. An exhibition that has received great international attention. In 2017, they received the honorable mission of being the curators of the Istanbul Biennial.
The art expresses in cross-border forms where architecture, design and art are mixed. Prada Marfa (2005) is an unmanned Prada store located in the Texas Desert, far from civilization. They also made a memorial to homosexual victims during Nazism in Berlin. The sculpture Powerless Structure (2012), a gesture of a boy on his rocking horse on Trafalgar Square in London, is another well-known work. The donation to Borås City is a reduced version of this sculpture.
For more information:
Eva Eriksdotter 0768-887681
Paul Frankenius 0702-708090
Joakim Hedin 0705-215300
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