Per-Olof Ultvedt is the artist who created “En Baddare i Badet”, the neon artwork that has been shining since 1969 at the entrance of the old swimming pool in Västerås. The swimming pool was demolished and a new one was built a little further. Today there remains only the wall of the original entrance where […]
If you want to listen to good Pop/Rock music we recommend the group “Out of Border”. This music band is made up of 4 guys, 2 Swedish and 2 French and is based in Västerås. Each musician has a long musical experience behind him and the mix of each gives a rather particular sound to […]
The water tower of Skallberget (a district of Västerås) was built by the architect Per Bohlin and the company VBB in the early 1950s. A typical “concrete” style of the 50’s, nice example of brutalist architecture. The tower is not completely circular but has a polygon shape. It has a capacity of 6,300 cubic metres […]
A dog’s head, a body like a sausage or an eggplant, human hands … This curious animal watches over number 2 of Storgatan in Västerås. And do not leave indifferent. We recognize May Lindholm’s sculptures in the shape of the bodies of his characters. Always firmly encamped on a round and heavy base and which […]
The first fluorescent houses were created by Mikael Richter for an exhibition at the Västerås Art Museum in 1995. Since this exhibition, the light house has been walking around. It started its trip to Stockholm on a thin layer of ice between Djurgården and Skeppsholmen in 1996. On the roof of a car during the […]
How many times in the year have you asked this question in your favourite bar? Many, many times isn’t it? This is completely normal because coffee is one of the most drunk drinks in the world! World coffee consumption is still growing and represents 313 kilos of coffee per second, or 9.9 million tonnes (165 […]
Houston, Houston… We have a problem!Are we invaded by little green men? What is this flat flying saucer in the sky? It’s a Frisbee my dear! And I would even say it is a disc golf competition! Disc golf arrived in Sweden in 1979 from the United States. In the U.S. the 1st course was […]
Eva Hild, Ply, 2014. Aluminum sculpture in Västerås. ”My sculptures are bodies, exposed to pressure and movements.Influence, pressure, strain. These words have been the foundation for my current projects that comprise communicating the theme in large, thin-built sculptures. Delicate continuously flowing entities. They reflect varying degrees of external and internal pressures, and how, as a […]
The lovely perspective from Engelbrektsgatan, Västerås We may or may not like this raw concrete block but we must recognize that its integration in the center of Västerås is not really a success. Brutalist buildings are difficult to fall in love with at first sight. Designed by the architect Ernest Simon Brofelth in 1971 (a […]
Here is the presentation of the exhibition made by the museum: “We constantly move between the virtual and the flesh-body world and do daily work through our interaction with machines and screens.”In a jointly designed spatiality with individual works, Bella Rune and Jonas Nobel explore how our digital and physical bodies relate to interfaces, materials […]