Collection Highlight: Jason Rhoades

Over the years, nearly 300 artists have left their mark at Wanås. Few have made a stronger, personal impression than the artist Jason Rhoades, known by friends as “Jason the Mason.” From his legendary artwork made for the sculpture park in 1996, a small part still remains in the Wanås Foundation’s collection – a graffiti-painted horse and a copy of the original Ikea.

The exhibition Everything is Always Somehow Connected in Wanås Studio tell the story of Rhoades’ Frigidaire (Cold Wind). A story about how an artwork can grow in dialogue with a site, people, and the times we live in. The exhibition is based on the scholarship done on Rhoades, interviews with people, who worked closely with the artist, their memories and stories, and archive material from the Wanås Foundation and The Estate of Jason Rhoades.

As an extension to the exhibition there is a drop in creative workshop where you can create inspired by Jason Rhoades. You find it in Studio 2 daily over the summer and on weekends in the fall.

Today, the Wanås Foundation’s collection includes around 80 artworks. In the recurring series Collection Highlight, works from the collection are reactivated and reconsidered in different ways.

Thanks to the Ikea Museum for support.