Sculpturepark Ouroboros | smedjatheresedesign.se

Sculpturepark Ouroboros closed for the season. Open again in May.

Admission: SEK 50 / person. Season ticket SEK 100/person

May-June: Fri-Sun 12-18

Midsummer weekend CLOSED

July: Wed-Sun 12-6pm

Aug-Sep: Fri-Sun 12-6pm

Other times and larger groups must be booked in advance

NOTE: Dogs and own lunch bags may not be brought into the area.

If you have a dog in the car, tell us at the forge and we can make sure the car can be parked in the shade and your dog gets a bowl of cold water.

Entrè i form av oändlighets symbolen; Ouroboros gjord av Niclas Engdahl, Smedja Therese.

Entrance in the form of the infinity symbol; Ouroboros made by Niclas Engdahl, Smedja Therese.

In our large, spacious garden/park, we opened a new destination on May 1, 2021; Sculpture Park Ouroboros.

Ouroboros; the snake biting its own tail is a symbol of infinity.

We hope that the park will offer endless possibilities and experiences for both mind and soul.

Therese Engdahl, Smedja Therese Parken 2021

Among the garden's trees, plants and flowers, in its small and large rooms, talented Creators display their sculptures for viewing.

We call the exhibitors Creators as they are wonderful creative people with different backgrounds and educations.

That is to say, they are artists, artisans, craftsmen who create art.

Echset Margaretha Bäcklund Johansson
Parken 2021

Therese Engdahl
The park 2021

The creators' imagination, creativity and high knowledge mean that the sculptures show a palette of colours, techniques and materials.

Our exhibitors live on their creations and they are from Västra Götaland.

Often sculptures in the parks are bought in and stand year after year.

In our park, they are "1-year-old", which means that the following year new sculptures will enrich the park.

Echset Margaretha Bäcklund Johansson
The park 2021

Every year, the previous and new exhibitors will be invited to exhibit with us.

This means that the park will have a new exciting look and content every year.

A tip is to visit the park on several occasions during the season, as the sculptures change as the garden's plants bloom.

Season tickets cost SEK 100 / person

Peter Skallström.
The park 2021

This is how the idea for the park began:

On July 23, 2020, on Niclas and my wedding day, Niclas says:

- Shouldn't we start making that sculpture park with us? We have room and we need one at Kinnekulle!

A few minutes later we were in full swing with the planning and the first of the park's first exhibitor/"Creators" was contacted.

Christian Johansson was actually sitting

outside his house when we drove by.

9 months later: May 1, 2021, in the middle of the pandemic, the Ouroboros Sculpture Park was opened.

Christian Johansson
The park 2021

Ouroboros little short:

As far as is known, the motif appears for the first time in the enigmatic book of the Underworld.Which is an ancient Egyptian funerary text discovered in the tomb of Tutankhamun, 14th century BC.

During Greco-Roman times, it was widely used as talismans.

An Ouroboros drawing from the early papyrus Cleopatra's chysopoeia is from the second century BC.

Cleopatra was one of the few female alchemists active during that time.She depicted the famous words hèn tò, (One is all!), surrounded by the Ouroboros symbol.

She is said to be the one who managed to produce the philosopher's stone, the elixir of life.