{"id":5778,"date":"2025-12-01T13:08:25","date_gmt":"2025-12-01T13:08:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wanaskonst.se\/?post_type=samling&p=5778"},"modified":"2026-03-16T12:46:54","modified_gmt":"2026-03-16T12:46:54","slug":"svenungsson-jan","status":"publish","type":"samling","link":"https:\/\/wanaskonst.se\/en\/samling\/svenungsson-jan\/","title":{"rendered":"Svenungsson, Jan"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Jan Svenungsson, The Eighth Chimney, <\/em>2007. Photo Mattias Givell.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Jan Svenungsson<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

(Born 1961, works in Berlin)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Eighth Chimney,<\/em> 2007<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bricks, mortar <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Height 17 m<\/p>\n\n\n\n

With support from Kungl. Akademien f\u00f6r de fria konsterna, Stiftelsen Hjalmar Wicanders donationsfond, Stiftelsen Marcus och Amalia Wallenbergs Minnesfond, Sveriges Skorstensfejarm\u00e4stares Riksf\u00f6rbund <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Jan Svenungsson\u2019s The Eighth Chimney<\/em> stands 17 meters high and was built in connection with the 20th anniversary of Wan\u00e5s Konst. Svenungsson laid the first brick at the opening on May 13 and then constructed the chimney along with a team of bricklayers consisting of G\u00f6ran Holgersson, Ronny Murare, and Marcus Adamsson. The chimney was finished midsummer that same year. Svenungsson has created several chimney sculptures, and with every new chimney, Svenungsson has added a meter to the height. He created the first, ten-meter-tall chimney\u2014which no longer exists\u2014outside of Moderna Museet in Stockholm. Today, his chimney sculptures can be found in Norrk\u00f6ping, Sweden; in Taejon, South Korea; and in Hamm, Germany, among others. His latest chimney is 19 meters tall and was erected in Uppsala in 2015. Svenungsson\u2019s chimneys lack any function, are monumental in size, and can be seen either as art or architecture, as a phallic symbol, or as a relic of industrialism. Svenungsson also returns to the motif in etchings, photographs, and drawings. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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