Daniel attends today a board meeting of the Princess Estelle Cultural Foundation.
The Foundation has updated its website and presents today the Artist of the Year 2025:
Monika Sosnowska
Past and present meet in the new artwork which will be inaugurated in the Princess Estelle Sculpture Park this summer. The Artist of the Year, Monika Sosnowska from Poland, is internationally recognised for her architectural sculptures that reflect a particular period of time or social structures in transition.
The commission for the Princess Estelle Sculpture Park is a large-scale, site-specific installation that links to a remarkable but almost forgotten royal history. The inspiration behind Monika Sosnowska’s monumental sculpture Museum, is a royal museum project that never materialised. (..)
Model of Monika Sosnowska's artwork Museum
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What a wonderful history behind this new sculpture! That now Monika Sosnowska has been given the opportunity to use eleven of the marble pieces from the proposed Karl XIV Johan art museum in 1830 in her new sculpture. Almost 200 years later! Great to see how different all the sculptures are. The new sculpture will be places close to Rosendals Wärdshus Bistro and Café.
The artists are selected by the Board of the Princess Estelle Cultural Foundation assisted by the artistic council consisting of Ann-Sofi Noring, Member of the board of the Royal Academy of Fine Arts and former Deputy Director of Moderna Museetin Stockholm, Elisabeth Millqvist, Director of Moderna Museet in Malmö and former Artistic and Executive Director ofWanås Konst, and Georges Armaos, Managing Director of Nordic Art Intelligence.
The Board of the Foundation consists of HRH Prince Daniel, Elin Annwall, Sara Ellfors Lang, Lena Josefsson, Staffan Larsson, Janne Sirén, Lars Strannegård, and chairman Johan Ericsson. The Foundation’s Executive Director is Sara Sandström.
The Royal Court:
A warehouse in Stockholm houses a number of marble pieces that Karl XIV Johan planned to use to build an art museum. However, the museum dream was never realized.
Now, the Polish artist Monika Sosnowska, internationally recognized for her architectural sculptures, has been given the opportunity to use some of the almost 200-year-old marble pieces to create the work Museum for Princess Estelle Sculpture Park.
Behind the permanent sculpture park is Princess Estelle Cultural Foundation, which was established in the fall of 2019 on the initiative of the Crown Princess Couple with the aim of promoting cultural activities in Sweden.
On June 3, HRH Prince Daniel will inaugurate the sculpture.
The Princess Estelle Sculpture Park expands
Two fashion entrepreneurs are giving Stockholm a new work of art as The Princess Estelle Sculpture Park expands.
The new work by Polish artist Monika Sosnowska is financed thanks to a gift from fashion entrepreneurs Elin Kling and Karl Lindman. The size of the gift and how much the work costs are not public. The cost is over SEK one million.
"We won't go into the cost. Both Elin and I are very interested in art privately. We came into contact with the Foundation and Prince Daniel and so we started getting involved in the Foundation’s visual form, such as the Foundation’s graphic identity. We then heard about the idea of a work of art by Sosnowska and started working on the idea”, says Karl Lindman, co-founder of the Toteme brand.
“We are also helping to finance the research on the museum that never came to be”, says Karl Lindman.
Två modeentreprenörer gör att Stockholm får ett nytt konstverk när Prinsessan Estelles skulpturpark växer. ”Vi går inte in på vad det kostar”, säger medgrundaren till varumärket Toteme, Karl Lindman.
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Elin Kling has been one of the inspirers/entrepreneurs at Prince Daniel's Fellowship and its entrepreneurial programme for many years.
200 år gamla marmordelar från ett kungligt konstmuseum som aldrig blev av ingår i den polska konstnären Monika Sosnowska skulptur till prinsessan Estelles skulp
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200-year-old marble parts from a royal art museum that never came to be are included in the Polish artist Monika Sosnowska's sculpture for Princess Estelle
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