Heart brain

Marika and CG Wachtmeister started collecting art in the 1970s and today manage a collection of nearly 300 works. One of these is Monika Larsen Dennis’ glass sculpture Heartbrain (red) 1997, a molded heart the size of a brain. According to this heart-brain logic, the Wachtmeisters’ collection emerges, where the love of art is exchanged with a desire to understand our contemporary times.

The collection includes works by the artists who have created the most debate and attention internationally in recent decades: Louise Bourgeois, Nan Goldin, Nathalie Djurberg and Hans Berg, Andres Serrano, William Kentridge, Ann-Sofi Sidén and many more.

In an art collection, it is possible to trace both a collector’s interests and the currents of ideas of which the collection’s art is a part. Art helps us see ourselves and the world around us. What can we understand about the world, society and ourselves through a collection of contemporary art from the last 50 years?