Ystad skulpturpark

The municipal housing company Ystadsbostäder has for many years held the ambition to provide its newly built residential areas with some form of artwork. Since 2005, the sculpture “Meditation” by Bengt Malmquist has stood in an open space in the Grundström area.

After a while, a storage room was built next door, which made it difficult to see the sculpture. A new apartment building constructed on the site in 2020 made it possible to move the sculpture a few meters, and at the same time create a small meditative space with benches and lighting. The soft and robust sculpture thus got a nice and accessible place in the residential area.

Bengt Malmquist was born in Jönköping. He studied at Otte Sköld’s painting school 1951-1952 and with the graphic artist Zage Johansson in Jönköping in 1954. In the 1960s, he switched to sculpting in granite and marble. He was one of the artists who co-founded ÖSKG, the East Skåne Artists’ Society. His public sculptures can be seen in Lund, Malmö and Svalöv.

In Ystad, there is also an untitled granite sculpture in the Abbey gardens.