AT THE BORDER
Sweden / Helsingborg Municipality / permanent exhibition / 'On the Border' / case
CLIENT: HELSINGBORG MUNICIPALITY
PROJECT: PÅ GRÆNSEN, PERMANENT EXHIBITION
TYPOLOGY: MUSEUM DESIGN AND EXHIBITIONS
LOCATION: HELSINGBORG, SWEDEN
KVORNING won the Swedish Dunkers Kulturhus’s exhibition På Gränsen [At the Border] in international competition. På Gränsen is a permanent exhibition about what makes a person a person and Helsingborg Helsingborg, with lots of exciting local features, stories and events.
The person is central to the exhibition, and so too the border perspective – geographically, politically, morally, humanly. The exhibition encourages visitors to transcend borders, both externally and internally within themselves, and it attempts to explain what history really is – and who makes it.
Is it the visitor him/herself? Is it the exhibition venue? Or something entirely different? Dunkers Kulturhus houses more than 3,000 sq.m of exhibition space, opening some 10 new high-grade international exhibitions every year.