Since the pandemic broke out, Dan Wolgers and his wife Elisabet have lived more or less permanently out on the island.

In an old garage / boathouse he has his studio.

- I have decorated for my needs, both for the artistic work and other things.

It works well.

The studio I have in Stockholm is not much bigger than this one and is organized in the same way, says Dan Wolgers.

If you summarize your 40 years as an artist?

- In a way, nothing has happened, I'm not done at all.

I have not done at all what I had intended.

Maybe turn it.

"Free art is seriously threatened"

Dan Wolgers has often provoked in his own industry, as he constantly returns to questioning art, its value and the art itself.

The situation today is worrying, he says.

- Teaching is becoming more and more academic and bureaucratized, perhaps even deprofessionalised.

It is a serious threat to what is called free art.

Hear Dan Wolger's thoughts on career, art, the artist profession and creativity in the video above.

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Join us in Wolger's studio - called Garaget - on Gotland

This summer you can see Wolger's work in two exhibitions;

a retrospective in Falsterbo art gallery and a newly produced in Konsthallen Arnstedt in Östra Karup outside Båstad.