Mystery of Sweden's guerilla dog sculptures

[Stockholm]

They are popping up on roundabouts all over Sweden, but only a select few know who is making the wooden dogs that constitute the country's latest guerilla art movement.

It all started in March when a concrete canine sculpture on a roundabout in Linköping, south of Stockholm, was removed after being vandalised. The piece was the work of artist Stina Opitz, and had been commissioned by the local council.

But after a month or so a new dog, this time made out of wood, appeared where Opitz's work once stood. Since then, around 60 'roundabout dogs' have popped up at junctions around the town.

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"Now it's spread to other towns and counties all over Sweden - it has become something of a popular movement," Wiklund told The Local. Dogs have appeared in Stockholm, Karlstad, Skåne and other parts of Sweden.

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