Exhibitions
Current
Untitled (Between being born and dying)
Stockholm - 9 May 2009 - 18 September 2013
An entirely new work by the American artist Barbara Kruger is installed and on display at Moderna Museet from May 9. The work consists of three large, wall-based collages in the entrances, and embellishment of two pillars in the 4th-floor lobby. Barbara Kruger has applied the style with which she is associated – the colours red and white dominate, ...
Barbara Kruger
The 60s - The Moderna Museet Collection
Malmö - 26 December 2009 - 21 November 2010
In our first presentation of Moderna Museet’s collection, we have chosen to focus on the 60s. A time in which the art is characterized by a drive to approach a reality outside the gallery space and to a greater extent fuse with life itself. Here we meet Robert Rauschenberg’s famous goat, Monogram, on the threshold into a new era where the concept ...
Spectacular Times
and Europe will be stunned
Malmö - 22 May 2010 - 19 September 2010
This summer's main exhibition at Moderna Museet Malmö presents internationally acclaimed film artist Yael Bartana. The exhibition and Europe will be stunned, which takes over the entire Turbine Hall, presents five video works that balances on a thin line between fact and fiction, history and future, rhetoric and propaganda.
Yael Bartana
Stockholm - 29 May 2010 - 5 September 2010
Curators:
London: Ralph Rugoff
Stockholm: Lars Nittve and Ann-Sofi Noring
The main exhibition this summer at Moderna Museet is Ed Ruscha: Fifty Years of Painting. Ruscha (pronounced /rou-'shay/) is a legendary artist in the USA, and especially in California, where he finds his subject matter. For many years, he has enjoyed ...
Ed Ruscha: Fifty years of painting
Malmö - 18 August 2010 - 19 September 2010
During one month, between August 18 and September 19, Moderna Museet Malmö will screen three films by Gunvor Nelson. Gunvor Nelson is one of the great pioneers of experimental film and today her films Schmeerguntz (1966) and Take Off (1972) are classics in feminist experimental film. These two films will be screened together with My Name is Oona ...
Gunvor Nelson
Stockholm - 31 August 2010 - 26 September 2010
Curator: John Peter Nilsson
Under september kommer Moderna Museet att visa verk ur samlingen av den svenske konstnären Ivan Aguéli och den amerikanske videokonstnären Bill Viola. Likheter i de båda konstnärernas sökande bortom det ordinära, mot mystiken och orientalismen, belyses genom drygt 25 målningar av Aguéli och Violas videoverk ...
Ur samlingen: Ivan Aguéli och Bill Viola
Future
Stockholm - 2 October 2010 - 9 January 2011
Curators: Fredrik Liew with Lisa Rosendahl and Gertrud Sandqvist
The Moderna Exhibition is a recurring exhibition of contemporary art in Sweden presented every four years by Moderna Museet. Our ambition is to create an open forum for discussion about Swedish contemporary art. The first Moderna Exhibition was held in 2006, and in 106 ...
The Moderna Exhibition 2010
Painted Truths
Malmö - 9 October 2010 - 2 January 2011
This autumn and winter, Moderna Museet Malmö is featuring its largest exhibition so far, in terms of floor space. The entire Turbine Hall and the new gallery will be used for the exhibition Alice Neel: Painted Truths, summarising 70 years of work by the American artist.
Curators: Jeremy Lewison and Magnus Jensner
Alice Neel
Four works in dialogue 1973-2010
Stockholm - 16 October 2010 - 23 January 2011
Mary Kelly is one of the most influential contemporary artists today. Her project-based work is created in dialogue with the women’s movement of the 1970s as a series of ongoing questions informed by feminism, and she is a vital inspiration to younger artists. Over the years, she has developed a unique way of combining personal narratives with a ...
Mary Kelly
Past
Show exhibitions from
Stockholm - 8 May 2010 - 15 August 2010
Curator: Magnus af Petersens
Keren Cytter has rapidly established herself internationally as one of the most interesting and unique artists on the contemporary art scene. At the mere age of 30 (born 1977 in Tel Aviv, currently living and working in Berlin), in the last eight years she has produced more than 50 video works, written three ...
Keren Cytter
A Printed Retrospective, 1960-1971
Malmö - 27 March 2010 - 1 August 2010
The French artist Pierre Leguillon has compiled a unique retrospective on the large body of work produced by Diane Arbus for the Anglo-American press in the 1960s. This spring and summer, the exhibition will be shown at Moderna Museet Malmö, featuring some 100 photos in their original context – on the pages of magazines.
Curator: Joa ...
Pierre Leguillon features Diane Arbus:
Stockholm - 13 February 2010 - 25 April 2010
Curator: Iris Müller-Westermann.
“Ideas are the most powerful thing in the world.”
Lee Lozano, 1970
For the first time, Lee Lozano (1930-1999) is presented to a Nordic audience. This American artist, whose original and provocative oeuvre is still unknown to the general public, especially in Europe, was part ...
Lee Lozano. Paintings, drawings and social investigations.