Stockholm
Current
1000 Photographs from the Moderna Museet Collection
Stockholm - 24 February 2011 - 12 February 2012
Radical new hanging of the collection focusing on photography
In 2011, Moderna Museet’s new directors, Daniel Birnbaum and Ann-Sofi Noring, will launch a new presentation of the collection. Another Story gives a fresh angle on art history, based on works from the Moderna Museet collection. We will start by focusing on photography, which ...
Another story
Stockholm - 20 September 2011 - 12 February 2012
In the photograph Self-Portrait (1993/2011), Cecilia Edefalk is holding a revolver in one hand, aiming it at me as a viewer. Her other hand is holding a camera trigger. However, the moment the picture was taken the revolver was pointing at a camera. As she aims at the camera lens she takes a self-portrait.
Moment - Cecilia Edefalk
Stockholm - 8 November 2011 - 12 February 2012
Ulf Rollof (Swedish, b. 1961) gained international recognition early in his career, exhibiting all over the world, including Europe, Latin America, Canada, Japan and India. The works in Moment belong to a cycle that is mainly about learning to accept a situation that appears inescapable. It concerns revaluations, breaking free from restricting ...
Moment - Ulf Rollof
Future
Parallel worlds
Stockholm - 11 February 2012 - 6 May 2012
Moderna Museet presents an exhibition featuring completely new works by Eija-Liisa Ahtila, one of the most internationally recognised Nordic contemporary artists. Ahtila has been a constant pioneer in the development of multi-media art ever since her video and performance breakthrough in the 1990s.
Eija-Liisa Ahtila
Stockholm - 17 February 2012 - 19 February 2012
freq_out8 is a sound installation consisting of 12 individual sound pieces – each using a specific sound frequency – that together form a soundscape. Each of the artists in freq_out8 will work with a frequency range within which she or he will create a piece on site at Moderna Museet. The result will be a combination of sound, space and light that ...
freq_out 8
Stockholm - 17 March 2012 - 10 June 2012
280 m2 of gallery space is ready and waiting! Moderna Museet wants to show what kids and young people think is important, fun, interesting, and/or beautiful. Therefore everyone aged 0 to 19 are invited to show how creative they are in the exhibition Planet Art.
Planet Art
Image over image
Stockholm - 17 March 2012 - 26 August 2012
Since her debut in New York in 1965, Sturtevant has notoriously insisted on the power of thought, performing investigations into the underlying structure of art.
Sturtevant
Painting as Action
Stockholm - 2 June 2012 - 9 September 2012
Explosion! is an exhibition of works by some 50 artists from the late 1940s up to the present.
Explosion!
Past
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Stockholm - 26 November 2011 - 22 January 2012
The non-commercial gallery Ynglingagatan 1 opened at a 16 sqm venue in Stockholm in the autumn of 1993. The driving force was a sense of frustration with the stagnating art scene. It rapidly became one of Sweden’s most important forums for contemporary art.
Moment - Ynglingagatan 1
Stockholm - 8 November 2011 - 8 January 2012
Every two years, the Friends of Moderna Museet award a sculpture prize to a currently active Swedish artist – the K.A. Lind Honorary Award. Since 1950, this has been one of Sweden's most prestigious art awards, with a prize sum of SEK 300,000. The Friends of Moderna Museet Sculpture Award 2011 goes to Sofia Hultén.
The Friends of Moderna Museet Sculpture Award 2011: Sofia Hultén
Stockholm - 14 October 2011 - 6 November 2011
Sexuality is vibrantly present in everything Marlene Dumas paints, often against a sombre backdrop of death. This small exhibition in one of the permanent collection galleries will feature a few specially-selected works under the title Coming and Going, based on her own motto: “It is very simple, Eros is about coming and death about going – ...
Moment - Marlene Dumas
Stockholm - 8 October 2011 - 15 January 2012
J. M. W. Turner, Claude Monet and Cy Twombly are three of the greatest painters of the last 150 years. This groundbreaking exhibition focuses on their later work, examining not only the art historical links and affinities between them but also the common characteristics of and motivations underlying their late style.
Turner, Monet, Twombly: Later Paintings
Stockholm - 30 September 2011 - 13 November 2011
The Royal Swedish Academy of Fine Arts, 29 September 2011
in collaboration with Moderna Museet
Fifty years of intense studies to find the key to Marcel Duchamp’s oeuvre will be revealed in a major exhibition at The Royal Swedish Academy of Fine Arts produced in collaboration with Moderna Museet. The exhibition De ou par Marcel ...
De ou par Marcel Duchamp par Ulf Linde
Om orden och tingen
Stockholm - 1 September 2011 - 6 November 2011
I samband med starten av Moderna Museets nya skriftserie Moderna Museet Essä görs en utställning i Pontus Hulténs Visningsmagasin som kretsar kring förhållandet mellan språk och bild. Både utställningen och essän har titeln ”Magritte – Foucault, Om orden och tingen” och är sammanställd och skriven av Lars O Ericsson, docent i praktisk filosofi och ...
Magritte – Foucault
Sweden presents: Fia Backström & Andreas Eriksson
Stockholm - 1 June 2011 - 27 November 2011
Curator: Magnus af Petersens
4 June 2011 - 27 November 2011
The partnership between the three nations sharing the Nordic Pavilion in Venice - Sweden, Finland and Norway - will try a new concept for the next three biennials. The previous requirement that all three countries should be represented by artists will be set aside to ...
The Nordic Pavilion at the 54th International Art Exhibition - la Biennale di Venezia
Stockholm - 28 May 2011 - 4 September 2011
Siri Derkert (1888–1973) is a pioneer of Swedish 20th century art. Her early cubist paintings are attributable to international modernism, while her later work for the Östermalmstorg underground station (1965) in Stockholm marked a radical change in the notion of public embellishment.
Siri Derkert
Stockholm - 14 May 2011 - 9 October 2011
Klara Lidén (b. 1979) initially studied architecture before switching to art. Her fascination for urban planning remains, and she now combines social activism, performance actions and film-making with large-scale installations.
Klara Lidén
Stockholm - 5 March 2011 - 24 April 2011
The German artist Jutta Koether (b. 1957) lives and works in New York and, more recently, in Berlin. She is a professor at the Hochschule für Bildende Künste in Hamburg.
Jutta Koether
Stockholm - 19 February 2011 - 22 May 2011
The French photographer Jeanloup Sieff (1933–2000) began photographing in the early 1950s.
Jeanloup Sieff
Stockholm - 5 February 2011 - 1 May 2011
Eva Löfdahl (b 1953) is one of Sweden’s most important contemporary artists. Since her debut, more than three decades ago, she has created varieties of paradoxical metaphors, challenging our habitual way of seeing things, in the form of sculptures, objects, paintings and drawings shown in exhibitions, or works made specifically for a particular ...
Eva Löfdahl