Exhibitions
Current
Photography from the Moderna Museet Collection
Stockholm 1 February 2011 - 19 February 2012
In 2011, all the galleries will be successively rehung exclusively with photographic art. The chronology will be the same, but the 20th century will be presented from a partly new perspective. Moderna Museet will take a radical step, with Another Story - Photography from the Moderna Museet Collection.
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
Eija-Liisa Ahtila’s cinematic installations challenge habitual perspectives and disclose different perceptive worlds. She is a seminal narrator in moving images, who probes questions on what it really means to be human and a subject. Recurring in her works is a condition of uncertainty – about distances in time and space, and ambiguous mental ...
Eija-Liisa Ahtila
Soon open around the clock!
Stockholm 17 February 2012 - 19 February 2012
Moderna Museet is going to be open from 7 pm February 17 through 7 pm February 19. For forty-eight hours, seven of the museum´s galleries will be occupied by the sound installation freq_out 8. The result will be a combination of sound and light that will "drench" the galleries in all the colors of the rainbow.
freq_out 8
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
Stockholm 17 March 2012 - 10 June 2012
In 2012, we will be focusing on what children and young people’s creativity looks like in Sweden now, and so we are inviting all children to come and take part in an exhibition at Moderna Museet. Are children’s drawings influenced by computer games and the Internet? What are young people’s favourite topics right now? Do children use new ...
Planet Art
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!
Stockholm 5 June 2012 - 9 September 2012
By the late 1950s, Yoko Ono had already begun creating poetic works in which text, music, performance and experimental painting merge. The exhibition has its starting point in Grapefruit, which Yoko Ono (b. 1933) published in 1964. This book contains ideas and sketches for painting, events, films, dance, music, painting, objects and architecture ...
Moment: Yoko Ono
Past
Show exhibitions from
Stockholm 25 November 2011 - 22 January 2012
Ynglingagatan 1 was an alternative art space. The gallery was founded in the autumn of 1993 in premises which were only 16 m2. Their motivation was that at that time no-one was showing new international contemporary art in Sweden. The aim was to create a meeting place and an atmosphere in which dialogue and discussion were possible for ...
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.
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
Later Paintings
Stockholm 8 October 2011 - 15 January 2012
J. M. W. Turner (1775-1851), Claude Monet (1840-1926) and Cy Twombly (1928-2011) 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 ...
Turner, Monet, Twombly
On Words and Things
Stockholm 1 September 2011 - 4 December 2011
Moderna Museet Essä is a new series of essays published jointly by Moderna Museet and Axl Books. The first title is Lars O Ericsson’s Magritte – Foucault. Om orden och tingen (Magritte-Foucault. On Words and Things), which is also the title of an exhibition in the Pontus Hultén Study Gallery curated by Ericsson.
Magritte-Foucault
Place: The Nordic Pavilion, Venezia
Stockholm 4 June 2011 - 27 November 2011
Sweden presents Fia Backström and Andreas Eriksson
La Biennale di Venezia 2011
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. Her work is mainly characterised by explorations of the physical and mental boundaries of the public and private spaces ...
Klara Lidén
The Thirst
Stockholm 5 March 2011 - 24 April 2011
The German artist Jutta Koether(b. 1958) 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 - 29 May 2011
The French photographer Jeanloup Sieff (1933–2000) began photographing in the early 1950s.
Jeanloup Sieff
The Whirling Box or from Foot to Toe
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