Cindy Sherman, Untitled Film Still #56, 1980 © Cindy Sherman Courtesy of the artist and Metro Pictures, New York. Photo: Åsa Lundén/Moderna Museet
11.2 2016
See the exhibition The Artist in Stockholm
The Artist is about roles, ideals and myths, and explores our notions of gender, ethnicity, sexuality and class. The exhibition uniquely brings together works from the collections of Moderna Museet, the Nationalmuseum and the Royal Academy of Fine Arts. Cindy Sherman, Helene Schjerfbeck and Wassily Kandinsky are among the artists represented by works from the Moderna Museet collection.
The role of the artist is anything but uniform. The court painter undertaking commissions for clients is a far cry from the bohemian wishing to live a life unshackled by establishment values. The exhibition considers a variety of artistic roles, as well as the myths surrounding them. It also shows just how numerous and influential female artists have been, and how they shook up the accepted notion of artists as male in the 1870s and ’80s.
The Artist will be shown at Moderna Museet Malmö from 24 September, 2016 to 19 February, 2017
Featured artists from the Moderna Museet collection:
Anna Casparsson
Annica Karlsson Rixon
Catti Brandelius
Christine Ödlund
Cindy Sherman
David Robbins
Ernst Billgren
Fia-Stina Sandlund
Georges Adéagbo
Gösta Adrian-Nilsson
Helene Schjerfbeck
Irving Penn
Isaac Grünewald
Ivan Aguéli
Jeff Koons
Kazimir Malevitj
Lena Svedberg
Marcel Duchamp
Marie-Louise Ekman
Martha Rosler
Meriç Algün Ringborg
Nils Dardel
Olle Baertling
Pablo Picasso
Paul McCarthy
Siri Derkert
Sturtevant
Tyra Lundgren
Vibeke Tandberg
Wassily Kandinsky
Vera Nilsson
Willem de Kooning
Öyvind Fahlström
Published 11 February 2016 · Updated 11 February 2016
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