installation view with paintings hanging overlapped

Vivian Suter, Installation view "I Am Godzilla", 2025 Photo: Helene Toresdotter/Moderna Museet

Press voices about the exhibition

The exhibition “I Am Godzilla” has sparked enthusiasm among both our visitors and the press. Here are a few voices from the media.

“Suter’s painting is abstract and atmospheric. Much of it is pink, shocking pink, red, yellow, and purple. It is warm, strong, and pleasant in the older sense of the word. The eye enjoys.” (Kunstkritikk)

“It’s monumental. Breathtakingly grand.” (Dagens Nyheter)

“This is a magnificent exhibition that you should make sure to see, especially if you haven’t seen Suter before. She is someone to know. It’s one of the most exciting presentations I’ve seen in Moderna’s Turbine Hall.” (Sydsvenskan)

“It’s the quantity, as well as the variation and repetition, that creates the overwhelming impression of a free and irresistible painting style. Again and again, I am amazed by how Suter, over and over, manages to paint her way into the same relaxed and open ease.” (Konsten.net)

“I leave the wonderfully multicoloured jungle of a painting exhibition – an installation that also resembles something that might have been created in the 1970s or earlier. With its 350 paintings, it underscores that for Suter, painting is not about creating individual works, but rather about creating a long life of paintings. That day in Malmö gave me a powerful urge to open all the windows of the body. And to find a forest to paint in.” (Politiken)

painting in blue and orange
Vivian Suter, No title, Utan årtal/No date Photo: Sebastian Lendenmann Courtesy of the artist and Karma International, Zurich; Gladstone Gallery, New York and Brussels; House of Gaga, Mexico City and Los Angeles and Proyectos Ultravioleta, Guatemala City
abstract painting
Vivian Suter, No title, Utan årtal/No date Photo: Isabel Rotzler Courtesy of the artist and Karma International, Zurich; Gladstone Gallery, New York and Brussels; House of Gaga, Mexico City and Los Angeles and Proyectos Ultravioleta, Guatemala City

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