Seven Rooms and a Garden

Rashid Johnson and The Moderna Museet Collection

Stockholm, 30.9 2023 – 8.9 2024

In the exhibition “Seven Rooms and a Garden” the work of American artist and filmmaker Rashid Johnson is in conversation, confrontation and at times collusion with the collection of Moderna Museet. Each room in the exhibition – and a garden – stages an encounter based on the personal, political and art historical relationships that unfold in his practice.

Rashid Johnson (b. 1977, Chicago, USA) is recognised as one of the most influential artists of his generation. In his paintings, sculptures, films, performances and photographs, he draws from his own biography, as well as numerous art and cultural histories, to compose searing meditations on being.

“Seven Rooms” and a Garden is the third chapter of the museum’s new collection display where artworks from Moderna Museet’s collection are presented in three lager shifting thematic exhibitions. Together the exhibitions plumb the depths of a variety of narratives from art history, replacing the earlier chronological format. Over time, the audience will thus encounter more works from Moderna Museet’s collection, which has one of Europe’s foremost collections of modern and contemporary art.

To the press release (PDF)

Installation views will be available from September 28, 2023.
If you like to get the booket (mentioned in the press release) via e-mail (PDF), please contact press@modernamuseet.se

Robert Rauschenberg, Monogram, 1955–1959 Photo: Albin Dahlström/Moderna Museet