Exhibition Programme January–June 2026

Moderna Museet in Stockholm

Karol Radziszewski
The Classroom

31 January–12 April 2026

A regular classroom in the 1990s is the starting point for Polish artist Karol Radziszewski’s exhibition “The Classroom”. The chairs, benches and concrete are familiar to most who were students or teachers during that period, and perhaps especially in Central and Eastern Europe. At the same time, the everyday school environment reflects something different from the curriculum one might expect there: hidden queer stories and iconic queer figures who have been banned are integrated into the classroom’s interior and educational materials.

Karol Radziszewski was born in 1980 in Poland. He is the founder of DIK Fagazine, which since 2005 has focused on male homosexuality and “queerness”. He is also the founder of the Queer Archives Institute, which works with artistic interpretation of queer archives.

Curator: Hendrik Folkerts

Brassaï

28 March–4 October 2026

Brassaï is one of the most famous photographers in history. In the early 1930s, he sets out with his camera on long nocturnal walks through Paris. The depictions of people and environments that emerge when darkness descends over the city become his breakthrough. The exhibition is the first major presentation of Brassaï in Sweden.

Brassaï (1899–1984) was born in Hungary, but France, and especially Paris, became his home. Here he begins a new era in photography with his penetrating images of the city. During the same walks he also begins the work of documenting the street graffiti.

The exhibition contains around a hundred photographs and is a collaboration between Moderna Museet, Estate Brassaï Succession and Silvana Editoriale, Milan.

Curator: Anna Tellgren in collaboration with Philippe Ribeyrolles

Anna Casparsson
The Isle of Bliss

25 April–16 August 2026

Grand palms and weeping birches, castle towers adorned with pearls, princes and princesses. With small stitches, Anna Casparsson embroidered magnificent motifs inspired by classic fairy tales, biblical stories and musical works. Landscape scenes became textile paintings and folding screens alongside her free compositions on grand piano covers, bags and tablecloths. For the first time since 1960, her art is shown in a solo exhibition at Moderna Museet.

Anna Casparsson (1861–1961) was an artist, pianist and translator. Her work is characterised by opulence, attention to detail and a joy for storytelling, and developed in her home in Saltsjöbaden outside Stockholm – an important meeting place for cultural figures in the first half of the 20th century. Despite her strong presence in an artistic and intellectual environment, Casparsson has remained relatively overlooked in Swedish art history.

Curator: Asrin Haidari

House of Nisaba
New Stories of Painting

16 May–30 August 2026

“House of Nisaba” presents a return to allegory in contemporary figurative painting. Over twenty artists present new works in a site-specific environment created by the architects Formafantasma.

Allegory – long tied to shared iconographies from myth, religion and history – is today resurfacing in areas such as autofiction, mysticism, astrology, esotericism and science fiction. Invoking the Mesopotamian goddess of writing, “House of Nisaba” transforms the gallery into an immersive space where newly produced paintings make allegory a vital form for our divided contemporary world.

Curator: Hendrik Folkerts

Swedish Post-War Period in the Moderna Museet Collection

13 June 2026–16 January 2028

The exhibition examines Swedish art during the period 1945–1979, based on the Moderna Museet Collection. These are four turbulent decades that leave many different impressions on art. From abstract idioms and imaginative expressive expressions to strong political stances.

With the end of the Second World War, Sweden’s isolation is broken and the doors to the international art scene are opened again. During the coming decades, Sweden modernises at a rapid pace. But faith in the future soon turns to anxiety, and during the Cold War, commitment to social and political issues grows. The exhibition highlights artistic expressions, moods and themes from the period.

Curator: Matilda Olof-Ors

Moderna Museet Malmö

John Skoog – Redoubt

14 February–17 May 2026

How do you build security in a world that trembles? This question permeates John Skoog’s solo exhibition in Turbinhallen. At the end of the 1940s, agricultural worker Karl-Göran Persson began the lifelong work of transforming his home on the Skåne plain into an armoured fortress. The first edition of the pamphlet “In Case of War” had been sent out to Swedish households a few years earlier, and he constructed his building at a time when tensions between the great powers were escalating.

“Redoubt” is a further development of Skoog’s short film of the same name, which was awarded the Baloise Art Prize in 2014 and was produced by Ruben Östlund’s Plattform Produktion. The exhibition highlights both the building and the film, which together tell the story of a sculptural lifework born of unrest – a mirror for our own times.

In collaboration with Søren Schwarzberg, Ernst Skoog, Gabriel Karlsson, Erland Rødsten, Laslo Chenchanna, Julian Ernst, Denis Lavant and Ita Zbroniec-Zajt.

Curator: Joa Ljungberg

Deborah Turbeville – Photocollage

Ikram Abdulkadir – Soft Focus

2 May–27 September 2026

The exhibitions on the second floor consist of two parallel presentations in dialogue with each other. Although there may be a difference of up to fifty years between some of the works, the artists are united in their work with fashion and portrait photography. Both have developed an expression where mainly female subjects appear in images characterised by melancholy and timelessness.

Photographer Deborah Turbeville (1932–2013)
developed a personal and artistic style of fashion photography. Together with photographers such as Guy Bourdin, Sarah Moon and Helmut Newton – all of whom emerged during the 1970s – she broke with the strong visual conventions of the time. Over the years, she had commissions for several famous designers and many of the major fashion magazines. She travelled and worked between New York, Mexico, Paris and Saint Petersburg. The exhibition shows, among other things, her expressive photographs taken in carefully selected environments, as well as the unique photo collages she created.

The exhibition is produced by Photo Elysée, Lausanne, in collaboration with MUUS Collection, New York.

Curator: Nathalie Herschdorfer

Photographer Ikram Abdulkadir (born 1995)
has attracted a lot of attention in recent years. She belongs to a younger generation that uses lens-based methods and moves freely between several digital platforms, between still and moving images, between exhibition formats and different types of publications. In upper secondary school, she began publishing her photos on the account “ikramianism”, which quickly led to interested followers and several commissions in fashion and portrait photography. Her motifs often revolved – and still do – around familiar places, often in her hometown of Malmö, and people close to her.

Abdulkadir is represented in the Moderna Museet Collection.

Curator: Anna Tellgren

Focus: Sound

13 June–8 November 2026

Contemporary art with sound as a central element is the focus of an exhibition collaboration between Moderna Museet Malmö and the Museum of Contemporary Art Roskilde. Through installations, video works and other formats, the participating artists explore the poetic and spatial possibilities of sound, based on both linguistic investigations and geographical locations. The exhibition, which is divided into two parts, expands from the traditional gallery spaces into the public urban environment. Some works and oeuvres are presented in both Malmö and Roskilde, while others are shown in only one of them. The project includes, among others, a newly produced installation by Emeka Ogboh, as well as works from recent years.

Participating artists include: Karolina Erlingsson, Hanne Lippard, Clara Mosconi, Emeka Ogboh, People Who Stutter Create (Jia Bin, Delicia Daniels, JJJJJerome Ellis, Conor Foran, Kristel Kubart), among others.

Curators: Andreas Nilsson, Moderna Museet Malmö, and Christian Skovbjerg Jensen, Museum for Contemporary Art Roskilde