Press materials

This is where you will find press releases and press images from exhibitions and settings in Moderna Museet in Stockholm and Moderna Museet Malmö. As a journalist or if you are reporting on our activities and exhibitions in some other capacity, you are most welcome to use these materials.

PRESS IMAGES

Press images are available prior to and during the respective exhibition period. These images may only be used in connection with reports about the relevant exhibition or Moderna Museet’s activities in general. The images must not be cropped or altered in any way, neither in print nor when published on the internet. Captions and any information about copyright must always be included.
Images of works of art are protected by Swedish copyright law (SFS 1960:729).

CURRENT PRESS MATERIAL

Ragnar Sandberg, Rosa segel/Pink sails, 1934 Photo: Albin Dahlström/Moderna Museet

Pink Sails (Rosa segel)

Swedish Modernism in the Moderna Museet collection

Stockholm, 17.6 2023 – 1.1 2025

The exhibition “Pink Sails” presents some of the numerous narratives and varying artistic expressions that existed side by side in what has become known as Swedish Modernism. Visitors meet works from the extensive Moderna Museet collection from the beginning of the twentieth century until the 1940s. In all, a total of around 100 works will be on display, from artists that include Anna Casparsson, Siri Derkert, Sven X-et Erixson, Isaac Grünewald, Sigrid Hjertén, Bror Hjort, Hilding Linnqvist, Vera Nilsson, Ragnar Sandberg and Otte Sköld.
Monica Sjöö, The Goddess at Avebury and Silbury, 1978 © Museum Anna Nordlander, Skellefteå (deposition from The Estate of Monica Sjöö). Photo: Albin Dahlström/Moderna Museet

Monica Sjöö

The Great Cosmic Mother

Stockholm, 13.5 2023 – 15.10 2023

Monica Sjöö (1938–2005) was a Swedish-British artist, activist, writer and eco-feminist. Art, politics and spirituality are inseparable in her oeuvre, and Sjöö became a key figure in the British women’s liberation movement. With a deep commitment to women’s rights and environmentalism, she fought uncompromisingly for freedom from any form of oppression. This retrospective exhibition introduces visitors to works that were all created to promote social change, causing controversy and cries for censorship at the time. Their subject matter and messages are just as relevant today.
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Lotte Laserstein, Self Portrait with Cat, 1928 Leicester Museums & Galleries Photo: ©Leicester Museums & Galleries/Bridgeman Images/TT Bildupphovsrätt 2023

Lotte Laserstein — A Divided Life

Malmö, 6.5 2023 – 1.10 2023

The ground-breaking German-Swedish artist Lotte Laserstein (1898–1993) is one of the art world’s most exciting recent rediscoveries. “A Divided Life”, which is on view in the museum’s great Turbine Hall, is the largest exhibition of Laserstein’s work to date in the Nordic Region.
Young woman looking into a mirror sideways
Laurie Anderson, Absent in the Present: Looking into a Mirror Sideways 2, 1975 From Self-portrait series. © Laurie Anderson

Laurie Anderson

Looking into a Mirror Sideways

Stockholm, 1.4 2023 – 3.9 2023

Artist, performer, composer, filmmaker and writer, Laurie Anderson’s boundary defying work has elevated her to legendary status among the pioneers of American avant-garde art, experimental music and independent culture. Storytelling, listening and language are at the very core of her art.
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Jimmy Robert, Untitled, 2022 Photo: Courtesy the artist, Tanya Leighton, Berlin and Los Angeles, and Stigter Van Doesburg, Amsterdam.

Jimmy Robert – Assymetrical Grammar

Malmö, 1.4 2023 – 3.9 2023

On April 1, Moderna Museet Malmö opens the exhibition “Jimmy Robert – Asymmetrical Grammar”. Robert works with staging art historical discussions and contemporary issues. His art, which often brings out a poetic dimension in everyday materials, breaks down the division between image and object. Robert examines the relationship between body and material and exposes art history to new interpretations in regards to representation and identity.
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Ingrid Orfali, Moby Dick repasse, 1987 Photo: Prallan Allsten/Moderna Museet. The image is slightly cropped.

Sleepless Nights

The 1980s in the Moderna Museet Collection

Stockholm, 28.2 2023 – 14.1 2024

In the contradictory 1980s, several remarkable women artists emerged in Sweden and the Nordic region. “Sleepless Nights” revolves around them. The name of this exhibition was inspired by Teresa Wennberg’s large video installation “Nuit Blanche” (1983), incorporating 25 TV screens, a work that epitomises how artists were exploring new media and materials.
Photo of hanging sculpture made of metalparts
Lars Englund, Relativ, 1982 Photo: Albin Dahlström/Moderna Museet

Lars Englund – Under Construction

Malmö, 18.2 2023 – 3.9 2023

On February 18, Moderna Museet Malmö opens the exhibition “Lars Englund – Under Construction” and the installation and performance work “Statolit” by Adèle Essle Zeiss. A dialogue across generations is established in the museum between different artists with an interest in movement and balance.
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Adèle Essle Zeiss, Statolit, 2023 Photo: Helene Toresdotter/Moderna Museet Bildupphovsrätt 2023

Adèle Essle Zeiss

Statolit

Malmö, 18.2 2023 – 3.9 2023

On February 18, Moderna Museet Malmö opens the exhibition “Lars Englund – Under Construction” and the installation and performance work “Statolit” by Adèle Essle Zeiss. A dialogue across generations is established in the museum between different artists with an interest in movement and balance.
Man on a ladder and a woman carriying a tray
Sven X-et Erixson, From the exhibition Swedish Modernism, title pending (Stockholm): Sven X-et Erixson, The Painter's House, 1942 Photo: Prallan Allsten/Moderna Museet

Exhibition programme 2023, Stockholm and Malmö

Stockholm Malmö, 1.1 2023 – 31.12 2023

Welcome to Moderna Museet in Stockholm and Malmö. Access the exhibition programme including one press image for each exhibition. In due time, every exhibition gets its own press release and selection of press images.
Table-like with three legs
Eva Löfdahl, Untitled, 1989 From the exhibition Sleepless nights. Photo: Albin Dahlström/Moderna Museet

A new exhibition programme appearing in the collection galleries

Moderna Museet presents even more of its collection

Stockholm, 1.1 2023

In 2023, we will open three new exhibitions with works from the Moderna Museet collection, one of Europe’s finest selections of modern and contemporary art. This vast treasure is presented in thematical exhibitions that explore different narratives in art history, instead of sticking to the chronological format.
Color photography, portrait by Elisabeth Millqvist
Elisabeth Millqvist Photo: Henrik Palmberg

Elisabeth Millqvist the new head of Moderna Museet Malmö

Malmö, 25.3 2022

Elisabeth Millqvist has been working since 2011 as Co-director and Artistic Director for Wanås Konst. She will assume her position as Director for Moderna Museet Malmö on August 1, 2022.

Gitte Ørskou is the Director of Moderna Museet

2.9 2019

On June 13, Gitte Ørskou was appointed Director of Moderna Museet. She took up her position on September 2, 2019. Between 2009 and August 31 2019, Gitte Ørskou was the director of Kunsten Museum of Modern Art in Aalborg, Denmark. Before that, Ms Ørskou was curator and later head curator of ARoS Aarhus Art Museum. In addition to these roles, Gitte Ørskou has held several positions of trust, including chair of the Danish Arts Foundation.

The Shop

The Moderna Museet’s shop offers an exciting selection of products for all ages at all price levels with focus on art from the 20th and 21st centuries.

The Restaurant

Regardless of the time of year, not many views can match the one from the restaurant at Moderna Museet. The fully-licensed restaurant has self-service, offering a varied menu featuring modern versions of classic dishes composed by Malin Söderström.

Moderna Museet Stockholm

The Moderna Museet in Stockholm is located on the city island of Skeppsholmen in a building designed by the Spanish architect Rafael Moneo, and was inaugurated in 1998.

Moderna Museet Malmö

The Moderna Museet in Malmö opened the 26 of December 2009 found in an old former electricity station. It war originally designed by John Smedberg in 1901, but has been transformed into a modern exhibition space by the Tham & Videgård Hansson Architects firm.

Published 22 October 2015 · Updated 11 January 2023