Deborah Turbeville

Photocollage

Malmö, 2.5 2026 – 27.9 2025

Photographer Deborah Turbeville (1932–2013) developed a personal and artistic style of fashion photography.

DEBORAH TURBEVILLE – PHOTOCOLLAGE
2.5 2026 – 27.9 2026
Curator: Nathalie Herschdorfer

The exhibition is shown at Floor 2

Together with photographers such as Guy Bourdin, Sarah Moon and Helmut Newton – all of whom emerged during the 1970s – Turbeville 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 photocollages she created.

Two parallel presentations – Ikram Abdulkadir and Deborah Turbeville –are in dialogue with each other at Floor 2. Although there is, in some cases, a difference of up to fifty years between 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.

The exhibition is organised by Moderna Museet, produced by Photo Elysée in collaboration with MUUS Collection.

A more extensive press material and photos will be added closer to the opening of the exhibition.

Deborah Turbeville, Comme des Garçons, Escalier dans Passage Vivienne From the series "Comme des Garçons," Paris, France, November 1980.
© Deborah Turbeville/MUUS Collection 2025

Deborah Turbeville, Untitled (Irina Kirsanova), from the series Studio St. Petersburg, Saint Petersburg, Russia, 1996 Courtesy of MUUS Collection, Copyright Deborah Turbeville/MUUS Collection

Deborah Turbeville, Untitled, Hoboken, New Jersey, 1975 Courtesy of MUUS Collection, Copyright Deborah Turbeville/MUUS Collection

Deborah Turbeville, Untitled, from the series Maquillage, 1975 Courtesy of MUUS Collection, Copyright Deborah Turbeville/MUUS Collection

Deborah Turbeville, Untitled, from the series L’Heure Entre Chien et Loup, Mantua, Italy, 1977 Courtesy of MUUS Collection, Copyright Deborah Turbeville/MUUS Collection

Deborah Turbeville, Utan titel (Untitled-Asser-LUtan titel (Asser Levy Bathhouse) from the series Bathhouse, New Yorkevy-Bathhouse-from-the-series-Bathhouse-New-York_after-1975_f_©Deborah-Turbeville-MUUS-Collection_ModernaMuseet_press, after 1975 Courtesy of MUUS Collection, Copyright Deborah Turbeville/MUUS Collection

Deborah Turbeville, From the series Passport, ca 1990 Courtesy of MUUS Collection, Copyright Deborah Turbeville/MUUS Collection

Deborah Turbeville, From the series Passport, ca 1990 Courtesy of MUUS Collection Copyright Deborah Turbeville/MUUS Collection

Deborah Turbeville, From the series Passport, ca 1990 Courtesy of MUUS Collection, Copyright Deborah Turbeville/MUUS Collection