Conversation in the Collection: The Many Expressions of Drawing

The drawing biennale ”& teckning” opened in August 2025 in Stockholm. It highlighted drawing as an art form in its own right – direct, pared-back, and deeply human. The biennale brought together artists with the ambition of changing the perception of an art form that the curators argue has for too long been associated with sketches or preparatory studies. The works in the first edition of ”& teckning” ranged from the quiet to the radical, from the power of charcoal to the subtle resonance of line.

The curators behind the biennale – Rebecka Tollens, Felix Berg, and Jack Dalla Santa – want to show that drawing is not limited to pencil on paper. Likewise, ”Yet Another Morning – Drawing in the Moderna Museet Collection” presents both art that we recognise as “pencil on paper” and drawings that take shape in entirely different materials and dimensions.

Participants

Rebecka Tollens

Rebecka Tollens (b. 1990) works as an artist, writer, and curator. Her work in charcoal has been shown at several institutions in Sweden and abroad, and in the coming years she will participate in exhibitions in Japan, France, and Sweden. Tollens is a co-founder of the drawing biennale & teckning.

Felix Berg

Felix Berg (b. 1993) is an exhibition producer, curator, and photographer from Stockholm. He has worked on exhibitions in Italy, Germany, Japan, and at numerous museums, art centres, and galleries across Sweden. Berg is a co-founder of the drawing biennale & teckning and is currently working on an exhibition in Germany featuring the illustrations of Emil i Lönneberga.

Jack Dalla Santa

Jack Dalla Santa (b. 1990) is an architect and designer with a master’s degree in architecture from the Accademia di Architettura di Mendrisio. He runs an architecture practice and is a co-founder of the furniture company Contem, which designs and produces furniture and spaces from overlooked materials.

Annika Gunnarsson

Annika Gunnarsson is a curator responsible for drawing and prints at Moderna Museet and the curator of the exhibition ”Yet Another Morning – Drawing in the Moderna Museet Collection”.
She began her career in the Nationalmuseum’s engraving department thirty years ago and has since mainly worked with paper-based media such as drawing, prints, posters, artists’ books, mail art, and picture books.