Alberto Giacometti, La Clairière, 1950. Collection Fondation Giacometti, Paris © Estate of Alberto Giacometti / Bildupphovsrätt 2020
Opening weekend Giacometti
10.10 2020
Stockholm
Free admission to all program events of the day. You need to prebook tickets to the exhibition Giacometti, this includes children and others with free admission.
Read about the exhibition: Giacometti – Face to Face
Remember to maintain social distancing
We ask all our visitors to show consideration and maintain social distance from one another and respect the maximum number of participants for each program event. Read more on the museum’s precautions to reduce the spread: Read this before your visit
Saturday 10 October
10.00–17.00 Autumn market on Exercisplan
The Restaurant will be selling warm apple cider, rosehip soup with whipped cream, tasty nibbles, roasted chestnuts, grilled sausages, autumn flowers, seasonal vegetables, and much more.
10.00–17.00 Draw like Giacometti
Young and old artists can draw one another out by the main entrance. We have easels and all the materials you will need.
12.00–17.00 Create in Giacometti’s studio
In the Workshop, there is a space with the same dimensions as Giacometti’s mythical studio. Here, children and adults can create sculptures dipped in plaster. Just drop by. Read more on Giacometti’s studio: Create in Giacometti’s studio
12.00–12.15 Welcome speech
Museum director Gitte Ørskou and curator of the exhibition Jo Widoff welcomes everyone.
13.00–13.30 Introduction to “Giacometti – Face to Face“
Ylva Hillström, curator, introduces the exhibition in the Auditorium. Limited number of seats, first come first serve, the introduction is live-streamed on screens throughout the museum. In Swedish.
13.30–13.45 Conversation on Surrealism with regards to Giacometti
Giacometti was an early participant in the Surrealist movement in Paris. Curators Annika Gunnarson and Helena Åberg will have a conversation about Surrealism and the newly installed room “A Meeting of Opposites” in the collection. Limited number of participants, get your ticket at the front desk. In Swedish.
14.00–14.30 Introduction to “Giacometti – Face to Face“
Ylva Hillström, curator, introduces the exhibition in the Auditorium. Limited number of seats, first come first serve, the introduction is live-streamed on screens throughout the museum. In Swedish.
15.00–15.15 Guided tour of Salvador Dalí’s “The Enigma of Wilhelm Tell“
Ever since his childhood, Giacometti copied pictures from newspapers and magazines and reproductions of artworks. One of these sketches depicts Salvador Dalí’s painting ”The Enigma of Wilhelm Tell” from 1933, which is in Moderna Museet’s collection. Curator Helena Åberg will talk about the artwork in the newly installed room in the collection “A Meeting of Opposites”. Limited number of tickets, get your ticket at the front desk. In Swedish.
15.30–15.45 Guided tour of photography and sculpture with regards to Giacometti
Anna Tellgren, curator, will talk about some photographers and sculptors active during the same time as Giacometti, in the room “War and Peace” in the collection. Limited number of tickets, get your ticket at the front desk. In Swedish.
16.15–16.30 Reading from “Waiting for Godot“ (1949) by Samuel Beckett
In 1961 Giacometti created the scenography for “Waiting for Godot” at Théâtre de l’Odéon in Paris. When the play was staged at Dramaten in 2019, directed by Karl Dunér, Jonas Karlsson and Johan Ulveson played the main characters Estragon and Vladimir. They will now conduct a unique reading in the exhibition. Limited space. A ticket to the exhibition with an entrance time at 16 is required. The reading will also be live-streamed on screens throughout the museum. In Swedish.
16.30–17.00 Introduction to “Giacometti – Face to Face“
Staffan Redin, artist and art educator will talk about the exhibition in the Auditorium. Limited number of seats, first come first serve, the introduction is also streamed on screens throughout the museum. In Swedish.