Rashid Johnson, Black and Blue, 2021 Filmstill © Rashid Johnson
Seven Rooms and a Garden
Rashid Johnson and The Moderna Museet Collection
30.9 2023 – 8.9 2024
Stockholm
The collection
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Adult: 150 SEK
Senior/student: 120 SEK
Annual Pass: 375 SEK
Free admission for those 18 and under and Klubb Moderna
Opening weekend
Friday 29 September 2023
Artist Talk
Meet American artist and filmmaker Rashid Johnson, in conversation with curator Hendrik Folkerts.
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Preview
Welcome to the opening of “Seven Rooms and a Garden”! Museum director Gitte Ørskou holds a welcome speech and the curator Hendrik Folkerts gives a short introduction. The bar is open and DJ Mansa plays music.
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Saturday 30 September 2023
Curatorial Tour
Come along on a guided tour with Hendrik Folkerts, curator of the exhibition “Seven Rooms and a Garden”.
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Black and Blue
This autumn, “Seven Rooms and a Garden” welcomes musicians from different genres to freely interact with one of the exhibition spaces. First up is cellist and composer Svante Henryson.
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Guided tours
Join us for a guided tour of “Seven Rooms and a Garden: Rashid Johnson and The Moderna Museet Collection”.
The tour lasts for about 45 minutes. Admission ticket to the museum is required.
Dates & time in the Calendar
For Rashid Johnson, abstraction is a source of life. In his “Bruise” and “God” paintings, the abstract mark is an expression of a spiritual or psychological journey. His monumental installation “Home” (2023) finds form for Black intellectual and cultural histories, in sheabutter sculptures, books, and the growth of plant life. His film “Black and Blue” (2021) is an abstract self-portrait through daily, intimate acts that together describe a life.
In all the works and interventions in “Seven Rooms and a Garden”, Johnson explores the gesture of abstraction as an art historical lineage, a political necessity, or a personal appeal.
We invite you to meet Rashid Johnson—through Robert Rauschenberg, Max Ernst, Salman Toor, Klara Lidén, and Maia Cruz Palileo, through Ernest Mancoba, Tadeusz Kantor, Herbert Gentry, Asger Jorn, Jackson Pollock, Karel Appel, Willem de Kooning, Etel Adnan, Sam Francis, Jean Fautrier, Marcia Hafif, and Stanley Whitney, through Cy Twombly, Lucio Fontana, Ruben Valentim, Jean Dubuffet, Joan Miró, Niki de Saint Phalle, Lee Bontecou, Lee Lozano, and Barnett Newman, through Louis Armstrong, through Marcel Duchamp, through Henri Mattise, Tony Cokes, Sun-Ra, and Cauleen Smith, through Louise Bourgeois, through On Kawara, through Sol LeWitt and David Hammons, through Melissa Shook, Soufiane Ababri, Andy Warhol, Cecilia Edefalk, and Samuel Fosso.
”Seven Rooms and a Garden – Rashid Johnson and The Moderna Museet Collection” is the third exhibition in the new presentation of the Moderna Museet collection.
Curator: Hendrik Folkerts
The exhibition is generously supported by
The Terra Foundation for American Art
The American Friends of the Moderna Museet
The Rashid Johnson Exhibition Circle:
Pontus Bonnier
Christel and Peter Engelbert
Anna and Misha Moeremans
Caisa and Åke Skeppner
Pink Sails
Revisit the classics and discover new artists in the Swedish Modernism movement. The exhibition “Pink Sails – Swedish Modernism in the Moderna …
Swedish Modernism in the Moderna Museet collection
Sleepless Nights
In the 1980s, a number of outstanding female artists emerged in Sweden and the Nordic region. They are the hub of the exhibition “Sleepless Nights …
From the 1980s in the Moderna Museet collection
