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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In “Seven Rooms and a Garden: Rashid Johnson and The Moderna Museet Collection”, the work of American artist and filmmaker Rashid Johnson is in conversation, confrontation, and sometimes collusion with the collection of Moderna Museet. Each room in the exhibition (and the garden) stages an encounter based on the personal, political, and art historical relationships that Johnson holds in his practice.

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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

Free admission on Fridays at 18–20

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.

Read more: Black and Blue

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.

Rashid Johnson, Black and Blue, 2021 Filmstill © Rashid Johnson
Rashid Johnson, Black and Blue, 2021 Filmstill © Rashid Johnson
Rashid Johnson, Black and Blue, 2021 Filmstill © Rashid Johnson
Rashid Johnson, Black and Blue, 2021 Filmstill © Rashid Johnson
Rashid Johnson, Black and Blue, 2021 Filmstill © Rashid Johnson

Images

Rashid Johnson, Black and Blue, 2021 Filmstill © Rashid Johnson
Rashid Johnson, Black and Blue, 2021 Filmstill © Rashid Johnson

Calendar events

  • Conversation
  • In English

Artist talk: Rashid Johnson

  • Preview

Seven Rooms and a Garden

  • Guided tour
  • In English

Curatorial tour: Seven Rooms and a Garden

A close up photo of a white canvas with blue, dark blue and black patterns made with paint
  • Music

Black and blue

  • Guided tour
  • In Swedish

Seven Rooms and a Garden

  • Guided tour
  • In English

Seven Rooms and a Garden

  • Guided tour
  • In English

Seven Rooms and a Garden

  • Guided tour
  • In English

Seven Rooms and a Garden

  • Guided tour
  • In Swedish

Seven Rooms and a Garden

  • Guided tour
  • In Swedish

Seven Rooms and a Garden

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