self-portrait in pencil — Egon Schiele, Self Portrait in Crouching Position, 1913 Photo: Albin Dahlström/Moderna Museet

Yet Another Morning

Drawing in the Moderna Museet Collection

22.2 2025 – 10.5 2026

Stockholm

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Meet about a hundred works by Swedish and international artists who draw. The exhibition “Yet Another Morning – Drawing in the Moderna Museet Collection” presents both art that we recognise as “pen on paper” and drawings that are expressed in completely different materials and dimensions.

“Yet Another Morning – Drawing in the Moderna Museet Collection” invites us to think about what drawing is and can be. Drawings and illustrations with different themes and techniques are exhibited here together with sculpture, moving images and photographic art. Ninety percent of the material has never before been presented by the museum.

Discover how artists observe and draw their surroundings, themselves and their everyday lives, but also how they express what cannot be seen or depicted, such as emotions, thoughts and social criticism.

Most artists draw and sketch. It is a timeless and often immediate way of expressing yourself. Drawing also has the ability to move freely across cultural and language barriers since almost anyone can achieve something with a pen and paper. – Annika Gunnarsson, Curator

Drop-in Drawing

Explore the exhibition “Yet Another Morning” through simple and creative drawing exercises, guided by an art educator. Pencils and paper are available to borrow, and no prior experience is needed. See dates and times in the Calendar.

Draw on your own

Bring your own materials or borrow a sketchbook and pencil from us when you visit “Yet Another Morning”. In each room, you’ll find a suggested drawing exercise.

Audio guide

Join curator Annika Gunnarsson on a journey through the exhibition “Yet Another Morning”. The audio guide introduces ten works by artists who have used drawing to express and document both personal and collective experiences, as well as to explore drawing as a medium for meditation and poetry.

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Pencil drawing on paper. The drawing shows two people in front of trees. — Joanna Hellgren, The Cover for Frances Part 2, 2009 Photo: Tobias Fischer/Moderna Museet

Lines, shadows and figures

Common to all works in “Yet Another Morning” is the core of drawing – the work with lines, shadows, contours, surfaces and contrasts between blackness and light:

A few strokes capture an entire story, as in works by Jean Fautrier, Alexander Rodchenko and many others. The painstaking work with thousands of thin marks from the tip of the pen can be seen, for example, in works by Ann Böttcher and Johanna Karlsson.

Others observe themselves, such as Egon Schiele, Helene Schjerfbeck and Bjarne Melgaard, as well as Alberto Giacometti when he lifts his own shadow from the ground into an upright elongated figure. The joy of colour is found in works by Jane Bark, Peter Köhler and Nellie Mae Row, among others.

DRAWING IN THE MODERNA MUSEET COLLECTION

Moderna Museet’s collection of drawings consists of around 12,000 works and is Sweden’s largest collection of modern and contemporary drawings. The collection contains a large and representative collection of 20th-century drawings.

“Yet Another Morning” is Moderna Museet’s first exhibition focusing on drawings since the museum took over the responsibility for modern and contemporary drawings and graphics from Nationalmuseum in 1998.

Curator: Annika Gunnarsson, Moderna Museet