50 years since Rörelse i konsten (Movement in art)
14.6 2011
This year it is 50 years since the Rörelse i konsten (Movement in art) exhibition. It opened at the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam, and was then shown …
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Special Mention for Klara Lidén at la Biennale di Venezia!
7.6 2011
At the Awards Ceremony 4 June the Jury awarded Klara Lidén a Special Mention: …
La Biennale di Venezia 2011
30.3 2011
Sweden, which is responsible for the Nordic Pavilion in 2011, will thus be presenting two separate projects by artists Fia Backström and Andreas …
Film by Ken Jacobs. World premiere!
11.3 2011
The Moderna Museet YouTube Channel is proud to present Night and Day, a new film by Ken Jacobs. …
Fantastic donations of photographic art
15.2 2011
Several photographic works by Annika von Hausswolff, Cindy Sherman, Robert Mapplethorpe and other artists have been donated to Moderna Museet. These …
More events at Moderna Museet!
6.2 2011
Moderna Museet is stepping up its programme of events in 2011 with a series of seminars on Swedish postmodern art during the 1980’s. The curator …
The Second Museum of Our Wishes: Carolee Schneemann
9.11 2010
At the end of the 1950s, Carolee Schneemann was painting in a fi gurative expressionistic style. Gradually, however, she turned to assemblage with …
The Second Museum of Our Wishes: Dorothea Tanning
9.11 2010
The encounter with Alfred Barr’s legendary exhibition Fantastic Art, Dada and Surrealism at New York’s MoMA in 1936 was a decisive moment for the …
The Second Museum of Our Wishes: Monica Sjöö
9.11 2010
A woman and a socially engaged eco-feminist, with the goddess and nature as her symbols and motifs. How then does Sjöö fi t into art history? From …
The Second Museum of Our Wishes: Lyubov Popova
9.11 2010
Lyubov Popova was a painter, designer, stage designer, theoretician and teacher. She became a front figure of the Russian avant-garde. Equality …
The Second Museum of Our Wishes: Alice Neel
9.11 2010
Alice Neel trained during the 1920s at the Philadelphia College of Design for Women and Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts. She moved to New York in …
The Second Museum of Our Wishes: Lee Lozano
9.11 2010
Lee Lozano settled in New York in 1960, after graduating from the Art Institute of Chicago. She quickly joined the city’s avant-garde circles and …
The Second Museum of Our Wishes: Barbara Kruger
9.11 2010
Barbara Kruger’s breakthrough came at the beginning of the 1980s. She participated in the postmodernist movement in the USA, together with …
The Second Museum of Our Wishes: Hilma af Klint
9.11 2010
Inspired by the new spirituality of the late 1800s, and with an interest in the esoteric and the occult, Hilma af Klint created a complex body of work …
The Second Museum of Our Wishes: Mary Kelly
9.11 2010
Informed by contemporary theory and psychoanalysis, Mary Kelly helped make feminism a core issue of post-modern criticism. In her installations, she …
The Second Museum of Our Wishes: Anna Kagan
9.11 2010
To this day, surprisingly little is known about Anna (Abelevna) Kagan’s life and work. Between 1919 and 1922, she studied under Kazimir Malevich at …
The Second Museum of Our Wishes: Tora Vega Holmström
9.11 2010
Tora Vega Holmström grew up in Skåne. When she was twenty years old she enrolled at the Valand School of Fine Arts in Gothenburg to study painting. …
The Second Museum of Our Wishes: Susan Hiller
8.11 2010
Susan Hiller graduated in 1965 from Tulane University in New Orleans with a degree in anthropology. While her fi eldwork took her around the world, …
The Second Museum of Our Wishes: Judy Chicago
8.11 2010
During a time when the art world in America was, to put it in extreme terms, still restricted to a male network in New York and their contacts in …
The Second Museum of Our Wishes: Louise Bourgeois
8.11 2010
During the 1930s, Louise Bourgeois studied at the Académie des Beaux-Arts in Paris as well as with Fernand Léger. She moved to New York in 1938, …