Listen to the first episode of the Moderna Museet podcast
17.12 2018
How do you learn to appreciate modern art? What does a museum director do all day long? And are the staff at Moderna Museet allowed to laugh at art? …
News in the Collection: Towards Pure Colour
12.12 2018
Currently on view at the museum is a gallery of paintings that are all virtually in one respective colour. It is a selection of works from 1954 to …
New presentation: Henri Cartier-Bresson
21.11 2018
From November 2018, a selection of black-and-white photographs by Henri Cartier-Bresson from the Moderna Museet Collection will be …
CIMAM Annual Conference in Stockholm 2–4 November 2018
31.10 2018
The 50th edition of the CIMAM Annual Conference takes place in Sweden for the first time. The conference is hosted jointly by Moderna Museet, Bonniers …
Stolen art and restitution policy
11.9 2018
How should art that was stolen by the Nazis and is now in museums be handled? This question engages the museum sector and is attracting more and more …
Search the collection and find more
14.8 2018
More information about, and more pictures of, the works in the Moderna Museet collection is available digitally. Thanks to our digitalisation …
Monogram is back!
3.5 2018
One of our favourite works is back from a long international tour. On 12 May, you can view the famous work of art Monogram by Robert Rauschenberg at …
Einar Hylander’s apartment installation to be evacuated
19.4 2018
Einar Hylander’s apartment on Narvavägen in Stockholm is a unique work of art that was bequeathed to Moderna Museet in 1989. Since the permission …
Language café on Tuesdays
11.4 2018
Every normal Tuesday evening throughout 2018, you are invited to a Language Café in the Restaurant to practise your Swedish. This is a great …
Book about Pontus Hultén and Moderna Museet wins award
28.3 2018
The anthology “Pontus Hultén and Moderna Museet. The Formative Years” is one of the winners of the Svensk Bokkonst 2017 award for best book …
Aqusitions within A Larger World
6.3 2018
Within the project we have acquired works by: Georges Adéagbo, Etel Adnan, Meriç Algün, Kader Attia, Tala Madani, Rivane Neuenschwander, Gabriel …
More Hilma af Klint at Moderna Museet
26.2 2018
Now works by Hilma af Klint will be a regular feature at the Museum! Moderna Museet does not own any works by the artist, whose famous oeuvre belongs …
Twelve monochrome paintings donated
16.2 2018
We have received a donation of 12 abstract paintings. The art works comes from the art collector and gallerist Claes Nordenhake’s private …
Photography project continues
26.1 2018
The photography project Before and Behind the Lens includes exhibitions, talks and guided tours. It continues into 2019, with a series of …
Screening of the art project Mallrats in the Mini Cinema
12.12 2017
In 2013, the artist Kristoffer Svenberg and a group of students from Viktor Rydbergs gymnasium (an upper secondary college) were invited to run the …
Transatlantic Pop
27.10 2017
Immediate, attractive, hot and cool – discover pop art in our collection! Transatlantic Pop is a presentation exploring how artists on both sides of …
New room with photography opening now
5.10 2017
Right now, we’re showing more photography than usual in our galleries. What has happened in Swedish photographic art since the 1980s? …
Johanna Gustafsson Fürst awarded the 2017 Friends of Moderna Museet Sculpture Prize
4.10 2017
The Friends of Moderna Museet Sculpture Prize is awarded to the artist Johanna Gustafsson Fürst. This is the 23rd time since 1950 that the Prize of …
The Nordic Pavilion at the Venice Biennale opens
11.5 2017
This year, Moderna Museet in Sweden is the principal commissioner and manager of activities at the Nordic Pavilion. We proudly present the exhibition …
We’re showing 150 years of photography in 2017
29.3 2017
Take a walk through the history of photography and discover its many styles and transformations. Experience photography in exhibitions, artist talks …