The Moderna Museet podcast: We need to talk about video art
3.6 2019
All art forms can be challenging, but isn’t this especially true of video art? Kind of the art scene’s version of free jazz? Lena Essling is a …
How to look at art with your ears
14.5 2019
Are three-year-olds expressionists or futurists? Can toddlers appreciate modern art? And what do you do when a whole upper secondary school class acts …
A Room of One’s Own – Re-hangings in the Collection
10.5 2019
Welcome to a new presentation in the Collection – a room for works rooted in the history of feminism and female artists. In this gallery, which has …
The Moderna Museet podcast on the future of the curator
23.4 2019
What do you need to think about if you’re suddenly offered the opportunity to curate the Nordic Pavilion at the Venice Biennale? And what do you say …
Four galleries of contemporary art – Re-hangings in the Collection
16.4 2019
In the room titled “Mental Maps of Power”, you will get insights into the American Unabomber’s realm of thought. In an adjoining room, …
Mona Hatoum – Home
16.4 2019
Mona Hatoum began her practice in the early 1980s, with performance art using her own body in various contexts as a symbol for physical and mental …
More Irving Penn!
28.3 2019
More works by the photographer Irving Penn have been added to the Moderna Museet collection, thanks to a donation from the Irving Penn …
The Moderna Museet podcast on art acquisitions
27.3 2019
The Moderna Museet collection belongs to the Swedish people and is one of the world’s finest when it comes to pop art. It keeps growing, year by …
New Ways of Seeing and Travels in Time and Space – Re-hangings in the Collection
19.3 2019
Join us in an exploration of the early 1900s. In the room titled “Travels in Time and Space”, you will encounter photography and painting by …
New works in the collection thanks to donation
6.3 2019
The collection is growing, thanks to a donation of SEK 2.6 million earmarked for acquiring mainly Swedish contemporary art. The funds were bequeathed …
We’re updating for the climate!
8.2 2019
In 2019, the Museum will be a little messier than usual. We are replacing all the lighting in the building with LED lights to save energy, in our …
The Moderna Museet podcast: Ann-Sofi Noring on the Collection
5.2 2019
Who decides what Moderna Museet shows, and how is the decision made? Press officer Kristin Lundell has invited Ann-Sofi Noring, acting director of …
Further aqusitions within A Larger World
21.12 2018
Within the project A Larger World we have acquired works during 2018 by: Adel Abdessemed, Frank Bowling, Juan Castillo, Lygia Clark, Pratchaya …
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 …