Yayoi Kusama is one of the most acclaimed artists working today. Since the 1950s, she has created art that is as personal as it is universal. Like few other artists she moves freely between painting, sculpture and installations, between art and design, and between East and West. In summer 2016, Moderna Museet and ArkDes are […]
Moderna Museet presents the first exhibition of the Argentinian artist Adrián Villar Rojas in Scandinavia. Villar Rojas compares his practice to a virus that lives in and off the art world. Although his works are rarely overtly political, they are ideologically charged in how they are produced and positioned outside any economy. Time as the […]
Nils Dardel and the Modern Age Stockholm 29 May, 2014 – 14 September, 2014 Curator: John Peter Nilsson Nils Dardel is one of Sweden’s most popular artists. The Moderna Museet’s exhibition Nils Dardel and the Modern Age stresses that Dardel was not just a dandyish eccentric in the salons of high society. In fact, he […]
Cindy Sherman – Untitled Horrors
Moderna Museet
19 October, 2013 – 19 January, 2014
Cindy Sherman is one of the most important artists today. Since her breakthrough in the early 1980s, she has revolutionised both contemporary art and attitudes to photography. Sherman’s works have had a profound impact on our ideas of the construction of identity, and on the mythogenic power of pictures. The exhibition Cindy Sherman – Untitled Horrors emphasises the undercurrent of horror and fascination that runs through Sherman’s entire output.
Pop Art Design
Moderna Museet Stockholm
29 June – 22 September, 2013
Bold, bright and playful – pop art influenced the whole world and represented something radical and new. It contributed to shaping a new cultural identity with a focus on mass production, celebrity and the growing advertising industry. For the first time, in the exhibition Pop Art Design, pop art and design are shown together on a large scale. This summer the Moderna Museet presents artworks and objects by artists and designers such as Warhol, Rauschenberg, Haworth, Lichtenstein, Eames, Panton, Castiglioni, Nelson and Sottsass.
Niki de Saint Phalle: The Girl, the Monster and the Goddess
Moderna Museet in Stockholm
20 April 2013 – 27 October 2013
Niki de Saint Phalle is best known for her colourful, voluptuous goddesses, her shooting paintings and the spectacular exhibition SHE – A Cathedral at the Moderna Museet in 1966. The exhibition Niki de Saint Phalle: The Girl, the Monster and the Goddess reflects her seminal role in art history, while also shedding light on a previously overlooked side to her oeuvre. The life-affirming goddess is juxtaposed with the girl and the monster in the film Daddy, where Niki de Saint Phalle avenges darker aspects of her childhood.
Tala Madani: Rip Image
Moderna Museet Malmö – 16 February-14 April, 2013
Moderna Museet Stockholm 25 May – 27 October, 2013
Tala Madani is in the midst of a major international breakthrough, and Malmö is the first opportunity for an in-depth survey of her oeuvre. On 16 February, Rip Image opens at Moderna Museet Malmö – Tala Madani’s biggest solo exhibition to date.
Le Corbusier‘s Secret Laboratory
Moderna Museet, Stockholm
19 January 2013 – 18 April 2013
Moderna Museet is making room for Le Corbusier and the first exhibition in Northern Europe covering his entire oeuvre.
Wolfgang Tillmans
Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden
6 October 2012 – 20 January 2013
Wolfgang Tillmans is one of the leading artists of his generation and is constantly in the public eye, with exhibitions all over the world. The exhibition at Moderna Museet is Tillmans’ first major show in Sweden and brings nearly twenty years of picture-making to a new audience. Moderna Museet is delighted to welcome Wolfgang Tillmans – an artist who has extended the boundaries of photography and redefined the medium of photography as an artform.
Picasso/Duchamp “He Was Wrong”
Moderna Museet in Stockholm
25 August, 2012 – 3 March, 2013
With the exhibition Picasso/Duchamp “He Was Wrong”; the Moderna Museet in Stockholm sets two giants, Pablo Picasso and Marcel Duchamp, up against each other for the first time. They are often regarded as the two most influential artists of the 20th century – Picasso, who personified the modernist painter, and Duchamp, the indifferent ironist and chess genius, who challenged painting and transformed art into a maze of intellectual amusements. Now, visitors to the Moderna Museet have a unique opportunity to witness this battle of giants and see where it leads.
Yoko Ono: Grapefruit
Moderna Museet in Stockholm
6 June 2012 – 16 September 2012
Yoko Ono is a pioneer of conceptualism and the international Fluxus movement, and has been sharing her message of peace and love with the world for nearly 60 years. The Moderna Museet exhibition highlights Yoko Ono’s book Grapefruit from 1964 and features selected instruction pieces that encourage new, imaginative ways of looking at life and creating art. For the exhibition Yoko Ono has made a new piece called Summer Dream and a new instruction piece, that some 20 artists have been invited to respond to. Moreover, Yoko Ono will realise two of her works together with the public on Djurgården in Stockholm during the full-moon night between 4 and 5 June.
Explosion! Painting as action
Moderna Museet in Stockholm
2 June – 9 September 2012
Kazuo Shiraga painted with his feet, suspended by ropes above the canvas, Andy Warhol or his assistants urinated on the canvas, Shozo Shimamoto hurled paint-filled glass bottles at his paintings, and Niki de Saint Phalle fired a rifle at her panels that she had prepared with balloons of paint under layers of plaster. The major exhibition this summer, Explosion, features works by some 50 artists from the late 1940s to today.