In a project about self image and identity, Nationalmuseum has been studying the popular social media phenomena selfies, by comparing them with portraits in the museum’s collections. The result is on show in the exhibition Highlights until 31 August.
From 10 May Slow Art will be on show at the Swedish Institute in Paris. The exhibition puts time and production processes in perspective. An international audience will now have the chance to meet Swedish artisans. The exhibition is produced by Nationalmuseum in Stockholm where it was on show in 2012.
Nationalmuseum’s exhibition Crossing Borders presents a collection of contemporary photographic portraits. The exhibition opens at Stockholm Arlanda Airport 19 March and is part of a joint project with Swedavia to put art and design on show at airports in Sweden. The portraits on view have all been acquired to the Swedish National Portrait Gallery.
The first major exhibition in France of works by Carl Larsson opens at the Petit Palais in Paris on 7 March, with the majority of works on loan from Nationalmuseum. This exhibition is one of the initiatives to keep art from the collections on public view during renovation of the Nationalmuseum building.
Opening on 15 May, the Highlights exhibition will feature a selection of Nationalmuseum’s best-known and most popular works. Artists such as Paul Cézanne, Anders Zorn, Judith Leyster and Antoine Watteau will rub shoulders in the exhibition.
During the spring and summer of 2014, Nationalmuseum will present a photographic exhibition, Crossing Borders, at Stockholm Arlanda Airport. The exhibition will feature portraits of internationally celebrated Swedes who have challenged and crossed borders in a variety of ways.
During 2014 Nationalmuseum will have three exhibitions on show in the temporary venue at the Royal Swedish Academy of Fine Arts. In addition to Hans Gedda & Masters of Darkness there will be an exhibition with masterpieces from the collections on show and one with Russian paintings co-produced with the Russian Museum.
In the spring and early summer of next year, Slow Art will be on show at the Swedish Institute in Paris. An international audience will now have the chance to see this exhibition of carefully crafted artifacts by Swedish artisans, which has already toured to various museums in Sweden. After Paris, the exhibition’s next stops will be Gävle and Jönköping.
This year is the 400th anniversary of the birth of André Le Nôtre, creator of the French baroque garden. To mark the occasion, the Château de Versailles is staging an exhibition about this landscape architect and his work, which opens on 22 October. Nationalmuseum is loaning 27 drawings of gardens to the exhibition, most of them by Le Nôtre’s own hand.
Nationalmuseum will open its temporary exhibition venue at the Royal Swedish Academy of Fine Arts at Fredsgatan 12 in Stockholm with an exhibition entitled Carl Larsson – Friends and Enemies. Focusing on Carl Larsson’s networks and relationships, the exhibition reflects the Swedish art world in the period from 1870 to 1920. In all, about 120 works by Larsson and his contemporaries will be on show.
Nationalmuseum’s major autumn exhibition Pride and Prejudice opens on 27 September. The focus is on female artists in France and Sweden during the 18th and 19th centuries and their opportunities to become professionals in their field. The show includes works by some of the women who managed to break into the world of the Royal Academies.
On 20 June, Nationalmuseum launches its summer exhibition on light and darkness in art and life. The show presents examples of how our most renowned artists have used different techniques to mimic light and create depth. The core focus is on Nordic fin de siècle art, with around a hundred works on display from the museum’s own collection.
