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Exhibitions at Nationalmuseum 2023
The 2023 exhibition programme at Nationalmuseum offers a mix of garden art, miniatures and American crafts.
The Garden – Six Centuries of Art and Nature
23 February 2023–7 January 2024
Exhibited on the top floor
In the spring and summer of 2023, Nationalmuseum will present The Garden – Six Centuries of Art and Nature, a grand tour showing how gardens have been portrayed in art. Garden art is a dynamic artform, transforming, dying and renewing in line with the natural cycle and the seasons. The exhibition includes some 300 paintings, drawings, applied art and sculpture, most of them from Nationalmuseum’s collections. Artists on display include Watteau, Boucher, Oudry, Le Nôtre, Monet and Carl Larsson and, from contemporary times, Peter Frie and Emma Helle.
The mysterious Peter Adolf Hall – a Swedish miniature painter in 18th-century Paris
23 March–25 June 2023
Exhibited in The Focus Gallery on the middle floor
Based on the museum’s miniatures collection, Nationalmuseum presents an exhibition on the Swedish artist Peter Adolf Hall, who revolutionised the art of miniature portraits in the French capital in the latter half of the 18th century. Born in Borås, Hall studied in Stockholm under the pastel painter Gustaf Lundberg. This offers a clue as to how Hall came by his innovative miniature painting technique, but how he developed this art form, remains a mystery. The exhibition includes some 70 portrait miniatures from the museum’s collection, both by Hall himself and some of these followers who were heavily influenced by his mastery of free style.
Beauty and the Unexpected – Modern and Contemporary American Crafts
30 March 2023–21 January 2024
Exhibited on the middle floor
Nationalmuseum has invited Helen Drutt English, pioneering educator, gallerist and curator of American modern and contemporary crafts since the 1960s, to assemble a collection of objects drawn from the field of American crafts. The selection of 83 works from the 1950s until today will enrich Nationalmuseum’s collections and will provide a possibility to look at American crafts in the Nordic context. The collection includes objects by prominent American designers such as Jill Bonovitz, Nancy Carman, Anne Currier, Michael Hurwitz and Jere Osgood, i.e. American artists, or artists who emigrated and formed their practice in America and date from the 1950s until today. The scale of the objects varies from small pieces of jewelry to chairs and impressive wall pieces and textiles.
Motormania – Industrial Design and Popular Passion
POSTPONED UNTIL 2024
Exhibited on the middle floor
The journalist and filmmaker Bobo Ericzén has for 20 years produced the TV series “Biltokig”, where he depicts and examines the inspiration and culture of Swedish car enthusiasts. Together with Nationalmuseum he now curates an exhibition about car design, focusing on the outpouring of creativity and automotive innovation taking place in Sweden after the Second World War, which is still carried on today. Visitors will hear personal stories, view unique objects and experience a new and expansive view of the Swedish car culture that has engaged millions of people for over half a century. The exhibition encompasses the first design sketches of iconic Swedish car models as well as hand-moulded car-body parts from custom vehicles created in garages across Sweden.
The Romantic Eye
POSTPONED UNTIL 2024
Exhibited on the top floor
The Romantic Eye takes a broad view of the period in 19th-century art known as Romanticism. The exhibition aims to explain what constituted Romanticism and how it influenced its time. It also shows that Romanticism was not purely a 19th-century phenomenon; rather, to this day, we still encounter many of the questions and ideas of that time. The exhibition includes several works acquired by Nationalmuseum over the past few years, alongside key works on loan from other museums, chiefly in Germany, Norway and France. It also includes some contemporary art to illustrate how Romanticism lives on to this day. The featured 19th-century artists include Peder Balke, Ernst Ferdinand Oehme, Caspar David Friedrich, Karl Friedrich Schinkel, Eugène Delacroix, Johan Christian Dahl and Marcus Larson. Among the contemporary artists represented are Mariele Neudecker, Leif Engström, Helene Schmitz, Ann Frössén, Lars Nilsson, Thomas Demand, Lovisa Ringborg and Paul Fägerskiöld.
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Nationalmuseum is Sweden’s museum of art and design. The collections comprise some 700 000 objects, including paintings, sculpture, drawings and graphic art from the 16th century up to the beginning of the 20th century and the collection of applied art and design up to the present day. Nationalmuseum’s responsibility is to preserve and make art accessible and provide knowledge. The museum was appointed the Swedish Museum of the Year 2022.
