Subjective selection in Nationalmuseum Design’s first exhibition

Nationalmuseum Design is opening up in Kulturhuset in Stockholm on 6 February. The first exhibition is a collaboration with the podcast Summit and contains highly personal and subjective selections. In Subjectivities – selected design the designers and the museum choose objects from each other.

Coinciding with the Stockholm Furniture & Light Fair, the first exhibition will be Subjectivities,a collaboration with the architecture and design podcast Summit that will contain a highly personal and subjective selection in three groups. In the first, Summit has chosen a number of representatives from the Swedish design scene. This involves a total of 24 designers aged between 82 and 31, who are active in the field in various ways. The designers have then chosen their favourite objects from the museum’s design collection and explained their choices. In the third group, the museum has selected a number of objects from the designers’ own output.

There are several purposes behind Subjectivities. One is to display and make available parts of the museum’s design collection with a contemporary and 20th-century focus, while the museum building is closed for renovation. Another is to initiate and strengthen ties between one of Sweden’s oldest institutions in applied art and design and the practitioners whose work needs to be preserved for future generations. A third, and no less important, purpose is to show a cross-section of the multifaceted Swedish design scene – who is shaping it and what qualities and characteristics it entails.

The designers taking part in Subjectivities are: Anton Alvarez, Åke Axelsson, Lena Bergström, Thomas Bernstrand, Jonas Bohlin, Ulla Christiansson, Claesson Koivisto Rune, Jonas Forsman, Front, Samir Alj Fält, Monica Förster, Gunilla Hedlund, Matti Klenell, Anna Kraitz, Jonas Lindvall, Erika Lövqvist, Note Design Studio, Gustav Person, Lycke von Schantz, Snickeriet, Per B Sundberg, Uglycute, Veryday and Ann Wåhlström.

The selection is made by Anders Bengtsson and Micael Ernstell at Nationalmuseum and Daniel Golling och Gustaf Kjellin at Summit. 

Nationalmuseum Design is opening up in Kulturhuset in Stockholm on 6 February and will offer the visitors design exhibitions, collaborations and programs. This provides Nationalmuseum with an arena in which to experiment more freely and find new forms of dialogue between the design collection and the visitors.

The exhibition Subjectivities – selected design will be on show at Nationalmuseum Design in Kulturhuset, Stockholm from 6 February until 22 March 2015.

Press contact
Anders Bengtsson, curator applied art and modern design, anders.bengtsson@nationalmuseum.se, + 46 8 5195 4385
Micael Ernstell, curator applied art and modern design,
micael.ernstell@nationalmuseum.se, +46 8 5195 4392 
Daniel Golling, Summit, daniel@summitunlimited.se, +46 730 48 10 75
Hanna Tottmar, press officer Nationalmuseum,
hanna.tottmar@nationalmuseum.se, +46 767 23 46 32

Caption
Sven Palmqvist, bowl Fuga. Chosen by Claesson Koivisto Rune.
Front, wastepaper basket Bin. Chosen by Lycke von Schantz.