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  • John Martin (1789–1854), "The Destruction of Herculaneum and Pompeii", Tabley House Collection, Knutsford. Photo: Tabley House

    Five centuries of Apocalypse at the Gothenburg Museum of Art

    Ruined cities, violent volcanic eruptions and melting glaciers. Throughout history, artists have been fascinated by catastrophes, from biblical accounts of the Last Judgement to the present era’s anxiety over war, climate change and AI. Apocalypse: From Last Judgement to Climate Threat presents the art history of doom from the 16th century until today.

  •  Illustration: © Design Ilon Wikland AB. Ronja, the Robber’s Daughter: TM and © The Astrid Lindgren Company

    Experience adventure and everyday life in Ilon Wikland’s visual worlds

    With her illustrations for Ronja the Robber’s Daughter, The Brothers Lionheart and Mardie as well as many picture books of her own, Ilon Wikland have made a deep impression on several generations of children and adults. The exhibition Ilon Wikland’s visual worlds. Fairytales, adventures and everyday life is the most comprehensive presentation in Sweden to date, featuring around 400 original works.

  • Ragnar Sandberg, Sweden 1902–1972, Blue Bus, 1940, oil on canvas (cropped). Photo: Hossein Sehatlou

    Beloved Gothenburg Colourists in a new light

    Bright colours, sweeping brushstrokes, personal subject matter and emotional visions characterize the painting of the Gothenburg Colourists. The exhibition Wonderful Colour: Gothenburg Colourism in a New Light presents the colourists at the Gothenburg Museum of Art in a comprehensive exhibition with new perspectives.

  • Lee Bul, Willing To Be Vulnerable - Metalized Balloon, (2015-2016). Courtesy Lee Bul Studio and Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, London • Paris • Salzburg • Seoul

    Lee Bul in first Nordic solo exhibition

    Fragments of mother-of-pearl, a hovering, glassy polished zeppelin and sculptures made from military scrap metal from the border between North and South Korea. The Gothenburg Museum of Art starts 2023 by presenting the celebrated South Korean artist Lee Bul’s first solo exhibition in the Nordic countries.

  • Barbro Östlihn, Royal Pavilion, 1966, Gothenburg Museum of Art. Photo: Hossein Sehatlou

    Monumental paintings from the 1960's New York

    With her consistent and single-minded style of painting, Barbro Östlihn attained a position in the New York art scene in the 1960's. Now her monumental paintings are shown for the first time in Gothenburg.

  • Emanuel Röhss, recipient of the Stena Foundation Culture Scholarship for 2021 in visual art. Photo: Peter Claesson

    The 2021 Stena Foundation Culture Scholarships

    Monumental architecture, seismic waves and building blocks from imaginary worlds. The Gothenburg Museum of Art finishes the year with a large-format installation by Emanuel Röhss, in which moving images, audio and stage design transform the room. Welcome to the press preview on 2 December.

  • Ida Lovisa Rudolfsson The World as I Knew It, II, 2016. Photo: Hendrik Zeitel

    A celebration of 25 years of Swedish contemporary art

    On 30th October, the Gothenburg Museum of Art presents an exhibition featuring cutting edge artists in Sweden at the turn of the millennium. The anniversary exhibition Towards another world celebrates the power of art to conceive and create other worlds.

  • ​Enticing and multifaceted Sandra Mujinga

    ​Enticing and multifaceted Sandra Mujinga

    ​Three-meter-tall guardians in hoodies and a hologram levitating in a darkened room. Camouflage, bodily presence and surveillance are major themes for the Congolese-Norwegian artist Sandra Mujinga, who now presents her first solo exhibition at a museum in Sweden. The presentation at the Gothenburg Museum of Art opens on July 10.

  • Carel Willink, The Zeppelin, 1933, Museum MORE, Gorssel, photo: Peter Cox, © Carel Willink/Bildupphovsrätt 2021.

    Faith in the future and impending doom in interwar paintings

    ​For the first time in Sweden, the Gothenburg Museum of Art presents a big international exhibition of New Objectivity paintings from the interwar period. The exhibition Focus on Europe: New Objectivities 1919–1939 has been realized through a donation from the Sten A Olsson Foundation for Research and Culture on the occasion of Gothenburg’s quatercentenary.