This coming year, Nationalmuseum will continue to deepen visitors’ understanding of popular artists in its collections, collaborate with other Nordic and European museums, and feature contemporary artists in its temporary exhibitions.
The Nationalmuseum in Stockholm invites visitors to explore the design philosophy of the Japanese designer Akira Minagawa in the exhibition Design = Memory. Akira Minagawa & Minä perhonen. Textiles, fashion, design objects, as well as original artworks are all in a circular dialogue showcasing the creative process.
The year at Nationalmuseum begins with exhibitions about the Norwegian artist Harriet Backer and the Japanese designer Akira Minagawa. It then ends with a large exhibition about Romanticism with art both from the 19th century and contemporary art.
The exhibition Just like in a mirror – portraits over five centuries presents men, women and children who lived in or served Sweden from the 16th century to the present day. Not all the subjects were born in the country, but they all contributed in various ways to its history or cultural life. Some of the artists and subjects have a connection with Jämtland.
Nationalmuseum’s collections include many exquisite, representative examples of Swedish and European silver from the 16th century to the present day. This unique collection has come about partly as a result of many generous donations and financial contributions received over the years. The exhibition The Joy of Giving presents some 80 gifts received by the museum in recent decades.
During the summer you can see a number of exhibitions produced by Nationalmuseum. At Nationalmuseum in Stockholm you can see The Garden – Six Centuries of Art and Nature, Beauty and the Unexpected and The Joy of Giving – silver donations. At The Gustavsberg Porcelain Museum Bathrooms for everyone! is on show, at Nationalmuseum Jamtli Ideal and Reality and at Läckö Castle Animals in Art.
Beauty and the Unexpected features modern and contemporary American crafts selected by former gallerist and craft educator Helen W. Drutt English. The exhibition displays 81 objects including jewelry, chairs, ceramics, wall pieces and textiles from the 1950s until today.
On 23 March Nationalmuseum opens an exhibition about the Swedish miniature painter Peter Adolf Hall. He revolutionised the art of miniature portraits in Paris in the latter half of the 18th century and enjoyed great success. But how Hall came by his innovative miniature painting technique, and how he learned or developed this art form, remains a mystery.
The Garden – Six Centuries of Art and Nature takes the form of a grand tour showing how gardens have been portrayed in art. The exhibition includes more than 300 paintings, drawings, applied art and sculpture. Artists on display include Watteau, Boucher, Oudry, Le Nôtre, Monet and Carl Larsson and, from contemporary times, Peter Frie and Emma Helle.
The 2023 exhibition programme at Nationalmuseum offers a mix of garden art, miniatures and American crafts.
On 20 October opens Still Life, an exhibition based on the play with the same name written by Lars Norén. The exhibition is a wordless journey through Sweden for 125 years, consisting of images, videos, texts and objects.
This autumn brings the exhibitions Christer Strömholm – Portraits in Paris and Giorgio Vasari’s Drawings – A Mythical Collection.
Nationalmuseum is Sweden’s museum of art and design. The collections include paintings, sculptures, drawings and graphic art from the 16th century up to the beginning of the 20th century, and applied art and design up to the present day. Nationalmuseum owns about 700,000 objects.
The emphasis of the collection of paintings is on Swedish 18th and 19th century painting. Dutch painting from the 17th century is also well represented, and the French 18th century collection is regarded as one of the best in the world. The works are made by artists such as Rembrandt, Rubens, Goya, Boucher, Watteau, Renoir and Degas as well as Swedish artists such as Anders Zorn, Carl Larsson, Ernst Josephson and Carl Fredrik Hill.
The collection of applied art and design consists of objects such as ceramics, textiles, glass and precious and non-precious metals as well as furniture and books etc. The collection of prints and drawings comprises works by Rembrandt, Watteau, Manet, Sergel, Carl Larsson, Carl Fredrik Hill and Ernst Josephson. Central are the 2,000 master drawings that Carl Gustaf Tessin acquired during his tour of duty as Sweden's ambassador to France in the 18th century.
Art and objects from Nationalmuseum’s collections can also be seen at several royal palaces such as Gripsholm, Drottningholm, Strömsholm, Rosersberg and Ulriksdal as well as in the Swedish Institute in Paris. The museum administers the Swedish National Portrait Gallery at Gripsholm Castle, the world’s oldest national portrait gallery and the Gustavsberg collection with approximately 45,000 objects manufactured at the Gustavsberg Porcelain Factory. Nationalmuseum also curates exhibitions at Nationalmuseum Jamtli and the Gustavsberg Porcelain Museum.
Nationalmuseum is a government authority with a mandate to preserve cultural heritage and promote art, interest in art and knowledge of art and that falls within the remit of the Swedish Ministry of Culture.
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