Exhibitions 2012

Next year Nationalmuseum presents emotions, slow art and female artists in pursuit. With this program Solfrid Söderlind leaves after nine years as Director General. After New Year Berndt Arell will take over the government’s appointment as Director General for Nationalmuseum. A major collaboration with Jamtli in Östersund will also be carried out during the year. 

Passions – Five Centuries of Art and the Emotions
8 March – 12 August 2012
The major exhibition this spring will examine how the emotions are interpreted and portrayed in art. Artists have been interested in the emotions, and how they are expressed, since ancient times, depicting facial expressions, gestures and body language in their works to convey sorrow, suffering, fear, melancholy, tenderness and joy. Older works by Dürer, Munch and Rembrandt will appear alongside contemporary works by Tony Oursler, Rineke Dijkstra and Bill Viola.

The Art of Exaggeration – Caricature in Sweden 
8 March – 12 August 2012
In parallel with Passions an exhibition about the development of Swedish caricature art through the ages will be shown. The exhibition reflects the art of satiric drawing from the 16th century until today, and shows around 90 drawings, prints and digital images. The artists on display include Johan Tobias Sergel, Carl August Ehrensvärd, Gustaf Wahlbom, Albert Engström, EWK, Annie Bergman and Stina Eidem. 

Modern Life – France in the 19th Century 
19 April and onwards
The exhibition shows the museum’s collections of French art as well as experiments with new ways of presenting art in the future. It tells about social changes in France during the 19th century and how this tumultuous time influenced art. Paintings, drawings, photography, sculpture and applied art by artists such as Claude Monet, Emile Gallé, Edouard Manet, Berthe Morisot, August Rodin och Gustave Courbet, is shown side by side. 

Slow Art 
10 May – 20 January 2013 
The concept Slow Art celebrates a contemporary movement in art and applied art where technique, materials and the work process are considered especially important. About 30 pieces in silver, textile, glass and ceramic artifacts from the museum’s own collections will be shown, all of them unique and crafted with care. Among the artists are Helena Hörstedt, Mafune Gonjo, Eva Hild, Helena Edman, Sebastian Schildt, Helena Sandström, Annika Ekdahl and Karen Bit Vejle. 

Pride and Prejudice – Female Artists in France and Sweden 1750-1860
27 September – 20 January 2013 
The autumn’s major exhibition is about female artists in France and Sweden during the period 1750-1860. The exhibition is a collaboration with National Museum of Women in the Arts in Washington. It contains a mixture of paintings, drawings and sculpture, both on loan and from Nationalmuseum’s own collections. Many of them will be shown for a Swedish audience for the first time. 

In collaboration with Jamtli
Near & Far
22 April – 25 November 2012
Nationalmuseum collaborates with Jamtli and shows works from the museum’s collections of 19th century art with travel as a theme. Constantly equipped with a brush or pencil the artists gathered subjects that they later used in their paintings. Among the artists on display are Anders Zorn, Bruno Liljefors, Carl Fredrik Hill, Ernst Josephson, Peder Balke, Adolph Tideman and Hans Fredrik Gude.

More information
Hanna Tottmar, press officer, htr@nationalmuseum.se, +46 8 5195 4390

Press images
www.nationalmuseum.se/pressroom 

Captions
Rembrandt, Self-Portrait; Annika Liljedahl, Sleeping Beauty; Emma Ekwall, Maria Ricci