Press release -
Exhibitions at Nationalmuseum spring 2015
Nationalmuseum at Konstakademien
Denise Grünstein – En face
19 February – 3 May
The exhibition on and by photographer Denise Grünstein is based on the suite of images 1866 taken in the empty museum building at the start of 2014. 19 works from the suite are on show for the first time, as well as a number of selected works from earlier suites of images.
100 Great Paintings
11 June – 30 August
The exhibition features a selection of highlights from Nationalmuseum’s collections, shown at a time when the museum building is closed for renovation.
Nationalmuseum Design at Kulturhuset Stadsteatern
Subjectivities – selected design
6 February – 22 March
The exhibition Subjectivities contains highly personal and subjective selections and show representatives from the Swedish design scene. 24 designers have chosen their favourite objects from the Nationalmuseum’s design collection and the museum has in turn selected a number of objects from the designers’ own output.
BACK. Everything Must Go!
17 April – 24 May
The exhibition comprises a conceptual store with a range of specially-produced products by Ann-Sofie Back, the winner of the Torsten and Wanja Söderberg Prize 2014. Alongside BACK the exhibition also presents the prizewinners of this prestigious award in previous years.
Glass is Tomorrow
17 June – 23 August
Innovative international contemporary glass.
Nationalmuseum in collaboration
Crossing Borders
Opening mid-March at Göteborg Landvetter Airport
Opening this summer at Visby Airport
Crossing Borders is part of a joint project between Nationalmuseum and Swedavia to show art at airports in Sweden. The exhibition comprises photographic portraits of Swedes who have become internationally famous and in various ways have challenged and exceeded borders that are not only geographic.
Slow Art
14 February – 3 May Jönköpings läns museum
23 May – 19 September Ystads konstmuseum
Slow Art focuses on a contemporary phenomenon in the field of applied arts and design where technique, materials and labour-intensive processes takes a central stage. The exhibition is about the perspective on time and production processes, and the presented objects are all hand-crafted in slow and often intricate processes.
Press contact
Hanna Tottmar, press officer Nationalmuseum,
hanna.tottmar@nationalmuseum.se, +46 767 23 46 32
Caption
Denise Grünstein, Gatekeeper, 2014. Anna Kraitz, Bicycle Rack Fogdarp.
Nationalmuseum is Sweden’s premier museum of art and design. The collections comprise older paintings, sculpture, drawings and graphic art, and applied art and design up to the present day. The museum building is currently under renovation and scheduled to open again in 2017. In the meantime, the museum will continue its activities through collaborations both in Sweden and abroad as well as temporary exhibitions at the Royal Swedish Academy of Fine Arts, Fredsgatan 12, Stockholm. Nationalmuseum collaborates with Svenska Dagbladet, FCB Fältman & Malmén and Grand Hôtel Stockholm. For more information visit www.nationalmuseum.se.
