Press release -
Nationalmuseum’s summer exhibition to feature 100 favourite works
This summer’s exhibition at Nationalmuseum, 100 Great Paintings, will be a chance to revisit old favourites from the museum’s collection and to discover new ones. Exactly 100 paintings will be on show, with the emphasis on works from the late 19th century. To accompany the exhibition, Nationalmuseum is producing a lavishly illustrated catalogue and an app that serves as an audio guide.
The 100 Great Paintings exhibition will feature some of Nationalmuseum’s best-known and most popular works. For a limited time this summer, visitors will have the opportunity to see once again some much loved favourites from the collection while the museum building is closed for renovation. Bruno Liljefors’ hunting cat, Rembrandt’s kitchen maid and Hanna Pauli’s summer breakfast are just some of the images that many visitors relate to and remember with affection. As well as an occasion for fond reunions, the exhibition will be a chance for new visitors to discover such works for the first time.
All 100 works will be drawn from Nationalmuseum’s own collection of paintings. The exhibition will include portraits, landscapes, still lifes and history paintings spanning a period of more than 500 years, but with the emphasis on the late 19th century.
The featured paintings are pieces of history created in a bygone age that continue to speak to us today. Discussions of artworks are always fascinating, and for the duration of this exhibition Nationalmuseum will be exploring ways to extend the reach of the paintings by writing and talking about them in social media and other venues. What happens when present-day audiences are faced with images from the past? To accompany the exhibition, Nationalmuseum is producing a lavishly illustrated catalogue and an app that serves as an audio guide.
100 Great Paintings will be on show in Nationalmuseum’s temporary galleries at Konstakademien, Fredsgatan 12, Stockholm, from 28 May until 30 August 2015.
Press contact
Hanna Tottmar, press officer, hanna.tottmar@nationalmuseum.se, +46 767 234632
Caption
Bruno Liljefors, A Cat and a Chaffinch. Photo: Nationalmuseum
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 and Nationalmuseum Design at Kulturhuset Stadsteatern in Stockholm. Nationalmuseum collaborates with Svenska Dagbladet, FCB Fältman & Malmén and Grand Hôtel Stockholm. For more information visit www.nationalmuseum.se.
