The 2022 Portrait of Honour depicts the artist Britta Marakatt-Labba, known around the world for her embroidered images of Sami landscapes with both a poetic and a political message. The portrait is the work of Marja Helander, whose photographs of Sami landscapes, people and culture have won multiple awards.
Nationalmuseum has acquired a landscape by the French naturalist painter Jean-François Raffaëlli, one of the foremost role models for the Swedish artists who travelled to Paris in the 1880s.
The 2023 exhibition programme at Nationalmuseum offers a mix of garden art, miniatures and American crafts.
The painting of Bartholomew the Apostle by the Italian painter Luca Giordano has been donated to Nationalmuseum, the first painting in the collections by this famous Baroque artist from Naples whose final years were spent as painter at the Spanish court.
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.
The Swedish National Portrait Gallery comprises over 5 300 works of art and is the world’s oldest national portrait gallery. To mark the gallery’s bicentenary, a book that traces the history of the collection will be released.
Nationalmuseum has acquired pastel portraits by Maurice Quentin de La Tour, Henry-Pierre Danloux and Joseph Boze, three artists active during the golden age of pastel in 18th-century France. In recent years Nationalmuseum has acquired several works exemplifying this major trend in 18th-century European painting.
This autumn brings the exhibitions Christer Strömholm – Portraits in Paris and Giorgio Vasari’s Drawings – A Mythical Collection.
This year the Tessin Lecture for both 2022 and 2021 will be held since last year’s lecture was postponed due to the pandemic. 15 September Melissa Hyde will talk about why, in the eighteenth-century, to wear pink was to make a statement – a statement made all the more emphatic and enduring when memorialized in portraiture. 28 September Penny Sparke gives a lecture on the changing roles and meaning
Nationalmuseum has acquired a ceramic sculpture of a bear by Carl Richard Söderström. The sculpture follows in a long tradition of animal portraits in Swedish ceramic art.
An expressive self-portrait by Isaac Grünewald, dating from 1915, has been donated to Nationalmuseum. The painting, depicting the artist in profile, is a significant addition to the Swedish National Portrait Gallery, which is managed by Nationalmuseum.
Nationalmuseum has been gifted a large exhibition urn made at the Rörstrand porcelain works in Stockholm. Produced in 1884, the urn is decorated with delicate motifs by Anton Vogel.
