Exhibitions at Nationalmuseum 2019

The Danish Golden Age
28 February - 21 July 2019

In the spring and summer Nationalmuseum will present The Danish Golden Age, an exhibition which comprises the very best of Danish painting from 1800 to 1864. In a joint production by Nationalmuseum, SMK, National Gallery of Denmark in Copenhagen and the Petit Palais City of Paris’ Museum of Fine Arts in Paris, it is one of the most ambitious analyses of the period’s art to be undertaken in many years. During the Danish Golden Age, art that combined equal parts magical and realistic imagery grew out of a society marked by great upheaval. In these works, a parallel universe emerged in which everyday misery was highlighted by its very absence. Drawing inspiration from their immediate surroundings, artists created irresistible images that invite the viewers to imagine themselves in another place, yet to find fascination in the virtually surreal attention to detail.

Finn Juhl
14 March - 22 September 2019

The exhibition presents the Danish architect and furniture designer Finn Juhl through an exclusive selection of furniture, artwork and art handicraft from his home in Ordrup outside Copenhagen. A house that he designed and decorated for himself in 1942 in order for him to live and work there for the remainder of his life. Finn Juhl was during the 1940’s, 1950’s and 1960’s one of the most influential Scandinavian designers in Denmark as well as internationally.

1989 - culture and politics
5 September 2019 - 12 January 2020

The autumn of 2019 will mark the thirty year anniversary of the fall of the Berlin wall. It became the political symbol of a political world order that has endured since the end of the second world war. The exhibition examines what took place in the visual culture in the broadest sense in this radical historical period. It will be a kaleidoscopic blend of popular culture and fine culture which alternates between global perspectives and Swedish micro perspectives. It may for example feature the political resistance movement posters in Hungary and Czechoslovakia, mobile phone design, Jeff Koon’s postmodernism and latterday modernism by Jasper Morrison, music videos by Madonna and Roxette, the emergence of video games, the fashion of large shoulder pads and pastel colours. The exhibition reflects on the shift between the 1980’s and 1990’s as an historical breaking point and the concept of the exhibition theme revolves around terms such as freedom, liberation and the disintegration of borders.

Breathing Color - Hella Jongerius
17 October 2019 - 9 February 2020

Hella Jongerius’s exhibition Breathing Color is a visual installation that features the results of her longstanding research into colour, shape, light and materials. The studies become more in-depth with the help of works that she has selected from the museum’s collections. The visitor’s movement throughout the exhibition follows the change in daylight, from dawn till night time, through different colours and materials. Hella Jongerius was a part of the Dutch design group Droog in the 1990’s and she has designed textiles, porcelain and furniture for a number of international companies and she is also represented in the collections at the Nationalmuseum.

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Hanna Tottmar, Head of Press, press@nationalmuseum.se, +46 (0)8 5195 4400