The exhibition Portraits! opens at Nationalmuseum on 6 November
This winter’s exhibition poses the question of who truly gets a place in a national portrait gallery. How has this looked historically? And how might it look in the future?
Categories: The-romantic-eye
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Nationalmuseum in Stockholm acquires a painting by Sofonisba Anguissola
Nationalmuseum has purchased a portrait painted by the Italian Renaissance artist Sofonisba Anguissola. This is the first work by a celebrated fifteenth-century woman painter to enter the museum’s collections.
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Exhibition with Johan Renck and Anders Petersen at Nationalmuseum
The Left Shore will be opening at Nationalmuseum on 12 June. This exhibition features a film created by Johan Renck, based on a number of photographs by Anders Petersen. A selection of Petersen’s photographs of closed institutions in Sweden is also on display.
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Monographic exhibition with Hanna Hirsch Pauli to open at Nationalmuseum on 19 June
This summer, Nationalmuseum will be presenting the first monographic exhibition on Hanna Hirsch Pauli. It will provide a comprehensive overview of her long life as an artist, including her most famous paintings and works that have never been exhibited before. In Hanna Hirsch Pauli – The Art of Being Free, her art is exhibited in its own right for the first time.
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Design for Life exhibition opens at Nationalmuseum Jamtli on 16 April
Design for Life – How design changes thinking and improves living standards showcases examples of design products from 1960 to the present day. Opening on 16 April, the exhibition features around 200 objects from Nationalmuseum’s collections.
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New art by Ernst Billgren exhibited at Nationalmuseum from 10 April
Nationalmuseum is excited to present Ernst Billgren – New Memories, an exhibition with multiple new pieces by one of Sweden’s most renowned artists. Billgren challenges the art world’s unwritten laws and unspoken expectations with work that combines traditional art historical motifs with pop culture references and kitsch.
The exhibition will feature about two dozen artworks by Billgren, in whic -
Exhibition ‘Bonnard and the Nordics’ Opening at Nationalmuseum on 20 February
Pierre Bonnard was one of the twentieth century’s most influential artists. In iridescent images, the Frenchman captured the world around him: his home, family, garden, bustling streets, and the view on the ocean from his window. In recent years, crowds around the world have flocked to exhibitions of Bonnard’s paintings. Nationalmuseum’s exhibition is the first one in Sweden in more than seven dec
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Exhibitions at Nationalmuseum 2025
This coming year, Nationalmuseum will continue to deepen visitors’ understanding of popular artists in its collections, collaborate with other Nordic and European museums, and feature contemporary artists in its temporary exhibitions.
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The subject of this year’s Portrait of Honour is Max Martin
The 2024 Portrait of Honour depicts songwriter and music producer extraordinaire Max Martin, and was taken by photographer Mikael Jansson. The Portrait of Honour will be unveiled at Gripsholm Castle on 13 October, where it will become part of the collection in the Swedish National Portrait Gallery.
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Revolutionary artworks from the Romantic era go on show at Nationalmuseum
This autumn, Nationalmuseum is presenting a major exhibition entitled The Romantic Eye. Visitors will enjoy a full-on experience of the revolutionary artworks that appeared in the years around 1800, when art itself and the role of the artist evolved to reflect emerging ideas about independent thinking, individual experience and the creative mind. The exhibition runs from 26 September 2024.
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A painting in the collections of the Nationalmuseum recently attributed to the famous artist Carel Fabritius
New research at the Nationalmuseum has shown that a painting in the collections, earlier ascribed to an anonymous artist, can now be attributed to Carel Fabritius, one of Rembrandt’s pupils. The attribution and dating of the painting are based on stylistic analysis combined with technical examination of painting technique and materials.
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Britta Marakatt-Labba artwork joins Nationalmuseum collection
Living as she does close to nature, Sami artist Britta Marakatt-Labba is increasingly aware of the changes being wrought by global warming. Thanks to a very generous donation from the Friends of Nationalmuseum Bengt Julin Foundation, her work Máilmmi liegganeapmi (Global Warming II) has now joined the Nationalmuseum collection.
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Nationalmuseum Sweden acquires painting by a Rembrandt-pupil
Nationalmuseum in Stockholm has acquired the painting Young Man Asleep Before an Open Book, probably executed in Rembrandt’s studio in the mid-17th century.
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Exhibition about the Norwegian artist Harriet Backer opens at Nationalmuseum 22 February
In spring and summer 2024, Nationalmuseum will be hosting an exhibition on Harriet Backer who was one of Norway’s most influential artists in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Backer was one of the most prominent colourists in Scandinavia and portrayers of light and atmosphere in interiors.
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Japanese design by Akira Minagawa stars in a new exhibition in Stockholm, opening February 22
The Nationalmuseum in Stockholm invites visitors to explore the design philosophy of the Japanese designer Akira Minagawa in the exhibition Design = Memory. Akira Minagawa & Minä perhonen. Textiles, fashion, design objects, as well as original artworks are all in a circular dialogue showcasing the creative process.
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Nationalmuseum’s latest sculpture acquisition: a detailed clay snapshot
Nationalmuseum has acquired a sculpture by Ingel Fallstedt (1848–99). The terracotta piece forms an entire spatial scene in miniature, showing a woman sitting in an armchair in front of a draped mirror.
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Sketches by Carl Larsson acquired for Nationalmuseum’s collection
Nationalmuseum has now acquired nine watercolour sketches of Carl Larsson for the Royal Opera's foyer’s ceiling and wall paintings, dated 1896–97, illuminating the artist’s final vision. The watercolours present the compositions almost exactly as they were executed.
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Goldstein painting acquired by Nationalmuseum
Nationalmuseum has acquired a painting dated 1822 by Polish-German artist Johann Theodor Goldstein. The imaginary scene depicts a towering cathedral in the early dusk. With its wonderfully visionary qualities, the painting is a novel addition to Nationalmuseum’s German art collection. It will go on show for the first time in autumn 2024 as part of the exhibition entitled The Romantic Eye.
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Portrait of Honour 2023: Svante Pääbo by Sixten Sandra Österberg
The 2023 Portrait of Honour depicts the geneticist and Nobel laureate Svante Pääbo. Painted in oil on canvas by Sixten Sandra Österberg, the portrait joins the collection of the Swedish National Portrait Gallery and will be unveiled at Gripsholm Castle on 28 October.
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Young Applied Artists award goes to Lisa Juntunen Roos
The textile artist Lisa Juntunen Roos receives the 2023 Young Applied Artists award. In her works, she explores materiality, technique, narrative, and the strong role played by tradition.
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