This summer’s major exhibition at Moderna Museet Malmö presents the internationally acclaimed film artist Yael Bartana. The exhibition “and Europe will be stunned”, will occupy the entire Turbine Hall and will screen the artist’s five most recent productions. Oscillating between history and an imagined future, these films exist in a troubled borderland between documentary, propaganda […]
The Swedish Government has now appointed the successor of the current director for Moderna Museet, Lars Nittve, who resigns 31 October 2010: Daniel Birnbaum. Birnbaum is a philosopher, critic and curator, previously director for IASPIS International Artists Studio Program in Sweden and 2001-2010 rector at Städelschule Staatliche Hochschule in Frankfurt am Main. Daniel Birnbaum was […]
Swiss film and video artist Pipilotti Rist has designed a kaleidoscope of colours and poetic surprises for the 20th anniversary of the Langmatt Museum: the artist focuses on the hidden life at Villa Langmatt, built in 1900-01 by Karl Moser. She directs our attention to the now-forgotten parallel universe of the servants and creates coherent […]
Planning permission has been granted for plans to extend the International Slavery Museum. Currently the museum is contained within the Merseyside Maritime Museum and entered on the third floor. The new plans will see the museum have its own entrance at the Dock Traffic Office and a striking glass walkway will connect the two buildings. […]
An unprecedented retrospective exhibition of works by Alexandra Exter hosted by the Moscow Museum of Modern Art is a truly remarkable event. Alexandra Exter, one of the ‘amazons’ and brightest stars of the Russian avant-garde, took part in most significant shows of the new art, including exhibitions of ‘Jack of Diamonds’ group and ‘Union of […]
