The Moderna Exhibition 2006
18 February – 7 May
Moderna Museet
Box 16382, 103 27
Skeppsholmen, Stockholm
Tel: 46 8 5195 5279
Contact: Paulina Sokolow
p.sokolow [at] modernamuseet.se
The Moderna Exhibition 2006 looks at the relationship between the self and the surrounding world. The mass media, for instance, mixes fictitious stories and personal accounts from different parts of the world with real events. Geography is fragmented. More than ever, personal experience is a tool for finding ones bearings in this environment. Like the fragmented perception of time and space, personal experiences arise from varying, and sometimes contradictory, situations. They do not simply stem from concrete definitions of who I am or where I come from. Thus, the question is no longer Who am I? but: When am I?.
The selection of artists mixes the firmly established with the relatively unknown. The spatial presentation has been strongly emphasised, with a view to enhancing the overall experience. The exhibition is arranged along a route, through the temporary exhibitions hall, via one of the sections usually devoted to the collection from descriptions of the world, to imaginative renderings of inner realities to the entrance areas of the museum and the Stockholm suburb of Hökarängen.
Admission price includes the catalogue. In order to give more depth to the exhibition and also make it more accessible, a 348-page catalogue, with essays, artist biographies and illustrations.
Participating artists:
Christian Andersson, Henrik Andersson, Karin Mamma Andersson, Torsten Andersson, Johanna Billing, Miriam Bäckström, Magnus Bärtås, Ann Böttcher, Camilla Carlsson, Loulou Cherinet, Jonas Dahlberg, Jacob Dahlgren, Nathalie Djurberg, Cecilia Edefalk, Per Enoksson, Andreas Eriksson, Annika Eriksson, Elis Eriksson, Juan Pedro Fabra, Felix Gmelin, Per Hasselberg, Annika von Hausswolff, Mats Hjelm, Saskia Holmkvist, Jan Håfström, Lisa Jeannin, Matti Kallioinen, Gunilla Klingberg, Oskar Korsár, Annika Larsson, Marianne Lindberg De Geer, Jenny Magnusson, Dorinel Marc, Monika Marklinger, Tova Mozard, Sirous Namazi, Jonas Nobel, Ylva Ogland, Ola Pehrson, Ride 1 (Ronny Hansson, Jonas Kjellgren, Stig Sjölund), Fia-Stina Sandlund, Linda Tedsdotter, Magnus Thierfelder, Johan Thurfjell, Magnus Wallin, Anna Wessman and Ola Åstrand.
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