Current Exhibitions
Dialogues: Fashion Beyond the Wearable
12 May 2023–7 January 2024
Four of the most renowned Swedish fashion designers of the 21st century engage in a dialogue with some of the classics of art history found in the collection of the Gothenburg Museum of Art.
Wonderful Colour. Gothenburg Colourism in a New Light
22 April 2023–7 April 2024
Wonderful Colour. Gothenburg Colourism in a New Light is the first exhibition of Gothenburg colourists at the Gothenburg Museum of Art since the 1980s, thereby introducing this beloved style to new generations of visitors.
Lee Bul
11 March–27 August 2023
Fragments of mother-of-pearl, a hovering, glassy polished zeppelin and sculptures made from military scrap metal from the border between North and South Korea. The Gothenburg Museum of Art presents the celebrated South Korean artist Lee Bul’s first solo exhibition in the Nordic countries.
Vincent van Gogh: Olive Grove, Saint-Rémy in Focus
22 june 2022–until further notice
During the years 2019-2022, the work has been part of a unique international exhibition and research project in which all the paintings in van Gogh’s series of olive groves have been subject to in-depth analysis. Now, the Gothenburg Museum of Art’s OIive Grove, Saint-Rémy is on display in a separate presentation along with a film reporting the results of this research.
100th anniversary
6 May-31 August 2023
This year marks the 100th anniversary of the Gothenburg Museum of Art´s building. We celebrated this with a presentation of the museum’s history through photographs and moving images. During the summer, the arches on the museum’s iconic facade will reflect historical moments from a century. Take a hundred-year journey together with one of Gothenburg’s most well-known meeting places for art experiences.
Previous Exhibitions
Albert Edelfelt – Modern artist life in fin-de-siècle Europe
22 October–12 March 2023
Eric Magassa and Jelizaveta Suska. The Stena Foundation Culture Scholarship 2022
3 December–12 February 2023
Play: video art in the collection
23 April–6 November 2022
Barbro Östlihn. New York Imprint
12 March–25 September 2022
Towards another world. 25 years of Swedish contemporary art – Sten A Olsson’s culture scholarships
30 October 2021–13 February 2022
Sandra Mujinga
10 juli–7 november 2021
Focus on Europe. New Objectivities 1919–1939
12 June–19 September 2021
Ingrid Vang Nyman. Much more than Pippi Longstocking
17 October–16 May 2021
Art Nouveau. From the Larssons to Zappa
12 September–15 November 2020
Trine Søndergaard 148 Works
18 April–20 September 2020
Printed
Prints as collector’s items, mass media and showpieces
14 March–16 August 2020
Golden Age to Hammershøi
Danish Art from Ordrupgaard and the Gothenburg Museum of Art
12 October 2019–22 March 2020
Tori Wrånes
2 March–25 August 2019
Młoda Polska
Polish Fin de Siècle Art
27 October 2018–17 March 2019
Tove Jansson
Desire to Create and Live
11 February–21 May 2017
A Painted History
Swedish History Painting during the Nineteenth Century
February 22–September 28, 2014
The Gothic Horror landscapes
From Marcus Larson to Goth
September 20–January 25, 2015
Bruce Nauman
March 2–September 1, 2013
Laurie Simmons
March 3–May 20, 2012
Frida Kahlo & Diego Rivera
Works from the Jacques and Natasha Gelman Collection of Mexican Art
October 23, 2011–January 22, 2012
FRICTION OF IDEAS: Gauguin, van Gogh, Bernard
July 19–October 19, 2014
Jan Lööf - Image Maker
September 17, 2010–January 22, 2011
Charlotte Gyllenhammar
January 24–May 3, 2015
Olof Sager-Nelson and his Contemporaries
Anywhere Out of the World
September 19, 2015–January 24, 2016
Between Realities
Photography in Sweden 1970–2000
February 8–May 11, 2014
Gothenburg Museum of Art and Hasselblad Center
Vanessa Baird
May 28–August 31, 2014
Romantic Postmodernism
Landscape, Selfcontemplation and Horror
May 30–September 13, 2015