Current Exhibitions
Ilon Wikland’s visual worlds. Fairytales, adventures and everyday life
25 May 2024-12 January 2025
This is the most comprehensive exhibition of Ilon Wikland’s work in Sweden to date. Step into an enchanted fairytale world, gain a more in-depth understanding of Ilon Wikland’s life and experience a teeming environment with iconic characters and stories!
New Art. Charlotte Mannheimer and the Rise of Modernism in Gothenburg
6 April–27 October 2024
The exhibition presents a selection of Charlotte Mannheimer’s own works, along with works by the Nordic modernists she supported, such as Isaac Grünewald, Gösta Sandels, Sigrid Hjertén, Vera Nilsson, Jena Heiberg and Henrik Sørensen.
Previous Exhibitions
Wonderful Colour. Gothenburg Colourism in a New Light
22 April 2023–7 April 2024
Camilla Boström and Olof Marsja. The Stena Foundation Culture Scholarship 2023
2 December 2023–3 March 2024
Dialogues: Fashion Beyond the Wearable
12 May 2023–7 January 2024
Lee Bul
11 March–27 August 2023
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
The Canon: Perspectives on Swedish Art Historiography
From 20 April 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