As well as offering retrospectives, the museum´s exhibitions reflect current developments on the contemporary art scene both from the Nordic countries and the international scene. The museum aims to give its visitor art that explore, define, comment and criticise both our history and our contemporary life.
A visit to the museum should be an intellectual, aesthetic and emotional challenge, based on quality, insight and application that give a new perspective to the visitor´s life.
Educational activities at the museum include guided tours, school programs and seminars.
17 february — 9 april 2012
Main Gallery
Carl Fredrik Hill
"I would just like to mention, that in me Sweden will get a painter whose like they have never seen," Carl Fredrik Hill (1849-1911) wrote to his father in the spring of 1872 from Stockholm, where he was studying at the Royal Academy of Arts. Hill went on to become one of Sweden's foremost landscape painters, but did not receive the acclamation he had hoped for in his lifetime. In the winter of 1873, he travelled to Paris, expecting immediate success - he wanted to "astound the world and earn loads of money". Later, too, in his schizophrenic phase, he was hoping for success, calling himself maximus pictor, the greatest of painters. When Hill died in his home in Lund in February of 1911, he was still an unknown celebrity.
During the one hundred years that have passed since his death, the exhibitions have succeeded one another, in Sweden and abroad. Assessments have varied, and so too the relative importance of the paintings from the so called sane period in comparison to those painted in ill-health. The exhibition features both these creative periods in Hill's life and also shows how they link into one another.
The exhibition, first shown at Prins Eugens Waldemarsudde in Stockholm, features the artist's famed river landscapes and flowering fruit trees from his time in France, as well as the visionary drawings from his years of mental ill-health in Lund, Sweden.
22 april — 27 may 2012
Main Gallery
Lars Lerin
A solo exhibition with new works by Lars Lerin who is considered as one of Scandinavia ´s foremost watercolor painters. Lerin works primarily in watercolor on large sheets of paper, sometimes in a collage style, occasionally integrating his writing on his paintings. He has over 30 years sought to capture the Nordic landscape and the light in huge images with remarkable technique and personal imagery. In Lerins landscape paintings the darkness, mist and shadows usually dominates but in recent years also architecture and interiors is depicted. His body of work is both partly travel documentation based on his trips to Arktis, Antarctic, Iceland, India, the middle east, Scotland to name a few, and partly autobiographical landscapes from his childhood and emotional life.
Lars Lerin was born 1954 and raised in Munkfors, Värmland. He studied at the Department of Fine Arts, Valand 1980-84. He has had solo exhibitions and group exhibitions in art museums and galleries in Sweden, Denmark, Finland, France , the Faroe Islands, Iceland,Germany, Norway and the United States. Lars Lerin is represented in County Councils and Municipalities in Sweden and Norway.
Lars Lerin is also a hard-working author and has since his debut book Utpost (1983), written and released more than forty books.
10 june — 30 september 2012
Main Gallery
Max Walter Svanberg 100 year
The artist Max Walter Svanberg (1912-1994) is one of the few Swedish artists who have had a real significance in the international art world. He co-founded the artist group Imaginisterna in Malmö 1948, but left them soon after. In 1950, he published an album of lithographs. He was invited to the surrealist group in Paris by André Breton in 1953 and started to associate with the group. Svanberg exhibited at the Galerie de l´Etoile Scellee in 1955. In 1958, he illustrated an edition of Rimbaud´s Les Illuminations.
All of Max Walter Svanbergs pictures are tributes to the woman, who for the artist was a strange hybrid of vision and reality. The most prevalent motif is the woman's body merged with elements of animals and fauna.
Malmö Art Museum will display both original works and graphic works from the museum's large collection of Max Walter Svanberg works, on a total of 160 works by the time frame from the mid-1920s until the early 1970s.
From 1500 until Now
A stroll through time and space outlining the history and development of painting and furniture styles. Interiors that are part of the permanent exhibition illustrate the various style periods, from the Renaissance to Postmodernism. Especially noteworthy are the portraits of Rococo painter Alexander Roslin, Carl Fredrik Hill´s famous landscapes from 1870s and, of course, Nordic contemporary art.
25 november 2011 - 5 february 2012
(Main Gallery)
White Lines - Sophie Tottie
White Lines is a mid-career solo exhibition by the Swedish artist Sophie Tottie. In her drawings, paintings and installations she explores and experiment with the tension between lines, circles and abstraction to visualize the encounter between viewer and art work.
24 september - 6 november 2011
(Main Gallery)
Veli Granö
A solo exhibition by the Finnish artist Veli Granö (b. 1960). His art is often a record of people who created a life and a world that differs from ordinary life. Video art and installations.
19 june — 4 september 2011 (Main Gallery)
GAN - Gösta Adrian-Nilsson
A retrospective exhibition of works by Gösta Adrian-Nilsson (1884-1965), a major pioneer of the Swedish modernist art.
TRACKS
New acquisitions in Malmö Art Museums collection of Nordic contemporary art
Malmö Art Museums collection provides an interesting cross-section of the Nordic art scene. The art museum regularly presents the recent purchases.
The exhibition features around 70 works by over 50 artists. Curators: Malin Forssell and Marika Reuterswärd, Malmö Art Museum
September 5 — December 5, 2010 (Main Gallery)
Beyond the Sea - Lisa Jeannin & Rolf Schuurmans
The artists Lisa Jeannin (*1972 in Uppsala, Sweden) and Rolf Schuurmans (*1972 in Oss, Holland) have worked together for several years. This is the first time a large presentation of their work as well as Lisa Jeannin´s solo-works are presented.
The artists take us through a journey where everything is possible, nothing is permanent and where the transformation of identity, the shifting of reality, space and scale offers resistance to the rational. It is untamed, unpredictable, with a taste of absurd humour.
June 13 - August 18, 2010 (Main Gallery)
Matts Leiderstam - Seen from Here
Matts Leiderstam has since the early 1990s paired art history with various contemporary issues. This mid-career exhibition is focused on his interest for the Düsseldorf painters.
February 7 - May 23, 2010 (Main Gallery)
With another glance - Modernism
An art exhibition that explores the period of modernism (1880-1940) through mainly artists from Scania.
November 29, 2009 - January 24, 2010 (Main Gallery)
From Ming to Mao
Malmö Art Museum presented more than 50 porcelain objects from the collection of Capital Museum in Beijing that has never been shown outside China. The porcelain is from the periods of the Ming Dynasty (1368-1644), Qing Dynasty (1644-1911) and from the ChineseRepublic (1914-1948). The exhibition is made in collaboration with the Capital Museum in Beijing.
