What is the Moderna Museet collection? A wonderful way to travel in time, art and ideas. Here, you will find some of the world’s finest art, modern and contemporary, Swedish and international, including key works by the most prominent artists of the 20th and 21st centuries.
The Museum shows selected works that are changed and reinstalled continuously. This means that you might see something different on each visit. In the collection presentation you can experience contemporary and older work in a variety of techniques and by different artists, including:
Photographs by Anna Riwkin, August Sander, Francesca Woodman, Malick Sidibé, Cindy Sherman, Gunnar Smoliansky, Julia Margaret Cameron, Hiroshi Sugimoto, Julia Peirone, Jeff Wall, Annika von Hausswolff, Hans Hammarskiöld, Nan Goldin, Man Ray and others.
Paintings by Liubov Popova, Nils Dardel, Sigrid Hjertén, John-E Franzén, Alexandra Exter, Gerhard Richter, Karin Mamma Andersson, Giorgio De Chirico, Anna Kagan, Jasper Johns, Vera Nilsson, Yves Klein, Jutta Koether, Nils Dardel, Sturtevant, Andy Warhol, Ulla Wiggen, Salvador Dalí, Barbro Östlihn, Pablo Picasso, Niki de Saint Phalle, and many more.
Sculptures by Eva Hesse, Alberto Giacometti, Germaine Richier, Constantin Brancusi, Doris Salcedo, Robert Rauschenberg, Rosemarie Trockel, Bruce Nauman, Louise Bourgeois, Marcel Duchamp, Lee Bontecou, Alexander Calder, Rachel Harrison, Olafur Eliasson, Yayoi Kusama, Man Ray, Judy Chicago, Claes Oldenburg, Louise Nevelson, Nam June Paik, Ruth Vollmer and others.
Installations by Isa Genzken, Karl Holmqvist, Marina Abramović, Joseph Kosuth, Klara Lidén, Georges Adéagbo, Yoko Ono, Carl Fredrik Reuterswärd, Mona Hatoum, Matts Leiderstam, Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster, Shozo Shimamoto, and others.
Moving images by Dara Birnbaum, Robert Breer, Nathalie Djurberg, Robert Smithson, Laurie Simmons, Dziga Vertov, Carolee Schneeman, Luis Buñuel, Maya Deren, Tony Oursler, Andrea Fraser, Magnus Wallin, Cheryl Donegan, Klaus vom Bruch and others.
Prints by Harriet Löwenhjelm, Axel Fridell, Vera Nilsson, Petter Pettersson, Lena Svedberg, Olof Sandahl, Elsa Björkman-Goldschmidt, Sture Johanneson, Ursula Schütz, KG Nilsson, Vija Celmins, Patrik Larsson, Stina Fant, Jockum Nordström, Ann Böttcher, Eddie Figge, Johanna Karlsson, Gunnel Wåhlstrand and De Nio (the IX Group) including Philip von Schantz, and others.
Textile works, artist books and art that defies categorisation or description of technique. Guided tours, performances, artist talks, symposia and many other events and activities explore the contents and narratives in the collection.