Meet about a hundred works by Swedish and international artists who draw. The exhibition Yet another morning – Drawing in the Moderna Museet Collection presents both art that we recognise as “pen on paper” and drawings that are expressed in completely different materials and dimensions.

Yet another morning – Drawing in the Moderna Museet Collection invites us to think about what drawing is and can be. Drawings and illustrations with different themes and techniques are exhibited here together with sculpture, moving images and photographic art. Ninety percent of the material has never before been presented by the museum.

Discover how artists observe and draw their surroundings, themselves and their everyday lives, but also how they express what cannot be seen or depicted, such as emotions, thoughts and social criticism.

Most artists draw and sketch. It is a timeless and often immediate way of expressing yourself. Drawing also has the ability to move freely across cultural and language barriers since almost anyone can achieve something with a pen and paper.

(Annika Gunnarsson, curator)

Lines, shadows and figures

Common to all works in Yet another morning is the core of drawing – the work with lines, shadows, contours, surfaces and contrasts between blackness and light:

A few strokes capture an entire story, as in works by Jean Fautrier, Alexander Rodchenko and many others. The painstaking work with thousands of thin marks from the tip of the pen can be seen, for example, in works by Ann Böttcher and Johanna Karlsson.

Others observe themselves, such as Egon Schiele, Helene Schjerfbeck and Bjarne Melgaard, as well as Alberto Giacometti when he lifts his own shadow from the ground into an upright elongated figure. The joy of colour is found in works by Jane Bark, Peter Köhler and Nellie Mae Row, among others.