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Francisco Goya

Francisco Goya: The Disasters of War
Malmö Konsthall
17.12 2011 – 26.2 2012
The best-known graphic work of Spanish artist Francisco Goya (1746–1828) is Los Desastres de la Guerra, known in English as The Disasters of War. Its message remains just as relevant today. Goya’s etchings depict for the first time war from the viewpoint of the civilian population’s suffering, without any attempt to soften the impact. We are ruthlessly presented with the brutality of war and the inhumanity of mankind. The etchings are an intense visual report of a barbaric behaviour that has since been repeated and is still continuing around the world today.

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Gerhard Nordström

Gerhard Nordström
Malmö Konsthall
17 December 2011 – 26 February 2012
Born in 1925, Gerhard Nordström has taken a clear stand for much of his career against the abuse of power and the destruction of the environment. In his art he depicts in a direct and unavoidable way social injustices and the consequences of consumer society. He made his big public breakthrough in the early 1970s with a suite of paintings entitled Sommaren 1970 (The Summer of 1970), which are now regarded as some of the most important examples of 20th-century Swedish art.

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Oskar Mörnerud, Malmö

Oskar Mörnerud: Panorama/Midbody
Moderna Museet Malmö
16.11 2011-22.1 2012
The Malmö-based artist Oskar Mörnerud is the first recipient of the newly established Fredrik Roos Art Prize – one of the largest stipends in Sweden in support of young artists’ further development. On November 16, Oskar Mörnerud, will receive the stipend and his exhibition Panorama/Midbody will open at Moderna Museet Malmö, where a completely new work will be featured.

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Change of Scenes at Moderna Museet Malmö

Change of Scenes
Moderna Museet Malmö
15.10 2011-5.2 2012
This autumn, Moderna Museet Malmö opens its largest exhibition since the inauguration in 2009. With more than 100 pieces from the Moderna Museet collection of works from 1900 to 1950, Change of Scenes will fill practically the entire museum. Two obvious highlights are The Dying Dandy by Nils Dardel and Apollo by Henri Matisse – two key works from this exciting, revolutionary and innovative period – which will be shown for the first time in Malmö.

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Chris Johanson at Malmö Konsthall

Chris Johanson
Alright Alright
Malmö Konsthall
10 September – 27 November 2011
The American artist Chris Johanson (born 1968) is a self-taught product of San Francisco’s skateboard and graffiti culture. In his playful and humorous works he comments on what it is like to be human and live in today’s society. He works in widely varying media such as painting, film, installation and music.

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Misaki Kawai at Malmö Konsthall

Misaki Kawai
Big Bubble
Malmö Konsthall
10 September – 27 November 2011
The Japanese artist Misaki Kawai (b. 1978) works with painting, drawing, sculpture, installations and artists’ books. Her works are filled with colourful characters, that appear to come from the dream world of film, music and comics.

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Doris Salcedo at Moderna Museet Malmö

Doris Salcedo: Plegaria Muda
Moderna Museet Malmö
21.5-4.9 2011
Doris Salcedo is one of the foremost sculptors of our time and Moderna Museet Malmö is proud to present her first solo exhibition in Scandinavia. She exhibits a completely new work, comprising 69 sculptural units. Under the title, Plegaria Muda, these individual units fill up the entire Turbine hall with an, at times elusive, at times penetrating presence.

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Poul Gernes at Malmö Konsthall

Poul Gernes – Retrospective
Malmö Konsthall
21 May – 21 August 2011
The painter, sculptor and filmmaker Poul Gernes (1925-1996) is considered a modern classic and numbers among the most influential of Scandinavian artists. He constantly sought to link art to life by means of colour and design. In the 50 years Poul Gernes was active he had numerous exhibitions and he shaped the face of more than 150 buildings in Denmark. He left behind an impressive ›uvre, which is fascinating on account of its extraordinary complexity.

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Anna Maria Maiolino at Malmö Konsthall

Anna Maria Maiolino
Malmö Konsthall
21 May – 21 August 2011
Malmö Konsthall is pleased to present the first major European retrospective of Brazilian artist Anna Maria Maiolino (b. 1942). Maiolino’s complex works have developed through a variety of media: poetry, woodcuts, photography, film, performance, sculpture, installation and, above all, drawing. The wide spectrum of subjects, interests and attitudes that underlies her work does not follow a linear development, either in the work itself or in time. Rather, through the diversity of her work, she creates a web where themes and attitudes intertwine while meanings slip between one work and another.

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Early Modernism at Moderna Museet (Malmö)

Early Modernism: 1900-1920
Moderna Museet (Malmö)
19 March 2011 – 8 April 2012
In the latter half of the 19th century, the rules and norms governing visual arts were dissolved and replaced by a wide array of artistic possibilities, where small constellations of artists fought for new, revolutionary ideas. Partly as a consequence of the emerging art of photography in the second half of the 1800s, the artists of the time eschewed the concept of naturalistic depiction and instead began to explore the conditions of painting. Illusionist painting was no longer a viable alternative.

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Marcel Duchamp at Moderna Museet (Malmö)

Marcel Duchamp
Moderna Museet (Malmö)
19 March 2011 – 11 September 2011
Marcel Duchamp (1887-1968) emphasised the importance of the concept in a work of art. He was one of the first proponents of open art, where the interpretation of the viewer or posterity contributes to the creative act and thus to the meaning of the work. Moderna Museet has one of the world’s finest collections of Marcel Duchamp’s art, and fourteen of these works are now being shown at Moderna Museet Malmö.

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Walead Beshty at Malmö Konsthall

Walead Beshty – A diagram of forces
Malmö Konsthall
19 February – 1 May 2011
This exhibition with the British artist Walead Beshty (b. 1976) presents an overview of ten years of his photographic and sculptural work, recombining old and new pieces within site-specific installations which turn on questions of the in-between.

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