Gallery sights in Stockholm
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Thielska Galleriet
Scandi art fans come here for Anders Zorn’s portraits and nudes, Carl Larsson’s portraits, Bruno Liljefors’ precisely rendered wildlife paintings, August Strindberg’s wild landscapes, and Edvard Munch’s paintings and sketches, which include an enormous portrait of Strindberg and one of the collection’s former owner, tycoon Ernest Thiel. Originally Thiel’s home, this island mansion was designed by Ferdinand Boberg, designer of Prins Eugens Waldemarsudde.
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Fotografins Hus
Currently under renovation, but set to reopen by press time, this is one of Stockholm’s best sites for photographic art. Decked out in furniture designed by Konstfack graduates, its six annual exhibitions showcase local and international talent, with past exhibitors including Hasselblad prize-winner David Goldblatt, Susan Heiselas and J H Engström, Sweden’s Wolfgang Tillmans. You’ll find their signatures on the foyer wall, behind which awaits a cosy little cafe.
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Moderna Museet
Cheeky and serious in equal measure, Stockholm’s always-absorbing modern-art museum balances reliable crowd-pleasers like Robert Rauschenberg’s Monogram with provocative new work from the likes of Paul McCarthy. Special exhibits in the basement are included with admission and always worth investigating, and if the boundary-testing art makes you feel lightheaded, seek sustenance in the award-winning restaurant.
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Svensk Form
Stockholm’s foremost design centre features temporary exhibitions of cutting-edge industrial design and applied arts, and a Swedish design library and archive, as well as a cool little design shop and cafe, complete with copies of in-house design magazine Form. On Wednesday evenings, designers (and the design-inclined) drop in for a drink, a schmooze and regular design seminars.
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Magasin 3
Aptly set in a gritty dockside warehouse, Magasin 3 is one of Stockholm’s brat-pack galleries. Its six to eight annual shows of contemporary art often feature specially commissioned, site-specific work from names like Siobhán Hapaska, James Turrell, Ronald Jones, Katharina Grosse and provocative American artist Paul McCarthy.
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Bonniers Konsthall
This ambitious gallery keeps culture fiends busy with a fresh dose of international contemporary art, as well as a reading room, a fab cafe and a busy diary of art seminars and artists-in-conversation sessions. The transparent clothes iron–shaped building is the work of Johan Celsing Arkitektkontor.
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Brändström & Stene
Tucked away in an anonymous industrial block, this is one of Stockholm’s best private art galleries. It’s famed for its intuitive sense for the next big thing, and past exhibitors have included Olafur Eliasson, Clay Ketter, Jan Håfström and Jeppe Hein.
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