The Moderna Museet in Stockholm has been one of my favorite museums during my travels so far. This particular museum of modern art allows you to see objects that are more current which I love. The Moderna Museet is located on Skeppsholmen which is an island close to the city center. There are many other museums on the island and the National Museum sits on the mainland right next to the bridge you need to cross to Skeppsholmen. You could make a day of it.
Here are some objects I found particularly interesting at the Moderna Museet:
Smile as if You Have Already Won, Miriam Baeckstroem, 2012
Detail of Smile As If You Have Already Won, Miriam Baeckstroem, 2012
This is a tapestry, guys! A tapestry! When I first saw it I thought it was a huge painting but nope.
Untitled (Fold), Tauba Auerbach, 2011
I couldn’t believe how well done this was. It is a flat image that looks truly crumpled. I was impressed.
Exhibition Poster, Andy Warhol, 1968
Electric Chair, Andy Warhol, 1967
Painting to be Constructed in Your Head, Yoko Ono, 1962/2012
Money Thrower for Tinguely’s H.T.N.Y. (Homage to New York), Robert Rauschenberg, 1960
As I told Matt while we were at the museum, I love me a good Rauschenberg piece.
Detail of Blue Sponge Sculpture RE 17, Yves Klein, 1960
Pepper, Edward Weston, 1930/ca 1975
Weston is one of my favorite photographers. I particularly love his studies of vegetables.
Handlanger (II) [Bricklayer], August Sander, 1928/ca1975
Lady with Fox Boa, Otto Dix, 1925
She reminds me of Ms. Havisham from Great Expectations.
Fair, Eugen Atget, 1923/ca 1950
When Atget took up photography, he began to systematically capture images of all the districs in Paris. His work is a great resource to know what Paris looked like at that time.
Marquis Joseph de Montesquiou-Fezensac, Oskar Kokoschka, 1910
Doesn’t he look daper?
Animal Locomotion, Plate 133, from series Animal Locomotion 1872-1885, Plates University of Pennsylvania, Eadweard Muybridge, 1887
Muybridge famously first used multiple cameras to capture the movement of a horse which showed that all hooves were airborne at a certain point. Muybridge studied other animals and humans after the first series of a horse. The photographs Muybridge produced were used by artists at the time.
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Also check out the Fotografiska if you love contemporary photography. It’s a huge gallery in a cool old building right by the water so you can also check out the huge cruise ships as you walk to the museum.
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Please note that the featured image is a detail of Miriam Baeckstroem’s Smile As If You’ve Already Won, 2012.
Getting Gone 