Agenda

Jenny Holzer (1950), one of the leading contemporary artists of her generation, has curated an exhibition of the work of Louise Bourgeois (1911–2010), widely regarded as one of the most important and influential artists of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.

Holzer is internationally renowned for her exploration and subversion of public language through the use of nontraditional forms. Bourgeois’s psychologically charged work deals with the realm of human emotion: love, desire, dependency, sexuality, rejection, jealousy, and abandonment.

The exhibition presents an encounter between two giants of American art, Bourgeois’s work as seen through Holzer’s eyes.

Holzer approaches Bourgeois’s art through the lens of her extensive writing. Works from all stages of Bourgeois’s oeuvre — sculptures, installations, paintings, drawings, prints, and texts — have been selected to create a series of thematic groupings.

The title of the exhibition (Party for Öyvind) quotes an invitation sent out by Patty and Claes Oldenburg, who in 1967 threw a party to celebrate Öyvind Fahlström’s birthday in New York.

Öyvind Fahlström (1928-1976) studied art history and archaeology in Stockholm and Rome. On moving to Rome in 1952 he immersed himself in the local art scene

In 1961 he travelled to the USA on a stipend together with his wife and collaborator, Barbro Östlihn. The couple’s first friends in New York were Patty and Claes Oldenburg. Fahlström, moreover, was able to take over Robert Rauschenberg’s studio and he , he experienced the rise of Pop Art and happenings at first hand. He stayed on in the city up to his death.  Öyvind met Tinguely in 1955 when the latter came to Stockholm for his first solo show in Sweden.

The exhibition shows the major works and the (artistic) life of the artist.

The exhibition Japan. Arts and Life presents one hundred and seventy works from the Montgomery Collection, one of the largest and best known collections of Japanese art outside Japan.

The collection takes in artworks dating from the 12th to the 20th century, including textiles, furniture, paintings, religious and everyday objects – carefully selected from the over one thousand objects collected over a lifetime by Jeffrey Montgomery.

Renowned worldwide, the collection displays an extraordinary richness and a very singular substance: it is a collection of ‘oriental art’, and at the same time it expressed a “folk culture” reinterpreted in very elevated aesthetic terms by the elegant and refined choices made by the collector who had dedicated his entire life to it.