Exercices Visuels

John Melin at Moderna Museet, Malmö 2013:

Polke dots

Sigmar Polke at Kunsthalle, Hamburg 2013:

Rosemarie Trockel at Kunsthalle, Hamburg 2013:

Schmidt Hammer Lassen Architects' 2011 Krystallen, København:

Tham & Videgård Arkitekter's 2009 Moderna Museet, Malmö:

Poster paintings

Klara Lidén at Moderna Museet, Malmö 2013:

Lidén at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), New York 2013:

Lies About Painting @ Malmö

From the group exhibition Lies About Painting at Moderna Museet, Malmö 2013 ...

Marianna Uutinen:

Alex Israel:

Tauba Auerbach:

Wade Guyton:

Michel Majerus:

Fredrik Vaerslev:

Moderna Museet Malmö

Tham & Videgård Arkitekter's 2009 Moderna Museet, Malmö:

Scandinavian Pain

ABBA is still a big deal in Sweden.  A museum dedicated to them was just opened in Stockholm less than three months ago.  Of course I didn't go as far as Stockholm.  But who doesn't love ABBA's candy-coated melancholic tunes (guilty pleasure)?  I was in Malmö.  Icelandic artist Ragnar Kjartansson's neon sign spells out the lyrical gloom of the Nordic countries.  Emotionally charged works by Edvard Munch are viewed in this new light at Moderna Museet Malmö's current exhibition Scandinavian Pain, where Kjartansson also performed a cover version of ABBA's The Winner Takes It All.

Kjartansson's performance:

Video from peggysuewashere's youtube channel