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Marabouparken is the latest addition to the Stockholm Card - and one of several art halls on the move lately, seeking out new, edgy art for their exhibitions. Marabouparken (Marabou is a swedish chocolate company) is one of Sweden’s best-preserved functionalist settings. In the park there is a collection of sculptures as well as a gallery with exhibitions of contemporary art and a permanent collection featuring Hilding Linnqvist. There is also a restaurant and shop.

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For the first time in Sweden, Millesgården presents an exhibition with the world-famous British author of children’s books, Beatrix Potter (1866-1943). Her illustrations introduced many well-loved animal characters, such as Peter Rabbit, Mrs. Tiggy-winkle, Mr. Jeremy Fisher, Jemima Puddle-duck and others.

Peter Rabbit™ & his Friends at Millesgården is an exhibition for the whole family, in which Beatrix Potter’s well-known stories are portrayed in both playful settings for children and an in-depth exploration of Beatrix, the woman behind the best-selling books. The exhibition takes place at Millesgården, January 29-May 15.

Swedes are cultural people and the city has some 80 museums and attractions in the city. In March 2011 an additional art museum will open in Vasaparken in the Vasastan district. Its the art collection of Mr Sven Harry Karlsson, builder and owner of Folkhem, that will open the art museum. Sven Harrys Konstmuseum is designed by renowned Gert Wingårdh Arkitektkontor AB.

Other Swedish collectors museums in Stockholm
Bonniers Konsthall 
Prince Eugenes Waldemarsudde
Thielska Galleriet

2011 at Prince Eugenes Waldemarsudde in Stockholm will begin with a retrospective featuring the swedish modernist pioneer GAN (Gösta Adrian-Nilsson). In March there will be a smaller project exhibition of works of the intarsia artist Thomas Tempte. Thereafter, the Swedish fashion designer Lars Wallin's 20th anniversary to be celebrated with an exposé of his production over the years. During the summer the focus is on an exhibition of Venetian masterpieces, mainly paintings from the 1700s, and Waldemarsuddes own art collection.
Phtoto: Lars Edelholm/Waldemarsudde

GAN - modernistpioneer and outsider
19 februari - 29 maj 2011

Thomas Tempte - Master of Veneer
5 mars - 3 april 2011

Lars Wallin - Fashion Stories
7 maj - 18 september 2011

Venetian Masterpieces
21 juni - 28 augusti 2011


Waldemarsudde, originally the home of Prince Eugen, son of Oscar II (1865-1947), became state-owned after the Prince's death and in accordance with his will, and is now among the most-visited art museums in Sweden. The complex consists of a castle-like main building - the Mansion - finished in 1905 and designed by the Swedish architect Ferdinand Boberg, and a Gallery Building, added in 1913. Prince Eugen was one of his generation's foremost landscape painters and many of his best-known works, including Molnet (the Cloud) and Det gamla slottet (The Old Castle), are part of the collections at Waldemarsudde. He was also an art collector and his collection of Swedish turn-of-the-19th-century art is one of the foremost in the country.

Liljevalchs are using QR codes in their exhibition "Eleganten Einar". Visitors with smartphone are offered extras to 74 of the works on site in the gallery by the QR-code on the action plates. QR Code also makes it easy for visitors to benefit from additional editorial material on a single work in place of the exhibition - in this case, texts, images and films related to the paintings theme or motif.

The QR Code is linked to Liljevalchs new website and the presentations are also found there by Elegant Einar there, for visitors that do not have smartphones.

Fashion! is a new exhibition at Fotografiska, one of the world’s largest meeting places for contemporary photography. The exhibition is based on Camera Work’s collection in Berlin, which received a great deal of attention the first time it was exhibited. Over 200 photographs, of which a large number are vintage prints, created by 50 world renown photographers, make Fashion! one of the most comprehensive exhibitions of fashion photography in Europe. It is a spectacular odyssey through fashion photography’s visual world. From Man Ray’s experimental compositions from the 1920s, to icons such as Irving Penn and Richard Avedon to Steven Meisel and Peter Lindbergh’s cult of supermodels during the 1990s. Today’s fashion photography is represented by Steven Klein and Mikael Jansson, to name only a few.

Jonas Kleerup, a well known gallerist in Stockholm, is opening his new art gallery on the Biblioteksgatan named Villa, one of the main shopping streets in the city-Östermalm district. The area around Biblioteksgatan is home to international fashion brands and the center of the best of Swedish fashion labels (Acne, Fifth Avenue Shoe Repair, J Lindeberg, Tiger, Filippa K etc). Kleerups idea is to integrate art and shopping to attract a new crowd.

Östermalm is an exclusive area in Stockholm. The area around Stureplan in Stockholm is becoming the new center of galleries in Stockholm. Natalia Golding is moving her gallery (from Hudiksvallsgatan) to the Stureplan Area, auction house Bukowskis are focusing on contemporary art and the new Gallery "Fruit and Flower deli" which is opening on Birger Jarlsgatan 31 by the well known gallerist Andreas Brändström and the designer Oscar Magnusson (also cousin of the crown princess Victoria).

Sweden or Switzarland? Some people confuse Sweden for Switzarland, and thinks that Sweden is the chocolate and watch country. But as a matter of fact,  Swedish chocolate is pretty good, and one of the brands, Marabou, has a park and art gallery worth a visit. Especially this year with opening of a  new exhibition space and restaurant opening in late August.


Marabou Park was commissioned by Marabou's founder Henning Throne-Holst as a recreational park for the employees of his chocolate factory and contains an impressive sculpture collection. The park was ingeniously conceived and created on a hectare of once unpromising terrain by Sven Hermelin (1900-1984), a key figure in Swedish landscape architecture. And when the park opened in the 50s it became a well known destination for art-lovers. The park is situated in the suburb Sundbyberg.

The new art hall will be inaugurated on August 28 with the exhibition "Park life" wheere artists such as Dave Allen, Martin Boyce, nathan Coley, Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster, Kohei Yoshiyuki and Kerstin Bergendal and more will exhibit.

Speaking about sculptures in Stockholm. Josef Frank, architect and designer, most known for his association with the design company Svenskt Tenn in Stockholm has gotten a square in Stockholm. The square is situated in the road crossing of  Rindögatan and Furusundsgatan in the Östermalm-district in stockholm. Josef Frank lived on Rindögatan during many years. The square is decorated with two of his chairs in brass...

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