In this autumn’s major exhibition, we make a splash on Liljevalch’s more than century-old history, from the inaugural exhibition in 1916 with the time’s top trio Carl Larsson, Bruno Liljefors and Anders Zorn to the 2020 pandemic-affected presentation of Hilding Linnqvist.
When Liljevalchs was inaugurated in 1916, the Swedish Artists’ Association achieved the goal of creating an independent art gallery for permanent exhibitions of contemporary art. From the early years, Liljevalchs was established as an art gallery for both art and crafts, internationally and nationally, classics and contemporary.
In scenes from 48 different exhibitions, we are reminded of the breakthrough of modernists in 1918 and the Association of Swedish Artists’ Exhibition in 1921 with names such as Sigrid Hjertén and Siri Derkert, about the political 1960s with both The Nasty and Erotic Art, about Kjartan Slettemark’s poodle in 1975 and Hilma af Klint’s temple paintings in 1999.
The queues were long for Andy Warhol’s late works in 2004 as well as for Hanna Pauli, Anna Ancher and other female artists of the 1880s who were shown in De drogo to Paris in 1988.
The interior design of the home and the design of everyday life were noticed in several exhibitions over the years, starting with
The home exhibition 1917, and famous names such as Carl Malmsten, Märta Måås-Fjetterström and Josef Frank have of course been seen at Liljevalchs.
Both the Strindberg SexPosé August. A djefla exhibition in 2012 and the spectacular fashion vision Utopian Bodies. Fashion Looks Forward 2015 was named Exhibition of the Year.
The visitor record from 1952 still stands. Mexican art from antiquity to nutid was a huge venture that required 12 train carriages for all objects and gained an audience of 212,431 people.
The exhibition is on display at bergsten-huset.
