In early September, the Danish curator became head of Stockholm’s Moderna Museet, Sweden’s leading museum of modern and contemporary
Some people must have been jealous when a Dane became head of a Swedish museum. Soliciting your neighbours’ skills is quite common in Scandinavia. The National Museum in Oslo, Norway is run by a Dane, the one in Helsinki by a Swede (...) In cultural matters, a natural link has always united Scandinavian countries. We may sometimes get tangled up in Swedish, Finnish, Danish or Norwegian, but the working language is mainly English.
Do the collections you are now in charge of reflect this international openness? We have the largest collection of modern art in Northern Europe. Since its creation in 1958, the Moderna Museet has pursued an ambitious acquisition policy, coupled with generous donations, that enabled it to show major works by Pablo Picasso, Marcel Duchamp, Robert Rauschenberg,…
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