Previous exhibitions

Gunnel Wåhlstrand

In 2017, Magasin III presents an extensive solo exhibition by Swedish artist Gunnel Wåhlstrand (b. 1974). Wåhlstrand creates extraordinary large-scale ink wash paintings featuring monumental landscapes, compelling portraits and serene interiors with intriguing compositions. The … Read more

The Influence Machine – part of M*r0>r

On October 20th, 2016 Tony Oursler’s acclaimed outdoor work The Influence Machine (2000–2002) was performed at Stockholm University’s Frescati campus. In the work, Oursler blends fragments of speech from the history of technology with images of heads. Through … Read more

The Nature of Particles

In this exhibition two artistic practices convene–one historical and one contemporary. Both touch upon the darkest sides of humanity, yet they are often met with different responses. Through drawing, sculpture and film that often combine … Read more

Aether & Einstein

In 2016, Magasin III presents an extensive solo exhibition by artist and composer Christine Ödlund. It is the first large institutional presentation of her work in Sweden. Since the first solo exhibition at the alternative…

Markus Schinwald

In 2015, Magasin III has the pleasure of presenting a major solo exhibition of the Austrian artist Markus Schinwald. Based on interests ranging from psychology and literature to dance and the history of fashion, he … Read more

Katharina Grosse in Magasin 6 – part of wizz eyelashes (also shown at Nybroplan)

Katharina Grosse has created a new and monumental  installation for Magasin III – an expressive and abstract painting in the form of six enormous spheres.  The installation is first on view at Nybroplan (Sept 18–21) and then in … Read more

wizz eyelashes

The exhibition wizz eyelashes is a play on both the history of art and Magasin III’s own exhibition history. Works by the conceptual minimalists Sol LeWitt and Walter De Maria have been installed alongside with … Read more

On the Tip of My Tongue

On the Tip of My Tongue is a series of events and unique projects as well as an exhibition in the usual sense. It includes artworks that point away from the site of the exhibition … Read more

Magasin < 3 Handelshögskolan

From spring 2013 onwards, a series of eight key film-works from Magasin 3’s collection will be on show at Handelshögskolan’s premises in central Stockholm. At the heart of this joint effort, lies a wish to … Read more

Sneeze to squeeze

For the spring season 2013, Magasin 3 is proud to present a solo exhibition featuring works by Mika Rottenberg, spanning from the early 2000s to today. Mika Rottenberg’s video installations show an imaginative world of…

Chris Burden

The long-awaited return of key works by Chris Burden, last seen together during his solo exhibition at Magasin 3 in 1999. Each work explores technological solutions for moving the human body through space. In 1975 … Read more

Too Much Skin, Taste & Turpentine

Magasin 3 has the pleasure of introducing German artist Anton Henning in his first solo exhibition in Scandinavia.Too much Skin, Taste & Turpentine is the largest exhibition that Magasin 3 has arranged by a single artist. … Read more

Ai Weiwei

“Ai Weiwei has remarkable sensibility and strength in his visual expression, which is effective in conveying a rather complex and significant content. When I met Ai Weiwei in his studio he had just been held … Read more

Marijke van Warmerdam

During fall 2011, Magasin 3 presents a selection of film works by the Dutch artist Marijke van Warmerdam. In absence of any clear beginning or end, seemingly insignificant events are expanded into poetic abstractions. Leaves … Read more

Lay of My Land

I knew I would end up in the desert living a somewhat experimental life, more than I knew I would end up being an artist. – Andrea Zittel The American artist Andrea Zittel was born in … Read more

Performancexhibition: The Infinite Conversation

The acclaimed artist duo Lundahl & Seitl have created a performance that invites visitors to immerse themselves in total darkness at Magasin 3. After the much talked about performance at National Museum in Stockholm last … Read more

Performancexhibition: Corduroy de-constructed

Björn Säfsten has worked as a choreographer in Sweden and internationally since 2003, working with his own constellations of dancers and artists while also completing commissions for other ensembles. With a razor-sharp eye for the…

Investigations of a Dog

This spring Magasin 3’s exhibition spaces will be filled with works by internationally acclaimed artists including Maurizio Cattelan, Fischli & Weiss, Claire Fontaine, Jeff Koons, Sigalit Landau and Sherrie Levine – many of them being … Read more

Performancexhibition: Antidote

During Spring 2011 Magasin 3 has invited a number of artists to produce work that lands somewhere between performance and exhibition. First in line was Erik Aalto, perhaps best known as his alter ego Sir … Read more

Up in the Air

Magasin 3 Stockholm Konsthall is proud to present Tom Friedman’s first solo exhibition in Scandinavia. Over the past year the artist has been working on a new piece, Up in the Air, for the exhibition … Read more

Always in a Spiral

The Brazilian artist Maria Nepomuceno allows her sculptures to spread across the exhibition space like vegetation in a mysterious garden. She uses rope and necklaces as raw material for her work, letting them take on…

Seven Wall Drawings

It’s all about the drawn line. 10 000 straight lines, 22 meters of scribbles and indigo snap lines cover the walls from floor to ceiling at Magasin 3. For six weeks 14 artists and art … Read more

Old Confused

From October 2 Magasin is hosting an exhibition with the work of Tal R, currently Denmark’s most internationally acclaimed artist. He describes his work as “Kolbojnik”, Hebrew for leftovers: ”I have a pot on the…

Smadar Dreyfus

Smadar Dreyfus is interested in how meaning is both created and reconstructed at the intersection of the aural and the visual. In several of her works she has separated image and sound to present different…

Johan Grimonprez

Johan Grimonprez’s latest work Double Take (2009) is part of the Magasin 3 collection and is here presented for the first time at an institution in Europe. The film is a tribute to Alfred Hitchcock … Read more

Santiago Sierra

The disturbing quality of Sierra’s works lies not in the gap between me and the Other but in the unbearable recognising of another human being. Curator Elisabeth Millqvist, from the catalog. Santiago Sierra makes the … Read more

“iloveyouihateyou”

For more than a decade, the poet and musician Lee Ranaldo and the artist Leah Singer have been collaborating in multimedia performances. Lee Ranaldo is a founding member of Sonic Youth, Leah Singer is an … Read more

Zidane – A 21st Century Portrait

“To be recognised by a whole country is incredible. This is massive.” Zinédine Zidane  The work focuses on French football player Zinédine Zidane, one of the greatest athletes of our time. During a game between his … Read more

BETWIXT

The exhibition encourages visitors to focus on the moment between impressions, before moving on from one work to the next. In these in-between spaces, Sofia Hultén has created a work that is integrated with the … Read more

Les archives

Magasin 3 opens its fall season with Boltanski’s first solo exhibition in Stockholm. Tessa Praun, curator of the exhibition tells us that: “Experiences of loss and the need to put a face to anonymous suffering … Read more

Fredrik Söderberg & Carl Larsson

I’m not interested in function and logic. I want to achieve transcendence.  Fredrik Söderberg So it’s angels and halos, flowers and the Swedish flag. I don’t deny myself. It is simply delightful for a poor … Read more

Miroslav Tichy & Julia Margaret Cameron

Working independent of his contemporaries in the 1960’s, 70’s and 80’s, Miroslav Tichy (b. 1926) created an idiosyncratic style, fascinating in its imperfection and reminiscent of photography’s early experimental years. Using homemade cameras Tichy took…

Fleeing away from what bothers you most

The group exhibition Fleeing away from what bothers you most presents photography, film, sculpture and painting. Curator Sarit Shapira has invited Palestinian, Israeli and French artists to participate in the exhibition. The majority of work … Read more

Gravity, Be My Friend

Pipilotti Rist is one of the most prominent artists working today, best known for her dream-like video installations and colour-drenched imagery. Probing both physical and psychological dimensions her exploration of the body, our senses, rituals … Read more

Paul Chan

Like fleeting shadows on the ground, we see objects defying gravity. Sunglasses, cars, people – everything is falling against a background in shifting colors. But what appears to be simple shadows are digital animations projected … Read more

Kimsooja

Kimsooja combines elements from Korean culture with contemporary artistic expressions, to create colorful installations and poetic performance-based video works. The exhibition at Magasin 3 is her first solo exhibition in the Nordic region, and presents … Read more

Fabrice Gygi

“The city gives you the material but at the same time – the city keeps the control and controls the citizens.” Fabrice Gygi, from the audio guide Fabrice Gygi places riot barricades at museums, hangs … Read more

Walking & Falling

“With each step you fall forward slightly. And then catch yourself from falling.” In Laurie Anderson’s quote, the everyday is paramount. Her observation on walking, on how we unconsciously are falling with every step, constitutes … Read more

Here Comes the Sun

 Here Comes the Sun is an exhibition on cosmology, time, and our most prominent celestial body. The exhibition will occupy all of Magasin 3 Stockholm Konsthall with a wide array of works. “This is a … Read more

Magasin 3 Projekt Djurgårdsbrunn 2005

My other car is a broom

Lara Schnitger works with fabric. Flowery or checkered figures challenge one another in works that are at once humorous, erotic, and political. From a visual point of view, the works remind one of clothes as … Read more

Grand Tour

In Grand Tour, Matts Leiderstam stages a confrontation between the present and the past. The Grand Tour to Italy was de rigueur for artists and upper-class Europeans from the seventeenth century until the middle of … Read more

Mona Hatoum

Mona Hatoum (British/Palestinian) unites in her work an interest in aesthetics with themes that are political or social by focusing on conflicted subjects such as violence, oppression, and voyeurism, often in relation to the human … Read more

Philip-Lorca diCorcia

Philip-Lorca diCorcia, who combines the documentary tradition with fiction, film, and advertising, is known for capturing everyday life through the camera lens. At Magasin 3, photographs from three series will be on exhibit.  The exhibition … Read more

Magasin 3 Projekt Djurgårdsbrunn 2004

Magasin 3 Projekt [Djurgårdsbrunn] opened on May 27 with a new look and four site-specific projects by international artists, architects, and designers. The old building got a temporary new façade with contemporary architectonic features by…

Infinite Logic Conference

Katharina Grosse makes paintings directly on architecture, in rooms and on canvas. She uses a spray gun for her enormous, non-figurative paintings on walls, floors, and ceilings. Grosse experiences the technique of spraying as a … Read more

Stängsel

For six years, from 1973 to 1979, the artist LG Lundberg devoted himself entirely to painting one single motif, fences against a dark background. The fence motif eventually evolved into a shape which he turned … Read more

Henry Darger

When Henry Darger died in Chicago in 1972, a 15,000 page manuscript was found in his home. He had spent most of his life working on the text and illustrations for his epic, The Story … Read more

Ayse Erkmen Tidvatten

“Ayse Erkmen moves things around. Objects, great and small, are moved sideways, lifted a few centimeters, or suddenly hover high over the roof. What happens to an object when it changes context? What happens to … Read more

Plingeling

The exhibition Plingeling is a collaboration between Magasin 3 Stockholm Konsthall and Norrköpings Konstmuseum. After its run in Stockholm the exhibition will travel, in a modified form, to Norrköping (18 januari – 7 mars 2004). … Read more

Magasin 3 Projekt Djurgårdsbrunn 2003

The group o-b-o-k; the artist Ronald Jones and the designer Laurie Haycock Makela, created the interior design, concept and meeting-place on the themes of gardens, objects, Djurgårdsbrunn stories, and other narratives. The influences for the…

Flock

The work Flock consists of two projections, showing a group of people in an indefinable room. Among the people, there are also some goats, one of which turns out to be a robot. The participants … Read more

Spiritus

Works by nine contemporary artists are presented alongside unique historical photographs of séances. The central theme of the exhibition is the attempt to reach realities beyond the one with which we are familiar. The artists … Read more

Georg Oddner

The exhibition is a photographic survey of Oddner’s career and an introduction to his working method. For the latter, a smaller, personal cabinet has been added to the exhibition spaces, in which Oddner presents a … Read more

Station

STATION is a new exhibition by the artist Tony Oursler where he continues the careful research into the history of technology, and in particular the television medium, its juxtaposition of good and bad, and the … Read more

Magasin 3 Projekt Djurgårdsbrunn: Influence Machine

In The Influence Machine, Tony Oursler blends fragments of speech from the history of technology with images of heads. Through the dark, a projected hand knocks on clouds of smoke, trees and surrounding buildings. Oursler … Read more

Magasin 3 Projekt Djurgårdsbrunn 2002

For the opening in June 2002 the Swedish design group Uglycute was commissioned to create an interior, within the existing building, with functions for film, food and bar, which accentuated the feeling of an experimental … Read more

Moderna Museet c/o

The exhibition presents works by 29 artists from Moderna Museet’s permanent collection. The exhibition shows mainly sculpture, focusing on abstract pieces, with the emphasis on a number of rather less well-known works from the Moderna … Read more

Lars Nilsson

The exhibition is a retrospective with works from 1987-2002 by Lars Nilsson. This is the first full-scale, comprehensive presentation devoted to the work of Lars Nilsson. It comprises nine large installations, two sets of paintings … Read more

Free Port

The exhibition uses the history of the Stockholm Free Port as its point of departure. The invited artists have produced new works in relation to the port and to Magasin 3 as a historic building. … Read more

The Silence Within

At the exhibition at Magasin 3 Pedro Cabrita Reis presents several large site-specific installations. Cabrita Reis’s foundation for his artwork is painting but today his work approaches architecture. His ability to develop the medium has … Read more

Hausswolff, Wilson, Weegee

The participating artists all have different approaches toward the visual language of documentary. The aim of the exhibition is to show through these bodies of work how macabre stories, unseen forces, and fear of the … Read more

Hapaska, Long, Neto

Magasin 3 Stockholm Konsthall is showing works by three artists from three continents: Siobhán Hapaska from Northern Ireland, Charles Long from USA and Ernesto Neto from Brazil. All three refer to themselves as sculptors and … Read more

Per Kirkeby

The exhibition with the Danish artist Per Kirkeby at Magasin 3 Stockholm Konsthall presents 23 paintings, 34 bronze sculptures and 24 works on paper. This is indicative of the artist’s multi-disciplinary experiences in painting, drawing, … Read more

Chris Burden

Magasin 3 Stockholm Konsthall is showing three large works by the Chris Burden: The B-Car, 1975, shown for the first time together with the artist’s 118 project drawings. The Speed of Light Machine, 1979 and … Read more

Gilbert & George

From the press release, 1997: The exhibition at Magasin 3 is the first in Sweden, and to this date, the most extensive exhibition ever by Gilbert & George. 49 large works are shown from the…

Painting – the extended field

The exhibition is a collaboration with Rooseum Center for Contemporary art, Malmö. For reasons of space, the exhibition has been divided into two segments which the public may view in different chronological and interchanging order. … Read more

Antony Gormley

Antony Gormley’s European Field directly from the Kunsthalle Tallinn and the tour in Eastern Europe where it has been shown in seven countries since the start at Malmö Konsthall in 1993. European Field is the … Read more

Bruce Nauman

The exhibition at Magasin 3 is Bruce Nauman’s first solo exhibition in Sweden and the most comprehensive in Scandinavia presenting seven works by the American artist. Bruce Nauman was born 1941 in Fort Wayne, Indiana, … Read more

Baselitz + Hill

Four sculptures and eleven paintings from the years 1993-1996 by the German artist Georg Baselitz, in the artist’s first exhibition in Stockholm. The works are presented together with drawings by the Swedish artist Carl Fredrik … Read more

James Turrell

Turrell’s work Dawning, produced for Magasin 3 and this exhibition, is the first and only permanent installation at Magasin 3 Stockholm Konsthall. The darkened room dedicated to the work contains within it a light of … Read more

Agnes Martin

Magasin 3 Stockholm Konsthall is in the exhibition showing a series of paintings by Agnes Martin. The geometrical grid pattern and subdued colours employed in Martin’s art mean that it is often regarded as minimalistic, … Read more

Barry X Ball

The sculptures on show at Magasin 3 Stockholm Konsthall constitute part of Phase Four of what the artist has dubbed THE NOT PAINTING COLLECTION. The six works, also referred to as “composite constructions,” were inspired … Read more

Felix Gonzalez-Torres

The work of Felix Gonzalez-Torres has associations with the minimalists’ use of industrial objects, with his own fragmented experience and the boundaries between love and sorrow, passion and loss, the public and the private. His … Read more

James Lee Byars

The work Path of Luck featured in the exhibition consists of six pieces presented in individual cabinets. All the pieces are of a rare and beautiful African granite. Each section has its own individual title: … Read more

Alfred Leslie

The exhibition consists of seven drawings by the American artist Alfred Leslie. All are life studies in charcoal, in life size (180 x 151 cm). The posture, expression and the central positioning of the model … Read more

Fred Sandback

The installation at Magasin 3 Stockholm Konsthall is site-specific and typical for the artist. By running lines of yarn through the exhibition space, the work employs the size and proportions of the room to represent … Read more

Richard Long

The four works presented here consist of a circle of red slate, a line of white onyx and two “mud paintings” on canvas. The artist has worked in shapes based on geometric principles in which … Read more

Leonard Forslund

The exhibition features a unique project: a work commissioned from the Swedish artist Leonard Forslund, who was born in 1959 in Landskrona, and who studied at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Art in Copenhagen … Read more

A.R. Penck

The first solo exhibition in Scandinavia features 15 sculptures by the German artist A. R. Penck. Penck was born in Dresden in 1939, where he lived under the name of Ralf Winkler until 1980, when … Read more

Alfredo Jaar – Ronald Jones

The exhibition features three photographic installations by the Chilean artist Alfredo Jaar, along with one installation and three sculptures by the American Ronald Jones. Their works are displayed for the first time in Scandinavia at … Read more

Walter De Maria

The exhibition features three works by the American artist Walter De Maria: a 14-metre long sculpture; Cage II from 1965, which is De Maria’s tribute to John Cage, and a polygonal sculpture. These works are … Read more

FEM AMERIKANSKA KONSTNÄRER / FIVE AMERICAN ARTISTS

The opening exhibition at Magasin 3 Stockholm Konsthall presents five American artists who are represented through two works each. The works consist of traditional materials such as bronze, wood and metal; but each is characterized … Read more