MON, 27.01. –
SUN, 25.05.
10h – 18h

Northern Lights

From 16 February to 4 May 2025, the exhibition “The Key to Dreams. Surrealist Masterworks from the Hersaint Collection” can also be seen. This exhibition can also be visited during this period with the Northern Lights online ticket. To visit the “Over the Rainbow” exhibition from 9 to 18 May 2025, please book the special ticket.

The exhibition “Northern Lights” presents 74 landscape paintings by artists from Scandinavia and Canada produced between 1888 and 1937, among them masterpieces by Hilma af Klint and Edvard Munch. These artists all share the boreal forest as a common source of inspiration. The seemingly boundless expanses of the forest, the radiant light of endless summer days, the long winter nights and natural phenomena such as the northern lights gave rise to a specifically Nordic form of modern painting, which to this day exerts enduring appeal and fascination. The boreal forest, which stretches south and north of the polar circle, forming one of our planet’s largest primeval forests, was increasingly represented as a spiritual landscape. The exhibition provides an opportunity to trace the development of Nordic landscape painting in modern art through selected works by Helmi Biese, Anna Boberg, Emily Carr, Prince Eugen, Gustaf Fjæstad, Akseli Gallen-Kallela, Lawren S. Harris, Hilma af Klint, J. E. H. MacDonald, Edvard Munch, Ivan Shishkin, Harald Sohlberg and Tom Thomson, in the process discovering artists likely still unknown to many visitors.