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Baltic Reflections exhibition at Malmö Art Museum

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11 October 2014 - 11 January 2015

Malmö Art Museum, Malmöhusvägen 6, Malmö 

Baltic Reflections puts renowned Russian artworks, shown at the Baltic Exhibition in 1914, in dialogue with turn of the century Scandinavian art.

The Baltic exhibition in 1914 developed into one of the biggest art exhibitions ever seen in the Nordic region with over 3,500 exhibited artworks. It displayed foremost contemporary art from countries around the Baltic Sea represented by well-known artists such as the Danish Skagen painters, Valentin Serov and Anders Zorn.

During the exhibition, the First World War broke out. As a consequence, some of the exhibited Russian art remain in Malmö. This exhibition puts the renowned Russian artworks in dialogue with turn of the century Scandinavian art from the Museum's collection.

This new exhibition at the Malmö Art Museum runs from 11 October 2014 to the spring of 2015. The curatorial team includes David Jackson, Professor of Russian & Scandinavian Art Histories at the University of Leeds, who used his expertise in Russian art to address that aspect of the exhibition.

The exhibition launches a new publication about the Russian collection with essays by, among others, David Jackson and Torsten Gunnarsson, former Director of Collections at Nationalmuseum, Stockholm.

See here for more information.

Image: Kuzma Petrov-Vodkin, The Worker, 1912 ©Malmö Konstmuseum 2014