Exhibitions Spring 2025

Royal Djurgården has offered snow, cold days, and a lot of sun at the beginning of the new year. Winter is a beautiful time to explore the island’s nature, so why not come by for  a long and wintry walk along Djurgården’s canal and then settle down at one of our many cafes to enjoy something warm to eat and drink! If you’re lucky, you might get your hands on a long-awaited “semla” (Swedish pastry), as many of Djurgården’s cafes have already started serving them in January.

At the beginning of the new year, many of Djurgården’s museums and attractions are in preparations for the opening of new and exciting exhibitions. Some of them welcome visitors already in January and February, while others open later in the spring. Below, we have gathered information about the upcoming exhibitions, make sure to note your favorites in the calendar and get ready for a spring filled with culture and discoveries.

Photo: Hendrik Zeitler, Nordic Museum

Together- Thiel Gallery  15/2-24/8 2025

This year, the Thielska Galleriet celebrates 100 years as a museum, and the anniversary begins with the exhibition Together. The exhibition pays tribute to the history of the museum, where joint forces, such as the founders Ernest and Signe Maria Thiel and the artists they supported, have been crucial. The Thiel Gallery has always been a meeting place for the art world and now explores how artists collaborate in today’s society.

Together is a recurring theme of the museum, where many of the central artists had artistic partners, such as Carl and Karin Larsson or Karl and Tekla Nordström. The exhibition explores how their collaboration has influenced artistic practice and the development of the museum.

The Fjæstad family has also left its mark on the museum’s interior, with artworks and furniture that reflect collaboration between art forms. The Artists’ Union, which has been an important part of the collections, focuses on how artists created together under shared ideals.

Today, collaboration between artists is still relevant, albeit with new perspectives. The exhibition also sheds light on how community influences artistic creation and co-operation with the outside world. Four contemporary artist duos – Bigert & Bergström, Linda Pedersen and Henning Hamilton, Bella Rune and Jonas Nobel, and Martin Bergström and Thomas Klementsson – have been invited to provide perspectives on these issues through their collaborations.

Spring Salon 2025 at Liljevalchs 14/2- 27/4 2025

Liljevalch’s Spring Salon is a beloved tradition dating back over 100 years and features art from all over Sweden, from painting, drawing and sculpture, to installation, video and AI-generated art, and this year textile art has been particularly prominent.

It is a juried exhibition, where all works are for sale and the price is set by the participants themselves. From this year’s nearly four thousand applications, a total of 177 artists were accepted, with 282 artworks. The age range of those who passed the jury’s eye of the needle is wide – from 18 to 78 years.

This year’s jury consists of Joanna Sandell Wright, Director of the Kunsthall, artist, curator and exhibition designer Marcia Harvey Isaksson, curator Sandra Weil and artist Daniel Youssef. The exhibition is on display 14/2-27/4.

From Moomin to Chop Chop- Waldemarsudde 15/2-17/8

A colourful and inspiring exhibition celebrates four of the Nordic region’s greatest children’s book illustrators: Tove Jansson, Ilon Wikland, Pija Lindenbaum and Linda Bondestam. The exhibition gives a unique insight into their creative process, showing how they create iconic characters and magical fairytale worlds through sketches and finished works.

Visitors will meet beloved characters such as the Moomin family, Ronja Rövardotter, Gittan, the grey wolves and the robot Chop Chop. They will dive into visual stories that take them beyond time and space, while exploring themes of community, equality and inclusion. The exhibition is suitable for both children and adults, and offers fantastic illustrations that really speak to the heart.

Kääpä- Nordiska museet 6/2-27/4 

Konsthall 16 – Taverna geometrica 31/1-18/5 2025

In the first exhibition of the year at Konsthall 16, Hanna Sjöstrand presents a series of conceptual paintings that explore the structure and idiom of football, where the paintings analyse the geometric shapes of the field such as the rectangle, triangle and circle, the shape that is one of the oldest symbols, including the sun, unity and the infinite, and thus holds mythological power.

The vernissage will be held on 30 January 17-19, where curator Ulrika Levén and the artist will introduce the exhibition.

New Viking exhibition opens at VRAK on 11 March

Sometime around 1 300 years ago, a bloody battle took place in Estonia. On the island of Saaremaa, near the present-day village of Salme, more than 40 fallen Scandinavian warriors were buried along with their weapons and other equipment in two ships on the seashore. Salme is the oldest known burial site of a Viking warband in the world. Now the exhibition that broke visitor records in Estonia has come to Djurgården!

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We continuously update with new information about upcoming exhibitions on Djurgården, so keep an eye on this page.