Birgitta Rubin picks Stockholm’s six best exhibitions

Original visual languages, resistance and bold experiments with materials shape Birgitta Rubin’s selection of six Stockholm exhibitions. The Dagens Nyheter art editor highlights both new shows and exhibitions nearing their closing dates.

At Marabouparken konsthall in Sundbyberg, “Torsten Andersson: The Weight of Language” marks the artist’s centenary. Rubin describes the exhibition as a strong reason to visit, focusing on Andersson’s search for a personal visual language that is secretive, enclosed and abstract, yet also concrete and realistic. Chiara Bugatti’s parallel exhibition, “Horror vacui,” offers sculptural objects made from unexpected materials and combinations.

Bonniers konsthall presents “The Defeated. The Aesthetics of Resistance 2026,” a large group exhibition inspired by the writings of Peter Weiss, the author, artist, filmmaker and playwright. Works by Weiss and his wife, Gunilla Palmstierna Weiss, appear alongside new pieces by Lina Selander and Hamedine Kane and Valérie Osouf. One installation contains 450 different images of resistance.

“Family, for Better and Worse” at Sven-Harry’s Art Museum examines changing ideas of family formation over two centuries. The exhibition brings together painting, sculpture, textiles, photography, video and installations. Rubin points to works that range from humorous and sharply unsettling pieces to moving depictions of losing a child or a parent.

At Stockholm’s Konstakademien, Åsa Jungnelius presents ten sculptures in “The Bittersweet.” Their forms follow the qualities of materials including porphyry, marble, steel, bronze and glass. The list also includes Iria Leino’s “Inner light” at Larsen/Warner, an exhibition of acrylic paintings by the Finnish artist, who lived from 1932 to 2022.