Crossing Borders
Crossing Borders is part of a joint project between Nationalmuseum and Swedavia to show art and design at airports in Sweden. The exhibition is on show at Stockholm Arlanda Airport in in Terminal 5, gates F26-F68. Those traveling from Terminal 5 who have passed through security control can see the exhibition.
ACROSS BORDERS
An airport is where people who travel across borders meet. The exhibition comprises 22 portraits of Swedes who work or have become famous outside Sweden: musicians, writers, diplomats, businessmen, athletes, inventors, actors and researchers.
Their work takes them away from Sweden and also across borders that are not only geographic. It may involve breaking a world swimming record or changing our views of global social changes.
For Nationalmuseum, this exhibition involves crossing a border, as the art will be on display in a venue it has never previously visited.
DIFFERENT IMPRESSIONS AND EXPRESSIONS
Several generations of photographers are represented, from Hans Gedda and Denise Gr眉nstein to Sanna Sj枚sw盲rd and Magnus Laupa. They seek different forms of expression and inspiration from both advertising and fashion photography, as well as film and video. Sometimes this adds to the theatrical quality. The portraits are deliberately staged.
At the same time there are examples of intimacy and distance, close-ups and formal poses. Thomas W氓gstr枚m鈥檚 portrait of the biochemist and inventor Petra Wadstr枚m was commissioned for this exhibition but the others have been produced in other contexts. All have been acquired by the Swedish National Portrait Gallery, which is managed by Nationalmuseum.
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Crossing Borders is part of a joint project between Nationalmuseum and Swedavia to show art and design at airports in Sweden. The exhibition is on show at Stockholm Arlanda Airport in in Terminal 5, gates F26-F68. Those traveling from Terminal 5 who have passed through security control can see the exhibition.
ACROSS BORDERS
An airport is where people who travel across borders meet. The exhibition comprises 22 portraits of Swedes who work or have become famous outside Sweden: musicians, writers, diplomats, businessmen, athletes, inventors, actors and researchers.
Their work takes them away from Sweden and also across borders that are not only geographic. It may involve breaking a world swimming record or changing our views of global social changes.
For Nationalmuseum, this exhibition involves crossing a border, as the art will be on display in a venue it has never previously visited.
DIFFERENT IMPRESSIONS AND EXPRESSIONS
Several generations of photographers are represented, from Hans Gedda and Denise Gr眉nstein to Sanna Sj枚sw盲rd and Magnus Laupa. They seek different forms of expression and inspiration from both advertising and fashion photography, as well as film and video. Sometimes this adds to the theatrical quality. The portraits are deliberately staged.
At the same time there are examples of intimacy and distance, close-ups and formal poses. Thomas W氓gstr枚m鈥檚 portrait of the biochemist and inventor Petra Wadstr枚m was commissioned for this exhibition but the others have been produced in other contexts. All have been acquired by the Swedish National Portrait Gallery, which is managed by Nationalmuseum.
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