Marika Mäkelä at the Modena Museet in Stockholm

Moderna Museet in Stockholm
Sömnlösa nätter – Från 1980-talet i Moderna Museets samling
February 28, 2023–January 14, 2024

Two characteristics of the 1980s are the financial crisis and the fear of HIV and AIDS. At the same time, the art market is on fire, the alternative art scene provokes, and the cold war is ending. Traces of this contradictory pivotal point between the political 1970s and the artistically terser 1990s can be found in the Moderna Museet collection. This includes works by some of the international megastars but, more importantly, by a large number of famous and unknown artists from the Nordic region.

In the 1980s, a number of outstanding female artists emerged in Sweden and the Nordic region. The artists presented in “Sleepless Nights” include Barbro Bäckström, Stina Ekman, Eva Löfdahl, and Marika Mäkelä, but also international names such as Tracey Moffatt and Cindy Sherman.