Exhibitions

Millesgården's temporary exhibitions are mainly shown in the Art Gallery at the main entrance, but sometimes smaller exhibitions are also held in the Artists' Home.

The exhibitions in the Art Gallery have the same opening hours as the sculpture park and the Artists' Home. Carl Milles' works are always visible in the Sculpture Park and in the Artists' Home.

In the menu on the left, you can find information about our previous exhibitions.

WIENER WERKSTÄTTE

arts / crafts

21 September 2024 – 26 January 2025

Vienna in 1900 was a melting pot of creativity. Composer Gustav Mahler underwent psychoanalysis with Sigmund Freud, while Gustav Klimt’s life partner Emilie Flöge founded the Schwestern Flöge fashion salon and was the subject of Klimt’s iconic work ‘The Kiss’. In this atmosphere, the artist and craftsman collective Wiener Werkstätte was established by architect Josef Hoffmann, artist Koloman Moser and patron Fritz Waerndorfer in 1903. They questioned the progress of industrialisation and were dedicated to promoting the status of craftsmen and the value of their craftsmanship. Art and design would encompass a wide range of media from architecture, furniture, fashion and jewellery to toys and functional items. The idea of eliminating the distinction between art and craft would also become central to Swedish architecture and design.

The Wiener Werkstätte exhibition at Millesgården is the first comprehensive presentation of this important period of art and design history to a Swedish audience. Over 200 significant works and objects̶ furniture, textiles, graphic arts, bookbinding, toys, fashion, jewellery, silver, glass and ceramics̶ illustrate the history of the movement from its beginnings in 1903 to its end in 1932.

The exhibition is a cooperation between the MAK – Museum of Applied Arts, Vienna and Millesgården Museum.

MAGICAL MILLESGÅRDEN

Photography by Yanan Li

Millesgården, with its sculptures and fountains, made a strong impression on the Chinese photographer Yanan Li. For a whole year he documented the place, during different seasons and the pictures became a book: The Home and Art of Carl Milles, from 2016. His photographs make it possible to take part in a Millesgården few have the opportunity to experience; the Sculpture Park shrouded in magical darkness, foggy dawn or in colorful sunset. He has spent nights here, fighting his way through snowstorms to get to know Millesgården through thick and thin, day and night. Many photographers have visited the museum over the years, but Yanan Li's sensitive eyes and extraordinary passion convey images that capture the Magical Millesgården.

A selection of the pictures are exhibited in the Artists' Home, by the Breakfast Room.

Yanan's pictures are published in the book The Home and Art of Carl Milles (2016), which is available for purchase in the museum shop. A selection of Yanan Li's pictures are also available as posters in the museum shop.