Art Guide Stockholm | Spring 2026
Marcus Akesson
Berg gallery | 15 Jan - 14 Feb
Akesson's technically advanced painting, characterized by dramatic gestures, draperies and a clear play of light and shadow, brings to mind the old masters of the Baroque. He is particularly known for the series Now You See Me , where veiled figures and complex textile patterns create an enigmatic visual world. However, the exhibition Passage introduces new motifs, such as more traditional portraits, still lifes and scenes with a naturalistic touch.
The concept of passage functions here as both a motif and a metaphor. The works revolve around transitions and states of change – from ritual actions in charged landscapes to more concrete thresholds and movements. Together, the exhibition bears witness to Akesson’s continued investigation of transitions between spaces, worlds and existential states.
Hudiksvallsgatan 8
Tove Mauritzon - FRIENDS FOREVER
Gallery Duerr | 15 Jan - 14 Feb
The exhibition builds on her previous exhibition Keeper (2024) and continues to depict the soft but strong bonds that are formed in and by the small moments of everyday life.
The title evokes thoughts about the passage of time and how “forever” is inevitably characterized by changeability. Closeness is experienced in the presence here and now, rather than in something that lasts forever. Memory and imagination intertwine in scenes that feel both tender and playfully distorted, where care, habits and vulnerability coexist.
Mauritzson's paintings do not follow fixed narratives, but emerge intuitively, one brushstroke at a time. Fragments of lived moments gather in familiar spaces and environments, creating mental landscapes where closeness can be experienced rather than promised.
Hudiksvallsgatan 6, 2nd floor
WHEN WE SEE US
Liljevalchs+ | on view until 30 Aug 2026
When We See Us presents an alternative modernity and highlights artistic practices that have historically been excluded from Western art history. The exhibition offers visitors a unique opportunity to experience art that has never before been shown in Sweden,” says Joanna Sandell Wright, director and artistic director of Liljevalchs.
Falkenbergsatan 3, Djurgården
MARTIN WICKSTRÖM
CF HILL | 15 jan - 27 feb
Wickström är en av Sveriges mest etablerade konstnärer och har varit verksam sedan slutet av 1980-talet. I hans måleri möts poesi och realism. Med en skicklighet förfinad under många år fångar han ögonblicket då tiden tycks stå stilla.
Landskapet är en ständig närvaro i Wickströms motiv, denna gång mer som fond än som förgrund. Inspirationen hämtas intuitivt från film, teater, fotografi och pressens bildflöde, ur vilket Wickström finner fragment som han fångar, omformar och refererar till. Wickströms hyllade superrealism, ofta med glimtar av ett svunnet svenskt folkhem, finns kvar i OSLO, men de poetiska reflektionerna berikas nu med ett nytt tematiskt fokus.
Utställningen rör sig mellan det konkreta och det antydda, där bilderna inte ger några entydiga svar utan bjuder in betraktaren till ett stilla drama – ett tillstånd snarare än en berättelse.
Riddargatan 13
Liljevalchs Spring Salon 2026
TATTOO - Stories in ink from the Mediterranean
The Mediterranean Museum | until 14 Jun 2026
For thousands of years, ink on the skin has carried people's dreams, stories and identities. "Tattoo" is an exhibition that charts the journey of tattooing from ancient rituals to today's personal works of art.
MAJA WITT | NATTBOK DAGBOK
GALLERI GLAS | 13 Jan - 14 Feb 2026
My painting seeks an interface: a place where the intangible and beyond language meets the formulated and stated. The surface of the painting itself becomes such a place – where the color adheres but at the same time opens up to something beyond the resistance of the surface and the limitations of the material. Veil-like layers of color spread out behind and between more solid forms - remains of supporting structures that once held something together, but which now remain as traces of an order in dissolution. In front of these surfaces, fragments of color move – as if they were floating through the space in a state of search, in search of a story or a context to belong to - strangely concrete and at the same time decontextualized, like a kind of primal material whose names we have forgotten.
Maja Witt
Nybrogatan 34