Pontus Hultén and Moderna Museet, The Formative Years

Pontus Hultén (1924–2006) worked at Moderna Museet in Stockholm between 1958 and 1973. In 1960 he was appointed director. It was in this role that he built the collection and the Museum’s international reputation, with exhibitions such as Movement in Art (1961), American Pop Art. 106 Forms of Love and Despair (1964), She–A Cathedral (1966), and Andy Warhol (1968). 

In 2005 Pontus Hultén donated his private art collection, his library, and his archives to Moderna Museet. The purpose of Moderna Museet’s current research, which has resulted in Pontus Hultén and Moderna Museet. The Formative Years, is to focus on his practice as an exhibition curator and museum director and to explore the legacy of the legendary 1960s and its implications for the Museum today.

In addition to the five articles in the book, there are previously unpublished images and also a previously unpublished text from 1962 by Pontus Hultén himself, outlining his ideas on how a modern art museum should be run.

Foreword by Daniel Birnbaum. Texts by Patrik Anderson, Annika Gunnarsson, Ylva Hillström, Pontus Hultén, Anna Lundström, Jimmy Pettersson, Anna Tellgren

Editor: Anna Tellgren
Graphic design: Karl Stefan Andersson
Language: English/Swedish
Pages: 192 
Plates: 50
Dimensions: 17 x 23,5 x 2 cm
Softcover 
ISBN: 9783960980827