Architecture in Sweden. Photo: Kristofer Johnson

Exhibitions

Kiruna Forever

Temporarily closed

Kiruna – a city in the northernmost part of Sweden – is experiencing one of the biggest urban transformation projects in recent history. The city is being relocated by three kilometres due to the expansion of the mine around which Kiruna was built. A third of the population must relocate, housing blocks and landmark buildings are being demolished or moved, and a new city is taking shape. But how do you move a city?

Architecture in Sweden

Until 31 December 2021

Learn about thousand years of Swedish architecture in the exhibition Architecture in Sweden, a display of how Swedish architecture and cities have developed over the last millennium.

Gingerbread House 2020

Opens 7 December

The year’s incarnation of Gingerbread House is a unique, fragrant exhibition made up of imaginatively designed and constructed gingerbread houses. But it is also a competition in which children, adults, amateurs and professionals alike are invited to create side by side.

Sigurd Lewerentz
Architect of Death and Life

Opens 30 April

Sigurd Lewerentz (1885–1975) is one of architectural history’s most revered, and most mythologised architects. ‘Sigurd Lewerentz: Architect of Death and Life’ will be the first ever comprehensive exhibition of the life and work of the Swedish architect, drawing on ArkDes’ unique and complete collection of his drawings, personal archive and library. It is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to see the complete works of an architect who is perhaps even more influential today than he was in his own time.