Exhibitions

Over the summer of 2020, the renowned Melbourne-based artist Linda Tegg shifts the ground at the entrance to the museum from an asphalt car park to a biodiverse meadowland that will accumulate life over the season.

ASMR is a term that describes a physical sensation: euphoria or deep calm, sometimes a tingling in the body. In recent years an online audience of millions has grown, dedicated to watching the work of designers and content creators who try to trigger this feeling in their viewers.

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?

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.

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 (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.