Exhibitions 1988 – 2024

From its inception in 1987, Magasin III has supported artistic activity by virtue of solo and thematic group exhibitions by local and internationally established artists. The program has allowed exhibiting artists the opportunity to develop their practice, produce new works, and has encouraged reflections on the collection as well as return visits of artists previously shown at Magasin III.

Magasin III has nurtured artists since it embraced new productions with its very first exhibitions. Through curatorial dialogue and in collaboration with the institution’s technical staff, artists have been able to grow, push boundaries, reflect and react to their histories and futures opening new channels for themselves, the institution and the public. By having complete faith and trust in the artistic expression, the exhibitions at Magasin III have often taken artists in new directions, meaning new heights for the audience in Sweden.

Magasin III has always had the strong belief in the power of art and how it how it conveys meaning through interpretation and understanding. To look, to see, to feel, to have a personal understanding has been an established practice by allowing the public to absorb, on their terms, the artwork on view. Literature, in the form of publications and freestanding texts have accompanied the exhibitions, not as a forethought or afterthought, but with commentary, viewpoints and philosophical wanderings and factual information. Along with the optional access to guided talks all providing a pathway without a defined compass.

Support for artists to explore new avenues within their practice has been a strong focus within Magasin III. This tradition has opened up the potential for the creation of some entirely novel ideas and works leading to new tangents within their future artistic practices and productions. With the backing of Magasin III enabling artists to produce works specifically deemed for an upcoming exhibition, this has allowed the institution to add to its collection. Here artwork that has specific references to place and time creating a historical timeline and map of each artists production coinciding with Magasin III’s own history.

By inviting back artists who have previously exhibited at Magasin III, it has been not only a personal and familial experience for the institution but the audience as well. To have the prospect of re-visiting an artist’s work years later with additional pieces and information, has demonstrated the fluidity and evolution of an artist’s production as it encompasses and reacts to the passing of time.