{"id":38270,"date":"2025-02-26T16:43:44","date_gmt":"2025-02-26T15:43:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/malmokonsthall.se\/utstallningar\/louise-bourgeois\/"},"modified":"2026-03-30T16:20:46","modified_gmt":"2026-03-30T14:20:46","slug":"louise-bourgeois","status":"publish","type":"utstallningar","link":"https:\/\/malmokonsthall.se\/en\/utstallningar\/louise-bourgeois\/","title":{"rendered":"Louise Bourgeois \u2013 Recent Works"},"content":{"rendered":"  <nav aria-label=\"Breadcrumb navigation\" class=\"breadcrumbs\" typeof=\"BreadcrumbList\" vocab=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/\">\n      <ol>\n          <li class=\"home\"><span property=\"itemListElement\" typeof=\"ListItem\"><a property=\"item\" typeof=\"WebPage\" title=\"G\u00e5 till Startsidan\" href=\"https:\/\/malmokonsthall.se\/en\/\" class=\"home\" aria-current=\"page\"><span property=\"name\">Start<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/li>\n\n      <\/ol>\n  <\/nav>\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-style-Margin-right is-style-margin-right\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"679\" src=\"https:\/\/malmokonsthall.se\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Louise_Bourgeois-05-min-1024x679.jpg\" alt=\"Overview image of three large, spider-like sculptures standing in the art gallery.\" class=\"wp-image-26991\" srcset=\"https:\/\/malmokonsthall.se\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Louise_Bourgeois-05-min-1024x679.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/malmokonsthall.se\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Louise_Bourgeois-05-min-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/malmokonsthall.se\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Louise_Bourgeois-05-min-768x509.jpg 768w, https:\/\/malmokonsthall.se\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Louise_Bourgeois-05-min.jpg 1181w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Photo: Malm\u00f6 Konsthall<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group is-style-page-margin\"><div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container is-layout-flow wp-block-group-is-layout-flow\">\n\n\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading is-style-heading-article\" id=\"h-louise-bourgeois-nyare-verk\">Louise Bourgeois \u2013 Recent Works<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-12-09-nbsp-01-11-1998\">12.09 \u2013\u00a001.11 1998<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-style-information-column is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-9d6595d7 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:50%\">\n<p>Louise Bourgeois is, in every sense, an extraordinary artist. At the age of 86, she has tirelessly renewed her sculptural expressions, continuously delving deeper into the layers of her own subconscious. She remains one of the most intriguing and sought-after figures in contemporary art.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Her artistic practice is marked by recurring themes: the home, childhood, the past, motherhood, and sexuality. She weaves these elements together with eroticism and death, themes that have become increasingly prominent in her work.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Louise Bourgeois\u2019 exhibition at Malm\u00f6 Konsthall featured works from 1993 to 1998, many of which revolve around her reckoning with childhood and her parents, with textiles playing a striking role. One key group of works includes Poles, first exhibited at the S\u00e3o Paulo Biennial in 1996. These installations are made from her own clothing or sewn together as assemblages of fabric. Another group consists of her Red Rooms, representing the parents\u2019 room, the nursery\u2014spaces where she gathers and combines hand-embroidered fabrics, threads, and spools. These works were initiated in 1994. Her engagement with textiles then led to the Spiders series, first appearing as drawings and later transformed into monumental sculptures. A third group of works takes the form of distorted figures, either displayed individually or as pairs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Born in Paris in 1911, Louise Bourgeois has lived in the United States since 1938. Although long recognized in New York, her international breakthrough came in the 1980s. Today, she is represented in most major contemporary art collections worldwide. Her most recent large-scale retrospective was held at the Mus\u00e9e d\u2019Art Moderne in Paris in 1995. The exhibition at Malm\u00f6 Konsthall, which featured around twenty significant works, was her first major exhibition in the Nordic region.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-style-information-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:33%\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"671\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/malmokonsthall.se\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Louise_Bourgeois-new-02-min-671x1024.jpg\" alt=\"A work by Louise Bourgeois, fabric hanging from a hook. Two stuffed stockings hang down from the fabric.\" class=\"wp-image-26995\" srcset=\"https:\/\/malmokonsthall.se\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Louise_Bourgeois-new-02-min-671x1024.jpg 671w, https:\/\/malmokonsthall.se\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Louise_Bourgeois-new-02-min-197x300.jpg 197w, https:\/\/malmokonsthall.se\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Louise_Bourgeois-new-02-min-768x1172.jpg 768w, https:\/\/malmokonsthall.se\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Louise_Bourgeois-new-02-min-1007x1536.jpg 1007w, https:\/\/malmokonsthall.se\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Louise_Bourgeois-new-02-min.jpg 1181w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 671px) 100vw, 671px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Photo: Malm\u00f6 Konsthall<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group\"><div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container is-layout-flow wp-block-group-is-layout-flow\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-style-left-image-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-9d6595d7 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:66.66%\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"669\" src=\"https:\/\/malmokonsthall.se\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Louise_Bourgeois-new-01-min-1024x669.jpg\" alt=\"A large spider-like sculpture, illuminated with lights from above.\" class=\"wp-image-26993\" srcset=\"https:\/\/malmokonsthall.se\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Louise_Bourgeois-new-01-min-1024x669.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/malmokonsthall.se\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Louise_Bourgeois-new-01-min-300x196.jpg 300w, https:\/\/malmokonsthall.se\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Louise_Bourgeois-new-01-min-768x502.jpg 768w, https:\/\/malmokonsthall.se\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Louise_Bourgeois-new-01-min.jpg 1181w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Photo: Malm\u00f6 Konsthall<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Louise Bourgeois \u2013 Recent Works 12.09 \u2013\u00a001.11 1998 Louise Bourgeois is, in every sense, an extraordinary artist. 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