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True Crime
An exhibition about Sweden’s prohibition-era smugglers, bootleggers and moonshine marauders. Stockholm, 1920s. A flood of illegal alcohol washes over Sweden’s capital city. Every night, thousands of litres of 96% export liquor are smuggled in from the Baltic through the Stockholm archipelago. Home stills are operating at full capacity. Illegal…
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Sweden: Spirits of a Nation
PERMANENt exhibition focusing on the Swedes’ bittersweet relationship to alcohol, from the 15th century until today. The exhibition is designed as a walk through the seasons of the year, given shape through sceneries, scents, tastes and music. Visitors can relax on a park bench or hang out in the…
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Absolut Statehood
In this year’s summer show at Spritmuseum, all the pieces from Absolut Vodka’s 1992–93 Absolut Statehood project are being exhibited together for the first time. The show takes you on a road trip through the lively and colourful art scenes of rural America, far from the establishment and the…
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Love x Attraction in Absolut Art Collection
Love and Attraction is the theme of a selection of works from the Absolut Art Collection. Spritmuseum invited artist Carolina Falkholt and poet Anna Axfors to curate and write about the Absolut Art Collection. They explore the art from the standpoint of their own artistic endeavours. There is a…
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Brave wine
The Spritmuseum proudly presents “Brave Wine,” a captivating outdoor exhibition from June 14 until Ukraine’s National Day on August 24. In collaboration with Beredskapslyftet, this exhibition will showcase the powerful connection between winemakers and the ongoing war in Ukraine through a remarkable photo exhibit. When you think of…
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BEER
“Today it is possible to announce that there is a beer for everyone!” says Spritmuseum’s expert Nadja Karlsson. Beer can be so much! It can be sweet, creamy, soft, rich, light, fresh, sour, fruity, candy, bitter, spicy, dry, etc etc.. A supply of high-quality, tasty NoLo beer is steadily increasing…
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REDISCOVER
In 2022, Spritmuseum celebrates ten years on Djurgården. We are celebrating by allowing a younger generation of art educators working at Spritmuseum to pick out their favourites from the Absolut Art Collection. The result is REDISCOVER, an exhibition which fills the room floor to ceiling with almost 90 artworks.
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Exhibition about Gin
Welcome to Gin Country Sweden! Sweden’s craft gin scene is booming, and the trend has moved at lightning speed, from a handful of gin producers ten years ago to over 60 today around the country. Now, gin nerds can choose from more than 160 different Swedish gin varieties. In…
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Fashion Cocktail
his summer, the Museum of Spirits showcases a sensational selection from the never before publicly shown Absolut Fashion-collection in the exhibition Fashion Cocktail. Absolut Vodka’s venture in fashion began in February 1988, when a picture of model Rachel Williams dressed in a metallic mini dress by designer David Cameron…
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Pierre et Gilles – Troubled Waters
For the first time, French artistic duo Pierre et Gilles are exhibiting in Sweden. For “Troubled Waters”, the artists have seized upon the old harbour setting around Spritmuseum. The romantic image of the sea, the harbour and the sailing life are contrasted with the overexploitation of our era, which…
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A Spicy Christmas
Cinnamon, saffron, allspice, clementine. Few Swedish holidays smell and taste as much as Christmas. Spicy glögg, gingerbread and clove-scented oranges kindle feelings and create an atmosphere. It’s something to look forward to when winter is at its coldest and darkest. Maybe the exhibition A Spicy Christmas – The Flavours…
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The Party is Over
“The struggle is nothing you can buy; you can’t pay for or buy liberation. It has to come at its own pace, from its own strength,” says Elisabeth Ohlson in her writings about the exhibition. This winter’s art exhibition at Spritmuseum takes us back to New York in the 1980s and 90s, to an era that began with a new openness,…
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Absolut Art Collection – Staff’s Choice
Staff’s Choice. An exhibition with our personal favourites from the Absolut Art Collection. If spring of 2020 has taught us anything, it’s that things don’t always go as planned. Social distancing, a society shut down and the commotion has pre-occupied our minds. But through all this dismay, creativity…
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Cider
Welcome to cider country… Sweden Swedish craft cider. Just a few years ago it would have been unimaginable. Making real cider from garden-variety Swedish apples was considered impossible. But then along came an ice cider from Västerbotten, and turned the whole situation on its head. That was in 2012.
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Angus Fairhurst
Angus Fairhurst (1966–2008) belonged to an influential generation that became the phenomenon known as the Young British Artists, or YBAs. In the early 1990s, a period of economic crisis, they made a sensational splash with an attitude at once countercultural and market-driven. Fairhurst was a central figure during this brash and innovative era,…
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Absolut Art Collection: Photo
Big, diverse, boundless – as always with the Absolut Art Collection. The theme of our 2019 summer exhibition is photography. We’re exhibiting 60 photographic works from the collection, taken by 23 internationally known photographers from the worlds of art and fashion. The photos reflect an era of techno and supermodels…
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WHAT YOU DIDN’T KNOW EXISTED
POP-UP EXHIBITION: 30/3 – 8/4 2019 ENDANGERED FOOD FROM AROUND THE WORLD For 10 days, Spritmuseum will host a touring exhibition on endangered food and flavors. Here you can explore a selection of 8 unique heritage foods like Sunnmøre Herring from Norway, Gurpi from Sápmi, Manna from Italy,…
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David Shrigley at Spritmuseum
DAVID SHRIGLEY – EXHIBITION OF GIANT INFLATABLE SWAN-THINGS One of Great Britain’s most renowned artists, David Shrigley, presents a new show at Spritmuseum in Sweden. His Exhibition of Giant Inflatable Swan-things is an installation created exclusively for the museum gallery, which opened on 27 September. Nothing is quite as it seems in Shrigley’s universe.
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The Future of food & drink
An exhibition on future visions, health trends and climate-friendly cuisine. Take a giant step into the world of futurology. What kinds of foods will we be eating in the future? Will meatballs still be on the menu, or will leftover salad, lab milk and insect burgers be part of…
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Absolut Art Collection – The Wilder Side
The animals have settled in at Spritmuseum for this summer’s art exhibition Absolut Art Collection – The Wilder Side. On site are fluffy dogs, mythical marvels and metamorphoses between animal and human. Crawling, soaring, buzzing, purring and howling. The motives range from the polar regions to the tropics, following…
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Champagne!
From chalky soils to glamour Never have so many drunk so much Champagne as today. The trend is global, but Sweden, unusually enough, is one of the countries where Champagne consumption has increased the most. For the past few years, tiny Sweden has been the tenth largest Champagne market…
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Under the Surface – Bertil Vallien
Bertil Vallien, born 1938, is one of the great revitalisers of Swedish glass in our time. He is a leading figure in a generation of Swedish glass artists that broke with the austere traditions of Scandinavian design. With innovative aesthetic and technical choices, he places glass in the realm…
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NO LABEL
In a world free of prejudice, there are no labels. A utopia, perhaps. But also a marketing strategy. Through cooperation with artists, fashion designers and musicians, Absolut Vodka has used diversity as a way of selling vodka. Absolut Vodka was advertising in magazines with a gay profile by 1981,…
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ROCKY at Spritmuseum
It all got started back when things had gone straight to hell. Having recently been dumped, and sitting on the train from Uppsala, Martin Kellerman drew himself as a dog with a noose around his neck. Who would have believed this would be the start of one of the…
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ACTUALITIES
ACTUALITIES is a joint exhibition of work by author Lena Andersson and artist Dan Wolgers, arranged in cooperation with Spritmuseum and the Absolut Art Collection. Working in close collaboration, they have brought together words and images to enrich one another, each placing their skills in the service of the…
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MESSAGE IN A BOTTLE. ART OR AD
When does art stop being art – and become nothing more than advertising? How far can and should companies go to borrow a kind of authenticity they can never create themselves? Message in a Bottle is an attempt to recapitulate how the Swedish brand Absolut Vodka made use of…
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Intoxicating Gardens: Cultivating Cocktails
Green leaves of lemon verbena or mint in a cocktail. A sprig of sweet woodruff in the white wine. It’s literally possibly to drink your garden. With “Intoxicating Gardens: Cultivating Cocktails”, we seek to tell the story behind beverages and plants, behind the urge to till the soil and…
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LESS IS MORE….NOT!
Art and designed objects from the Absolut Art Collection 1985–1995, chosen and presented by the interior design duo, Simon & Tomas. In a whirlwind of euphoria, money, creativity and desire, Absolut Vodka launched its first advertising campaign in 1986 with an artwork by Andy Warhol. The following decade witnessed an unprecedented…
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SWEDISH SIN
”Sweden – more pornography, more suicides, more alcoholism and more gonorrhoea every year” Sign at a 1971 demonstration in London against the Swedish sexual education film Language of Love. Welcome to an exhibition on images of Sweden, spirits and sex. In collaboration with artist Peter Johansson, we get to grips…
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Finally Friday
Spritmuseum’s first temporary exhibition is an installation entitled “Finally Friday”. Whether you look forward to cozying up on the sofa or spending the evening in the bar, Fridays are full of expectations. But things don’t always end up the way you planned. The installation consists of three rooms: Home, The…
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