Hilma af Klint

Once considered an outsider artist, after her show at the Guggenheim Museum was seen by more than half-a-mil-lion visitors, Hilma af Klint firmly established her place in art history. She has also been the subject of documenta-ry films and biographies. In 2013, Iris Mller-Westermann organized the first institutional exhibition of af Klints work. Now she presents us with the latest information and research in an extensive survey show at the Moder-na Museet in Malm. Of crucial importance is the issue of spirituality in af Klints paintinghow she managed to translate both the material and the immaterial world into a pictorial vision. The accompanying exhibition catalogue is the first to investigate, from a variety of perspectives, the question of how this trailblazing abstract artist linked her painting to a higher consciousness. Essays by leading historians of theosophy and a quantum physicist, among others, provide enlightening insight into a world in which both the visualization of atoms and spiritual sances alike became artistic materiala world that fascinates us even more than ever.