This exhibition presents about 100 published documents, including catalogues, invitations and posters, commissioned by the museum director Pontus Hultén. They reflect his skill at bringing together artists, curators and others to produce graphic designs that challenged established norms.
An art historian, curator and philosopher, Pontus Hultén was director of the Moderna Museet in Stockholm from 1958 to 1973 and the first director of the National Museum of Modern Art at the Pompidou Centre from 1973 to 1981. He left an enduring legacy at both museums and helped to build their worldwide fame.
Pontus Hultén acquired the first work by Barbro Östlihn to enter the Moderna Museet collection: Pawn Shop, which he purchased during a visit to New York in 1964. in 1977, as director of the Museum of Modern Art at the Pompidou Centre, he acquired Östlihn’s The German Wall.
This show ties in with the exhibition Niki de Saint Phalle, Jean Tinguely et Pontus HultĂ©n at the Grand Palais (6 June 2025 – 4 January 2026).
Curated by Stina Gromark