Erika Lanner, Director of the Nobel Prize Museum, will open the press meeting. The curators of the exhibition, Karl-Johan Cottman and Magnus af Petersens, will lead a tour. Several of the artists and creators who have worked on the exhibition will be present, including Carsten Höller and Joanna Hellgren.

The guided tour will take place in Swedish. If requested, an English-language tour will be provided at around 11.00. Coffee and sandwiches will be served.

Time and place: 10.00 on 29 September, Nobel Prize Museum in Stockholm’s Old Town

RSVP: By 27 September to Nobel Prize Museum
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Press images (more images showing all parts of the exhibition will be added on 29 September)

  • Carsten Höller, Double Mushroom Vitrine (Forty-eightfold). Foto: CFHILL

  • © Seana Gavin - Mindful Mushroom, 2017

  • Johanna Hellgren is one of the artists featured in the exhibition. She has created seven brand new comic strips about mushrooms to be exhibited. Some of the comic strips are about things like house fungus and the parasitic fungus Flugmögel, others are about ancient mushroom giants and the role of fungi in the origin of life on land. Photo: Clément Morin

  • At the launch of Icelandic musical artist Björk’s album “Fossora”, she wore a mushroom-themed dress designed by Daniel Del Core. The mask that comes with the dress was made by Swedish artist David Åberg. Photo: Nanaka Adachi

  • Carsten Höller, Double Mushroom Vitrine (Forty-eightfold). Foto: CFHILL

  • © Seana Gavin - Mindful Mushroom, 2017

  • Johanna Hellgren is one of the artists featured in the exhibition. She has created seven brand new comic strips about mushrooms to be exhibited. Some of the comic strips are about things like house fungus and the parasitic fungus Flugmögel, others are about ancient mushroom giants and the role of fungi in the origin of life on land. Photo: Clément Morin

  • At the launch of Icelandic musical artist Björk’s album “Fossora”, she wore a mushroom-themed dress designed by Daniel Del Core. The mask that comes with the dress was made by Swedish artist David Åberg. Photo: Nanaka Adachi

About the exhibition
In this autumn’s exhibition at the Nobel Prize Museum, “Fungi – In Art and Science”, the world of fungi is explored through artworks, design objects, fashion and contemporary scientific research.

The transboundary nature of fungi, with their capacity for symbiosis and transformation, has always inspired artists. Some examples, whose works will be exhibited, are Carsten Höller, Olle Norås, Seana Gavin, Anna Dumitriu and the artist collective Marshmallow Laser Feast.

Scientific researchers also raise the question of how fungi can change the way we understand the world. As part of the exhibition, a number of researchers share the questions they are struggling with right now. How can fungi grow at a depth of several hundred meters in bedrock, and what can this tell us about the origin of life? Could we build our houses or make our clothes out of mushrooms? In the exhibition, the visitor will also be able to enter the literary world of Nobel Prize laureate Olga Tokarczuk, which is teeming with mushrooms. In her book House of Day, House of Night, she states: “If I wasn’t a human being, I would like to be a mushroom.”

Exhibition period: 30 September 2023 – 7 January 2024

Further information: https://nobelprizemuseum.se/en/fungi-in-art-and-science/