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  • Guest Lecture: Rado Ištok

    Toyen in Stockholm: On Gothic Castles and Émigré and Queer Kinship

    April 13

    In 1970, Moderna Museet in Stockholm acquired for its collection The Myth of Light, a 1946 painting by the Czech Surrealist artist Toyen, which was in the same year part of the exhibition Surrealism? curated by the Swedish artist and curator Ragnar von Holten. Von Holten’s interest in the work of Toyen later materialised in Toyen’s monograph (1984) and her retrospective at Moderna Museet (1985) which he wrote and curated respectively. What role did queerness play in Ragnar von Holten’s relation to Toyen and her work? And to which extend are collecting histories also queer histories?

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