- Dates: October 18, 2024–February 2, 2025
- Curators: Tracey Bashkoff, Senior Director of Collections and Senior Curator, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, and Lucía Agirre, Curator, Guggenheim Museum Bilbao
- Sponsored by: Iberdrola
- With the cooperation of the Hilma af Klint Foundation
- Swedish artist Hilma af Klint eschewed her traditional pictorial training in order to focus on a new type of abstract art informed by her deep spiritual commitments.
- The artist devoted nearly a decade to her Paintings for the Temple, which represents a radical effort by af Klint to find visual expression for a transcendent, spiritual reality beyond the observable world.
- Hilma af Klint rarely exhibited her most innovative works during her lifetime, and nearly a century would pass before they finally received the recognition they deserve.
The Guggenheim Museum Bilbao presents Hilma af Klint, a comprehensive survey of the career of Swedish artist Hilma af Klint (b. 1862, Stockholm; d. 1944, Stockholm), sponsored by Iberdrola. The show spans from her early works on traditional themes, her automatic drawings, and her most outstanding series, including Paintings for the Temple, Parsifal, the Atom Series, to the watercolors of her final years.
Photograph of the Swedish artist Hilma af Klint (1862–1944) at her studio on Hamngatan in Stockholm.
Courtesy The Hilma af Klint Foundation
©The Hilma af Klint Foundation, Bilbao 2024
