Art & photography exhibitions
Gothenburg is home to many museums and galleries with exciting exhibitions.
At the Röhsska Museum, several exhibitions run in parallel. Design Stories highlights Scandinavian design icons through the ages. Asplund and the Courthouse focuses on the influential architect Gunnar Asplund. On 7 February, We Will Survive opens. It’s an exhibition about the prepper movement and design, exploring how people prepare for an uncertain future shaped by natural disasters and war.
Gothenburg Museum of Art presents the new exhibition Body. Ideals, Gaze, Freedom, on view from 7 March to 17 January 2027. The exhibition contrasts historical and contemporary body ideals through painting, sculpture, photography, and video art.
If you’re interested in contemporary art, head to Röda Sten Konsthall. From 7 February to 19 April, the exhibition Paradise Pt. II / The Death of Venus explores themes of power and desire through works by three artists in a joint show.
Interested in photography? Hasselblad Center presents two new photo exhibitions this spring. From 6 February to 3 May, Rise of the Sunken Sun showcases a photographic narrative by Greenlandic photographer Inuuteq Storch, focusing on his homeland. The second exhibition, Women Behind the Camera 1848–1968, runs from 23 May to 27 September and highlights the work of professional female photographers during this period.
Just over an hour from Gothenburg, the Nordic Watercolour Museum in Skärhamn is well worth a visit. From 8 February to 19 April, it hosts a colourful spring exhibition on picture book illustration.
Opera
The Göteborg Opera presents a strong season with several productions. The musical Miss Saigon, which premiered in the autumn, runs until 27 March and tells a story of forbidden love in the shadow of the Vietnam War. The opera La Bohème is on stage until 4 February.
This spring’s major opera production is Jenůfa, premiering on 8 March. It’s a gripping tale of guilt, shame, and reconciliation. More into dance and performance art? Don’t miss Past the point, featuring choreography by one of the innovators of hip hop and Choreographer of the Year 2024, running from 6 to 27 February.
Find out more at The Göteborg Opera
For the whole family
At the Maritime Museum & Aquarium, a new exhibition opens on 25 April, Sharks, Camera, Action! Follow nature filmmaker Christina Karliczek Skoglund on a fascinating journey beneath the surface.
At the Museum of Natural History, children and adults alike can explore the city’s animal life in the exhibition Animals in the City, based on Sarah Sheppard’s popular children’s book. It’s full of humour, knowledge, and wow moments. The exhibition runs until 2028.
In Nordstan’s shopping center you can enter the world of illusions and visit the new Paradox museum. This interactive museum invites both adults and children into a borderland between reality and illusion, where optical tricks, visual phenomena, and shifting perspectives both entertain and provoke thought.
Find even more cultural events in our eventscalendar!