Hilma af Klint

Hilma af Klint, the Eros Series, the WU Rose Series. Courtesy of the Hilma af Klint Foundation
Who Was Hilma af Klint?
Visionary Swedish artist Hilma af Klint (1862-1944) was exploring abstraction five years before Piet Mondrian and Wassily Kandinsky. We take a brief look at her work timed with its inclusion in the…
Agnes Pelton, The Ray Serene, 1925.
Agnes Pelton: The Forgotten Woman Modernist Inspired by Nature’s Unseen Forces
Shifting the longstanding narrative about American modern art to include a long-overlooked woman who embraced both visual and spiritual experimentation.
Installation view: Hilma af Klint: Paintings for the Future, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, October 12, 2018–April 23, 2019
Hilma af Klint Becomes Most-Visited Exhibition in Guggenheim's History
The exhibition Hilma af Klint: Paintings for the Future has attracted more than 600,000 visitors since its opening, making it the most-visited show in the history of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum…
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Modern Art’s Lost Matriarch: Hilma af Klint at the Guggenheim
Hilma af Klint painted abstract canvases before there was abstraction. A new survey at the Guggenheim, Hilma af Klint: Paintings for the Future, asserts the artists rightful place a true artistic…
Hilma af Klint: Paintings for the Future

When Hilma af Klint began creating radically abstract paintings in 1906, they were like little that had been seen before: bold, colorful, and untethered from recognizable references to the…