Fabriken is very pleased and proud to present Sweden’s internationally most famous photographer: Lennart Nilsson. His work is unbelievable extensive and will forever have a prominent position in the history of photographic art. This summer’s exhibition will be one of the biggest he ever made. Over 200 photos will be exhibited on a 1000 m² floor space, showing well-known as well as less known works from the 40’s onwards.

Fabriken, Lennart Nilsson and his family have been planning this exhibition for more than three years. Not until autumn 2016 the date could finally be decided. To our sorrow Lennart Nilsson passed away January 28 2017.

“Even though Lennart Nilsson sadly passed away, we have not for a second hesitated to fulfill our common plans to compile this summer’s exhibition. I don’t think Lennart would have wished for anything else. Over the last months we have been working on producing new material. We hope that visitors will experience an exhibition that surprises them. Although some of the photographs are well known they are shown in a different context”, Anne Fjellström, Director at Lennart Nilsson Photography, says.

 The curator Johan Pettersson has formulated the core of the exhibition:

“At Fabriken we will meet a life work. We are going to meet photos taken during more than half a century. Pictures that with great artistry reveal a restless curiosity. We are going to meet a life work which has reached global distribution and as well has a pedagogic function. Which has enriched humanity with pictures of the “unseen”. Although they do not contain the answer to the riddle of life, they certainly have given us a definite idea on how it began. But most of all we are going to meet one of the world’s greatest photographer who over and over again invites us to a tremendous journey”. 

The exhibition starts July 1 and ends October 1.

Open July – August, Tuesday – Sunday 11:00 – 17:00, September – 1 October Friday – Sunday 11:00 – 17:00

Entrance fee 70 sek, Children under 18 free