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Fiskbullar i hummersås
© Marie-Louise Ekman/Bildupphovsrätt 2026
Fiskbullar i hummersås
Fiskbullar i hummersås
Photo: Albin Dahlström/Moderna Museet

Fiskbullar i hummersås

by Marie-Louise Ekman
Artist (Sverige, född 1944)
Alternate Title
  • Fishcakes in Lobster Sauce
Date1968
MediumAppliqué on satin
DimensionsBildmått: 121 × 174 cm Yttermått: 136,5 × 187 × 11,2 cm
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Credit LineInköp 1968
Object NumberNMB 1943
The artwork is not on display
About the artworkMarie-Louise Ekman has been prominent in various capacities on the Swedish arts scene since the 1960s. She is a visual artist, working in textiles, painting, sculpture and on paper. Ekman has also written and directed her own dramas on stage and in films, and was professor of painting and later vice-chancellor of the Royal Institute of Art. In 2009-2014, Ekman was the director of the Royal Dramatic Theatre in Stockholm, a mission she took on as an artistic project, causing controversy by focusing on workplace relations and psychology. As an artist, Marie-Louise Ekman is wildly eclectic, mixing references from art history, comics and everyday life, often with weird and bizarre results. Surface and line are central to her style, and pink is a dominating colour, as seen in this silk application, Fish Cakes in Lobster Sauce. She describes pink as “the colour of meat, man’s true colour under the skin”. Taking a classic Swedish canned food with gourmet pretensions as her subject, Marie-Louise Ekman demonstrates her ever-present sense of humour. Signatures, inscriptions and marks Signerad med broderad lapp på baksidan: M-L DE GEER 1968 Selected exhibition history Moderna Museet c/o Malmö Konsthall (2003) Malmö Konsthall Moderna Museets samling i ny presentation (1998-2000) Moderna Museet, Stockholm Marie-Louise Ekman (den 17 juni 2017 - den 17 september 2017) Moderna Museet, Stockholm Moderna Museet c/o Bildmuseet - Dada och surrealism (2003) Bildmuseet, Umeå Pop konst design (den 29 juni 2013 - den 22 september 2013) Moderna Museet, Stockholm The Moderna Museet exhibition catalogues Moderna Museet c/o Malmö Konsthall : [Malmö Konsthall : 8 februari - 4 maj 2003]Marie-Louise Ekman: Marie-Louise Ekman [Moderna Museet 17/6-17/9 2017] Bibliography Lind, Maria, Marie-Louise Ekman, Malmö 1994, ill. (färg)nr 6. Lind, Maria, Marie-Louise Ekman, Stockholm 1998, s 8, s 24-26, ill. s 25