Image: Prince Eugens Waldemarsudde, Stockholm
Christine Ödlund will take part in an artist conversation at Prince Eugens Waldemarsudde in Stockholm on 8 September, as part of the museum’s exhibition ‘Det blommande – Konst & botanik’. The event, titled ‘Konstnärssamtal: Möt Christine Ödlund’, will run from 6pm to 7pm and focus on Ödlund’s contribution to the exhibition.
The conversation will be moderated by Karolina Modig, editor-in-chief of Art Notes. Karin Sidén, the museum’s director, will open the evening with a brief introduction to ‘Det blommande – Konst & botanik’. Tickets cost SEK 170, with museum admission included, according to Waldemarsudde’s event announcement.
Running from 14 March to 13 September 2026, the exhibition brings together art, design, botany and representations of flowering plants from the 16th century to the present. Waldemarsudde says the presentation includes nearly 200 works spanning painting, sculpture, photography, installation, craft and botanical books, drawn from museums, private collections and the museum’s own holdings.
The exhibition examines flowers as aesthetic subjects, decorative motifs and symbols, while also addressing the role of art in the development and communication of botanical knowledge. Artists represented include Rachel Ruysch, Maria Sibylla Merian, Hilma af Klint, Lena Cronqvist, Cecilia Edefalk, Robert Mapplethorpe and Lilla Tabasso, alongside contemporary artists Anna Camner, Nathalia Edenmont, Lena Granefelt, Emma Hasselblad, Karolina Hägg, Georg Ragnar Levi, Roland Persson, Fredrik Raddum, Edit Sihlberg, Maja Stjärna, Miriam Vinay, Björn Wessman and Ödlund.
Ödlund’s work is represented in the exhibition by ‘Psychedelic Botanist III (Carl Linnaeus)’, dated 2022. The work is described as an oil, acrylic, plant-pigment, pen and pencil drawing on canvas, measuring 237 by 163 centimetres. The exhibition page also identifies a number of historical works and botanical publications, including Ambrosius Bosschaert the Elder’s ‘Blomsterstycke’ from 1617 and Leonhart Fuchs’s ‘New Kreüterbuch’ from 1543.
The theme has a particular connection to Waldemarsudde, the former home of Prince Eugen. The museum cites a 1901 statement by the prince—“Näst efter konsten tror jag blomster är min största glädje”—in which he described flowers as one of his greatest pleasures after art. The exhibition is accompanied by floral installations indoors and outdoors, as well as flower and nature motifs from the museum’s collection displayed throughout the palace. Prince Eugens Waldemarsudde is located at Prins Eugens väg 6 on Djurgården in Stockholm; the exhibition closes on 13 September 2026.
