Daily Brief — September 28, 2026
Three exhibitions offer sharply different ways to organise experience: JJJJJerome Ellis builds a calendar from histories of escape, Pierre Paulin’s furniture returns to the fore before its Montpellier close, and Prince Eugens Waldemarsudde expands the cast around Göteborg colorism.
Image: Secession Building, Vienna
JJJJJerome Ellis. An unfinished calendar that commemorates slaves escaping their enslavers, 1673–1886
At Vienna’s Secession Building, JJJJJerome Ellis has covered the walls with a calendar extending across the exhibition’s duration, with one sheet for every day and month. Charcoal lists, decorated with oil-pastel flowers, record the names, dates and places associated with enslaved people who escaped their enslavers in the 17th, 18th and 19th centuries. An audio recording plays in the room, with Ellis reading aloud the names assigned to each day. The installation connects the calendar’s everyday structure to commemoration, while Ellis’s practice brings together Blackness, music, spirituality and non-normative language.
‘Le design selon Pierre Paulin (1927-2009)’ to Close on November 1
Musée Fabre’s “Le design selon Pierre Paulin (1927–2009)” closes on Sunday, November 1. Described as the museum’s first major design exhibition, the presentation includes Paulin’s Mushroom Chair, Ribbon Chair and Tongue Chair, as well as the Fumoir de l’Élysée and Vidéo Barnum. Born in Paris in 1927 and deceased in Montpellier in 2009, Paulin is presented as one of the major French designers of the 20th century. The exhibition places his work alongside the emergence of design as a discipline in postwar France; the Mushroom Chair dates to 1959, the Ribbon Chair to 1966 and the Tongue Chair to 1968.
Image: Prince Eugens Waldemarsudde, Stockholm
'Den underbara färgen' Broadens the Picture of Göteborgskolorismen
Opening October 3 at Prince Eugens Waldemarsudde in Stockholm, “Den underbara färgen – Göteborgskolorismen i nytt ljus” brings together around 90 works in collaboration with Göteborgs konstmuseum. Paintings by Åke Göransson, Ivan Ivarson, Nils Nilsson, Karin Parrow, Ragnar Sandberg and Inge Schiöler appear alongside predecessors, later artists and figures outside the movement’s best-known core, including Märta Taube-Ivarson, Ragnvald Magnusson and Erling Ärlingsson. The exhibition also places Lena Cronqvist in dialogue with Inge Schiöler and includes contemporary works by Bella Rune and Ebba Svensson. It runs through February 28, 2027.