11/09/2026
JULES OLITSKI
Installation views from our current exhibition ‘Olitski Paintings’ at Nybrogatan 20. Featuring Olitski’s “Mitt” paintings, a distinctive series that emerged in 1988 and exemplifies his inventive approach to materials and surface. Join us in celebrating one of the foremost figures of postwar American abstraction.
On view until 30 September.
Jules Olitski (1922 - 2007) rose to prominence in the 1960s as a central voice in Color Field painting, liberating color from drawing to breathe across the canvas as pure sensation. By the 1970s and 1980s, he turned toward a far more physical approach, building paint in dense, heavily textured impasto, scraping and layering pigment until the canvas became almost sculptural. The works in this exhibition, painted between 1989 and 1993, belong to this late and deeply personal period, charged with a spiritual intensity that is felt as much as understood.
Olitski Paintings is the first presentation of Olitski’s late paintings in Sweden.
Photo: Jean-Baptiste Béranger
Warm welcome!
Jules Olitski Art Foundation