Gunilla Palmstierna-Weiss’s first solo exhibition at Moderna Museet comprised a small selection of drawings, collages, models, and ceramic objects made between 1964 and 1984. Curators Emily Fahlén and Asrin Haidari neither framed Palmstierna-Weiss as a craft artist nor produced a purely archival show revolving around her storied career in stage design. Instead, they drew from both aspects of her practice to propose a model for the contemporary artist beyond that informed by the idea of the solitary (and usually male) genius.

Palmstierna-Weiss was born in 1928 in Lausanne, Switzerland, and raised