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Contents
Permanent art . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
The 1950s ....................................... 8
The 1960s .................................... 12
The 1970s .................................... 16
The 1980s .................................... 22
The 1990s .................................... 26
The 2000s . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
Temporary exhibitions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38
Alphabetical list . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46
Further reading . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54
Guided tours . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . back cover
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T-Centralen
1 Erland Melanton and Bengt Edenfalk 1958 3 Torsten Treutiger 1957
“Klaravagnen” – an abstract pattern of glass prisms Some of the pillars are decorated with small reliefs
in varying colours. depicting musical instruments, vehicles and various
kinds of geometrical shapes.
2 Signe Persson-Melin and Anders Österlin 1957
On the white tiles different stoneware designs appear, 4 Jörgen Fogelquist 1957
reminiscent of traffic signals or symbols. Signe Spanish tile mural entitled “There and back”.
Persson-Melin’s choice of colours is derived from the
glazes she used for her pottery teapots, bowls and
dishes. Anders Österlin was mainly responsible for the
composition of the figures.
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Saying that the 1960s Much of the red line was constructed previously, most stations were now
during the 1960s. The technology for decorated with rectangular tiles in earth
was an eventful blasting tunnels through the rock had tones.
decade is something progressed since the 1950s and the good
of an understatement. This was quality of the rock on which Stockholm is Many of the stations incorporated art right
built made it possible to work completely from the start. This time round, people
the decade that gave us the underground to a greater extent than were thinking ahead and in 1961 a
Beatles, Bob Dylan, the Rolling before – faster, more cheaply and with less competition was held for some of the
disruption to traffic and local residents. stations, sometimes to design a complete
Stones and the contraceptive pill. look.
It was an era of student revolt, Most of the 1960s stations were built
below ground, with only a few above 1960s stations that incorporated art from
cultural revolution and the ground. day one include Östermalmstorg,
Vietnam War, but also a time of Mariatorget, Hornstull and Mälarhöjden.
longing for peace and freedom At the stations, the rock face was clad in Stations that gained art at a later date, but
concrete, creating a box inside the space. whose architecture is typical of the 1960s,
– “Make Love, Not War!”. Instead of the square “bathroom” tiles used include Zinkensdamm and Aspudden.
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1c The sculpture “Source of dawn” is made from five diabase boulders and
weighs 28 tonnes. The inner surfaces are highly polished, while others have been
left in their natural state.
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The first decade of the 21st
others added. Several major
projects are also being planned,
but what they will involve in
century saw no new underground terms of new branches and
lines built and no new stations stations we do not know. Not
added. Nevertheless, art in the yet, at least. For the time being,
Stockholm Metro doesn’t stand art in the Metro of the future
still. Works are replaced and remains a blank page.
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1 Liljeholmen – Leif Bolter 2004 uprights divide into a corolla of light and space. The
Artist and architects have worked closely together colour of the light changes through the day from
to preserve the transparency and the flow of light green to blue, purple, yellow and red.
through the architecture. In the two light shafts that
bring daylight down to the platforms, glass prisms 3 Stadshagen – Mikael Göransson 2003
break the incoming sunlight into all the colours of These images from nature are made out of concrete
the rainbow. using a very special technique invented by the artist
himself, a combination of cement mosaic and
2 Liljeholmen – Leif Bolter 2004 photogravure. The tree trunk images, spruce and
Where the steel girders and the pillars meet, Swedish whitebeam, come from the landscape of
precisely where the load is greatest, the massive his childhood.
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Over 90 of SL’s 100 Metro stations feature sculptures, mosaics and Akalla †
Ochre grotto. Ceramic pictures
paintings. An art exhibition 110 km long runs beneath the streets illustrating the ideals, daily lives,
of Stockholm. SL’s passengers can see it every day. Each year the leisure and work of men and
women.
exhibition is updated with new works of art, temporary as well as Birgit Ståhl-Nyberg 1977.
permanent. You can also view and find out more about the art on Alby †
our website www.sl.se/art. The website also includes information “The cavern of secrets.”
Decorations, signs and symbols
about SL in general. The books “Art goes underground” and in various colours on a green
“Stockholm Under” provide even more information about the background.
Olle Ängkvist 1975.
Metro, its architecture and its art. Please note that “Stockholm
Under” is only available in Swedish. Alvik †
“Meeting of the waves”, diabase
stone sculpture in the north
ticket hall towards the Tvär-
banan light rail line. Cement
mosaic mural. Design of tiled
walls and cement mosaic floor.
Corten steel guard rail on the
track bordering
Drottningholmsvägen.
H. N. Koda 1999. (see page 28)
Aspudden †
Penguin sculpture and enamelled
reliefs on the walls behind the
track.
P. G. Thelander 1987.
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