Exhibition

In the 2020 edition of “Nobel Creations”, students from Beckmans College of Design were inspired by discoveries such as black holes, the gene-editing tool CRISPR, auction theory, Hepatitis C, the World Food Programme’s efforts to fight hunger, and the poetry of Louise Glück.

The exhibition “Läkemedel – inte en lyxvara” was developed in collaboration between Doctors Without Borders and Beckmans College of Design to highlight the fact that life-saving medicines are still not accessible to everyone.

The exhibition “Synapses: Science and Art in Spain from Ramón y Cajal to the 21st Century” explored Santiago Ramón y Cajal’s groundbreaking research and artistic interpretations of nerve cells. His drawings demonstrated how science and art can be beautifully intertwined.

The exhibition “A Right to Freedom – Martin Luther King, Jr” told the story of courage, equality, and the dream of a just world – through images, films, and voices that continue to inspire today.

During the 2021 edition of “Nobel Creations”, the exhibition explored what unites Nobel Prize laureates, artists, and creators: creativity – the courage to think in new ways, to challenge established theories, and to combine insights from different fields in innovative ways.

In the exhibition “The Nobel Prize banquet”, visitors were invited into the world of the Nobel festivities. Chefs, standard-bearers, royalty, performers, florists, and Nobel Prize laureates were all presented – individuals who have all been part of the party of all parties.

On 1 October 2022, the Nobel Prize Museum’s exhibition entitled “Life eternal” opened at Liljevalchs art gallery in Stockholm. The exhibition – which brought together science, art and cultural history – showed different approaches to eternity, explored the crucial issues of our era and offered hope for the future.

The exhibition “From Ideas to Nobel Prizes” explored and celebrated the work, ideas, and dialogues that have led to scientific discoveries, new narratives, and breakthroughs for the greatest benefit to humankind – as Alfred Nobel wrote in his will.

In the exhibition “Fungi – In Art and Science”, the world of fungi was explored through artworks, design objects, fashion, and contemporary scientific research

In the exhibition “Then, Now, Later – a small exhibition about measuring and experiencing time”, a selection of Nobel Prize laureates in Physics and Literature who have explored time in various ways were presented. Laboratory objects, text fragments, and film offered entry points into one of humanity’s remaining mysteries.

The exhibition “Nobel Creations 2024” presented six interpretations of this year’s Nobel Prizes – created by first-year students in the fashion program at Beckmans College of Design. Through designs ranging from protein engineering to nuclear disarmament, the exhibition explored the role and potential of formal attire in today’s society.

In “Nobel Creations 2022”, students from Beckmans College of Design interpreted the year’s Nobel Prizes. Their work explored what unites Nobel Laureates, artists, and designers: the courage to challenge conventions, think in new ways, and merge diverse forms of knowledge into something original.