This seminar series explores exhibitions as rhetorical arenas where images and illustrations tell stories. Scholars and curators show how visual narratives persuade, move, and invite audiences into dialogue.

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The exhibition From Mumin to Chop Chop - Tove Jansson, Ilon Wikland, Pija Lindenbaum, Linda Bondestam was an exhibition at Prince Eugen Waldemarsudde in Stockholm showcased during the spring and summer of 2025. The exhibition was a joyful and colorful tribute to the art of illustration in children’s literature, featuring works from the mid-1940s to the present day. The exhibition was aimed at visitors of all ages and highlighted four of the Nordic region’s most prominent and beloved children’s book illustrators: Tove Jansson (1914–2001), Ilon Wikland (b. 1930), Pija Lindenbaum (b. 1955), and Linda Bondestam (b. 1977).
In the exhibition, visitors were given unique opportunities to reflect on artistic processes and the relationship between image and text, as well as to study how emotions, moods, and contemporary themes were visually depicted by Tove Jansson, Ilon Wikland, Pija Lindenbaum, and Linda Bondestam. The right to be oneself, equal value, and inclusion were urgent themes addressed by all of the exhibition’s artists, along with subjects such as displacement, exclusion and community, questions of identity, and new technological developments.
In one of the exhibition halls, there was an interactive room for creative activities and reading aloud, which gave children and adults the opportunity to create their own stories and illustrations.

Karin Sidén, Museum Director and Superintendent at Prins Eugens Waldemarsudde, together with her colleague Sophie Lindberg, Curator of Education and Learning, will share engaging insights into the creation of the exhibition. They will also offer reflections on the educational program, both within the exhibition itself and in connection to it, providing visitors with a deeper understanding and appreciation of its themes and different artworks.