Wood and textile in the exhibition by
Bogil Lee & Karina Nøkleby Presttun

Karina N. Presttun and Bogil Lee

The exhibition Wall Bangings is artists Bogil Lee and Karina Nøkleby Presttun’s response to MoMA’s 1969 show Wall Hangings—the first major museum exhibition of textile art in the United States. That exhibition presented weaving as modern and experimental, aligned with painting and sculpture, yet distanced from collective craft traditions. The curators celebrated textile’s individuality and ingenuity in a modernist spirit that reinforced hierarchies between art and craft.

Wall Bangings challenges this narrative and reconsiders the place of textile art today. Through their works, Lee and Nøkleby Presttun highlight what modernism often concealed—queer and postcolonial perspectives, material reuse, and shifting systems of value.

The exhibition is supported by Iaspis (Swedish Arts Grants Committee), Sveriges Konstföreningar, and the Nordic-Baltic Mobility Programme for Culture.

All images by: Stockholm Craft Week/Sebastian Waldenby.