Now the public can see the billionaire’s art collection



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– It feels wonderful. “We have waited a long time for this,” says Mikael Ståhl.

Listen and see more in the video above.

Mikael Ståhl owns what is said to be Sweden’s largest private collection of international contemporary art. It contains 450 works of art and the collection focuses on painting and sculpture from the late 1950s to the present day.

Swedish artists such as Cecilia Edefalk, Ernst Billgren and Lena Cronqvist are represented, as well as international greats such as Louise Bourgeois, Ai WeiWei and Yayoi Kusama.

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Mikael Ståhl talks about his favorite work at the exhibition Photo: Tobias Holmqvist / SVT

The art gallery is 1,900 square meters in size and houses a former textile factory, Nyborgs Yllefabrik by Motala ström, which was built at the beginning of the last century. Today, the newly renovated property also has a large number of homes.

Ståhl Collection opens on Saturday 10th October and here you can read more about the museum.

From the archive: private art collection exhibited at the Norrköping Museum of Art (Östnytt 2012-12-06)

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The private art collection is on display at the Norrköping Museum of Art
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