The international art world has been taken by storm by Hilma af Klint's art. From the initial success of the show at the Moderna Museet in Stockholm 2013 to the exhibition in New York's Guggenheim Museum, the Ax:son Johnson Foundation has arranged a number of international seminars, in conjunction with the exhibitions, in order to promote scholarship about Hilma af Klint and set her pioneering work in historical context.
Hilma af Klint: Seeing is believing reproduces the last abstract images series made by af Klint in the 1920s, which have never before been published in their entirety. These images are complemented by essays based on lectures delivered during the exhibition Hilma af Klint: Painting the Unseen, at London's Serpentine Galleries in 2016. Briony Fer, David Lomas, Branden Joseph, Hans Ulrich Obrist and Daniel Birnbaum shed new light on af Klint and her importance for artists today, also addressing the need for a broader conception of art history that her work proposes.
