Stockholm metro stations with commissioned art

Fifteen stations where the walls are the reason to get off the train, sorted so you know which artist made what, which platform level it is on and which branch of the line takes you there. Stockholm's Blue Line splits at Västra skogen and the older Green and Red platforms sit above the newer bedrock caves, so several of these works are a few escalators away from where you arrive. A valid travel ticket covers the lot, since almost everything here is behind the barriers.

Places in this collection

  • Rissne — A timeline of world history in text and maps runs the length of the platform wall, designed by Madeleine Dranger and Rolf H. Reimers, with…
  • Västra skogen — Large tiled designs run the full length of both platforms in bright colours, shapes and textures, including a dancing pair, with no message…
  • Stadshagen — Lasse Lindqvist's sports illustrations are built to change: the motifs read differently depending on where you stand on the platform and wh…
  • Fridhemsplan — A sailboat and a compass set the nautical theme, with green platform walls broken up by small red and blue squiggles and a display box hold…
  • Hötorget — Gun Gordillo's neon installation was added to the ceiling in 1998, running above one of the plain tiled platforms of the 1950s network rath…
  • Thorildsplan — Lars Arrhenius built 8-bit arcade imagery out of nothing but standard subway tiles in 2008: Super Mario clouds and mushrooms, Space Invader…
  • Hallonbergen — Elis Eriksson and Gösta Wallmark covered these walls with children's line drawings, using work from their own childhoods and from their chi…
  • Universitetet — Françoise Schein's tile panels trace the travels of Carl Linnaeus, the father of modern taxonomy, alongside botanical and zoological drawin…
  • Mörby centrum — The colours here are not fixed: Gösta Wessel and Karin Ek painted the bars and walls so that the pale pink or grey-green clouds speckling t…
  • Odenplan — David Svensson's "Life Lines", installed in 2017, runs huge illuminated traces along the station modelled on the printouts of a hospital EC…
  • Tensta — The word for brotherhood appears in eighteen languages across these walls, set among stylised birds, animals and plants in jewel colours by…
  • Tekniska högskolan — Lennart Mörk's large glass polyhedra representing the classical elements are the centrepiece, set among wall panels on Newton's laws of mot…
  • Solna centrum — A red-orange sunset burns behind a green spruce forest for the full length of the platform, painted by Karl-Olov Björk and Anders Åberg for…
  • Stadion — The rainbow archway by Åke Pallarp and Enno Hallek spans the gap between the two platforms, so it is in view from the moment you step off t…
  • T-Centralen — Per Olof Ultvedt's blue leaves and creepers cover the cave walls of the Blue Line platform, along with silhouettes of the workers who dug i…

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