Tag: Norway
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Christian Krohg: The People of the North
A key figure in Norwegian art, the naturalist painter wanted his art to bring social change and produced strikingly modern images
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Sámi Pavilion (Nordic Countries), Venice Biennale 2022
Sámi artists Anders Sunna, Máret Ánne Sara and Pauliina Feodoroff have transformed the Nordic Pavilion to highlight the continuing struggle against colonialism, discrimination and land possession faced by Europe’s only Indigenous people
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What can we expect from Oslo’s mega new National Museum?
Oslo’s new National Museum opened in June, its 6,500 objects arranged to tell a refreshingly inclusive and post-colonial story of the evolution of art, design and craft. How does the new museography of this, Scandinavia’s largest art museum, and its…
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Edvard Munch: Masterpieces from Bergen
This feels like a patchy presentation and, despite the promise of ‘masterpieces’, the selection veers more towards Munch’s experimental works
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Francesc Ruiz – interview: ‘In the realm of drawing, a place of fantasy and abstraction, nearly anything goes’
The artist talks about his alternative porn installation, House of Fun, now on at Norway’s Momentum, launching a porn studies institute and having sex with insects
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Harald Sohlberg: Painting Norway
Harald Sohlberg’s paintings of Norwegian houses and snowy mountains are saturated with colour and mystery, making Dulwich Picture Gallery’s exhibition of his work the perfect way to see out the winter months
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Robel Temesgen: ‘Being an Ethiopian in Norway was a really interesting inversion’
In his first London show, the artist explores the Ethiopian traditions of honouring the spirit of a place or community. Two years of studying in Norway have only intensified his fascination with disappearing rituals and cultural and social fragmentation
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Vanessa Baird wins Norway’s prestigious Lorck Schive Art Prize 2015
The Norwegian artist, an uncompromising but vital talent, was the deserving winner of one of Europe’s major art prizes
