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Diversity in Arts - Network for Gender and Diversity in Nordic Art Museums

Events

Previous events

Previous events

Conference at Stavanger Atr Museum

Stavanger, September 18th to 19th 2018.

Sigrun Åsebø og Ulla Angkjær Jørgensen participate in the conference New Perspectives on Feminism and Art in the Nordic Countries 1979-2018.

COMCOL annual conference

Umeå, 5–9 December 2017.

Sigrun Åsebø and Ulla Angkjær Jørgensen participate in the COMCOL annual conference “The Guardians of Contemporary Collecting and Collections - working with (contested) collections and narratives”

Second meeting in the network Gender and Diversity in Nordic Art Museums

Schæffergården, Jægersborg Allé 166, DK-2820 Gentofte
19-21 October 2017

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Patrik Steorn lecture on his exhibitions in The Thiel Gallery.

THURSDAY, 19 OCTOBER

12.00-13.00 LUNCH
13.00-13.30 Welcome and presentations (Sigrun Åsebø & Ulla Angkjær Jørgensen)

1. Historicising the Contemporary

13.30-14.30 Johanne Løgstrup, Aarhus: “Curatorial negotiations of the role of the museum under contemporary conditions.”
14.30-14.50 Lene Burkard, Odense: “About the home-committed creativity’s integration in the fine arts, and its development in the conceptualism of contemporary art. The choice of and the use of materials changing and mixing paralleled with the gender roles.”
14.50-15.20 Tone Lyngstad Nyaas, Tønsberg: “Transgender at Haugar Art Museum, 20 January – 6 May 2018.”
15.20-15.40 Coffee break
16.00-16.20 Julie Rokkjær Birch, Aarhus: “Gender and women’s role in the realm of images.”
16.20-16.40 Charis Gullickson, Tromsø: “Aslaug M. Juliussen: Not Either-Or but Both-And.”
16.40-17.00: Margrete Abelsen, Trondheim: “Negotiating value in the art field.”
17.00-17.20 Birgitte Anderberg, København: “Art and the Museum in the Information Age.”
17.20-18.00 Discussion
19.30 DINNER


FRIDAY, 20 OCTOBER

2. Modernism Revisited

09.30-10.30 Rasmus Kjærboe, Ribe: “A museum of modern art for the middle class: Ordrupgaard (1918), Louisiana (1958) and the canonization of modernist art.”
10.30-10.50 Anu Allas; Tallinn: “Modern Woman/New Identities.”
10.50-11.00 Coffee break
11.00-11.20 Vibece Salthe, Stavanger: “Woman - Made. The sculptures of Ruth Asawa and Irma Salo Jæger.”
11.20-11.40 Janne Katrine Leithe, Førde: “Frida Hansen – a forgotten pioneer.”
12.00-13.00 LUNCH

3. Mounting Collections

13.00-14.00 Patrik Steorn “New perspectives at Thielska Galleriet. Art historical dialogues on gender, class and queer.”
14.00-14.20 Kati T. Kivinen, Helsinki: “Do not discuss! - Minor narratives from the shores of the Baltic Sea.”
14.20-15.00 Linda Fagerström, Lund: “Artists and gender in Swedish art collections during the 20th century.”
15.00-15.20 Coffee break
15.20-15.40 Janeke Meyer Utne, Lillehammer: “Friendship or love? The Friendship between Kitty Kielland and Harriet Backer.”
15.40-16.00 Else-Brit Kroneberg, Kristiansand: “When Private and Public Collections Meet – a contemporary example.”
16.00-16.30 Discussion
19.30 DINNER


SATURDAY, 21 OCTOBER

09.30-10.30 Concluding remarks, Sigrun and Ulla
10.30-11.00 Transfer to Louisiana
11.00-14.00 Marina Abramović exhibition at Louisiana Museum of Contemporary Art, Humlebæk.


Participants

  • Sigrun Åsebø, University of Bergen
  • Ulla Angkjær Jørgensen, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim
  • Charis Gullickson, Nordnorsk Kunstmuseum, Tromsø
  • Janeke Meyer Utne, Lillehammer Kunstmuseum
  • Vibece Salthe, Stavanger Kunstmuseum
  • Else-Brit Kroneberg, Sørlandets kunstmuseum, Kristiansand
  • Tone Lyngstad Nyaas, Hauger-Vestfold kunstmuseum, Tønsberg
  • Lene Burkard, Odense
  • Patrik Steorn, Thielska Galleriet, Stockholm
  • Linda Fagerström, Lund
  • Anu Allas, Kumu Art Museum, Tallinn
  • Kati T. Kivinen, KIASMA, Helsinki
  • Julie Rokkjær Birch, Kvindemuseet i Danmark, Aarhus
  • Johanne Løgstrup, University of Aarhus
  • Janne Katrine Leithe, Sogn og Fjordane kunstmusuem, Førde
  • Rasmus Kjærboe, Ribe Kunstmuseum
  • Margrete Abelsen, Trondheim
  • Birgitte Anderberg, Statens Museum for Kunst, København

Group discussion over lunch.

Seminar and network meeting – Gender and Diversity in the Art Museum

A seminar arranged by the network for Gender and Diversity in Nordic Art Museums

Sponsored by Kulturrådet (the Norwegian Arts Council)

Time: 24 November 2016, 9.00-16.30

Place: Seminarrom E, Studentsenteret, Parkveien 1, Bergen

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09.00-09.15    Welcome by Sigrun Åsebø and Ulla Angkjær Jørgensen

09.15-10.00    Katy Deepwell: Women Artists, Feminism and Media: a case study of the new Tate Modern.

10.15-11.00    Mirjam Westen: Modernism: from gendered and postcolonial perspectives.

11.15-12.00    Tone Hellesund: Looking for sexual difference in the archives and museums leading to the creation of a specifically queer archive.

12.00-13.00    Lunch


13.00-14.00    Guided tour at KODE by Eli Okkenhaug

14.00-14.15    A few words of introduction by director of KODE Karin Hindsbo

14.30-15.15    Hans Dam Christensen: Gendered art museums and gendered discourses on art. Some examples from Denmark.

15.15-16.00    Jessica Sjöholm Skrubbe: Disturbing Affects: a Swedish perspective on feminism, curating and museum practices 2006-2016.

16.00-16.30    Conclusions


17.00-17.30    Visit at Gallery 3,14

The group at Galleri 3,14, Bergen.

First meeting of the network Gender and Diversity in Nordic Art Museums

Thursday 25 February 2016 Trondheim kunstmuseum, Bispegate 7, 7013 Trondheim

Programme

10:00 Coffee

10.30 Welcome from Sigrun & Ulla

10.45 Sigrun Åsebø: “The others, we others, other narratives, or narrative in a different way? – Reflections on gender and diversity in the art museum.”

11.15 Vibece Salthe: “Intimate and monumental: the Jan Groth and Steingrim Laursen Collection.”

11.35 Else-Brit Kroneberg: “The Beginning is Always Today. Feminist art in Scandinavia from 1990 until today.”

11.55 Eli Okkenhaug: “Şükran Moral, My Pain My Rebellion.”

12.15 Randi Godø: “Post-Goddesses: strategies for collecting art.”

13.00 Lunch at Frati, Kongens gate 20, 7011 Trondheim.

14.00 Cathrine Hovdahl Vik presents the exhibition Anne Breivik: artist, entrepreneur, art politician, in a guided tour of TKM.

14.50 Janeke Meyer Utne: “Catching the eye: collection, gender and power.”

15.10 Lene Burkard: “From Dialog med det Andet (Dialogue with the Other) (1994) to Pressure Drop for Richard Stands (2013).”

15:30 Coffee

16.00 Exhibition visit to the National Museum of Decorative Arts (Nordenfjeldske Kunstindustrimuseum): “Gerhard Munthe. National narratives in evocative tapestries.”

19.00 Dinner at Kalas & Canasta, Nedre Bakklandet 5, 7014 Trondheim.

Friday 26 February 2016 Trondheim Kunstmuseum

09.00 Ulla Angkjær Jørgensen: “Exhibition KVINDER FREM! (WOMEN FORWARD! – collaboration between art history and art.”

09.20 Tone Lyngstad Nyaas: “Hanne Tyrmi and exhibition on puberty.”

09.40 Birgitte Anderberg: “What’s Happening? Danish avant-garde and feminism in the 1960s and 1970s.”

10.00 Summary and perspectives

10:30 Coffee

10.45 Workshop, two groups

12.00 The way forward, strategies and diversity, next meeting, expansion of the network (Nordic Culture Council), new members

13.00 Lunch at Frati, Kongens gate 20, 7011 Trondheim.

15.00 Return home

Participants

  • Tone Lyngstad Nyaas, Haugar Art Museum, Tønsberg
  • Else-Brit Kroneberg, SKMU Sørlandets Kunstmuseum, Kristiansand
  • Eli Okkenhaug, KODE Art Museums and Composer Homes, Bergen
  • Janeke Meyer Utne, Lillehammer Art Museum
  • Randi Godø, National Museum of Art, Architecture and Design, Oslo
  • Vibece Salthe, Stavanger Art Museum
  • Lene Burkard, formerly from Brandts Museum of Art and Visual Culture, Odense
  • Birgitte Anderberg., National Gallery of Denmark (SMK), Copenhagen
  • Cathrine Hovdahl Vik, Trondheim kunstmuseum
  • Sigrun Åsebø, University of Bergen
  • Ulla Angkjær Jørgensen, NTNU, Trondheim