Contemporary artists who take liberty
The exhibition “Take Liberty!” features works by artists who express explicit and personal struggles for freedom.
Mette Tronvoll: Portraits of Queen Sonja
In the summer of 2013, the internationally acclaimed Norwegian fine-art photographer Mette Tronvoll shot a unique photo session with Queen Sonja at Verdens Ende, a seaside landscape at the southern edge of the Oslofjord. The result of their encounter is the series Mette Tronvoll: Portraits of Queen Sonja, now on display in the National Gallery.
Nordic Pavilion at the 14th International Architecture Exhibition – la Biennale di Venezia:
In 2014 the National Museum in Norway will be in charge of curating and organizing the Nordic Pavilion at la Biennale di Venezia, in collaboration with the Museum of Finnish Architecture and the Swedish Centre for Architecture and Design in Stockholm.
Solo exhibition of the pioneering sculptor Aase Texmon Rygh
The exhibition Aase Texmon Rygh: Modernism Forever! is the National Museum’s first solo exhibition of works by the sculptor Aase Texmon Rygh (b. 1925), one of the first abstract modernists in Norwegian sculpture.
Annual Munch Conference: Edvard Munch and Printmaking
22 November is the date for the Annual Munch Conference organized by the research project «Munch, Modernity, and Modernism».
Art in architecture – architecture in art
How does contemporary art relate to architecture and what role does art play in architecture? This is the question that will be discussed at the National Museum this autumn - in the exhibitions “Louis Kahn – The Power of Architecture” and “Inside Outside Architecture”.
Alternative architecture: We have the juice!
The architecture exhibition “Far-out Voices” presents a selective insight into the pioneering origins of what we today call green design, revealing links between current notions of “sustainability” and the counter-cultural movement of the 1960s and 1970s.
International conference: Why is painting of interest today?
An Appetite for Painting - International conference on contemporary painting, 19-20 September at the Museum of Contemporary Art.
KjARTan Slettemark: First comprehensive retrospective exhibition
“KjARTan Slettemark. The art of being art” is the first comprehensive retrospective exhibition since Kjartan Slettemark’s death in 2008. It is also the first major exhibition of Slettemark’s work to be shown in Oslo since his official breakthrough at The Artists’ House in 1982.
Meet Edvard Munch – A new book for young people about Norway’s only “art celebrity”
Who was Edvard Munch? Where did he train to become an artist? What is an artist, actually? How did Munch work? And just how on earth did The Scream become one of the most famous paintings in the world?
International Munch conference in Oslo
From 18 to 21 September 2013 the international “Edvard Munch and/in Modernism” conference will be held in Oslo. About 100 Munch researchers and others with an interest in Munch from Norway and abroad are expected to attend. The conference is open to all who are interested in Munch.
New National Museum building approved by Norwegian Parliament
The Norwegian Parliament has Thursday 6 June approved the construction of a new building to house the National Museum on the site of the former Railway Station West, or Vestbanen, in Oslo. The museum will be Norway’s biggest cultural centre. The new building will profile the National Museum as an art and culture centre of international repute.
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