Week 13: Pioneering Cubism, Where am I, and Wildness.
Av Mari Lorenzten
There is a lot going on this week, especially in the National Museum. This week’s kunstguide will guide you through 2 exhibitions and 1 film screening happening in the National Museum. I hope you will find them interesting.
Nasjonalmuseet — Pioneering Cubism by Thorvald Hellesen
31 March–20 August 2023
This is the very first exhibition after Thorvald Hellesen’s first and last exhibition in Norway - his homeland - in 1919. With this retrospective exhibition, Hellesen’s art, still unknown to many, is put on the map. It contains about 70 works, primarily paintings, but also gouaches, drawings, couture, and interior design.
Read more about the exhibition here.
Nasjonalmuseet — Where am I? Prints 1985–2022 by Carroll Dunham.
3 February–21 May 2023
The American artist Carroll Dunham is known internationally for his paintings, drawings, and prints. This is the first museum exhibition of his prints in the Nordic region. Dunham’s prints show a considerable range in their expressivity, motifs, and themes. He often works in series. The exhibition shows print portfolios from the mid-1980s through to the present, allowing the viewer to trace the artist’s development from abstraction to the figures that make their first appearance in the early 1990s.
Read more about the exhibition here.
Nasjonalmuseet — Wildness (Film screening) by Wu Tsang
18.00-20.00, 28 March 2023
Wu Tsang (born in 1982) is an American artist and filmmaker, whose recurring themes in the artist’s artistic practice are queer history, reality, as well as the distinction between the public and the private. The film Wildness tells the story of the Silver Platter, a queer nightclub that was established in Los Angeles in the early 1960s, and became an important safe space for the city’s Latin and queer communities.