Expressions of the inner life. Nature’s vitality. Society’s underbelly. Alienation in the city. Vivid colours that were called ‘wild’ in their day. Horizons presents the wider artistic landscape which existed around Edvard Munch during his development as an artist.   

Munch's life coincided with a time of great change. A wide range of new styles appeared in European art. Many artists explored new ways of representing reality in order to reflect their experience of the modern world. Art moved in a more abstract direction, and artists became freer in their use of colour. They drew attention to their inner lives as well as to social and political conditions.  

Horizons is a new permanent exhibition at MUNCH. Edvard Munch’s art is displayed together with other artists who were active in the period between the 1880s and the 1950s. The exhibition features work by European artists Oscar Kokoschka, Raoul Dufy, Karl Schmitt-Rottluff, Alexej von Jawlensky, Else Alfelt, Asger Jorn, Gabriele Münter and Emil Nolde. Among the Norwegian artists included are Gustav Vigeland, Henrik Sørensen, Ludvig Karsten, Erik Harry Johannessen, Per Krohg, Rolf Nesch, Olav Strømme, Arne Ekeland, Jakob Weidemann, Kai Fjell and Teddy Røwde. Here you can see the wide variety of different themes and expressive forms which lay across the horizon of Munch's artistic vision.  

The exhibition is based on MUNCH’s collections as well as The Savings Bank Foundation DNB, Canica Art Collection and the Vigeland Museum.