Doors: 12:30
Event start: 13:00
Seated event
Language: English
NOTE: The Sky Room has limited capacity, so please arrive early to secure a seat.
Tickets include admission to the exhibitions
The exhibition catalogue Feet First will be on sale at the event
Taking the exhibition Ludvig Karsten – Restless as a starting point, Professor MaryClaire Pappas and curator Signe Endresen will discuss Karsten’s art and his place in Norwegian art history.
Ludvig Karsten (1876-1926) was a highly regarded artist in his lifetime, with a wide network. He sold most of his works and was celebrated by the art critics. Karsten's painting style was restless, and he could change it almost from painting to painting.
After his death, he was gradually marginalized in Norwegian art history. His work is often referred to as a sidetrack that made no significant contribution to the development of modern Norwegian art, and he is rarely shown in Norwegian museums today.
Karsten was active in a time characterized by deep divisions within the art community. The groupings that emerged have had a major impact on Norwegian art history and canon formation.
How does Karsten's art appear to us today? Where does he actually fit in?
MaryClaire Pappas is Professor of Art History at the Savannah College of Art and Design. She has a PhD in art history from Indiana University (2022) and is a specializes in Norwegian and Swedish modern art. She recently co-published Landscape and Nature in Scandinavian Art (with Tonje Haugland Sørensen) and is currently working on her first monograph, Somatic Citizenship: Painting and Pedagogy in Norway and Sweden, 1908–1925.
©Ove Kvavik
Signe Endresen is Senior Curator at MUNCH. She has a PhD in art history from the University of Oslo (2015). She specialises in Norwegian and European modern art. Endresen is the curator of the exhibition Ludvig Karsten – Restless.
©Ove Kvavik
©Ludvig Karsten: Tapestry, 1911, Gift of Rolf E. Stenersen to the City of Oslo
