Today is the day! In only a few hours we kick of the first edition of Nordic Art History Festival 2025 (Nordisk kunsthistorisk festival). Kunstavisen interviewed our project manager about the koncept. (In Norwegian only).
Simen K. Nielsen i samtale med Joakim de Borda Pedreira.
15/10/2025
We are proud to announce keynote speaker Dr. Philos. Jounn Veiteberg in the Nordic Art History Festival 2025. She is a Norwegian art historian and curator, renowned for contemporary craft scholarship, shaping international understanding of applied arts through writing, teaching, and exhibitions. Dr. Veiteberg has curated the exhibition “Ambrosia Tønnessen (1859-1948)”, Norway’s first female sculptor, which is on view at Vigeland Museum now and is a part of the program of the festival. 📸: Dorthe Krogh, Courtesy of Skald forlag.
13/10/2025
We are proud to announce that our inaugural speaker of the Nordic Art History Festival is Éric de Chassey. He is a French art historian, critic and professor; former director of Villa Medici and Institute National d’histoire de l’art. Currently he is director of École des beaux-arts in Paris. The festival opens this Thursday 16th and has already reached its capacity.
11/10/2025
Billettsalget for Nordisk Kunsthistorisk festival er nå stengt!
05/10/2025
We would like to remind our followers of the Nordic Art History Festival, taking place in Oslo 16–18 October.
The program gathers a wide range of scholars and museum experts for lectures, exclusive museum visits and social events in art historical environments. Tickets are highly limited - read more and get tickets in bio.
We are looking forward welcoming you to Oslo this October!
29/09/2025
Saturday 4 of October opens a major monographic exhibition dedicated to Adelsteen Normann (1848-1918), one of the leading Norwegian landscape painters at the turn of the century. The exhibition repositions Normann as a Nordic exponent of Impressionism and is a collaboration between and the Nordic Institute of Art.
29/09/2025
Upcoming exhibition: Adelsteen Normann – Impressionist of the North. Opens on Saturday 4th of October in Nordnorsk Kunsmuseum, Bodø. The exhibition is a collaboration between NNKM and the Nordic Institute of Art.
BODØ🟠
✨Velkommen til åpning av vår nye utstilling "Adelsteen Normann: Impresjonisten fra nord" på Nordnorsk Kunstmuseum i Bodø, 4. oktober 2025 kl. 13:00.
Program:
🔶Kl. 12:30: Dørene åpner
🔶Kl. 13:00: Åpningstale av Stina Högkvist, direktør i Nordnorsk kunstmuseum, tale av Knut Ljøgodt, direktør i Nordic Institute of Art, etterfulgt av kunstnerisk innslag.
🔶Kl. 13:30: Utstillingen åpner, servering tilbys i kafeen.
🔶Kl. 14:45: Åpningen avsluttes.
🔶Kl. 20:00-00.30: POP-UP Raftsundet Bar | God stemning med DJ NOME og DJ Sjåstad.
Eilert Adelsteen Normann (1848–1918) ble født på Vågøya i Bodin. Etter innledende studier i København satset han på en kunstnerisk karriere og flyttet til Düsseldorf i 1870 for å studere ved Kunstakademiet. Normann ble kjent for sine kystlandskaper fra Nord-Norge og Vest-Norge, men malte også urbane motiver. I 1887 bosatte han seg i Berlin og oppnådde internasjonal anerkjennelse. Som en av de første profesjonelle malerne fra Nord-Norge spilte Normann en viktig rolle i å bringe landskapene fra Norge ut til et europeisk publikum.
Les mer om utstillingen på nnkm.no
One year ago exactly, HM Queen Sonia of Norway opened the exhibition Hertervig–Hill at Prins Eugens Waldemarsudde in Stockholm. The exhibition was a collaboration between the museum in Stockholm, Stavanger Art Museum and The Nordic Institute of Art.
23/09/2025
The full program of the Nordic Art History Festival 16-18 October is now published. Tickets are available from our web page.
13:00 Velkomstord ved Nordic Institute of Art13:15 Åpningsforedrag: Professor Éric de Chassey, direktør, École des Beaux-Arts, Paris:«EVA-project – A New Canon for Europe?»14:00 Hovedforedrag: Dr. Karin Sidén, direktør, Prins Eugens Waldemarsudde, Stockholm:«Female Pioneer Painters»14:30...
19/09/2025
Nordisk Kunsthistorisk Festival 16-18 oktober i Oslo - Join us in Oslo for the first edition of the Nordic Art History Festival!
Festivalen foregår over tre dager, 16.–18. oktober, og samler ledende forskere og kuratorer til foredrag, samtaler og omvisninger i utstillinger og kunsthistorisk relevante miljøer. Programmet inkluderer bidrag fra norske, skandinaviske og internasjonale kunsthistorikere og institusjoner.
07/09/2025
On this day, it is 150 years since the unveiling of Brynjulf Bergslien’s equestrian statue of Karl Johan of Sweden and Norway in front of the Royal Palace in Oslo on 7 September 1875 – exactly 57 years after the King’s coronation at Nidaros Cathedral in Trondheim.
The monument marked a milestone in Norwegian art and commemorative culture. The legacy of Brynjulf Bergslien and his brother Knud, a painter, lives on, with a new museum being planned in Voss
More about the statue will form part of the program of the Nordic Art History Festival (Oslo, 16–18 October).
02/09/2025
We are pleased to share that our researcher and project coordinator, MA Simen Frantzen, has contributed a review to the September issue of .
The article focuses on Christian Skredsvig: Toward the Modern, currently on view at in Stockholm, following its presentation at , Oslo.
The Burlington Magazine is one of the world’s leading journals of art history, and we are delighted to see Nordic art history represented in its pages.
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Nordic Institute of Art is an organisation founded with the mission to stimulate research and promotion of historical and modern art from the Nordic countries in an international context.
The institute aims further at fostering interest and expertise in other key areas of art history, such as European 19th century and overseas art, as well as to explore and map lesser-known aspects of art history, and create international connections for the domestic art scene.
Nordic Institute of Art is an independent, non-profit organisation, founded by Dr. Knut Ljøgodt. It is overseen in strategic and academic matters by an Advisory Board, whose members are leading, international art historians. The Institute is organised as a network of Associated Fellows, including Scandinavian and international scholars, curators and other art experts, and collaborates with museums and other institutions, as well as with foundations, collectors and publishers.
Through its unique expertise and network, the Institute organises exhibitions, seminars, lectures and other events. Central to the institute´s remit is also to produce monographs, catalogues raisonnés and other academic publications. The program focuses on art from ca. 1800 and up to the post-war period.
Nordic Institute of Art does not engage in the art market, but provides advice to public and private art institutions, offers services such as cataloguing and research of collections and individual art works, as well as advise on strategies for institutions and for private and public collections.
Our vision is to place Nordic art within the canon of World art history.