Programme

10.00: Registration and coffee

10.30: Welcome and introduction.
Cynthia Osiecki, Curator and Vibeke Waallann Hansen, Senior Curator, Nasjonalmuseet

10.45: Journeys to the Gothic: Reimagining a Gothic Modernity in Art and Culture, 1880s-1920s’.
Dr. Juliet Simpson, Full Professor of Art History, Coventry University, UK

11.15: Erotic Piety: The Sixteenth Century vs. the Nineteenth Century.
Dr. Jeanne Nuechterlein, Professor of Art History, University of York, UK

11.45: Emanuel Vigeland’s Stained Glass Windows – Life, Death and Comforting Angels.
Kjartan Hauglid, Art Historian and Intendant, the Emanuel Vigeland Museum

12.15: Break

13.15: A Modern Dance of Death in the Art of Hugo Simberg and His Contemporaries.
Dr. Marja Lahelma, Curator, The National Gallery of Finland, Ateneum

13.45: Art Historian Curt Glaser and the Debate about the Spirit of Early German Art.
Cynthia Osiecki, Curator, Nasjonalmuseet

14.15: Edvard Munch and the Gothic.
Vibeke Waallann Hansen, Senior Curator, Nasjonalmuseet

14.45: Coffee break

15.00: Curators’ panel discussion.
Professor Dr. Juliet Simpson (Guest Curator); Dr. Anna-Maria von Bonsdorff (Director and Curator, Ateneum), Cynthia Osiecki (Curator, Nasjonalmuseet), Lin Stafne-Pfisterer (Curator Education, Nasjonalmuseet), chaired by Vibeke Wallaann Hansen (Senior Curator, Nasjonalmuseet).

15.30: Visit the exhibition (closing at 17.00)

“Gothic Modern. From Darkness to Light” presents art from the period 1875 to 1925 alongside works from medieval Europe and Northern Europe during the renaissance. Faith and doubt, love and sexuality, identity and social roles are just some of the themes addressed in the exhibition.

The exhibition has been initiated by the Finnish National Gallery / Ateneum Art Museum, Helsinki and made in collaboration with them and the Albertina, Vienna.