Doors: 17:30
Seated event.
The conversation will be held in English.
Ticket include access to the museum the same day.
Please note: The event is free, and a ticket does not guarantee a seat. The Main Hall has limited capacity, so please arrive early to ensure a seat.
What does it mean to work from a post-feminist perspective? In her art, Vanessa Baird often portrays herself with honest vulnerability, addressing subjects such as living with teenage children and her elderly mother. Ranging from large-scale murals to intimate series on paper, Baird intense and detailed drawings often address political and social issues, reflecting a wide range of references, from surreal to narrative.
In this conversation she meets Australian writer and long-time editor of frieze magazine, Jennifer Higgie, in a conversation on her art and practice in a feminist and international context. The conversation will be moderated by senior curator at MUNCH, Kari J. Brandtzæg.
Vanessa Baird has had solo exhibitions amongst prestigious venues such as Stavanger Kunsthall, Drawing Room London, KODE in Bergen, Kunstnernes Hus, OSL contemporary, The National Museum of Art in Oslo, and Göteborg Konstmuseum. She has also published several books through No Comprendo Press in Oslo and received the Lorck Schive Art Award in 2015. Her work is represented in the Prints and Drawing Collection of the British Museum, as well as in key Norwegian collections such as The National Museum of Norway, Stavanger Kunstmuseum, and KODE. Additionally, she has completed several permanent commissions in public spaces in Norway.
Previously the editor of frieze magazine, Jennifer Higgie is an Australian writer who lives in London. Her new book The Other Side: A Journey into Women, Art and the Spirit World is published in the UK by Weidenfeld & Nicolson, by Hachette in Australia and Pegasus Books in the USA; her BBC Radio 3 five-part essay on the subject was broadcast in January 2022. The Mirror and the Palette: Revolution, Rebellion and Resilience: 500 Years of Women’s Self-Portraits was published in 2021 by Weidenfeld & Nicolson, and Pegasus Books in the USA. Higgie is the inaugural editor of the National Gallery of Australia's new publication The Annual and the host of the NGA’s new podcast Artists’s Artists. In July 2023, the exhibition she curated, 'Thin Skin' – a survey of contemporary and historical painting – opened at the Monash University Museum of Art in Melbourne.
Kari J. Brandtzæg is a senior curator at MUNCH. In spring 2024, she defended her dissertation "Henrik Sørensen and Interwar Tendency Art in a Transnational Avant-garde Perspective" at the University of Oslo. She previously holds a master's degree in art history with a thesis on Russian art. Brandtzæg has extensive experience as a writer and art critic, including for Billedkunst and Dagbladet, and as a curator at the National Museum and KORO. In 2015, she was awarded the Art Critics' Prize for the exhibition The Shadow of War: Political Art in Norway 1914-2014 at Kunstnernes Hus. Since joining the Munch Museum in 2015, Brandtzæg has curated several significant exhibitions, including Tracey Emin/Edvard Munch: The Loneliness of the Soul, which was one of the opening exhibitions at the new MUNCH in Bjørvika in 2021.
