Our members are invited to an exclusive preview and opening ceremony of the exhibition Vanessa Baird: Go down with me before the official opening. As a member you can always bring a guest to explore all exhibitions at MUNCH.
Preview: 14:00 - 19:00
Opening ceremony: 19:00 - 23:00 (limited capacity)
Opening ceremony:
19:00: Welcome drink and mingling with music in the Lobby
19:30: Official opening with speeches by Tone Hansen, Kari Brandtzæg and Vanessa Baird
20:00: Exhibition opens
20:30: Bar and mingling in MUNCH café on the 1st floor with DJ
23:00: Bar and exhibition halls are closed
Vanessa Baird (b. 1963) has established herself as one of our foremost visual artists since the 1990s. In her first exhibition at MUNCH, she fills the impressively spacious galleries on the museum's third floor with more than 500 works.
Baird has often created her art over the past two decades at the ‘kitchen table’, surrounded by the chaos of everyday life amid children and an aging mother, but always with a sidelong glance at the world outside. She deals with the refugee crisis and the war in Ukraine in several of her more recent watercolors, in which the artist herself often stands powerless among the horrors. In her latest installation she takes on the war unfolding in Gaza with strong artistic commitment.
The exhibition alludes to the repetitive nature of our lives, as well as the way significant events from one day to another can completely change our daily existence. At at time when you can always decide to look away, Baird insists on confronting the uncomfortable truths right before your eyes.
Go Down with Me demonstrates how Baird's art evolves through repetitions and variations of the same themes, but also how they are influenced by private and political events. In her early works on gigantic canvases, we see Baird representing herself as young, thoughtful and yearning. Many of the images refer to male artistic geniuses – from Rodin to Munch – highlighting the underlying feminist perspective of the exhibition.
Enjoy a complimentary tea or coffee in our MUNCH deli & cafe on the ground floor, with additional 10% discount on food on the member preview day.
