The conversation is held in relation to the exhibition Vanessa Baird: Go Down With Me. We recommend seeing the exhibition before the talk.
Doors open: 18:30
Duration: approx. 60 min
The conversation will be held in Norwegian.
Vanessa Baird 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.
In this conversation, we get to know the artist behind the works, the themes she is interested in and the processes behind the making of the exhibition.
A richly illustrated book is published by MUNCH Publishing in relation to the exhibition. Vanessa Baird will be available for signing your copy after the conversation. The book can be bought in connection with the event.
About the exhibition:
The exhibition 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. 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 watercolours, in which the artist herself often stands powerless among the horrors.
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.
About the book:
The richly illustrated book Vanessa Baird. Go Down With Me consists of an introductory essay by the exhibition’s curator Kari Brandtzæg, along with essays by dramaturg and writer Jon Refsdal Moe, art historian Trude Schjelderup Iversen and theatre director Vegard Vinge.
Photo by Frode Fjerdingstad
