For 18 years, a group of artists and actors in Greenland have had the ambition to create the first national art gallery in Greenland. Because as long as there is not a national gallery that can collect both historical and contemporary art in Greenland, art is homeless, believes the Greenlandic visual artist Aka Høegh, who has helped found the foundation behind Greenland's National Gallery of Art. If all goes according to plan, 2024 will be the year when the dream comes a big step closer to realization.
Read about the ambition in Fagbladet Billedkunstneren #1 2024, and also read about how in recent years the Nuuk Art Museum has focused on buying up collections of Greenlandic artists in order to get the art 'home': It's more about risk assessment than about an actual strategy, says museum manager Nivi Christensen.
In recent years, the teaching and dissemination department at ARKEN - Museum of Contemporary Art in Ishøj has invited the primary school's art teachers into what they call the Creative Elective Laboratory. We have spoken to teaching and development manager Jane Bendix and art mediator Tue Løkkegaard, who share their innovative teaching approach, inspired by the perspectives and working methods of contemporary art, which the teachers can bring out to the students in the oldest classes, now that visual art has become an exam subject.
This issue's new member is photographer Paula Duvå, while this time it is visual artist Morten Schelde who invites inside the 'Artist's workshop' - in Skagen.
Click The magazine Billedkunstneren #1 2024
On the cover: Julie Edel Hardenberg:, View, 2006