Greenland: Uncovering Art History with Nivi Christensen
Listen to an interview with Director of Nuuk Art Museum Nivi Christensen and learn about two key Greenlandic artists and how they have informed her own work.
This is the first episode in a podcast series on Greenland's art and history where key researchers choose important objects or pieces of art and explain why they have been significant to them - both in their career and their lives.
Podcast
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Texts and other things referred to in the podcast:
- Anne-Birthe Hove
- Aron from Kangeq by Aalut Kangermiut (In Danish & Greenlandic)
- Bodil Kaalund's Grønlands Kunst, (Copenhagen: Gyldendal, 1990). (Second revised and enlarged edition, Original edition 1979). English translation: The art of Greenland: sculpture, crafts, painting (Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1983).
- Hans Egede, 1686-1758 (In Danish on danmarkshistorien.dk)
- Nivi Christensen's article 'The Implied Truth in Curating Greenlandic Art' (In Danish)
- Pia Arke’s Ethnoaesthetics (See below for publisher of recent edition, Arkhest).
- The Greenlandic House, Copenhagen (Grønlands Hus)
Other useful links:
- Danish Radio’s Hans Egede and Greenland Theme Page (In Danish)
- Greenlandic Artists Association KIMIK
- 'Kunstnerisk vidnesbyrd fra Grønland' [Artistic testimony from Greenland] about the collecting of Anne-Birthe Hove’s art for Nuuk Art Museum
- kunst.gl
- Neriusaaq – Art magazine
- Nuuk Nordic Culture Festival
- Nuuk Art Museum
- The Danish National Art Museum (Statens Museums for Kunst (SMK))
