Here you can find all information about the Norwegian program in Frankfurt and surrounding during the book fair 15.-20. October. www.norway2019.com/en/program
The program in the Guest of Honour Pavilion
With the all in all 115 program posts we hope to engage and entertain the German and international audience at the two stages in Norway’s Guest of Honour Pavilion from 16 to 20 October 2019. You find the The Guest of Honour Pavilion at Forum, level 1.
Through our program we address themes related to nature and the environment, the Poles and the North, Sámi literature and culture, freedom of expression, feminism and equality, modern day family life, diversity and identity in a changing Europe, and more.
Saturday 19 October has been programmed by the Norwegian Festival of Literature. The program at our Stage 2 will run parallel with the main stage program each day of the fair.
See below for the stage program from 16.-20. October for download:
The literary and cultural program at the Book Fair, in the city of Frankfurt and the surrounding area
Here you find the Norwegian literary program at the Frankfurt Book Fair, in the city of Frankfurt and the surrounding area. It does not only consist of program in the Guest of Honour Pavilion, but also readings by Norwegian authors at OPEN BOOKS or in numerous bookstores in the city. In addition to the literature program, Norway presents a comprehensive cultural program that includes visual arts, stage art, music, film and architecture.
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See below for the entire literary and cultural program from 15.-20. October:
https://norway2019.com/en/program
The cultural program
Below we would like to present you some highlights of the extensive cultural program, which includes visual arts, stage art, music, film and architecture.
Museum Angewandte Kunst becomes HOUSE OF NORWAY
With HOUSE OF NORWAY (11.10.2019- 26.01.2020) the Museum Angewandte Kunst devotes its entire exhibition space to Norway, the Frankfurt Book Fair’s guest of honour 2019. The exhibition assembles outstanding examples of art and culture, design, craftsmanship and architecture. One of the show’s main highlights includes drawings by Edvard Munch that are presented to the public for the first time. Also featured are works by contemporary artists such as Frank Ekeberg, Svein Flygari Johansen, Per Heimly, Kari Steihaug or Ingrid Torvund. A guest performance by the Sámi National Theatre Beaivváš as well as artworks by Jørn Are Keskitalo, Britta Marakatt-Labba or Máret Ánne Sara and others give insights into today’s Sámi art and culture.
HANNAH RYGGEN at Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt
HANNAH RYGGEN. WOVEN MANIFESTOS (26.09.2019– 12.01.2020). Hannah Ryggen weaves stories of striking topicality. Her monumental tapestries bravely tackle the fundamental issues of life in society today: the atrocity of war, the abuse of power, the dependence on nature and the relation to family as well as fellow men and women. Living on a small self-sufficient farm on the west coast of Norway, the Swedish-Norwegian artist created a powerful, politically inspired oeuvre. She launched spectacular visual attacks on Hitler, Franco, and Mussolini and made powerful statements of support to the victims of Fascism and Nazism. On the occasion of Norway’s turn as Guest of Honor at the Frankfurt Book Fair in 2019, the SCHIRN is dedicating a major monographic exhibition that will provide the first in-depth insight into her oeuvre to the German public. The roughly 25 tapestries on display will also show Hannah Ryggen as a representative of a different kind of modernism, a modernism where elements from folk art and mythology are mixed with issues from contemporary life. She explored an entirely new range of motifs while using a traditional medium for an unprecedented purpose: making portable murals that communicated her potent political messages to the public.
Edvard Munch – gesehen von Karl Ove Knausgård at K20, Düsseldorf (12.10.2019-01.03.2020)
With approximately 140 works that have rarely if ever been exhibited in Germany, the Kunstsammlung Nordrhein- Westfalen presents the “unknown” Edvard Munch (1863 – 1944) at the K20. These paintings, prints, and sculptures were selected by Karl Ove Knausgård (*1968). The internationally celebrated writer, a native Norwegian like Munch himself, achieved worldwide fame with his six-volume autobiographical novel, which has been translated into more than 30 languages and has received numerous prizes. His decidedly personal point of view opens up a fresh perspective of a man who was, arguably, the most important representative of the Scandinavian avant-garde of the early 20th century, while highlighting the continuing relevance of Munch’s concern with the embeddedness of the individual in society.
NORSK Festival im Künstlerhaus Mousonturm Frankfurt 15.-19.10.2019
The NORSK Festival in connection with this year’s Frankfurt Book Fair presents some of the greatest talents that Norway’s music scene has to offer.Featuring artists such as Ketil Bjørnstad, Motorpsycho, Hanne Hukkelberg, Jenny Hval, Arve Henriksen and Todd Terje, the extensive festival program includes concerts and a club night, as well as performances, readings, a poetry slam and talks, rock, pop, electro, jazz and folk. NORSK offers an impressive cross-section of Nordic soundscapes; every day of the festival is dedicated to one musical genre. If you are seeking to gain an overview of Norway’s diverse musical culture, try our festival pass – you’ll find it very well worth your while.
A tradition in Norwegian architecture emphasizes tactile and spatial experiences and reflects the relationship between buildings and landscape. Sensitivity to place, experimental tectonics and profound attention to detail characterize the tradition. Norwegian architecture is challenged by new dense urban development in major cities. The buildings shown in the exhibition are situated in different geographical parts of Norway. Rural settlements have been maintained by means of an ambitious regional policy, supported by the wealth of the oil economy. The selected projects continue and refine a Nordic architectural tradition whose most famous representative is Pritzker Prize winner Sverre Fehn. The tradition is characterized by emphasizing the tactile and spatial experiences, reflecting the relationship between buildings and landscape, and creatively challenging a 1000-year of practice in wooden construction. The projects demonstrate great sensitivity to place, experimental tectonics and profound attention to detailing. In this respect, Norwegian architecture adapts to ecological thinking, influencing also international architects commissioned in Norway.
Frida Orupabo at Portikus Frankfurt (28.09.-24.11.2019)
Portikus is very happy to announce the first solo exhibition by Frida Orupabo in Germany. Frida Orupabo is a Norwegian-Nigerian artist and sociologist, living and working in Oslo. Her practice derives from a collection of media and personal images on Instagram (@nemiepeba) form where she started to make digital collages and short films with her image archive. Her archive, that is potentiated in her surreal collages, draws a picture on the preformed representations of race, gender, sexuality, violence as well as privacy, autobiography and public in media. For Portikus Frida Orupabo will develop a new site-specific installation with films and collages.
Fotografie Forum Frankfurt presents ETHEREAL. PHOTOGRAPHIC ART FROM NORWAY (03.10.2019-12.01.2020)
Shimmering, shining, fleeting: with ETHEREAL. PHOTOGRAPHIC ART FROM NORWAY the Fotografie Forum Frankfurt presents exceptional works about the subtleties of light from A K Dolven, Dag Alveng and Linn Pedersen. Through photography, video and installation, the three artists dedicate themselves to the extreme qualities of Norwegian light that shape the country’s mystic nature and their own desires.
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