Lectures and Curators in Conversation

Welcome to an engaging evening inspired by the critically acclaimed exhibition From the Roots – Kitty Kielland & Frida Hansen

6:00 PM – 6:30 PM: Curators in Conversation
A conversation between the museum’s two curators, Inger Lund Gudmundsson and Vibece Salthe, about the exhibition’s themes and the relationship between Kitty Kielland and Frida Hansen.

6:40 PM – 7:20 PM: Flower Weaving: Encounters with Nature in Frida Hansen’s Artistic Process
Lecture by PhD candidate Adine Ødegård Lexow

The flower garden was Frida Hansen’s (1855–1931) great source of inspiration throughout her life. Hansen—a pioneer of the weaving renaissance of the 1890s, Norway’s first internationally recognized textile artist, and one of the country’s foremost Art Nouveau artists and symbolists—established a grand garden around her family estate in Hillevåg, Stavanger, as a young woman. When she began weaving, the flowers reappeared in her tapestries, rendered in an Art Nouveau aesthetic where nature and humans merge.

Adine Lexow’s PhD project, "Floral Entanglements: Frida Hansen’s Weaving and Gardening Practices," explores how Hansen related to nature and flowers throughout her creative process—from sketching to spinning, dyeing, and weaving—in light of today’s focus on sustainability and textile arts. In this lecture, Lexow will share her research into Hansen’s artistic process, including experiences from recreating a selection of Hansen’s plant-dyeing recipes.

Adine Ødegård Lexow holds a degree in art history from the University of Oslo and is currently pursuing a PhD on Frida Hansen’s art. For more information on Lexow’s research, see: PhD on Frida Hansen – The National Museum.

7:20 PM – 7:30 PM: Short break

7:30 PM – 8:10 PM: Against all Odds. Changing the narrative of art history - we can't rewrite the past, but we can rethink the story
Lecture by Dr. Emilie Boe Bierlich

Emilie Boe Bierlich holds a PhD in art history and is the head of the newly established Anne Marie Carl-Nielsen Center at Museum Odense. She has conducted extensive research on Nordic female artists of the 19th century and was curator of the critically acclaimed 2024 exhibition Against All Odds at the National Gallery of Denmark (SMK) in Copenhagen, where works by Kitty L. Kielland were also exhibited.

Please note: Your ticket grants you access to the exhibition on the same day. We recommend viewing the exhibition before the lectures begin, as the museum closes at 7:00 PM.

The event will be held in Norwegian in the museum's auditorium.