Nordic Impressions

Nordic Impressions is a major survey of Nordic art spanning nearly 200 years. It features works by 62 artists from Denmark, Iceland, Finland, Norway, and Sweden, as well as the self-governing islands of Åland, Faroe, and Greenland.

Nordic Impressions pays tribute to the artistic excellence of 19th- and 20th-century Nordic painters, such as Akseli Gallen-Kallela, Vilhelm Hammershøi, Edvard Munch, Anders Zorn, and Jóhannes Sveinsson Kjarval; celebrates the considerable artistic diversity in Nordic art, featuring both the expected (sublime landscapes and melancholic portraits) and the unexpected (abstract and conceptual art). It also features a significant number of women artists, such as Danish painters Anna Ancher and Franzisca Clausen; Swedish painters Fanny Brate and Hannah Pauli; Greenlandic painter, photographer, and writer Pia Arke; Finnish painters Ellen Thesleff, Tyko Sallinen, and Greta Hällfors-Sipilä; and Norwegian painters Olga Krog and Harriet Backer. Prominent contemporary artists include Katrín Sigurdardóttir, Ragnar Kjartansson, and Olufar Eliasson from Iceland, Israeli-born Danish painter Tal R, the Norwegian performance and video artist Tori Wrånes, Swedish artist Nathalie Djurberg, and the Finnish Sámi artist Outi Pieski.

Credit: Exhibition overview from museum website