Nuuk Art Museum
![]() The snowy Nuuk Art Museum in its old color scheme (2009) |
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place |
Nuuk ![]() |
Art |
Art museum
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opening | 2005 |
Number of visitors (annually) | 2750 (June - December 2015) |
management |
Nivi Christensen
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Website |
The Nuuk Art Museum ( Danish Nuuk Art Museum , Greenlandic Nuummi Eqqumiitsulianik Saqqummersitsivik ) is the art museum of Nuuk .
history
The Nuuk Art Museum opened in 2005. It is the second art museum in Greenland after the Ilulissat art museum . Much of the art and the building itself were donated in 2005 by Svend Junge and his wife Helene Junge Pedersen.
building
The art museum is located in the former Adventist church with the building number B-1501. It has an exhibition area of 600 m² including an extension for special exhibitions. In 2015, the formerly mainly yellow building was painted dark green.
exhibition
The museum has 300 paintings and 400 statuettes related to Greenland and representing Greenlandic art. Around half of the paintings are by Emanuel A. Petersen (1897–1948), who also fills half of the museum in Ilulissat. Other older artists whose works are on display are Christine Deichmann (1869–1945), Jens Erik Carl Rasmussen (1841–1893) and Harald Moltke (1871–1960). Contemporary and recent artists include Simon Kristoffersen (1933–1990), Miki Jacobsen (* 1965), Buuti Pedersen (* 1955), Hans Lynge (1906–1988), Anne-Birthe Hove (1951–2012), Pia Ârĸê (1958–2007), Kristian Olsen (1942–2015), Frederik Kristensen (* 1952), Anne-Lise Løvstrøm (* 1960) and Maria Paninnguaq Kjærulff (* 1980).
Web links
- Official website of the Nuuk Art Museum
- Nuuk Art Museum at visitgreenland.com
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c annual report 2015 at nuukkunstmuseum.com (.pdf)
- ↑ a b c Om Nuuk Art Museum at nuukkunstmuseum.com
- ↑ Nuuk Art Museum at nukaka.museum.gl