Nuuk Art Museum

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Nuuk Art Museum
The Nuuk Art Museum.jpg
The snowy Nuuk Art Museum in its old color scheme (2009)
Data
place Nuuk coordinates: 64 ° 10 ′ 40 "  N , 51 ° 43 ′ 44.9"  W.World icon
Art
Art museum
opening 2005
Number of visitors (annually) 2750 (June - December 2015)
management
Nivi Christensen
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

Commons : Nuuk Art Museum  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c annual report 2015 at nuukkunstmuseum.com (.pdf)
  2. ↑ a b c Om Nuuk Art Museum at nuukkunstmuseum.com
  3. ↑ Nuuk Art Museum at nukaka.museum.gl