A year at the National Museum

What does the picture do to me? · October 2027

The verdict

The year read backwards

Rooms 063 ("Livskraft", Life force) and 068 ("Fragmenter av en virkelighet", Fragments of reality)

The year read backwards. The programme is measured against how October 2027 looks if the year has succeeded. This is where the verdicts on Munch, Picasso and Kandinsky belong.

Before you go →

The pictures

Edvard Munch, Man in the Cabbage Field (Mannen i kålåkeren)
Edvard Munch Man in the Cabbage Field (Mannen i kålåkeren), 1916

Edvard MunchMan in the Cabbage Field (Mannen i kålåkeren), 1916

Room 063. Munch is one of the three verdicts that must be a conclusion, not a glance.

Wassily Kandinsky, Rigid and Curved
Wassily Kandinsky Rigid and Curved, 1935

Wassily KandinskyRigid and Curved, 1935

Room 068. Kandinsky is one of the three. "Still nothing" is a valid verdict if it is earned.

Around the pictures

This is what a successful year looks like in October 2027. You have notes on forty to sixty pictures that got the full time, each with a line that says what the picture did.

You have the network: who painted, taught, bought and wrote about whom in Norway 1820–1900.

You have one short text comparing Tallinn and Oslo 1920–1960.

You have a dated verdict on Munch, Picasso and Kandinsky, a conclusion and not a glance. "Still nothing" is a valid verdict if it is earned.

You have three or four pictures outside your taste today that you now want to go back to.

Before you go

Afterwards

Describe the pictures from memory, without looking at them, and record a voice note.