Program

17.00–19.30 Pre-conference get-together, Architecture & Design Museum (free of charge, registration required)

8.30–18.30 Registration + info (Entrance Hall Fabian, 1st Floor)
8.30–9.00 Morning Coffee (Foyer Sirén & Foyer Studium, 3rd & 4th Floor)

9.00–9.15 Welcome to the NORDIK 2025 Conference (Small Hall, F4050, 4th Floor)

9.15–10.45 Keynote I, Anna Ripatti: “Logs, Crafts, and Ornament: imagining Nordicness through art and architecture” (Small Hall, F4050, 4th Floor)

10.45–11.00 Break

11.00–12.30 The Artist’s Role and “Nordic” Identity 1/2 (Small Hall, F4050, 4th Floor)
11.00–12.30 Negotiating Spaces: Nordic artists working within or in resistance to institutional spaces (F3004, 3rd Floor)
11.00-12.30 From Taxonomy to Fluxus: Nordic Art at the Borders Between Medieval and Early Modern (F3005, 3rd Floor) 
11.00–12.30 Sensing the Nordic: multisensory art and exhibition designs in a Nordic perspective 1/2 (F3010, 3rd Floor)
11.00–12.30 The “Nordic Miracle”: exhibition histories from the 1990s to the present (F3017, 3rd Floor)

12.30–14.00 Lunch (Agora, 1st Floor)

13.00–13.45 The Guided Art Historical Tour 1/3 (free of charge, registration required—TBA)

14.00–15.30 The Artist’s Role and “Nordic” Identity 2/2 (Small Hall, F4050, 4th Floor)
14.00–15.30 Nordic Rural Modernity (F3004, 3rd Floor)
14.00–15.30 Mediation of Nature in Nordic Design Cultures 1/2 (F3005, 3rd Floor)
14.00–15.30 Nordic Women, Art, and Esotericism (F3006, 3rd Floor)
14.00–15.30 Sensing the Nordic: multisensory art and exhibition designs in a Nordic perspective 2/2 (F3010, 3rd Floor)
14.00–15.30 Biennials in the Nordic Countries: histories, places, practices, and politics 1/2 (F3017, 3rd Floor)

15.30–16.00 Coffee Break (Foyer Sirén & Foyer Studium, 3rd & 4th Floor)

16.00–17.30 Ambiguous Antiquity—classicism and its reception in the Nordic countries during the 18th and early 19th century (F3004, 3rd Floor)
16.00–17.30 Mediation of Nature in Nordic Design Cultures 2/2 (F3005, 3rd Floor)
16.00–17.30 Nordik/Not Nordik: Scandinavian artists abroad (1850–1950) (F3006, 3rd Floor)
16.00–17.30 Nordic Prefabricated Housing in an International Perspective (F3010, 3rd Floor)
16.00–17.30 Biennials in the Nordic Countries: histories, places, practices, and politics 2/2 (F3017, 3rd Floor)

17.30–18.30 Panel Discussion: NORDIK History Panel (Small Hall, F4050, 4th Floor)
17.30–18.15 The Guided Art Historical Tour 2/3 (free of charge, registration required—TBA)

19.00–20.00 Reception at Helsinki City Hall (free of charge, registration required—TBA)

8.30–14.45 Registration & info
8.30–9.00 Morning Coffee (Foyer Sirén & Foyer Studium, 3rd & 4th Floor)

9.00–10.30 Architecture in Sápmi 1/2 (Small Hall, F4050, 4th Floor)
9.00–10.30 Public Art Policies in the Post-Welfare Phase (F3004, 3rd Floor)
9.00–10.30 Was there a Nordic Renaissance? 1/2: "Paintings" (F3005, 3rd Floor)
9.00–10.30 “The Nordic Art”—the knowledge circulation by women artists from the Nordic countries at the turn of the 20th century (F3006, 3rd Floor)
9.00–10.30 Why a Nordic History about Early Women Photographers? (F3010, 3rd Floor)
9.00–10.30 Nation-Building and the Collaboration Between Antiquarians and Restorers in (Re)Creating Church Interiors in the Nordic Region 1/2 (F3017, 3rd Floor)

10.30–10.45 Break

10.45–12.15 Architecture in Sápmi 2/2 (Small Hall, F4050, 4th Floor)
10.45–12.15 Myth, Mythology, and Mythmaking in the North (F3004, 3rd Floor)
10.45–12.15 Was there a Nordic Renaissance? 2/2: "Grave Monuments and Gardens" (F3005, 3rd Floor)
10.45–12.15 The Network of Images in the 19th Century Nordic Countries (F3006, 3rd Floor)
10.45–12.15 Søsterskap—on contemporary Nordic photography (F3010, 3rd Floor)
10.45–12.15 Nation-Building and the Collaboration Between Antiquarians and Restorers in (Re)Creating Church Interiors in the Nordic Region 2/2 (F3017, 3rd Floor)

12.15–13.15 Lunch (Agora, 1st Floor)

13.15–14.45 Keynote II, Merike Kurisoo: “Nordic, Baltic, or Hanseatic?
Reframing perspectives on medieval and early modern art in the Baltic Sea region from the viewpoint of Estonian art history” (Small Hall, F4050, 4th Floor)

14.45–15.15 Coffee Break (Foyer Sirén & Foyer Studium, 3rd & 4th Floor)

15.30–17.00 Welcome to Ateneum + Publications: Panel Discussion
(Ateneum Art Museum)
17.00–18.00 Independent Visits to Exhibitions (Ateneum Art Museum)

19.00–23.00 Conference Dinner (Hima & Sali, Cable Factory)

8.30–16.45 Registration + info (Entrance Hall Fabian, 1st Floor)
8.30–9.00 Morning Coffee (Foyer Sirén & Foyer Studium, 3rd & 4th Floor)

9.00–10.30 Keynote III, Mathias Danbolt: “Nordic Habits and Hiccups: thinking with
Nordting about the ‘Nordicness’ of Nordic art history” (Small Hall, F4050, 4th Floor)

10.30–10.45 Break

10.45–12.15 Cross-Border Contacts in Nordic Art: public interfaces of artistic circulation 1900–2000 (F3004, 3rd Floor)
10.45–12.15 Representing the Nordic and Nordicness in Cultural Diplomacy before and after 1989—art and design exhibitions as cultural diplomacy in, from and to the Nordic Countries 1/2: "Interactions in the Changing Landscape of the Nordic–Baltic, around 89" (F3005, 3rd Floor)
10.45–12.15 Under the Protection of the Nordic Democracy and Welfare: artist collectives, collectivism, and activist future-making of the 1970s and beyond (F3006, 3rd Floor)
10.45–12.15 Dreams of the South: Nordic architecture and the Mediterranean 1/2 (F3010, 3rd Floor)
10.45–12.15 Pre-modern Art Histories of Migration and Exchange: moving images, objects, and artistic expressions from, to, and between the Nordic countries 1/2: "Moving Objects and Images" (F3017, 3rd Floor)

12.15–13.45 Lunch (Agora, 1st Floor)
12.45–13.30 The Guided Art Historical Tour 3/3 (free of charge, registration required—TBA)

13.45–15.15 Crafting the Nordic, Mapping, Archiving, and Disseminating (F3004, 3rd Floor)
13.45–15.15 Representing the Nordic and Nordicness in Cultural Diplomacy before and after 1989—art and design exhibitions as cultural diplomacy in, from and to the Nordic Countries 2/2: "Exchanges between the Nordic countries and the Superpowers, 1970–1990s" (F3005, 3rd Floor)
13.45–15.15 Art and Creative Practices in Healthcare Institutions—a Nordic Context (F3006, 3rd Floor)
13.45–15.15 Dreams of the South: Nordic architecture and the Mediterranean 2/2 (F3010, 3rd Floor)
13.45–15.15 Pre-modern Art Histories of Migration and Exchange: moving images, objects, and artistic expressions from, to, and between the Nordic countries 2/2: "Cultural Exchanges and Connections" (F3017, 3rd Floor)

15.15–15.45 Coffee Break (Foyer Sirén & Foyer Studium, 3rd & 4th Floor)

15.45–16.45 Closing Remarks and Discussion