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Free admission to the Architecture and Design Museum on Sunday 19.10.
As a participant of the conference, you will have free admission to the Architecture and Design Museum on Sunday, October 19th from 11 to 18. The
The pre-conference get-together will take place at the Architecture & Design Museum (Korkeavuorenkatu 23) on Sunday, from 17.00–19.00. This event required advance registration, and the registration has closed.
Program:
17.00– Independent visit to the exhibitions
18.15 Welcome & toasts in the lobby with words from:
Museum director Pilvi Kalhama
Chair of the NORDIK association Leena Svinhufvud
University lecturer at the University of Helsinki and Chair of The Society for Art History in Finland Anna Ripatti
19.00 End of the event, the museum will close
8.30–9.15 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
10.45–11.00 Registration & info (Entrance Hall Fabian, 1st Floor)
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)
12.30–13.30 Registration & info (Entrance Hall Fabian, 1st Floor)
13.00–13.45 The Guided Art Historical Tour 1/3 (advance registration required)
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)
15.30–16.00 Registration & info (Entrance Hall Fabian, 1st Floor)
16.00–17.30 Ambiguous Antiquity—classicism and its reception in the Nordic countries during the 18th and early 19th century (Small Hall, F4050, 4th 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)
17.45–18.30 NORDIK General Assembly, for NORDIK members (Small Hall, F4050, 4th Floor)
17.30–18.15 The Guided Art Historical Tour 2/3 (advance registration required)
19.00–20.00 Reception at Helsinki City Hall (advance registration required)
Free admission to the Ateneum Art Museum on Tuesday and Wednesday.
As a participant of the conference, you will have free admission to the Ateneum Art Museum on Tuesday 21th and Wednesday 22th from 11 to 18. Please show your conference name tag at the museum ticket counter. The
8.30–9.00 Registration & info (Entrance Hall Fabian, 1st Floor)
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 CANCELLED: 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)
12.15–13.15 Registration & info (Entrance Hall Fabian, 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)
14.45–15.00 Registration & info (Entrance Hall Fabian, 1st Floor)
NORDIK 2025 visit to the Ateneum Art Museum:
15.30–17.00 Ateneum Hall, 2nd floor (advance registration required, register
15.30 Welcome to Ateneum (Marja Lahelma, Chief Curator, Ateneum Art Museum)
15.45 Publishing art history at the Ateneum Art Museum (Hanne Selkokari, Curator, Scientific editor of FNG Research, Ateneum Art Museum)
16.00–17.00 Panel: Art History Publishing—Challenges, Opportunities, and Collaboration
This panel will explore key questions around the current state of art history publishing, the impact of digitalization and open access, and how we can foster collaboration and community.
Panelists:
Ellen Suneson, Journal of Aesthetics & Culture
Department of Arts and Cultural Sciences, Lund University
Ingrid Halland, Metode
Associate Professor in Aesthetics and Culture, Aarhus University
Marja Lahelma, Tahiti
Chief Curator, Ateneum Art Museum
Jessica Sjöholm Skrubbe, Journal of Art History
Professor, Stockholm University
Kristian Handberg, Periskop
Assistant Professor, Department of Arts and Cultural Studies, University of Copenhagen
The panel will be hosted by:
Hedvig Mårdh, Director of Studies/Senior Lecturer Cultural Studies—Art History and Visual Studies, Karlstad University
17.00–18.00 Independent visit to exhibitions
19.00–23.00 Conference Dinner (Hima & Sali, Cable Factory)
Free admission to the Ateneum Art Museum on Tuesday and Wednesday
As a participant of the conference, you will have free admission to the Ateneum Art Museum on Tuesday 21th and Wednesday 22th from 11 to 18. Please show your conference name tag at the museum ticket counter. The
8.30–9.00 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 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" (Small Hall, F4050, 4th Floor)
10.45–12.15 Cross-Border Contacts in Nordic Art: public interfaces of artistic circulation 1900–2000 (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)
12.15–13.15 Registration & info (Entrance Hall Fabian, 1st Floor)
12.45–13.30 The Guided Art Historical Tour 3/3 (free of charge, advance registration required)
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" (Small Hall, F4050, 4th Floor)
13.45–15.15 Crafting the Nordic, Mapping, Archiving, and Disseminating (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 (Small Hall, F4050, 4th Floor)