Boundaries or no Boundaries – Sculpture in the Intersection between Nationalism and Internationalism

Date: 12 and 13 June 2023
Place: Sentralen, Oslo, Norway

Program to be announced.

Read more about the seminar in the Call for Papers.

Day 1: Monday 12 June

09:00: Registration and coffee

09:30: Welcome and short introduction by Museum Director Jarle Strømodden, Vigeland Museum

09:45–11:45

Transnationalism and National Identity I
Panel Chair: Caroline Ugelstad (Henie Onstad Kunstsenter)

Sebastian Muehl, Art Academy of Latvia: National identity and the cardboard puppet: the case of Taring Padi

Nicola Foster, University of Suffolk/Solent University, Southampton: National Pavillion at the Venice Biennial: The German Pavillion in 2013

Andrew J. Hennlich, Gwen Frostic School of Art, Western Michigan University/Visual Identities in Art and Design Research Centre, University of Johannesburg: Disposability, Mobility, and Unbelonging: Kosovar Identity in Flaka Haliti’s Sculpture

Tobias Lund, Lund University: A vision/audition of Swedish modernity: Carl Milles’s sculptures at the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm

11:45–12:45: Lunch Break

12:45–14:15

Interwar Europe
Panel Chair: Drew Snyder (KORO, Art in Public Space)

Ulrike Müller, Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium/University of Antwerp: The public monument as a boundary object. A transnational perspective on the emergence and afterlife of Constantin Meunier’s Monument to Labour

Maria Elena Versari, Carnegie Mellon University: Futurist sculptural canons in Fascist Italy

Linda Hinners, Nationalmuseum, Stockholm: International Acclaim and National Reproach. Sigrid Fridman’s Centaur, Ivar Johnson’s David, and Adolf Johnson’s Leda and the Swan. Three sculpted monuments in interwar Sweden.

14:15: Coffee Break

14:30–16:00

Transnationalism and National Identity II
Panel Chair: Gustav Jørgen Pedersen (Munchmuseet)

Emily C. Burns, Charles M. Russell Center for the Study of Art of the American West/University of Oklahoma: The American West and ‘American’ Sculpture in Paris: Multi-Directional Transnational Relationships

Jean-Roch Dumont Saint Priest, Museum Curator: ‘Students of all languages’: international emulation in Antoine Bourdelle’s studio

Sara Touboul-Oppenheimer, University Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne: Sculpting Germanic Thought Across the Atlantic: The German Philosopher Statue in American Public Spaces

Day 2: Tuesday 13 June

09:00–11:00

The Heroic Monument

Panel Chair: Vibeke Waallann Hansen (The National Museum, Oslo)

Klaudija Sabo, University of Klagenfurt: The transnational dimension of heroic monuments – on the basis of artistic interventions in Eastern Europe

Ophélie Ferlier-Bouat, Musée Bourdelle: From Alvear to France: two monuments by Bourdelle emblematic of the nation

Chiara Pazzaglia, Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa: Towards Transnationalism. Public Monuments in Italy after World War II

Lily Vikki, City of Oslo Art Collection /Jon-Ove Steihaug, Munchmuseet: Tracy Emin’s The Mother: contemporary global icon, monument to a national hero and ecological utopia

11:00. Coffee Break

11:15–12:15

Implications of National Style and Material
Panel Chair: Ragnhild M. Bø (University of Oslo)

Marthje Sagewitz, University of Leipzig: Medievalism at the Intersection between Nationalism/Regionalism and the Emergence of Modernity. References to Medieval Art in the Oeuvre of Auguste Rodin and Antoine Bourdelle.

Tobias Kämpf, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nuremberg/Germanisches Nationalmuseum, Nuremberg: Material Ideologies: National and Transnational Dimensions of German Expressionist Sculpture in Wood

12:15–13:15: Lunch Break

13:15–14:15

Unrealized Projects

Panel Chair: Jarle Strømodden (Vigeland Museum)

Laura Ammann, Humboldt University, Berlin: The Monument to the Brazilian Man: an Impossible Sculpture or an Improbable Nation?

Carla Ribeiro and Carla Sofia Ferreira Queirós, Polytechnic of Porto: From winners to forgotten: the projects of the Monument to Prince Henrique The Navigator, in Sagres, Portugal

14:15 Break

14:30–15:30

Problematic Monuments
Panel Chair: TBA

Ana María Bresciani, KORO (Art in Public Space, Oslo): The Beecroft Case: Has the Transnational Failed Us?

Stephanie von Spreter, University of Tromsø: Ghost of the Past? The (In)visible Hans Egede Monument at Trinity Church, Oslo

15:30–16:00

Concluding remarks

Conference fee:

Two-day seminar: NOK 500,-/300,- (students)

One day seminar (Monday 12 June or Tuesday 13 June): NOK 300,-/150,- (students)

The fee covers coffee/tea, lunch and reception in the Vigeland Museum Monday afternoon.

Please register by buying your ticket here, or follow the information at www.vigeland.museum.no.
Please note that there is a limited number of tickets and the seminar may be full.

The planning committee: Øystein Sjåstad, Guri Skuggen and Kristine Wessel

For questions: guri.skuggen@kul.oslo.kommune.no

Two-day seminar: NOK 500,-/300,- (students)

One day seminar (Monday 12 June or Tuesday 13 June): NOK 300,-/150,- (students)

The fee covers coffee/tea, lunch and reception in the Vigeland Museum Monday afternoon.

Please register by buying your ticket here, or follow the information at www.vigeland.museum.no.
Please note that there is a limited number of tickets and the seminar may be full.

The planning committee: Øystein Sjåstad, Guri Skuggen and Kristine Wessel

For questions: guri.skuggen@kul.oslo.kommune.no