Bergen Art Museum is one of the largest art museums in the Nordic countries. Our visitors can appreciate art from the Renaissance to the contemporary era in three characteristic buildings along the idyllic Lille Lungegård lake, in the very centre of the city.
In the Lysverket building you can take a walk through art history in an extensive permanent collection. Rasmus Meyer Collection houses several of Edvard Munch’s masterpieces, as well as works by the leading representatives for Norwegian art in the 18th and 19th centuries. The Stenersen building is the venue for several temporary exhibitions every year.
This year's exhibition program opens with the Picasso - figure and image. The project is one of the museum’s most comprehensive endeavours in many years and will demonstrate the diversity and breadth of this epoch-making artistic oeuvre, which is already strongly represented at the museum.
While figures and still lifes were major motifs in Picasso’s art, landscapes have a central position in the remainder of this year’s program. The summer exhibition Wild Nature shows Swiss and Norwegian landscapes from the 19th century, while a presentation of the great American landscape photographer Ansel Adams, in the fall, depicts nature in a new century and through a different medium.
Nature also plays a central role, both as theme and inspiration, in the poetic conceptual art of the Icelandic artist Hreinn Fridfinnsson. We close the year with a celebration of the museum’s one hundred year old Friends of Bergen Art Museum with a selection of their gifts to the museum during the course of an entire century.
Welcome to Bergen Art Museum in 2008!
By: Henrik A. Berg
24-8 2007