“Munch, Modernism, and Modernity” Annual Conference, Marketing the North

This conference examines the paths, strategies, critical relationships, gallery alliances, curatorial efforts, artist-driven organizations, cult of celebrity, national identity initiatives, and other pathways through which Edvard Munch and his contemporaries entered the international art market and critical discourse. Papers will consider individual artists, debates around national identity, collecting patterns, ethnic mythologies, individual exhibitions, universal expositions, critical writing, gallerists, collectors, technoscapes, and other pathways and mechanisms by which Nordic artists, and Munch in particular, became and continues to become part of international networks and markets.

The conference is organized by the “Munch, Modernism, and Modernity” research network, presented by the American-Scandinavian Foundation, and sponsored by the Munch Museum, the National Museum of Art, Architecture and Design, and the University of Oslo.