Museum Sundays: Ateneum / Modern Gothic

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Got a Museum Card burning a hole in your pocket? Take it out for a walk and join us for a casual museum tour, followed by a cup of coffee in a nearby restaurant or hangout in a nearby park. See below for more details.

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# Medieval and Renaissance art provided 19th and 20th-century artists with emotional material and ways to deal with fundamental human feelings, as well as birth, death, suffering and sexuality. The exhibition highlights a phenomenon that has not been addressed in art history before, examining how it is manifested in the works of renowned artists.

The artists featured in the exhibition include Arnold Böcklin, Lucas Cranach the Elder, Akseli Gallen-Kallela, Vincent van Gogh, Theodor Kittelsen, Käthe Kollwitz, Edvard Munch, Hugo Simberg, Helene Schjerfbeck, Marianne Stokes, and Gustave Van de Woestyne.  In addition to paintings and prints, the exhibition displays objects, sculptures and furniture.

The curator for the Ateneum exhibition is museum director Anna-Maria von Bonsdorff. After its debut at Ateneum, the exhibition will travel to the National Museum, Norway in Oslo and the Albertina Museum in Vienna, where it will be curated by Vibeke Waallann Hansen and Cynthia Osiecki (Curators, National Museum, Norway) and Ralph Gleis (Director, Alte Nationalgalerie), respectively. The exhibition will be on display at the National Museum from February 28 to June 15, 2025, and at the Albertina from September 19, 2025, to January 11, 2026.

The exhibition is based on a long research project, which, for the first time, explored how artists of the modern era became interested in medieval art. The project has been led by Professor Juliet Simpson (Coventry University), who is a guest curator for the exhibition, working together with Anna-Maria von Bonsdorff.

https://ateneum.fi/en/exhibitions/gothic-modern/

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If it's your first time meeting the group, try to be there 20 minutes before departure to get to know us! Afterwards let's gather somewhere nearby to discuss the experience we had. More details will be posted as we arrive at the venue.