For this exhibition, the museum has invited artists, that are already represented in its collection, to make new site specific works. Eleven artists, using very different artistic language, interact and unite in new ways. The exhibition alternates between the small and large, the sugar sweet and the unpleasant. It shows that watercolour has no single expression – but many.
As a medium, watercolours are a testament to time as a paradoxical phenomenon.
I’ll darn well draw the soul! This is the title of the spring exhibition at the Nordic Watercolour Museum.
The Japanese archipelago is full of wonders.
Along with the solo exhibition of Arne Isacsson this selection from the museum’s collection pays homage to the watercolour medi
Landscapes are a key theme in Arne Isacsson’s (1917– 2010) oeuvre.
During three years Knutte Wester (b.1977) made one drawing every day.
“Painting needs no other subject matter than itself,” said the Russian artist Wassily Kandinsky in the early 1900s.
To capture movement is indeed one of the greatest challenges in visual art.
The Nordic Watercolour Museum is the first European venue to host the new animation exhibition, Disney’s Art of Storytelling.
The exhibition on the museum's second floor presents figurative images depicting contemporary residents and historic people.
In 2013 the famous French art collectors Florence and Daniel Guerlain donated1 200 drawings by mostly contemporary artists to the Pompidou Centre. The donation is continually growing and the collection is expanding. The Nordic Watercolour Museum has been given the privilege of selecting works from this art treasure for the autumn exhibition.
The exhibition title is borrowed from watercolour master Arne Isacsson.
The exhibition is a comprehensive presentation of Icelandic art. The emphasis is on contemporary art, but includes traces leading us back to its historical roots.
The exhibition’s artists are featured in the newly published book, Water Art, which is the first in a series about the museum’s collection of contemporary Nordic art emphasising watercolour techniques.
