Since the 1990s, Vanessa Baird (b.1963) has established herself as one of our foremost visual artists. In her first exhibition at MUNCH, she fills the grand halls of the museum's third floor with several hundred works.

The exhibition shows how Baird's art develops through repetitions and variations on the same themes, but also how these are conditioned by private and political events. In early works, we see how Baird depicts himself as young, thinking and longing on huge canvases. Many of the images refer to male artistic geniuses - from Rodin to Munch - and illustrate the exhibition's underlying feminist sting.