18:00–18:45: Flower Weaving: Encounters with Nature in Frida Hansen’s Artistic Process
Lecture by PhD fellow Adine Ødegård Lexow

The flower garden was Frida Hansen’s (1855–1931) lifelong source of inspiration. Hansen, a pioneer of the 1890s weaving renaissance, Norway’s first internationally recognised textile artist, and a leading Art Nouveau artist and symbolist, created a grand garden around her family estate in Hillevåg, Stavanger. When she began weaving, the flowers reappeared in her tapestries, in an Art Nouveau style where nature and humans merge.

Adine Lexow’s PhD project, Floral Entanglements: Frida Hansen's Weaving and Gardening Practices, explores Hansen’s relationship to nature and flowers in the creative process—from sketching and spinning, to dyeing and weaving—in light of today’s interest in sustainability and textiles. Lexow will present her research on Hansen’s artistic process, including her experience recreating some of Hansen’s original plant-dye recipes.

Adine Ødegård Lexow is an art historian from the University of Oslo and is currently pursuing a PhD on Frida Hansen. For more information, see: PhD on Frida Hansen – The National Museum.

19:00–19:45: Curator Conversation
Conversation between the museum’s two curators, Inger Lund Gudmundsson and Vibece Salthe, on the exhibition’s themes and the relationship between Kitty Kielland and Frida Hansen.

Note: Your ticket gives access to the exhibition on the same day. It is recommended to view the exhibition before the lecture, as the museum closes at 20:00. The event is held in Norwegian in the museum auditorium.