Kunst og litteratur: Linn Ullmann

Kunst og litteratur #10 
Linn Ullmann

Oslo Kunstforening is delighted to welcome you to a conversation between visual artist Lotte Konow Lund and author Linn Ullmann. On Thursday 4 June at 18.00 they will meet to talk about images in literature, film, dance, theatre and art. The talk will be held in Norwegian. Limited seats available – reserve your ticket here. 

Earlier this year, Linn Ullmann announced that over the coming years she will publish five books that each explore different female artistic practices, all drawing on the parable of the five wise and five foolish virgins. The first book in the series – conceived as a blend of travel writing, diary, art history and memoir – will follow Ullmann's search for a tapestry depicting the virgin motif that has been missing for over a hundred years. The artist Frida Hansen (1855–1931) created the work for the 1900 World's Fair, where it won a gold medal, before being sold to an Italian countess. The tapestry can be traced to the countess's villa in Rome four years later, after which it vanished without a trace. So far, the search has taken Ullmann on journeys to Italy, France, Germany, Finland and the United Kingdom. 

What does time do to an image, a memory or a repetition – and what might one find along the way when searching for something one cannot quite define? Linn Ullmann is the final guest of the season in the conversation series Kunst og litteratur, and will be in conversation with Lotte Konow Lund about her relationship to images in literature, film, dance, theatre and visual art. Some keywords for the conversation are Virginia Woolf, Vanessa Bell, Ali Smith, Edvard Munch, Chantal Akerman, Agnès Varda, Pina Bausch, Lena Cronqvist, Elizabeth Hall and Frida Hansen.

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