Join us for the vernissage of Julie Edel Hardenberg’s solo exhibition “Nipangersitassaanngitsut // Those who can’t be silenced”!
The exhibition as a whole questions Nordic history, its presence and relevance in Greenland. The exhibition illuminates and articulates questions regarding identity, ethnicity, language, colonialism, racism and the right to one’s own history.
2023 is the 70th anniversary of the constitutional amendment which abolished Greenland’s colonial status with the subsequent incorporation of Greenland, and the Inuit/Greenlandic population into the Danish kingdom. Julie Edel Hardenberg’s work and artistic production examines and articulates the political and cultural influence of Danish colonial history in Greenland.
In addition to her position at the Academy of Fine Arts in Bergen, Julie Edel Hardenberg is associated with the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts and the University of Copenhagen, where she researches the more invisible aspects through her PhD project: “Between power and powerlessness – the de/colonized mind” of the colonial structures and their reproduction, illuminated through the personal memories and experiences that exist among the Greenlandic population.
The exhibition can be seen until 1 October 2023, and is supported by Selvstyrets Tips and lottery funds, the Augustinus Foundation and the Statens Kunstfond.
The varnishing takes place in accordance with Nuuk Nordic Culture Festival, which takes place on 25-28 May.
