Guided tour and waffles

Welcome to a guided tour of our 100 year anniversary exhibition, History is the Dream of What can be

Sunday October 26th, 1pm - 1:45pm
Mellomvegen 82, 2nd floor, entrance facing towards the city center
Free entry
And free waffles, coffee and tea
The guided tour will be led by Camilla Fagerli, who has curated the exhibition in collaboration with Ruth Aitken

The exhibition presents new works by Liv Bangsund, Maija Liisa Björklund & Inger Emilie Solheim, Kåre Aleksander Grundvåg & Alexander Rishaug, Hilde Hauan Johnsen, Joar Nango, Marit Bockelie, Arne-Terje Sæther & Eystein Talleraas

In 1924, a second attempt at forming a kunstforening in Tromsø took place. A full century later, Romssa Daiddasiida - Tromsø Kunstforening celebrates its 100th birthday. As an institution, we have witnessed a vast period of contemporary human history; we have gone from a fish and potato culture to Grandiosa, from having boats as our main means of transport to being connected through roads, bridges, tunnels, airports and finally the internet. Landscapes have been interrupted and dammed, villages have depopulated and Tromsø has become the ‘capital of the North’. Over the century, we have experienced the climax of the Norwegianisation process, and the subsequent founding of the Sámi parliament and the cultural and linguistic revival of both the Sámi and Kveni communities. Through all this, TKF has both found home in many buildings and been homeless, before eventually settling into the old, neoclassical Tromsø Museum building, Muségata 2. As this aged building, even older than us, is undergoing renovation, we find ourselves again in a new home, that of Hvilhaug Sykehjem.

This 100 years is just a split second for the place we find ourselves, an island nestled amongst mountains; land occupied by plants and animals for not just millenia but millions of years. Stories are woven through the landscape, the dirt, the stones, the buildings and people. When Tromsø Kunstforening is long gone, the mountains and stones will still be here, carriers for our brief history and who’ll bear witness to what this history will become. Our Jubilee exhibition invites 9 artists with a connection to Tromsø to respond to this history we are party to and part of.