Summer School is aimed at children aged 8-10, Monday to Friday 09.00 to 15.00 at MUNCH.
Parents can sign up their children for one of the following weeks: 26, 27 or 32.
Summer is already right around the corner, and this year we want to investigate the Trembling Earth exhibition which shows Edvard Munch’s images of nature.
Munch was a master of expressing emotion in paintings that included human figures. But in Trembling Earth, a landscape with nobody in it can also be loaded with atmosphere. Munch often worked outdoors and used nature as a tool in his paintings. For instance, he used to leave his paintings outside in all weathers!
Come join us on this exciting journey full of different experiences and discoveries! At the Summer School we want to dive deeper into Munch’s visual universe and be inspired by the nature that surrounds us. At the Summer School we’ll explore different organic materials and techniques in which nature will be one of our most important resources. Workshops will be led by artists who use these techniques in their own work.
During the week we will also visit other exhibitions at MUNCH to marvel and be inspired. We’ll drop in on the conservation department to see how the paintings are taken care of and learn a bit abot how they are created. Every day will be different and will include a mix of indoor and outdoor activities. We’ll round off the week with our own exhibition and a party!
What do you love doing? What inspires you? We look forward to exploring art and nature with you this summer at MUNCH!
Love from the Summer School team at MUNCH!
Artists of the year at MUNCH Summer School are Suzannah Rehell Øistad and Sara Vajira Lindström.
Suzannah Rehell Øistad:
Together with artist Suzannah Øistad, we’ll begin with Edvard Munch’s printed images with nature as a theme. Munch believed that art gets its power via nature. We will explore this idea by making prints of some of Munch’s woodcuts. In the exhibition Trembling Earth, we’ll take inspiration from the way Munch brings out a tree’s structure and patterns in his woodcuts. Together with Suzannah, we’ll explore Munch’s renowned ‘jigsaw puzzle technique’ by separating the wooden plate into pieces, applying simple colours and creating a picture. At the end of the course, everyone will be able to take home a unique, self-produced print.
Susannah Øistad (born 1993) works mainly with woodcut and stop-motion animation. A great deal of her inspiration comes from her own daydream books, in which she explores the boundaries between everyday impressions and secret imaginings. She uses the jigsaw technique in her woodcuts to divide up the plate into several pieces, working also with different colours, layer on layer. Øistad has had exhibitions at home and abroad, most recently solo exhibitions at Sandefjord Art Society and Galleri Blaker Skanse. She has also taken part in many group exhibitions, including at Galleri Adde Zetterquist in Røkland, Hotell de Ville in Paris and Jyväskylä Art Museum in Finland. Øistad has also worked as a doll maker, and has created figures for ‘Mr Storm’, part of the permanent exhibition Shadows here at MUNCH.
Sara Vajira Lindström:
Together with textile artist Sara Vajira Lindström, we’ll take a deep dive into a world of colours and patterns connected to nature, biology and the Munch exhibition Trembling Earth. We will examine natural pigments and make our own colours from food waste. We’ll create patterns using paper folding techniques such as shibori and ‘bundle-dyeing’, and observe nature’s own patterns and forms when we test both Japanese and Western marbling on paper and textiles. Like Munch, we’ll also involve the weather and the wind in our creative process.
Sarah mainly works with textiles and natural pigments, but also likes to experiment with and use other materials and media such as plastics, latex, photography, collage and textile printing. Central to Sarah’s art is an exploratory approach to her materials through her use of both traditional and extremely unconventional craft techniques. She is interested in the history of science and medicine and is inspired by scientific methods in her practice.
Sara Vajira Lindström studied textiles at the Royal College of Art and Central Saint Martins in London. She has had solo exhibitions at Soft Galleri in Oslo and KRAFT in Bergen, and has taken part in the Annual Crafts Exhibition, the Østland Exhibition, the Spring Exhibition at Fotogalleriet, CHART at the Design Museum in Denmark, and the Spring Exhibition at Charlottenborg kunsthall, Copenhagen, where she was nominated for the Solo prize.
Her artworks can be found in the collections at KODE and the Sogn og Fjordande kunstmuseum
