Nivi Christensen

Nivi Christensen, Museum Director of the Nuuk Art Museum (Nuummi Eqqumiitsulianik Saqqummersitsivik), will share the challenges that come with making a formerly private collection more diverse through strategic purchases. She will further discuss the museum’s acquisition and exhibition of contemporary Greenlandic artworks, like artist Pia Arke’s Arctic Hysteria, in contrast to the collection’s landscape paintings by white men (Grønlandsmalere). Further, she will reflect on the Greenlandic word for art, Eqqumiitsuliorneq that directly translates ‘to do/create something weird’ and challenges the viewer to reflect on both the one looking and what is being looked at.