EXHIBITION NASJONALMUSEET OSLO
New Nordic. Cuisine, Aesthetics and Place
Nasjonalmuseet Oslo, Norway,
23 May - 14 September 2025.
Mikael Olsson
Oaxen
1997-98
Pigment prints on acid free cotton paper
Courtesy Galerie Nordenhake
A serie of 12 photographs from the book Oaxen Skärgårdskrog, Raster Förlag 1999.
New Nordic Cuisine is a movement that started in the Nordic countries in the early 2000s and has since grown into an international phenomenon.
With its interpretations of wild nature, the Nordic climate, local foodstuffs and culinary traditions, the movement spawned a distinctive aesthetic that was expressed in meals, tableware and restaurant interiors. Locally-sourced natural materials, animal skins and untreated wood, handmade ceramics and the use of wild vegetation as raw ingredients and for decoration all featured prominently.
In the exhibition New Nordic. Cuisine, Aesthetics and Place, the National Museum shows how this food movement merged with other contemporary cultural trends. Through architecture, contemporary art, design and crafts from the museum’s collection, and objects loaned from various restaurants, the exhibition examines the “new Nordic” concept as a broad aesthetic development defined by the interaction between materials, people and landscape.
Includes works by Kvae & Bark, Jens L. Thomsen, Fäviken, Edvard Munch, Olafur Eliasson, Carl-Viggo Hølmebakk arkitektkontor, Snøhetta, Jensen & Skodvin arkitekter, Kristine Fornes, Pentti Kaskipuro, Benjamin Alexander Huseby, Poul Andrias Ziska/Koks, Piet Oudolf, Knud Leem, Anders Smebye, Magnus Ek/Oaxen, Roderick Sloan, Hans J. Wegner, Toril Redalen, Dyvik Kahlen and others.
A specially commissioned pavilion will be constructed for the exhibition on the square outside of the museum. There will be an extensive programme of events throughout the exhibition period, including design workshops, foraging trips and meals prepared by celebrated chefs.
A version of the exhibition will be on display at the National Nordic Museum in Seattle, USA from 7 November 2025.
Curator Exhibition: Martin Braathen and Inger Helene Stemshaug.
Travel support Swedish Arts Grants Committee.
MAY 23, 2025
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New Nordic. Cuisine, Aesthetics and Place
Nasjonalmuseet Oslo, Norway,
23 May - 14 September 2025.
Mikael Olsson
Oaxen
1997-98
Pigment prints on acid free cotton paper
Courtesy Galerie Nordenhake
A serie of 12 photographs from the book Oaxen Skärgårdskrog, Raster Förlag 1999.
New Nordic Cuisine is a movement that started in the Nordic countries in the early 2000s and has since grown into an international phenomenon.
With its interpretations of wild nature, the Nordic climate, local foodstuffs and culinary traditions, the movement spawned a distinctive aesthetic that was expressed in meals, tableware and restaurant interiors. Locally-sourced natural materials, animal skins and untreated wood, handmade ceramics and the use of wild vegetation as raw ingredients and for decoration all featured prominently.
In the exhibition New Nordic. Cuisine, Aesthetics and Place, the National Museum shows how this food movement merged with other contemporary cultural trends. Through architecture, contemporary art, design and crafts from the museum’s collection, and objects loaned from various restaurants, the exhibition examines the “new Nordic” concept as a broad aesthetic development defined by the interaction between materials, people and landscape.
Includes works by Kvae & Bark, Jens L. Thomsen, Fäviken, Edvard Munch, Olafur Eliasson, Carl-Viggo Hølmebakk arkitektkontor, Snøhetta, Jensen & Skodvin arkitekter, Kristine Fornes, Pentti Kaskipuro, Benjamin Alexander Huseby, Poul Andrias Ziska/Koks, Piet Oudolf, Knud Leem, Anders Smebye, Magnus Ek/Oaxen, Roderick Sloan, Hans J. Wegner, Toril Redalen, Dyvik Kahlen and others.
A specially commissioned pavilion will be constructed for the exhibition on the square outside of the museum. There will be an extensive programme of events throughout the exhibition period, including design workshops, foraging trips and meals prepared by celebrated chefs.
A version of the exhibition will be on display at the National Nordic Museum in Seattle, USA from 7 November 2025.
Curator Exhibition: Martin Braathen and Inger Helene Stemshaug.
Travel support Swedish Arts Grants Committee.
MAY 23, 2025
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