Hell - Trondheim kunstmuseum

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Photo: Dag Asle Langø/TKM.

In the work Escape Route with Birches #3, Katinka Goldberg explores her Jewish roots and how flight and war memories affect several generations. The artist filmed birch trees swaying in the wind as she walked up her grandmother Aasne Kahn's escape route from World War II. Kahn was Jewish and fled Nazi persecution in Trondheim, to safety in Sweden. Aasne Kahn survived the war, but never returned to Trondheim.

Goldberg made the film to be projected over Gustav Vigeland's Hell. Goldberg's projection and Vigeland's relief are shown alternately. Gustav Vigeland called the relief Hell, and he referred to the man enthroned in the middle as Satan. As early as 1894, Vigeland showed this plaster version of the motif at his first solo exhibition at Christiania Kunstforening.

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Photo: Dag Nystuen/TKM.

Learning from the artist

With the new presentation, the museum wants to make use of the knowledge that artists bring with when meeting our collection. Thus, new paths in art history shall be created — a multi-perspective, dynamic, and multi-voiced narrative of art histories. In other words: The museum learns from the artists.

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