PANEL DISCUSSION:
THE ART OF ASSESSING ART
THE PANEL:
Mikaela Bruhn Aschim is an art historian from Goldsmiths University in London. Since 2016, she has run the Oslo-based commercial gallery QB Gallery. The gallery focuses on Norwegian artists, both younger and more established names, and has a wide range of expressions within contemporary art, including painting, photography, sculpture, graphics, ceramics and textile art. In 2021, the gallery was mentioned in Aftenposten as one of the galleries that have put Oslo on the map as an art city: “They have helped capture the spirit of the times.”
Erlend Hammer is a trained art historian and employed as a curator at Haugar Art Museum/Vestfold Museums. He has worked as an art critic and freelance curator, including for the Momentum Biennale in 2013. From 2016-2020 he was Senior Art Expert at Blomqvist Kunsthandel, where he worked with valuations and sales of art.
Fredrik Nergaard is a gallerist with 35 years of experience from Galleri Haaken. He has a cand.mag. in art history from the University of Oslo and a semester course in Museum Studies. Galleri Haaken was founded in 1961 and is the oldest privately run gallery in Norway. Galleri Haaken represents several of Norway's leading contemporary artists and participates in prominent Nordic art fairs.
Randi Thommessen is the general manager of the exhibition venue LNM (Landsforeningen Norske Malere) in Oslo. From 2015 to 2019 she worked as a curator at Trondheim Art Museum. From 2007 to 2013 she started and ran the gallery LAUTOM in Oslo, the gallery alternated between solo and group exhibitions, and also participated in a number of art fairs. Randi Thommessen has a Bachelor of Fine Arts from Central St Martins in London and a Master in Curatorial Practice from Bergen Academy of the Arts/UiB.
VISP is the competence and network organization for the visual arts field and works to improve and facilitate the conditions for the production and dissemination of visual art. VISP is aimed at all actors and levels within the visual arts field – artists, galleries, institutions, producers, curators, critics and suppliers, and is organized as a membership organization with free membership.
TUESDAY, DECEMBER 12TH AT 7 PM
GALLERY DIKEMARK ART AREA
WORK ROAD 2
In collaboration with VISP, Buskerud Visual Artists, Norwegian Craftsmen Viken.
The event is free and no registration is required.
What should a work of art really cost? Do factors such as education, age and gender come into play? Can an artist price himself out of a market, or sell himself cheaply? Are there really formulas that determine the value of a work of art? We want to shed light on all this and more in the conversation “The Art of Appreciating Art”.
The panel consists of Mikaela Bruun Aschim (art historian and gallery owner), Erlend Hammer (art historian and curator), Fredrik Nergaard (gallery owner) and Randi Thommessen (managing director at the exhibition venue LNM (Norwegian Association of Painters)) and will discuss together how a work of art should be priced. We have asked them to lower their shoulders, loosen their collars a little and participate in an informal blind test where they will price four different works of art by anonymous artists associated with Viken; the only thing they will know in advance is the artists' CVs.
Through this section, we want to highlight how challenging, and perhaps random, pricing can be, which will form the basis for the subsequent panel discussion.
When VISP organized a panel discussion in Bergen on November 13, Vestlandsrevyen, NRK's district news, did a story. See the report here.
The event is supported by Viken Fylkeskommune