Public Talk at Listasavn Føroya – 28 June 2026
Come and join our presentation at the National Gallery of the Faroe Islands this Sunday afternoon.
Invitation
This Sunday, I have the pleasure to speak at Listasavn Føroya in Tórshavn about the Swedish painter William Gislander (1890–1937) and his seminal journey to the Faroe Islands in 1924.
During a nine-month stay, Gislander produced around one hundred paintings of Faroese landscapes and wildlife, and inspired the eighteen-year old Sámal Joensen-Mikines to become a painter. The exhibition that followed in Copenhagen later that year became the first major art exhibition dedicated entirely to the Faroe Islands.
Date: Sunday, 28 June 2026, 15:00
Location: Listasavn Føroya, Tórshavn
The talk will be in English language and introduce this research project that seeks to reconstruct this forgotten exhibition and trace the surviving paintings. The majority of them disappeared from public view into private collections a century ago. More than 22 of them were already sold on the Faroes (and are presumably still there).
If you are curious to learn about a new chapter in the history of Nordic art, or may even know of a Gislander painting from this time, I am looking forward to seeing you in person on Sunday!
This work was produced with the financial assistance of the European Union. The views expressed herein can in no way be taken to reflect the official opinion of the European Union.
