Trondheim Art Museum to Host Lecture on Inger Sitter and Modernism

Trondheim Art Museum will host a lecture on Inger Sitter on Friday, September 4, when art historian Frida Forsgren speaks about the artist from 6 to 7 p.m. The museum describes Sitter as one of Norway’s most beloved artists and frames the talk around her place in modernism and lyrical abstraction, with an emphasis on the poetic and sensuous forms that characterize her paintings.

The lecture, titled 'Inger Sitter: Et større modernistisk landskap', is scheduled at Trondheim Art Museum and is presented as a one-hour event. According to the museum’s booking information, the ticket also includes admission to the museum’s other exhibitions in Bispegata and at Håkon Bleken senter på Solsiden. The museum’s notice says the talk invites audiences to consider Sitter within a broader modernist landscape rather than as a figure isolated from wider artistic currents.

Forsgren is identified by the museum and booking page as an art historian, and the online listing from the University of Agder identifies her as an associate professor in the institution’s Department of Visual and Performing Arts. Trondheim Art Museum’s announcement says she will draw lines from Sitter to American pop, environmental engagement, and the artist’s interest in urban space and play. The source material does not add further details about the lecture’s format, but it makes clear that the event is centered on interpretation rather than a retrospective exhibition.

The museum’s description of Sitter’s work stresses the recognizability of her imagery. It says many viewers feel at home in paintings that can resemble landscapes of skerries and stone formations, and it links that familiarity to the artist’s connection with modernism and lyrical abstraction. The wording suggests that the lecture will treat Sitter not only as a major Norwegian name, but also as an artist whose work connects modernist experimentation with sensory, landscape-like associations.

The event appears alongside Trondheim Art Museum’s current and upcoming programming. The museum’s newsletter notes that a curator-led look at 'Inger Sitter. Naturfølelse' runs from August 13 to September 20, and that a family Sunday activity inspired by Inger Sitter is also taking place in August. Those items are listed separately from the September lecture, which stands as a single evening program in the museum’s autumn schedule.

Trondheim Art Museum’s website also notes that 'Ulmie', a group exhibition with Sissel M Bergh, Amanda & Stacey Fayant, Meerke Laimi Thomasson Vekterli and Guri Simone Øveraas, is set to open in mid-October and continue through February 7, 2027. That exhibition is presented as a separate forthcoming project and is not connected in the source material to the Inger Sitter lecture, which will take place on September 4 from 6 to 7 p.m. at Trondheim Art Museum.