Episode 118 - GRÍMUR/MASKS - 40 YEARS ON
Today, RÚV English looks forward to a new exhibition, but also back 40 years to see why it might not be so new, after all. In 1983, two Norwegian artists Göran Ohldieck and Kjetil Berge came to Iceland. The purpose of the trip was to set up a large exhibition titled MASKS at the Nordic House in Reykjavík - over 200 photograps and slides bubbling with queer aesthetics. In fact, not many people saw the exhibition as it only lasted for two days. The artists packed up the exhibition and left the country. The then management of The Nordic House were said to have wanted to censor the exhibition and…
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