Come and create a new, fabulous, and fantastic portrait gallery at Nationalmuseum!
During Pride Week, we invite all children on holiday and their families to the Nationalmuseum's studio to together create a temporary, fabulous, and fantastic portrait collection. Who do you think should be included? Someone you know, a celebrity, or a character from a book?
Date and time
Friday 2 August–Sunday 4 August, 13:00–16:00, drop-in
Location
Ateljé/Studio 2, entrance floor
Admission
Free
We are inspired by the American artist Vaginal Davis, whose portraits highlight people she admires who historically never had their portraits hung in castles or museums. With a lot of energy and humour, she wants to change both history and the future by telling different stories and painting different images than the ones she grew up seeing and hearing.
Vaginal Davis, Diz McNally Out of Control, 2021, mixed media, 17 x 12 cm. Courtesy of the artist and Galerie Isabella Bortolozzi, Berlin
Vaginal Davis' portraits celebrate rebellious women, queer* and black people throughout the ages, using all kinds of materials. An invitation card to a party can become the base and an old lipstick the colour.
In the studio, we set up the work tables with possible and impossible materials, talk about role models and imagination to create the portraits we want to make.
Our goal is to create a temporary fabulous and fantastic portrait gallery in the corridor outside the studio during this weekend with copies of the portraits created by the participants in the studio. Everyone decides for themselves if the portrait they create will be included and everyone gets to take the original picture home!
* Being or calling yourself queer is about breaking norms around gender, sexuality and/or relationships in some way.