Moving exhibition in 1989-90 in Milan, Antwerp, Munich and Schleswig on an initiative by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. The exhibition showed art by Norwegian female artists from the last 110 years. The exhibition starts with the first generation of Norwegian artists represented by Harriet Backer and Frida Hansen and ends with contemporary works by Liv Mildrid Gjernes and Gitte Dæhlin made in the late 1980s. The exhibition included not only paintings but also textile and sculpture. The concept of the room worked as a uniting theme for the exhibition not just as a motive for painters such as Harriet Backer and Ida Lorentzen who painted interiors, but also as the room in which the art was made, and as a space which was gradually expanded both by impulses from outside and by the gradual removal of the barriers the artists of the earlier generations faced.


Six paintings by Harriet Backer, both landscapes and interiors all painted in the 1880s and 90s.

Catalogue in English with an introduction by Anne Wichstrøm and a preface by the prime minister at the time, Gro Harlem Brundtland. 94 artworks.