{"id":64209,"date":"2026-03-16T10:33:03","date_gmt":"2026-03-16T10:33:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nordichouse.is\/?p=64209"},"modified":"2026-03-16T10:39:26","modified_gmt":"2026-03-16T10:39:26","slug":"donation-from-the-l-g-nordstrom-foundation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nordichouse.is\/en\/donation-from-the-l-g-nordstrom-foundation\/","title":{"rendered":"DONATION FROM THE L-G NORDSTR\u00d6M FOUNDATION"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 class=\"p1\">The Nordic House is pleased to announce the generous donation of a sculpture by <span class=\"a_GcMg font-feature-liga-off font-feature-clig-off font-feature-calt-off text-decoration-none text-strikethrough-none\">Lars-Gunnar Nordstr\u00f6m from <\/span>the L-G Nordstr\u00f6m Foundation. The donation strengthens the Nordic House\u2019s commitment to Nordic art and supporting artistic exchange across the region.<\/h3>\n<p class=\"p2\"><strong>About the artist, Lars-Gunnar Nordstr\u00f6m<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">The works of the Finnish artist Lars-Gunnar Nordstr\u00f6m, also known as Nubben, span paintings, sculptures, prints, and public installations. Nordstr\u00f6m\u2019s career stretched from the late 1940s into the early 2000s, establishing him as a respected figure in the abstract art movement. Nordstr\u00f6m was captivated by the shifting possibilities of colour, line, and shape. Influenced by concretism and constructivism, Nordstr\u00f6m saw abstraction as a clear, structured form of art built from ideas rather than representation. For Nordstr\u00f6m, the compositions and elements of the abstract movement represented an acceleration into the modern world.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><strong>About the L-G Nordstr\u00f6m Foundation<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Since the year 2000, the L\u2011G Nordstr\u00f6m Foundation has supported and produced exhibitions in collaboration with galleries and museums across Finland and abroad. Its mission is to foster, develop, and sustain the legacy of painting, sculpture, and other artistic expressions within the concretist and especially constructivist tradition. The Foundation supports research and publications on Nordstr\u00f6m\u2019s life and art, and commissions new works that continue the concretist tradition.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><strong>The Artotek Collection<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\">The Nordic House Artotek is a lending collection of Nordic graphic and photographic art. It began in 1971 with a donation of 200 graphic works from the Nordic Graphic Art Association, forming the foundation of the collection. In 1976, the Artotek opened to the public as the first initiative of its kind, allowing visitors to borrow artworks by Nordic artists much like they borrow books from a library. The collection is constantly expanding, and today it features over 600 artworks from across the Nordic region, including a serigraph by L\u2011G Nordstr\u00f6m from the 1960s.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><strong>On display in the Quiet space\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\">Now on display in Ilona, the house&#8217;s quiet space, the sculpture is presented alongside L\u2011G Nordstr\u00f6m\u2019s serigraph from the Artotek collection. Together, the works offer visitors a calm, contemplative encounter with the unique expressions of L\u2011G Nordstr\u00f6m. The installation is open to all guests during the Nordic House\u2019s regular opening hours.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Nordic House is pleased to announce the generous donation of a sculpture by Lars-Gunnar Nordstr\u00f6m from the L-G Nordstr\u00f6m Foundation. The donation strengthens the Nordic House\u2019s commitment to Nordic art and supporting artistic exchange across the region. About the artist, Lars-Gunnar Nordstr\u00f6m The works of the Finnish artist Lars-Gunnar Nordstr\u00f6m, also known as Nubben, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":38,"featured_media":64224,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[89],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-64209","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-announcements","no-banner-image"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nordichouse.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64209","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nordichouse.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nordichouse.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nordichouse.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/38"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nordichouse.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=64209"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nordichouse.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64209\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nordichouse.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/64224"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nordichouse.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nordichouse.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nordichouse.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}