Knut Ljøgodt '' knʉt jøɡɔt'' (born 1968 in

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) is a

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. He was museum director of The Northern Norway Art Museum in

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between 2008-2016 and founding director of Kunsthall Svalbard in Longyearbyen since 2015. In the past he held curatorial positions in The

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, Oslo, The Munch Museum and Blaafarveverket. Ljøgodt holds a cand.philol. degree from

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and a Dr. Philos. from

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. He also studied at

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in London and the University of Oslo's Norwegian Institute in Rome. Amongst Ljøgodt's speciality fields are Scandinavian and European art from the 1800s, as well as modern

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. He has written several publications within these fields and been responsible for exhibitions such as ''Black Romance – Gothic Horror and Decadence'' (2009), A. K. Dolven – ''Ahead'' (2009), ''History Depicted'' (2011/2012), ''Knud Baade – Moonlight Romantic'' (2012),

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– ''The Northern Landscapes'' (2012), Olav Christopher Jenssen – ''The Donation'' (2014) and ''

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– Vision and Revolution'' (2014), in collaboration with

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of London. In 2019 he co-curated the exhibition ''Edward Burne-Jones: The Pre-Raphalites and the North'', which was first shown at Prins Eugens Waldemarsudde in Stockholm and then in 2020 at KODE – Art Museums and Composer Homes, Bergen. Ljøgodt has also initiated or curated several major exhibitions on Sámi historic and contemporary art, such as ''Sámi Stories: Art and Identity of an Arctic People'' (2014, Nordnorsk kunstmuseum, Tromsø; 2014, Scandinavia House, New York; 2014 Anchorage Museum) and ''Histories: Three generations of Sámi Artists'', (2019, Queen Sonja Art Stables, The Royal Palace, Oslo). In February 2015 Ljøgodt initiated the establishment of a satellite of The Northern Norway Art Museum under the name of Kunsthall Svalbard in the

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town of Longyearbyen. The space is dedicated to international contemporary art. In 2018 he co-founded the non-profit organisation Nordic Institute of Art, a private research institution for the promotion of Nordic art history.

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