NORDIK, or the Nordic Association for Art Historians, is an association of

art historians The history of art focuses on objects made by humans for any number of spiritual, narrative, philosophical, symbolic, conceptual, documentary, decorative, and even functional and other purposes, but with a primary emphasis on its aesthetic visu ...

from universities and museums in the

Nordic countries The Nordic countries (also known as the Nordics or ''Norden''; literal translation, lit. 'the North') are a geographical and cultural region in Northern Europe and the Atlantic Ocean, North Atlantic. It includes the sovereign states of Denmar ...

. The committee was founded in

Helsinki Helsinki ( or ; ; sv, Helsingfors, ) is the Capital city, capital, primate city, primate, and List of cities and towns in Finland, most populous city of Finland. Located on the shore of the Gulf of Finland, it is the seat of the region of U ...

in 1984 to promote research networks between Nordic art historians. The main task of the committee since 1984 has been to organize the NORDIK conference every third year in a Nordic country. The board of NORDIK consists members from Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden, and are appointed by the general assembly of NORDIK for a period of three years. The general assembly usually takes place in connection with the NORDIK conferences. The present committee was appointed by the general assembly that took place in connection with NORDIK.X in 2012 in Stockholm, Sweden. Chairman of NORDIK is prof. Jeff Werner,

Stockholm University Stockholm University ( sv, Stockholms universitet) is a public research university in Stockholm, Sweden, founded as a college in 1878, with university status since 1960. With over 33,000 students at four different faculties: law, humanities, so ...

Nordik conferences

*1984 Helsinki, Finland. Nordic art around the turn of the century *1987 Gothenburg, Sweden. Nordic Sponsors of the Arts *1990 Ry, Denmark. Influence and Exchange *1993 Geilo, Norway. The identity of Art History *1996 Åbo/Turku, Finland. Art after 1945 *2000 Uppsala, Sweden. The History of Art History *2003 Århus, Denmark. Exhibitions *2006 Bergen, Norway. Tradition and Visual Culture *2009 Jyväskylä, Finland. Mind and Matter.Mind and Matter – Selected papers of Nordik 2009, Conference for Art Historians. Taidehistoriallisia Tutkimuksia / Konsthistoriska Studier 41, Johanna Vakkari (red.), Helsinki, 2010, . *2012 Stockholm, Sweden. Presentation/Representation/Repression *2015 Reykjavik, Iceland. Mapping uncharted territories

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