Associate Professor Ingeborg Høvik from UiT The Arctic University of Norway gives a lecture on the connections between the projects of Greenlandic photographers Inuuteq Storch and John Møller, and discusses the importance of an inside perspective in a Greenlandic context.
February 5 th 2026 at 19.00
Storgata 95
Greenland’s history from a Greenlandic perspective
In an interview with the Louisiana Museum, Inuuteq Storch says that he wants to tell the history of Greenland from a Greenlandic perspective, as historical photographs were mainly taken by people who came traveling to Greenland. An important inspiration for Storch’s work is the large collection of John Møller’s photographs at the NKA (Greenland National Museum and Archives) in Nuuk.
First Greenlandic photographer
Møller was the first professional Greenlandic photographer and his more than 3000 glassplate negatives at NKA is an amazing source to images of life and society in West-Greenland in the period 1890-1930.
About the event
The lecture is given in English and lasts approximately 45 minutes.
The event is a collaboration between Perspektivet Museum and the research project Urban Transformation in a Warming Arctic.
Ingeborg Høvik is an associate professor of art history at UiT The Arctic University of Norway in Tromsø.
She led the NFR project Arctic Voices together with Sigfrid Kjeldaas and organized the conference Decolonizing Arctic History at the Anchorage Museum in Alaska.
Høvik is also involved in the campaign “Museums are not neutral”, which works for more democracy, transparency and local connection in museums.