Katuaq, Cultural House of Greenland, Nuuk, Greenland

The Weather Diaries
The exhibition examines the role and purpose of fashion in the West-Nordic countries, together with themes such as sustainability, the weather and climate, storytelling, heritage, identity and how the creativity appears.

Through the artists Nina Gorfer and Sarah Cooper, the exhibition is a meeting between the three North-Atlantic countries: Iceland, The Faroe Islands, and Greenland.

The exhibition was created on the request of Nordens hus (The Nordic House) in Reykjavik intended for the two artist, Sarah Cooper and Nina Gorfer. The exhibition was developed for Nordic Fashion Biennale in Frankfurt, Deutschland in 2014. Cooper and Gorfer travelled on The Faroe Islands, in Greenland and Iceland to study how designers get inspired by the weather, the nature and the conditions in the three different countries.

12 Designers from those three countries, including Bibi Chemnitz, Najannguaq D. Lennert, Nikolja Kristensen and Jessie Kleeman from Greenland

The works originates in the designers stories, hopes and ambitions, put in a dreamlike and supernatural setting. The exhibition therefor creates the space for a different take on storytelling through the pictures.

It is the hope of Nuuk Art Museum, that with this exhibition will emerge a new discussion about national pride surrounding design and art, and that it will create new ways of thinking regarding Greenlandic techniques with leather and pearls.

With the exhibition also comes teaching materials for schoolchildren and high school students, with a focus on picture-analysis and storytelling.

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Flag of Greenland, Nuuk, Greenland

Designed by Greenland native Thue Christiansen and adopted on June 21, 1985.

The colors of the Greenlandic flag, red and white, are the same as those of the flag of Denmark, symbolizing Greenland's place in the Danish realm.

- The white stripe represents the glaciers and ice cap, which cover more than 80% of the island
- The red stripe represents the ocean
- The red semicircle represents the sun, with its bottom part sunk in the ocean
- The white semicircle represents the icebergs and pack ice
- The design is also reminiscent of the setting sun half-submerged below the horizon and reflected on the sea.

The flag of Greenland features two equal horizontal bands of white (top) and red with a large disk slightly to the hoist side of centre. The top half of the disk is red, the bottom half is white. The entire flag measures 18 by 12 parts; each stripe measures 6 parts; the disk is 8 parts in diametre, horizontally offset by 7 parts from the hoist to the centre of the circle, and vertically centered.

In 1985, the public was made aware that Greenland's flag had exactly the same motif as the flag of the Danish rowing club HEI Rosport, which was founded before Greenland's flag was chosen. It is not clear whether this is a case of plagiarism or just a coincidence, but the rowing club has given Greenland permission to use their flag.

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Tour bus at Cruise Ship Terminal, Nuuk, Greenland

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Jonathan Petersen (1881 – 1961), Greenlandic composer

Bronze bust of Jonathan Petersen, organist at Nuuk's Our Saviour’s Church. Petersen was a well-known writer of psalms, as well as a gifted organist.

Petersen also composed the music to the national anthem of Greenland, Nunarput utoqqarsuanngoravit (Our Country, Who's Become So Old in English). The lyrics were written by the Greenlandic pastor Henrik Lund, and the song was adopted as the national anthem in 1916.

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Thirteen Tapestries (1998), Council Chambers, City Hall, Nuuk, Greenland

by Hans Lynge (1906 - 1988)

The tapestries bring together the cultures of Denmark and Greenland. They depict colonial employees, communal life, hunting, rites of passage, fables and stories and The Last Drum Song triptych.

The artist's drawings of life in Greenland were translated into woven tapestries by Danish artisans. T

Hans Lynge (1906 - 1988), Greenlandic author, dramatist, painter, politician, printmaker, and sculptor.

Many of his sculptures involve mothers or indigenous heroes, but he also did official sculptors of well known Greenlanders. His paintings draw on similar themes of Greenlandic legend and mothers, while having the European influence of Impressionism. He played a role in the history of Greenland theatre as well. He also wrote several books depicting Nuuk.

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