Gender In Norwegian Art (GINA): How gender, author biography and context affect financial and aesthetic art evaluation
- Project period: 2021 - 2024
- Category: Basic Research
Description
The GINA project will systematically address the issues causing art made by women to be evaluated less, using Norway as an example but with the intent of applying the findings to the international art market and art history. The project involves several challenges: first of all, no previous project exists that has ever put all available research on gender, art, and psychology together into a coherent whole. Individual research on gender and art exists (e.g. Nochlin, 1988), as well as empirical studies on gender and art (e.g. Adams et al., 2017), but the two of them have never been put together into an interdisciplinary whole that speaks directly to societal issues or outlines exactly the cause of the gender discriminations. Ultimately, the gender discrimination in its entirety must be mapped, along with its causes, in order to suggest effective solutions that aims to reduce discrimination and promote equality. The GINA project therefore represents an interdisciplinary milestone that aims to thoroughly document the causes and solutions to gender discrimination, focusing on Norway in its data collections but with the aim to promote equality globally.
Participants
Espen Wilner Sjøberg
- Project manager
- Associate Professor
Kristiania University College
Institutt for psykologi, pedagogikk og juss
Espen Wilner SjøbergRaquel Gloria Wilner
Kristiania University College
Kristiania University College
Line Engen
The National Museum of Art, Architecture and Design