Friends Talk: Hilma af Klint and the Spirit World
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Join writer Jennifer Higgie for this talk presented by the Friends of the National Gallery of Ireland in association with our exhibition Hilma af Klint: Artist and Visionary.
Higgie, the author of The Other Side: A Story of Women, Art and the Spirit World, will discuss how spiritualism inspired the work of Hilma af Klint and numerous other artists in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. While the individual work of these artists is unique, they loosely shared the same goal: to communicate with and learn from other dimensions.
This talk is open to members and non-members. Book your ticket at the link.
Following the lecture, we will host a book signing with Jennifer in the Gallery Shop.
About Jennifer Higgie: Jennifer Higgie is an Australian writer, curator and former editor of frieze magazine who lives in London. Her novel Bedlam, about the 19th-century Fairy painter Richard Dadd, is published by Verso. Recent books include The Other Side: A Story of Women, Art and the Spirit World (2023) and The Mirror and the Palette: Rebellion, Revolution and Resilience: 500 Years of Women's Self-portraits (2021).
Hilma af Klint; Artist and Visionary continues until 7 February 2027.
Organised in collaboration with The Hilma af Klint Foundation. Presented by Key Capital at 25. Funded as part of the Culture Programme for Ireland’s Presidency of the Council of the European Union 2026.
Image: Hilma af Klint (1862-1944), 'Altarpiece, Group X, No.2', 1915. By courtesy of the Hilma af Klint Foundation. Photo: The Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden.
Higgie, the author of The Other Side: A Story of Women, Art and the Spirit World, will discuss how spiritualism inspired the work of Hilma af Klint and numerous other artists in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. While the individual work of these artists is unique, they loosely shared the same goal: to communicate with and learn from other dimensions.
This talk is open to members and non-members. Book your ticket at the link.
Following the lecture, we will host a book signing with Jennifer in the Gallery Shop.
About Jennifer Higgie: Jennifer Higgie is an Australian writer, curator and former editor of frieze magazine who lives in London. Her novel Bedlam, about the 19th-century Fairy painter Richard Dadd, is published by Verso. Recent books include The Other Side: A Story of Women, Art and the Spirit World (2023) and The Mirror and the Palette: Rebellion, Revolution and Resilience: 500 Years of Women's Self-portraits (2021).
Hilma af Klint; Artist and Visionary continues until 7 February 2027.
Organised in collaboration with The Hilma af Klint Foundation. Presented by Key Capital at 25. Funded as part of the Culture Programme for Ireland’s Presidency of the Council of the European Union 2026.
Image: Hilma af Klint (1862-1944), 'Altarpiece, Group X, No.2', 1915. By courtesy of the Hilma af Klint Foundation. Photo: The Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden.
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National Gallery of Ireland, Merrion Square West,Dublin, Ireland
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