The Bloomsbury Group – Challenging the Strict Norms of the Victorian Era
Take a journey back in time, where the artists, writers, and philosophers of the Bloomsbury Group broke with Victorian social norms and explored the forbidden realms of gender, sexuality, imperialism, and alternative lifestyles.
Bold Thoughts in the Victorian Era
Nivaagaards Malerisamling is, for the first time in Denmark, presenting an exhibition on the English Bloomsbury Group. The exhibition explores the group's radical artistic and intellectual experiments, which broke with the strict norms of the Victorian era.
The Bloomsbury Group was known for its liberal approach to gender, sexuality, imperialism, and alternative lifestyles, and their ideas remain relevant today. The exhibition is created in close collaboration with Charleston, the home and studio of Vanessa Bell and Duncan Grant, which served as a central gathering point for the group's artistic and philosophical work.
Who was the Bloomsbury Group?
The Bloomsbury Group emerged in 1904 through weekly discussion evenings at the home of Virginia Woolf (born Virginia Stephen) and her sister, the painter Vanessa Bell. Vanessa Bell, known for her bold color experiments and modernist paintings, and Virginia Woolf, one of the most influential writers of the 20th century, were key figures in the group.
Other prominent members included the painter Duncan Grant as well as several philosophers, thinkers, and writers. Together, they challenged societal norms and placed art and the free individual at the center of their work.