​Curated viewing of modern Finnish Graphic artwork at British​ Museum

​Curated viewing of modern Finnish Graphic artwork at British​ Museum:
Friday​, 19 June 2026 at 2​ p​.m​.
Address: Great Russell St​reet, London WC1B 3DG

Background

​Jennifer (Jenny) Ramkalawon, curator of Western Modern and Contemporary​ Graphic at the British Museum spent five years searching f​or the best Nordic works​ of the 20th century. Her search resulted in the acquisition of 400​ graphic works for​ the British Museum; this, along with Jenny’s post, was funded by the AKO​ Foundation, a philanthropic organisation founded by a Norwegian multi-millionaire​ fund manager.

To quote from the Financial Times’ interview with Jenny in Oct​ober 2025, she “discovered a broad but largely unknown field that touches on the region’s social​ democratic ethos as well as its monumental landscape, a terrain of forests, jagged​ shores and crepuscular valleys that aligns perfectly with the grooves and grain of​ etchings and woodcuts”.

The result of her “voyage of discovery” was an exhibition of some 150 of the 400​ collected works by 100 artists drawn from Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Finland and​ Iceland at the British Museum between Oct​ober 2025 and Mar​ch 2026.

The exhibition has now been dismantled, but Jenny has offered the A-FS a curated​ tour of Finnish works which are held in the onsite archive at the Museum.