Gallery tour in Vrådal

Gallery Sølvsmedtunet

At Sølvsmedtunet right next to Straand Hotel, a sales exhibition will be held from 7 July to 5 August with works by Tor-Arne Moen.
Tor-Arne Moen is a painter and graphic artist educated at Bergen Academy of the Arts and has had his studio in Notodden since 1992.
He is one of our innovative professional visual artists with his own expression.
The exhibition shows graphics with nostalgia, emotion, exotic animals, people and motorized vehicles.
This is an exhibition not to be missed that will happily draw you into the world of Tor-Arne.
Sølvsmedtunet is open weekdays from 09:00 to 17:00 and Saturdays from 10:00 to 16:00
Contact: Astrid Søftestad
Phone: 97574076
www.solvsmedtunet.no

Gallery Lalla – Vrådal Tourist Office

The tourist office in the center of Vrådal, in collaboration with Kviteseid Municipality, runs a permanent gallery with art by Louis Moe.
Louis Moe was a Danish-Norwegian artist who had his summer paradise Vrådal.
He was born in Arendal in 1957, but became a Danish citizen in 1919. He was nevertheless strongly connected to Norwegian nature and had a permanent residence in Vrådal and his beloved Juvlandsæter in the years from 1895 until World War II.
The collection, which is on loan from Louis Moe’s heirs in Copenhagen, consists of 60 etchings and prints, with motifs from mythology and fairy tales.
The Tourist Office and Gallery is open all year round on weekdays from 10:00 to 16:00 and Saturdays from 10:00 to 14:00

Gallery Samvirke

Galleri Samvirke is located in the cooperative’s old premises at the end of Vrådal center and is run on a voluntary basis by Vrådal and Fyresdal Målarklubb.
The gallery exhibits works by the club’s members and specially invited guest exhibitors with a local connection.
The Painters’ Club also regularly manages and exhibits Kviteseid municipality’s collection of original illustrations and paintings by Solveig Muren Sanden (1918 – 2013), who was born and raised in Vrådal and also lived most of her life here.
Here you can also buy the book “Segn og soger og gode historier frå Vrådal” and there is an exhibition of illustrations from the book in addition to paintings by the members of Vrådal and Fyresdal Målarklubb.
Galleri Samvirke will hold a summer exhibition with Birger Bergland and the members of Vrådal and Fyresdal painters’ club from 11 August to 23 September 2023
The exhibition opens on 11 August at 6 pm and is open Thursday-Saturday from 11:00 to 16:00 until 26 August, and Saturdays from 11:00 to 16:00 until 23 September and otherwise when the sign is outside.
Contact: Heidi Naper
Phone: 901 28 183
Visiting: Vråliosvegen 64, Vrådal
Facebook: Gallery Samvirke Vrådal

Solveig Muren Sanden – Smørbukk og Tuss og Troll

In the center of Vrådal, not far from Galleri Samvirke, you will find the statue of a fishing Smørbukk.
Solveig Muren Sanden was born in Vrådal in 1918 and grew up and lived most of her life here.
She was an avid supporter of Galleri Samvirke and an honorary member of Vrådal and Fyresdal Painters’ Club.
Solveig Muren Sanden is best known as an illustrator and probably the first known Norwegian female cartoonist. She drew over 60 Smørbukk and Tuss og Troll in the period 1957 – 1981 and has written and illustrated a number of books. She was also a skilled painter.
As a young girl, Solveig showed some of her drawings to the Norwegian-Danish painter and draughtsman Louis Moe, who had a summer house at Juvlandsæter in Vrådal, and received good advice and good criticism from the well-known artist.
She had her first drawing printed in Norsk Barneblad in 1932, only 14 years old, and took an education in painting and illustration at the National Academy of Fine Arts before and after World War II, with Henrik Sørensen as her teacher, among others.
In 1973, she became the first recipient of the Ministry of Culture’s comic book award, which she received together with screenwriter and editor of Norsk Barneblad, Johannes Farestveit.
In 2004, she was awarded the Troll Prize during the Fairy Tale Festival in Heidal for her unique portrayal of Norwegian fairy tales with her characteristic line. The following year, she received Kviteseid municipality’s cultural award. Solveig Muren Sanden has also been awarded the King’s Medal of Merit in silver.
Vrådal and Fyresdal Målarklubb also regularly manage and exhibit Kviteseid municipality’s collection of original illustrations and paintings in Galleri Samvirke.

Galleri Sanden

Galleri Sanden at the south end of Vråvatn is a gallery in combination with a farm shop where you will find art, handicrafts, local food, clothes and interiors and more.
On selected days, often Saturdays, sourdough bread is baked and baked in a wood-fired baking oven, and during the summer months, courses are held in the use of a wood-fired baking oven.
Rhubarb is also grown here, which is used for the production of rhubarb juice.
The gallery is open most Saturdays from 11:00 to 15:oo and during the high seasons the opening hours are extended, this is updated regularly on social media.
Contact: Gunn Marit Sanden
Phone: 980 30 647
www.gunnmaritsanden.no
Galleri Sanden on Facebook

Kviteseid village museum and Kviteseid old church

Kviteseid rural museum at the bottom of Kviteseidkleivene at the exit towards Fjågesund is one of the oldest open-air museums in this country, and was established eighteenth in 1907.
The collection presents 12 different buildings that have been moved here from different farms. Here you will find, among other things, Tveitloftet from before the Black Death and Flekstveittoga.
Kviteseid rural museum should give an impression of Korleis a prosperous farm looked like about 200 years ago.
In Utsondhalli, the carpenter Gunnar Utsond will be presented, in addition to this year’s exhibition about Flekstveit.
The village yard is located right next to Kviteseid old church and Kviteseid farm.

The old stone church, which is one of two stone churches from the Middle Ages in West Telemark, was built around 1260 and is a main church dedicated to St. Olav.
The church still has its original entrance with a carved wooden arch over the door that shows two dragons tangled together in eternal strife and the roof was decorated in 20 panels by the well-known painter Thomas Blix (ius) in 1714.
The church is surrounded by a very atmospheric little cemetery.
For a long time, the city was an economic, political, religious and cultural center in West Telemark, strategically located where the main road and the waterway cross.
Kviteseid bydetun is open from 11:00 to 17:00 in the period 25 June to 15 July.
There are regular guided tours of the village yard and the old church at 12:00, 14:00 and 16:00 during this period.
There will also be an opening event on 18 June and Viking Day on 1 July.
Contact: Vest-Telemark Museum
Phone: 35069090
www.vtm.no