Street Art in Greenland IV

“I’ve always been attracted to extreme places,” said Australian Guido van Helten in 2014. He is the artist who created one of the two artworks depicted in this fourth part of our series, Street Art in Greenland. Guido is known for his monumental murals created in a number of cities in different parts of the world.

Kâtuat or Poonojorteq

Before creating his large gable mural in Nuuk, Guido van Helten thoroughly studied a photograph of a sealer from Tasiilaq. The photo, which dates back to 1906, was taken by the photographer W. Thalbitzer. The face of the sealer, believed to be called Kâtuat or Poonojorteq, was then painted on the south-facing gable of block 5 in central Nuuk.

The Last Greenlandic Supper

Icelandic visual artist and musician Gudmundur R. Ludviksson was educated in the Netherlands, Germany and Iceland. He is also known for his murals, as well as exhibitions in several countries in Europe and Greenland. The stamp depicts a central section of his distinctive work ‘The Last Supper’. The complete work can be seen at the airport in Narsarsuaq, South Greenland.