THE BODY AS A BATTLEFIELD

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The Nobel Peace Prize

A 123-year-old fact and the Nobel Peace Prize 

Half a papaya, with a knife driven clean through its core. Tiny toy soldiers on a naked back. The images, which make up the exhibition “The Body as a Battlefield”, illustrates the barbarity that lies behind this year’s Nobel Peace Prize. Sexual violence has been used as a weapon of war since the dawn of time. Systematic rape, violent sexual assault and sexual slavery are used to spread fear, reward soldiers or exterminate entire religious and ethnic minorities.

–The violence itself is in many cases so overwhelming that it’s hard to convey sufficiently through the documentary genre, explains Cristina de Middel, the photographer behind this year’s Nobel Peace Prize Exhibition. Instead, she portrays the topic of sexual violence in conflict and war in a series of staged photographs taken in Nigeria in 2018 using local volunteers.

Cristina de Middel has spent time with both Nobel Peace Prize laureates; Dr Denis Mukwege, the Congolese surgeon who has helped reconstruct the shattered bodies of thousands of victims of sexual violence, and Nadia Murad, a member of Iraq’s Yazidi minority and a survivor of sexual violence and slavery. Held captive by ISIS, she managed to escape after three months of enslavement. Mukwege was photographed in the hospital he runs in DR Congo, along with some of the thousands of women he has treated. Nadia was photographed in Paris, France, between meetings with government officials and world leaders. Since her escape from Iraq, she has devoted her life to telling her story in the hope helping those still in captivity.

Visitors to this year’s Nobel Peace Prize Exhibition get the chance to become involved in the struggle to end the use of sexual violence in war. Visitors can sign an appeal urging Norway’s Higher Prosecuting Authorities to bring the perpetrators of such war crimes to justice. The appeals will be forwarded to the Director of Public Prosecutions.

This Exhibition has been made possible in collaboration with Norad.

On the 5thApril we at the Nobel Peace Center opened our new Exhibition KlimaLab, a vibrant exhibition about the climate, nature and people. It is an interactive experience for children and adults consisting of art installations you can touch, feel and even eat.

Klimalab is open to the public, but it is not completed. We want you to help us complete the exhibition, because climate change concerns us all and it is up to our generation to find a solution together.

To stop climate change, we all have to make changes in our own lives. We challenge you to become a KlimaBoss at home -Can you manage 30 days without meat? Can you plan your holiday without flying or maybe shop a bit smarter?


Every Sunday the whole family is invited to various Lab-events, where we can learn about the climate, the environment and our role in it all. How, as a family, can you become greener?

The exhibition is inspired by the father of the Nobel Peace Prize, Alfred Nobel, and his idea of “acting for the greatest benefit to humankind”, as well as Nobel Peace Prize Laureates Wangari Maathai, Al Gore and the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, who all received the Prize for their work to combat climate change. KlimaLab is open until January 2020. It is curated and produced by the Nobel Peace Center and is a part of the programme for Oslo European Green Capital 2019.

THE BODY AS A BATTLEFIELD

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THE BODY AS A BATTLEFIELD

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A 123-year-old fact and the Nobel Peace Prize

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