Exhibition

Avgang 2025: Master billedkunst / Hold\

Hold\

“Statens Kunstakademi” is written above the entrance at the back of Kunstnernes Hus, a trace from when the art academy was once housed here. The entrance is currently held up by two load-bearing metal rods.

With this image in mind, we—the graduating Masters of Fine Art class at the Oslo National Academy of the Arts—entered into a conversation about support structures. What it means to be present, even when uncertain. Scaffolding became a way to think: not only as a thing that holds, but as a skin\a covering\a temporality\a signal of something unfinished.

The graduation exhibition combines diverse practices ranging from fictional audio guides and large scale paintings, to 35 mm slide projections of permafrost. An exhibition architecture of building materials – netting, plastic, rods from scaffolding – connects the work of the 19 artists, as they attempt to navigate the labyrinthine spaces of Kunstnernes Hus.

During the exhibition period, there will be a screening program, performances, as well as a newspaper publication. The exhibition has been curated collectively in dialogue with Professor Lisa Rosendahl.

The exhibition spaces at Kunstnernes Hus include the foyer, the restaurant, the reception area, the lower gallery, the cinema and the Academy Room, 'Pakkerommet', the attic at the back of the building, as well as the corridors.

Read more about the exhibition and the individual artists at Kunstnernes hus´website:
https://kunstnerneshus.no/program/utstillinger/avgangsutstillingen-2025