Exhibition

Avgang 2026: Bachelor billedkunst

The artists, who began their studies in 2023, present their work with a focused sense of urgency and ambition. As they step into Oslo Kunstforening, many for the first time addressing a large public audience, they do so with practices shaped through sustained inquiry and shared exploration.

Working across painting, performance, photography, sound, text, and installation, the exhibition brings together a wide range of approaches to form. For some, systems, repetition, series, or research provide a framework. For others, form emerges through material investigation and image-making, allowing surfaces to register time and revision, and bodies to test exposure and relation, while sound amplifies and deepens perceptual experience, shaping how the space is encountered. Rather than advancing a unified position, the exhibition unfolds as a set of distinct investigations into scale, labour, perception, and attention. The works engage their conditions without attempting to resolve them, affirming the value of sustained artistic practice. What begins here does not end with the exhibition. It continues in the forms of attention, commitment, and inquiry these artists carry forward.

The exhibition marks the 20th anniversary of the first-ever BA degree exhibition in Norway.

With artworks by

Isak Austin, Ånund Engebret Berger, Line Berget, Andrea Berner, Julius Carlsson Jeansson, Owidia Hedda Marie-Louise Antoinette Delmas Reistad Wesenberg, Mathias Eugen Engen, Viktor Lier Hansen, Mattis Kristian Hansgaard, Jacqueline Windy Havn, Jonas Meurer-Lunde, Isabelle Aimeé Mar Bastidas Johannesen, Rosa Kristalova, Patrick Kuoppamäki, Embla Alvrun Uma Vegardsdotter Moe, Lidiya Solomon Muluberhanu, Anton Samuel Olausson, Ebbe Marienborg Schieldrop, Nana Marika Umetani Schulze, Thando Beau Sikawuti, Benjamin Aaron, Thea Tuset og Alexander Magnus Øvreås Wille.

The curators for the exhibition are Ifrah Osman and Antonio Cataldo.