Exhibition

Avgang 2026: ANTENNE ANTENNE

The Master's students at the Academy of Fine Art, Oslo National Academy of the Arts, present their work in a joint degree exhibition at Kunstnernes Hus. The exhibition is a conjunction of collective efforts through a radio show, a library, a self assembling publication station, a cabaret and performance programme orbited by individual contributions in the various spaces of Kunstnernes Hus.

“A reason to reach out to people, to make it together and make it to share. Self-organize, without necessarily agreeing. Transmitting, making an infrastructure for relational effort”. (notes from the masterstudents conversations)

About the exhibition

The title “Antenne, antenne” is Norwegian for both “antennae” and “spark/ignite”, giving flight to ideas of listening in, receiving a multitude of signals, and at the same time spark something; resistance, a provocation, an energetic field, a leak, a laugh. In the case of the master´s degree exhibition, it might spark or activate beginnings, ongoings and endings by self-organized effort, engaging in formats which by definition offers the group an invitation to listen in and reach out.

The collective spark invited the format of the radio station and listening space, the library, the stage, and the interactive assembly of material into publication as the core, collaborative elements of the exhibition.

The sculptural presence and performative nature of the cabaret-inspired stage extends into both the restaurant and the exhibition space. A flock of sculptural otters - reproductions of the restaurant’s own - guide the audience through elements of the artist's singular practices, sometimes in fragments, sometimes dialogue with the house, sometimes as entire works of art, residing in and around these collective structures, in the spaces between them and in the large exhibition space on the lower floor of Kunstnernes Hus.

Pakkerommet hosts the radio- and listening station, the stage commutes between the restaurant and the exhibition space, both hosting programmed events throughout the exhibition period. Located outside in the corridor there is also the hint of a library connected to a self-assembling publication station. Here the public can compile their own edition of the publication, which consists of a fixed cover to be filled with material that varies as a result of the programming during the exhibition period.

The exhibition spaces include the restaurant and terrace, the reception area, the lower gallery, the Academy Room, the basement toilets, 'Pakkerommet', as well as the corridors.

ANTENNE ANTENNE is curated by Liv Bugge and Miki Gebrelul.
The exhibition is organized and produced in collaboration between the Academy of Fine Art at the Oslo National Academy of the Arts and Kunstnernes Hus.

Participating artists

Camilla Bahnsen, Julie Barfod, Catriona Grace Beckett, Joanna Helen P. Blanckaert, Zida Bruun, Alice Darby, Lone Sigmond Eivindsdottir, Franciska Eliassen, Aljoša Eraković, Anders Hagen, Moa Hjärtström, Matias Kiil, Lukas Sødahl Moland, Anna Näumann, Manos Saklas, Gloriya Talebi, Carla Wedderkopp, Yanina Zaichanka

ANTENNE ANTENNE is curated by Liv Bugge and Miki Gebrelul.

The exhibition is organized and produced in collaboration between the Academy of Fine Art at the Oslo National Academy of the Arts and Kunstnernes Hus. Head technician is Sara-Lovise Ask Ewertson.

Exhibition opening

18:00 Exhibition opening
19:00 Performance and welcome remarks
21:00 DJ
22.00 Exhibition closes