Norway
Pathways to EXHALE
The stages of grief. The stages of loss. Grief over losing a connection – connection with another, connection with life, connection with nature – along pathways that lead us into cycles of growth, bloom, and decay. An ode to nature and an ode to life through nature. SNIK, at their best again. Under the simple …
Mural By Robert Montgomery In Trondeheim Airport, Norway
The latest public work by British contemporary artist Robert Montgomery has just been completed in the city of Trondheim (situated where the River Nidelva meets Trondheim Fjord) in Central Norway. Montgomery is well known for his work in public space and billboard poems. He also makes light works, fire poems, woodcuts, paintings and watercolours. His …
Norway’s first LGBTQ+ Mural Constructed as Part of Løkka-lykke Street Art Festival in Oslo
Up-and-coming street artist Eva Hansen Sjøvold painted Norway’s first LGBTQ+ mural as part of Løkka-lykke Street Art Festival in Oslo this past June. Løkka-lykke is the first street art festival in Norway to take place in the capital city, and it has a decidedly local profile, aiming to work with local Norwegian artists. Eight artists …
Concrete Jungle by Xenz In Oslo
This month, British street artist Xenz completed the second urban art intervention of his month-long sojourn in Norway. Under the direction of James Finucane, arts organization Street Art Oslo has played host to this world-renowned talent, touring him through the Oslo metropolitan area to bring his distinct style to facades in need. The latest work …
“The Secret Garden” By Xenz In Oslo, Norway
In Oslo, Norway, curator, producer, and founder James Finucane has restarted his street art operations “after a long postponement due to COVID.” The enterprising individual heads Street Art Oslo, “an online platform and IRL network of artists, curators, producers and scholars dedicated to improving conditions for the production, reception and dissemination of street art and …
Degrowth: A Negative Growth Of An Economy Or A Population
There is only one thing we can count on in this chaotic universe: nothing lasts forever. Nothing lives forever, keeps its shape forever, or even stays in the same place forever, because place is in many ways relative and even if one particle remains fixed, the things surrounding it shift, thus relatively altering its location. …
2019 Nuart Festival Recap
“There is some kind of paradoxes at work here, you want to preserve graffiti as something wild and not institutionalized, but at the same time see the creativity within it,” says Malcolm Jacobson, of Stockholm University’s Sociology Department, in the recap film for Nuart Festival’s 19th edition. “I think Nuart has been very good at …
The Tunnels: An Experimental Film That Pushes The Boundaries Between Documentation, Critical Review & Video Art.
“The Tunnels”, by MZM Projects is an experimental film that pushes the boundaries between documentation, critical review and video art. It is dedicated to “Brand New, You’re Retro” exhibition that took place at the former brewery tunnels (now Tou Scene Centre for Contemporary Arts) in Stavanger (Norway) as a part of Nuart Festival 2019. “Brand New, …
Jad El Khoury’s curtains Adorn An Abandoned Building In Stavanger With A Message Of Hope
Earlier this spring, we were taken with the work of Lebanese artist Jad El Khoury, who completed his both ideologically and technically amazing street art installation, Burj El Hawa, otherwise known as the Tower of Wind. Nuart Festival Founder and Director Martyn Reed called this feat “a standout work leagues ahead of anything else,” and …
Beholders: A Timely Look At The Ongoing Migrant Crisis By Jofre Oliveras
When I took World Cultures in 10th Grade, my teacher, a steely yet lovable cynic who could provoke laughter and the fear of God in the span of a sentence, sagely told us, “the human race will not get along until aliens come to Earth.” Straightforward enough, I thought. People fought, I knew this. My …
Subvertisers join fight against reindeer slaughter policy in Norway
Artists and activists took to the streets of Oslo a few days ago to support the reindeer herding Sámi Jovsset Ánte Sara, as pressure is mounting on the Norwegian government to back down on the compulsory slaughter of reindeer herds that are the livelihood of the Sámi people. Jovsset Ánte (26) is taking the Norwegian …
Stories of a word – Said Dokins for Nuart 2018
Mexican caligraffiti artist Said Dokins has taken part in the 13th edition of Nuart Festival and left behind this thought provoking, community based mural inspired by the experiences of the foreigners who have settled in Stavanger, Norway, either through choice or necessity. About the Mural Prior to creating his latest mural the artist conducted interviews with individuals from Johannes Læringsenter – a …