Art Exhibitions in Oslo and the Greater Oslo Region

Selected exhibitions now showing and opening in the weeks ahead

Oslo’s art scene is entering one of its richest periods of the year, with a dense programme that moves from major museum exhibitions and contemporary gallery shows to design, drawing, textile art, architecture, sculpture and experimental formats. The coming weeks offer both intimate, artist-led presentations and larger institutional exhibitions that invite slower looking: works concerned with memory, death, material culture, language, craft, place, technology, the body and the stories objects carry.

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Now Showing

Kopiens verdi is shown at Nasjonalmuseet, Brynjulf Bulls plass 3, 0250 Oslo, from 16 January to 11 October 2026. The exhibition examines copying not as a secondary act, but as a refined artistic discipline: a way of learning, translating, preserving and transforming visual culture. It is especially rewarding for visitors interested in drawing, printmaking, artistic training and the quiet intelligence of repetition.

Hasansens fabrikk by Sayed Sattar Hasan is shown at Oslo Museum – Interkulturelt Museum, Tøyenbekken 5, 0188 Oslo, from 1 February to 31 December 2026. Hasan’s alter ego Hasansen opens up a vivid, playful and politically alert universe where identity, performance, humour and social observation are assembled into a kind of living factory of stories.

Astrup Fearnley-samlingen is shown at Astrup Fearnley Museet, Strandpromenaden 2, 0252 Oslo, from 2 February to 30 December 2026. This collection presentation offers an elegant route into one of Norway’s most significant contemporary art collections, combining established highlights with newer acquisitions and giving visitors a concentrated sense of the museum’s international profile.

The Alter Egos by Kirsty Kross, Sayed Sattar Hasan, Ayesha Jordan and Josef Tzegai Yohannes is shown at Oslo Museum – Interkulturelt Museum, Tøyenbekken 5, 0188 Oslo, from 26 March to 11 October 2026. Centred on fictional selves and invented artistic personas, the exhibition turns Grønland into a stage for questions of identity, belonging, transformation and social imagination.

Catalogue of Excess by Sampson Addae is shown at Deichman Bjørvika, Anne-Cath. Vestlys plass 1, 0150 Oslo, from 16 April to 27 September 2026. Addae’s practice moves between sculpture, textile, painting and installation, and here the library becomes a public setting for thinking about material excess, waste, consumption and the seductive surfaces of abundance.

Kai Fjell: Det gode seirer by Kai Fjell is shown at Henie Onstad Kunstsenter, Sonja Henies vei 31, 1311 Høvikodden, from 2 May to 1 November 2026. The exhibition presents one of Norwegian modernism’s most beloved painters, known for symbol-rich figurative images of women, families, rituals and existential dramas. It is a generous opportunity to encounter Fjell’s visual universe at scale.

Machine Boys is shown at Deichman Bjørvika, Anne-Cath. Vestlys plass 1, 0150 Oslo, from 7 May to 4 October 2026. Centred on Karimah Ashadu’s filmic investigation of informal labour, masculinity and movement, the work brings the energy and precarity of urban economies into the open, civic architecture of the library.

Wenche Selmer. Hva kan du unnvære? is shown at Nasjonalmuseet, Brynjulf Bulls plass 3, 0250 Oslo, from 8 May to 4 October 2026. The exhibition honours Wenche Selmer’s modest, site-sensitive architecture and asks a deceptively simple question: what can we live without? Through cabins, drawings, materials and architectural restraint, it becomes a meditation on sufficiency, craft and the ethics of dwelling.

Edvard Munch og sjokoladefabrikken by Edvard Munch is shown at MUNCH, Edvard Munchs plass 1, 0194 Oslo, from 20 May to 11 October 2026. The exhibition focuses on Munch’s work for Freia’s chocolate factory and opens a fascinating window onto art, industry, labour, public decoration and modern life. It reveals a less familiar, but highly compelling, chapter in Munch’s production.

Motstandsmatriarkene by Flexi Aukan is presented through Mesén at Rosenkrantz’ gate 14, Oslo, from 21 May to 16 December 2026. The project honours women’s roles in decolonial resistance and brings political memory into public space. It reads as both artwork and counter-monument, insisting that histories of resistance are carried by bodies, names and voices too often pushed to the margins.

EDVARD MUNCH HORISONTER is shown at MUNCH, Edvard Munchs plass 1, 0194 Oslo, from 25 May to 10 October 2026. Munch is placed in dialogue with a wide field of artists, including figures from Norwegian, German and wider European modernism. The exhibition broadens the sense of Munch’s artistic horizons, showing him not as an isolated genius but as part of a wider constellation of image-making.

QSPA Collaborations is shown at Queen Sonja Print Award, Operagata 63B, 0194 Oslo, from 28 May to 13 September 2026. Featuring artists including Kjell Nupen, Lars Lerin, Håvard Homstvedt, Ørnulf Opdahl, HM Queen Sonja, Emma Nishimura and Magne Furuholmen, the exhibition celebrates collaboration as a vital force in contemporary printmaking.

Asta Nørregaard. Sannhet og skjønnhet is shown at Nasjonalmuseet, Brynjulf Bulls plass 3, 0250 Oslo, from 28 May to 18 October 2026. This refined presentation restores Asta Nørregaard to a more central position in Norwegian art history, foregrounding her portraits, pastels, religious motifs and sharp sensitivity to beauty, fashion, psychology and social status.

Landskap i endring by Rajat Mondal is presented through Mesén at Oslo Central Station, Jernbanetorget 1, 0154 Oslo, from 28 May 2026 to 1 April 2027. Installed in one of Norway’s busiest transit spaces, the project reflects on landscapes in motion: ecological shifts, urban acceleration, travel, migration and the fragile traces humans leave behind.

MUNCH — Paula Rego – En tornefull dans

Paula Rego
24 April – 2 August 2026

MUNCH presents an exhibition devoted to Paula Rego, one of the most powerful figurative artists of the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. A Thorny Dance suggests an encounter with images where beauty and discomfort are closely intertwined. Rego’s work is known for its psychological intensity, narrative force and uncompromising treatment of power, gender, childhood, myth and social roles. This is one of the season’s major museum exhibitions in Oslo.

Deichman Bjørvika — Catalogue of Excess

Sampson Addae
16 April – 27 September 2026

At Deichman Bjørvika, Sampson Addae’s Catalogue of Excess brings contemporary art into one of Oslo’s most public cultural spaces. The title suggests abundance, accumulation and perhaps critique: a catalogue of what spills over, what becomes too much, what cannot be neatly contained. In the setting of the city’s main library, the exhibition gains an additional resonance, positioned among knowledge, circulation and everyday public life.

Deichman Bjørvika — We, like you contain stories (together)

Quin Scholten
23 April – 11 October 2026

Quin Scholten’s We, like you contain stories (together) is a generous and reflective title, suggesting shared narratives, collective memory and the many stories carried by people, objects and places. Presented at Deichman Bjørvika, the exhibition sits in close dialogue with the library as a house of voices, texts and public encounters. It is likely to reward visitors who appreciate art that opens towards participation, storytelling and community.

OSL contemporary — A Reality Made of Breach

Ane Graff
22 May – 8 August 2026

Ane Graff’s A Reality Made of Breach opens at OSL contemporary in late May. The title suggests rupture, permeability and unstable boundaries — between body and environment, matter and system, inside and outside. Graff’s work is often associated with material processes and the complex entanglements of living systems, making this one of the more intellectually charged gallery exhibitions of the season.

MUNCH — Edvard Munch og sjokoladefabrikken

Edvard Munch
20 May – 11 October 2026

Edvard Munch and the Chocolate Factory at MUNCH offers a distinctive angle on the artist, connecting Munch to a more unexpected chapter of cultural and urban history. The exhibition’s title suggests a meeting between art, industry, decoration and public life. For visitors who know Munch primarily through his most famous paintings, this exhibition offers a chance to encounter another context for his work and legacy.

MUNCH — EDVARD MUNCH HORISONTER

Edvard Munch and selected artists
25 May – 10 October 2026

Edvard Munch Horizons places Munch in a broader artistic landscape, alongside artists including Asger Jorn, Arne Ekeland, Gustav Vigeland, Jakob Weidemann, Kai Fjell, Rolf Nesch, Per Krohg, Emil Nolde, Oskar Kokoschka, Gabriele Münter and many others. The exhibition’s title suggests influence, dialogue and expanded perspective: Munch not as an isolated figure, but as an artist whose work opens towards other horizons in Nordic and European art.

Nasjonalmuseet — Søylerommet

10 October 2026

Søylerommet is listed as a focused presentation at the National Museum on 10 October. With only a single date supplied, this appears to be a short-format or one-day museum entry and should be checked before publication if practical visitor information is required. The title points to an architectural or spatial focus, suggesting a presentation centred on one of the museum’s distinctive rooms or settings.

Monolithos by Kristian Blystad is shown at Vigelandmuseet, Nobels gate 32, 0268 Oslo, from 7 June to 4 October 2026. Blystad’s sculptural language meets the monumental atmosphere of the Vigeland Museum, creating a charged conversation about stone, body, weight, memory and form. The title inevitably echoes Vigeland’s Monolith, but the exhibition opens onto a broader sculptural meditation.

Andreas Siqueland is shown at Holmsbu Kunstmuseum, Tillaløkka 1, Støa, 3484 Holmsbu, from 10 June to 27 September 2026. Siqueland’s painterly practice is closely associated with landscape, observation, memory and the changing conditions of place. In Holmsbu, the work gains a particularly resonant setting, surrounded by a local art-historical landscape already shaped by painting.

Lap-See Lam: Ombres is shown at Henie Onstad Kunstsenter, Sonja Henies vei 31, 1311 Høvikodden, from 11 June 2026 to 3 January 2027. Lam’s work often combines film, installation, digital technology, scenography and migration histories, and this exhibition promises a spatially immersive world of shadows, memory, myth and cultural transmission.

Beatriz González is shown at Astrup Fearnley Museet, Strandpromenaden 2, 0252 Oslo, from 12 June to 11 October 2026. The exhibition presents a major encounter with the Colombian artist, whose sharp graphic language transforms found images, media culture, violence, mourning and national history into works of unsettling clarity.

"jeg er alene" (2024) by Ronja Gravklev is shown at Deichman Bjørvika, Anne-Cath. Vestlys plass 1, 0150 Oslo, from 18 June to 1 November 2026. Gravklev’s video work addresses loneliness, children, parents and emotional vulnerability. In the public space of the library, the work’s intimate subject matter becomes quietly collective.

Bruttonasjonalprodukt by Einar Grinde is presented through Mesén at Oslo Central Station, Airport Express Terminal, Jernbanetorget 1, 0154 Oslo, from 18 June 2026 to 13 June 2027. Using the station as both site and metaphor, the project translates the abstract language of gross domestic product into movement, transit, labour and the daily choreography of people passing through a national hub.

Typisk dem by Colonel / Thierry Geoffroy is shown at Oslo Museum – Interkulturelt Museum, Tøyenbekken 5, 0188 Oslo, from 26 June to 31 December 2026. The exhibition takes aim at prejudice, group thinking and the reflexive construction of “us” and “them”. It is both direct and uncomfortable, asking viewers to recognise the social categories they may themselves reproduce.

Opening in the weeks ahead

En ubehagelig åpning by Sebastian Makonnen Kjølaas, Siri Hjorth and Hjorth & Kjølaas is shown at Nitja senter for samtidskunst, Kirkegata 10A, 2000 Lillestrøm, from 4 August to 13 September 2026. The exhibition appears as a sharp, theatrical and spatial intervention, using drawing, installation and institutional humour to activate both the room and the idea of an “opening” itself.

Endless Painting by Anthony Morton is shown at LNM – Landsforeningen Norske Malere, Rådhusgata 37, 0158 Oslo, from 6 August to 6 September 2026. Morton’s title suggests painting as an ongoing field rather than a finished object: a mode of thinking that keeps extending through surface, perception, space and theory.

I am Frankie, and you still love me by Shana de Villiers is shown at Bærum Kunsthall, Odd Nansens vei 19, 1360 Fornebu, from 6 August to 6 September 2026. The exhibition’s intimate title opens a charged emotional register, inviting readings around persona, affection, vulnerability, self-invention and the desire to be seen.

Underworld II by Frido Evers is shown at Bærum Kunsthall, Odd Nansens vei 19, 1360 Fornebu, from 6 August to 6 September 2026. With its evocation of an underworld, the exhibition suggests a darker psychological or mythic terrain — a descent into hidden layers, buried narratives and the charged atmosphere beneath the visible surface.

Silje Solvi, Kari Håkonsen & Linda Jansson Lothe is shown at RAM galleri, Kongens gate 15, 0153 Oslo, from 13 August to 12 September 2026. Bringing three artists together within RAM’s material-conscious programme, the exhibition offers a focused encounter with contemporary craft, surface, process and object-based thinking.

PHILIPP SPILLMANN | HEIDI BJØRGAN is shown at Format Oslo, Rådhusgata 24, 0151 Oslo, from 13 August to 20 September 2026. The exhibition brings two distinct material practices into dialogue. Within Format’s precise context for contemporary craft and design-adjacent art, the encounter becomes a study in form, facture, tactility and the expressive potential of objects.

KATE AND CAROL by Katharine MacDaid and Cheryl Newman is shown at Fotografiens Hus, Rådhusgata 20, 0151 Oslo, from 13 August to 27 September 2026. The exhibition explores photography through motherhood, intimacy, memory and collaboration, using the camera not only as a documentary tool but as a way of negotiating closeness, care and family history.

In Between the World by Lin Wang is shown at QB Gallery, Gabels gate 43, 0262 Oslo, from 20 August to 20 September 2026. Wang’s refined sculptural language often moves between porcelain, cultural memory and poetic displacement. The title points to a liminal zone between worlds, materials and identities.

Yayoi Kusama – Hymn of Life by Yayoi Kusama is shown at Henie Onstad Kunstsenter, Sonja Henies vei 31, 1311 Høvikodden, from 24 August to 31 December 2026. Kusama’s work transforms repetition, reflection and pattern into a bodily and optical experience. The installation’s immersive quality makes it both iconic and meditative: a hymn to life through dots, mirrors and spatial intensity.

TBA by Kamil Kak is shown at Galleri Norske Grafikere, Tollbugata 24, 0157 Oslo, from 27 August to 17 October 2026. Although the title is still provisional in the listing, the setting places the project firmly within a strong tradition of printmaking, paper-based practice and contemporary graphic art.

Is it really really real? by Suzannah Rehell Øistad, Bella Fasmer, Sigurd Grøndahl, Ghazaal Nasiri, June Kittelsen, Solfrid Elise Lindblom, Hanna Undlien, Erlend Peder Kvam, Faezeh Valadan, Marie Skibenes Botilsrud, Even Esperø Nybakken and Likrot is shown at Tegnerforbundet – senter for tegnekunst, Rådhusgata 17, 0158 Oslo, from 28 August to 18 October 2026. The exhibition asks what drawing can hold today: observation, fiction, doubt, material experiment and unstable realities. Its many voices make it a lively portrait of contemporary drawing as an expanded field.

Material Ecologies – Surplus is shown at ROM for kunst og arkitektur, Maridalsveien 3, 0178 Oslo, from 31 August to 20 September 2026. The exhibition investigates surplus materials and ecological thinking in architecture, asking how waste, reuse and circular material flows might become foundations for new building cultures.

Kim Kvello is shown at SOFT galleri, Rådhusgata 20, 0151 Oslo, from 3 September to 11 October 2026. Within SOFT’s specialised context for textile-based contemporary art, Kvello’s exhibition promises a concentrated material encounter where fibre, structure, body and space are likely to become central points of tension.

Wonderful, Marvelous by Camille Norment is shown at Atelier Nord, Olaf Ryes plass 2, 0552 Oslo, from 11 September to 29 November 2026. Norment’s practice often unfolds through sound, vibration, architectural resonance and heightened sensory perception. The title suggests wonder, but in her work wonder is rarely simple: it is physical, atmospheric and psychologically charged.

Åsne Kummeneje Mellem is shown at RAM galleri, Kongens gate 15, 0153 Oslo, from 24 September to 24 October 2026. As a solo presentation within RAM’s programme, the exhibition offers space for a material-led practice to unfold with clarity, placing process, craft knowledge and objecthood at the centre.

Liv Tandrevold Eriksen is shown at QB Gallery, Gabels gate 43, 0262 Oslo, from 24 September to 25 October 2026. The exhibition marks a new autumn chapter in QB Gallery’s programme and offers a focused presentation of Eriksen’s artistic language within an intimate gallery setting.

SOFIA NÖMM | KAREN KVILTU LIDAL is shown at Format Oslo, Rådhusgata 24, 0151 Oslo, from 24 September to 1 November 2026. The exhibition brings together two artists in a material-sensitive conversation shaped by contemporary craft, textile or object-based practices. It should be especially appealing to viewers drawn to tactility, construction and the intelligence of handmade form.

An Architecture of Chronic Illness (ArChro) by Trond Lossius, Anna Ulrikke Andersen, Jos Boys, Rachel Siobhán Tyler, Liza Walling and Therese Næss Diesen is shown at ROM for kunst og arkitektur, Maridalsveien 3, 0178 Oslo, from 28 September to 18 October 2026. The exhibition expands architecture beyond form and function, asking how chronic illness, access, care, bodily vulnerability and lived experience might reshape the spaces we design and inhabit.

Søylerommet is shown at Nasjonalmuseet, Brynjulf Bulls plass 3, 0250 Oslo, with the listed period 10 October to 10 October 2026. Nasjonalmuseet presents Søylerommet / The Pillars as a collection-based exhibition, and the room is best approached as a concentrated encounter with contemporary works, scale, verticality and the charged architectural presence of the museum itself.

Jan Christensen by Jan Christensen is shown at LNM – Landsforeningen Norske Malere, Rådhusgata 37, 0158 Oslo, from 15 October to 15 November 2026. Christensen’s practice often tests the borders between painting, concept, surface, text and institutional space. At LNM, the exhibition gains a particularly sharp frame: a painterly institution encountering an artist who continually questions what painting can be.

Eckbos Legat stipendutstilling by Johannes Engelsen Espedal, Liilian Saksi, Wendimagegn Belete Masresha and Sebastian Rusten is shown at Vigelandmuseet, Nobels gate 32, 0268 Oslo, from 17 October 2026 to 28 March 2027. The stipend exhibition brings several contemporary artistic voices into the historically resonant rooms of the Vigeland Museum, creating a dialogue between emerging practices, materiality, craft and sculptural tradition.

EDVARD MUNCH UENDELIG by Edvard Munch is shown at MUNCH, Edvard Munchs plass 1, 0194 Oslo, with the listed period 22 October to 22 October 2026. The exhibition offers a broad encounter with Munch’s artistic universe, presenting the themes, motifs and emotional intensities that make his work feel inexhaustible.

EDVARD MUNCH MONUMENTAL by Edvard Munch is shown at MUNCH, Edvard Munchs plass 1, 0194 Oslo, with the listed period 22 October to 22 October 2026. This presentation foregrounds Munch’s ambition on a grand scale: public decoration, large formats, architectural thinking and the monumental force of bodies, colour and composition.

EDVARD MUNCH SKYGGER by Edvard Munch is shown at MUNCH, Edvard Munchs plass 1, 0194 Oslo, with the listed period 22 October to 22 October 2026. The exhibition turns toward shadow as atmosphere, memory and afterimage, offering a more contemplative approach to Munch’s late resonance and the emotional darkness embedded in his visual language.

INNTIL by Edvard Munch is shown at MUNCH, Edvard Munchs plass 1, 0194 Oslo, with the listed period 22 October to 22 October 2026. Known in English as Edvard Munch Up Close, the presentation focuses on Munch’s graphic work and printing processes, offering a more intimate view of his experimentation with repetition, surface and the expressive possibilities of print.

Rina Eide Løvaasen is shown at SOFT galleri, Rådhusgata 20, 0151 Oslo, from 22 October to 29 November 2026. Set within SOFT’s textile-focused programme, the exhibition invites attention to material intelligence, touch, pattern, structure and the spatial qualities of fibre-based contemporary art.

Åse Anda is shown at SOFT galleri, Rådhusgata 20, 0151 Oslo. Your list gives the period as 26 November 2026 to 10 January 2027, while SOFT’s own current programme lists 10 December 2026 to 17 January 2027; visitors should therefore check the venue page before planning. The exhibition belongs to SOFT’s material and textile-oriented programme, where surface, construction and tactile presence are given serious artistic weight.

Arkitektenes tegninger 2026 is shown at ROM for kunst og arkitektur, Maridalsveien 3, 0178 Oslo, from 27 November to 13 December 2026. This annual presentation celebrates the architectural drawing as both tool and artwork: a place where ideas are tested, buildings are imagined and the hand remains visible within architectural thinking.