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

Galleri Riis — Fotofobia

Marte Johnslien
16 April – 23 May 2026

At Galleri Riis, Marte Johnslien presents Fotofobia, a title that evokes sensitivity to light, vision and the physical conditions of seeing. The exhibition suggests a space where perception itself becomes unstable: what is illuminated, what is hidden, and what happens when the eye resists what it is asked to receive. In keeping with Johnslien’s precise and materially aware practice, the show invites close attention to surface, form and the quiet tension between image and object.

STANDARD (OSLO) — They flew by, but only as shadows on the ground

Mikael Lo Presti
23 April – 23 May 2026

Mikael Lo Presti’s exhibition at STANDARD (OSLO) carries a title full of movement, disappearance and memory. They flew by, but only as shadows on the ground suggests a world seen indirectly: through traces, reflections and fleeting impressions rather than direct encounters. The exhibition promises a poetic and restrained meditation on presence and absence, where what has passed may remain visible only as a shadow.

LNM — Cul-de-sac

Joel Billekvist
24 April – 24 May 2026

At LNM, Joel Billekvist’s Cul-de-sac takes its point of departure from the idea of an ending, a closed road, a place where movement is interrupted. The title opens up readings of spatial, psychological and painterly impasse: what happens when a path reaches its limit, and how can stillness become charged with tension? This is a show that invites viewers to consider the atmosphere of blockage, pause and redirection.

KB Contemporary — HØVÅG

Agnete Erichsen
16 April – 31 May 2026

Agnete Erichsen’s HØVÅG at KB Contemporary draws its title from a place name, immediately suggesting landscape, memory and personal geography. The exhibition appears to carry a strong sense of location — not simply as scenery, but as something held in the body, in recollection and in material form. It is likely to appeal to viewers interested in how contemporary art can translate place into mood, surface and atmosphere.

Grafikk Oslo — Gamdrup / Forslund / Madsen / Buch

Pernille With Madsen, Morten Buch, Mads Gamdrup, Leonard Forslund
26 April – 7 June 2026

Grafikk Oslo brings together four artists in an exhibition dedicated to the possibilities of print, image and graphic expression. With Pernille With Madsen, Morten Buch, Mads Gamdrup and Leonard Forslund, the show offers a meeting between distinct visual languages within a medium known for its precision, tactility and rich traditions. It is a strong choice for visitors interested in contemporary graphic art and the continued vitality of printmaking.

Nasjonalmuseet — Kopiens verdi

16 January – 7 June 2026

The Value of the Copy at the National Museum asks a deceptively simple question: what is a copy worth? In art history, design, architecture and visual culture, copies have often been treated as secondary to the original, yet they can also preserve, reinterpret, democratise and transform meaning. This exhibition invites visitors to look again at reproduction, imitation and repetition — not as lesser forms, but as cultural forces in their own right.

SOFT — Between One and the Next

Jara Marken, Magdalena Kotkowska, Kristen Keegan
7 May – 7 June 2026

At SOFT, Between One and the Next brings together Jara Marken, Magdalena Kotkowska and Kristen Keegan in an exhibition that suggests transition, threshold and material becoming. The title points towards the intervals between states: between one body and another, one form and the next, one moment and its continuation. In a venue associated with textile and material-based practices, the exhibition promises a subtle and tactile encounter with process, surface and transformation.

Femtensesse — Seeing Touch

Damla Kilickiran
23 April – 13 June 2026

Damla Kilickiran’s Seeing Touch explores the relationship between the visual and the tactile. The title alone suggests a crossing of senses: to see as if touching, to touch through the eye, to understand material through perception. This is an exhibition for those drawn to intimate, sensory and embodied approaches to contemporary art.

Atelier Nord — Future Remains

Þorgerður Ólafsdóttir
17 April – 14 June 2026

Atelier Nord presents Þorgerður Ólafsdóttir’s Future Remains, a title that connects archaeology, technology and speculative time. The exhibition seems to ask what will remain of the present in the future — materially, ecologically and imaginatively. It sits naturally within Atelier Nord’s profile as a space for art, media, technology and experimental thinking.

Norsk Billedhoggerforening — Hypochondria of the Heart

Esben Weile Kjær
30 April – 21 June 2026

Esben Weile Kjær’s Hypochondria of the Heart at the Norwegian Sculptors Society carries a title that is both bodily and emotional. It suggests anxiety, fragility, spectacle and vulnerability — the heart as a site of fear, desire and over-attention. In a sculpture context, the exhibition has the potential to turn these psychological states into physical form, staging emotion as something architectural, theatrical or materially present.

Tegnerforbundet — Ukjent alfabet

Siv Bugge Vatne
17 April – 21 June 2026

At Tegnerforbundet, Siv Bugge Vatne’s Ukjent alfabet — Unknown Alphabet — places drawing close to language, signs and the limits of legibility. The exhibition appears to ask how marks become meaning, and what happens when a visual system resists easy translation. It is a fitting presentation for a centre devoted to drawing as both artistic practice and form of thought.

Tegnerforbundet — 56 Million Lines

Masoud Alireza
17 April – 21 June 2026

Masoud Alireza’s 56 Million Lines turns the drawn line into something vast, accumulative and almost impossible to fully grasp. The title suggests repetition, labour, density and duration — drawing not as a single gesture, but as a field of countless decisions. Presented at Tegnerforbundet, the exhibition offers an opportunity to reflect on line as structure, rhythm, language and endurance.

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.

Opening in May

Nitja senter for samtidskunst — Avgangsutstilling: Produktdesign 2026

MA and BA students, Department of Product Design, OsloMet
7 May – 24 May 2026

Nitja presents the 2026 graduation exhibition from OsloMet’s Department of Product Design, featuring both bachelor’s and master’s students. Graduation exhibitions are often among the most energetic moments in the design calendar: they reveal new ideas, fresh material experiments and a generation of designers responding to contemporary needs. Expect prototypes, concepts and objects that explore how design can shape daily life, sustainability, technology, function and social experience.

K4 galleri — Brennan Wojtyla

Brennan Wojtyla
8 May – 31 May 2026

K4 galleri presents an exhibition by Brennan Wojtyla, offering a focused encounter with the artist’s practice. Without an additional title in the supplied listing, the presentation reads as direct and concentrated: an opportunity to meet a single artistic voice through the works themselves. It is a show for visitors interested in smaller gallery formats, where the encounter between work, room and viewer can feel especially immediate.

Galleri K — Tom genser, vendt tre

Else Marie Hagen
8 May – 7 June 2026

Else Marie Hagen’s Tom genser, vendt tre — a title that may be read as “empty sweater, turned tree” — brings together language, object and image in a strikingly poetic formulation. The exhibition suggests absence, transformation and the unstable relationship between body and material. At Galleri K, the show offers a strong conceptual and visual premise: familiar things are made strange, and ordinary words open onto larger questions.

Podium — For You 2

Raneen Rafat Al-Qedra, Esraa Al-Ashqar, Wala’a Shublaq, Shaimaa Esmat, Mariam Salah, Hamada Elkept, Khaled Tuaima
8 May – 14 June 2026

For You 2 at Podium brings together a group of artists whose names indicate a broad and collective presentation. The title is direct, intimate and addressed outward: for you. It suggests a show concerned with communication, offering, care, witness or exchange. In Podium’s experimental setting, the exhibition is likely to carry a strong sense of urgency and immediacy.

Nasjonalmuseet — Ikke vær redd. En utstilling om døden

8 May – 6 September 2026

The National Museum’s Don’t Be Afraid. An Exhibition about Death takes on one of the most universal and difficult subjects in human life. Rather than treating death only as darkness or finality, the title suggests an exhibition that may open the theme through art, ritual, memory, fear, consolation and cultural imagination. It is a significant museum exhibition with broad appeal, especially for visitors interested in how art helps societies face what is often left unspoken.

Nasjonalmuseet — Wenche Selmer. Hva kan du unnvære?

8 May – 4 October 2026

This exhibition at the National Museum focuses on Wenche Selmer, one of Norway’s important architectural voices. What Can You Do Without? is a beautiful and timely question, pointing towards simplicity, necessity, restraint and the ethics of building. The exhibition is likely to interest anyone concerned with architecture, domestic space, material choices and the relationship between quality of life and modest means.

Galleri Norske Grafikere — Når natten våkner

Suzannah Rehell Øistad
21 May – 11 June 2026

Suzannah Rehell Øistad’s Når natten våkner — When the Night Awakens — opens at Galleri Norske Grafikere in late May. The title evokes nocturnal imagery, transformation and the strange vitality of darkness. In the context of graphic art, it suggests a show where atmosphere, contrast and imagination may play a central role.

RAM galleri — Stian Korntved Ruud

Stian Korntved Ruud
21 May – 20 June 2026

RAM galleri presents Stian Korntved Ruud in a solo exhibition that places contemporary craft, material intelligence and artistic precision at the centre. Ruud is associated with an approach where object, process and material presence matter deeply. This exhibition is likely to appeal to those interested in the borderlands between design, sculpture and craft.

RAM galleri — Lavinia Bjerknes – Retrospektiv

Lavinia Bjerknes
21 May – 20 June 2026

Alongside its contemporary programme, RAM galleri presents a retrospective devoted to Lavinia Bjerknes. A retrospective format gives viewers the opportunity to see development, continuity and shifts across an artistic career. This exhibition promises a more expansive encounter with Bjerknes’ work, allowing individual pieces to be read as part of a broader practice.

Format Oslo — Marianne Moe | Irene Nordli | Lene Tangen

Marianne Moe, Irene Nordli, Lene Tangen
7 May – 28 June 2026

Format Oslo brings together Marianne Moe, Irene Nordli and Lene Tangen in a three-artist presentation rooted in contemporary craft and material expression. The exhibition offers a meeting between different practices and sensibilities, likely to appeal to visitors who appreciate the intelligence of form, surface, technique and hand-made precision.

QB Gallery — Christian Tunge

Christian Tunge
21 May – 28 June 2026

QB Gallery presents an exhibition by Christian Tunge, offering a focused look at an artist whose work often benefits from slow attention to image, structure and sequencing. The show is likely to suit viewers interested in contemporary photographic or image-based practices, as well as the relationship between exhibition, publication and visual editing.

Bærum Kunsthall — blunke/sveve/hvile

Kaia Hugin
21 May – 28 June 2026

Kaia Hugin’s blunke/sveve/hvile — blink/float/rest — has a title that feels bodily, quiet and suspended. The three verbs suggest rhythm, perception and release: a choreography of small actions and states. At Bærum Kunsthall, the exhibition promises a contemplative encounter with movement, rest and the fragile intervals between them.

Bærum Kunsthall — Vann – 1431 norske innsjøer

Barbro M. Tiller
21 May – 28 June 2026

Barbro M. Tiller’s Water – 1431 Norwegian Lakes takes an expansive, almost cartographic subject and gives it an artistic frame. The title suggests a work concerned with geography, repetition, naming and the poetic abundance of water in Norway. It is a compelling exhibition for anyone interested in landscape, systems, memory and the visual culture of nature.

Bærum Kunsthall — Conference of the Birds

Benedicte Dahm, Oda Tungodden
21 May – 28 June 2026

Conference of the Birds brings together Benedicte Dahm and Oda Tungodden in an exhibition whose title evokes fable, migration, collective movement and mythic conversation. The phrase carries literary and symbolic associations, opening space for an exhibition about journeying, transformation and shared orientation. At Bærum Kunsthall, it forms part of a strong late-May programme.

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.

ROM for kunst og arkitektur — Arkitekter uten grenser Norge feirer 10 år

Architects Without Borders Norway
28 May – 1 June 2026

ROM for kunst og arkitektur marks the ten-year anniversary of Architects Without Borders Norway. The exhibition points towards architecture not only as form and design, but as social responsibility, humanitarian engagement and practical imagination. With a short run from 28 May to 1 June, this is a timely presentation for those interested in architecture’s role beyond the conventional building site.

Trolldays & Trollnights — (TRE STENER / TRE LYKTER / TRE SPEIL) x (9) = Mnemosyne

Anne-Liis Kogan, Runa Sandnes
28 May – 7 June 2026

Anne-Liis Kogan and Runa Sandnes present a work whose title combines objects, multiplication and memory: three stones, three lanterns, three mirrors, repeated into Mnemosyne, the mythological figure of memory. The exhibition suggests ritual, reflection, repetition and symbolic arrangement. It is one of the more enigmatic and poetic entries in the late-May programme.

LNM — Anerkjennelse, Nysgjerrighet, Fellesskap

Victor Lind, Wenche Gulbransen, Øystein Aasan, Joel Billekvist, Clara Claussen
28 May – 21 June 2026

LNM’s Recognition, Curiosity, Community brings together Victor Lind, Wenche Gulbransen, Øystein Aasan, Joel Billekvist and Clara Claussen. The title is unusually generous and social, suggesting an exhibition concerned with relation: between artists, viewers, histories and forms of attention. It reads as a group show built around values rather than a single medium.

Galleri Riis — Script-intern II

Stein Rønning
28 May – 27 June 2026

Stein Rønning’s Script-intern II opens at Galleri Riis at the end of May. The title suggests writing, internal systems, coded structures and perhaps a dialogue between language and form. Rønning’s exhibition promises a concentrated encounter with artistic thinking as something both visible and constructed — a script, a structure, an internal logic.

Salgshallen — Brunettes vs. Blondes

Agatha Wara
28 May – 27 June 2026

Agatha Wara’s Brunettes vs. Blondes at Salgshallen carries a deliberately charged and pop-cultural title. It suggests questions of identity, stereotype, image-making and social performance. The exhibition appears to play with visual codes that are instantly recognisable, while opening them up to more critical or humorous readings.

Galleri Riis — At the Feet of the Guru (Revisited)

Fredrik Söderberg
28 May – 27 June 2026

Fredrik Söderberg’s At the Feet of the Guru (Revisited) suggests a return to spiritual imagery, devotion, influence or systems of belief. The word “revisited” gives the exhibition a reflective quality: this is not simply a new presentation, but a renewed encounter with earlier ideas, motifs or questions. At Galleri Riis, it adds another strong voice to the late-spring gallery season.

Kunstnerforbundet — Juniutstillingen 2026: Koordinater i bevegelse

Peer Review
30 May – 28 June 2026

Kunstnerforbundet’s June exhibition, Coordinates in Motion, brings the summer programme into focus with a title that suggests movement, mapping and shifting positions. Presented under the name Peer Review, the exhibition appears to engage with artistic exchange and collective orientation. It is a timely stop for those following Oslo’s gallery scene from late May into June.

Hovedøya Kunstsal — Hypokeimenon

Mari Røysamb, Maren Dagny Juell, Eirik Melstrøm, Eli Mai Huang Nesse, Ingrid Bjørnaali, Ebba Bring, Vebjørn Guttormsgaard Møllberg, Louise Hammer, Karl Eivind Jørgensen
30 May – 28 June 2026

On Hovedøya, Hypokeimenon brings together a large group of artists in one of Oslo’s most atmospheric exhibition settings. The title, drawn from philosophical language, can suggest an underlying subject, substrate or foundation — something beneath appearance. In the island context of Hovedøya Kunstsal, the exhibition is likely to gain an added resonance through place, history and the movement away from the city centre.

Longer-Running Museum and Public-Space Exhibitions

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.

Date to Verify Before Publication

Mesén — Ukrzaliznytsia 2017–2025

Julie Poly
Date listed: 25 June – 15 June 2026

Julie Poly’s Ukrzaliznytsia 2017–2025 at Mesén appears to focus on Ukraine’s railway system, travel, infrastructure and the visual culture of movement across a period marked by profound historical change. The supplied dates show the exhibition opening after its listed closing date, so this listing should be verified before publication. The exhibition itself looks like a strong, documentary-inflected and contemporary presentation, with a title that connects transport, everyday life and national history.