The art academies bear a responsibility for the future of painting, by equipping the next generation of painters with the tools you need to bring the art of painting forward. But what tools do future painters need to be equipped with? What is the status of the painting at the art academies today? What does the art academies say about the place of painting in art education? What do the students say? And what do you think about this?

Åse Markussen (b. 1944) is a cand.philol. from the University of Oslo. She was affiliated with the Art Academy as a university librarian before becoming head librarian. Markussen has been working on the history of the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts since 1995 and will hold an introduction where she explains the situation of painting education at the Academy of Fine Arts in Oslo during the period 1968 - 2018.

Eamon O’Kane (b. 1974) is a visual artist and professor at the Art and Design School in Bergen. O’Kane is educated at the University of Ulster and Parsons School of Design and has had a highly productive career with more than 50 solo exhibitions worldwide. In addition to extensive exhibition activities, O’Kane is the recipient of numerous awards and awards including the Fulbright scholarship and the Pollock Krasner Foundation's scholarship. He has been a professor at the Art and Design School in Bergen since 2011.

Stian S. Grøgaard (b. 1956) is a professor of theory at the Academy of Fine Arts in Oslo. He is a philosopher, acoustic guitarist and writer with intermediate courses in philosophy, literature science and sociology. With a master's degree in philosophy at the University of Oslo, he graduated from the National Academy of Fine Arts and was a professional painter for several years, participating to a number of exhibitions. His art-historical areas of proficiency are early picturesque modernism from the impressionism of Cubism, Marcel Duchamp and American post-war art until 1980 (Minimal Art, Conceptual Art and single artists such as Robert Smithson).

Apichaya Wanthiang (b. 1987) is a visual artist and university lecturer at the Academy of Fine Arts in Trondheim in addition to being a board member of LNM. Wanthiang holds her bachelor's degree from the LUCA School of Arts in Brussels and MFA from the Bergen Academy of the Arts. She has been widely exhibited in Norway and abroad, including at Bergen Kunsthall, the Artists' Union, Taipei Performing Arts Center and Martin van Blerk Gallery (Antwerp). In 2018 she showed the critically acclaimed exhibition Driftwood and Ghost Hunters in LNM.

Tarald Wassvik (b. 1986 Oslo) lives and works in Saksumdal, Lillehammer. He is a graduate of the Academy of Fine Arts in Oslo (MFA 2014), Bergen Art Academy and the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts in Copenhagen. Recently he has participated in a number of exhibitions at institutions and artist-run display venues. In addition to his own artistic activity, he runs the showroom Saksumdal Temple together with Siri Leira and teaches at the line for visual art at the Nansenskolen, the Norwegian Humanistic Academy.