Midnight Mass

In the installation Haunted House

Welcome to a very special evening in the exhibition Haunted House by Helle Siljeholm and Ingri Fiksdal.

This midnight mass presents an organ séance and performance with artist and organist Liv Kristin Holmberg. Holmberg is joined by countertenor Hubert Wild, magician Gisle Harr, Majorstua Children’s and Youth Choir, conductor Sindre Beitohaugen, and dancers Sunniva Vikør Egenes, Pernille Holden, and Louis Schou-Hansen.

Saturday 29.11.25

hr. 22:00-00:00

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Where

Skylight halls

Price

Regular 130,- / Student 70,- / Free tickets for members & organized artists

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Program

22:00 Performance in the installation Haunted House. With dancers Sunniva Vikør Egenes, Pernille Holden and Louis Schou-Hansen. The audience is invited to lie down in the beds during the performance, and you can come and go as you please.

22:30 Midnight Mass: The Liturgy of Ruin by Liv Kristin Holmberg – organ, ruin, haunting and levitation

What is a Ruin?

The Liturgy of the Ruinance is part of Holmberg’s series of performative works developed over the past ten years, which she calls The Art Liturgy.

“Ruinance” (ruinanz) is a conceptual figure that appears in Heidegger’s early lectures from the 1920s. It is central to understanding his early philosophy, although it was later abandoned in favor of other terms. Life unfolds as an ongoing fall. The body’s daily ruin.

The word ruin comes from the Latin ruina, meaning “fall,” derived from ruere — “to collapse, to rush headlong.”

Liturgy is a pre-Christian term combining leitos (public) and ergo (to do). That is, liturgy means “work for the community,” public labor. The earliest use of the word referred to a special tax imposed on the wealthiest citizens of Athens, who were required to fund a project for the benefit of the entire city.

In The Liturgy of the Ruinance, we focus on advanced gravity. We are ruined; we invoke the counter-ruin.

Contributors

With a background as a performance artist and organist, Liv Kristin Holmberg has for many years worked with ritual expression in church spaces through performances that explore existential questions. Her overarching artistic practice and research project, which she calls The Art Liturgy – On the Limits of Art, can be described as ritual performance based on utopian philosophy. In it, she develops her own liturgical elements in collaboration with composers and co-creators, for existential events and transitions in life — a kind of metaphysical theatre of reality.

Hubert Wild is a German countertenor. He has performed for numerous European theatres and opera houses, been a permanent member of the Salzburg State Theatre, and appeared at festivals and in concert halls across Europe. Hubert is a sought-after performer in both modern and classical music theatre works, as well as a soloist. His vocal quality, musical intelligence, and warm personality have earned him the highest admiration from both critics and audiences.

Majorstua Children’s and Youth Choir welcomes singers aged 9–18 and consists of children and young people from all over Oslo. The choir performs folk tunes, pop songs, Renaissance music, improvisations, and much more. The choir’s singers in Haunted House are: Silje, Hanne, Emilia, Elise, Michelle, Helena, Elise, Symra, Agnes, Celine, Aurora, Anna, Karolina, Klara, Inga, Agnes, Fia, Charlotte, Astrid, and Christina.

Sindre Beitohaugen is the choir’s musical and educational director. Sindre is a singer, educator, and conductor, and teaches in the music program at Edvard Munch Upper Secondary School. He was educated at the University of Oslo and the Norwegian Academy of Music.

Gisle Harr (b. 1966 in Harstad) lives and works in Oslo. He was educated at the National Academy of Fine Arts (Oslo), the Academy of Fine Arts in Budapest, and the Oslo Drawing and Painting School. He has also been a guest student at the National College of Art and Design (Oslo). Recently, he has held a solo exhibition at Nils Aas Art Workshop (Inderøy) and shown work at Nitja Centre for Contemporary Art (Lillestrøm) and the Sculpture Triennial (Oslo). Previously, he has exhibited at NOoSPHERE (New York) and participated in the group exhibition This Year’s Model, shown at Kunsthall Grenland (Porsgrunn) and Forum Box (Helsinki).