“Statens Kunstakademi” is written above the entrance at the back of Kunstnernes Hus, a trace from when the art academy was once housed here. The entrance is currently held up by two load-bearing metal rods.

With this image in mind, we—the graduating Masters of Fine Art class at the Oslo National Academy of the Arts—entered into a conversation about support structures. What it means to be present, even when uncertain. Scaffolding became a way to think: not only as a thing that holds, but as a skin\a covering\a temporality\a signal of something unfinished.

The graduation exhibition combines diverse practices ranging from fictional audio guides and large scale paintings, to 35 mm slide projections of permafrost. An exhibition architecture of building materials – netting, plastic, rods from scaffolding – connects the work of the 19 artists, as they attempt to navigate the labyrinthine spaces of Kunstnernes Hus.

During the exhibition period, there will be a screening program, performances, as well as a newspaper publication. The exhibition has been curated collectively in dialogue with Professor Lisa Rosendahl.

Tuesday 10 June at 18:00-20:00 \\ Film screening + Q&A by Mohamed Jabaly at Kunstnernes Hus Kino

Friday 20 June at 18:00-19:50 \\ The sound work Violet Minaret by Carmel Alabbasi will be shown at Kunstnernes Hus Kino

Saturday 7 June at 12:00 and Saturday 12 July at 12:00 \\ Performance by Vilja Houen Askelund in the exhibition room on the first floor

Carmel Alabbasi \\ Victoria Alstrup \\ Vilja Houen Askelund \\ Åsa Båve \\ Kim Andreas Roland Berger \\ Thyra Dragseth \\ Elise Dypvik \\ Signe Greve \\ Lova Hiselius \\ Mohamed Jabaly \\ David Tobias Bonde Jensen \\ George McGoldrick \\ David Noro \\ May-Oisín Qviller \\ Klara Josefin Rosenlund \\ Sondre Røe \\ Taylor Alaina Liebenstein Smith \\ Sanna Sønstebø \\ Isak Ree Torgersen

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