Avgangsutstillingen

A graduation exhibition marks the end of an educational process at the art college. If the education works, art becomes a lifelong occupation. For the artists involved, this exhibition primarily marks a transition; they leave the safe student life to embark on an artistic practice on their own terms. It is about a shared feeling of uncertainty around this situation. It is an existential experience. It is about facing new realities and dealing with them.

Om utstillingen
The exhibition may have an underlying feeling of discomfort, but probably there is nothing other than this unique situation that really unites the various graduating students. Kunstnernes Hus may not be the right place at the right time for all the exhibitors right now either, but it is precisely time and place that are the real common denominators of the exhibition. It is also a common feature that the exhibitors insist that they do not represent a "generation" or a particular school, it is rather a composite group of different people with different interests and different productions. Having spent a significant amount of time together at the art academy, and having developed an artistic practice clearly influenced by the exchange that has taken place, all artists insist on their individuality. This is an expression of self-confidence. What appears to the artists themselves to point in very different directions, however, may appear as a unified unity to an outsider – a unity marked by age, place, academic context and individual practices. This is, in the end, up to the viewer to judge.
- Excerpt from catalog text by curator for this year's graduation exhibition Andreas Schlaegel – German critic and curator based in Berlin.
Artists
Mads Andreas Andreassen, Andrea Bakketun, Anders Bang, Martin Bech-Ravn, Ida Madsen Følling, Goutam Ghosh, Liv Kristin Holmberg, Dima Hourani, Snorre Hvamen, Aksel Høgenhaug, Ottar Karlsen, Siri Leira, Pernille Meidell, Petter Napstad, Jenny Patiño, Martin Sæther, Tor SR Thidesen, Anni Tiainen, Endre Tveitan, Gelawesh Waledkhani and Lene Baadsvig Ørmen.