art, research, dialogue
Futures collective There Will Be Tomorrows invites you to explore solarpunk themes and work on your own texts through discussion and writing prompts. Led by Amici Nybråten, editor of the first solarpunk anthology in Norwegian.
Held at Deichman Bjørvika
The youth boards of PRAKSIS (Oslo), Index (Stockholm) and PUBLICS (Helsinki) invite you to a symposium exploring language and access in art institutions.
Join us at PRAKSIS as artists in residence Sabīne Šnē (LV) and Anastasia (A) Alevtin (FI) introduce their practices through short presentations, followed by discussion.
What does Lofoten look like through your own eyes — or your family's? Bring a photo, postcard, letter or keepsake from your own archive, and cut, collage and print your way into a shared zine, weaving personal stories and everyday moments into a collective record of Lofoten.
Join us on a conversation on how tourism and local values, in turn, influence the way places are built and planned. What happens to the culture and identity heritage of a place when it becomes a destination? Drawing on interviews gathered across Lofoten, Hyungyu Park, Associate Professor in Tourism Studies at Middlesex University, explores these questions together with architect Don Lawrence.
Printing workshop with Arrival Studies. Help create a living map of a Lofoten trail using dye from an invasive plant harvested locally. Led by Stephanie Florence, Cynthia Burgos López and Gatari Surya Kusuma
Podcast studio – Your say on Lofoten and Tourism
Join Arrival Studies for an on-the-record conversation about what people care about in Lofoten and how tourism is affecting it.
Open Studio with Arrival Studies at Nordnorsk Kunstnersenter in Svolvær – Lofoten Art Open
There Will Be Tomorrows (TWBT) is an interdisciplinary, collectively organised group centred on post-capitalist desire, liveable futures and social sufficiency. Join us for a day of collective imagination, world-building and participatory storytelling. Through a series of co-creation workshops, we will explore possible futures for Oslo and consider how alternative ways of living and organising society might begin to take shape in our everyday lives.
Join us at PRAKSIS as artists in residence Agnė Jokšė (LT) and Kristiina Mäenpää (FI) introduce their practices through short presentations, followed by discussion.
PRAKSIS invites you to a roundtable gathering exploring questions connected to the theme of Residency 33: Together in Labour. What key challenges are small cultural organisations facing? How are small arts organisations, artist-led initiatives and self-organised spaces sustained?
Join us at PRAKSIS as the residents of Together in Labour give short presentations of their practices before inviting audience questions and discussion.
PDF #63 will take place at NBK and be opened by Billedkunst editor Nicholas Norton, who will present and invite feedback on an unpublished editorial text in development.
Welcome to Repair Café hosted by There Will Be Tomorrows at Anarres. This edition will focus on textiles. Participants are invited to bring clothing or other textile items in need of repair.
Please join us at the opening of the exhibition Slow is a Verb — The Young Curators’ Reading Room at Nitja Center for Contemporary Art’s project room on Friday 27th February at 18:00. In connection with the opening, the publication Reaching Out by the PRAKSIS Teen Advisory Board will also be launched.
Join us for the finissage of Yanina Zaichanka’s solo exhibition this picture never existed on Sunday 15 February (15:00–16:00). Zaichanka will give a short introduction, followed by audience Q&A, refreshments, and informal conversation. The exhibition centres on a missing photograph of the artist’s late grandmother, Klava, explored through a multichannel sound work and embroidery. Please arrive from 15:00 to hear the 24-min loop before the discussion (15:30).
PDF #62 will take place at PRAKSIS, where Eunice Nanzala Schumacher and Henry Mainsah will present their research on African aesthetics in the Nordics.
Exhibition by Yanina Zaichanka combining embroidery and a multichannel sound installation. Starting from a missing portrait of the artist’s grandmother—whose life was shaped by repression in the USSR—the work retells a fragmented family history across 18 days of recordings, where repetition shifts the story and makes absence tangible.
PDF #61 will take place at Deichman Grünerløkka, where artists Sarah Sikorie and Jo Mikkel Sjåstad Huse will open the session by introducing their ongoing long-term research project into multispecies urban life.
Featuring open discussion and presentations, this edition of e for emergence will consider the ways art and science meet in the realm of imagination.
e for emergence is a series of dialogues interrogating the intersections of technology, globalization, and environmental change. It is currently convened by artists Susanne Winterling, Rajat Mondal, and climate scientist Kajsa Parding.
Art in the Rubble is a fundraising event supporting animation workshops for children in Gaza, led by Haneen Koraz, Shorouq Ahmad, and Nour Al-Jawad. Through their films, made under extreme conditions, children process fear, nurture joy, and tell their own stories. All proceeds sustain these vital creative spaces.
Join the residents of PRAKSIS Residency 31, Elasticity, as they introduce their work through short presentations, followed by open discussion and audience questions.
PRAKSIS Development Forum (PDF) is a monthly peer-discussion group for creative people. There is space for up to three people to sign up to gain feedback on their current work. Randi Thommessen, director of LNM, will open the session by inviting feedback on a curatorial project currently in development.
Artist Rajat Mondal will introduce his current project The Echoes of Resilience II, which reflects on the impact of climate change on local ecosystems and communities, while questioning the colonial legacies embedded in human exploitation of natural resources.
e for emergence is a series of dialogues interrogating the intersections of technology, globalization, and environmental change. It is currently convened by artists Susanne Winterling, Rajat Mondal, and climate scientist Kajsa Parding.
The Unloved is an exhibition by artists Felicia Honkasalo and Sam Williams in which the starring role is played by a plant largely deemed undesirable by humans: a “weed”.
PRAKSIS’s 30th group residency, Climate / Coloniality brings together eleven artists and researchers to investigate how enduring systems of power, culture, knowledge that are legacies of colonialism shape the geographically uneven effects of climate breakdown. This assembly draws upon the residents' individual and collective practices, opening a space to share knowledge, artistic responses and insights into this urgent and complex field.
PRAKSIS Development Forum (PDF) is a monthly peer-discussion group for creative people. There is space for up to three people to sign up to gain feedback on their current work. Kurniawan Adi Saputro, Danny Butt, and Helly Minarti from the Asia Pacific Artistic Research Network (APARN) will open this session, reflecting on the role of regional perspectives in their practices.
Join us at PRAKSIS as the residents of Climate / Coloniality give short presentations of their practices before inviting audience questions and discussion.
The second reading session of e for emergence focuses on Carbon majors and the scientific case for climate liability (2025) by Callahan and Mankin, recently published in the renowned scientific journal Nature. Convened by artists Susanne Winterling, Rajat Mondal, and climate scientist Kajsa Parding.
In PDF #58, artist Yaniya Mikhalina will introduce the ongoing research that underpins Appeal to All Western Countries, a sound sculpture originally inspired by a Soviet archive document dealing with the status of Tatar and Bashqort indigenous languages. Drawing on her artistic and personal experience, Mikhalina will explore themes of form, context, production and temporality.
