Finissage from 15:00–16:00 Sunday, 15 February

Exhibition dates: 6 February – 15 February 2026
Open Wednesday–Sunday, 12:00–16:00, or by appointment
Contact: office@praksisoslo.org

Free entry | No step free access

Join us for the finissage of Yanina Zaichanka’s solo exhibition, this picture never existed. The artist will give a short introduction to the show, followed by audience Q&A. Refreshments and informal conversation will follow.

this picture never existed centres on a missing photograph of Klava, the artist’s late grandmother. A multi-channel sound work and a single embroidery trace the ephemerality of memory: the missing image becomes a gateway into an untold story, and into the layered absences that gather around family histories marked by repression. Moving through silences, omissions, and misrememberings, Zaichanka proposes an intimate, shifting narrative that questions how we relate to and make sense of the past, underscoring what cannot be recovered while allowing for the uncertainties and flaws to be manifested.

Tip: Please arrive from 15:00 to experience the audio installation in full before the discussion starts at 15:30. The sound work is 24 minutes and plays on loop.

You can read more about the exhibition here: this picture never existed – An exhibition by Yanina Zaichanka — PRAKSIS

The exhibition forms part of Zaichanka’s MFA graduation project at the Academy of Fine Art, Oslo National Academy of the Arts. Zaichanka is a former PRAKSIS resident (Residency 22: Repression – Expression // Violence – Creative Resistance, developed with the Peace Research Institute Oslo and Motaz Al Habbash).