UTLYSNING - Søk nå på PRAKSIS Youth 2026-2027

Betalt styrejobb for deg mellom 16–21 år
Oppstart: april 2026
Søknadsfrist: 6. april 2026, kl. 23:59

Har du en interesse for kunst, men usikker på hvor du passer inn? Eller er du bare nysgjerrig på hva kunst og kultur egentlig kan være?

PRAKSIS Teen Advisory Board er et program for deg som vil lære mer, delta i aktiviteter med annen ungdom, og få innflytelse på kunst og kultur i Oslo og Lillestrøm. Som del av programmet vil du også delta i Young Curators Mentorship, et samarbeid med Nitja senter for samtidskunst i Lillestrøm.

Hva skjer i løpet av året?

Du vil blant annet:

• besøke kunststeder i Oslo og Lillestrøm og snakke om det dere opplever

• samarbeide om å lage en utstilling på Nitja senter for samtidskunst

• møte kunstnere og folk som jobber med kunst og kultur

• jobbe sammen i en gruppe med å utvikle ulike prosjekter (for eksempel en publikasjon, arrangementer eller en utstilling)

• møte ungdom fra lignende programmer i Norden

Du trenger ikke å vite hva du er god på enda – det finner vi ut av underveis.

Hvem ser vi etter?

• Du er mellom 16–21 år

• Du bor i Oslo- eller Lillestrøm-området

• Du er nysgjerrig på kunst og vil lære mer

Ingen erfaring nødvendig. Programmet er spesielt for deg som ikke allerede føler deg “innenfor” kunstfeltet.

Litt mer informasjon

• 10 betalte stillinger

• Oppstart: slutten av april 2026

• Varighet: ett år

• Ca. 2 møter i måneden. Som regel onsdag kveld og i helgen delt mellom PRAKSIS i Oslo sentrum og Nitja senter for samtidskunst i Lillestrøm. Transport betalt.

• Språk: norsk og engelsk.

PRAKSIS er et senter for kunst, forskning og læring i Oslo. Kjerneaktiviter inkluderer kunstneropphold, offentlige arrangementer, ungdomsprogrammer, og publisering både online og i trykk.

OPEN CALL - Apply now for PRAKSIS Youth 2026-2027

Paid board position for young people aged 16–21. Start: April 2026
Application deadline: 6 April 2026, 23:59

Do you have an interest in art, but aren’t sure where you fit in?Or are you simply curious about what art and culture can be?

PRAKSIS Teen Advisory Board is a programme for those who want to learn more, take part in activities with other young people, and have a say in art and culture in Oslo and Lillestrøm. As part of the programme, you will also take part in the Young Curators Mentorship, a collaboration with Nitja Centre for Contemporary Art in Lillestrøm.

What will happen?

You will, amongst other things:

• visit art spaces in Oslo and Lillestrøm and discuss what you experience

• collaborate on creating an exhibition at Nitja Centre for Contemporary Art

• meet artists and people working in art and culture

• work together as a group to develop different projects (for example a publication, events, or an exhibition)

• connect with youth groups from Index – The Swedish Contemporary Art Foundation (Stockholm, Sweden) and PUBLICS (Helsinki, Finland) to organise a conference in Helsinki.

You don’t need to know what you want to do yet – that’s part of the process.

Who are we looking for?

• You are 16–21 years old

• You live in the Oslo or Lillestrøm area

• You are curious about art and want to learn more

No previous experience needed. Especially relevant if you don’t already feel part of the art world.

A bit more information

• 10 paid positions

• Start: late April 2026

• Duration: one year

• Approx. 2 meetings per month, usually Wednesday evenings and weekends, shared between PRAKSIS in central Oslo and Nitja Centre for Contemporary Art in Lillestrøm. Transport covered.

• Languages: Norwegian and English

  
  PRAKSIS is a centre for art, research and learning located in Oslo. Its core activities include artists’ residencies, staging public events, youth programming, and online and in-print publishing
  

“The art world is not so scary! Before I joined PTAB, the art world seemed very far away, but in reality, artists and the curators are just people like everyone else, who most often also want to include others.”
- Mikkel (PTAB 2021)

“PTAB opened doors for me that I would never open myself.”
- Idil (PTAB 2020)

Open to young creative people and organisers between 16-21 years from all over Oslo, PTAB offers the opportunity to develop experiences, establish knowledge and networks within the cultural industry. Participants contribute to long-term value creation within Oslo city's cultural field by providing constructive feedback to institutions they come into contact with. The program looks to inspire, strengthen and engage its participants to create their own space within the field.

From August, PTAB offers eight to ten paid board positions for young adults. The program works with a committed group who bring with them a variety of backgrounds and life experiences. PTAB is an important part of PRAKSIS, actively evaluating, reflecting on and participating in the organisation's development. Together they visit art institutions, cultural actors and artists; and attend workshops and other activities that enable exploration, discussion and reflection on art and culture in Oslo. The group meets monthly on a fixed Saturday and occasionally on other arranged dates.

PTAB is developed in collaboration with the Index Teen Advisory Board, Stockholm. It is co-funded by Erasmus+: Youth in Action programme of the European Union, Sparebankstiflesen DNB and Kulturrådet.

PTAB and PRAKSIS are currently working in collaboration with Index Teen Advisory Board and Index (Stockholm), and Publics (Helsinki) on the long-term project; In Character.

In Character looks at the characters encountered in the art world; from artists and organisers, to those who make up the gallery and museum audience. The groups consider areas including behaviour, acceptability, and ideas of comfort and discomfort. They engage with institutions and arts professionals to work through subjects of representation, language, power structures, and inclusion in the art world.

Initial workshops and research will result in outputs including; a blog, conferences, a game manual, and radio broadcasts.

Follow PTAB’s Instagram @praksistab to see the programme unfold. More information is available at www.incharacter.info.

PTAB 2019/20 culminated in a mini-festival. Organised by PTAB with guidance from PRAKSIS’s team, the nine members chose the topic and title CHANGE. It was important to the members that this festival was exciting, and thought-provoking but also open to everyone. PTAB members developed art works, workshops, and performances that  introduced topics they cared about and felt needed more discussion in society. Each contribution shared the intention to change mindsets and generate new experiences for their audience. The festival was an inspiring outcome that demonstrates the rich thinking and learning that grew throughout the year!

PTAB members:

Idil Mahamed Hassan (17 years)
Xueqin Elina Pang (18 years)
Julie Sand (17 years)
Zeinab Al-khatib (19 years)
Kornelia Eline Skogseth (20 years)
Hannah Røsholt Siger (16 years)
Wattana Meethong  (18 years)
Maroa el Youssef (20 years) 
Kawsica Rashasingham (17 years)

Over five evenings running up to the festival, PTAB members worked at PRAKSIS together with team members, Marit and Nicholas.

It was a lot of fun and a learning process working alongside each other to complete our projects, plan workshops and performances, and to install the festival. 

Our last session as PTAB group 2019/20. We had lots of planning to do for the Change festival program. Wattana led the design of the festival poster, in conversation with members of PTAB and PRAKSIS’s team.

With materials supported by a grant from Fri Fond, everyone began work on their projects in preparation for the exhibition. We kept ourselves well-fuelled with pizza throughout the session!

In September we will host an event during Oslo Art Weekend. With nine organisers involved it can be though to decide what to do. We started by spending a weekend workshopping what’s important to us and what we find exciting with PRAKSIS’s director, Nicholas. By the end we agree to work on an interactive arts festival addressing the subject of change from different perspectives. It’s a big task, but it’s going to be exciting!

We also visited England-born artist Sayed Sattar Hasan’s exhibition ‘Hasansans Kjelke’ at Interkulturelt Museum. In the show Sayed works with cultural symbols from Pakistan and Norway, and is inspired by polar ‘hero’ Fridjof Nansen. Meeting him at the exhibition led to a talk about cultural differences in art and personal life, and the importance of being able to belong to more than one culture, environment or home, without having to choose between them, but to embrace all as a part of you.

We began mapping our content for the upcoming Change Festival in more detail. We had many rich discussions during this session.

Some of the things we talked about include: Y-blokka, cultural monuments, cultural heritage, mental health, generational change, racism, body fixation, reuse/recycling, new mindsets and about how to belong to different cultures. We left with lots of food for thought!

This month we met together virtually. We started off thinking about our experiences of digital art. With in-person experiences halted due to Covid, how do physical objects and exhibitions change through the process of digitisation? We shared our experiences of digital art and culture we’d participated in and thought about what had been successful and unsuccessful.

With Oslo culture night approaching in September we had some planning to do. We re-visited our initial ideas from February to figure out an emerging theme for our event. One example being, how can PTAB find ways to challenge the social norms of the art world? We then considered ways that our ideas could take material form. 

With the next round of admissions for PTAB 20/21 coming up we looked back on our own experiences of this process and considered how to approach it this time round. 

The session ended with a prompt for a practical task: The pandemic has prevented daily conversations and interactions. Without our normal modes of communication what creative ways can still generate conversation from a distance? Our practical task was to express ourselves to one other group member through a visual letter. We brainstormed ideas before wrapping up for the day.

Corona-shutdown hit and we had to change our plans to meet in person. Instead thinking how to connect online, and to have an exchange with Index Teen Advisory Board in Stockholm. The week before both groups made personal videos to provide some insight into our situations during the crisis. We spoke about things like: What it means to be a part of TAB. How we are affected by the pandemic. What we think is important to be aware of at a time like this? These videos were exchanged, giving some insight into the differences between the Oslo experience of lockdown (where schools and other institutions are closed), and in Stockholm (where the regulations where looser).

We met up with Index Teen Advisory Board via video call to participate in a co-writing session hosted by the Stockholm based artist collective Coyote. Both groups fantasised about what might happen at museums while they are closed. Together we wrote a coming of age thriller, with a mix of Swedish and Norwegian language, carrying the title POETIC JUSTICE ON THE MUSEUM OF MODERN ART.  The session ended with an interesting discussion about nordic language, online communication and experiences during Corona.

We met choreographer and former PRAKSIS resident Edwin Cabascango to participate in his Texture and Movement dance workshop at Kunsthøyskolen i Oslo (KHIO). The workshop expressed emotions through the dance and generated trust between the participants. It was a wonderful experience, definitely worth trying. 

Back at PRAKSIS we got visitors from Index - The Swedish Contemporary Art Foundation and PUBLICS, a curatorial agency with a dedicated library, event space and reading room in Helsinki, to exchange knowledge around our Teen Advisory Boards. We started planing our visit to Helsinki along with our Index Teen Advisory board. 

Artist-filmmaker, Hamid Waheed spoke about his work and led a writing based workshop around characterisation. Discussions and exercises related to freedom in artistic expression, as well as the difficult ethical landscapes filmmakers and artists face when dealing with cruelty and appropriated imagery.

Hamid showed his film Etterkrigstid (After War) that premiered at Kunstnernes Hus, Oslo in 2019.

We gathered to celebrate six months of the PTAB program and the upcoming holiday. Each PTAB member shared either  their art work or something they were inspired by with  the rest of the group.

For example:  Zeinab showed us a dream catcher she’d made at school, Wattana showed his Instagram account with graphic drawings, Hannah and Elina used YouTube to share with us the work of TwoSet Violin and the drawings of TheOdd1sOut. We shared pizza too!

Our visit to IKM included meeting artists Shwan Dler Qaradaki at his exhibition The Golden Wish to talk about his work and some of ours too.

We also spent time reflecting on subject including racism, xenophbia and bia in everyday life at Thierry Geoffroy’s exhibition Typisk Dem (Typical Them).

Speaking with Nairobi based PRAKSIS resident Syowia Kyambi about her work, performance art, and a broad range of other topics including education, personal and cultural histories, as well as cultural awareness of past and present power structures.

We started the day at Fotogalleriet, feeding back on our experience there and seeing the show Maria and the Devil, before speaking about it with the artist herself. We met with their Head of Education, Annika Hastrøm to learn more about the institution and her role. Then we braved the rain back to PRAKSIS HQ to discuss the needs of children and youth within the Norway’s cultural field.

Our thoughts on this were then formulated this into a report that went to the Department of Culture, to be included in the parliamentary report Kids and Teens Voices which is due to be published in Autumn 2020.

The first PTAB session! We started with introductions to each other, and then PRAKSIS. This was followed by a talk with curator and PRAKSIS resident Olivia Berkowicz (PL/SE) about her job and interests. Then arts writer, educator and PRAKSIS co-founder Rachel Withers (GB) had great tips on how to write about art.

We rounded up the day by visiting Oslo Kunstforening to see the show and give feedback on our experience of the institution and the exhibition The Strongest Girl in the World by Rona Yeftman (IL).