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Oslo Open Opening Party

Welcome to the opening party of this year’s Oslo Open at Kunstnernes Hus, 22 April at 8 pm! We will also announce the recipient of this year’s honorary award.

The program for 2022 is launched

400 artists welcome you into their studios during Oslo Open 23 and 24 April, 2022. One weekend a year, professional artists from the fields of visual art and contemporary craft open the doors to their workspaces. See all artists in the list to the right, and the program here. Stay tuned for full program for tours and events.

Video portraits of artists

What is a good studio, and what is its importance for the work that an artist creates? What is the driving force behind the choices an artist makes? Oslo Open meets eleven artists in their workspace: the atelier!

As a part of Oslo Open 2021’s pandemic friendly content we produced a series of eleven artist portraits in video format. Press play to meet eleven artists from the fields of visual arts and contemporary crafts, ranging from well established to recent graduates!

Meet the new director of Oslo Open

Frida Rusnak is the new director of Oslo Open, starting November 1st, 2021. She continues the work carried out by previous leaders Tanja Sæter, Marianne Zamecznik and most recently Marthe Elise Stramrud, who have all made a huge effort to establish Oslo Open as an important event in the Norwegian arts scene, and a gateway to the city’s artist studios.

Tenthaus receives The Oslo Open Honorary Award

The prize for 2021 went to the artist collective Tenthaus. The award was given out by the city council member Omar Samy Gamal (SV) together with chairman of the board Trond Hugo Haugen and director Marthe Elise Stramrud. Read more about the award here.

The Coast Contemporary Prize

Oslo Open and Coast Contemporary have the pleasure to collaborate in awarding a prize to an artist who opens their atelier during Oslo Open.

«Atelierbesøk med Oslo Open»

Have a look at «Atelierbesøk med Oslo Open» – a series of artist portraits in video format

Live-Streamed Studio Visits

Ragnhild Brochmann (writer of the popular column Estetikeren in Morgenbladet), Marie Saxeide (art mediator/ content marketing manager at Atelier, a new Norwegian platform that enables artists to sell their art directly from the studio), Marianne Hurum (Oslo-based painter with several years of engagement working for artists’ rights) and Marthe Elise Stramrud (artist and director of Oslo Open) stepped into the role of reporters during 2021´s Studio Weekend and gave the audience a chance to tag along for informal and fun meetings in artist’s studios around the city.

We will take our digital audience on more live-streamed visits in 2022. Stay tuned!