Satellite program
Every year Oslo Open’s artists host a variety of events that the audience can participate in. Below you can see the program for 2025.
Saturday
Enrique Guadarrama Solis
Monotype with The Machine
Enebakkveien 208 (to the left of the “Joker” store, down the stairs)
Saturday 26 April, 12–17
I gladly invite visitors to join me behind the curtains of my artistic practice, and create their own small-scale monotype with The Machine, a wooden printing press I designed and built myself.
Samvær Under Tilsün
Grei Kafe 5
Godlia subway station, Damfaret 27
Saturday 26 April, 12–17
Samvær Under Tilsün cordially invites you to the fifth installment of Grei Kafe in their kiosk at Godlia T. The plan for the day includes live music, the latest version of their augmented Pling Pong-table tennis system Fritidsklup, tasty snacks served from a Pepsi Max-fridge and assorted three star articles available from under the counter. Welcome!
PS. Running water has been installed
Beatrice Guttormsen
A small woodcut workshop
Romsås senter 1, 3rd floor, Room nr: 301
Saturday 26 April, 12– 17
I work with woodcuts. If you come by my studio I will show you how to cut small
woodcuts and how to print them by hand. This is a method that you can easily do at
home later.
Astrid Heimer
Ceramic sculpture and pottery
Ingebret Andersens vei 6
Saturday 26 April, 12– 17
Welcome to my studio at Øvre Kalbakken gård in Rødtvet. Here you can see a large repertoire of ceramic sculptures and pottery which are also for sale. Finger food and good drinks will be served.
Demonstrations of sculptural ceramic techniques:
Sand modeling at 13– 13.30
Sculptural pulling technique at 14.30– 15
The demonstrations will take place outdoors if the weather allows. If it rains, the
activity will be moved into the workshop with a maximum capacity of 10 guests
(first come, first served).
Muralverkstedet at Lilleborg
Ivan Bjørndals gate 27
Saturday 26 April, 12–15
Welcome to the Mural Workshop at Lilleborg! The Mural Workshop was initiated by Irma Salo Jæger and established in 2013. The workshop is a non-profit initiative created to preserve traditional painting techniques. The premises are built to facilitate the use of mural techniques with a separate wall designed for fresco painting. Each year professional artists, architects and students are taught fresco- and mural techniques. The workshop can also be utilized by individual artists for independent studies, or preparations for commissions of art in public space.
On Saturday, April 26th we will open the doors and give access to the premises. Work from ongoing courses with students from Oslo National Academy of the Arts (KHiO) and Oslo School of Architecture and Design (AHO) will be exhibited. In addition, Irma Salo Jæger´s studio will be open to the public.
Irma Salo Jæger (born 1928 in Finland and residing in Oslo since the 1950s) is a renowned Norwegian visual artist. She primarily works with painting and made her mark in modernist abstraction in the 1960s. From 1986 to 1992, she was a professor at The National Academy of Art in Oslo and has been engaged in art education and professional politics throughout her career.
Åsa Båve
Soap workshop
Kunsthøgskolen i Oslo, Fossveien 24, entrance from Steenstrups gate, 3rd floor
Saturday 26 April, 15–16
I work with soap as a sculptural and relational material in art. In this workshop I’ll teach you how to make your own soap from scratch. I have a limited number of participants (max 8) because of the size of my studio. So please email me before 26 April if you’d like to attend: asabave@gmail.com
Marchi & Andersson
Movie premiere– A fistful of Tomatoes
Sentrum Senter for Samtiden, Enebakkveien 17
Saturday 26 April, door opens at 17:00, movie starts at 18:00
Thematic food and refreshments will be paired to the movie and served during the premiere.
Join us for the premiere of the short movie “A fistful of Tomatoes”.
“A fistful of tomatoes” (Por un puñado de tomates) (2025) is a participatory-based film, dealing with the large scale food production in Almeria, Spain, and its effects on people and the planet. Almeria is the area with the single largest vegetable production within the EU, exporting for almost 3000 million euros per year. Norway on the other hand imports 2/3 of all fruits and vegetables. At the same time Almeria has been used by the cinema industry because of its perfect climate, from 1970s Spaghetti westerns to Games of Thrones there are many movies and series that have been shot there. Because of this in the movie we make use of cinema tropes borrowing from Sergio Leone spaghetti westerns, sci-fi movies, cooking shows and anything that came up through the conversation with the local people we met and involved in the making.
Opplyst Galleri
Artist Exodus 002
Exhibition, open for everybody
Location: TBA, outdoors in Oslo– will be posted on Instagram @opplystgalleri
Saturday 26 April, 19– 20
We are Opplyst Galleri, an artist driven gallery where we activate empty and unused venues without permission, forgiveness or support. How does it work? We will stand outside the venue and watch art being projected on the walls through the windows. With the help of projection mapping it will seem like the art will be hanging and mounted in the empty venue. Our mission is to front art and the process behind Art, at any cost, in the hope of showing how overseen art is as a profession, as well as the eternal struggle with the cultural offer in Oslo city center.
This time we invite you to Artist Exodus 002, where we plan to show you the process behind the art from local artists. In this exhibition we put the artistic process in the spotlight. Can we recognize art as a job on the same level as other jobs? What kind of challenges do artists in Oslo come across, and how can we solve them? You are welcome to see and be a part of the discussion about the artist’s role and challenges in Oslo.
Saturday and Sunday
Photo: Gard Aukrust
Enrique Roura
Our Common Shapes 2
Oslo Prosjektrom, Platousgate 18
10 April– 27 April, Thursday and Friday 14–18, Saturday and Sunday 12–16
“Our Common Shapes 2” is part of an ongoing exploration into the profound complexity embedded in the shape of objects. Conceived as an immersive installation, it features a constellation of small sculptures and larger volumes framing the gallery space. The project explores our reliance on plastic and the impact of programmed obsolescence, fostering dialogue on urban and industrial development and its effects on nature and culture.
Onė Austėja Maldonytė and Hågen Gade
Reshaping itself
Thorvald Meyers gate 45, Oslo
Saturday 26 and Sunday 27 April, 12– 17
The boundaries between art, nature, and transformation blur in the exhibition “Reshaping itself”. This exhibition explores the delicate interplay between growth and fragility, where ceramic elements inspired by organic structures create an ever-changing system of form and space. Each piece, handcrafted from clay, reflects the resilience and vulnerability of natural life—roots extending, leaves unfurling, and organisms adapting. The modular ceramic components, placed upon the wall, are not fixed; they shift and evolve depending on the space they inhabit, embracing the idea of impermanence and reconfiguration. Light plays a crucial role in this living composition, casting shifting shadows that animate the forms, echoing the passage of time and the fluidity of change.
The collaborative nature of the installation allows for endless reinterpretation, a dialogue between artists, space, and viewers, where each new arrangement breathes fresh life into the work. Through the repetition of fractal-inspired patterns and the organic reassembly of separate ceramic pieces, Evolving Forms invites reflection on the delicate balance between structure and transformation, order and chaos, permanence and ephemerality. This is an exhibition in motion—an invitation to witness art as a living, breathing system, forever growing and reshaping itself.
Per Christian Brown, Ingrid Book & Carina Hedén, Thorbjørn Sørensen, Helene Sommer and Hege Nyborg
Group exhibition in Ekely Gjesteatelier during Oslo Open 2025
Ekely Gjesteatelier, Gråbrødreveien 10F, entrance from the back
Saturday 26 April – Sunday 27 April, 12– 18
Per Christian Brown has been awarded a 6-month residency at Ekely gjesteatelier by the Edvard Munch Studio Foundation and invites you to an exhibition with the artist group he is part of, consisting of: Ingrid Book & Carina Hedén, Hege Nyborg, Thorbjørn Sørensen and Helene Sommer.
Over the past 10 years, the group has established a common platform for conversations, discussions and exhibitions. Although the artists work independently on the various projects, they are created in a dialogic community where the individual projects’ investigations are linked through overlapping, concrete and associative connections at the intersection of culture, biology and a poetic interpretation of nature and its materiality. The collaboration arose after the artists participated in the group exhibition ‘Through Nature’ at Stenersen Museum in 2014. They have since then held exhibitions together at Kikutstua in Nordmarka and Kunsthuset Kabuso in Øystese, Hardanger. They are now working towards a group exhibition at Oslo Kunstforening in spring 2026. In their exhibition at Ekely gjesteatelier, they will present works in various media such as photography, video, painting and drawing. In addition, they will present books and printed matter from the artists’ respective projects and exhibitions.
Sunday
Oslo Glass Studio
Try blowing glass yourself!
Dronningens gate 27, Kirkeristen, entrance behind Oslo Cathedral
Sunday 28 April, 14–16
20 spots for the first to arrive
Come and see us blow glass! You can also test blowing a bubble from the glowing hot glass yourself and see it burst.
Oslo Glass Studio opened during Oslo Open last year and has been open to the public since then. The studio is run by three well established glass artists: Jeanne-Sophie Aas, Ina Kristine Hove and Kjersti Johannessen. Here they produce both glass objects for everyday use as well as art objects in glass and sell them in the gallery connected to their workshop.
Margaret Abeshu
Fashion, flesh, framing: Ongoing investigation of Fashion, Body, Structures
Storgata 36B, 2nd floor
Sunday 27 April, 15–16
Performance in collaboration with Magdalena Solli and Adrian Leversby, which will include sartorial presentations, readings of counter-critical theory, video essay screenings, serving of traditional porridge and Ethiopian coffee brewing. This is part of an ongoing project Abeshu is working on: FFF: Fashion, Flesh, Framing, which explores the intersections between fashion, body, and structures.
Kari Brænne
Kunststykker (opplesning)
Finnhaugveien 26B, entrance from Øraveien, follow the path through the garden
Sunday 27 April, 15–15.30
Kari Brænne will read from her ongoing book project in Norwegian.
Maria Brinch
Concert performance with Turid Alida Røsten in Maria Brinch’s studio
Mariboes gate 11, 3rd floor
Sunday 27 April
16.30–17, please arrive in good time
Turid Alida Røsten explores the sound of textiles and clothes in combination with text work, voice and movement. This is Maria and Turid’s second collaborative project. The concert performance will take place in Maria’s studio with clear traces from ongoing working processes, tapestries and materials. Some refreshments will be served!
Natalie S. Eliassen
Sewing workshop Rynkerøtter
Mariboes gate 11, 5th floor without elevator, room nr. 5
Sunday 27 April, 12–17
Drop-in-workshop, duration ca 10 min
Suitable for ages 5–100
Hand-sew a “wrinkle-root” and contribute to an art piece. The wrinkle-roots will be part of a textile and sound installation, resembling a textile stump with a network of unique roots. Visual artist Natalie S. Eliassen and performing artist Elise Austad will instruct you in simple hand sewing and wrinkling techniques. We provide needle, thread, and textiles. Feel free to chat with us about aging. The installation is part of Elise and Natalie’s ELDST project, which focuses on cycles, roots (experiences), and norms related to different ages.
Maria Joanna Juchnowska
Ceramics in the Heart of Holmenkollen
Dagaliveien 27B
Sunday 27 April, 12–17
Ceramics in the Heart of Holmenkollen invites you to explore the magic of working with clay. Try your hand at the potter’s wheel or simply enjoy shaping a lump of clay into something unique. Weather permitting, we’ll also fire the Raku Obvara kiln outdoors—a fascinating process you won’t want to miss.
We are conveniently located just a 7-minute walk from Midtstuen station or a 10-minute walk from Besserud station. As you make your way to our studio, you’ll be treated to a stunning free view of Oslo.
With snacks, coffee, and music on-site, it’s the perfect outing for all ages. Families with children are warmly welcome! We invite you to join us in a friendly atmosphere, open to all. We speak English, Polish, Portuguese, and Norwegian.
Anja Borgersrud
Throwing clay at the ceramic workshop at Vækerøstuene
Drammensveien 227
Sunday 26 April, 12–16
The audience will have a chance to try throwing clay on a pottery wheel with ceramic artist Anja Borgersrud.
Kari Adora Hauge
A conversation café about art at Sagene Kunstsmie
Drøbakgata 1, entrance: Kristiansandsgate 2, up the stairs by Nazar Kafé
Sunday 27 April, 12–17
In the gallery at Sagene Kunstsmie Kari Adora Hauge invites you to a café where you can strike up a conversation about art. What is art? Is art important? Do we need art? Here you have a chance to get an artist’s perspective and everything you’re wondering about while enjoying coffee and cakes.
Ellen Lande
Film premier– Hjertevenner
Iladalen Parkhus, Iladalen park– by the crossing of Søren Jaabæks gt/ Claus Riis gt
Sunday 27 April, 12– 17
You will be served warm waffles and freshly made mini-documentaries with the title Hjertevenner. These short films portray enthusiasts, artists and distinctive places that promote culture in Sagene. The event is supported by Parkhuset Iladalen and Sagenes borough’s local cultural grant. Hjertevenner will be screened in a loop together with other short films, music videos and VR made by Ellen Lande.