Sponsors and partners

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Atelier is a digital platform that lets you discover and buy art directly from professional and emerging artists. All the artists you find on Atelier have been recommended or considered by other professional artists.

Atelie presents a new collaborative work by Ragnhild Nes and Lars Gangdal: Entre Duas Maos in the exhibition window at Via Vika, Munkedamsveien 29, alongside a selection of new pieces on view in Atelie Studio, Ruseløkkveien 26.

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Atelier Kunstnerforbundet is an infrastructural, collective studio programme that fosters artistic and cultural production by offering free-of-charge studios for artists. The programme is geared towards the development of artistic practices and includes studio visits, production funds, and workshops with cultural actors from Norway, Sápmi, and abroad. Key to the programme are the many collaborations that facilitate relations to cultures in a plurality of perspectives and enable new participants to find their place within contemporary art.

During Oslo Open this year, in collaboration with the artist initiative Peer Review, AFK opens their space as a temporary showroom and studio for three artists who do not have a permanent studio space in Oslo.

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Einar Granum Art School offers a two-year higher vocational education in visual arts. They also organise the Granum Festival every spring.

We collaborate with Einar Granum Kunstfagskole and ØST KUNST on activities for children, young people, and adults. Our shared goal is to ensure that everyone has the opportunity to create and experience art. We aim to lower the threshold for becoming part of the art field—for future art students, artists, and audiences.

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The Norwegian Federation of Organisations of Persons with Disabilities (FFO) is an umbrella organisation with 88 member organisations of people with disabilities and chronic diseases.

Oslo Open collaborates with FFO, Disabled Youth Norway (UngFunk), Visual Artists in Oslo (BO) and Young Artists’ Society Kunstneres Samfund (UKS) on a survey of the accessibility of artists’ studios in Oslo. The report will be launched 24 April.

Oslo Open receives grassroots funding through Norsk Tipping.

You can also support us as a donor by choosing to direct your grassroots share to Oslo Open whenever you play games offered by Norsk Tipping.

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Kaibosh is an independent Norwegian eyewear company creating high quality glasses and sunglasses at the forefront of fashion. All their products are designed in-house – painstakingly blending the latest trends and technical excellence to produce stunning pieces of eyewear at affordable prices. Kaibosh aim to delight and inspire their customers by offering new perspectives on eyewear as an accessory.

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Kunst på arbeidsplassen (art at the workplace) rents out art to businesses and organisations across Norway, and holds a collection of over 6,000 artworks by 700 artists. Oslo Open and Kpa have entered into a three-year partnership agreement. Each year, Kpa will purchase at least one artwork by an artist participating in Oslo Open. As a result, an increasing number of Oslo-based artists will become part of the collection.

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Mamma Pizza Vika – Osteria di Mare, is our provider of delicious Italian pizza!

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Norwegian Crafts is a non-profit organisation, founded by the Norwegian Association for Arts and Crafts in 2012, with the aim to strengthen the position of contemporary crafts from Norway internationally. Norwegian Crafts is a collaboration partner for our international visitors program, where we invite curators and other art professionals from abroad to visit Oslo artists.

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Office for Contemporary Art Norway (OCA) is a collaboration partner for our international visitors program, where we invite curators and other art professionals from abroad to visit Oslo artists.

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Open House Oslo invites people into some of Oslo’s most distinctive buildings and gardens – places that are normally closed to the public. Their goal is to make great architecture accessible to everyone.

This year, Oslo Open and Open House Oslo takes place the same weekend, offering a unique opportunity to experience art and architecture, without paying an entry fee!

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Oslo Art Guide is a free guide and a digital tool to the contemporary art scene in Oslo.

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ØST KUNST is an art organiser from Groruddalen, for Oslo. They work with visual art, music and dance, and create exhibitions, workshops and festivals.

We collaborate on activities for children, young people and adults. Our shared goal is to ensure that everyone has the opportunity to create and experience art, aiming to lower the threshold for being a part of the art field—for future art students, artists and audiences. ØST KUNST curates the programme for the Oslo Opens Anniversary Party, 25 April.

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Tim Wendelboe is a world-renowned coffee roaster, with an espresso bar in Grünerløkka. In addition to delivering coffee to private customers and restaurants, they also have B2B coffee solutions for offices, studios and companies.

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TrAP is an independent arts production company. Their aim is to increase diversity within Norwegian arts and culture. During Oslo Open this year, TrAP opens their office space as a temporary showroom and studio for four artists who do not have a studio space in Oslo.

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Disabled Youth Norway (UngFunk) is an umbrella organisation for 38 organisations and groups of young people with disabilities and chronic illness.

Oslo Open collaborates with UngFunk, The Norwegian Federation of Organisations of Persons with Disabilities (FFO), Visual Artists in Oslo (BO) and Young Artists’ Society Kunstneres Samfund (UKS) on a survey of the accessibility of artists’ studios in Oslo. The report will be launched 24 April.