We’re sorry to inform that the open studio with Volodymyr Filippov that was happening simultaneously is cancelled due to illness.
This exhibition at Edvard Munch’s Winter Studio at Ekely presents the outcome of Studio Munch House, a course initiated in January 2026 that brings together students from The Art Academy in Bergen and throughout the Nordic and Baltic region. Working in teams, participants explore the speculative reconstruction of Edvard Munch’s demolished house as an imagined centre for art and creativity. Fieldwork in Bergen and at Ekely, material experimentation, and reflective writing have shaped contextually grounded works that respond to place, memory, and process. Across its iterations, the exhibition proposes the studio as a living structure, one that absorbs history, weather, and time, and remains central to how artistic knowledge is produced, shared, and reimagined. The exhibition is part of Eamon O’Kane’s stay.
Wednesday 11 March 18.00-20.00h Open Studio: Eamon O’Kane
O’Kane will present works in progress from his ongoing series inspired by Edvard Munch and the unique atmosphere of Ekely. The project reflects on Munch’s late practice, the architecture of the Winter Studio, and the surrounding landscape, reinterpreting them through O’Kane’s contemporary lens. Visitors are invited to experience the evolving body of work in the very space that continues to shape its making.
Eamon O’Kane (b. 1974, Belfast) works in various mediums such as painting, sculpture, print, drawing, photography, video and installation. O’Kane has had more than 90 solo exhibitions and over 200 group exhibitions in Ireland, Germany, Denmark, Norway, Switzerland and the USA among other places, and has taken part in biennales such as the Norwegian Sculpture Biennale, Dublin Contemporary and EVA Biennal.
Where: Small Studio, Jarlsbergveien 14
Courtesy Eamon O’Kane
Saturday 21 March 13.00-17.00h Open studio and performance: Liv Strand
At 15.00h the artist activates her woodcut sculptures in a performance.
Liv Strand shares the process behind the large paper work “Grafisk distans” (Graphic Distance). “Grafisk distans”is a sculptural play with laws and established boundaries. In several places in Oslo,Strand has depicted floors using frottage. She has visited a couple of floors in institutions that can be said to be part of society’s organisational infrastructure. The floors form the foundation of each building, and by extension, for the agreements that regulate the lives of the citizens. The depictions focus on details, and back in the studio, Strand adds more prints with images that are literally rolled out over the paper using rotating woodcut sculptures.
Where: Guest apartment, Gråbrødreveien 10F
Courtesy Liv Strand
Tuesday 24 March 18.00-20.00h Open Studio: Volodymyr Filippov and student exhibition:
Filippov has spent three months at the graphic workshop at Ekely. One of the projects he has been working on is a series of works that document the daily destruction and losses caused by the war in Ukraine.
Through a sober, almost archival approach, every day is materialised as a graphic imprint. The project moves in the borderland between documentary and abstract art, where each tragedy and each loss is translated into a graphic statement.
Volodymyr Filippov (b.1968, Sevastopol, Ukraine) has been living in Sande in Vestfold since 2022. As an artist with migration experience after the full-scale invasion of Ukraine, he works in a field where personal biography meets collective experiences of loss, rupture and displacement. His practice has roots in video installation, performative actions and readymades, but in recent years has turned more clearly towards material-based “time capsules” – corporeal and tactile memory archives.
Where: Graphic workshop, Jarlsbergveien 14
Courtesy Volodymyr Filippov
Student exhibition: Studio Munch House
This exhibition at Edvard Munch’s Winter Studio at Ekely presents the outcome of Studio Munch House, a course initiated in January 2026 that brings together students from The Art Academy in Bergen and throughout the Nordic and Baltic region. Working in teams, participants explore the speculative reconstruction of Edvard Munch’s demolished house as an imagined centre for art and creativity. Fieldwork in Bergen and at Ekely, material experimentation, and reflective writing have shaped contextually grounded works that respond to place, memory, and process. Across its iterations, the exhibition proposes the studio as a living structure, one that absorbs history, weather, and time, and remains central to how artistic knowledge is produced, shared, and reimagined. The exhibition is part of Eamon O’Kane’s stay.
In cooperation with the Goethe-Institut Norway, the Edvard Munch Studio Foundation invites one or more visual artists residing in Germany to a residency from October 1st to November 30th, 2026. The studio residency takes place in an apartment on the former property of Edvard Munch in Oslo.
Deadline March 10, 2026
View from the garden at Ekely. Copyright: Stiftelsen Edvard Munch’s Atelier
During their stay, residents are invited to engage with themes or questions that in some way relate to the life and work of Edvard Munch.
Edvard Munch (1863–1944) still plays a major role in the cultural relations between Norway and Germany. He lived in Berlin and Warnemünde for many years and achieved after initial rejection, his breakthrough as a pioneer of modern art in Germany. After many turbulent years and health issues, he returned to Norway and acquired a property in Ekely, a then suburb of Oslo. There, Munch created an inspiring, nature-oriented artist’s retreat where he lived for 28 years until his death in 1944.
Today, Ekely remains a quiet, green district of Oslo where many artists have settled. In the 1950s, an “artist colony” was established there with 44 live-work units containing both housing and studio spaces for visual artists. The Munch-Goethe studio residency is housed in one of these artist apartments, thus offering opportunities to build contacts with Oslo-based artists. The apartment is located at the end of a terraced house with 6 units. It was built in 1959 after design by the famous Norwegian architects Jens and Wenche Selmer.
Whom we fund
The program is aimed at full-time practicing visual artists, with dynamic and contemporary projects and exhibition profiles who have been resident in Germany for at least two years.
A degree in arts or equivalent qualifications is required.
We particularly welcome applications from artists at an early stage of their career. In addition, we encourage artists who want an introduction to the Norwegian art scene to build up new networks.
What we fund
Free accommodation in a spacious artist’s apartment with integrated studio in Ekely, Oslo:
The apartment includes a 32 m² studio with large north-facing windows, skylight and a separate entrance. The living space has two bedrooms, a kitchen, a living room, a bathroom, a garden, and a terrace. The total area is 102 m², and the communal garden may be used.
The apartment allows residents to bring family or partner, or to apply jointly with up to two artists. Note: Please be advised that the stipend and allowances will not be increased in the event that two artists or family members are staying.
The studio is suited for working within many forms of art media, as long as the interior is not taking damage from the work. Please note that all materials and tools must be provided by the artists themselves.
Stipend: €2,000 per month
Travel allowance (round trip from Germany): €500
Residents commit to participate in up to two public events such as an artist talk, open studio, or similar.
During the stay, the Edvard Munch’s Studio Foundation and the Goethe-Institut will offer professional advice and support, as well as networking opportunities to the art scene.
After the residency period, the residents must submit a final report and complete a short evaluation. The residents will be listed on the alumni portals, the websites and social media channels of the Goethe-Institut and the Edvard Munch Studio’s Foundation.
The artist will commit to mentioning the Goethe-Institut and Edvard Munch’s Studio in relation to the artistic production resulting from the residency.
Funding criteria
Quality of the proposed project
Artists developing practice/research relationships in Oslo/Norway
Expressed and perceived need for the award
Willingness to engage with the communities of Goethe-Institut and Edvard Munch’s Studios
Information on application process
Required documents
1. A letter of motivation (max. 500 words) including:
Why are you applying for a residency at Ekely?
What is your connection to Edvard Munch and to Norway?
Which project do you plan to work on during your residency that relates to the life and/or themes of Edvard Munch? Please provide a short project outline.
2. Current CV with links to your website or social media accounts (max. 2 pages)
3. Insight into your artistic practice: images (up to six) and/or links to video/audio excerpts (max. two minutes), as well as links to relevant artistic projects.
4. Idea for a public event to share your artistic experience through the residency with the community.
Please test links/images whether they work and are saved in optimum format for panel viewing. Late applications will not be considered and due to volume of applicants, feedback cannot be given.
Please send your application in English by March 10th, 2026, 12:00 pm as a single PDF file (max. 10 MB) to: Jeanette.Warnick.Danzer@goethe.de
Your data will be processed in accordance with legal requirements.
Please note that communication by email is unencrypted and may have security vulnerabilities.
Selection process
A jury composed of representatives of the Edvard Munch’s Studio Foundation and the Goethe-Institut will select the resident(s).
The jury will inform you of their decision by the end of April 2026.
In February, three artists are working at Ekely – two at Edvard Munch’s Studio and one at the guest apartment:
The Ukrainian artist Volodymyr Filippov is working in the graphic workshop. Among other things, he is producing works for the exhibition 1460/now – once upon a time houses were big, which opens at the TID gallery in Mandal on Saturday, February 7. About the exhibition:
1460/now – once upon a time houses were big is a solo exhibition by the Ukrainian visual and graphic artist Volodymyr Filippov (NBK, NBF), who lives in Norway. The project has been ongoing since 2022, continuing and deepening the theme that was shown at Fossekleiva Cultural Center in 2025, and is based on 1,460 days of full-scale war in Ukraine. That the exhibition takes place precisely in February 2026 is no coincidence. February marks four years since the full-scale invasion.
Through 1,460 individual works, the audience is invited to lift their gaze from the news stream and encounter the war as a continuous, ongoing experience – not just as individual events. Through a sober, almost archival approach, every day is materialized as a graphic imprint. The project moves in the borderland between documentary and abstract art, where each tragedy and loss is translated into a graphic statement. By transforming time and statistics into physical works, a physical and spatial timeline is created that gives the audience a direct experience of how civilian lives and infrastructure are systematically laid to waste.
On February 4th at Holmestrand Library, he will present the documentary film Terykony (2022): Childhood in the War Zone – a Life Among the Slag Heaps from the Mining Industry, which he produced.
Kim Hankyul, who has been in working in the large and small studio since November, is soon ready to open his solo exhibition at MUNCH. The exhibition SOLO OSLO opens on February 27. About the exhibition:
Kim Hankyul is celebrated for his moving installations. At MUNCH, he unveils his most ambitious work yet: a more than five-metre-high immersive installation suspended from the ceiling. Kim Hankyul is an artist who has presented a series of striking installations at small and medium-sized institutions, grounded in sensory encounters between technology, emotion and myth. At MUNCH, Hankyul has the opportunity to scale up, and his SOLO OSLO exhibition is the most complex and challenging to date in this exciting artistic practice.
The first guest artist of the year in our Ekely Studio Residency program has arrived. Swedish Liv Strand will be at Ekely in February and March. She lives in one of the artist apartments that the foundation took over a few years ago, and now operates as an artist residency.
Following an open call that received over fifty applications, two artists and one collaborative trio have been selected for the Ekely Studio Residency in 2026. We are looking forward to welcome Liv Strand, Tyra Tingleff and Nettopp nettverk to Ekely this year. In addition, we will soon announce a new collaboration and open call for the period October-November 2026. Stay tuned for more news soon!
Liv Strand, February-March
Liv Strand experiments in her art, allowing abstractions surrounding human interaction to take shape in thin materials. She works with the balance between chance and control, in space and with flat sheets. Her approach invites reflections that lead to both textual works and engineering-like problem solving. Re-modelling is one of her methods.
Liv Strand is a graduate of the Royal Swedish Academy of Fine Arts and has exhibited and performed at institutions such as Haninge Konsthall, with Grafikens Hus, CPR2 (New York), Nikolaj Kunsthal, Haus am Waldsee, Depot (Istanbul), Norrköping Konstmuseum, Krognoshuset (Lund), Blåstället, Weld and Moderna Museet in Stockholm.
Tyra Tingleff, April-June
Tyra Tingleff is a Norwegian visual artist and painter, educated at the Bergen Academy of Art and Design, the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, and the Royal College of Art in London. She lives and works between Hønefoss, Norway, and Berlin, Germany. Tingleff has held solo exhibitions at, among others, ChertLüdde Gallery in Berlin, Kunstnerforbundet in Oslo, Campoli Presti in Paris, Kewenig in Palma, and The Sunday Painter in London, and has participated in art fairs including Frieze Art Fair in London and New York, ARCO Madrid, and Miart Milan. In 2022, she published the artist book Of Course I’m Not Sorry with Mousse Publishing, Milan. Her practice is rooted in abstract painting, working with oil on canvas to explore tensions between structure and flow, materiality and void, and painting’s capacity to remain open to experience, reflection, and evolving interpretation over time.
Nettopp nettverk, July-September
Three artists, from three generations and phases of life, collaborate in Nettopp nettverk: Kjetil Berge, Ella Aandal and Sigrid Høyforsslett Bjørbæk. We share an interest in collective processes, craft techniques and how time is reflected in textiles and their use – as an extension of the body, as language, tools, protection and architecture. During our residency at Ekely we will arrange workshops, and construct a net, covering the facade of Kunstnernes Hus, Oslo as part of the group exhibition Support Structures.
Nettopp nettverk currently participates in the exhibition PIX at NŌUA, Bodø, Norway, and showed at the Midnightsunscream festival 2025, Kvalnes Norway.
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We want to thank everyone who applied. Artists not selected are warmly encouraged to apply again in the future.
The selection was made by a committee consisting of Marte Jølbo (Director, Edvard Munch’s Studios Foundations) and board members Morten Andenæs (Visual artist) and Caroline Ugelstad (Director of Collections, MUNCH).
During August and September 2025, the camera-based artist Katinka Goldberg worked at Edvard Munch’s Studios. For the weekend September 27-28 she held an Open Studio where she exhibited her project I Live Outside the World.
This was the first time Goldberg worked with large-format paintings in combination with photography and collage. For the exhibition she also collaborated with the singer, composer and actor Frank Havrøy on a new sound work, streaming out from small stone sculptures.
Thematically, Goldberg investigated how the memory of a person is linked to the tactile. The work at Ekely was a memorial work that dealt with her stepfather, the painter Stig Lundgren, and their relationship. As a strategy for remembering her stepfather, Goldberg painted directly onto photographs – painting herself into their common world again.
Katinka Goldberg at EkelyKatinka Goldberg – I Live Outside the World. Photo: Tor Simen UlsteinKatinka Goldberg – I Live Outside the World. Photo: Tor Simen UlsteinKatinka Goldberg – I Live Outside the World. Photo: Tor Simen Ulstein
2 residency periods are available for application in 2026:
1: February – March (8 weeks)
2: July – September (12 weeks)
The foundation Edvard Munch’s Studios offers a studio residency for professional artists in one of the artist apartments at Ekely in Oslo. The apartment is located at the end of a terraced house with 6 units. It was built in 1959 after design by the famous Norwegian architects Jens and Wenche Selmer. The apartment has a spacious studio of 32 m² with large north-facing windows, a skylight and its own entrance. The integrated apartment has two bedrooms, kitchen, living room, bathroom, garden and terrace. A total of 102 m².
Professional artists who need to work in Oslo for a period of time can apply for a residency. The apartment makes it possible to bring family or be up to three artists applying together.
Residency artists commit to participate in a public event during their stay such as an artist talk, open studio or similar.
The program include a small monthly stipend of NOK 3000,-
The foundation also covers travel costs up to NOK 5000,- *
*Please note that if you apply as a group the stipend and travel costs are per period, not per artist.
Kim Hankyul will work at Ekely for four months up to his exhibition SOLO OSLO, which opens at MUNCH on 27 February, 2026. He’s going to show his most ambitious work yet: a more than five-metre-high immersive installation suspended from the ceiling. His residency is part of our collaboration with MUNCH.
Four members of the artist group Ecophilosophic Dialogues will work in the graphic workshop in November. Hildur Bjørnsdottir, Gíslína Dögg Bjarkadottir, Elva Hreiðarsdóttir, Soffía Sæmundsdóttir are all part of the group exhibition Bergmál/Ekko that opens at the Icelandic ambassador’s residence in Oslo on November 10.
Welcome to Ekely on Wednesday October 29th for open studios with artists Ragnhild Nes and Suleman Aqeel Khilji. Nes has been working in Edvard Munch’s winter studio for two months, while Khilji has been here for the month of October.
Date: 29.10.2025
Time: 16.00-18.00
Place: Edvard Munch’s Studios, Jarlsborgveien 14, 0377 Oslo
Ragnhild Nes. Photo courtesy the Artist.
Ragnhild Nes (b. 1993, Norway) works primarily with non-figurative oil painting, where text forms a poetic starting point for the painting. Colour and materiality are developed layer by layer through oil, pigment and medium. In parallell, she’s working with sculptures in metal, solid wood and clay, exploring them as spatial translations of the paintings’ compositions. At Edvard Munch’s Atelier she’s been working both in the studio and in the garden, where she has developed two metal sculptures and the series red red fire fire for an upcoming exhibition in Beijing in 2026.
Suleman Aqeel Khilji. Photo courtesy the artist and STANDARD (OSLO).
Suleman Aqeel Khilji (b. 1985, Pakistan) is a London-based artist whose practice explores memory, identity, and the poetics of representation through painting. He received his BA from the National College ofArts, Lahore (2011), and completed his postgraduate studies at the Royal Academy of Arts, London (2025). Rooted in both personal and collective narratives, Khilji’s paintings engage with the shifting relationships between image, memory, and presence, bridging geographies of experience from Quetta to London and beyond.
In July, German artist Claudia Kapellusch stayed in the studio residency at Ekely. Kapellusch’s stay was a collaboration with the Edvard Munch Haus in Warnemünde, supported by the Willy Brandt Foundation. Below you can read a summary of Claudia’s stay:
From the sound of the tiny Work stay in Oslo Ekely in July 2025
Arrived with great anticipation and curiosity in the studio and apartment of the Stiftelsen Edvard Munchs Atelier in Oslo, I was now allowed to start it, my journey of discovery, my time in Ekely. Following the plan to devote my attention to the oldest plants of our earth, the algae, in addition to the flora of the Ekely Garden, I turned for the time being to their occurrence in the nearby fjord.
Soon, however, the first rays of sunshine of the early morning hours lured me to their enchanting play with light and colour under the apple, pear, and cherry trees between which Edvard Munch had once stood with his easel. This morning spectacle, in which the sun made the garden shine piece by piece in its summery colours, in order to “turn on” the light in it – finally arrived at the windows of the studio house – made me the first guest in the Ekely Garden.
This spectacle needs no audience, no applause. For my sake, I found myself morning after morning punctually among the fruit trees, enjoying the beauty of the moment and daring to try to capture nuances of what I had experienced.„….At best, this is about entrusting oneself to the still unknown in many ways, the game of nature.
…Such a deep sinking, a true surrender to an unpredictable event allows me to collect and process dust, sediments and other ground or ground components of our environment.“ I described the intention of my work in the project outline for my stay.
Dust is my material. The tiny particles that surround us everywhere, floating or lying like “skin” on all things represent untamed and in fascinating colour the limits of what is visible to us. Astonished I drew daily coloured, fragrant and dancing material from this small, so special world in Ekely. The naturalist and explorer Alfred Russell Wallace will have felt something similar when he wrote in his essay “The Wonderful Century” in 1898: „Half the beauty of the world would vanish with the absence of dust.“
The gnarled old fruit trees in the garden welcomed me into their shadows, were a link – dispensable was the pinch of dust that I brought with me as a small bridge between the two places from Warnemünde, from the beach where Munch painted in 1907 and 1908 and in whose immediate vicinity I work today, and Munch’s Oslo residence – between the past, the present and the future, and a hiding place at the same time. Unconditionally I was allowed to be a guest, undisturbed I caught particles, extracted, drew, photographed, immersed myself in works by Przybyszewski and Supervielle or could take time for the sound of the tiny. Even if I probably had some conversation with him, with the great painter, here in his refuge, I can not say how decisively this place, its silence, its colours, its light, its fragrance and the “invisible”, the tiny played a role in his work, which often reveals itself to us in such vulnerability. I can only guess, very much.
Peik Elias, Nina Bang og Per Hess open the doors to their studios where they’ve been working throughout the summer.
We also invite you to join this year’s apple and pear harvest in the studio garden. Bring baskets, a small ladder if you have one, and picking tools and come pick apples and pears for your own use.
Every year professional artists work at Edvard Munch’s Winter Studio at Ekely in Oslo. The winter studio have 3 working spaces; a large studio, a small studio and a graphic workshop with two Neckar presses and specially made furnishing.
Now you have the opportunity to apply for a studio in 2026. Deadline September 1.
On 22 September, the Foundation invited the housing association at Ekely to see the upgrade work carried out in Edvard Munch’s studio. The chairman of the board says a few words about the work that has now been completed.
Director of the MUNCH Museum Stein Olav Henrichsen congratulated the work.
The application deadline for renting a studio and the graphics workshop in 2023 is 1 October 2022. You can see the requirements for the application under Rent a studio space
The application is to send to: post (a) edvard-munchs-atelier.no
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