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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

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

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

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.

Where: Small Studio, Jarlsbergveien 14

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.

On March 1 you can also meet him in his artist talk at MUNCH.

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.

Strand will be hosting two speculative talks during her stay (in Swedish/Norwegian).

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).

August 30, 12:00-15:00

Welcome to open studios as Ekely!

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.

Read more about the studios here >

Application form here >