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).
