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).