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 (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 (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.