Kunstakademiet

30/10/2026

Artist Talk with Jenny Sunesson and Åsa Stjerna!

📅 2nd of November
🕒 15:15–17:00
📍 Meet at Kunstakademiet, Grønnegata 1, 1515, then you will be taken down to PUST. The artist talk will take place outdoors, so dress warmly and appropriately for the weather (there is a chance of rain)

Welcome to an artist presentation and a joint listening experience with Jenny Sunesson and Åsa Stjerna at Torghuken, Tromsø/Romsa. Below the harbor, a Beast and a Swarm take shape via a site-specific, 24-channel sound installation. Through the sea creatures the Beast and the Swarm, harbor stories and changing conditions
of marine life materialise. Local field recordings and the vocalisation of threatened and extinct marine species, give these conditions a resonant embodiment. How can sound and listening shift our experience of a familiar place? What does it mean to work artistically with the sea as a public space? Through listening and conversation, Åsa and Jenny share the artistic process behind the work, and discuss issues of place, listening and ecological change.

The Beast and the Swarm has emerged in connection with the research project Arctic Auditories –Hydrospheres in the High North, where aquatic environments and listening are investigated as paths to knowledge about ecological change.

The event is open to everyone – welcome!

www.asastjerna.se
www.jennysunesson.co

27/10/2026

TERRAIN TRANSFORMATIONS

POP-UP EXHIBITION FRIDAY, 30 OCTOBER, 15:00–16:00

This year, the landscape architecture students in Studio 1 are working with Ørndalen, a former gneiss quarry and active landfill located at the northern tip of Tromsøya. This unique site serves as a landscape laboratory throughout the semester, with the overall objective of exploring the aesthetic and ecological potential of disturbed sites while challenging existing ideas of beauty and sustainability.

During October, the students explored how to convey the complex terrain transformations that Ørndalen has undergone as a quarry and landfill through both model work and flat-depth drawings. In these drawings, different moments in time are represented within the same composition, adding a sense of temporal depth to an otherwise flat drawing through the layering of information.

Venue: Project Room 4004, Academy of Arts, Grønnegata 1, 9008 Tromsø.

A warm welcome from Studio 1!

23/10/2026

Artist Talk with Kiyoshi Yamamoto!
📅 26 October
🕒 15:15–16:30
📍 BlackBox, Grønnegata 1
The event is open to everyone – welcome!

Info about the artist:
Kiyoshi Yamamoto er en japansk-brasiliansk kunstner som bor og arbeider i Bergen. Hen arbeider blant annet med tekstil, silketrykk, grafikk, smykker og performance. Materialene er ofte gjenbruk eller store, fargerike silke- og bomullsstoff. Arbeidene hans stiller ofte kritiske og konfronterende spørsmål knyttet til samfunnets strukturer, både sosialt og politisk.

I mange år har Yamamoto vært inspirert og influert av kunstnere og tekstildesignere som Anni Albers og Frida Hansen, og av deres tanker, ideer, kunst, liv og posisjon i kunsthistorien. Albers og Hansen tok i bruk tekstilhåndverk og kunne produsere både store og flere verk ut fra samme visuelle og taktile formspråk.

Yamamoto har en mastergrad i kunst fra Kunsthøgskolen i Bergen (2013), og har også studert ved London College of Fashion og Escola de Belas Artes i Rio de Janeiro. Han har stilt ut en rekke steder, blant annet ved Łódź Tekstil Museum, Röhsska museet, Stavanger kunstmuseum, Bodø-biennalen, Riddu Riddu-festivalen, Kunstnerforbundet, Trøndelag senter for samtidskunst, Kunsthall Oslo, Sandefjord kunstforening og Nitja. Han har også laget kunst til flere offentlige bygg, blant annet Norges Bank i Oslo. Arbeidene hans er kjøpt inn av Nordenfjeldske Kunstindustrimuseum, KODE kunstmuseer, Den norske ambassaden i Brasília, DNBs kunstsamling, Oslo kommune og Bergen kommune, blant andre.

I 2026 arbeider Yamamoto med to bestillingsverk til Tinghuset i Oslo, en performance for Rogaland Teater, og utstillinger ved Huuto Gallery i Helsinki og Format Art Space i København.

Yamamoto er førsteamanuensis ved Fakultet for kunst, musikk og design i Bergen.

http://www.kiyoshiyamamoto.com/

21/10/2026

Gratulerer hjerteligst til Sigbjørn Skåden som vinner av Nordisk råds litteraturpris 2026! 📖🏆

Norge gjør rent bord og stikker av med alle fem prisene fra Nordisk råd – og for første gang på 35 år vinner en samiskspråklig roman den høythengende litteraturprisen.

16/10/2026

Artist Talk with Robel Temesgen!

📅 19 October
🕒 15:15–17:00
📍 BlackBox, Grønnegata 1

The event is open to everyone – welcome!

Info about the artist:
Robel Temesgen (b. 1987, Ethiopia) is an artist whose practice spans painting, installation, performance, and publication. His work explores the symbiotic relationships between people, places, and spiritual traditions, often engaging with vernacular knowledge systems and the metaphysical dimensions of everyday life. Temesgen’s long-term projects, including Adbar, Addis Newspaper, and Practising Water, investigate how cultural memory and ritual shape public space and collective experience. Lives and works between Oslo and Addis Ababa.

Temesgen has finished a PhD fellow in Artistic Research at the Oslo National Academy of the Arts. Since 2010, he has served as a lecturer in the Painting department at the Alle School of Fine Arts and Design, Addis Ababa University.

His work has been exhibited widely, with recent solo exhibitions including Eye of a Water at Nitja Center for Contemporary Art (2025), Interior Landscapes at Tromsø Kunstforening (2022), Faces of Stories at Kunsthalle Lingen (2022), Practising Water; report #1 at Kunsthall Oslo (2023), Min Nebere at Modern Art Museum, Gebrekristos Desta center, Addis Ababa (2018), There is no Politics in Painting? at Marabouparken, Stockholm (2017), and Adbar at Tiwani Contemporary Art, London (2016). His group exhibitions include Musafiri; Travellers and Guests at Haus der Kulturen der Welt (HKW), Berlin (2025), Land of Fire at Kunsthalle Bega, Romania (2024), and This is Not Africa at ARoS Museum, Denmark (2021).

Bio and photos: https://www.robeltemesgen.com/

05/10/2026

Våren 2027 kan du studere kuratorisk praksis ved Kunstakademiet.

Vi tilbyr kompetanseheving for yrkesaktive kuratorer som ikke nødvendigvis har formell utdanning innen feltet, men som har praktisk erfaring de ønsker å sette inn i en kuratorisk kontekst. Emnet (10 stp.) passer for deg som har en bachelor- eller mastergrad og noen års arbeidserfaring innen kunst, design, bevegelige bilder, musikk, kunsthistorie, arkitektur eller beslektede fagfelt, og som ønsker å utvikle din kuratoriske praksis.

Studiet vil fungere som en plattform for samtaler om kunst- og kulturproduksjon i nord og de ulike kontekstene den inngår i. Aktører som er aktive i Nord-Norge, Sápmi og Ruija, oppfordres til å søke.

Les mer og søk her før 16. november: https://uit.no/utdanning/emner/emne?p_document_id=939402 UiT Norges arktiske universitet

Emne - Kuratorisk praksis - 10 stp

28/09/2026

NON-SITE INSTALLATIONS

POP-UP EXHIBITION FRIDAY, 2 OCTOBER, 15:00–16:00

Following a workshop on time as a conceptual lens with architect and LANDLABS PhD fellow Bex Browne, the landscape architecture students of Studio 1 have been working on non-site installations, referencing the on-site installations developed during the workshop. The concept of the non-site is borrowed from the American artist Robert Smithson (1938–1973).

The workshop took place at Ørndalen, a former gneiss quarry and active landfill located at the northern tip of Tromsøya, which will serve as a landscape laboratory throughout the semester. The overall objective of Studio 1 2026 is to explore the aesthetic and ecological potential of disturbed sites while challenging existing ideas of beauty and sustainability.

Venue: The Mock-up Space, Academy of Arts, Grønnegata 1, 9008 Tromsø

A warm welcome from Studio 1!

16/09/2026

Photos from our guest teacher Juan Andres Milanes' workshop🤩

📸: Juan Andres Milanes