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Newsletter FEBRUARY '26
Senfredag at Nasjonalmuseet + History is a Black Circle on THIS IS SHORT + Vårutstillingen line-up + STACEY DE VOE recommends
Heia,
This edition of the newsletter features news about upcoming stuff and the result of the open call for Vårutstillingen. For the recommendation section this time around, there’s a contribution from the Malmö-based visual artist Stacey de Voe, who’s work and research I really admire.
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This year has started out with a lot of precarious developments. Regardless, I hope you’re well.
Event image for Senfredag (Nasjonalmuseet)
New and old works at Nasjonalmuseet during Senfredag
I’m invited to present a few things during the late-night event ‘Senfredag’ at Nasjonalmuseet this month. I’ll be showing a new performance work and screen the video work ‘Papegøye’ (2019). There’ll also be an intervention happening.
This edition of Senfredag is in conjunction with Noor Bhangu’s wonderful show ‘Deviant Ornaments’, which you can visit during the event. The evening will otherwise feature DJ-sets, concerts, video works and a bar.
The event is ticketed through normal museum prices, but it’s free for those younger than 25.
LINE-UP:
Leoparden + Sid Hart + Nadda + Hamid Waheed + Abdullah Qureshi + Aziza Kadyri
Programme
19.30: Doors open
19.30: DJ Nadda
19.30–23.00: Video art by Abdullah Qureshi, Aziza Kadyri, Hamid Waheed
20.30: Concert: Sid Hart
20.55-20.10: Performance Hamid Waheed
21.10: Concert: Leoparden
21.40 – 23.00: DJ Nadda
The exhibition «Deviant Ornaments» is open 19.30–23.00
Guided tours: 20.00–23.00
More info on the event: https://www.nasjonalmuseet.no/utstillinger-og-arrangementer/nasjonalmuseet/arrangementer/2026/12/senfredagazizam/
More info on “Deviant Ornaments”: https://www.nasjonalmuseet.no/en/exhibitions-and-events/national-museum/exhibitions/2025/skeive-ornament/
Review by Nicholas Norton: https://www.frieze.com/article/deviant-ornaments-2025-review
Info about the video ‘Papegøye’ (2019): https://verbalkunstfilm.com/Papegoye-installation
Still from the film
‘History is a Black Circle’ to stream on This Is Short
My 2021 essay film ‘History is a Black Circle’ is curated for a new shorts section on the VOD service This Is Short. It will be part of “Un-taming”, a shorts programme curated by Sara Simic and Ana Jimenez. It’ll be presented for three months, between 20th of February - 20th of May.
About the work:
History is a Black Circle is an experimental video essay that revolves around questions of art, queer experience and history. It’s a story that transcends the fabrics of time and space to inhabit the bodies of past, present and future – and it does so through an array of video sources and formats. The film is a recorded documentary, speculative fiction and a reflection on the notion of ‘black’.
About This Is Short (from their website)
The European streaming platform THIS IS SHORT was jointly launched by several film festivals in 2021 and has operated as a year-round and globally available streaming service since November 2023. The focus is on fascinating films, curated by fabulous festivals. The offer is aimed at the curious and cinephiles, at arthouse and festival audiences, at those who make films and those who want to discover talent. It’s all about great cinema, with due brevity.
You can subscribe to This Is Short for the small fee of 0,99 EUR per month.
https://thisisshort.filmchief.com
‘Regarding the Pain of the Future’, Hilde Honerud, Vårutstillingen 2025
Photo: Tor Ulstein / KUNSTDOK
Selected artists for Vårutstillingen 2026
Thank you to everyone who applied to this year’s Vårutstilling! The jury received a total of approximately 200 applications and we were very impressed with the level of quality in this round of works.
Congratulations to the ones selected to this year’s edition:
Henrik Follesø Egeland
Joanna Chia-yu Lin
Emma Lomell
Johanne Nyborg
Greg Pope
Sakib Saboor
Dan Skjæveland
Christian Tunge
Jostein Venås
I’m looking forward to this spring and working with the artists as jury leader this year. Vårutstillingen 2026 opens the 22nd of May and lasts until the 28th of June.
More info:
https://varutstillingen.no
Photo: Djoana Gueorguieva
STACEY DE VOE recommends!
In this new column, I invite someone I know to make a recommendation. It can be anything really, whether a piece of media, an experience or something else entirely. This time around, we’re lucky to have Stacey on board with a couple of show reccs!
Stacey de Voe is a visual artist born in New York and based in Malmö. Through a research oriented approach, her practice uses site specificity and the archive to investigate broader issues concerning material histories, collective memory, feminized labor and friendship.For the last few years de Voe's practice has revolved around the material histories of thread and the dissolved textile industries of Europe. Through several projects and exhibitions she has scrutinized the inherent effects that this once blooming, now bygone industry has had on welfare politics along with its close, yet silent ties to the colonial system through the buying and trading of raw materials and finished goods. Her relationship with textiles is prompted by her own experiences working in sewing and production within the garment industries of New York and Paris, along with her matriarchal lineage of immigrant furriers and hosiery sellers.
She has presented work at skēnē—space for contemporary art, SIMIAN, LCCA/Latvian National Museum of Art, Hägerstensåsens Medborgarhus, Nitja Senter for Samtidskunst, Skånes Konstförening, Oslo Kunstforening, Index - The Swedish Contemporary Art Foundation, osloBIENNALEN, Celsius Projects, Malmö Konstmuseum, BAK basis voor actuele kunst . She received her MFA from Malmö Art Academy in 2023.
Stacey:
"I am normally not so interested in commercial galleries but when it’s good, well, it’s good and in this case at Nicolai Wallner Gallery in Copenhagen, it’s gooood. Not going to lie, I am a sucker for all girl/non-b group shows, it just hits hard for me. This show is the first in a series of group exhibitions that will operate under the title Nordic Threads that will attempt to map the nordic art scene over the past decade “tracing the connective tissue between artists working in the Nordic region, attending to preoccupations, methodologies and material languages…” First out is this banger of a show featuring Carola Grahn, Frida Orupabo, Man Yau and Pearla Pigao. The works are so meticulously installed and enter into an endless dialogue with one another. I can’t help but imagine when the lights go off that the works tell each other stories of who they are and how they came into being. Perhaps what struck me the most was not only the physicality of the works (they all in their own right take up space) but the materiality of them, in both their artisanal and industrial properties. As a textile junkie myself, the works of Yau and Pigao really hit home and it was a first for me experiencing their work IRL. Such a powerhouse show! - on until 14th of March, 2026.
‘M.Y. Chinoiserie’, Man Yau
Photo: Stacey de Voe
An honorable mention, although I have not seen it yet myself, is the solo exhibition The Classroom of Karol Radziszewski that just opened at Moderna Museet in Stockholm. This show should be mandatory! - on until 12th of April.”