A retrospective exhibition of A K Dolven in Oslo

A K Dolven. amazon, a first retrospective exhibition of A K Dolven opened at the National Museum of Norway in Oslo. The major exhibition features over 80 works from the artist’s four-decade career.

In video installations and film projections, paintings and sculpture, as well as photography, sound and text, Dolven addresses the universal through the intimate. By exploring the sphere between the familiar and the unfamiliar, her work invites new perspectives on the world that surrounds us. With references to several historical role models Dolven’s work bridges the past and the present. The exhibition’s titular work, amazon, offers a contemporary reading of the famous female warriors of Greek myth through close-up images of a female archer, an example of Dolven’s ongoing engagement with questions of gender, strength and resilience.

A K Dolven. amazon runs until 31 August 2025.

Image: A K Dolven, amazon, 2005, 16 mm film without sound. Courtesy of the National Museum, Oslo

read more

Tor Arne, Jani Hänninen, Elina Merenmies and Mari Sunna at HAM

Tor Arne, Jani Hänninen, Elina Merenmies and Mari Sunna are featured in the newly opened Free Art School’s 90th anniversary exhibition at HAM Helsinki Art Museum. The exhibition presents the school’s 90-year history and its significance in the development of Finnish painting and modernism. Vapaa 90 (Free 90) is curated by Timo Valjakka and Satu Metsola, and features 60 artworks by 39 artists.

The Free Art School was founded in 1935 on the initiative of Maire Gullichsen to offer an alternative to academic art education. Modelled after the “free academies” of Paris, the Free Art School was a champion of modern painting in Finland from its very beginning. The history of the Free Art School and the artists who studied and taught there are approached through Leonard and Katarina Bäcksbacka’s collection, donated to the HAM and the City of Helsinki’s art collection.

The exhibition runs until 4 January 2026.

Image: Tor Arne, Painting (from the series Reconvalescentia), 1993. Photo: HAM/Hanna Kukorelli

read more

Jani Ruscica in Vilnius

Jani Ruscica is participating in the group exhibition Braking the Joints at Sapieha Palace in Vilnius, Lithuania. The recently opened exhibition runs until 31 December 2025. On view are Ruscica’s video piece Polynotknot and a new window painting A Companion piece (purple move) spanning across three of the Sapieha Palace’s grand windows.

Breaking the Joints is a group exhibition and event programme that considers the status of the body within the history of animation, elaborating on the essential concepts of cartoons, while also examining what these modes of world-building can tell us about our world today. In their works, the exhibited artists draw from and critically deploy animated tropes and techniques to address bodily anxieties and material relationships, media and trauma. The exhibition considers a tension at the heart of animation: between animation as a narrative of liberation, metamorphosis, and transformation, and animation as a cyclical mechanised disciplining of the body full of violence and bittersweet gags.

Photo: Jani Ruscica

read more