This year's Sparebankstiftelsen DNB's grant is divided between three recipients, and the Grant Exhibition will take place digitally and in the urban space.

Oslo Kunstforening and Sparebankstiftelsen DNB is pleased to present a grant exhibition for the thirteenth consecutive year.

The three participating artists in this year’s edition are Berivan Erdogan, Hanni Kamaly and Kjetil Skøien.

Many cultural institutions have used the pandemic to reconsider access to programming and culture. As an agile response to the financial pressure put upon artists by the pandemic, and to ease the pressure to remain physically open to the public, Oslo Kunstforening has made the extraordinary decision to disperse both this year’s Sparebankstiftelsen DNB award and the public presentation of the works. 

The award will therefore be shared equally between the three nominated artists: Berivan Erdogan, Hanni Kamaly and Kjetil Skøien, who will produce works offsite, outside of the physical gallery format. The money that is saved by not mounting a physical exhibition has been reallocated, which in addition to the usual production fee and participation fee and the shared grant will equal NOK 150.000 to each artist. 

In addition to supporting the three artists, the grant exhibition will promote art practices that do not require physical or social presence in the gallery itself thus redefining the ways in which the exhibition can be both accessed and experienced.

This year's Sparebankstiftelsen DNB's Grant Exhibition will take place digitally as well as in civic space, on Instagram as well as on OK's website, starting December 10 until February 07, 2021.