DKS-LAB 2025

This year’s edition of DKS-LAB has officially begun! We’re excited to present the selected artists participating in this year’s program. By the deadline on March 14, we received 35 applications, and the following artists have been selected:

• Alejandra Aguilar Caballero & Markus Sundberg
• Oda Bremnes
• Madihe Gharibi
• Kassia Marin
• Milton Mondal
• Joen Vedel

DKS-LAB Oslo 2025 is a collaboration between Oslo Kunstforening, Unge Kunstneres Samfund (UKS), and DKS Oslo, taking place from April 7–25. We look forward to an inspiring and exciting program with these talented artists!

DKS-LAB is a program where professional visual artists are invited to test educational projects for children and youth, based on their own artistic practice. Artists apply with an idea that, during the project period, is further developed into a full project, in collaboration with fellow artists and art professionals. The production is then carried out in the classroom with students and evaluated. After the project period, the artist should be confident that the project can be submitted to the regular DKS program.

The purpose of DKS-LAB for visual arts is to provide children and youth with more and better encounters with contemporary art, within a wide variety of expressions, and to give artists the opportunity to practice conveying their own art to the target audience. DKS-LAB is designed to offer artists better conditions to develop content for the DKS program.

DKS-LAB is a nationwide network divided into different regions and is part of the Cultural School Bag (DKS). DKS-LAB for visual art in Oslo is led by Oslo Kunstforening and will take place in 2025 in collaboration with UKS (Unge Kunstneres Samfund).