Welcome to Culture Night at Oslo Kunstforening on Friday September 13! We will be open in the evening from 5 pm to 8 pm, with free guided tours at 5, 6, and 7 pm.

The tours connect the history of Oslo Kunstforening's premises in the venerable Rådmannsgården, Christiania’s oldest building from 1626, with the exhibition where others had stepped there were traces in us, which is shown in conjunction with the 400-year anniversary of the city of Oslo. During the tour, we will see both the exhibition and the unique plaster stucco from the 1640s on the first floor.

The exhibition presents new works by artists Melanie Kitti (b. 1986, SE) and Elina Waage Mikalsen (b. 1992, NO/SÁ). Both are interdisciplinary artists working across media. While Waage Mikalsen is both a musician and artist, Kitti’s work is a combination of her writing, painting and sculptural practices. In recent years, both artists have established themselves as significant voices in the contemporary art scene, each with a distinctive artistic language.

Both Kitti and Waage Mikalsen demonstrate how they are personally and collectively shaped by physical and abstract traces from previous generations – from both close familial relationships and also from powerful structural oppressions. These are traces from the past that create a complex web of imprints in the present.