PRAKSIS

PRAKSIS PRAKSIS is a centre for art, research and learning located in Oslo, Norway. We foster creative practice and knowledge production through exchange.

Meaningful exchange across borders and disciplines is key in fostering cultural understanding and creating transformative development, but opportunities for deep, sustained dialogue are surprisingly rare. Based in Oslo, PRAKSIS works with experienced creative professionals and organisations to develop thematically focused, supportive residency communities without charge for local and international

practitioners and thinkers of all career stages. You can apply to join through open call, and get involved in our public events and online resources. PRAKSIS has six guiding principles:
1. Function as a catalyst for development of creative practice through, discourse, research and cross-cultural dialogue.
2. Increase public insight into the ideas and processes at the core of creative practice.
3. Address topics of contemporary relevance, contributing to international critical discourse.
4. Foster mutual understanding via artistic practice and international exchange.
5. Create new, lasting connections between practitioners and organisations, locally and internationally.
6. Facilitate innovative arts projects that benefit creative professionals, local organisations and the public. Please see www.praksisoslo.org for more information.

This Tuesday 2 June, 17:00–19:30Meet the Residents – R33: Together in LabourPRAKSIS, Rådhusgata 19, OsloFree | Held in E...
29/05/2026

This Tuesday 2 June, 17:00–19:30
Meet the Residents – R33: Together in Labour

PRAKSIS, Rådhusgata 19, Oslo
Free | Held in English | No step-free access

Join the residents of PRAKSIS Residency 33: Together in Labour as they introduce their work through short presentations, followed by audience questions and open discussion.

Running from 1–14 June 2026, Together in Labour brings together artists, organisers, curators, educators and activists to consider the conditions, pressures and possibilities of small-scale cultural work. The residency asks how small arts organisations and self-organised initiatives can sustain themselves — ethically, financially and emotionally — in increasingly precarious times.

Together in Labour is developed by , Artistic Director of , Norway, and Giovanna Esposito Yussif (), Artistic Director of , Finland, in collaboration with , Norway.

The residents joining Nicholas and Giovanna are: Sepake Angiama (), Director of INIVA, UK; Patricia Carolina (), artist, organiser and active member of Verdensrommet, Norway; , Director of Arte ry, Titanik gallery and Titanik A.i.R residency, Finland; Sophie Mak-Schram (), artist, affiliate of BAK Basecamp for Tactical Imaginaries, the Netherlands, and Structural Change Artist at Metal, UK; and Marsya Maharani () and , members of (CoCo), Canada. Tenthaus’s participation in the residency is represented by .santillan_ and .moi

The residency is supported by , , and Norsk-finsk kulturfond.

Images: Andra Tarara, Stefan Schröder, Sheung Yiu, Polly Thomas

OPEN CALLPRAKSIS seeks two artists or cultural practitioners for a three-month residency in Oslo.Opening Doors: Nordic/B...
27/05/2026

OPEN CALL

PRAKSIS seeks two artists or cultural practitioners for a three-month residency in Oslo.

Opening Doors: Nordic/Baltic Artist Residency in Oslo explores access, language, learning and institutional change, with a focus on how cultural institutions communicate with young people and wider publics.

The residency is open to professional artists and cultural practitioners based in Nordic/Baltic countries outside Norway. Selected residents will work independently and in dialogue with PRAKSIS, PRAKSIS Teen Advisory Board, and a wider Nordic/Baltic context.

Each selected resident will receive accommodation in Oslo, shared studio space at PRAKSIS, a residency stipend of €1,600 per month for three months, travel support of €350 and a production/materials allowance of €400.

Residency period: 16 September – 16 December 2026
Deadline: 17 June 2026, 23:59 CEST
Number of places: 2
Location: PRAKSIS, Oslo

The residency is funded by the Nordic Culture Fund and connected to Opening Doors: Youth Evidence for Cultural Access, a transnational youth project led by PRAKSIS with Index in Stockholm and PUBLICS in Helsinki. Opening Doors is co-funded by the European Union via the Erasmus+ Youth programme.

More information and application: link in bio.

05/05/2026

The Future Futures Talk Show: Through the Lens is live on our YouTube! 🎥✨

This is an excerpt from Episode 2 with Malin Hüber (.film), host and interviewers and .

The talk show is made by three Nordic youth advisory boards during a year-long exploration of film and video in the arts. Working at Stockholm’s Konstfack in November 2024, Index Teen Advisory Board (), PRAKSIS Teen Advisory Board () and PUBLICS Youth Advisory Board () planned and produced three experimental “talk shows” in which artists, experts and board members discuss representation and power in moving-image production, and ways that institutions can use video to reach new audiences. The PTAB team will be present to answer questions about the project and celebrate a year of hard work, friendship and discovery.

Director:
Producer & FAD:
DoP: .o.jansson
Editor: .lj
Music Composer & Sound Mix:
Location Sound: Alessandro Ekman Cassinari
Production Designer:
Production Design Assistant: .imababy
Gaffer:
Camera Operator:
Camera Operator:
Script Supervisor & DIT:
MC & Clapperboard:
Intro:
Graphics:
Colour Grader: .o.jansson
Production Assistant: .imababy
Location Manager:

.bach .b1sha._

Supported by

04/05/2026

How Do We Perform?
—excerpt from a conversation between Niels Munk Plum and Mia Wennerstrand

Just over a year ago, on the final day of PRAKSIS residency 29: For real?, and recorded a conversation reflecting on notions of authenticity and performance.

This is a short teaser. The full conversation is available on YouTube (link in bio).

R29: For real? was developed with Harold Offeh and PRAKSIS .
Residents: .pyx

29/04/2026

How Do We Perform?
—Niels Munk Plum and Mia Wennerstrand in conversation

Just over a year ago, on the final day of PRAKSIS residency 29: For real?, and recorded a conversation reflecting on notions of authenticity and performance.

This is a short excerpt. The full conversation is available on YouTube (link in bio).

For real?, PRAKSIS’s twenty-ninth residency, took place from 10 March – 6 April 2025. Developed with artist Harold Offeh, it brought together eight residents to address ideas of authenticity and identity in art and society. The residency set out to understand how these constructs operate within artistic practice, at a time where authenticity is continuously being produced, circulated and contested across arts and communications media.

R29: For real? was developed with Harold Offeh and PRAKSIS .
The residents were: .pyx

PRAKSIS Development Forum (PDF) #63with Nicholas Norton , Akersgate 7, Oslo19 May, 17:30–20:00PDF is PRAKSIS’s monthly ...
28/04/2026

PRAKSIS Development Forum (PDF) #63
with Nicholas Norton

, Akersgate 7, Oslo
19 May, 17:30–20:00

PDF is PRAKSIS’s monthly peer-discussion group for creative people. It’s a friendly, informal space to meet, share, and discuss works in progress.

Participation is free, and the event is held in English. (Booking is essential.)

PDF #63 will take place at NBK and be opened by Billedkunst editor Nicholas Norton, who will present and invite feedback on an unpublished editorial text in development. The meeting’s focus is on the role of case studies and examples in shaping a text. How are they selected and interpreted? How do these decisions position the writing in relation to its subject?

Norton will also invite discussion about broader editorial considerations, including the challenge of navigating a course between one’s own interests and matters of relevance to a given publication’s established readership.

This session is especially relevant for artists, writers, editors, curators and others interested in art criticism, publishing and the conditions shaping contemporary artistic discourse.

More About Nicholas Norton
Nicholas Norton (b. 1989) is an art critic, writer and editor based in Oslo. He holds an MA in Art History from the University of Oslo and has contributed to Billedkunst for over a decade. He writes regularly for Klassekampen, Kunstkritikk and Frieze, and has previously contributed to Artforum, Contemporary Art Stavanger, Norsk Kunstårbok, Neural and Wuxia. Norton is chair of AICA Norway and serves on the executive committee of the art section of the Norwegian Critics’ Association. He is also a board member of Kunstbok Oslo. He recently edited a monograph on Ole John Aandal (Multipress, 2025) and co-edited the Munch Triennale catalogues The Machine is Us and Almost Unreal (MUNCH, 2025).

Sign up:
To present a work in progress – or simply join the discussion – email [email protected]

21/04/2026

“Everything is everything, what is meant to be will be.”

Alone, Together, Like Beads on a String by Rafiki (.rafiki) is out on PRAKSIS Presents now.

In this text, Rafiki reflects on identity and belonging through language, dress and shared histories. Drawing on Central African philosophies and lived experience across geographies, the text considers culture as something relational and in motion, held together through collective meaning-making rather than fixed tradition. Moving between personal narrative and material inquiry, it traces how objects, images and forms carry memory, negotiate heritage and shape ways of seeing.

PRAKSIS Presents Issue 13
African Aesthetics, a Diasporan Perspective

Guest-edited by My African Aesthetic (Eunice Nanzala Schumacher, Henry Mainsah and Acayo Penina Laker)


Read the issue at www.praksisoslo.org/presents – link in bio

Featuring contributions by Rafiki (.rafiki), Tapiwa Matsinde (), Prof. Mugendi K. M’Rithaa (), Karl Ohiri () and Riikka Kassinen ().

.rafiki

Images courtesy of Rafiki, Andreas Harvik (Valdres folkemuseum) and Runa Halleraker (Hordaland Kunstsenter)
Music: Everything Is Everything by Lauryn Hill

Reaching Out: A Book about Agency, Care, Identity, and … is available on https://www.praksisoslo.org/shop – 200 NOK and ...
20/04/2026

Reaching Out: A Book about Agency, Care, Identity, and … is available on https://www.praksisoslo.org/shop – 200 NOK and it’s yours!

The book is a collaborative publication by PRAKSIS Teen Advisory Board (Oslo), Index Teen Advisory Board (Stockholm), and PUBLICS Youth (Helsinki). The book includes interviews, self-produced texts, and artistic contributions, and will be available in the reading room and for sale in Nitja’s shop.

With contributions by Amelia and Adam Greenhall (ANEMONE), falk, Sara Kaaman, Hikari Nishida (), João Doria de Souza (.doria.de.souza) and Mia Wennerstrand ()

Editors: , , , and the youth boards
Published by , designed by
188 pages
2026

PRAKSIS Teen Advisory Board 2025–2026:  
Anahita Mollazehi ()
Ingrid Bjermeland Hesledalen ()
Sofia Orellana Gamboa ()
Bror Høgåsen-Hallesby ()
Auguste Karsokaite ()
Noah Visted ()
Assol Sokolova ()
Helen Ibrahimian ()
Hibo Nora Abbi

Follow their work at . Please also check out the youth boards in Stockholm () and Helsinki ()

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PRAKSIS is hiringCommunications & Project Coordinator – 80% position– One-year contract, with the possibility of extensi...
15/04/2026

PRAKSIS is hiring
Communications & Project Coordinator 

– 80% position
– One-year contract, with the possibility of extension
– Start date: 1 August 2026 (or by agreement)
– Location: Central Oslo

Application deadline: 23:59 CET, 3 May 2026

PRAKSIS is looking for a dynamic, creative and organised person with strong digital and interpersonal skills to join the team as Communications & Project Coordinator.

PRAKSIS is a small organisation and the person in this role would work closely with the Artistic Director and Youth Project Coordinator across a wide range of activity. The position combines communications, content production, project coordination, and wider organisational support, including work across the website, social media, newsletters, podcasts, and video. It also includes reporting, grant writing, and support for artists, partners, and public programmes.

Visit our website for more details:  https://www.praksisoslo.org/hiring

Art Journaling Workshop for ungdom (15-21) med og og Young CuratorsPå lørdag 4. april 12-15PRAKSIS, Rådhusgata 19, 015...
01/04/2026

Art Journaling Workshop for ungdom (15-21) med og og Young Curators

På lørdag 4. april 12-15
PRAKSIS, Rådhusgata 19, 0158 Oslo

Kunstjournalen er et sted bare for deg – ingen regler, ingen prestasjoner. Bare papir, hendene dine, og litt tid til å puste.

I denne workshopen får du en rolig innføring i art journaling som kreativ praksis. Vi utforsker enkle kollasjteknikker sammen, og du følger din egen nysgjerrighet i eget tempo. Det handler ikke om å lage noe "fint" – men om å la hånden bevege seg og se hva som dukker opp.

Alt du trenger er med. Du går hjem med din egen kunstjournal – et lite fristed du kan vende tilbake til, når som helst du trenger ro eller rom for tanker.

Begrensede plasser! Påmelding: send epost til [email protected]

PRAKSIS Teen Advisory Board / Young Curators 2025–2026:
Anahita Mollazehi ()
Ingrid Bjermeland Hesledalen ()
Sofia Orellana Gamboa ()
Bror Høgåsen-Hallesby ()
Auguste Karsokaite ()
Noah Visted ()
Assol Sokolova ()
Helen Ibrahimian ()
Hibo Nora Abbi

Follow their work at

21/03/2026

OPEN CALL – PRAKSIS Youth
Paid board position for young people aged 16–21
Start: late April 2026
Application deadline: 6 April 2026, 23:59

Do you have an interest in art, but aren’t sure where you fit in?
Or are you simply curious about what art and culture can be?

PRAKSIS Teen Advisory Board is a programme for those who want to learn more, take part in activities with other young people, and have a say in art and culture in Oslo and Lillestrøm. As part of the programme, you will also take part in the Young Curators Mentorship, in collaboration with .

What happens during the year?
You will, amongst other things:
– visit art spaces in Oslo and Lillestrøm and discuss what you experience
– collaborate on creating an exhibition at Nitja
– meet artists and people working in art and culture
– work together as a group to develop projects (publication, events, exhibition)
– meet young people from similar programmes across the Nordic region

You don’t need to know what you want to do yet – that’s part of the process.

Who is this for?
– 16–21 years old
– based in Oslo or Lillestrøm
– curious about art and want to learn more

No previous experience needed.
Especially relevant if you don’t already feel part of the art world.

Practical info:
– 10 paid positions
– start: late April 2026
– duration: one year
– approx. 2 meetings per month (Wednesdays + weekends), in Oslo and Lillestrøm. Transport covered
– languages: Norwegian and English

More info + apply: praksisoslo.org/youth

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Rådhusgata 19 (Anatomigården)
Oslo
0158

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