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  • It’s Bold and Spectacular! Kiyoshi Yamamoto takes over MUNCH

    It’s Bold and Spectacular! Kiyoshi Yamamoto takes over MUNCH

    MUNCH invites you to the spectacular 4 April opening of Kiyoshi Yamamoto’s You Are What You Is – a sensory experience in which visitors play a starring role. Known for his colourful, norm-busting artistry, Yamamoto will transform the museum into a living stage where fabrics, light and movement fuse into a dynamic narrative.

  • Colourfully immersive – Kerstin Brätsch at MUNCH

    Colourfully immersive – Kerstin Brätsch at MUNCH

    Experience a total installation as Kerstin Brätsch takes over the 9th floor at MUNCH, from 14 March – 3 August. With the exhibition MƎTAATEM, she explores painting as a medium, playing between the physical and the spiritual. Brätsch invites visitors to enter her enigmatic, sensual and groundbreaking artistic universe, with works shown in Norway for the first time.

  • Kim Hankyul, AV Buddha (2022), Oslo Kunstforening. Photo: Julie Hrnčířová.

    Artist and Mediator selected for SOLO OSLO V

    Artist Kim Hankyul and mediator Stephanie Serrano Sundby have been selected to take part in the fifth edition of SOLO OSLO. This series is part of MUNCH's commitment to contemporary art, and contributes to developing the local art scene by giving newly established artists and mediators an opportunity to develop their practice.

  • Edvard Munch, On the Operating Table, 1902-1903. Oil on canvas. Photo: Juri Kobayashi, ©Munchmuseet

    MUNCH 2025: Colourful Rebels, Dystopias and Dramatic Tipping Points

    MUNCH offers a spectacular range of exhibitions, activities and experiences for young and adult art enthusiasts. The museum challenges the senses, touches the heart, and engages with themes of life and death, dramatic turning points in the world, and ongoing societal debates on war, the green transition, and artificial intelligence.

  • Vansessa Baird. Photo: Ivar Kvaal / MUNCH

    Vanessa Baird – Go Down with Me

    Vanessa Baird (b. 1963) has established herself as a key figure in Norwegian art with her uncompromising and expressive style, gaining significant international recognition. Her art, in which the personal is always political, makes her a beloved rebel for a wide audience. Now, she takes over MUNCH, in the museum’s largest ever presentation of a living Norwegian artist.

  • Artist Constace in Munchs Ekely Studio where she has worked for the last year in the run up to her show at MUNCH.

    MUNCH PRESENTS: A new exhibition by young artist Constance Tenvik

    Constance Tenvik opens her new solo exhibition of sculpture, jacquard weaving and film on Level 10 at MUNCH. This is the fourth iteration of the exhibition series SOLO OSLO, in which the museum supports the next generation of artists in the city.

  • Edvard Munchs "Beach" is one of the works of art exhibited in the exhibition. Edvard Munch_Beach_1904_Oil on Canvas @MUNCH

    INTERNATIONALLY CELEBRATED EXHIBITION TREMBLING EARTH COMES HOME TO MUNCH

    At long last, the international success story of an exhibition, Trembling Earth, is coming home to MUNCH and opens Saturday, April 29th. Almost 400,000 people have seen the exhibition in the USA and Germany, and the New York Times included it in its list of ‘Best Exhibitions of 2023’.

  • The Magic Forest_Edvard Munch_1919-1925_Oil on Canvas_Photo@Munchmuseet

    THIS IS MUNCH IN 2024

    Enjoy a close encounter with Edvard Munch's delicate, trembling and above all powerful images of nature, and explore what it means to be human today. Whether it’s well known or unknown artists, historical or contemporary, MUNCH connects with the present day and addresses questions that are most important to us now. This is MUNCH in 2024!

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