Topics: Art, Culture, Entertainment

  • Tone Hansen to Step Down as Director of MUNCH

    Tone Hansen has been appointed Chief Superintendent and Director of Moderna Museet in Sweden. She will therefore step down as Director of MUNCH and assume her new role on 1 September.

  • ÅTERFÖDELSEN / REBIRTH – a unique XR experience at MUNCH

    This weekend, visitors were able to step inside a work of art rather than simply observe it. At MUNCH, the XR experience ÅTERFÖDELSEN / REBIRTH was presented, where music, poetry, spatial sound and technology merged into a physical and digital experience developed by Silvana Imam and Paula Strunden.

  • Paula Rego: Dance Among Thorns

    MUNCH presents the first large-scale exhibition of Portuguese-British artist Paula Rego (1935–2022) in the Nordic region. Paula Rego: Dance Among Thorns shows the breadth of Rego’s art, in what is the most comprehensive showing of the artist’s work since her exhibition at Tate Britain in 2021.

  • MUNCH presents Kim Hankyul’s Shore, a new SOLO OSLO exhibition

    Kim Hankyul ((b.1990, Busan, South Korea) presents a new installation in the distinctive gallery space on Level 10 at MUNCH. Titled Shore, the work is an immersive underwater landscape, composed of motorised sculptures, holograms, light and sound. The installation is the fifth edition in MUNCH’s SOLO OSLO series.

  • MUNCH ART PROGRAMME 2026

    Next year, MUNCH opens its doors to a programme spanning Nordic icons and today’s most innovative contemporary artists. Experience large-scale installations, unexpected retrospectives, and interactive encounters with art that both moves and inspires.

  • Second edition of MUNCH Triennale opens

    The second MUNCH Triennale is an invitation to suspend current realities and imagine differently
    Almost Unreal
    15 November 2025–22 February 2026
    Press Preview: 14 November 2025
    MUNCH in Oslo is delighted to announce further details of the second MUNCH Triennale.
    “The MUNCH Triennale is a key part of MUNCH’s ambitious commitment to contemporary art and the fostering of new voices,

  • 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

    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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • THE SCREAM – LIVE: WHAT HAPPENED TO THE PAINTING AFTER THE ROBBERY?

    MUNCH DIGITAL:
    Hear MUNCH's conservator Gry Landro's story about what happened to the famous painting after the robbery in 2004.
    TheScream is back on the museum wall at MUNCH, Tøyen, in the exhibition Yonder - Edvard Munch and Nature. For those who cannot visit the museum, we have set up a camera in the exhibition that streams The Scream directly 24/7
    The Scream is Edvard Munch's most fam

  • "THE SCREAM" LIVE STREAMED AT MUNCH TØYEN

    Experience one of the world’s most famous paintings from your home in this 24/7 live stream from MUNCH Tøyen.
    The Scream is one of the world’s most famous motifs. In the newly opened exhibition «Yonder – Edvard Munch and Nature», visitors get to see the painting once again up close during the exhibition period.
    For those who cannot travel to the museum, MUNCH offer a livestream of The Scream

  • A NEW VISUAL IDENTITY FOR MUNCH

    A new visual identity for MUNCH
    North creates a visual identity for a new art museum by Oslo’s waterfront, tailor-made for the world’s largest collection of art by Edvard Munch.
    North were selected to create a new visual identity and logo for the museum. The creative solution aims to be a contemporary interpretation of Munch’s ethos and to positively signal the exciting new vision for the or

  • ​​Live stream: We bring Edvard Munch to you. This time behind the scene

    Live stream: We bring Edvard Munch to you
    Munch and immediate space
    In this exclusive livestream, you will get a unique opportunity to visit our art storage, which is normally not open to the public. Here we find artworks by Munch that deal with his immediate and private surroundings at Ekely in Norway, where he spent the last 28 years of his life until his death in 1944.
    In times of con

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