Event

Art as Resistance

Name: Art as Resistance
Start: 2026-03-25T17:00:00.000Z
End: 2026-03-25T18:00:00.000Z
Location: Nobel Peace Center

from a conversation event in the mandela room.

Welcome to a conversation about art as resistance. With the starting point of how artists across different periods have challenged established truths, shaped public awareness and opened up new ways of understanding the world.

Time:25 Mar 2026 17:00 - 18:00 CET
Place: Nobel Peace Center

How is art used as a critique of its own time?

What can art do that journalism and politics cannot?

When does art function as resistance – and when does it become part of the very structures it seeks to challenge?

You will meet:

The conversation brings together three voices from art, institutions and society:

Asle Olsen, Curator at the Nobel Peace Center

Kari Brandtzæg, Senior Curator at MUNCH, and among other projects responsible for the award-winning exhibition The Shadow of War. Political Art in Norway 1914–2014.

Linn Stalsberg, sociologist, author and journalist

The conversation will be moderated by Silje Sigurdsen, art historian and journalist at Kunzt.no

Registration:

With this ticket you get entry to the conversation, also to the exhibitions and activities this evening 17:00 - 20:00. The conversation is in Norwegian.

Ticket for the conversation