UKS (Unge Kunstneres Samfund)

Tired of expensive coffee and noisy cafés? Need a bit of body doubling to get started? Join us for our new, monthly co-working session at UKS, from 1–4pm on the second Wednesday of every month! We offer free coffee and tea, designated quiet zones and no requirement for small talk – unless you feel like it. * May 13, 1–4pm Keysers gate 1 ** Image: Jan Khür @studio.abrakadabra

Dear member of @uks1921 , We are happy to have your renewed trust, and will make a wicked work machine within our capacities. The sweetest tears of goodbye to @jiskahuizing and Johanne Laache who have been such vital, structured and knowledgeable artists we have had the pleasure of serving with on the UKS board. Thank you to @mishi.foltyn of the nominations committee, may fair wind fill your sails! UKS’ STYRE / UKS STIVRA 2026 Styreleder / Stivrajođiheaddji Ragnhild Aamås @ragnaam Styremedlemmer / Stivralahtut Andreas Olavssøn Rongen, @heiermarianne , @sosobrafield , Prerna Bishnoi, @_gabrieljohann , @magnusholmen Styrets varamedlemmer / Stivrra várrelahtut @sarah_sekles , @vilderudjord Nominasjonsutvalget / Nominašuvdnalávdegoddi Ayman Alazraq, Kjetil Detroit Kristensen, Mari Eriksen Nominasjonsutvalgets varamedlem / Nominašuvdnalávdegoddi várrelahtut Kaeto Sweeney @kaetokato Find out more and become a member of @uks1921 👉 uks.no

KOKE OG ETE SOMMERNATT 🌕🌕🌕🌕🌕🌕🌕🌕 POESI + VIDEO + FEST Profylakse for neste dags nasjonalisme @ UKS ( @uks1921 ) Keysers g. 1 16. mai kl. 18 ------> 🌕🌕🌕🌕🌕🌕🌕🌕 Gunnar Wærness leser @pribains leser @signeupforfree leser jeg leser @trollmannfinger leser og viser videoverket sitt "Kø" @havardrosag og @wongpowpow er puppetmasters på gulvet etterpå Det blir, som Gunnar sa, LABUBU DELULU

EN UKE IGJEN! Kjenner du noen mellom 16 og 19 år som er nysgjerrig på kunst? Blikkåpner Oslo søker nye deltakere! 🔥 Blikkåpnere jobber med å formidle kunst til andre unge på @astrupfearnleymuseet , @kunstnerneshus og @uks1921 . Som en del av et større team er de med på å lage arrangementer og skape innhold til sosiale medier. Det kreves ingen tidligere erfaring med kunst for å søke – verken utdanning eller en fancy CV er avgjørende. Det viktigste er interesse og lyst til å bidra! Søknadsfrist: 13. mai Oppstart: 19. august 🔗 Søknadsskjema: https://www.blikkapner.no/bli-en-blikkapner Tips gjerne en ungdom du kjenner! 🤗 Blikkåpner Oslo er et samarbeid mellom Astrup Fearnley Museet, Unge Kunstneres Samfund og Kunstnernes Hus. Gjennom prosjektet får 15 ungdommer som representerer de 15 ulike bydelene i Oslo betalt deltidsjobb i ett år. Prosjektet finansieres med støtte fra @sparebankstiftelsendnb .

Kunst, lys, musikk og fremtid ✨ I mars fikk Blikkåpner Oslo besøk av Blikkåpnere fra Preus Museum, Henie Onstad Kunstsenter, Lillehammer Kunstmuseum og Galleri F15, på Astrup Fearnley Museet! Kvelden ble arrangert av Blikkåpnerne i Oslo fra Unge Kunstneres Samfund, Kunstnernes Hus og Astrup Fearnley Museet – sammen med Lydbryterne 🎶 Gjennom omvisninger i Grammars of Light og kreative fremtidstegninger utforsket vi temaene kunst, lys, musikk og fremtid. Alt planlagt og gjennomført av ungdommer! Vil du bli en Blikkåpner? Blikkåpner er en betalt deltidsjobb for deg mellom 16–19 år. Du lager arrangementer, holder omvisninger og skaper kunstopplevelser for andre unge – samtidig som du blir del av et unikt fellesskap. Nå søker Blikkåpner Oslo 15 nye deltakere – én fra hver bydel! Du kan jobbe hos Kunstnernes Hus, Unge Kunstneres Samfund og Astrup Fearnley Museet. Se link i bio hos @blikkapneroslo for mer info og søknadsfrist! Foto: @studio.abrakadabra

Join us for the final day of the group exhibition, marking a transition in the unfolding of the programme Lessons in Love. Meet some of the artists and encounter the artworks that have moved, spread out and emerged since the opening on 14 February. At 2 PM, you can enjoy love songs performed by Akerselva Kvinnekor while sharing vegan soup. All sales from the UKS kitchen and bookshop will be donated to aid organisations in Lebanon. * Lessons in Love is an exhibition and a year-long programme that straddles individuality and community in a multitude of ways. In the programme’s first unfolding, each artist was invited to introduce themselves through one or several recent works, presented at UKS as part of a group exhibition – a shifting landscape of sentiment spanning the terrains of grief, longing, devotion, and generosity. During the fall and winter of 2026/2027, all participating artists will share new commissions at UKS. Welcome back in October to encounter their practices in different forms and paces. ** Lessons in Love 14.2.26 - 3.5.26 Jacky Jaan-Yuan Kuo. Wei Ting Tseng, Jessica Williams, Joen Vedel, Yaniya Mikhalina, Minne Kersten, Sebastian Rusten *** Image: Vegard Kleven

Hverdag Books publishes unique and experimental editions for and about the everyday. Based in Moss, Hverdag Books is an artist-run imprint dedicated to publishing vulnerable and raw works by underrepresented voices, primarily in Norway. Hverdag is a place to put things down: poetry, conversations, hybrid and visual essays, and more. It is also the publishing practice and risograph print studio of Jessica Williams since 2016. Williams has taught a number of risography and self-publishing workshops and presentations for students, adults, teens, and children — all over Norway and also abroad. For more info go to /about * OPENING HOURS Wednesday 12 - 5pm Thursday 12 - 7pm Friday - Sunday 12 - 5pm ** Lessons in Love 14.2.26 - 3.5.26 Jacky Jaan-Yuan Kuo, Wei Ting Tseng, Jessica Williams, Joen Vedel, Yaniya Mikhalina, Minne Kersten, Sebastian Rusten *** All images: Abrakadabra Studio @studio.abrakadabra

Dear members and non-members, old friends and new faces @uks1921 has the pleasure of inviting you to join us at Keysersgate 1 on Friday 1st May for breakfast and a banner workshop. The gathering is intended as a forum for us to connect as colleagues and to create posters, signs, and banners together. This event is child-friendly! This year, @uks1921 mobilises under statements such as... «KUNSTNERNE VIL HA FAGFELLEVURDERTE STIPENDER» Artists want peer-reviewed grants «Å GJENNVINNE SPRÅKET ER IKKE ET STUDIUM, MEN EN RETTIGHET» Reclaiming your language is not a study, but a right «AS UNEMPLOYABLE AS AN ARTIST» Equally the @uks1921 board encourages you to bring your own ideas to the table! Gather with us and lets bring attention to the challenges facing artists as workers and citizens together. Keysersgate 1 is open from 10:30, with oat porridge, coffee, tea, fruit and snacks. Around 12:00 we will walk to Youngstorget together for the official demonstration. @uks1921 has will provide placards, cardboard for signs, markers, pencils and other drawing material. If you have any extra materials, fabrics, paints laying about, please bring it! We hope to see you! @uks1921 Board

Kjenner du noen mellom 16 og 19 år som er nysgjerrig på kunst? Blikkåpner Oslo søker nye deltakere! 🔥 Blikkåpnere jobber med å formidle kunst til andre unge på @astrupfearnleymuseet , @kunstnerneshus og @uks1921 . Som en del av et større team er de med på å lage arrangementer og skape innhold til sosiale medier. Det kreves ingen tidligere erfaring med kunst for å søke – verken utdanning eller en fancy CV er avgjørende. Det viktigste er interesse og lyst til å bidra! Søknadsfrist: 13. mai Oppstart: 19. august 🔗 Søknadsskjema: https://www.blikkapner.no/bli-en-blikkapner Tips gjerne en ungdom du kjenner! 🤗 Blikkåpner Oslo er et samarbeid mellom Astrup Fearnley Museet, Unge Kunstneres Samfund og Kunstnernes Hus. Gjennom prosjektet får 15 ungdommer som representerer de 15 ulike bydelene i Oslo betalt deltidsjobb i ett år. Prosjektet finansieres med støtte fra @sparebankstiftelsendnb .

As an exhibition and a year-long programme, Lessons in Love straddles individuality and community in a multitude of ways – firstly, through a moving, pulsating show that changes over the course of the exhibition period, introducing the invited artists to develop new work at UKS in 2026. In this first chapter of the programme, each artist was invited to introduce themselves through one or several recent works of art which will be dynamically presented at UKS in a shifting landscape of sentiment, spanning the terrains of grief, longing, devotion and generosity. Grief, and perhaps desperation, is embedded in Jessica Williams’ works unknown unknowns (2025) and I find myself (2012/2022/2026), the latter a recovered steel band with the inscription: ‘I find myself simultaneously drawn to and repelled by the sheer quantity of man-made objects in this world’. unknown unknowns is a series of brick sculptures placed across the exhibition space, made from materials, or debris, recovered from the artist’s home, local forests and beaches. Eerily attractive, the sculptures are a form of mending in an ongoing planetary crisis. * OPENING HOURS Wednesday 12 - 5pm Thursday 12 - 7pm Friday - Sunday 12 - 5pm ** Lessons in Love 14.2.26 - 3.5.26 Jacky Jaan-Yuan Kuo. Wei Ting Tseng, Jessica Williams, Joen Vedel, Yaniya Mikhalina, Minne Kersten, Sebastian Rusten *** Images1: Abrakadabra Studio @studio.abrakadabra Image 2 and 3: Vegard Kleven

As an exhibition and a year-long programme, Lessons in Love straddles individuality and community in a multitude of ways – firstly, through a moving, pulsating show that changes over the course of the exhibition period, introducing the invited artists to develop new work at UKS in 2026. In this first chapter of the programme, each artist was invited to introduce themselves through one or several recent works of art which will be dynamically presented at UKS in a shifting landscape of sentiment, spanning the terrains of grief, longing, devotion and generosity. Minne Kersten’s Where I’m Calling From (2024), originally conceived as a filmset, refers to a kind of cinematic architecture that can beckon spectres, ghosts and phantoms. The film was shot around nightfall, when light and vision fade and nocturnal butterflies, or moths, appear. The moth represents a shift between endings and beginnings; living at night and often losing its life when chasing enthralling sources of light. * OPENING HOURS Wednesday 12 - 5pm Thursday 12 - 7pm Friday - Sunday 12 - 5pm ** Lessons in Love 14.2.26 - 3.5.26 Jacky Jaan-Yuan Kuo. Wei Ting Tseng, Jessica Williams, Joen Vedel, Yaniya Mikhalina, Minne Kersten, Sebastian Rusten *** Image 1 and 2: Vegard Kleven

As Silent As Bombs experiments with kinaesthetic approaches to sound and is structured through data-driven visual frameworks. The data-based composition addresses military violations and sonic fear within contemporary geopolitical tensions involving China, Taiwan, Ukraine, Russia and the United States. The piece translates visualised datasets – including the frequency of Chinese military provocations in Taiwanese airspace, military expenditure and fossil fuel consumption per capita – into sound to interrogate collective narratives, power relations and shared histories. As Silent As Bombs was created in 2022 – 24 and was previously presented at Ultima Oslo Contemporary Music Festival, Tegnetriennalen and Oslo Negativ. The performance is part of Lessons in Love. * AS SILENT AS BOMBS 23 April 2026, 6PM Keysers gate 1 ** Photo: Stine Mako