Fotogalleriet Programme 2026
In 2026, Fotogalleriet continues its commitment to presenting ambitious, research-driven exhibitions and public programmes that engage critically with the conditions under which photographic practices are produced, circulated, and sustained. Across the year, the programme brings together solo and group exhibitions, long-term research projects, mediation initiatives, and international collaborations that address questions of access, ecology, power, care, and collective responsibility. The programme foregrounds artistic practices that challenge extractive and exhaustion-based modes of production, while opening space for slower, process-oriented, and dialogical approaches.
An exhibition centred on access, inclusion, and institutional care, emerging from Fotogalleriet’s ongoing work on physical and structural accessibility. The project approaches access not only as an infrastructural or legal concern, but as an artistic, curatorial, political, and aesthetic methodology.
Artists: Shelley Barry, Frida Jersø, Claudia Amatruda, Fergus Tibbs, Inari Sandell
Organised by the Norwegian Association of Fine Art Photographers (FFF) Since 1976, the Spring Exhibition has been a central event for Norwegian photography, and each year it makes clear that photography continues to play an important role as an artistic expression. The Spring Exhibition 2026 is the 45th edition and has been shown at Fotogalleriet since 1988.
Artists: Henrik Follesø Egeland, Joanna Chia-yu Lin, Emma Lomell, Johanne Nyborg, Greg Pope, Sakib Saboor, Dan Skjæveland, Christian Tunge, Jostein Venås
Organised by Forbundet Frie Fotografer (FFF)
Developed from the ongoing research project We Eat the Earth, the exhibition examines fertiliser as a lens through which to understand extractive capitalism, white supremacy, empire, and ecological collapse. The project is accompanied by a publication and includes a film by Mohamed Sleiman.
Out of Place is an exhibition about the dissonant encounter with place. It challenges constructions of image and identity by exploring temporal and spatial tensions in how images are made, what they represent, and how they are displayed. The central theme is visual dissonance: the uncomfortable tension that arises when photography and film unsettle our understanding of space and time. In a world defined by acceleration, displacement, and a loosening relationship to place, the exhibition asks: What past, present, and future can we imagine? And how do we find our footing in times of great upheaval?
The exhibition holds that displacement is personal, ecological, and Indigenous, rooted in colonial ruptures with land, craft, and belonging. It raises the question: What does it look like when an image tries to hold ground that has been taken away?