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.
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)
Anja Niemi’s The Blow (2019). The presentation explores internalised conflict, self-discipline, and psychological struggle, using boxing as a metaphor for mental training and introspective confrontation.
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.
The exhibition brings together the work of Lesia Vasylchenko and Olena Newkryta. Lesia’s work traces vast infrastructures and hidden technologies, while Olena examines the socio-political dimensions of technologies. Both raise questions on image generation, interpretation, and data processing in the realm of artistic production. Their works reveal what systems conceal, macro- and micro-forces shaping bodies and emotions, turning data into poethical critiques of power.
A lens-based exhibition examining how colonial histories have fractured relationships to self, land, craftsmanship, and ecology. Through works by Sami, Palestinian, Iraqi/Kurdish, Amazigh, Canadian and other artists, the exhibition explores indigeneity as a lived relationship to rupture, resistance, and continuity.