Exhibitions

Norwegian Journal of Photography Goes North!

Storgata

Today’s media landscape challenges and raises questions about the established boundaries of documentary photography. Can photography be both documentary and art?

Sara and freedom

Cora Sandel/Sara Fabricius

Storgata

Sara Fabricius, writer, painter and human, is at the centre of this exhibition constructed around her words and her possessions. Get to know a woman who was at once temperamental and subtle, witty and sharp.

Traces of Sara

Cora Sandel/Sara Fabricius

Storgata

Can we learn something of a person from the things they leave behind, or are they merely empty objects? Dive into the Sara Fabricius collection and find out for yourself.

Norwegian Travellers

Ingun Alette Mæhlum

Perspektivet Folkeparken

During the last six years, Mæhlum met with Travellers from all of Norway, hearing their personal stories about identity and culture.

Our Time in the Past

Made by students at Voksenopplæringen

Perspektivet Folkeparken

The Tassled Parlour

Perspektivet Folkeparken, Summer season

Plush paraphernalia, palms and pompoms chez a Northern Norwegian merchant’s.

Lovely Beings

Perspektivet Folkeparken, Summer season

At the heart of the exhibition is a reconstructed young girl’s room from the 19th century, richly furnished with traditional needlework done by hard-working women’s hands.

In Cod We Trust

Perspektivet Folkeparken, Summer season

The people of Northern Norway have always had to trust the life of the ocean, and cod was the species of fish that spread the greatest anticipation and joy along the coast.