MUNCH is delighted to announce the artists participating in the second MUNCH Triennale, which takes place at MUNCH in Oslo from 15 November 2025 – 22 February 2026.
Titled Almost Unreal, the Triennale explores the spaces between the real and the virtual, old and new technologies, dystopian and hopeful visions of the future. Featuring new and existing work by 26 artists whose work opens portals to other realities – parallel universes, mystical realms and alternative ways of seeing – it presents works which appropriate and hack existing technologies such as music boxes, holograms and weaving looms; and create new worlds using advanced gaming engines and generative machine learning tools.
As in the previous edition of the Triennale, this year’s overall theme centres on art and new
technologies. The title of the 2025 edition, Almost Unreal, refers to the time we live in, in which the division between the real and the unreal is becoming increasingly fluid, as well as being a nod to contemporary Unreal gaming engines, and the 1993 soundtrack to Super Mario Bros – the first live action film of a video game, scored by Swedish pop duo Roxette.
The participating artists are:
Alice Bucknell, Ann Lislegaard, Charlotte Johannesson, Emilija Škarnulytė, Firas Shehadeh, Himali Singh Soin, Icaro Zorbar, Infopsin, Keiken, Kristina Austi, Mazenett Quiroga, Nanna Debois Buhl, Natalie Paneng, Natasha Tontey, Patricia Domínguez, Priyageetha Dia, Sahej Rahal, Sara Sadik, Simone Forti and Sven Påhlsson.
The Triennale is curated by Tominga O’Donnell, Senior Curator/Head of Contemporary Art at MUNCH and Mariam Elnozahy, Artistic Director of Konsthall C in Stockholm.
“The MUNCH Triennale is a key part of MUNCH’s ambitious commitment to contemporary art and the fostering of new voices, and we’re delighted to announce the artist list for this second edition, with some of the most cutting-edge contemporary art – including works created specifically for our museum,” says MUNCH Director Tone Hansen.
Further details of the exhibition will be announced in due course.
Press release from MUNCH
Image: Ann Lislegaard. The Mind is a Muscle (Trio A). 2021-23. 3D animation. Image courtesy of the artist
