Arty Party with Kirsty Kross

Event

Sunday 9 March 2025, 12:00 – 14:00

Photo: Jon Marius Nilssen.

Welcome to Kunsthall Stavanger's exciting event for children, Arty Party! Arty Party is an event for kids from 0 to 10 years old, where an artist is invited to create a very special event for our youngest audiences.

This spring's Arty Party artist is Kirsty Kross. Together with Kirsty, we will enter a magical underwater world where our usual Arty Party disco has become a Fisko!

Expect strange fish and sea creatures swimming among us in an underwater theme that encourages both breaking and going with the flow. Kirsty invites us to meet The Coral Trout, a singing and playing fish with many different sea friends.

The event is free for both kids and adults. At Arty Party there are always fun activities, an open workshop and a disco, and together with the artist, the kids are invited to take over the kunsthall for the day.

Curator: Kristina Ketola Bore
Project Manager: Marisa Molin

Arty Party has received generous funding from Sparebankstifelsen SR Bank, Sparebanken Vest and Norske Kunstforeninger.

Kirsty Kross

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Kirsty Kross’ practice spans performance, music, drawing, installation, and research. Her work explores the human condition, with a current focus on the relationship between the attention economy and the climate crisis. Kross holds a master’s degree from Berlin University of the Arts and has also studied art history at the University of Queensland.

She has exhibited and held performances at institutions including the National Museum of Norway (2022); the Drawing Triennial, Oslo (2023); KUBE and the Jugendstil Centre, Bergen (2020); the Autumn Exhibition, Oslo (Høstutstillingen, 2020); Meta.Morf, Trondheim (2018, 2022); Tenthaus Oslo (2017); Bergen Assembly (2016); the Østlandsutstillingen (2016, 2024), PINK CUBE, Oslo (2015), and Galerie Crystal Ball, Berlin (2013).

From 2000 to 2010, Kross co-founded and performed in the electropunk band Team Plastique, which played at Glastonbury Festival in 2008, the closing party of the Berlin Biennale in 2006, and The Big Day Out in Australia in 2004.