Our New Garden
Project
2025
Kunstklubb: Autumn 2025. Photo: Helle Navratil
The Art Club is one of Kunsthall Stavanger's core activities. Here, children are introduced to contemporary art in a fun and accessible way.
Together with specially invited artists, the children explore different ways of working and thinking within the field of contemporary art. One of the goals of the Art Club is to provide children with new experiences and introduce tools from the art world that they can use in their everyday life. In the Art Club, they get to meet and work with professional artists, and our skilled art educators follow them through the semester. At the end of the semester we invite our friends and family to see what we have made and learned.
This autumn, the kunsthall is getting an entirely new garden and entrance area. Therefore, our Kunstklubben participants will create something for our new outdoor space! It will be unveiled during
The Art Club is one of Kunsthall Stavanger's core activities. Here, children are introduced to contemporary art in a fun and accessible way.
Together with specially invited artists, the children explore different ways of working and thinking within the field of contemporary art. One of the goals of the Art Club is to provide children with new experiences and introduce tools from the art world that they can use in their everyday life. In the Art Club, they get to meet and work with professional artists, and our skilled art educators follow them through the semester. At the end of the semester we invite our friends and family to see what we have made and learned.
This autumn, the kunsthall is getting an entirely new garden and entrance area. Therefore, our Kunstklubben participants will create something for our new outdoor space! It will be unveiled during a celebration of the new garden. Throughout the semester, we invite the participants to reflect on what a physical space can mean to us. How are we affected by the space around us, and how can we change the space we inhabit?
Welcome!
DATES AND ARTISTS
31 August: Artist Hans Edvard Hammonds
14 September: Architect Ane Skarpnes Dahl
19 October: Artist Lina Viste Grønli
9 November: Artist and musician Stine Janvin
Exhibition 30 November with Hans Edvard Hammonds
GROUPS AND TIMINGS
The youngest group is for children in Years 1–3, and the older group is primarily for Years 4–6. If you have a child in Year 7 or 8, they are still warmly welcome to join the Art Club and should be registered in the older group.
Group 1, Years 1–3: 1:00 PM – 3:15 PM
Group 2, Years 4–6: 4:15 PM – 6:30 PM
Each group is limited to 20 participants.
Please note: On 30 November children should arrive at 1:00 PM, and the exhibition will open for family and friends at 3:00 PM.
CONTACT
For any other questions, please reach out to our Art Club Educator Oleksandra Fabricius at oleksandra@kunsthallstavanger.no
Hans Edward Hammonds
Hans Edward Hammonds (b. 1983) is a Norwegian and New Zealand artist, educated with a Master of Fine Arts from Elam School of Fine Arts (University of Auckland) in New Zealand. In recent years, Hammonds has led relational projects and research on participation and art production with children in schools, institutions, and artist-run spaces. In addition, he works with performance and installation, where he explores themes such as collaboration, interaction, and participation.
He has exhibited projects and installations at Soft, the National Museum, the Autumn Exhibition, the Vestland Exhibition, and Stavanger Art Museum, as well as carried out a number of interdisciplinary art projects internationally. Hammonds has initiated several artist-run exhibition spaces, and is currently deputy director and curator at Velferden.
Ane Skarpnes Dahl
Ane Skarpnes Dahl is a senior architect at Helen & Hard in Stavanger, with extensive experience in design, planning, and project management. Her main focus is on social housing models, age-friendly homes, and community-based living solutions. Ane has led several participatory processes in housing and urban development and is passionate about how architecture can foster community, belonging, and social sustainability. She has played a key role in projects such as the Vindmøllebakken co-housing community, the Stavanger harbor silo transformation, and the EU-funded research project NEB-STAR. Her work is characterized by a strong commitment to participation, viewing architecture as a tool for creating inclusive and vibrant communities.
Lina Viste Grønli
Lina Viste Grønli grew up in Stavanger and was educated at the Academy of Fine Art in Oslo. She lives and works in Oslo and Somerville, Massachusetts. Grønli engages with sculptural concerns, language, and objects. Her work has been exhibited at venues including Kunsthall Stavanger; Sculpture Center, New York City; MIT List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge; Henie Onstad Kunstsenter; Wiels Contemporary Art Centre, Brussels; and Kunsthalle Wien. Some of her permanent public artworks can be seen at Trygve Lie Plaza, Manhattan; Vågsalmenningen, Bergen; the Norwegian Public Roads Administration, Leikanger; and Munkerud School, Oslo.
Stine Janvin
Vocalist, performance, and sound artist Stine Janvin (b. 1985, Stavanger) works with the flexibility of the voice in relation to visual elements. Specifically, Janvin focuses on aspects such as costume and light, as well as the spatiality of sound. Through this, she explores how these can be used to channel the physical properties of sound, its tangibility, and sensory responses.
Often inspired by electronic music, folk traditions, and pop culture, Janvin creates audiovisual works and live performances for a wide range of contexts, such as theaters, clubs, and galleries, and more recently also websites and digital platforms.
She has presented works at Performa Telethon and Issue Project Room, New York; Biennale di Venezia, Kanal Centre Pompidou and WIELS in Brussels; MACBA Barcelona; Rokolectiv, Bucharest; Kunsthall Stavanger and MUNCH; Deutschlandradio Kultur and CCA Berlin.
Stine Janvin. Photo: Camille Blake.
Hans Edward Hammonds
Photo courtesy of Hans Edward Hammonds.
Ane Skarpnes Dahl
Lina Viste Grønli