På feil sted
Hvordan kan kunst hjelpe oss å forstå en verden preget av krig, fordrivelse og økende polarisering? Gjennom det kollektive fanzine-prosjektet På feil sted inviterer Masahat i samarbeid med blant andre Atelier Kunstnerforbundet til en utforskning av makt, motstand og tilhørighet i fellesrommet. Ved å koble kunstnere som reflekterer rundt og kritiserer norske, europeiske og arabiske utfordringer og politiske systemer, utfordres leseren til å tenke nytt om komplekse paradokser.
Det vil utgis seks fanziner som del av prosjektet På feil sted, og det vil holdes tre lesesirkler i løpet av året.
Deltakende kunstnere basert i Norge: Dalia al-Kury, Thora Dolven Balke med Marie Payan, Jannik Abel og Khalid Albaih. Internasjonale kunstnere er Sarah Rifky med Ahmad Douma (Egypt).
Fanzinene vil inngå som en del av Koordinater i bevegelse, Kunstnerforbundets Juniutstilling som i 2026 er kuratert av Peer Review.
Atelier Kunstnerforbundet har fast samarbeid med Masahat, festival for arabisk kunst og kultur. Prosjektet På feil sted er et ledd i Masahats pågående undersøkelser i grensene og mulighetene som ligger i kunst i offentlig rom. Gjennom en serie med fanziner vil Masahat sette i gang samtaler med unge om verdenssituasjonen og hvordan kunst kan fungere i sosiale og politiske endringsprosesser. Prosjektet aktiveres gjennom arrangementer som verksteder for ungdom, lesesirkler og diskursivt program som finner sted blant annet på Masahat, Atelier Kunstnerforbundet, Nitja Senter for Samtidskunst og Hersleb videregående skole samarbeid med Tenthaus. Les mer om samarbeidspartnerne lenger nede.
Fanzinenes innhold er kuratert med bidrag fra norske og internasjonale kunstnere for å belyse ulike aspekter ved hegemonisk kontroll over rom, samt erfaringer av fremmedgjøring og motstand. Masahat er særlig opptatt av kunst som motstandsform, og kuraterer kunstnere som tydelig kritiserer og forsvarer menneskers rettigheter i fellesrom. Prosjektet er også en del av Masahats flerårige engasjement rundt rom som problematikk og konfliktarena.
Les mer om prosjektet På feil sted på hjemmesiden til Masahat.
About the zines
The Natural by Jannik Abel
In The Natural (Det naturlige), artist Jannik Abel traces a profound journey from personal grief to ecological awakening. Following the loss of multiple family members in rapid succession, Abel turned to nature—not as escape, but as connection. Months spent camping, eventually leading to life in a forest home, became a practice of both healing and discovery. Nature, in Abel's words, reconnects us to our loved ones and to the world itself. The zine weaves together Abel's artistic vision with their decade of documenting protest movements across Norway. It lives at the intersection of art, activism, and nature joy, articulating a politics rooted in love for the living world. As extractivist capitalism fractures our relationship with the earth, The Natural offers us a precious way forward, grounded in witness, care, and the wild places that hold us.
The zine is available both in English and Norwegian.
The Natural/Det naturlige was launched on April 30, 2026 in Atelier Kunstnerforbundet Loft. Read more about the event here.
Professional Foreigner by Khalid Albaih
In Professional Foreigner, artist Khalid Albaih turns the Venice airport into a mirror. From the transit lounge, he observes the multiplicity of travelers—and the weight assigned to certain bodies when they pass through European borders. The airport becomes a staging ground for the migrant experience: being rendered a stranger under the racist gaze, even as one carries the wound of a homeland in collapse. For Albaih, this displacement is doubly painful. Sudan falls apart at home; he finds himself untethered from family scattered across refugee routes. Professional Foreigner is a short comic strip that holds both realities together—the immediate sting of stereotyping and the long-distance grief of separation. It is an act of witness: making visible the longing that official categories try to erase.
The zine is available in English.
Muscular Dreams by Dalia al-Kury
In Muscular Dreams, Dalia al-Kury documents lives suspended between survival and loss. Reflecting on her hybrid film Syrialism, al-Kury introduces "speculative non-fiction," a practice where she co-creates worlds with subjects like Salam, who navigate the crushing weight of survival guilt. These are refugees whose futures in exile are governed by unresolved crises at home. Drawing on their shared dreams, al-Kury lets them break the laws of physics—turning a water hose into a lifeline from Oslo to Syria—to visualize solutions reality denies. For al-Kury, pain is the material of art, transformed through surreal imagery into public resistance. If history is written by victors, she argues, cinema must let the oppressed write the future. This piece frames collective grief as a vital site of political reclamation where the impossible becomes possible, and where we dare to imagine a livable world.
The zine is available in English.
På feil sted
Kurator: Rana Issa
Medkurator: Martina Petrelli
Redigering: Rana Issa
Design: Jessica Williams
Produsert av Masahat med støtte fra KOROs Lokalsamfunnsordningen (Kunst i offentlige rom) og i samarbeid med Atelier Kunstnerforbundet. Fanzinene er printet av og publisert sammen med Hverdag Books.
Om prosjektets samarbeidspartnere / About the project's participating organisations
The project ‘På Feil Sted’ [in the wrong place] is part of Masahat’s ongoing interrogation of the limits and possibilities of art in public space. Through a series of zines, Masahat initiates a conversation with young people about the state of the world and the function of art in processes of social and political change. The zines are further activated through a series of events taking place at Atelier Kunstnerforbundet, Nitja Centre for Contemporary Art, and in collaboration with Tenthaus at Hersleb skole, Elisenberg avdeling.
Masahat – Arabic Culture in Exile (est. 2015) is an organization working on curating and producing knowledge, history, art and culture with a focus on the Arab world and its diaspora and presents underrepresented artistic expressions that are anchored in multicultural Norway.
Atelier Kunstnerforbundet (est. 2018) is a collective studio programme that fosters artistic and cultural production by offering free studios for artists, residencies, and solidarity initiatives with, for, and from communities. It is located inside of Kunstnerforbundet, one of Scandinavia’s oldest artist-run spaces.
Hverdag Books (est. 2016) is an artist-run imprint dedicated to publishing vulnerable and raw works by underrepresented voices, primarily in Norway. Based in Moss, Hverdag publishes unique and experimental editions for and about the everyday.
Tenthaus Art Collective (est. 2009) is characterized by an open, process-oriented form of participation and collaboration. They focus on local contexts exploring collectivity and inclusion through different forms of engagement. Tenthaus began as an artists-in-schools project and over a decade later they continue to maintain strong relations to the community and works to cultivate and nurture its environment. Today Tenthaus encompasses both a project room and an exhibition space, a mobile studio, and a wide range of curatorial projects. As a collective Tenthaus reimagines themselves and what it means to be artists working with the public, and what makes a relevant socially engaged practice today.
Nitja Centre for Contemporary Art (est. 1986) exhibits local and international visual art, and actively works with trust, solidarity, and communities. The centre is dedicated to contemporary visual art from both Norway/Sápmi and International artists, with a focus on young practices. The new building, opened in 2021, welcomes visitors to more than its exhibition programme thanks to a restaurant café, a library/shop and lounge area, an activity room for children and youth, as well as a project room for events spanning from meetings to cinema screenings.
Publisert 21. april 2026
Sist oppdatert 16. juni 2026