Shifting Coordinates
[Read and download the exhibition pamphlet here]
June Exhibition 2026
30.05. — 28.06.2026
Opening Friday 29 May, 18:00-20:00
How does Black storytelling explore ritual, resistance, and imagination across the Nordics? This question anchors Peer Review’s collective project and transitions the 2026 June Exhibition at Kunstnerforbundet into a discursive platform centering Black Nordic artistic production across visual art, writing, film, and workshops.
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Peer Review (est. 2024) is a collective platform for cultural analysis across Black visual culture for and by Africans and its diaspora in Oslo. Since its establishment, Peer Review members gather for monthly in-person meetings at Atelier Kunstnerforbundet and field trips that host a space to respond and reflect on Black expressions in art, media, and popular culture contexts.
Artists: Ayan Abdi, Kebreab Demeke, Makda Embaie, Nadra Hassan, Alexandra Mitiku, Germain Ngoma, Rafiki.
Newly commissioned and existing works are presented alongside a public programme with: Awo Abdulqadir, Linda Gathu, Nadra Hassan, Lovette Jallow, Black History Month Norway, Pan-African Students Union of the University of Stavanger, Ubuntu Film Club.
Available to the public in the exhibition and online, commissioned texts based on the participants’ practices and responses provide a situated, contemporary anthology for reflections —with: Daría Sól Andrews, Haweya Jama, Khanyisile Mbongwa, Lara Okafor.
Read Daría Sól Andrew's text After the Naming here.
Read Haweya Jama's text Rog rogosho here.
Khanyisile Mbongwa's text Towards Geographies of Blackness in the Nordics will be published mid-June.
Lara Okafor's response text essay will be published in September.
On the occasion of Shifting Coordinates, Kunstnerforbundet’s sales department has also been curated by Peer Review, representing work by artists: Sampson Addae, Maritea Dæhlin, Maria Grazia Ines Habiyambere, Kevin Kurang, Herman Mbamba, Khadija Cecile Niang, Khalid Shatta, Thando Sikawuti, Lidiya Solomon, and Estella Tenga—amongst others.
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Image credit: Nadra Hassan, still from 'That's a Gabay (poem)?’ (2022)
Shifting Coordinates has received support from the Norwegian Visual Artists Fund (BKV), The City of Oslo, Balansekunst – Balansepotten, The Finnish-Norwegian Cultural Institute (FINNO), Icelandic Art Center, The Savings Bank Foundation DNB, Talent Norway, and the Fritt Ord Foundation.
Event programme June 2026
Thursday 4 June, 17:00-19:00
Panel talk: Art as community-building and affirming catalyst
With Awo Abdulqadir, Black History Month Norway, and the Pan-African Students Union of Stavanger, moderated by Mwauke Mufoncol from Peer Review.
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Thursday 18 June, 16:00-18:00
Lecture by Lovette Jallow: Credibility, Proximity, and the Nordic Gaze
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Friday 19 June, 11:00-17:00
Writing workshop with playwright and director Linda Gathu
Registration required, 10 available spots.
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Saturday 20 June, 13:00-15:00
Material workshop with artist Kebreab Demeke
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Thursday 25 June, 17:00-19:00
Short films screening, followed by a talk featuring Ubuntu Film Club in conversation with Nadra Hassan.
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