Judit Wellisch Tehel var en ungarsk billedkunstner som bodde store deler av sitt liv i Stavanger. Tross enkelte soloutstillinger, har hennes kunstnerskap vært lite kjent i regionen. Men nylig ble flere av hennes verk innlemmet i Stavanger Kunstmuseums samling, samtidig som en over 400 sider lang monografi om hennes kunstnerskap ble utgitt i Ungarn.

Les kunsthistoriker Arnhild Sunnanås inngående intervju med Wellisch Tehel, som ble gjennomført kort tid før hennes død 5. november 2025: En samtale om bygninger som gråter, flukt gjennom 1960-tallets Europa og livet som østeuropeisk kunstner i Stavanger.

On the occasion of his upcoming exhibition at Galleri Opdahl, CAS invited Norwegian artist Sigve Knutson to reflect on his creative process. Materials, tools, and spontaneity come together to create his playful sculptures and installations. Read on for a day to day account of the artist's work in the studio.

"My fingers are itching to move the world."

- Alexander Kielland (1880)

Kritiker Mona Mørk har besøkt Pilegrimsferd i sorgens flo av Christoph og Sebastian Mügge, som for tiden vises på Hå gamle prestegard. Hun noterer seg at brødrene tar opp evige spørsmål og bruker sterke virkemidler, men begeistringen over egen innsikt gjør at kommunikasjonen skurrer.

Impact / Inntrykk er en serie personlige tekster om møtet med et enkelt kunstverk. I denne utgaven er det Merete Jonvik, førsteamenuensis i sosiologi ved Universitetet i Stavanger, som skriver om verket 4<7.83<8 av Camille Norment: En refleksjon rundt prikker, sett ovenfra.

Kunsthall Stavanger may be heading into its centenary year, but its roots reach further back. In 1865, a group of local citizens banded together to form what became Stavanger Kunstforening, or Stavanger Art Association. Back then, the brief was simple: champion the visual arts by buying work straight off their own walls.

Fast forward to today, as the institution, which was rebranded in 2013 as Kunsthall Stavanger with a more contemporary focus, is welcoming its newest director, British-born curator, Joseph Constable. British-Palestinian journalist and writer Jad Salfiti spoke with Constable about the legacy he’s inheriting, the future he envisions, and the nimble-fingered task of ushering a nearly century-old Kunsthall into a new era.

Brazilian curator, researcher, and writer Cristiana Tejo recently visited Stavanger as the recipient of the 2025 Itchy Fingers – A Writing Residency on Art Books. During her stay, embedded in Sølvberget’s art book collection, she reflected on her first encounters with artist books in Paulo Bruscky’s studio, placing that formative experience in dialogue with a public collection inspired by the work of Alexander Kielland.

Throughout the residency, Tejo investigated the “gaps, frictions, and silences” within dominant narratives about art books, focusing on the exchange between two markedly different collections of artist publications. In this text, she poetically brings together the seemingly disparate cities of Stavanger and Recife, an artist’s private studio-archive and a public book collection, tracing how each insists on forms of art that can be touched, circulated, and lived.