Linn Sjöstedt | Between the Lines, Gamla Munch Museum, Oslo

10.10 –10.26.2025

Between the Lines is a group exhibition that brings together artists in sculpture, painting, photography and textile work. Through different visual approaches, the works illuminate materiality, minimalism and the unspoken in art.


Welcome to an art experience that challenges the obvious and creates new encounters between art and viewer!

 

Between the Lines presents artists with varied approaches to form, materials and expression. The exhibition examines how the works communicate through the subtle and the unspoken in art. Here a balance is created between the technical and the poetic, the playful and the fragile – where the recognizable simultaneously challenges the obvious.

The audience is invited to move through a space where the artworks address them directly, while creating a dialogue with the space and the viewer – an experience that opens up for new interpretations and personal reflection.

Various events are planned in connection with the exhibition, including an artist talk and screenings, which will give the audience a deeper insight into the process behind the works and curatorial choices. The exhibition is open to anyone who wishes to explore contemporary art in an open and inviting way – from the curious passerby and the art enthusiast to the experienced collector.

Bio

Max Barel (b. 1996) – Explores the boundaries of photography and the object, where everyday elements are abstracted and given a new presence in the contrast between the staged and the unexpected, the concrete and the fleeting.

Linn Sjöstedt (b. 1988) – Develops ceramic objects that explore the boundaries between function, sensuality and the recognizable, where scale and materiality reshape our immediate perception of familiar objects.

Joel Billekvist (b. 1992) – Works in the field of tension between painting and installation, where materiality, transparency and structure balance between control and spontaneity, where the strokes create a dynamic between the precise and the unpredictable.

Iselin Kristiansen (b. 1981) – Creates photographic narratives where the poetic and the real merge in unfiltered human encounters, with a fragile strength that arises in the interaction between the personal and the universal.

Lotta Grimborg (b. 1988) – Her artistry is based on the inherent properties of textiles as well as subtle feminine references, which she explores through beadwork and embroidery to capture rhythm and movement, creating an aesthetic sensory experience balanced between proximity and distance.

Through body and presence, new connections arise between the artworks, the space and the viewer.

October 24, 2025