Temporarily Art Installations

While Public Art traditionally has been of rather permanent character, it has become increasingly more common to make temporary Art installations, as an answer to performing Art which already for a number of years has found a new scene in public spaces.


'Future Oslo' by the German group of artists eBoy, April 2007 at Oslo S

'Utendørs II' by Brynhild Slaatto, Spring of 2007

From a project made by some art students, intended to prevent young men from raping young women (‘your grandma is watching’). Winter of 2007.


'Das Feld', Installation in warehouse 51 in Bjørvika, by Stefan Schröder, February 2002


Quotes (‘truisms’) by Jenny Holzer projected on the facade of the Museum of Contemporary Art, February 2000

And than some traditional ‘temporally public art’, performing art, here ballet preformed by a modern dance troupe. Oslo S, summer of 2003.

Political Art

It is many years since any piece of Political Art cased much controversy in Norway (as Kjartan Slettemark's Vietnam Picture) but a post on Oslo’s Political Public Art are none the less justified by their sheer numbers.


'Neve og Rose' ('Fist and Rose')(1991) by Ola Enstad


A Labour Union relief.


A Peace monument (partly of stone from Hiroshima).


Labour Union monument (1958) byPer Palle Storm


A sculpture/relief, on the wall of the City Hall, commenting on the relationship between social class and prostitution. By Alfred Seland.