The festival is open to children and young people, the program is best suited for children aged 3-12 years accompanied by an adult.
All festival tickets give access to the exhibitionarea on the same day. Please arrive at your reserved time slot to secure your place at the activities, the festival ends at 17:00.
Indoor parking of prams is unfortunately not possible during the festival. We offer a covered outdoor car park at the main entrance, and the area is monitored.
See full program below.
The MiniMUNCH Art Festival takes children seriously as an art audience by giving them a program full of engaging art experiences of the highest quality.
This year's festival aims to highlight Oslo's residents, who are the heart of the museum. We want to celebrate the city's rich diversity and the diversity of cultures that contribute to its beauty. With the city jubilee in mind, we want to promote the vibrant society that makes Oslo unique, through various events that showcase local performances, music and traditions. We hope everyone comes to MiniMUNCH to celebrate what defines our beloved city.
Join us for a magical day filled with fantastic workshops and performances at this year's MiniMUNCH Art Festival!
Program Saturday
Lobby, 1st floor:
11:00–17:00: Paper mosaic with Julius Karoubi; cut and paste city mosaic images.
11:00–16:00: Face painting with Lili Face painting inspired by Munch's Oslo.
Public workshop, 3rd floor:
11:00, 12:00 and 13:00: City pictures with Leon Lindgren; cutting and gluing different textiles to pictures.
11:00, 12:00 and 13:00: Build urban sculptures with Mari Eriksen; make sculptures from building materials such as pipes, wood, construction foam and wires.
14:30 and 15:30: Make a memory house with Alejandra Aguilar; cut and glue your own imaginative memory houses out of paper.
14:30 and 15:30: Akerselva amulets with Darius Wojdyga; make your own Akerselva amulet.
Amfi, 1st floor:
11:30, 12:30, 13:30, 14:30 and 16:00: Shadow theater with Karin Augusta.
Festsal, 2nd floor:
11:15, 12:30, 13:30, 14:30 and 16:00: Mini Show with Nysirkus Bjerke with spectacular acrobatics and circus fun.
12:00, 13:00, 14:00 and 15:00: Tablas concert with Sanskriti Shrestha and Erlend Albertsen.
Program Sunday
Lobby, 1st floor:
11:00–17:00: Paper mosaic with Julius Karoubi; cut and paste city mosaic images.
11:00–16:00: Face painting with Lili Face painting, inspired by Munch's Oslo.
Public workshop, 3rd floor:
14:30 og 15:30: City pictures with Leon Lindgren; cutting and gluing different textiles to pictures.
14:30 og 15:30: Build urban sculptures with Mari Eriksen; make sculptures from building materials such as pipes, wood, construction foam and wires.
11:00, 12:00 og 13:00: Make a memory house with Alejandra Aguilar; cut and glue your own imaginative memory houses out of paper.
11:00, 12:00 og 13:00: Akerselva amulets with Darius Wojdyga; make your own Akerselva amulet.
Amfi, 1st floor:
11:30, 12:30, 13:30, 14:30 and 16:00: Shadow theater with Karin Augusta.
Festsal, 2nd floor:
11:15, 12:30, 13:30, 14:30 and 16:00: Mini Show with Nysirkus Bjerke with spectacular acrobatics and circus fun.
12:00, 13:00, 14:00 and 15:00: Tablas concert with Sanskriti Shrestha and Erlend Albertsen.
Participating artists: Sanskriti Shrestha, Erlend Albertsen, Nysirkus Bjerke, Karin Augusta Nogva, Alejandra Aguilar Caballero, Darius Wojdyga, Leon Lindgren, Mari Eriksen, Julius Karoubi and Lili Ansiktsmaling.
Allejandra Aguilar Caballero
Allejandra Aguillar Caballero lives and works in Oslo, but has her education from Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México and an MA in medium and material-based art from KHiO.Her artistic practice playfully moves between traditional graphics, drawing, installation that turn into visual narratives. Caballero's visual stories are also created through the exploration of memory and identity. She often works spatially, which was visible in her MA graduation project "You set the scene". Through small, three-dimensional houses, she explored the home as a place where our identity is built.
Darius Wojdyga
Dariusz Wojdyga has taken a master's degree in medium- and material-based art, with a specialization in metal and jewelery art at KHiO in Oslo. He works interdisciplinary with different art forms that move between jewelery art and objects, painting, graphics and performance. Wojdyga has lived, studied and worked in Oslo since 2005. He has participated in many exhibitions in Norway and abroad and has extensive experience with collective projects where not only the final result is the goal, but just as much the interaction along the way. In addition to his artistic work, he has experience working as a teacher at KHiO in Oslo and the Eugeniusz Geppert School of Art and Design in Wroclaw, Poland.
Leon Lindgren
Leon Lindgren holds a bachelor's degree in fashion and costume design from the Oslo National Academy of the Arts.
During his studies, Lindgren began working with embroidery. Through embroidery, his work has entered the boundary between clothing and textile art.
Recently, his visual work has focused on modern nature. For Lindgren, born in 1999 and having mostly experienced nature through a car window, landscapes with clear-cut areas, highways, wind farms, and paper mills don’t feel unnatural. These man-made objects become a desired complement to trees, meadows, mountains, and rivers. Using embroidery’s inherent romantic quality, something as controversial as a wind farm can complete the composition of a landscape.
Mari Eriksen
Mari Eriksen graduated with an MA in Fine Arts from KHiO in 2022.
She works with installations and performance. Her installations incorporate both hard and soft materials, including those sourced from construction sites.
Eriksen is deeply interested in existential themes such as fear of death and survival—and an intense joy of life. "I want to shape, tell, and convey with a set of materials and an insistent approach that something is at stake. Fear, despair, hope, and play are examined as I search, gather, tinker, assemble, and present."
Julius Karoubi
Julius Karoubi holds a bachelor's degree in fine arts from the Oslo Academy of the Arts. In 2023, he was named Artist of the Year by the culture magazine Subjekt. He is particularly known for his unique mosaic work, which combines traditional techniques with a modern, abstract expression. Karoubi primarily works with tiles he finds in trash containers or buys second-hand. This recycling trend reflects both a practical approach to materials and a critique of the overconsumption and renovation frenzy that characterizes today's society.
His mosaics combine found tiles with Italian glass mosaics, creating abstract compositions often inspired by logos, symbols, and forms from consumer culture. Karoubi’s works not only express his close relationship with mass-produced objects and everyday items but also serve as a way to explore his cultural heritage from Algeria. He describes his art as a process of absorbing, collecting, and transforming impressions from his surroundings to create something new and meaningful.
Recent solo and group exhibitions include Cerulean: The Language of Colour at Galleri Golsa, LESS THAN WHOLE/MORE THAN HALF at Hos Arne, Colle á Carrelage at Hos Arne (solo), Unge Inviterte at LNM, and Will I See You Tomorrow? at Bærum Kunsthall.
Karin Augusta Nogva
Karin Augusta Nogva lives and works in Ålesund. She holds a bachelor’s and master’s degree from the Bergen National Academy of the Arts, as well as an education in printmaking from the Edinburgh College of Art.
Storytelling is a central theme in Nogva’s art. She often refers to specific events in life, as she has experienced them in passing or in current situations. She carefully considers the history of the objects she incorporates into her art, taking each element seriously. She seeks arenas where she can meet people and make them pause and be fully present. Nogva’s primary goal in her art is to provide a space for contemplation and offer the viewer sensory and tactile experiences. Nogva works project-based, where her art becomes the backdrop for her own stories. She uses techniques such as paper cutting, charcoal/colour pencil drawing, and printmaking.
Nysirkus Bjerke
Nysirkus Bjerke is a vibrant meeting place for children and youth aged 4–20, where scenic and pedagogical activities go hand in hand, with a dynamic mix of artistic expressions, creative chaos, and social engagement.
By combining elements from circus, dance, theatre, art, music, animation, and video production, Nysirkus Bjerke brings various expressions together.
Sanskriti Shrestha
Sanskriti Shrestha is a Nepalese tabla player based in Oslo. She actively blends her traditional Nepali and Indian roots with jazz, improvisation, electronic music, and other modern expressions.
In addition to being a creative musician, she is also a bandleader and an adventurous composer. “Shrestha’s playing style is modern, unconventional, yet firmly rooted in classical technique,” says Johan Hauknes of Salt Peanuts. In recent years, Sanskriti has collaborated with numerous renowned artists and has toured in Asia, Australia, and much of Europe, performing at both intimate venues and large, famous festivals like London Jazz, Kongsberg Jazz, Oslo Jazz, Punktfestivalen, Paris Jazz, Førde Folk Festival, and Viljandi Folk Festival.
Erlend Albertsen - Bass and Saxophone
