Norwegian acts at Edinburgh Fringe |
Edinburgh, 1- 25 August: This year's edition of the world's largest performing arts festival brings an exciting roster of Norwegian acts to Scotland. Expect a fabulous mix of stand-up cabaret and musical theatre. Thor Stenhaug and Pernille Haaland return with their own comedy specials, as does the comedy group behind last-year's Hygge show, and Naughty Cabaret. This year, you can also catch the incredible dance performance 'Wakati' by Shelmith Øseth along with the Nocturne Musical inspired by Norwegian folklore - and much more!
Photographed: Pernille Haaland |
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Linda Lamignan at the Liverpool Biennial |
Liverpool, FACT, until 14 September: Linda Lamignan (b.1988, Norway) is participating with the work We are touched by the trees in a forest of eyes (2025), a multi-channel video installation on view at FACT.
Linda Lamignan’s work questions the different ways in which humans treat and value the natural world, whether for profit or as something to be respected and protected. They work with materials connected to the industries, histories, living landscapes and cultural relations between West Africa and Europe. This new multi-screen video work references the artist’s ancestry, the knowledge systems of animism – the belief that objects, places, and creatures all possess a distinct spiritual essence – and geology. It centers around the long history of palm oil and petroleum extraction in Nigeria’s Delta State and the trade with Liverpool from the late 18th century to the present.
Lamignan’s work is commissioned by Liverpool Biennial, with support from Office for Contemporary Art Norway and the Royal Norwegian Embassy in London. Above: Linda Lamignan, Artist Portrait. Photo by Jacky Jaan-Yuan Kuo. | |
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Last Chance to See: Martine Poppe -
East of the Sun and West of the Moon |
London, Kristin Hjellegjerde Gallery, until 5 July: Snow-laden branches, lily ponds, rocky mountain sides, tropical gardens, sun-split cloudscapes – East of the Sun and West of the Moon, Norwegian artist Martine Poppe’s solo exhibition at Kristin Hjellegjerde Gallery, Tower Bridge, takes us on a journey through distant terrains. These landscapes emerge through a haze, as though coming into focus under a blinding beam of light, each infused with a particular kind of magic. Here, we are invited to be both reader and protagonist – artist and adventurer – coming together to explore and conjure new worlds.
Taking inspiration from the likes of Monet, Delacroix, Klimt and Hiroshi Yoshida, Poppe creates luminous, layered scenes through rhythmic brushstrokes and subtle distortions. The translucent sail cloth onto which she paints diffuses the colours and light, lending them a wavering, dreamlike quality. The works vary in scale – some feel like quiet windows, others like unfolding vistas – but each invites a moment of stillness, of drifting inward, as though we might fall headfirst through the canvas and into the painted world.
Above: Martine Poppe, A coast that none of them knew, 2025, oil on polyester restoration fabric, (MPO-0221) |
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London, Jackson's Lane, 4 July: After sold-out shows at the 2024 Edinburgh Fringe, Naughty Cabaret is coming to Jackson's Lane Clown Festival — a queer, feminist cabaret packed with energy, clowning, and comedy. Every performance features a fresh, ever-changing line-up spanning clown, circus, music, burlesque, character comedy, and more.
Hosted by “Queens of the ridiculous” (Wee Review), Anna Marie Simonsen and Marie Kallevik Straume—also seen in the “irresistibly silly” ★★★★ (The Guardian) clown comedy Troll. |
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Norway at this year's BBC Proms |
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Happening now
'Girl, 1983' by prolific writer Linn Ullmann is now available in the UK, published by Penguin's Hamish Hamilton imprint. Set in Oslo, New York and Paris, Girl, 1983 is a raw and haunting exposure of beauty and forgetting, desire and shame, power and powerlessness.
Kari Steihaug and Lise B. Linnert are among the artists included in the exhibition Soft Power: Lives told through textile art at the RWA in Bristol. Until 10 August.
Born in Stavanger in 1988, Linda Lamignan is one of the artists showing at this year's Liverpool Biennial. Through video, sound and objects, Lamignan explores notions related to storytelling and translation, transformation and love. Until 14 September. ▶ 29 June, Glastonbury girl in red is playing The Park Stage at Glastonbury.
▶ 4 July, Colchester & 5 July, Lytham St Anne's
Dagny is playing as support for Justin Timberlake at Chelmsford City Racecourse and Lytham Festival.
▶ 4 July, London
After sold-out shows at the 2024 Edinburgh Fringe, Naughty Cabaret is coming to Jackson's Lane Clown Festival.
▶ 7 July, London
Three of Scandinavia's foremost artists, violinist Johan Dalene, cellist Andreas Brantelid, and pianist Christian Ihle Hadland are in concert at Wigmore Hall, playing music by Korngold and Ravel.
▶ 11 July, London
Bendik Giske, Carmen Villain and Eivind Lønning are performing as part of the Smalltown Supersound Label Night at Cafe OTO.
▶ 11 July, Cheltenham
Blood Command are playing 2000Trees Festival.
▶ 1-25 August, Edinburgh
The world's largest performance arts festival Edinburgh Fringe sees a number of Norwegian acts. More info and tickets here.
▶ 2 August, London
As part of the BBC Proms, Soprano Mari Eriksmoen is performing with the Hallé in Mahler's Resurrection Symphony. |
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