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Saturday 7 February 2026

London, Tate Modern, until 12 April; artist talk on 26 March: Máret Ánne Sara is a Northern Sámi artist and author known for her work exploring global ecological issues through the lens of her lived experience within the Sámi community.

Yesterday, 6 February, is Sámi People’s Day: a day to celebrate the rich culture and languages of the Sámi, the indigenous people whose traditional settlement areas span Norway, Sweden, Finland and Russia. 

On view at Tate Modern, Goavve-Geabbil is a monumental new sculptural installation by Sámi artist Máret Ánne Sara. Sara makes sculptures and installations from materials which surround and sustain her community in Sápmi, the territory of the Indigenous Sámi people spanning Norway, Sweden, Finland and Russia. For her first major work in the UK, the artist draws on her lived experience as member of a reindeer herding family to highlight ecological issues impacting Sámi life.

On Thursday 26 March, Máret Ánne Sara will be speaking in an artist talk at Tate Modern's Starr Cinema. Read more and book tickets here. 

London, LRB Bookshop (24 February) & Southbank Centre (25 February): Vigdis Hjorth is the author of over a dozen prize-winning and best-selling novels. Will and Testament sold 170,000 copies in Norway and has received several awards. Long Live the Post Horn! won the Believer Book Award for fiction in 2020, and Is Mother Dead was listed for the International Booker Prize in 2023. 

Vigdis Hjorth & Catherine Taylor will be in conversation at the London Review Bookshop (now sold out). On the 25th Hjorth is speaking as part of the Indie Night at the Southbank Centre's Purcell Room - tickets are on sale now.

Photo: Lina Hindrum.

Playing 5 dates in the UK, 27 February - 4 March: When Marius Neset burst onto the European jazz scene over a decade ago, his arrival was nothing short of electrifying. A saxophonist of remarkable range and imagination, he quickly established himself as one of the most dynamic and original voices in contemporary jazz.

Marius Neset and his Quartet are releasing the new album, Cabaret, at the end of February and will be touring in the UK:

27 February: Milton Keynes, The Stables
1 March: Liverpool, Capstone Theatre
2 March: Manchester, NQ Jazz
3 March: Dorking, Watermill Jazz
4 March: London, Ronnie Scott's (2 performances)

Above: Marius Neset. Photo: Helge Hansen.

London, The Waiting Room,
11 February: Farao is the musical alter ego of Norwegian producer and vocalist Kari Jahnsen, who crafts a lush sonic realm where smooth 90s R&B, sensual 80s disco, ambient spiritual jazz, and shimmering layers of zithers intertwine.

Guided by her warm, ornate production, vintage synth collection, and striking vocal arrangements, Farao’s live performance draws audiences into a dreamlike, rhythmic landscape—imagine Janet Jackson meeting Alice Coltrane. Having captivated crowds at Roskilde, SXSW, Øya, and Green Man, Farao delivers a show that feels intimate yet expansive, contemporary yet timeless.

Photo: Sigurlaug Gísladóttir.

Streaming on MUBI in the UK & Ireland from 13 February: Sentimental Value recently became the first Norwegian film to be nominated in nine categories at this year's Oscars - including Best Picture. The film is also nominated in six categories at this year's BAFTA Film Awards.

Nora, a successful stage actress, reunites with her estranged father, Gustav Borg—a once-renowned film director planning a comeback with a script based on their family. When Gustav offers Nora the lead role, which she promptly declines, he turns his attention to a rising Hollywood starlet instead.

Winner of the Grand Prix at Cannes last year and with a string of awards and nominations since, the film reunites director Joachim Trier with Worst Person in the World lead actor Renate Reinsve and writing partner Eskil Vogt. Also starring in the film are Elle Fanning, Stellan Skarsgård, Inga Ibsdotter Lilleaas and Anders Danielsen Lie. 

Speaking of Oscar nominees, Norwegian film The Ugly Stepsister is also nominated in the category for Best Hair and Makeup (Thomas Forsberg and Anne Cathrine Sauerberg). The film is streaming in the UK through Shudder.

Above: Renate Reinsve and Inga Ibsdotter Lilleaas in Sentimental Value. Photo: Kasper Tuxen Andersen, courtesy of Mubi.

London, Coronet Theatre, 19-21 February: See Norwegian star Kåre Conradi’s critically acclaimed one-man dramatised lecture about one of Ibsen’s most famous and colourful characters, Peer Gynt at the Coronet Theatre in Notting Hill. 

Since discovering the play at 17, Conradi has had a passionate connection with Peer Gynt. In just over an hour, he moves effortlessly between storyteller and the feckless Peer himself to shed new light on Ibsen’s legendary play.

“Conradi is an outstanding actor – there are sudden shifts across a wide expressive range, where Conradi displays his versatility.” – Dagbladet newspaper

Peer Gynt is the story of a charming but lazy and arrogant young man who leaves home to seek his fortune. Embarking on a series of fantastic voyages around the world, he has one incredible adventure after another. This charismatic stripped back performance goes to the core of what makes Ibsen one of the most performed writers in the world.

London, Kings Place, 24 February: Violinist Pekka Kuusisto and musicians of the Norwegian Chamber Orchestra bring their new album ‘Willows’ to the stage – a quietly radical programme featuring Vaughan Williams’ ‘The Lark Ascending’, Ellen Reid’s ‘Desiderium’, Caroline Shaw’s ‘Plan & Elevation’, and songs by Sam Amidon arranged by Nico Muhly. A concert of remembrance, renewal, and musical storytelling.

Experience Pekka Kuusisto’s new album Willows in concert – a deeply personal and transformative programme from the Finnish violinist and musicians of the Norwegian Chamber Orchestra.

Aberystwyth Arts Centre & National Museum Cardiff, until March 1, 2026: Anawana Haloba explores the positions of different societies within varied political, social, economic and cultural contexts, rooted in the ideological and post-independence framework of her home country of Zambia, at National Museum Cardiff.

Working between Oslo and Livingstone, Haloba presents a new version of a large-scale installation that, in an hourly performance, functions as an opera with spoken word and song emanating from a series of objects set within a stage. This libretto unfolds as a dialogue between characters seeking to create empathy and understanding by engaging with questions surrounding the rise of nationalism and the plight of immigrants.

Listen to Artes Mundi's recent "At the Table" podcast, in which Anawana Haloba discusses her work with with Fatima Bintou Rassoul SY, curator and director of RAW Material Company, independent curator and researcher Nneoma Angela Okorie and writer and artist Kandace Siobhan Walker.
 
Above: Anawana Haloba, Installation view at National Museum Cardiff, 2025-26. Photo: Polly Thomas.

London, Maureen Paley, 4 Herald Street, until 17 March: The exhibition brings together two bodies of works, Closed Captions and Incendiary Test Area. In both, Gardar Eide Einarsson considers how linguistic and visual structures shape our understanding of the world and mask systems of power. The exhibition is Einarsson's fifth at Maureen Paley Gallery.

Gardar Eide Einarsson, Incendiary Test Area (Interior View of Second Floor Room), 2024. Japanese woodcut on hand made washi paper. © Gardar Eide Einarsson, courtesy Maureen Paley, London

▶ Today, 7 February, is your last chance to see Sverre Malling At the Mistress' Request at Kristin Hjellegjerde Gallery London (Tower Bridge).

▶ Máret Ánne Sara's commission for Tate Modern's Turbine Hall, Goavve-Geabbil, is on view until 12 April.

▶ Featuring over 150 works by 100 artists from the Nordic countries, Nordic Noir: Works on Paper from Edvard Munch to Mamma Andersson is on view at the British Museum until 22 March.

▶ Works by Anawana Haloba are on view as part of Artes Mundi 11 at Aberystwyth Arts Centre & National Museum Cardiff, until 1 March.

▶ Thor Stenhaug is bringing his One Night Stand Baby Tour to more dates across the UK.

▶ Sentimental Value continues its run in UK cinemas and will soon be available on streaming.

▶ New book First Kings: Forged by Vikings in England and Norway by R. A. J. Waddingham, is available now, published by The History Press.



▶ 12 February, Edinburgh

Norwegian alt-pop artist Iris Caltwait is playing Sneaky Pete's in Edinburgh.


▶ 12 February, London

Featured on the cover of NME last month, Sassy 009 is playing The Lower Third (tickets sold out, wait list available).


▶ 19 - 21 February, London

See Norwegian star Kåre Conradi’s critically acclaimed one-man dramatised lecture about one of Ibsen’s most famous and colourful characters, Peer Gynt at the Coronet Theatre. The charismatic stripped back performance goes to the core of what makes Ibsen one of the most performed writers in the world.


▶ 24 & 25 February, London

On the 24th, Vigdis Hjorth & Catherine Taylor will be in conversation at the London Review Bookshop (now sold out). Hjorth will be reading from Repetition, her sixth novel to be published in English, translated by Charlotte Barslund. On the 25th Hjorth is speaking as part of the Indie Night at the Southbank Centre - tickets on sale.


▶ 26 - 28 February, Edinburgh, Manchester, London

Guitarist and singer-songwriter Bernhoft is playing 3 dates in the UK.


▶ 3 - 12 March, Wakefield, Christchurch, Southwark, Bristol, Truro

Organist Victoria Ulriksen is performing recitals with 5 dates in England.


▶ 5 March, London

Writer Karl Ove Knausgård and composer/percussionist Glenn Kotche collaborate for an evening of words and music that celebrates craft and friendship at Milton Court, featuring visuals by director Johan Renck.


▶ 6 March, Dundee

Dundee Institute of Architects and Dundee Civic Trust invite you to a special evening at V&A Dundee with Siv Helene Stangeland from the acclaimed Norwegian architectural practice Helen & Hard. Internationally recognised for their innovative use of timber and collaborative design approach, the practice offers a distinctive Scandinavian perspective to current issues.


▶ 14 March, Truro

Celebrate Spring with Grieg: 150 years after its first performance in Oslo (then known as Christiania), Truro Choral Society and Truro Philharmonia present the choral version of Edvard Grieg's Incidental music to Henrik Ibsen's Peer Gynt, in an English translation by Beryl Foster. Grieg's Piano Concerto in A Minor and the song, Våren, are also on the programme. 

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