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Saturday 21 March 2026

Tate Modern, 27 March, 18.00-22.00: Explore Máret Ánne Sara’s powerful exhibition with music, artist-led workshops, conversation, film and more. Tate Modern Lates have teamed up with NANU – Sámi Arts International and the International Sámi Film Institute to unite Sámi artists with London-based creatives.

The Tate Late programme includes a performance by Katarina Barruk (above), film screenings curated by the International Sámi Film Institute, a duodji workshop with Elle Márjá Eira, a set by DJ Radio-JusSunná and Friends, and more. Find full details on Tate's website (link below).

Máret Ánne Sara will also be in conversation with curator Helen O'Malley on 26 March at Tate Modern, with tickets on sale. The exhibition runs until 12 April.

London, British Museum, until 22 March: Explore the macabre, melancholy and sometimes provocative themes that run through aspects of Nordic art in this free exhibition.

Featuring over 150 works by 100 artists from the Nordic countries (Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden), Nordic noir opens with two important prints by Edvard Munch (1863–1944), arguably the most famous artist to emerge from the Nordic region and explores how the graphic arts continued to flourish and evolve after his death. It includes the charming prints of the Norwegian colour woodcut school of the 1940s and political art from the 1970s in the form of vibrant screenprints by the Norwegian GRAS (Grass) group. Supported by AKO Foundation.

John Savio, Suopan (Lasso), c.1928-1934, Woodcut (© The Trustees of the British Museum)

London, The Norwegian Church, screening and Q&A on 22 March at 13.00: Following a tour of the US, actor, filmmaker and author Jeanne Bøe has been presenting the short film Oxblood in the UK. As well as writing the screenplay, Bøe stars in the film together with Erik Hivju, with Gard B. Eidsvold directing and a soundtrack by trumpeter Nils Petter Molvær.

In Oxblood, a family has toiled, lived, cried, watched the sun rise and rain trickle over fields and meadows for generations. It is a story of vulnerability and tradition. About people and livestock and about surviving side by side with what puts food on the table. The story takes place over a few short summer weeks when the adult daughter Ingrid comes home, where her father Oscar is struggling to keep the farm going as he gets older.

Jeanne Bøe, Gard B. Eidsvold and Erik Hivju during filming of Oxblood (courtesy of Jeanne Bøe).

Preview screenings in Brighton, Hastings, London and Leeds 28-31 March; in selected cinemas from 3 April: 30-year-old Ola lives in the small Norwegian village of Vidaråsen, where the 150 residents are a mix of people with and without disabilities. In the village the residents aim to live life at a slower pace and in harmony with nature. Their community is founded on empathy, respect, and mutual interdependence.

Beloved by Norwegian audiences, Ragnhild Nøst Bergem’s life-affirming documentary is an honest and heartwarming portrait of a thoughtful and gracious man. Through Ola and his reflections, it tells a universal story of inclusion, diversity, independence and the importance of being exactly who you are. Being Ola is released in the UK by Tull Stories in partnership with Oska Bright Film Festival, the world’s leading festival for films made by or featuring people with learning disabilities or autism.

Still from Being Ola, courtesy of Oska Bright Film Festival.

On Netflix from 26 March: Created by one of the greatest storytellers in crime fiction, Jo Nesbø’s Harry Hole is a whodunnit serial killer mystery led by famed anti-hero Harry Hole. Underneath the surface, this series is a nuanced character drama about two police officers – and supposed colleagues – operating on opposite sides of the law.

Filmed in Oslo and directed by Øystein Karlsen, the first series is an adaptation of Nesbø's fifth book, The Devil's Star. Starring alongside Tobias Santelmann as Harry Hole are Joel Kinnaman, Pia Tjelta, Anders Danielsen Lie, Dahl Torp, and Dagny. 

Tobias Santelmann as Harry Hole, Ane Dahl Torp as Vibeke Knutsen in Harry Hole. Courtesy of Netflix © 2024

Brighton, Colchester & London, 21-29 March: FEST EN FEST 2026 presents expanded choreography as a field that moves beyond the dancing body into sound, text, publishing, objects, installation, labour, intimacy and collective action. Curated by H2DANCE, this year’s programme brings together UK and Nordic artists whose works engages questions of proximity, desire, queerness, access and care.

In the performance Flirt, Norwegian performers Marte Sterud and Ann-Christin Kongsness are surrounded by the audience as they take full ownership of the stage. The work explores what a butch is and can be – a group that is often marginalized or made invisible. With this project, Sterud/Kongsness wants to diversify the representation of butches, by embodying different representations of queer, female masculinity.

London, Contemporary Ceramics Gallery, until 28 March: Contemporary Ceramics Gallery presents a solo show of new ceramics by Lise Herud Braten. The title is a reflection on the vast open spaces in the Norwegian mountains, with works which explore both the sense of quietude and drama that exist side by side in these landscapes.

Lise employs a variety of techniques, manipulating, carving and altering thrown forms and slabs to create organic shapes and structures. She works in porcelain and various stoneware clays, applying a multi layered surface finish of oxides, slips, engobes, glazes and ash in a painterly and abstract expression. The exhibition totals over 70 new works, including her largest moon-vases to date, as well as a new direction in her work exploring sculptural forms and large vessels.

Photo courtesy of the artist.

London, Kings Place, 2 April: Few figures in European jazz have traced a trajectory as distinctive and influential as Nils Petter Molvær. A pivotal voice in the late-1990s Nordic jazz movement, Molvær helped shape a new musical language that absorbed ambient, electronica, dub, post-rock and jazz improvisation into a sound that feels physical, spatial and digitally charged. His music carries authority – immediately recognisable, deeply controlled, and unmistakably his own.

On stage with Jo Berger Myhre (guitar, bass) and Erland Dahlen (drums), the trio delivers music that is immersive, driven and volatile – shifting between deep groove, fractured electronics and vast open space. This is Molvær in full command: forward-facing, uncompromising, and still defining the terms of what European jazz can be.

Photo courtesy of Edition Records.

11-19 April: Internationally acclaimed comedian Pernille Haaland (HBO Max, Netflix) premieres her bold new standup comedy show - a razor-sharp, laugh-out-loud hour chronicling the trials and tribulations of staying single in a world obsessed with coupledom. She tours Birmingham, Bristol, London, Glasgow and Newcastle.

▶ Portrait of a Confused Father, Norwegian film-maker Gunnar Hall Jensen's documentary folllowing his relationship with his son Jonathan, is available now on BBC iPlayer as part of BBC Storyville. When Jonathan becomes drawn into the seductive promises of social media influence, easy success and hypermasculine ideals, the consequences are profound. The result is an intimate self-portrait of a father grappling with love, loss and the limits of understanding,

▶ 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.

▶ Sigrid is on tour performing music from her new album There's Always More That I Could Say, across 7 dates in the UK & Ireland. Until 24 March.

▶ 21 & 22 March, London

Documentary short On Queer Aging and Endings, portraying Esben Esther Pirelli Benestad, is screening alongside A Sweetness from Nowhere at BFI Flare festival.


▶ 26 March, London

Artist Máret Ánne Sara will be in conversation in Tate Modern's Starr Cinema


▶ 29 & 30 March, London

The Vertavo Quartet are joining forces with pianist Paul Lewis and Tim Gibbs on double bass for two concerts at Wigmore Hall, with the programme including piano concertos by Beethoven arranged for piano and string quintet.


▶ 31 March - 23 May, London

Almeida Theatre presents A Doll's House by Henrik Ibsen, in a new version by Anya Reiss. Nora and Torvald’s marriage vows are a binding contract, but when scandal threatens to wreck their lives, it’s time to renegotiate the terms. Money, sex, power – this time nothing’s off the table. Romola Garai returns to the Almeida, following her Olivier Award-winning performance in The Years, to play Nora in Henrik Ibsen’s subversive domestic tragedy.

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