London, Tate Modern, until 6 April 2026: 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.

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.

Combining hides and bones derived from traditional reindeer herding practices with wood, industrial materials, sound and scent, Hyundai Commission: Máret Ánne Sara: Goavve-Geabbil is an immersive work honouring the reciprocal relationship between the Sámi people, the reindeer, and the land.

Photo © Tate (Sonal Bakrania).

London, 31 October - 6 November: feature-length documentary Facing War follows Jens Stoltenberg in his final year leading NATO. Director Tommy Gulliksen obtained extraordinary access, taking viewers into the heart of international diplomacy and the power play between world leaders.

As Russia’s war in Ukraine rages on, U.S. President Joe Biden persuades Jens Stoltenberg to extend his tenure for one final year. During a visit to Kyiv, Stoltenberg vows that the Alliance will stand by President Zelensky ‘for as long as it takes.’ But as Western support falters and divisions among allies deepen, his promise hangs in the balance. All NATO decisions must be unanimous. Stoltenberg must navigate the conflicts and rally all the member nations behind him.

You can see Facing War in special screenings at Bertha Dochouse, Bloomsbury, from Friday.

Photo: still from Facing War, courtesy of DoxDivision.

On tour in England, 16-23 November: The ice music pioneer, Terje Isungset, returns to the UK with his exquisite quartet featuring voice, ice harp, ice horn, iceophone, ice percussion and ice bass. The quartet will be playing seven dates in England, including a return to Kings Place in London.

A tribute to nature exploring the extraordinary, beautiful and etheral sounds of ice, the instruments played by Isungset and his Ice Quartet are all carved and crafted using only natural frozen ice from the lakes in Norway.

New to ice music? Watch this video from the quartet's last visit to the UK, performing at St Georges Bristol in 2023.

The Terje Isungset Ice Quartet on stage at The Apex. Photo: Laurence Harvey.

London, Queen Elizabeth Hall, 20 November: Marius Neset has spent the last two decades reimagining the sound palette of contemporary jazz. In this concert, his relentless improvisations are accompanied by the pulse and precision of London Sinfonietta, as he presents a new work.

Now celebrating nearly a decade of collaboration, Neset and the London Sinfonietta first worked together in 2016, unleashing the dizzying orchestral sprawls Arches of Nature and Snowmelt. Calling on the illusory effect of prog-rock repetition, as well as the freewheeling harmonic changes of jazz, these pieces distort the perceived boundaries between control and chaos, observing them as one entity.

Photo: Roar Vestad.

London, until 22 November: An aristocratic-looking lady stands with her hands clasped behind her back, fixing us with a searching stare. Behind her, the bones of a once-grand building give way to a vast, misty landscape. Hinterlands, Norwegian artist Kristian Evju’s first solo exhibition with Kristin Hjellegjerde Gallery, transports us into surreal reimaginings of history where the boundaries of time and place begin to dissolve. These works are prompted by the question: what if? What if history had unfolded differently? What if we remembered it otherwise? Yet rather than offering answers, Evju simply sets the stage. His compositions are tableaux in which real people, objects and fragments of history are pulled from their original contexts, cut apart, reassembled and readied for us to bring to life.

Artist Talk: Kristian Evju with Tamsin Hong
18th November, 2025, 6.30PM

Image: Interior Landscapes V, 2025

London, until 8 November: New life is breathed into Henrik Ibsen’s classic play, The Lady from the Sea, in an exciting new adaptation by Simon Stone at the Bridge Theatre. 

The Lady from the Sea is a thrilling dissection of desire, loss and rebirth for the contemporary age. Fearful she may have settled too easily for a comfortable life married to a well-off doctor, Ellida searches for a way to break the predictable routine her existence has become. When a lover from her past appears at their remote country house, she has to choose between the life she has now built and the one she left behind long ago.

Oscar-winning star Alicia Vikander (The Danish Girl, Ex Machina) makes her theatre debut, and is joined by Andrew Lincoln (Love Actually, The Walking Dead). The cast also includes Joe Alwyn, Gracie Oddie-James, Brendan Cowell, Isobel Akuwudike, and John Macmillan.

Vikander said, “Ibsen was one of the first playwrights I was introduced to, and his plays have always spoken to me on a deeply personal level, so it felt right that The Lady from the Sea should be my theatre debut.”

Photo by Johan Persson.

London, British Museum, until 22 March 2026: Explore the macabre, melancholy and sometimes provocative themes that run through aspects of Nordic art.

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.

The exhibition is a culmination of a five-year project supported by AKO Foundation to acquire graphic works on paper from the Nordic region. It will address the evocative power and haunting beauty of contemporary Nordic art, and how the region's artists continue to develop the legacy of Munch's emotional expressiveness and creative inventiveness. 

The exhibition includes a number of artist talks:
31 October: Sverre Malling and Jeff Olsson in conversation with curator Jennifer Ramkalawon (now fully booked - others to be announced).

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

London, until 15 November: Marit Følstad & Ole Jørgen Ness' collaborative exhibition Fluid Mountain brings together two distinct geographies – the remote landscape of Finnmark where they quarry stone, and the storied, urban setting of London, where the exhibition is being held. Følstad and Ness make works that resist the erasure of place and compression of time; they argue for an art that foregrounds ideas embedded in sensation, presenting matter as something active and vibrant that requires the embodied presence of the spectator.

At SE8 they present a series of works made specifically for the space: a series of minimal stainless steel containers with green pulverized rock, which has been rehydrated and solidified into a solid surface; a diagram made directly on the wall and several highly detailed drawings that explore particular aspects of the gallery architecture. Finally, Følstad and Ness display a new outdoor sculpture that echoes and reformulates the triangulating system of the drawings into a form made from 960 hand-cast black bricks.

Image: Fluid Mountain, Ole Jørgen Ness/ Marit Følstad. Photo by Damian Griffiths

Congratulations to the Bergen Filharmoniske Orkester, winners of Orchestra of the Year at the Gramophone Awards. The prestigious accolade, presented in London on 15 October, was chosen by public vote from a shortlist of six nominees.

It was an extraordinary night for Norwegian music - with wins also in the Concerto category for Vilde Frang with Elgar's Violin Concerto, and Opera for Lise Davidsen & Den Norske Opera & Ballett for their recording of Wagner's Der fliegende Holländer.

The latest release by Nobel Laureate Jon Fosse, Vaim is out now in the UK. Published by Fitzcarraldo Editions, in an English translation by Damion Searls.

"Hedda", a new film directed by Nia DaCosta reimagines Ibsen's classic drama in 1950's England, starring Tessa Thompson in the titular role. Now playing in select theaters and available on Amazon Prime from October 29.

▶ Happening Now until 22 November, London

Following her acclaimed adaptation of a Dolls house, Tanika Gupta takes on a new adaptation of Hedda after Henrik Ibsen at Orange Tree Theatre in Richmond, London. Taking place in London in 1948, Hedda Gabler (Pearl Chanda) has retired: early, elegantly, and with secrets. Once a Hollywood star, now the wife of a rising British film director, Hedda lives in Chelsea, hiding behind drawn curtains. But the past is beginning to stir. Hedda is a bold new version of Ibsen’s classic drama about blackmail, secrecy and power.


▶ Happening Now, until 1 November, Edinburgh

Norwegian storytellers Mimesis Heidi Dahlsveen and Georgiana Keable Jerstad are taking part in this year's Scottish International Storytelling Festival, whose theme this year is 'Lights of the North'.


▶ 27 - 30 October, Brighton, Kingston Upon Thames, Southampton, Liverpool

With her latest album There's Always More That I Could Say just released, Sigrid is performing in Brighton, Kingston Upon Thames, Southampton, and Liverpool.


▶ 31 October - 6 November, London

With extraordinary access to NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg in his final year in office, Facing War takes us to the heart of international diplomacy, witness to the power play between world leaders. The feature-length documentary is showing at Bertha Dochouse.


▶ 4 - 5 November, London

Cafe OTO welcomes guitarist, composer and long-time member of the Wandelweiser collective, Michael Pisaro-Liu, and the great Norwegian double bass player, Michael Francis Duch for a very special two-day residency of performances alongside Cherlyn Hsing-Hsin Liu and SiTron (Trondheim Sinfonietta).


▶ 6 November, London

Singer/songwriter Jonas Alaska is performing at the Hootananny in Brixton.


▶ 6 - 10 November

Yndling is performing in London, Glasgow, Manchester and Bristol.


▶ 16 - 20 November, Glasgow, Edinburgh, London

Smerz are playing 5 dates in the UK (most showing as sold out, with few tickets remaining for Glasgow).

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