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: beginning in Canterbury and continuing to Basingstoke, Poole, Leeds, Bristol and Southampton before ending at 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.

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.

Facing War is being shown in special screenings continuing into next week at Bertha Dochouse, Bloomsbury.

Photo: still from Facing War, courtesy of DoxDivision.

The new Oxford World's Classics edition "Henrik Ibsen and Laura Kieler" presents three plays which tell a fascinating and heartbreaking story, providing a fuller understanding to Henrik Ibsen's A Doll's House. Very few readers and audiences know that Ibsen's iconic feminist drama was built upon the real-life story of a woman called Laura Kieler, who was his friend and fellow writer.

Translated by Gaye Kynoch and edited by Kirsten E. Shepherd and Tzen Sam, the book is released 13 November.

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: Chris Christodoulou.

London, 27 November: Fast establishing themselves as one of Norway’s most distinctive new voices, ULD are Une Lorentze Onarheim (vocals), Lucia Andreadatter Utnem (piano), and Dagny Braanen Lindgren (accordion). Together they craft an intimate yet cinematic soundscape that fuses singer-song writing, folk and tradition in a modern way.

Their debut EP fra en annen virkelighet (2024) was hailed as a breakthrough, earning three nominations at the Spellemann Awards (Norwegian Grammys). ULD are playing their first international concert at Union Chapel in London on 27 November, as special guests of Anglo-Irish band Flook. 

Photo: Ole Onstad.

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.

At National Museum Cardiff, Haloba is showing a new interactive sculpture with sound, the viewer invited to listen to whispered fragments of text, music and ambient recordings that emanate from ceramic structures and deal with trauma and healing.

Artes Mundi 11 Launch, National Museum Cardiff, 23rd October 2025. Photo: Polly Thomas.

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, 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. 

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

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 installationa. 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.

Photo © Tate (Sonal Bakrania).

▶ Today is the last chance to see the adaptation of Henrik Ibsen's The Lady from the Sea at the Bridge Theatre in London.

▶ 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. As well as playing in selected cinemas, the film is now available on Amazon Prime.


▶ 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 10 November

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


▶ 13 November, Edinburgh

Guitarist Anders Buaas is playing an acoustic solo gig at The Voodoo Rooms, including his own material as acoustic arrangements, as well as some interpretations of other classics.


▶ 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).


▶ 18 November, Edinburgh

The Traditional Scottish Norwegian Advent Concert features Edinburgh University Chamber Choir conducted by Artistic Director Jack Oades, alongside folk musicians Ole Nilssen on accordion and singer Malin Alander from Norway. 


▶ 20 & 23 November, London

During this year's EFG London Jazz Festival, Marius Neset is performing with the London Sinfonietta at the Queen Elizabeth Hall on 20th November, and on the 23rd drummer Terje Evensen and trumpet player Rory Simmons are premiering their new project Oh Beautiful Blizzard at Ignition Brewery, Sydenham.


▶ 21 - 23 November, London

The Christmas Fair returns to the Norwegian Church in Rotherhithe, London. Expect a joyous festive weekend replete with Norwegian food, craft and gifts, as well as music and entertainment.


▶ 26 November, London

Bugge Wesseltoft, one of Norway’s most innovative jazz pianists, is performing at Ronnie Scott's Jazz Club alongside legendary bassist Arild Andersen and dynamic drummer Gard Nilssen, presenting music from Bugge’s latest album, Am Are. 


▶ 27 November - 2 December, London

Cadogan Fine Arts presents the exhibition 'Visions from the North' at J-M Gallery, 230 Portobello road in London.


▶ 28 - 29 November, London & Manchester

The Queen of Kings Alessandra is playing 2 dates in the UK during her European Tour.


▶ 1 December

From Director Roar Uthaug, Troll 2 - the sequel to the most popular non-English language film on Netflix - launches on the streaming platform.


▶ 4 December, London

For the 78th time, the Trafalgar Tree - the city of Oslo's gift to the people of London - will be lit up in Trafalgar Square. Find out more about the tradition on Westminster City Council's website.


▶ 5 December, London

Book your free ticket to hear artist Vanessa Baird in conversation with the Hayward Gallery's Gilly Fox at the British Museum. The artist talk is one of the events during the British Museum's exhibition of prints and works on paper, Nordic Noir.

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