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Saturday 7 March 2026

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; Danish prints tackling post-war angst and the threat of the Cold War; and political art from the 1970s in the form of vibrant screenprints by the Norwegian GRAS (Grass) group. 

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 addresses 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. 

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

Orkney, Glasgow, York, London from 9 - 22 March: Following a tour of the US, actor, filmmaker and author Jeanne Bøe will be presenting the short film Oxblood in the UK with four screenings followed by Q&A. 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.

Screenings with Q&A are coming up this month - head to the websites or contact the venue for further information:

▶ Orkney: Monday 9 March 7:30 PM at St Magnus Centre, Kirkwall, Orkney
▶ Glasgow: Wednesday 11 March 7:30 PM at GMAC Film Screening room at 103 Trongate, Glasgow, G1 5HD: tickets here
▶ York: Thursday 19 March 7:00 PM at Norwegian Study Centre in York
▶ London: Sunday 22 March 1:00 PM at the Norwegian Church in London: more information here

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

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, new smaller pieces exploring new colors, glazes and firing techniques, as well as a new direction in her work exploring sculptural forms and large vessels.

Photo courtesy of the artist.

Bo'ness, The Hippodrome & Linlithgow Burgh Halls, 18 March: Experience the first Norwegian-made feature film like never before: Rasmus Breistein’s classic Fante-Anne (1920) tells the story of the spirited orphan Anne and her complicated love for farm boy Haldor, set amidst the rural life, folk traditions and stunning landscapes of Norway.

For HippFest’s Opening Night, Fante-Anne will be brought to life with a UK premiere of a new live score by Dina Konradsen and Jo Einar Jansen, blending traditional folk music with modern electronica. Inspired by folk dance, Helgeland fiddle tunes, and UK club culture, Konradsen and Jansen create a soundscape that bridges past and present.

Following the film, Tromsø's Folkemølje folk-club night comes to Scotland, with a dance workshop followed by a high-energy celebration of traditional music in every form imaginable – from jazz-infused folk tunes and metal-inspired melodies to electronic folk ballads and raw, rootsy fiddle playing. Konradsen and Jansen will be joined by Tone Ingvaldsen for the dance course.

Jo Einar Jansen and Dina Konradsen, photo: Hans Petter Skog.

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 treat choreography as something that can be read, listened to, touched, looped, built, dismantled and shared.

The festival engages questions of proximity, desire, queerness, access and care, asking how bodies—human and non-human—coexist, collide and remember together. 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, 21 Soho, 18 March: Jonis Josef is one of Norway’s most acclaimed comedians, known for hit tv shows, and for his hugely popular podcasts. After spending the past year in New York refining his material in English, Jonis is ready to share his perspective — and his unmistakable energy — with a brand-new audience. 

Cactus marks his bold English-language debut: a sharp, funny, and deeply personal show about identity, love, and growth. When it premiered in Norway, critics raved, Norwegian broadcaster NRK gave it a perfect 10 out of 10. 

CAST, Cornwall, until 14th March: Screening of film by Ane Hjort Guttu: Ane Hjort Guttu's film Manifesto, 2020, (27 mins) speculates on the aims and purposes of institutional art education.

Newly migrated into a university and an open-plan campus building, an art school feels cornered by a suffocating culture of surveillance and administration. Staff and students find ways to subvert control through secret operations. Drawing on her own experiences as an art teacher, Hjort Guttu explores what is lost when creativity is replaced by order and provides action plans for how to be the playful rebel.

The screening coincides with Hjort Guttu leading the eighth Cornwall Workshop, 13 – 20 March, an intensive residential workshop for artists, curators and writers based in Cornwall and the South West. The workshop is organised by CAST and hosted at Kestle Barton on the Lizard peninsula.

Ane Hjort Guttu, photo courtesy of the artist

Cambridge, West Road Concert Hall, 19 March: As part of the Cambridge festival, the electro//acoustic day includes a UK Premiere of new work by University of Bergen Professor of Music Composition Dániel Péter Biró, Hagirot (Immigrations). Composed in 2025, the work is for accordion and live-electronics.
 
Dániel Péter Biró (credit: Linda Sheldon)

Truro Cathedral, 14 March: Celebrate Spring with Grieg: 150 years after its first performance in Oslo, 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. 
 
Photo: Hardanger fiddle player Lottie Greenhow 

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.

This trio performance arrives at a significant moment. Molvær’s new relationship with Edition Records signals a shared commitment to long-term artistic vision, depth and evolution. The recent release of Khmer Live in Bergen captures the enduring power of his landmark work in a live context – heavier, more expansive and charged with renewed intensity.

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.

▶ 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.

▶ Organist Victoria Ulriksen is performing recitals with 5 dates in England. Until 12 March.


▶  13 - 24 March, London, Bristol, Birmingham, Leeds, Manchester, Dublin, Glasgow

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.


▶ 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. 


▶ 18 March, Bo'ness

For HippFest’s Opening Night, Rasmus Breistein's 1920 film Fante-Anne will be brought to life with a UK premiere of a new live score by Dina Konradsen and Jo Einar Jansen, blending traditional folk music with modern electronica.


▶ 21 - 29 March, London

Fest en Fest is an international festival of expanded choreography initiated and curated by H2DANCE. This project makes space for artists and audiences to come together and present performances and ideas, twisting and turning the definition of what choreography can be.


▶ 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.

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