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Saturday 11 April 2026

Norwegian Highlights in brief:
Not yet seen Goavve-Geabbil, Máret Ánne Sara's work in Tate Modern's Turbine Hall? This weekend is your last chance to experience this new commission.
Listen: live music from Kjetil Mulelid Trio, KEiiNO, Smerz, DNA? AND?, and Oddgeir Berg Trio are coming to the UK in the coming weeks. On the stage, stand-up comedian Pernille Haaland is touring over the coming week, and the Almeida presents a new version of Ibsen's A Doll's House.
Watch: two Norwegian documentaries recently launched on the BBC and are available on iPlayer. Watch Jo Nesbø's Harry Hole on Netflix and find out why it's currently no. 1 on the streamer. The Fosse Lecture is happening at the Royal Palace in Oslo this month and can be watched online. And if you're in London and the Oscar success of Sentimental Value has inspired you, there's a whole day of Joachim Trier films at the Prince Charles Cinema tomorrow (Sunday).

London, Tate Modern, until 12 April: Máret Ánne Sara is a Sámi artist from a reindeer herding family. Her multisensory installation Goavve-Geabbil responds to the history of Tate Modern’s site — a former oil and coal power station — inviting us to view energy not as a resource to be exploited, but as a sacred life-force rooted in ancestral knowledge and interconnection. 

Discover Máret Ánne Sara and her work in this video on Tate's website.

Photo: © Tate (Sonal Bakrania)

London, Pizza Express Live, 29 April: One of the most exciting voices in contemporary European jazz, Kjetil Mulelid Trio blends lyrical melodies with rhythmic complexity and rich harmonies. While the trio embody that sense of a calm, unhurried yet constantly unfolding sound world which is distinctively Scandinavian, Mulelid, in concert with bassist Rune Nergaard and drummer Andreas Winther, effortlessly conjure additional layers, tones and textures.

Photo: Eirik Havnes.

London, Cafe OTO, 2 May: Comprising young people with Down Syndrome and professional musicians from Oslo’s improv scene, DNA? AND? are an improvisational project unlike any other. The group are making a rare appearance outside their native Norway and performing for the first time in the UK, as part of Dig That Treasure! Festival at Cafe OTO.

Photo: Jelmer de Haas.

Available on iPlayer as part of BBC Storyville: First shown in the UK at last year's BFI Flare festival, this intimate and pioneering documentary explores a three-way relationship and a radically different approach to fatherhood. Set against a wider fight for recognition and rights, Storyville: Three Dads And A Baby is a moving portrait of love, resilience and the determination to create new possibilities for family life.

Still courtesy of Indie Film.

On Netflix Now: The most watched non-English language series on Netflix last week: 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. Filmed in Oslo and directed by Øystein Karlsen, the 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

Screenings continue in selected cinemas: 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.

Livestreamed from the Royal Palace in Oslo on 23 April: Established by the Norwegian government in honour of Nobel laureate in Literature Jon Fosse, the annual Fosse Lecture and Fosse Prize for Translation are taking place later this month.

In line with Fosse’s work, the Fosse Lecture aims to bring literature as an art form to the foreground of public discourse around the world. The lecture is delivered each April by an international author, playwright, academic, or intellectual who has made a significant contribution to the understanding or dissemination of literature in their country and beyond. 

The Fosse Prize for Translators, awarded in collaboration with NORLA, recognises a translator who has made an outstanding contribution to bringing Norwegian literature into other languages. With a prize sum of NOK 500 000 it is the largest award of its kind.

In 2026 the Fosse Prize is awarded to Paula Stevens, a leading Dutch translator and ambassador for Norwegian literature to Dutch-speaking audiences. The Fosse Lecture will be given by American author and essayist Marilynne Robinson.

Photo: The Fosse Lecture at the Royal Palace on 24 April 2025. Photo: Gorm K. Gaare / Nasjonalbiblioteket.

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.

Out now: Sjur Gabriel and Two Friends by Amalie Skram, translated by Janet Garton, including an introduction by Gunnar Staalesen.

These two short novels by the Norwegian novelist Amalie Skram, both published in 1887, are minutely-observed
depictions of a vanished way of life, a naturalistic presentation of a family’s battle with their environment.

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Happening Now:

▶ Director Kristoffer Borgli has followed up his 2022 comedy-horror film Sick of Myself with The Drama, starring Zendaya and Robert Pattinson. Out now in cinemas.

▶ 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.

▶ 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. Until 23 May.

▶ 12 April, London

The Prince Charles Cinema is showing Joachim Trier's films Reprise, Oslo August 31, The Worst Person in the World, and Sentimental Value all in one day, with further screenings in the coming weeks.


▶ 11 - 18 April, Belfast, Edinburgh, Leeds, London

With a unique fusion of pop, electronic dance music, and traditional Sámi joik, KEiiNO are playing 4 dates in the UK.


▶ 22 - 25 April, Manchester, Bristol, London

Winners of International Success of the Year at the recent Spellemann Awards, Smerz are playing Gorilla in Manchester, followed by The Lantern at Bristol Beacon (sold out) and two nights at Heaven in London (sold out).


▶ 5 May, London

Oddgeir Berg Trio are coming to Upstairs at Ronnie Scott's Jazz Club.

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