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Saturday 21 February 2026

Final Tickets Remaining: London, Kings Place, 24 February : Violinist Pekka Kuusisto and musicians of the Norwegian Chamber Orchestra bring their new album ‘Willows’ to the stage – a quietly radical programme featuring Vaughan Williams’ ‘The Lark Ascending’, Ellen Reid’s ‘Desiderium’, Caroline Shaw’s ‘Plan & Elevation’, and songs by Sam Amidon arranged by Nico Muhly. A concert of remembrance, renewal, and musical storytelling.

Last chance to see tonight: London, Coronet Theatre, 21 February: See Norwegian star Kåre Conradi’s critically acclaimed one-man dramatised lecture about one of Ibsen’s most famous and colourful characters, Peer Gynt at the Coronet Theatre in Notting Hill. 

Since discovering the play at 17, Conradi has had a passionate connection with Peer Gynt. In just over an hour, he moves effortlessly between storyteller and the feckless Peer himself to shed new light on Ibsen’s legendary play.

“Conradi is an outstanding actor – there are sudden shifts across a wide expressive range, where Conradi displays his versatility.” – Dagbladet newspaper

Peer Gynt is the story of a charming but lazy and arrogant young man who leaves home to seek his fortune. Embarking on a series of fantastic voyages around the world, he has one incredible adventure after another. This charismatic stripped back performance goes to the core of what makes Ibsen one of the most performed writers in the world.

London, LRB Bookshop (24 February) & Southbank Centre (25 February): Vigdis Hjorth is the author of over a dozen prize-winning and best-selling novels. Will and Testament sold 170,000 copies in Norway and has received several awards. Long Live the Post Horn! won the Believer Book Award for fiction in 2020, and Is Mother Dead was listed for the International Booker Prize in 2023. 

Vigdis Hjorth & Catherine Taylor will be in conversation at the London Review Bookshop (now sold out). On the 25th Hjorth is speaking as part of the Indie Night at the Southbank Centre's Purcell Room - tickets are on sale now.

Photo: Lina Hindrum.

Streaming on MUBI in the UK & Ireland & nominations at the BAFTA Film Awards this Sunday: Sentimental Value recently became the first Norwegian film to be nominated in nine categories at this year's Oscars - including Best Picture. Ahead of the Academy Awards ceremony on 15 March, find out how Sentimental Value does at the BAFTA Film Awards this Sunday evening - watch live on BBC One and on BBC iPlayer. The film is nominated in six categories.

Winner of the Grand Prix at Cannes last year and with a string of awards and nominations since, the film reunites director Joachim Trier with Worst Person in the World lead actor Renate Reinsve and writing partner Eskil Vogt. Also starring in the film are Elle Fanning, Stellan Skarsgård, Inga Ibsdotter Lilleaas and Anders Danielsen Lie. 

Above: Stellan Skarsgård and Elle Fanning in Sentimental Value. Photo: Kasper Tuxen Andersen, courtesy of Mubi.

Playing 5 dates in the UK, 27 February - 4 March: When Marius Neset burst onto the European jazz scene over a decade ago, his arrival was nothing short of electrifying. A saxophonist of remarkable range and imagination, he quickly established himself as one of the most dynamic and original voices in contemporary jazz.

Marius Neset and his Quartet are releasing the new album, Cabaret, at the end of February and will be touring in the UK:

27 February: Milton Keynes, The Stables
1 March: Liverpool, Capstone Theatre
2 March: Manchester, NQ Jazz
3 March: Dorking, Watermill Jazz
4 March: London, Ronnie Scott's (2 performances)

Photo: Helge Hansen.

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.

Listen to Artes Mundi's recent "At the Table" podcast, in which Anawana Haloba discusses her work with with Fatima Bintou Rassoul SY, curator and director of RAW Material Company, independent curator and researcher Nneoma Angela Okorie and writer and artist Kandace Siobhan Walker.
 
Above: Anawana Haloba, Installation view at National Museum Cardiff, 2025-26. Photo: Polly Thomas.

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

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 

The Interweaving Threads: Scotland & Norway Through Dress Residency is part of a new programme for textile artists, designers, and makers based in Scotland and Norway. The residency aspect of this programme supports one artist/designer/maker based in Scotland and one based in Norway, providing fully-funded residencies at MUHO in Norway in April and at Cove Park in May.

Following a call for applications, residencies have been awarded to Ingrid Bjørnevog Haugnes (Norway) and Owen Edward Snaith (Scotland). Based in Oslo, Haugnes is a textile craft practitioner, artist and designer. Her practice is grounded in long-term work with Norwegian folk dress and bunad, exploring garments as living structures shaped by labour, care, and repair.
 
Ingrid Bjørnevog Haugnes, photo: Maren Augestad.

▶ Tonight, 21 February, is your last chance to see Norwegian star Kåre Conradi’s critically acclaimed one-man dramatised lecture about one of Ibsen’s most famous and colourful characters, Peer Gynt at the Coronet Theatre. The charismatic stripped back performance goes to the core of what makes Ibsen one of the most performed writers in the world.

▶ 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.

▶ Works by Anawana Haloba are on view as part of Artes Mundi 11 at Aberystwyth Arts Centre & National Museum Cardiff, until 1 March.

▶ Thor Stenhaug is bringing his One Night Stand Baby Tour to more dates across the UK.



▶ 24 & 25 February, London

On the 24th, Vigdis Hjorth & Catherine Taylor will be in conversation at the London Review Bookshop (now sold out). Hjorth will be reading from Repetition, her sixth novel to be published in English, translated by Charlotte Barslund. On the 25th Hjorth is speaking as part of the Indie Night at the Southbank Centre - tickets on sale.



▶ 26 - 28 February, Edinburgh, Manchester, London

Guitarist and singer-songwriter Bernhoft is playing 3 dates in the UK.


▶ 3 - 12 March, Wakefield, Christchurch, Southwark, Bristol, Truro

Organist Victoria Ulriksen is performing recitals with 5 dates in England.


▶ 4 - 6 March, Liverpool, London, Norwich

AADAL - where Scandinavian jazz meets the wide-open soundscapes of Americana, post-rock, and indie - are playing three dates in the UK.


▶ 5 March, London

Writer Karl Ove Knausgård and composer/percussionist Glenn Kotche collaborate for an evening of words and music that celebrates craft and friendship at Milton Court, featuring visuals by director Johan Renck.


▶ 6 March, Dundee

Dundee Institute of Architects and Dundee Civic Trust invite you to a special evening at V&A Dundee with Siv Helene Stangeland from the acclaimed Norwegian architectural practice Helen & Hard. Internationally recognised for their innovative use of timber and collaborative design approach, the practice offers a distinctive Scandinavian perspective to current issues.


▶ 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.


▶ 26 March, London

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

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