Welcome to the double opening: "Mother Dough" and "Folkeskikk/Good Manners" at Nordnorsk Kunstmuseum i Tromsø

Through art, photography, and archival material, the exhibitions raise questions about what it means to be a witness – and how seeing, documenting, and being present can become acts that create change.

Mother Dough: The slow alchemy of being a witness

This exhibition presents art and archival material as living matter – sustained through care, transmission, and endurance. It moves between Gaza and Tromsø, and shows artistic practices as testimony in situations where stories and lives are under threat.

The exhibition is part of the Gaza–Tromsø collaboration 2026, curated by Carmel Alabbasi.
Participating artists include: Hani Zurob, Raed Issa, Maisara Baroud, Rana Batrawi & Shareef Sarhan, Basma al-Sharif, Mohamed Abusal, Yehia Molden, and Emad Lulu.
 

Folkeskikk/Good Manners: Five Popular Movements – A Fight

Through 150 photographs, artist and photographer Jannik Abel documents popular movements in Norway and Sápmi. The exhibition shows protest as a collective act and a democratic expression – and how the struggle for human rights, nature, and freedom is interconnected.

-Opening speech by Inga Bårdsen Tøllefsen, Norwegian Palestine Committee
-DJ Tuva
-Curator Carmel Alabbasi and artist Jannik Abel will be present.