The Flora: 'Hedging' (11:30 minutes, 4K, 2024)
Eline Benjaminsen & Dayna Casey
Coast Contemporary was founded in 2015 and is an international nomadic platform for art, meetings, food and discourse based in Norway. It is also a journey and an assembly bringing together artists, curators, critics, institutions, art workers and the public for a multi-day programme of performances, talks, screenings and a conference programme.
We aim to present a rich artistic programme and to work as a link to generate future collaborations between participants by slowing down and using time to make it easier to survive as an art-worker. We are engaged in solidarity economics and believe in sharing. Coast's eight editions have so far contributed to 360 reported collaborations in 12 countries.
UPCOMING: MUTANT PROSPECTS – Edition Nine, September 15 – 21, 2025
Locations: Sokndal, Sogndalstrand, Hå, Jæren and Stavanger in Rogaland, Norway.
Artists exhibiting in MUTANT PROSPECTS
Siri Austen
Eline Benjaminsen
Anette Gellein
Miriam Hansen
Ilavenil Vasuky Jayapalan
Marte Jonslien
Linda Lamignan
Anna Sofie Mathiasen
Andreas Rognen
Martin White
Public Programme
We welcome you to join our Public Programme at Velferden with exhibitions, talks, performances and screenings in Sokndal. Doors are open Tuesday and Wednesday September 16-17 from 2 p.m. Guided public tour at 18.00. Free entrance and tour. Welcome!
Professional & International Programme
The professional programme lasts all day/evening from the 15th to the 21st of September.
Both programmes will be published online.
LOCATIONS 2025
LOCATION ONE – September 15. – 18.2025
Our Conference and Artistic Programme will take place at Sogndalstrand kulturhotell and at Velferden Sokndals Scene for Samtidskunst in Dalane. The ninth edition will be curated by Tanja Sæter, founder of Coast Contemporary. Artist Kenneth Varpe is in charge of presentations. Artists and founders of Velferden, Maiken Stene and Hans Edward Hammonds has been invited to co-curate a part of the upcoming edition by inviting three resident artists. Velferden is located in the old buildings of the Titania mine, and run by artist Maiken Stene.
LOCATION TWO – September 18. – 21.2025
On the 18th we drive along the coastline of Jæren with a visit to Hå Gamle Prestegård and end up in Stavanger city. Visits and curating in Stavanger will be made in collaboration with Hanne Beate Ueland, director of Stavanger Kunstmuseum and Hanne Mugaas, director of Kunsthall Stavanger. We also collaborate with Open Studios Stavanger as the festival's international visitors programme during the Studio Festival.
Both locations are located in Rogaland county in the South West of Norway.
Funded by
Coast Contemporary 2025 is generously supported and funded by The Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Arts Council Norway, OCA-Office for Contemporary Art Norway, Rogaland County Council and Stavanger municipality.