Unge inviterte 2026

8. januar – 8. februar 2026

LNM has invited artists Markus Myhre, Karsten Krogh-Hansen, and Mildred Kärkkäinen Gaenger to exhibit at this year’s edition of Unge inviterte. It has become a tradition for LNM to kick off the new year with Unge inviterte; this exhibition series not only gives recent graduates the opportunity to present themselves on the Oslo art scene, but it also offers the audience a glimpse into what is happening on the up-and-coming art scene.

Unge inviterte is an exhibition that invites three artists who completed their formal art education in the previous year.

Exhibition period: January 8 – February 8, 2026.

Markus Myhre (b. 1996) works primarily with painting, sculpture, and installation, with painting serving as an anchor in his practice. His work explores how painting can exist in various contexts, and the dialogues that arise in encounters with different materials, serial structures, and spatial relationships. The landscape often serves as a starting point, containing questions, narratives, and references.

His work emerges from a practice that is both collecting, searching, and highly process-based. The studio functions as a living archive, a place where materials and impressions are gathered and processed over time.

Karsten Krogh-Hansen (b. 1997, Oslo, Norway; based in Antwerp, Belgium) is a visual artist working primarily with painting. He holds an MFA from the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Antwerp.

Krogh-Hansen’s artistic practice explores the changing role of images in contemporary culture, shaped by digital technology, popular culture, and nostalgia. He often transforms iconographic elements familiar to us all into something more intimate. This process has become an integral part of his practice and informs his approach to painting. Beyond the image itself, his work reflects a persistent interest in the history and materiality of painting, where the duality between oil on canvas and self-made tempera paint on panels creates a tension between image and object.

Krogh-Hansen has exhibited in Oslo, Antwerp, Brussels, Paris, and Los Angeles, and has received several awards and prizes for his MFA exhibition.

Mildred Kärkkäinen Gaenger (b. 1999, Stockholm, Sweden) is a Swedish artist based in Oslo. Through a figurative visual language, she explores the relationship between memories, objects, and the visual world of childhood. Gaenger primarily works with oil painting on canvas and transparent surfaces. In her practice, she investigates how memories are formed and expressed in material. Using the child’s gaze as a point of departure, she creates paintings where concrete motifs and subtle atmospheres meet in a space between the recognizable and the dreamlike.

Gaenger holds a Bachelor’s degree from the Academy of Fine Art in Oslo (KHiO).

Relaterte kunstnere:
Krogh-Hansen, Karsten (Website)
Gaenger, Mildred (Website)
Myhre, Markus (Website)

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