Coast Contemporary

Mid-Afternoon-Slump. Performance by Hanne Lippard during the first edition in 2017. Co-presented with Kunsthall Stavanger and Hanne Mugaas. Curated by Helga-Marie Nordby and Tanja Sæter. Photo: Laimonas Puisys.
Mid-Afternoon-Slump.
Performance by Hanne Lippard during the first edition in 2017.
Co-presented with Kunsthall Stavanger and Hanne Mugaas.
Curated by Helga-Marie Nordby and Tanja Sæter. Photo: Laimonas Puisys.

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 program of performances, talks, screenings and a conference program.

We aim to present a rich artistic program and to work as a link to generate future collaborations between participants by slowing down and use time to make it easier to survive as an art-worker. We are engaged in solidarity economics and believe in sharing. Coasts eight editions has so far contributed to 360 reported collaborations in 12 countries.

Venues, focus and people change every year.
To participate please apply to open calls or contact us directly at office@coastcontemporary.no

Edition Nine: September 15. – 21. 2025
Locations: Sokndal, Sogndalstrand, Jæren and Stavanger in Rogaland, Norway.

LOCATIONS 2025

LOCATION ONE – September 15.-18.2025
Our Conference and Artistic Program will take place at Sogndalstrand kulturhotell and at Velferden Sokndal 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. Velferden Arena is located in the old offices of the Titania mine, extracting Titanium dioxcide from Earth.

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 festivals international visitors program during the Studio Festival.

Both locations are located in Rogaland county council in the South West of Norway.

Our programs are partially public and you are welcome to attend as audience for the open parts of our program. If you travel in private there are two hotel options in the area; Bakkaåno Camping and Sogndalstrand kulturhotel. Please get in touch regarding booking at Sogndalstrand hotel to use our group discount, as its booked by Coast with few rooms left. Velferden Arena can be reached by train, bus, car and plane. A free bus departs from Stavanger to Sogndalstrand on arrival day, the 15th of September.

NEWS – ART PRIZE
We are proud to announce Anette Gellein as the winner of the Coast Contemporary Art Prize in collaboration with Open studios Stavanger. Read more about the winner and the prize in CAS – Contemporary Art Stavanger.

Artists of 2025 will launch in July.
Please see our Archive for previous editions.

Detail of Hanna Fauskes installation "Erik Elk" aboard the ship Hurtigruten. About the fictional character Erik, escaping reality and his vegan mother aboard a ship to eat meat. Part of the Cabin Series 2017. Curated by RAKE visningsrom. Photo by Laimonas Puisys.
Detail of Hanna Fauskes installation "Erik Elk" aboard the ship Hurtigruten. About the fictional character Erik, escaping reality and his vegan mother aboard a ship to eat meat. Part of the Cabin Series 2017. Curated by RAKE visningsrom. Photo by Laimonas Puisys.
Danilo Correale presented by Entrée in the Cabin Series, 2017. Curated by Randi Grov Berger and Espen Johansen. Title: Reverie: On the Liberation from Work. Hypnotherapy, 21:20 min x 2, LP Record Cabin 434, deck 4. Saturday 23.09.2017
Danilo Correale presented by Entrée in the Cabin Series, 2017. Curated by Randi Grov Berger and Espen Johansen.

Title:
Reverie: On the Liberation from Work.
Hypnotherapy, 21:20 min x 2, LP Record
Cabin 434, deck 4.
Saturday 23.09.2017
Nicole Rafiki in conversation at Lavetthuset at Hovedøya, 2020.
Nicole Rafiki in conversation at Lavetthuset at Hovedøya, 2020.
The Torture Never Stops. Performance by Kiyoshi Yamamoto during the third edition "Organized Freedom" at Håholmen Curated by Sverre Gullesen and Tanja Sæter in 2019. Photo: Valentinas Klimasauskas.
The Torture Never Stops.
Performance by Kiyoshi Yamamoto during the third edition "Organized Freedom" at Håholmen. Curated by Sverre Gullesen and Tanja Sæter in 2019.
Photo: Valentinas Klimasauskas.
Maya Økland and Pernille Mercury Linstad bringing the lunch in Lofoten, 2018. Photo: Christian Tunge.
Maya Økland and Pernille Mercury Linstad bringing the lunch in Lofoten, 2018. Photo: Christian Tunge.
WOOLWALKER - performance by Marita Isobel Solberg at Alfheim public bath in Tromsø, 2022. Photo: Mihaly Stefanovicz
WOOLWALKER – performance by Marita Isobel Solberg at Alfheim public bath in Tromsø, 2022. Photo: Mihaly Stefanovicz
"Hanna Fauske TV", a fictional TV cooking show by Fauske, screened in a cabin at Hurtigruten as a part of her Elik Elk installation during Coast in 2017. Filmstill by Hanna Fauske. Curated by RAKE visningsrom.
"Hanna Fauske TV", a fictional TV cooking show by Fauske, screened in a cabin at Hurtigruten as a part of her Elik Elk installation during Coast in 2017. Filmstill by Hanna Fauske. Curated by RAKE visningsrom.
Lecture Performance by Daisuke Kosugi during the second edition "Rugged, weathered above the sea", curated by Charles Aubin in 2018. Photo: Laimonas Puisys.
Lecture Performance by Daisuke Kosugi during the second edition "Rugged, weathered above the sea", curated by Charles Aubin in 2018.
Photo: Laimonas Puisys.