HANDLING COBWEBS
EXHIBITION
Opening: Thursday 20 August, 5–8pm
20 – 30 August 2026
UNGE KUNSTNERES SAMFUND
Keysers gate 1
Oslo, NORWAY
https://www.uks.no/archive/handling-cobwebs/
A shelter doubling as a trap, the cobweb is a structure almost invisible until activated or broken. It is an architecture built from the inside out, a home spun from the body that inhabits it, strung between whatever fixed points the world happens to offer. It holds things together: dew, light, the vibration of something approaching before it arrives; care and danger, connectivity and fragility spun from a single, continuous thread.
Since August 2024, the Neurodivergent/Funkis Cultural Workers Forum has met monthly at UKS, growing into a space for collective care and mutual support. Taking the cobweb as a metaphor, Handling Cobwebs has grown out of the Forum and presents work by ten artists, bringing together a diverse range of artistic practices and media, including photography, installation, textile sculpture, painting, and ceramics. Together, these works explore how we experience and navigate a world that can be alluring, cryptic and overwhelming, full of rules and regulations, hidden codes and nuances of communication that often seem obvious to everyone else.
ARTISTS
Christian Blandhoel
Sergio Bretel
Martine Aadne Gulliksen
Kornelia Remø Klokk
Cara Lien
Beatrice Alvestad Lopez
Kassia R. Marin
Aidan Moesby
Mathilde Løkke Velvin
Yanina Zaichanka
Curated by Aidan Moesby.
Handling Cobwebs is supported by Oslo kommune and is organised in connection with the Neurodivergent/Funkis Cultural Workers Forum, hosted by UKS.
