Hva er kunstens rolle i krisetider?

A report on dialogues held at Kunstnerens Hus in early 2025, concluding that art's primary role in crises is to create community through truth and solidarity, and advocating for the protection of activist artists.

• The primary conclusion of the dialogues is that the most significant role of art during times of crisis is the creation of community, which provides a unique strength that leads to action.
• The participants identified a specific progression for creating community: it begins with truth, which creates safe spaces that foster hope, and this hope, combined with community, transforms into courageous action and solidarity to reach a peaceful future.
• There is a consensus that artists must act as 'truth witnesses' and 'truth tellers,' and that being an activist artist—one who highlights injustice and contributes to solutions—will be a critical future task, despite risks such as censorship, cancellation, and arrests.
• The document argues that cultural institutions must be transparent about current truths to maintain trust; for example, the National Museum is described as an 'unsafe space' for failing to show Palestinian art, whereas Kunstnernes Hus is seen as a community space for showing solidarity with the vulnerable.
• The participants identified several global and national crises defining the current era, including the risk of global catastrophe, the normalization of fascism, the need to address colonialism, the scale of the nature crisis, and the genocide in Palestine.

APA

Glans, G., & Abel, J. (2025). Hva er kunstens rolle i krisetider? Klimakultur. https://www.klimakultur.no/nyheter/hva-er-kunstens-rolle-i-krisetider/

Chicago

Glans, Guri, and Jannik Abel. Hva er kunstens rolle i krisetider? Klimakultur, 2025. https://www.klimakultur.no/nyheter/hva-er-kunstens-rolle-i-krisetider/.

Wikipedia

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BibTeX

@misc{glans2025hva, author = {Glans, Guri and Abel, Jannik}, title = {{Hva er kunstens rolle i krisetider?}}, publisher = {Klimakultur}, year = {2025}, month = mar, url = {https://www.klimakultur.no/nyheter/hva-er-kunstens-rolle-i-krisetider/}, urldate = {2026-10-23}, note = {Indexed by Climate Insights Directory} }