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Galleri Blunk

Galleri Blunk er et non-profit galleri drevet av unge kunstnere i Trondheim. Hovedmålsetningen er a

23/04/2026

V E N U S is a joint exhibition of two Finnish artists: Vita Edvards and Sandra Lola Dada. Both of them approach themes with genuinity and the awkwardness that comes with it.

Vita Edvards (they/them) often works with materials found in their everyday life, looking at the surrounding world with a gently mischievous gaze. In Edvards’ observations, the ordinary often becomes miraculous, and the figurative, abstract or absurd. 

Sandra Lola Dada (she/her) work centres on DIY culture, feminism and humour. In her work, she particularly examines agency and the “bursting” of everyday life.

14/04/2026

Balthazar Pinon-Persson (he/him) Born in 1992 in Paris, raised in Ystad, and now based in Trondheim after moving from Malmö to study at KIT, he works primarily with figurative painting. His practice is intimate and reflective—each piece functions as a visual journal, capturing moments, emotions, and fragments of lived experience.

14/04/2026

I have been working on a series of paintings depicting places I have lived throughout my life, exploring a sense of rootlessness shaped by moving to a new country as a child. After a recent month-long stay in Paris, I began photographing familiar sites. Now living in Trondheim, and having gained a new distance from what has become my home in recent years—Malmö—I have sought to build a bridge between what has been, what is now, and what is yet to come.
The work has drawn on artifacts of the past, familiar locations, and distant individuals and memories. As Galleri Blunk has prepared to move from its current space, I have searched for ways to incorporate this transition into the project.

06/04/2026

Nicholas Westgård (b. 2000, he/him) is a Bergen-based painter and illustrator, currently working towards his MFA at Bergen Academy of Art.

Working primarily in oils, he has of recent committed to the proliferation of small-scale works on paper. Often mediating moments culled from his own life; he works meticulously to render scenes of q***r intimacy and tenderness, depicted in a nostalgic, green-tinged light.

The artist’s work captures its subjects with an objectifying gaze: fixating on the particularities of a gesture, the folds of an ear, or the way another hand has transcribed a Billet-doux. It catches its subjects in moments of vulnerability; in the brief glimpse between the exchange of glances, as they turn away, or instances unaware they are being perceived at all. It’s an analytical, sometimes cold gaze – but a deeply loving one. One that seeks connection, intimacy and understanding.

Informed by a self-described compulsion to immortalize that which feels transient, fleeting. His practice can be understood as the er****on of monuments to feelings, experiences, and moments. A testament to a life lived – grievable when lost.

06/04/2026

“Jeg ligger så tett på deg som jeg kan. Min hele overkropp presset opp mot din rygg, ditt hode på min overarm, våre ben i en knute. Likevel har jeg behovet for å være deg nærmere. Å smelte inn I deg. Bli noe nytt. Noe uniformt.”

“Without grievability, there is no life, or, rather, there is something living that is other than life. Instead, “there is a life that will never have been lived,” sustained by no regard, no testimony, and ungrieved when lost.” - Judith Butler, Frames of War

All stemming from the past year, the body of work mediates memories of love, grief and intimacy. They represent a compulsive effort by the artist to capture the affect bound to a certain object, gesture or person. A chronic need to immortalize that which feels transient, fleeting. Through meticulous remediation and fabulation of his own “archive”, grasping for something felt and sensuous, the exhibited work takes on the characteristics of the [counter]archive. An archive of the artists feelings – an affective need to create one where there is none. Through the act of painting, that of materializing ordinary and everyday moments of q***r life – it beckons the audience to rethink q***r individuals as marginalized subjects.

Emphasizing the works’ quality as physical objects, with their distinct white border and intimate dimension, they evoke the classic photographic print; subjective fragments of the past organized and curated in photo albums, picture frames and cardboard boxes. Appropriating rather than rejecting the aesthetic genre of the traditional archive, it aims to challenge the critique of the “q***r archive” as impossible or politically suspect.

Opening hours:
Friday: 19:00-21:00
Saturday: 12:00-15:00
Sunday: 12:00-15:00

25/03/2026

Rebecca Venus Leikvoll (she/they) is a 23-year-old artist who studied
her third year at NFFS (Norwegian School of Photography) in the
Masterclass Project Development program during the 2024/2025 academic
year. Here, she produced her first photobook, which focuses on
insomnia and mental health: “In this paranoia.” She has a deep love
for portraits and actively works on intimate and personal projects,
often addressing themes related to herself or current social issues.
She is also working on a photobook project exploring the alternative
scene in Trondheim. She works with both documentary photography and
staged setups, incorporating a personal artistic approach. While
primarily focused on photography, she also works with drawing,
painting, video, and text. She is now studying Humanities Subject
areas like philosophy, music, literature and culture at NTNU.

25/03/2026

Etter over 1 og 1/2 år konsekvent arbeid er det tid for å dele prosjektet «Blod, svette og tårer» for første gang i en soloutstilling
på selveste Svartlamon.

«Blod, svette og tårer» (arbeidstittel) er et pågående prosjekt sentrert rundt den alternative kulturen i Trondheim, og tar
utgangspunkt i UFFA (ungdom for fri aktivitet) og Svartlamon (bydel i
Trondheim). Prosjektet skal dokumenterer, bevarer og belyser disse unike og ikke minst viktige møteplassene bygget på aktivisme, diy, motkultur, samhold, like rettigheter, uttrykkelse, kultur og mye mye
mer. Det er en fotografisk nysgjerrig og leken skattejakt etter øyeblikk og relasjoner som reflekterer miljøet og viser til alt det fantastiske frivillige arbeidet som står bak denne rike kulturen.
Utstillingen skal også belyse aksjonen mot Strandveien 23 å ønske om at dette bygget, som står i fare for å rives, burde bevares som en utrolig viktig del av miljøet. Det vil bli mulighet for å kjøpe print
og veggbilder til donasjon for Strandveien 23, og på åpningen vil det bli konserter med lokale band som er knyttet opp mot denne alternative kulturen, blant annet Giljotin Fredag.

Åpningstider:
27 mars: 20:00-00:00
28 mars: 12:00-16:00
29 mars: 12:00-16:00

16/03/2026

Maja Ja Jansen (b. 2001, she/her) is a visual artist from Jessheim, based in Oslo. Her
practice is interdisciplinary and unfolds through media including painting, textiles,
sculpture, video, and printmaking. Her work revolves around themes such as home,
play, spirituality, and care, with an interest in how memories and experiences are
stored in the body and in the materials that surround us.

Through a sensorial and intuitive approach, she explores how objects and materials
can carry affect and give form to personal and recognizable narratives. Several works
investigate the subconscious and what remains in the body over time, often through
the use of repetition and symmetry. Through childlike figures, charged materials,
and symbolic forms, the works address experiences of vulnerability, defense, and
belonging, opening up for individual and intuitive readings in relation to questions
of safety, identity, and carrying the past within us

16/03/2026

In the solo exhibition What Stays, What Leaves, Maja Ja Jansen presents works that
move between staying and leaving. The exhibition brings together both new and
earlier works, and revolves around questions of presence, absence, and how
memories are shaped through what we choose to remember and what gradually
slips out of consciousness.

The exhibition explores the tension between a longing for change and the pull of
the familiar; between the desire to escape to another place and the need to remain
where one already is. Leaving something behind does not necessarily mean it
disappears—something remains in the body, in memory, or in the materials that
surround us.
What Stays, What Leaves is Jansen’s first solo exhibition in Trondheim.

Opening hours:
Vernissage Friday March 20th 19.00 - 21.00
Open Saturday and Sunday 12.00 - 15.00

22/02/2026

GALLERI BLUNK SPRING PROGRAMME 2026!

09/02/2026

Sander Welo (b.2003, he/him) is currently in his first year of a bachelor in Fine Arts at Trondheim Academy of Fine Art. His practice consists of conceptual works that span across different mediums. Using minimalistic aesthetics the aim is to give apparently simple works more layers of meaning and ways of interpretation. Reoccurring themes are structures and western society, often with references to for example modern art history or pop-culture.

09/02/2026

Framework For Participation is an exhibition relying on the audience, and their active role in the works within a framework constructed by the artist. The works that will be shown have a simple aesthetic, attempting to highlight the ideas behind what’s presented. The exhibition aims to bring a collective spirit to the gallery space and accept a sense of lack of control in how the exhibition takes shape from the artist’s point.

OPENING FRIDAY (13.02): 19-22
SATURDAY AND SUNDAY: 13-16

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